PAT ROBERTSON WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL IDIOTARIANS. Here’s proof that he belonged there:

“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. I just wonder, isn’t Rush Limbaugh right to question the fact, is he that good an actor or not?”

— Pat Robertson on his “700 Club” television show, using the example of black actor Morgan Freeman to defend Limbaugh’s jab at Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.

Note to Robertson: Freeman’s a better actor than you are a, well, whatever it is that you are.

UPDATE: Reader Bill Long emails: “Robertson is a lot better idiot than Freeman is.”

Everyone has to be good at something. Reader Bill McCabe emails:

Robertson needs to get his dates straight. He was President (Deep Impact, 1998) before he was head of the CIA (Sum of All Fears, 2002). As for his acting credentials, I challenge Robertson to name one movie in which Morgan Freeman has turned in a bad performance; even in absolute garbage like “Dreamcatcher”, he imbues his characters with a credibility and believability that Robertson can’t match on “The 700 Club”.

Well, Robertson is certainly flunking with the important “readers named Bill” demographic!