by Last Night in Little Rock

Pat Robertson was defeated for re-election to the Board of National Religious Broadcasters. His spin was that he was too busy to attend but one meeting in 30 years anyway, and his departure was amicable. On AOL News, however, it was noted that there were 33 vacancies and 38 candidates, and he was running for re-election.

Apparently the membership was tired of his antics:

NRB President Frank Wright said there was no broad effort to distance the group from Robertson. But ''there was broad dismay with some of Pat's comments and a feeling they were not helpful to Christian broadcasters in general,'' he said in Wednesday's Washington Post. In the past few months, Robertson suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated and that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for pulling out of the Gaza Strip.