David Icke is in really quite a different category from faux-pious jerks like Robertson. Icke's a cult leader, recognized by all as having a tiny following and being Way Out There in his beliefs. Robertson, by contrast, is supposedly a pillar of a mainstream majority religion, has consulted seriously with and been talked of respectfully by US Presidents and other major political figures, has a massive following and a massive business empire, and once himself ran as a Presidential candidate. In other words, he is, unlike Icke, no mere extremist-fringe figure, even though his ideas -- because of both their counmter-reality loopiness and the degree of venom that powers them -- are obviously extremist and fringe . . . if we define "fringe" as "on the most tenuous fringe of sanity".
they do not do the image of the US good
I know this very well. A surprising number of Americans, though, including intelligent and well meaning people in among the boneheads, are startlingly unaware of the devastating damage these hatemongering creeps do to the international image of their country, and thereby to its foreign dealings overall.
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David Icke is in really quite a different category from faux-pious jerks like Robertson. Icke's a cult leader, recognized by all as having a tiny following and being Way Out There in his beliefs. Robertson, by contrast, is supposedly a pillar of a mainstream majority religion, has consulted seriously with and been talked of respectfully by US Presidents and other major political figures, has a massive following and a massive business empire, and once himself ran as a Presidential candidate. In other words, he is, unlike Icke, no mere extremist-fringe figure, even though his ideas -- because of both their counmter-reality loopiness and the degree of venom that powers them -- are obviously extremist and fringe . . . if we define "fringe" as "on the most tenuous fringe of sanity".
they do not do the image of the US good
I know this very well. A surprising number of Americans, though, including intelligent and well meaning people in among the boneheads, are startlingly unaware of the devastating damage these hatemongering creeps do to the international image of their country, and thereby to its foreign dealings overall.