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ReaderSushi Donating Member (122 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:31 PM
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Jerry Falwell at RNC convention?
Can anyone get confirmation or a denial of that story?
As a NYCer it makes me upset because in the wake of 9/11, he essentially claimed that we(NYCer's) brought the attack upon ourselves and deserved it. I think Pat Robertson said words to similiar effect or at least aggreed with Falwell's sentiment.
Can we try to get the word out on this and drum it up or something?
Maybe shame the RNC somehow? Yes I know they are shameless but you get the idea.
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SayitAintSo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:32 PM
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1. I've heard it's true ...n/t
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Vanje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:40 PM
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11. Good!
Edited on Wed Aug-04-04 04:43 PM by sheeptramp
Falwell is a full-out,up-front, foaming IDIOT!

He thinks teletubbies can turn ya gay.

He thinks the antichrist is alive now and lurking in Israel.


Yeah! Let the Rev talk!

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:32 PM
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2. Welcome to DU. Does he have a press site where he might
be crowing about being there?
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:33 PM
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3. We can only try....................................
Welcome to DU readersushi
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:33 PM
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4. he's supposed to be a speaker, along with Rick Santorum and other
loons. Could be entertaining with the sound down. :)

RV, always looking at the bright side
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:34 PM
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5. He's Always at the RNC Conventions and Leads In "Prayer"
He'll be there just as sure as the Reverend Moon holds the mortgage to Liberty Baptist Church.
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 05:10 PM
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16. almost
he owns the whole frickin Liberty "University"

Falwell overextended himself, and a Moon front bought up all the outstanding paper (largely from idiot followers of him) for pennies on the dollar

check it out

On Jan. 28, 1995, a beaming Rev. Jerry Falwell told his Good Time Gospel Hour congregation news that seemed heaven sent. The televangelist hailed two Virginia businessmen as financial saviors of debt-ridden Liberty University, the fundamentalist Christian school that Falwell had made the crown jewel of his Religious Right empire.

"They had to borrow money, hock their houses, hock everything," enthused Falwell. "Thank God for friends like Dan Reber and Jimmy Thomas." Falwell's congregation rose as one to applaud. The star of the moment was Daniel Reber, who was standing behind Falwell. Thomas was not present.

Reber and Thomas earned Falwell's public gratitude by excusing the Lynchburg, Va., school of about one-half of its $73 million debt. In the late 1980s, that flood of red ink had forced Falwell to abandon his Moral Majority political organization and nearly drowned Liberty University in bankruptcy.

Reber and Thomas came to Falwell's rescue in the nick of time. Their non-profit Christian Heritage Foundation of Forest, Va., snapped up a big chunk of Liberty's debt for $2.5 million, a fraction of its face value. Thousands of small religious investors who had bought church construction bonds through a Texas company were the big losers. But Falwell shed no tears. He told local reporters that the moment was "the greatest single day of financial advantage" in the school's history.

Left unmentioned in the happy sermon was the identity of the bigger guardian angel who had been protecting Falwell's financial interests -- from a distance and without publicity. That secret benefactor was the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed South Korean messiah who is controversial with many fundamentalist Christians because of his bizarre Biblical interpretations and his brainwashing tactics that have torn thousands of young people from their families. Moon also has grown harshly anti-American in recent years.

Covertly, Moon helped bail out Liberty University through one of his front groups which funnelled $3.5 million to the Reber-Thomas Christian Heritage Foundation, the non-profit that had purchased the school's debt.

I discovered this Moon-Falwell connection while looking for something else: how much Moon's Women's Federation for World Peace had paid former President George Bush for a series of speeches in Asia in 1995. I obtained the federation's Internal Revenue Service records but discovered that Bush's undisclosed speaking fee was buried in a line item of $13.6 million for conference expenses.

http://www.freedomofmind.com/stevehassan/presskit/articles/parry1.htm

doncha love this stuff?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:35 PM
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6. Don't worry. It was only gays, lesbians and abortioneers that caused 9/11
He was very clear that only certain groups caused God to turn his face from protecting America.
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DaveFL99 Donating Member (301 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:40 PM
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13. I thought there were satanists in ther too.
I'm sure there were
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:35 PM
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7. Of Course He'll Be There...He Always Is
Watch the early hours coverage on C-SPAN. Not just the early session (which starts at 4pm), but also the group meetings and breakfasts in the morning. Betcha a bright shiny dime, there'll be a prayer breakfast with Jerry and Pat and Jimmy Dobson and all the other Christian cabal...all praying for their supreme brother in Armagedeon.
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lagniappe Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:36 PM
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8. It's true. His keynote speech: "Give unto Jerry what is Jerry's"
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:37 PM
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9. Having Falwell and Robertson speak at the RNC would be great!
Let them haul out Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter, too. Shades of the 1992 RNC.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:40 PM
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14. Not sure if Pat B. will be there. He seems...less than impressed by
the neocons.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:37 PM
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10. If you can stomach it, visit his website.
http://www.falwell.com
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 04:40 PM
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12. Here's the quote
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians ... the A.C.L.U., 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.'"

-- Jerry Falwell, September 13th, on The 700 Club about last week's terrorist attacks

http://www.alternet.org/911oneyearlater/11560/
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 05:09 PM
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15. "Ole Blinky" is back?
'member when the pukes were counting how many times Clinton blinked saying "it's because he's lying"? Then came 'Ole Blinky". Falwell blinks so much he gives viewers nervous tics. The pukes never said another word about blinking.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 06:45 PM
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17. Hi ReaderSushi!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-04-04 06:48 PM
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18. There isn't a muzzle big enough!
....erm...nevermind.
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