Notes
[1]
Epigraph: Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 1979, cited in Jeffrey K.
Hadden and Charles E. Swann, Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of
Televangelism (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1981). Undated direct-mail
fund-raising letter from the Democratic National Committee and signed by
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
[2]
Paul Weyrich, "Conservatism's Future: Pat Robertson," Conservative
Digest, August/September 1985. Unpaginated offprint.
[3]
Tom Wicker, "Bet-a-Million Bush," New York Times,
August 8, 1986.
[4]
Hugh McDiarmid, "Bush Foes Win Fight, But War's Not Over," Detroit
Free Press, February 22, 1987.
[5]
Hugh McDiarmid, "Dust Hasn't Settled on GOP Brawling," Detroit Free
Press, April 26, 1987.
[6]
George Weeks, "Robertson's Edge Upsets GOP Leaders," Detroit News,
April 26, 1987.
[7]
Results of the A. C. Nielsen special audience study were reported by
CBN in David W. Clark and Paul H. Virts, "Religious Television Audience:
A New Development in Measuring Audience Size." Unpublished paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study
of Religion, Savannah, GA, October 25, 1985.
[8]
Pat Robertson (with Bob Slosser), The Secret Kingdom (Nashville, TN:
Thomas Nelson, 1982), pp. 13-14.
[11]
"The 700 Club," September 27, 1985.
[12]
"The 700 Club," June 11,
1986.
[13]
"Meet the Press," December 15, 1985.
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Jim Castelli, "Pat Robertson: Extremist." Unpublished manuscript
(Washington, DC: People for the American Way, August 1986), p.
26.
[14]
William Safire, "The Poli-preachers," New York
Times, June 9, 1986.
[15]
From a broadcast of' The 700 Club," cited in Jeffrey K. Hadden and
Charles E. Swann, Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of
Televangelism (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1981), p. 161.
[16]
Senator John Warner, cited in a brochure distributed by American
Coalition for Traditional Values, 1986.
[17]
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "Rev. Pat Robertson: Neoliberal Pundits
Frightened-They Think He's Got a Chance," Peoria Journal Star, June 15,
1986.
