Jerry Falwell, we hardly knew ye...

[chefmike]

Hell is hot, isn't it Jerry?

[tsmandy]

Standing at the gates of hell a 9 foot tall tinky winky ready to flog and flay Fallwell for all eternity.

[chefmike]

Standing at the gates of hell a 9 foot tall tinky winky ready to flog and flay Falwell for all eternity.

LMFAO...priceless, Mandy...you should post that that in the Falwell thread in the general forum...it's great and it would add to the celebretory mood...

[chefmike]

The GOP has only Pat Robertson to geniflect towards now for their required pat on the head from the religious right...

[North_of_60]

Bye Bye, Jerry !

[White_Male_Canada]

chef old man, you`re true nature is showing 8)

[Quinn]

Bye Bye, Jerry !

LMFAO..... I almost forgot about him coming out against one of the teletubies for promoting a gay/White_Male_Pantywaist lifestyle. Typical far Right idiocy.

-Quinn

[ezed]

The GOP has only Pat Robertson to geniflect towards now for their required pat on the head from the religious right...

They'll find another one. They're a dime a dozen. Beside the pay is amazing.

[guyone]

Larry Flynt On Jerry Falwell: Hustler Lawsuit Revisited On Day Of Rival's Death


LYNCHBURG, Va (May 15, 2007) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the folksy, small-town preacher who used the power of television to found the Moral Majority and turn the Christian right into a mighty force in American politics during the Reagan years, died Tuesday at 73.

One of Falwell's most memorable opponents was Hustler kingpin Larry Flynt, who had a very public legal battle with the Reverend over freedom of speech rights.

At the heart of the case was a satirical ad that ran in Hustler in 1983with the headline "Jerry Falwell Talks About His First Time," in which the magazine described a drunken Falwell having an incestuous encounter with his mother.

Falwell sued Flynt (pictured together on "Larry King Live" in 1997), alleging libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

However, the Supreme Court ruled that a public figure could not recover damages over distress based on satire under the umbrella of free speech.

Upon hearing of his death, Flynt released the following statement to Access Hollywood:

"The Reverend Jerry Falwell and I were arch enemies for fifteen years. We became involved in a lawsuit concerning First Amendment rights and Hustler magazine. Without question, this was my most important battle – the l988 Hustler Magazine, Inc., v. Jerry Falwell case, where after millions of dollars and much deliberation, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in my favor.

My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in

California and we would debate together on college campuses. I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.

The most important result of our relationship was the landmark decision from the Supreme Court that made parody protected speech, and the fact that much of what we see on television and hear on the radio today is a direct result of my having won that now famous case which Falwell played such an important role in."

Falwell is survived by his wife, Macel, his two sons and a daughter, Jeannie Falwell Savas. Funeral arrangements were not immediately known.

[trish]

My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends.

when jerry wasn't gay bashing, attacking the first amendment or women's rights, he was a glad handing son-of-a-bitch who disquised his true nature as so many glad handers do.

[chefmike]

A latter-day Elmer Gantry.

[chefmike]

Wanted: The Next Jerry Falwell
Ken Levine

Now that the Rev. Jerry Falwell has left the Mortal Majority, who will fill his place as ignorant spokesperson for the religious right? It has to be someone not only uninformed but grossly irresponsible. It's a hard act to follow. The self-proclaimed good reverend hit most topics. In the name of the church he promoted segregation, even claiming the Bible supported it (although later unable to find that page.

Maybe it wasn't the Bible but the Klu Klux Klan value coupon book he saw it in.) He must consider all gays as "deviants" and praise AIDS as God's way of punishing them. Takes a real moron to say that. Not every Village Idiot can qualify.

He must be topical. He can't let global warming go by without calling it "Hocus pocus, a Satanic plot to distract Christians from the more important work of spreading the Gospel." (His successor might spend a little more time focusing on the Armageddon sections.)

Falwell recently declared that the Muslim prophet Muhammad was a terrorist. I understand his basis for this claim was seeing an episode of 24. So, for him, documented proof! He also linked Hillary Clinton to Osama bin Laden but that could just be because they look alike. Honest mistake.

It is imperative he have a unique spin on 9/11. Rev. Falwell said it was brought about by "the ACLU and the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians." His successor might want to add Jews (although I think that's what Falwell meant by the ACLU), the Hollywood crowd, Democrats, college professors, scientists, and American Idol.

The new Voice of the Seriously Stupid must be homespun, conservative, and willing to take an outlandish public stand on anything he knows nothing about. He must be short-sighted, self serving, unwavering in his position especially when proven wrong. He must wrap himself in the flag and tie himself to the cross.

I think there's only one man for the job. George W. Bush.

Please leave your current job and take this one.

[White_Male_Canada]

Your true nature is showing 8)

[chefmike]

America misses Clinton. They will never miss Falwell, all he's getting is a resounding 'good riddance'...

A fitting epitaph for Jerry from C. Hitchens:

"If you gave Jerry Falwell an enema, you could bury him in a matchbox."

[North_of_60]

HITCHENS: The whole consideration of this — of this horrible little person is offensive to very, very many of us who have some regard for truth and for morality, and who think that ethics do not require that lies be told to children by evil old men, that we're — we're not told that people who believe like Falwell will be snatched up into heaven, where I'm glad to see he skipped the rapture, was found on the floor of his office, while the rest of us go to hell.
How dare they talk to children like this? How dare they raise money from credulous people on their huckster-like "Elmer Gantry"** radio stations, and fly around in private jets, as he did, giggling and sniggering all the time at what he was getting away with?
Do you get an idea now of what I mean to say?
COOPER: Yes, no, I think — I think you're making yourself very clear.

A must see. Hitchens interview with Anderson Cooper...
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/16/hitchens-slams-falwells-life/#more-17373