Robertson: Too much plastic surgery gives people "Oriental" eyes
On the February 7 edition of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club, host Pat Robertson said that people who have received too much plastic surgery "got the eyes like they're Oriental" while he put his fingers up to the side of his face.
Robertson and CBN special features producer Kristi Watts were talking about Fox News host Greta Van Susteren's plastic surgery. Robertson said that Van Susteren "looks great." Watts then asked whether Robertson had "seen someone who got [plastic surgery] too much." Robertson replied, "Yeah, they got the eyes like they're Oriental, and, you know, it's all pulled."
As Media Matters for America noted, Robertson has called Islam a "Christian heresy" and said that "Jewish people" are "very thrifty" and "extraordinarily good business people." Media Matters also noted that after officials in Orlando, Florida, voted in 1998 to fly rainbow flags from city lampposts during the annual Gay Days event at Disney World, Robertson issued the city a warning: "I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. ... [A] condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs, it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."
From the February 7 edition of the Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club:
ROBERTSON: You know there's a lady named Greta Van Susteren, who's on Fox.
WATTS: Yeah.
ROBERTSON: Got a very popular --
WATTS: Oh, I saw her.
ROBERTSON: She looked gorgeous last night, but she had a really serious facial deal. And it did a wonder --
WATTS: Sister needed help.
ROBERTSON: Sister got the help.
WATTS: Sister -- she needed some help, yeah.
ROBERTSON: But she got it. She just looks great, and she's so popular.
WATTS: But have you ever seen someone who got it too much, and so they come up to you, and they're like, "Pat, how are you doing? It's so good to see you."
ROBERTSON: Yeah, they got the eyes like they're Oriental, and, you know, it's all pulled. So, make sure you do it right. But -- it's -- that's one way you can go, but it'll cost you five or six thousand dollars probably. All right. What else?
As a Chinese-American, I'd like to be the first to say it on this thread: F**k you, Pat Robertson!
In a perfect world this would be the scandal that finally gets the 700 Club kicked off the ABC Family channel, but I'm not holding my breath.
ABC Family is contractually obligated to keep showing this fool. Please dont hold your breath, you will kill yourself if you do.
Really? Have you read the contract? Do you know what it stipulates?
Shows have been taken off the air for objectionable content before, but I am not holding my breath either.
I havent read the contract, just the ABC Family press release in 2005.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6250817.html?display=Breaking+News
OK,
How about if ALL of you hold your breath.....1...2...3... come on you can do it......4.....5.....6....don't stop now.....7...8...9...
People with too much surgery do look funny....come on relax, but stop holding your breath.
I never thought I'd agree with you guys on this one and I know that I probably never will again, but I happen to believe that "Rev" Robertson is a bigoted, racist, anti-Semtic idea who does nothing but make me and my fellow Republicans look bad.
Yeah really.
Doesn't he know the little yellow folk are called "Asians" now?
Sheesh.
I never thought I would agree with YOU and perhaps it wont happen again but I completely agree. I miss the promient voices of intelligent, principled conservatives. I am way lefty liberal, and I didnt agree with them but I still respected the Buckleys, Goldwaters and Danforths. Today we get Frists, Santorums, Coulters, and Robertsons. I would be incensed if I were you
Possibly a meteor?
For putting up a rainbow flag?
That some god you've got there Pat.
They got such an angry vindictive intolerant god, eh? What ever happened to that cool Jesus guy they used to worship? Did they forget all about him and his message of peace, compassion, and understanding? Looks like it.
Guinness has just informed me that with his last statement he has broken the record for inserting your foot in your mouth. A record he is surely proud of.
That even beats his 15,000 lb. leg press.
Greta Van Susteren as gorgeous? Eye of the beholder I guess. Pat really does need to get out more.
It's hard for him to see when he pulls his eyes back like that.
Too much plastic surgery actually makes you look like Michael Jackson ;-)
Look Robertson is so clueless he probably doesn't even understand that he might have offended anyone.
This guy should be put out to pasture. Permanently.
Now THIS thread reminded me of something I heard Keith Olbermann utter several nights ago. And perhaps my time here at MMFA has made be a tad more sensitive to slurs, but I thought Keith might have made one towards the Japanese. So I went and looked for the transcript.
I report...you decide.
Olbermann: "Now, here are three men in Japan smelling their cell phones. You sick freaks. Oh, wait, this is another one of these weird Japanese fetish deals."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16924881/
You cant be critical of Keith Olbermann on MMFA.
