My guess is that Pat Robertson just can’t endure the idea that people aren’t talking about him. He craves that hit of publicity, and he doesn’t care whether it’s good publicity or bad. But he has to say ever more outrageous things:

Pat Robertson suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s recent stroke was the result of Sharon’s policy, which he claimed is “dividing God’s land.” … Robertson called the 1995 assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin “the same thing.”

Update: The company Robertson is keeping these days! From the Washington Post:

The television evangelist Pat Robertson and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may not agree on much, but both suggested yesterday that the severe illness of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was deserved. Both men’s comments were immediately condemned by religious leaders.