So let's talk about what Ol' Pat had to say about what other people said about what he said the last time he said something so awful it needed to be exposed.
1) He begins by saying that his advice as a pastor (emphasis mine) is meant for specific people in specific situations to help them have a better life. Now, there's room for disagreement on this issue, but I personally think that to be a pastor you kind of need to be leading a congregation. Last I checked, Pat doesn't do anything like that and apparently never has.
2) He claims that some organization he refuses to name has as its raison d'etre embarrassing conservatives on television by twisting their words. I'm in no position to deny that there are some organizations on both sides of the political divide who do work very hard to selectively quote and suspiciously edit people with whom they disagree in an attempt to misrepresent and embarrass them. However, if Pat is referring to the organization which posted both this clip and the last one I posted he's going to have a bit of trouble trying to back up that claim. One reason I pay attention to Right Wing Watch is because they very clearly do not do the things Pat is referring to in this latest statement. What they do is take lengthy quotes, preserve their context, and simply allow people like Pat to say the horrible things they say on a fairly regular basis. That's a very different thing than what Pat says his critics are doing to him.
3) He trots out an email (which I will assume for the sake of argument is genuine) from a viewer as a means of demonstrating that, you know, he's not a terrible person after all because the ladies think he was right to say what he said. I typically avoid casting too wide a net on these things, but I have to point out a plain factual error in the email. Her second sentence reads, "I heard no excuse for the man's poor behavior in your answer to her." Hmmmm. That's a problem because Pat said quite plainly that this guy cheated because he is in fact a guy, and that guy's are prone to stray unless their ladies give them a reason to do otherwise. Where I come from (which, for the record, is Earth) that's an excuse for the guy's poor behavior. What's worse is the fact that said excuse at least partly shifts the responsibility for the guy's infidelity onto his apparently long-suffering wife which is just a complete asshole move. Granted, Pat doesn't come right out and say that, but when he starts doling out the advice on keeping the home attractive and appealing to the man in question it's pretty clear that he's not placing that responsibility on the husband.
4) Last thing about the email, I promise. The emailer says that God forgives us in the same manner she describes "a million times a day". I realize people like to use hyperbole in these instances as a way of making their points more effectively, but just stop for a moment and consider what she's saying regardless of what she may or may not mean by it. My basic assumption is that if God is having to forgive you a million times a day for just about anything you're probably not living the sort of life you need to be working toward living. Hell, for that matter, I'd say a hundred times a day is way over the line. Maybe, just maybe, instead of trying to mansplain by proxy Pat might want to encourage his viewers to work a wee bit harder on being decent humans in their daily lives. I know this is crazy talk and all, but it might be a good idea to set a goal of being a decent human for one full day and build from there.
5) Pat says toward the end of the clip, "I'm not politically correct in case you haven't learned. I tell it like it is." I submit to you, gentle reader, that anyone who believes Pat is politically correct has never once heard him speak, read anything he's written, or read/viewed anything about him. I envy those people. Really, I do.
6) Pat repeats his claim that he's being misrepresented by virtue of having his words twisted. I'll just repeat that running full-length, in-context clips of things you say that reflect poorly on you does not constitute the twisting of words. It's more akin to giving him enough rope to hang himself.
7) Finally, Pat intimates that he's going to air "a full-scale exposé" of this especially nasty group of mean meanies who show people who won't like what Pat has to say the things Pat says. My only response is a hearty, "Please do it, Pat. Pretty please with sugar on top!" If we've learned one thing about these kinds of people trying to take on and ultimately shame their critics it's that those efforts almost inevitably backfire and cause even more problems. Honestly, that sort of thing couldn't happen to a better guy. Besides, if I'm going to keep up this blistering pace of posting more often than every four years I'll be needing source material, and Pat is a goldmine, let me tell you.
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