"You cant be critical of Keith Olbermann on MMFA."
Well... I didn't like the tie Keith was wearing th other night. ;>)
Doris... Lighten up. When you compare the absolute luncay on FOX News that passes for "fair and balanced" reporting to what Olberman does, Olberman is a breath of fresh air. I know Olberman doesn't always hit the mark but compared to the competition I enjoy his humor and sometimes informative show. Olberman doesn't walk on water but he sure as hell can make you laugh at other people who think they do.
That was not against the ethnicity of being Japanese. It was because Japan produces a lot of those kabuki films. The ones where people do some really sick things. If it was Russia or Poland that had an industry like that, he probably would have said Russian or Polish. It was no big deal.
THANK YOU.
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Kabuki films?
I think he means bukkake ... Kabuki is a form of a play.
You are correct, sir. I meant bukkake.
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It might be a big deal if you're Japanese.
Well, if you think Olbermann out of line for that joke, make a rukus about it, e-mail him your concern, etc. I'm willing to be that unlike O'Reilly and his ilk, Olbermann would apologize for being insensitive.
Then again, the comment was made in the context of his Oddball segment which is not supposed to be taken seriously. O'Reilly, et al would make such a comment in all seriousness.
Actually I didn't say I thought Olbermann was out of line...I said I wasn't sure, and wondered IF others took his statement as offensive.
Note I wrote:
And perhaps my time here at MMFA has made be a tad more sensitive to slurs, but I thought Keith might have made one towards the Japanese...I report, you decide.
I like Keith, I'm not Japanese, so I'm not inclined to write him about his remark.
I thank those that responded to my query.
Jeter, I don't think that Olbermann's comment could be considered a racial slur. If he had used the word "j*p" then that would be just outright racist, but pointing out that the Japanese have a booming fetish industry is, at the very worst, marginally ethnocentric. And it's only ethnocentric in the sense that it promotes looking at that aspect of Japanese popular culture as some exotic oddity.
In Japan you can buy little girls panties in vending machines....
defend all you like.
Huh? How exactly was I defending selling little girls' panties in vending machines?
Clams,
, but pointing out that the Japanese have a booming fetish industry is, at the very worst, marginally ethnocentric.
you have to stretch it a little but it's there ( if the wind continues ssw)
So I guess nobody can ever mention the Japanese porn industry, because you're either (a) perpetuating a slur/stereotype against the Japanese, or (b) defending the selling of girl's panties.
If they think the Japanese are weird, they better not look at the Germans. They make the Japanese look almost puritan sexually.
I think Olbermann is referring to some of the clips he's played on his Oddball segment. There's the one that made the rounds on the "Internets" a long while back where some young girls (12-ish?) are competing, I think, to be in an all girl band. To make the cut, though, they have to strap a pork chop onto their head and then poke their head up into a glass container where a hungry iguana is rumbling around. The crowd cheers as the lizzie gets closer to one of the terrified girls.
I'm not making this up, though I might be wrong about what kind of reptile it was.
Is it much different than consenting to be publically insulted and humiliated on American Idol, just for the chance to be on national tv for five minutes?
You have a china friend? Be careful you don't drop him on a tile floor.
yes i often tell him to finish working on my railroad and putting tnt in the mines
No, see, the joke was he's made of china... never mind.
yes i got that joke, but i didnt like it as much as my mining joke. because see china people used to work in the mines with the tnt and build rail...nevermind
Touche. Well played, Kernel.
Please, Rusty...tell me that was sarcasm....Kernal soupy's *joke* was too blunt and not funny, while yours played on his word play and was funny...
Let me chime in as a fair and balanced observer,
Col = funny
other = where was the joke?
I'm surprised he didn't also say that it makes you want to eat rice and use chopsticks...
Having your head up your ass too much makes you have a face like Pat Robertson. By the way, I'm NOT Oriental.
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Pat actually discovered all this when he went in for his pre-facelift exam.
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About this item, the most important issue is that Pat feels having "Oriental" eyes is a bad thing. God knows what he connects with other facial parts!!! This old buffoon is good fo rlaughs. By the way, he ia Yale graduate yet continues this Good Old Boy Act.
Yale sure does graduate a lot of A$$ hole morons.
So does Cornell and Harvard.
Can Pat look more like an idiot in that photo?
I just keep thinking of a little kid going "Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these."
