| Author | Message | ||
     Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1371 Registered: 04-2005 |
I know it's disrespectful, but so what: he won't be missed. How much harm did this guy cause to the U.S. (and as a result, the world) in his lifetime? http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1 110AP_Jerry_Falwell.html | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1172 Registered: 03-2005 |
Just yesterday I was reading an infuriating article on the Beeb's website about Falwell's denial of climate change, his characterization of it as "a liberal hoax." What hubris for this a-hole to think he has any competence to have any opinion on that subject at all. So I won't mince words. I'm thrilled he's dead, absolutely delighted. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 431 Registered: 09-2006 |
Not to mention his horrific words post-9/11. I was headed over here to start a thread titled "Hateful fuck finally dies," but I'm happy to see someone beat me to it. LK, cue up "Tramp the Dirt Down," if you please... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1372 Registered: 04-2005 |
The disgusting part now will be the endless stream of eulogies calling him a "great man" that we'll have to endure from Bush and every other right-wing religious nutjob in the country. If I believed in this stuff, I'd say that right about now Mr. Falwell is discovering that his eternal destination isn't the one he planned on. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1444 Registered: 05-2005 |
So there is a god? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1923 Registered: 03-2006 |
I woulda amended that, Allen, to "hateful FAT fuck"...he didn't have time to bless all the food he ate, did he? