Jerry Falwell - almost dead

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come on God, work with me here and do us all a favor

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/jerry.falwell.ap/index.html

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Come on autoerotic asphyxiation under the influence of Amyl Nitrate and surrounded by bear porn!

Oilyrags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

shakey mo, you don't ever think about karma, do you? like, at all.

strongohulkington, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

LOVE. THIS. GUY.

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"

"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals."

"Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers."

"I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them."

iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

shakey mo, you don't ever think about karma, do you? like, at all.

I sure do. payback's a bitch.

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

There's no reason to pray too hard, Shakey. He's mostly irrelevant these days.

Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)


I sure do. payback's a bitch.


Yes it is so watch out when you cheer someone's death. Payback will come looking for you one day.

Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

...johnny payback!

s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

This is probably one of the only people that Shakey could do his patented "I hope you die/you are a waste" superior dance about where I can't really argue against him.

HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure he's just as eager to ascend to heaven and sit at the right-hand of the Lord as I am for him to cease being a blight upon our political landscape...

but yeah its true his clout has diminished in recent years, he's at least a few rungs below Pat Robertson.

I'm sure death will come lookin for me one day, nothing I do or say will change that.

many x-posts

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

What's that line from The Stranger? Something like, "The best I can hope is that my funeral will be well-attended, and that I will be greeted with cries of hate."

kenan, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Civil Wrongs Movement"

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

actual factual outspoken supporter of apartheid regime in South Africa

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Shakey OTM

dan m, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

called Desmond Tutu "a phony"

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being"

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Falwellhustler.jpg

Oilyrags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha I have that issue. More fun with the reverend:

"I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him - and then he must be executed."

"Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan."

"The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews."

and my personal favorite:
"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them."

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

What about grown women having sex with prostitutes? Or underage men?

Oilyrags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

AP just confirmed his death

iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

good job, AP

gff, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

For contrast to the "Hope ya die, ya bastid", Tammy Faye Messner(nee Baker) has been sick with cancer for some time, and the latest prognosis is not looking good.

kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Can't wait for the tributes tonight at the South Carolina debate.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

may the Lord take his spirit into his welcoming bosom

(Tammy Faye otoh I will genuinely miss and I wish her the best. x-post)

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

65 lbs! holy shit

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Can't wait for the tributes tonight at the South Carolina debate.

haha - yeah my intention with this thread was for it to be something of a pre-emptive antidote to all the sycophantic eulogies we're about to be "blessed" with

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

He has gone to his reward.

Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

This is probably one of the only people that Shakey could do his patented "I hope you die/you are a waste" superior dance about where I can't really argue against him.

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:15 PM (23 minutes ago)


Yeah, Shakey. I invite you to go nuts on this particular thread and get it out of your system before Betty White or somebody finally kicks the bucket.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

how could anybody hate Betty White?!

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mpentertainment.co.uk/images/champagne-toast.jpg

Oilyrags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I had him in my Dead Pool. Yay points!

Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

He has gone to his reward.


Oblivion, which alas is all the karma there is.

M.V., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Tinky Winky, commence grave dance!

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Good riddance.

Bill Magill, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha I forgot all about his gay Teletubbies bit

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

My only wish is that he bounced off the wall a couple times on his fall into eternal damnation.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray! A possible acting job for Richard Paul!

dave 2¼, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

some blubbering evangelical fuck on MSNBC just called the death an american tragedy

iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jerry Falwell - almost dead

Jena, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

... an American tragedy where the elapsed time to it being comedy is extremely short.

dave 2¼, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

You'd think that among the legions of the saved that Falwell's death would be seen as a triumph over the grave, a happy occasion for rejoicing - for God has taken back His own and he is safe in the Bosom of the Lamb. Never seems to happen that way - outside of New Orleans, that is.

Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, so...Pat Robertson next?

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

From your lips to God's ear, Ned.

Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

peace out, dipshit!

deej, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an21640725-s1-v.jpg

deej, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but, Pat and God could really cement their relationship if Pat were in heaven.

Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan"

wow, what's that all about? I figured Graham was above reproach in the Born Again community.

oh wait, didn't he visit speak well of Bill Clinton or something?

will, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Oilyrags...My pants are now soaked with piss and everyone at work is wondering why I'm crying with laughter.

valoss, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

honestly I hope by some miracle Tammy Faye outlives all Fallwell's ilk, given that she's not a greedy racist homophobic anti-semite

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

The most frightening outcome of his activism was not ... a culture of nihilistic rage

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RLY.

gff, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

> The most frightening outcome of his activism was not a cadre of suicide bombers, or a culture of nihilistic rage, or a network of terrorists plotting to destroy the foundations of Western civilization.

