TV preacher Pat Robertson once again opened mouth and inserted foot. Robertson came to praise Rush Limbaugh and ended up insulting actor Morgan Freeman. Robertson then tried to extricate himself from the mess he created by calling Freeman “a tremendous actor.”
Robertson said Limbaugh should not be criticized for saying that black Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb benefits from “social concern.” Freeman – who is black – also got a slide from the media, Robertson said.

“He started off playing a chauffeur in ‘Driving Miss Daisy,’ and then they elevated him to head of the CIA and then they elevated him to President and in his last role they made him God,” Robertson said on the “700 Club.” “I just wonder, isn’t Rush Limbaugh right to question the fact, is he that good an actor or not?”

Granted, Robertson made no references to Jimmy The Greek Snyder, Al Campanis nor the size of Freeman’s penis or the extent of his athletic prowess

Freeman is a three-time Oscar nominee who has won critical acclaim for his roles in movies such as “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Glory.”

Over the years, Robertson has drawn the fire of gay groups and made critical comments about Islam and in recent years got in dutch by siding with Jerry Falwell who made some damning comments about the 9/11 bombing.

Falwell on Robertson’s 700 Club commented days after the attack on the World Trade Center, “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.'”