In the 1970s, Pat Robertson purchased property and broadcast licenses with the charitable donations he solicited over the air. He loaned Ted Turner the money to start CNN, and he purchased the rights to The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Throughout the 1980s, he became known for outlandish statements. In one of his most famous moments, Robertson called feminism “a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