Tell it to Robert Sanderson and Emily Lyons.

xpost

Oilyrags, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

NRO: AT LEAST HE WAS NOT A TERRORIST

this is what we call "faint praise" out here in Western civilization

gff, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed. His efforts encouraged guys like Eric Rudolph to "get involved" locally, so to speak.

kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I really can't be joyful, for the same reason I likely won't be on 01.20.09 -- his damage is done, and will be with us for the rest of my life, at least.

My friend's bar had $3 Old Granddad shots all night to celebrate.

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

"It's damn luckt he was in in this country, because we restrained him somewhat and limited his influence to inexcusable speech."

Kingfish - the sad, sick part is that you're right. Modern day America in a nutshell.

That aside, Falwell was bad news. I won't really rejoice at anyone's death, at least not until Rosie O'Donnell chokes to death on something, but I can't say this news saddens me very much.

Manalishi, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

lmao @ townhall article mourning falwell as unfairly harrassed by the liberal media & quoting GOLDWATER as an example!!

and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

oh that barry and his liberal media

and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

COOPER: Christopher, I'm not sure if you believe in heaven, but, if you do, do you think Jerry Falwell is in it?

HITCHENS: No. And I think it's a pity there isn't a hell for him to go to.

COOPER: What is it about him that brings up such vitriol?

HITCHENS: The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called reverend. Who would, even at your network, have invited on such a little toad to tell us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness and were God's punishment if they hadn't got some kind of clerical qualification?

People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup. 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, just 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.

and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Nice work by Hitch

Bill Magill, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Hitchens serves as a great dyspeptic bile-o-bot when set upon the right people. Just wind him up and there he goes.

kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

yeah his slate essay today was ace

gff, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Who would, [b]even at your network[b], have invited on such a little toad to tell us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness and were God's punishment if they hadn't got some kind of clerical qualification?

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:BevKYWE8RkXr8M:http://photo.gangus.com/d/26764-2/zing.jpg

and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're making yourself very clear.

roflz

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

OH NOES, lefty bloggers didn't like the guy. Why are liberals so full of hate, esp. for such good leaders of Christendom, one who spent his entire life spreading love and understanding amongst God's many flocks?

kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

A list of the biggest suprise Falwell went get upon showing up at the Pearly Gates.

So far the best one is "St. Peter is Catholic."

kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

[url=[Removed Illegal Link] he wasn't all bad, he, uh.... liked women's basketball[url]

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

hey he wasn't all bad he, uh... liked women's basketball

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

wtf I've now seen at least four different Tinky Winky-as-St. Peter ones

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/adbanners/ad.SWND.book.120406.Shooting_Back.125x600.gif

and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/20070517ST1AP-FalwellTinky.jpg

arent editorial cartoonists supposed to be able to draw ppl as recognizable as jerry falwell

and what, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

xposts wait wait wait, is that a character with a satanic sombrero and a bondage collar on?

apologies, i'm a little behind on faithmouse

gff, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Jonah Goldberg feels the need to defend Falwell going after Tinky Winky

kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

lolz @ "dangerous intersections of gays and kids"

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

(cast majority of pedos are hetero, dontchaknow)

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

(VAST MAJORITY)

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Video of Hitchens on CNN

caek, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's either tinky-winky, or rock hudson/paul lynde/oscar wilde/some other person well known for being gay.

i still think that the BEST thing in the gay-pearl-gate's-keeper would be King James -- that shit would blow jerry falwell's mind (or any other holy roller's mind) more than tinky-winky.

Eisbaer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

sure but how many political cartoonists know how to draw a recognizable image of King James

Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

my gift to ethan and shakey

key passage:

The notion of church/state separation, now widely regarded by Republicans as part of a devious war against Christianity, was a widely shared principle. Falwell himself once denounced preachers who got involved in governance, though not out of devotion to a secular republic: As a committed segregationist, he decried the work of Martin Luther King Jr, saying, "Preachers are not called to be politicians, but to be soul winners."

What changed? The religious right's creation myth holds that Roe v Wade so outraged the faithful that they could no longer sit passively on their pews. As the Columbia University historian Randall Balmer has shown, this is nonsense. The Southern Baptist Convention, Falwell's denomination, was officially pro-choice throughout the 1970s; anti-abortion activism was seen as the province of Catholics, a group then widely despised by fundamentalist Protestants. No, what really galvanized the religious right were Supreme Court rulings stripping whites-only Christian academies, like the one Falwell founded in 1966, of their tax-exempt status. Fervent opposition to abortion, which eventually cemented the alliance between conservative Protestant and Catholics, came later.