And apologies to everybody who didn't grow up with that stupid rhyme.
Milk, milk, lemonade...
Consider Robertson's audience...
I'd love to see the demographics on Robertson's viewing audience. I'd bet they're even older than Bill O'Reilly's. They probably think "Oriental" is one of those "politically correct" words Pastor Pat had to use on the air instead of something more colloquial... a real progressive that Pastor Pat is.
Right, and forty years ago when I was six years old and recited that rhyme to my mother she sat me down and explained why it was inappropriate for a Christian to make fun of other groups of people. Back then, it was referred to as "politeness" and "good manners". Nowadays it seems folks are so intent on protecting their right to offend others that they throw around perjoratives like "politically correct" as if it was a bad thing.
Wow, thank you for expressing succinctly something I have been trying to say for a long time!
Nailed it!
You're absolutely right.
Besides, "PC" these days is stuff like not saying bad things about George W. Bush, not pointing out that Cheney's daughter is gay, etc.
I would argue that the whole thing about Kerry's botched joke was nothing more than a sterling example of a conservative political correctness issue.
Funny how the conservatives have taken this idea that they claim to hate and have created their own version of it.
Can't quarrel w/you on that. Many of our boys tonite must feel "stuck" in Iraq.
Not a Kerry fan, but if I was Kerry, I would also be feeling quite emotional ( upon saying farewell to presidential aspirations), at the ridiculous unfairness of THAT statement ending it all. Same as in the Howard Dean "scream" incident. What's it coming to--100% teleprompters maybe.
This is what passes for "family values" these days. Apparently respect for one's fellow man has gone out the window.
This is some funny schizzle! In a way, the old con man is quite correct that if you don't get a good surgeon, your face will look pulled and contorted. Now, the question is whether or not a severe face lift makes a caucasian look asian. I would probably be more worked up about his term "oriental" rather than asian, but that's in the deep-end of the politically-correct pool. Never seems to be a lifeguard around.
What do you expect from a tired, old fool who's made millions conning our eldery Aunt Dorothy out of ther Social Security money in exchange for a mass media group prayer.
So Robertson thinks all "Orientals" look like they've had botched plastic surgery.
doesn't Pat know we don't use the term "Oriental" anymore? he should have said "Chinaman" instead... (I kid!)
I actually liked Greta until she did the surgery thing; she seemed like a real person to that point... then she just came across as image-obsessed media personality...
but these comments were out of line... moreso because he did the eyes thing with his hands (imagine if Biden had done some funky walk gesture along with his comments on Obama)! it's time for Pat to say "solly"
maybe he's also suggesting that Asians who don't have plastic surgery end up looking Caucasian???
at least we can all agree to disagree with pat:
greta van susteren's sudden shapeshift between her shows on cnn and fox news didn't 'look great'. it was downright scary.
Hey Friends,
I think you are getting too worked up over Pat.
What did he say really that would hurt a normal healthy active person.
I do think you are right however about ABC family, where is the petition?
maybe they could put on another hour of the Power Ranger SPD, maybe Barney Frank could guest star as the pink one.
This guy...ann coulter, bill o'rielly and micheal savage.... they all make rush look like a brain surgeon...why wasting server space on these idiots?
well, at least I can agree with him that, in most cases, plastic surgery is a foolish waste of time, money and effort...however, I can't agree with his implied reasons for why it's a bad idea.
I don't care for Robertson one bit. He says some of the stupidst things. However I don't get why saying someone might look oriental after plasatic surgery that pulls the skin around they eye tight is offensive or racist? Yes, I see the picture of Robertson pulling the skin back from his eyes. So what?
Someone made the comment earlier that it makes one look like Michael Jackson. Was that racist?
If someone said, Sustren's hair color made her look Scandanavian, would anyone take offense to that?
Must be a slow day...
Yeah, you're really ignorant. Here't the logic. Pat Robertson pulled up his eye-lids and says now he looks like an "oriental." This is actually the less offensive part. 'Cuz as you say, there's nothing wrong saying that it's likely that a Swedish person is blonde. BUT, and this is a BIG BUT, (given that fact that you sounded like a meathead), he did it in the context of a botched facejob. So he's essentially saying that all "Oriental" people are so ugly that they look like someone with a botched face job, a.k.a. Michael Jackson.
Got that? Sigh...
Does anyone else notice a distinct similarity between George Bush and Pat Robertson? Do you think there's something Barbara Bush never told the elder Bush?