Pat Robertson: Mac & Cheese ‘a black thing’
TV preacher Pat Robertson, who once ran for president and had the support of millions of Americans, set the record straight on macaroni and cheese today while hosting yet another episode of The 700 Club.
Pat Robertson, in 1998, gives a thumbs-up to the impeachment of presumed mac & cheese aficionado Bill Clinton.
It’s “a black thing” and he’s never tasted it, he said.
The informative exchange came after Robertson showed a clip of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saying she enjoyed the gooey delicacy, but only during Thanksgiving, which is almost as unbelievable a statement.
The news shocked the 81-year-old evangelist.
“What is this mac & cheese? Is it a black thing?”
African-American 700 Club co-host Kristi Watts said yes, and that everyone else in the world needed to get on board and start eating more macaroni and cheese.
The show was not, to my knowledge, sponsored by Kraft.
Robertson is no stranger to controversy.
* In September, he said it is OK to divorce someone with Alzheimer’s because it’s a “kind of death.”
* In 2010, Robertson blamed a devastating earthquake in Haiti on that island nation’s alleged “pact to the devil.”
* In 2005, he seemed to suggest Hurricane Katrina may have been God’s punishment for America’s abortion policy.
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For All People
November 23rd, 2011
10:52 pm
Professional, successful parents married for 54 years, all 5 children with a Master’s degree and married before becoming parents. No criminal history, never had a fist fight, don’t drink, smoke or do drugs. Never committed a crime, don’t eat pork or macaroni and cheese. Love The Eagles, Rod Stewart and Fleetwood Mac – please don’t leave out Tom Petty. All of that and I’m black – oh wait, maybe I’m not and the color of my skin has confused me for 45 years.
GATA
November 23rd, 2011
10:52 pm
Sounds like he has Frat kids writing his lines.
flee
November 23rd, 2011
10:57 pm
why is this even news? mac n cheese is food. if you like it, eat it. if you don’t, just eat something else.
ricardus
November 23rd, 2011
10:59 pm
What fools we mortals be!
bob thompson
November 23rd, 2011
11:07 pm
Mac and Cheese IS NOT Ethnic.
T
November 23rd, 2011
11:08 pm
Only a coon would eat mac n cheese. Same with da fried chickens. But I sho do lovezes them both, and, try as hard as I can, when I look in da mirror, I seez a honkey. What ’sup wa dat.
It makes me sick to read about someone who is an alleged Christian leader spout out crap like this. God made us all. Different, no doubt.
I’ve many black friends with many different culinary, cultural, etc. tastes than I do, and I laugh with (or at) them for some of them, and I even have discussions with them about problems in their community, hopefully not forgetting that we “white folks” have our own. However, if you are going to take the mantle as a Chrisrian leader, don’t act like an idiot, and make all of us who believe God’s grace is our only hope of salvation look like deranged nuts.
Steve
November 23rd, 2011
11:11 pm
This is stupid …
For All People
November 23rd, 2011
11:21 pm
T – that was funny and enlightening. It’s a shame that some people believe this man when he say’s he represents God. God is not ignorant nor would he have us live in ignorance. The same people who fall in line with this ‘mess’ are the same people who stereotype people of all races. As a black person, I’m not a criminal, baby momma, etc., and I also understand that all white people are not evil racists. At some point Pat Robertson and other narrow minded people will learn – unfortunately for some, it will be when they stand before Jesus. God bless his pitiful and confused heart!
Michael Schevenieus
November 23rd, 2011
11:24 pm
What a DAMNED bafoon this idiot is making himself out to be!! Wake UP people!!!!
Vince Doodley
November 23rd, 2011
11:25 pm
Ok, this guy is a dumbass. Not had Mac and Cheese? Please. Not possible. All Gods children like Mac N Cheese!!!