Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/25/jerry-falwell-jr-resigns-as-h.html
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He’s got free time now.
Close your blinds, America!
So after dancing back forth for a few days, it’s official now?
Umm, what’s the term for people like him that Nazi-adjacent assholes like him use as a derogatory vaguely racist/homophobic insult?
EDIT: Think it rhymes with “duck”?
He made clear in his official statement that he’ll no longer be taking an active role in the affairs of Liberty University, but will still observe.
Free at last, from the burden of poisoning young minds with the most hateful version of Xtianity ever created.
He’s gone, but his hypocrisy will live on.
Well played.
Well played, indeed.
He went out exactly like you’d expect a garbage son of a garbage father to go. I wonder what his next grift will be.
According to this BBC piece; our gentleman blames “pressure from self-righteous people”.
This seems like a clear sign that either Mr. Falwell has a level of self awareness lower than most inanimate objects; or that 2020 is having yet another “meaning has dissolved into phoneme soup to be roiled by the petulance of the powerful” moment. Possibly both.
Makes one wonder about Liberty University dorm rooms.
No dancing allowed!
But hey, [and I’ve cribbed this from the tweetland] “at least he went down swinging.”
But voyeurism is ‘a-okay…’
Everything is “ok for me, not for thee.”
At the end of the latest new abnormal podcast
Rick Wilson speculates that Donald Trump secured Jerry Fallwell Jr’s endorsement with blackmail.
Umm, Michael Cohen’s third client, right? And I just went to YouTube looking for the endorsement vid which I had seen at the time, and even the heavily edited version shows the distinct lack of enthusiam or, umm, belief shown by Fallwell Jr. The original had him interrupt his endorsement to take a call. Here’s what’s left up:
How much was Falwell sr paid by Rupert Murdoch for his interest in CBN? How much did Jr get from that deal and from his father? The Murdoch cabal may be the most significant conspiracy of the 21st century and we just keep looking the other way.