Eisbaer, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

it concerns me that someone as nuts as falwell has a 'far right' that will be protesting his funeral. Does fred phelps have a fred phelps that will protest his funeral for even uttering the name of leftist socialist pig jerry falwell?

deej, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSbDUCCjrE4

I think my favorite part is the laughter immediately after Ryan establishes his credentials.

Oilyrags, Thursday, 17 May 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

Chris Hitchens on Jerry F: "He's a snivelling little toad"

Hello Sunshine, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

This IS a joke, right?

http://i8.tinypic.com/5yn47yh.jpg

StanM, Saturday, 19 May 2007 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's a joke.

Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 19 May 2007 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am so happy that my local paper's editorial cartoonist was the one that busted out the super-Serif font and had God forgive Jerry for being a puss-filled maggot.

David R., Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

(no Alex in NYC)

David R., Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Barf:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 16:37 (five years ago)

In a claim likely to intensify the controversy surrounding one of the most influential figures in the American Christian conservative movement, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell’s wife and the evangelical leader.

Giancarlo Granda says he was 20 when he met Jerry and Becki Falwell while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in March 2012. Starting that month and continuing into 2018, Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.

Granda showed Reuters emails, text messages and other evidence that he says demonstrate the sexual nature of his relationship with the couple, who have been married since 1987. “Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room,” Granda said in an interview. Now 29, he described the liaisons as frequent – “multiple times per year” – and said the encounters took place at hotels in Miami and New York, and at the Falwells’ home in Virginia.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 16:39 (five years ago)

Jerry Falwell, Jr. seems like an awful person, but given his family, I feel like you have to grade him on a curve. This is from "Strength for the Journey," a memoir by his father Jerry Falwell, Sr. pic.twitter.com/ZzZKqZreVu

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) August 24, 2020

the fuck? jesus loves these kinda joeks

(•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 24 August 2020 17:21 (five years ago)

i guess you have to hand it to trump* for not inadvertently tweeting out the pee tape

"One of the sex pics problems started when Jerry [Falwell] was sending some nudes of Becki to Ben and accidentally cc’d most of the executive staff of Liberty University." https://t.co/OVX5vQhyy3

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) August 24, 2020

(* you do not, under any circumstances, etc etc)

mookieproof, Monday, 24 August 2020 18:37 (five years ago)

It’s here! The first day of classes!
What class are you most looking forward to this semester?📚 pic.twitter.com/vUnTpRCRzP

— Liberty University (@LibertyU) August 24, 2020

For the comments ...

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 August 2020 19:55 (five years ago)

out

mookieproof, Monday, 24 August 2020 21:15 (five years ago)

I don't know that calling these guys out as hypocrites works? Doesn't it just feed their wider narrative that contact with the secular world corrupts, and sets the scene for the redemption arc?

anvil, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:04 (five years ago)

Works as what? Who the fuck cares if they're redeemed, they'd only be redeemed in the eyes of the backwoods/backwards dorks that ever embraced or supported them in the first place. If they're gunning for redemption it's got nothing to do with me, it's between them and their god. In the meantime I'm going to enjoy watching them step on rakes, especially someone like Falwell who, like his father was, seems to be a historic asshole.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:23 (five years ago)

Rich southerners are immune to charges of hypocrisy (short of the old dead girl/live boy situation, but even then...) - they're all perverts anyway and they can convince the rubes they asked God for forgiveness, etc..

Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:39 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/rjgrQrI.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:59 (five years ago)

one year passes...

working my way through the falwell jr (not dead) tell-all in vanity fair

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/inside-jerry-falwell-jr-unlikely-rise-and-precipitous-fall

A short while later, the Falwells sat in the kitchen and began to talk about the tumultuous events of the past two years. The wide-ranging conversation was one of many we had over the past eight months. What emerged was an intimate look inside a very public marriage as well as a Shakespearean drama about fathers and sons and the burden of legacy. For the first time, Falwell opened up about his true spiritual beliefs and how they diverge from those of his infamous father, who cofounded the Moral Majority and waged a scorched-earth cultural war for four decades. When I told Falwell that many people thought he, consciously or not, wanted to destroy himself, he considered it for a moment.

“Subconsciously, yeah, I believe that’s true,” he said, nodding. “It’s almost like I didn’t have a choice.” He went on: “Because of my last name, people think I’m a religious person. But I’m not. My goal was to make them realize I was not my dad.”

i am SHOCKED that he's not a religious person! haha. but seriously, the chilling thing to me is that only some of the Liberty U student/alumni/creepy parent association will ever bother to read it, and if they do, they will never make the connection that they've been fed bullshit their entire lives in the same way and they still don't get it

Karl Malone, Monday, 24 January 2022 20:46 (four years ago)


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