Pat Robertson Officially Off The Deep End

Skeptics Doubt Pat Robertson 2,000 Pound Leg-Press Claim

Friday , May 26, 2006

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds, but some say he'd be in a pretty tough spot if he tried.

The "700 Club" host's feat of strength is recounted on the Web site of his Christian Broadcasting Network, in a posting headlined "How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds."

According to the CBN Web site, Robertson worked his way up to lifting a ton with the help of his physician, who is not named. The posting does not say when the lift occurred, but a CBN spokeswoman released photos to The Associated Press that she said showed Robertson lifting 2,000 pounds in 2003, when Robertson was 73. He is now 76.

The Web posting said two men loaded the leg-press machine with 2,000 pounds "and then let it down on Mr. Robertson, who pushed it up one rep and let it go back down again." The Web site said several people witnessed the event, and shows video of Robertson leg-pressing what appears to be 1,000 pounds.

Clay Travis of CBS SportsLine.com called the 2,000-pound assertion impossible in a column this week, writing that the leg-press record for football players at Florida State University is 665 pounds less.

"Where in the world did Robertson even find a machine that could hold 2,000 pounds at one time?" Travis asked.

Andy Zucker, a strength-training coach at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, said leg presses of more than 1,000 pounds represent "a Herculean effort, and 2,000 pounds is a whole other story."

"If he was able to lift that much weight, I take my hat off to him, but the numbers suggest that people who lift that much weight are few and far between," Zucker said. "One would have to see what type of leg press it was on and under what parameters it was done."

CBN spokeswoman Angell Vasko said Friday that Robertson was not available for comment because he was "out of pocket" for the long holiday weekend.

Vasko said she has not seen Robertson leg-press 2,000 pounds but that it's not "a huge shocker" that he could.

"Pat is so healthy," she said. "This is something he trained for over an extended period of time. He lives a very healthy, regimented life."

One of the photos Vasko released had a digital date stamp of 1994, although she said Robertson performed the leg press in 2003. Vasko said that perhaps the date was not set properly on the camera.

The CBN Web site attributes Robertson's energy in part to "his age-defying protein shake." The site offers a recipe for the shake, which contains ingredients such as soy protein isolate, whey protein isolate, flaxseed oil and apple cider vinegar.
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I really, really wish this guy would stop making the rest of us look bad.

-Kiamat Dusk

Ever since Washington D.C. got air conditioning, silly season runs all year.

I knew he was whacked in 1992, when he published THE NEW WORLD ORDER, in which he claims the Illuminati, Rosicrucians, Masons, and "international bankers" (which is a code phrase for Jews) were conspiring to rule the world.

Since I'm a registered Democrat, Pat Robertson makes me giggle. Go Pat Go!

I'm convinced that Pat Robertson is actually paid by atheists to make Christians look like morons. Best money we ever spent!

Now *there* is a conspiracy theory I can get behind! Ah, well every family has that one cousin who's not all there. We've got Pat...Dem's got Dean...

...can't we just keep them in the attic!?

-Kiamat Dusk

*spews Diet Pepsi*

My favorite?

"Washington is Hollywood for ugly people."

you also have Dubya.

Excellent, Chip. Nicely done. Except I think the pagans got together with the atheists on this one. I also think Pat does great things for moderate GOPpers, since he makes the conservatives look like loony bins. Pat Buchanan used to do that job, but his foray into the Reform universe of late has made him even more irrelevant than his arch-conservatism did.

So, when he said we should be assasinating world leaders, and when he said both the Indionesia Tidal Wave and Hurricane Katrina was "God punishing sinners", he wasn't off the deep end, but now that he claims to lift a lot of weights on a machine, he went over the line?

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Well the rest of the stuff was totally true.
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-Kiamat Dusk

"Pat Robertson Officially Off The Deep End "

If you couldn't tell over a decade ago, then you have problems.

I'm a Christian. I go to church and everything. I read my Bible.

But this freak acts like he speaks for Christanity.

I'm sick and tired of MY beliefs being equated with the actions of people like Pat Robertson or the Roman Catholic church, the Crusaders, or any of those other groups that are decidedly not following the basic tenets of Christianity.

At times, I think there's a concerted effort to make all Christians look bad by SAYING you're a Christian and then DOING something different.

It's gotten to the point that when I say that I'm a Christian or that I go to church, I have to qualify it by saying "but I'm not like those people you see on TV!"

Did they specify whether this was "2,000 pounds" as in lots of heavy metal weights or "2,000 pounds" as in British paper currency?

He also said Israel's former prime minister Ariel Sharon was struck down by god for giving away Israeli land when he had his stroke.

Very funny stuff.

Briana Dawson

Oh, I remember that one too, now that you mention it.

This is the kind of example where I wish Christians would get up, non-denominationally, and declare certain false prophets to be what they are.