Pat Robertson is Dead at 93: A Force in Evangelical Republican Media Failed in Run for President 1988
Pat Robertson is dead.
The 93 year old was perhaps the most famous Evangelical Christian ever on television. He tried to translate that popularity into politics as a very right wing Republican. In 1988, he even tried to run for President, but failed.
But he was no failure. Robertson’s decades-long run on his syndicated show, “The 700 Club,” is proof of that. There wasn’t a time before appointment TV that you didn’t flip past his talking head on the Christian Broadcasting Network. He was a constant presence until not that long ago, and it meant so much to a lot of people (and, conversely, nothing to the same amount of people).
His career instincts paid off for Robertson. A former Baptist minister, his net worth is estimated at around $100 million.
