In 1988 former Presidential candidate Pat Robertson got extremely upset when a reporter referred to him as a “former television evangelist.” In Robertson’s camp this was considered slander.  I can understand that - given the recent publicity some evangelists have gotten.One of the things which I find so puzzling is that, even after a television evangelist has been discredited, disgraced, defrocked, fired from his denomination, told not to preach, and cancelled by many of the religious TV networks, he still pulls in more money in one week than most of our churches receive in a year!  How can you explain it?  Perhaps only with the words of that arch-cynic H.L. Mencken who once said that “Nobody ever went broke overestimating the bad taste of the American public!” That may be too cynical...bu…