Pat gets another 15 minutes of fame

Pat Robertson has apologized.
Duh.
Has anyone else come to the conclusion that these "off the cuff" remarks are not mistakes? That Pat - and his 700 Club - are not sorry at all about remarks Pat now refers to as "inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief"?
After all, this is his third major gaff in the last few months. You'd think that somebody in the organization would be putting him on a 7 second delay, and telling him to stick to the script.
Instead, he continues to make outrageous statements, which get him a lot of press, and for which he later apologizes, getting more press. He has become an advertisement for the 700 Club, attracting the attention of reactionary zealots, and no doubt filling his coffers with their money.
As a Christian, I am shocked and appalled by this man, by this organization, by its crusade to ruin all that is good and right about my faith in order to maintain their political and financial position of power. Pat Robertson's appeal to the flagellants of the country denigrates the values he pretends to uphold.
It is time to remove this hypocrite from the airwaves, and shut down his network of hate, whose sole purpose in existing is to continue to raise money for unChristian political purposes. His messages of intolerance and fake piety, played out before the national media so that he can expand his power ever wider, is no longer acceptable.
Even his allies are deserting him. He was leading a group of evangelicals planning a $50 million evangelical Christian heritage center along the Sea of Galilee. They have kicked him off the board, so to speak. The Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said that evangelical leaders "must exercise sensitivity and grace towards the people and leadership of the nation of Israel."
Duh.