Pat Robertson had some surprising
commentary in response
to the police shooting of
Daunte Wright in Minnesota.
That was the cop who somehow
mistook her gun for her taser and
accidentally killed Daunte Wright.
She's now facing
second degree manslaughter charges.
But Pat Robertson is not going
along with the Right-wing narrative
on this.
Let's hear what he has to say.
>> Now, how she made the difference
when she shot that poor
guy to death, say this is what I
thought was my taser.
And if you can't tell
the difference within the feel
of those things, it's crazy.
Anyhow, she deserves.
But I am pro police, folks.
I think we need the police,
we need their service, and
they do a good job.
But if they don't stop this
onslaught, they cannot do this.
The police in Virginia picked up
a lieutenant in the Army and
began to give him trouble.
And our state police are highly
trained.
But why they stop this, and this
thing that's going on in Minnesota.
But Derek Chauvin, I mean, they
ought to put him under the jail.
He has caused so much trouble by
kneeling on the death of
George Floyd, I mean on his neck.
It's just terrible what's
happening.
And the police,
why don't they open their eyes to
what their public relations are?
They've got to stop this stuff.
>> Maybe they need more training.
>> Is Pat Robertson repenting for
his sins? That was something I
would not have expected
from Pat Robertson.
But I think the video evidence of
excessive force has become so
overwhelming that you really have
to be a dishonest actor to pretend
like policing in this country isn't
an issue.
Especially since, in the Minnesota
case, specifically, you have the,
now former, police chief admitting
that the wrongdoing was carried out
by the cop, who has also stepped
down and is facing second
degree mount slaughter charges.
Cenk.
>> Yeah, wow, what has happened to
Pat Robertson in his old age?
My dad got way more progressive
as he got older, defying
the Winston Churchill quote, which
never made sense the first place,
if you ask me.
But apparently, Pat Robertson,
following in his footsteps,
he woke up from a nap and
became woke.
So, it actually kind of
did something ironic for me,
watching that.
I got a little depressed because
I thought I think we might have
gone backwards.
I think there might have been, so
it's not like there wasn't racism
in the past in America.
There was terrible, terrible,
terrible, racism, right?
But we might have had this brief
period where maybe things were
getting a little bit better, and
then it got worse again.
So, I feel like Pat Robertson got
frozen in that time.
And in that time,
they still hate gay people 100%,
200%.
That's why Pat Robertson's awful on
that stuff, right?
But he's like wait,
I didn't think we were supposed
to hate black people.
Why are we killing them?
I don't know why the police are
killing the black people, right?
And so, he seems genuinely
confused as to why we're doing this
to other human beings.
It's oddly Christian of him.
I'm having trouble making
sense of it.
And let's be honest,
on a lighter note,
as he was playing with the gun and
he taser,
we were all on pins and needles.
>> My gosh, no, panic,
absolute panic.
But okay, so that that goes to
a point that I've made in the past,
but I want to reiterate it now,
perfect opportunity.
Oftentimes, we talk about gun
legislation in the extremes, right?
The Right doesn't want to do
anything about it.
And then, I think the Left
gets mischaracterized as wanting to
ban all guns.
As if there's no
proposal in between.
And I've said that I am
not in favor of banning guns,
I don't think that makes sense.
But obviously,
I want robust legislation to ensure
that guns don't end up in the hands
of the wrong people.
But I also want legislation that
forces gun safety, right?
So, if you're one of these people
who thinks it's totally fine to
leave your gun laying around so
your child can reach it, and
then accidentally shoot themselves,
there should be serious
consequences for that.
There should be a law ensuring that
people are carrying out and
practicing gun safety.
Like that video, I obviously agree
with what he was saying there, but
that was a perfect example of
what gun safety, of no gun safety.
I don't care if it allegedly
doesn't have any bullets,
you don't know.
Safety first, stop putting your
hand on the trigger,
stop waving it around.
What are you doing? What are you
doing?
>> The whole time, as he's going
like this, I was like any second he
was going to go boom, all right?
And then, we're going to lose woke
Pat Robertson in that moment.
So, look,
don't get lulled into a sense of
complacency about Robertson.
Most of his opinions are still
terrible.
But- >> Put the gun down!
[LAUGH] >> I know.
Please stop pointing it at people,
I'm begging you.
>> He's shaking and everything.
>> Right.
But look at the point he's making.
He's like, look,
they weigh different,
they look different,
they're not anything alike.
So, what he's doing is he's even
questioning whether it was
an accident.
So, if it was an accident,
still secondary manslaughter.
But he's saying I'm not sure it
was.
And he's asking why are we
randomly killing
these innocent black people?
And why are the cops.
And so then, that made me think I
wonder if he's old enough that he's
not on social media, and maybe he's
not watching Fox News or whatever.
So, that's where people are getting
radicalized, right?
They're watching and
consuming Right-wing media, and
especially online, 24/7.
They're getting taught,
they're getting brainwashed that
cops killing innocent black people
is perfectly good.
That's acceptable, wonderful.
Kyle Rittenhouse, vigilantes going
and murdering black people and
protesters in the streets is
perfectly great, that's wonderful,
right?
And if he hasn't been exposed to
that, he's ironically from the old
school, wait, are cops supposed to
murder black people for no reason?
I didn't know we were doing that,
right?
Because maybe he just didn't get
brainwashed by Right-wing media in
that way.
Look, I'll tell you one last thing.
If you're saying hey, Cenk,
there was no forlorn era in America
where there was a golden time and
stuff, it's way more complicated
than that.
Of course, there was no one golden
era where everything was great.
That's of course not true.
But were things better
in some ways in some times?
Yes.
I know because my dad came here in
the 1960s as a Muslim immigrant,
and he was welcomed with open arms.
I mean, Americans, Republicans,
Democrats, Whites, Blacks,
it doesn't matter, Christians,
etc., they were all incredibly kind
to him.
America was
an unbelievably welcoming place.
So, in that regard,
there's no question it got
way worse, a thousands times worse.
>> I mean, a perfect example of
what the discourse was among
Republicans is the debate between
George H W Bush and Ronald Reagan
on the topic of immigration.
Watch it,
the video's available on YouTube,
watch it.
And it'll seem like it's two
liberals debating what should be
done on immigration.
We have, in many regards, moved
further to the Right on issues, and
immigration is certainly
one of them.
So, check that out.
And you're not wrong,
you're not wrong, Cenk.
You're definitely right on that.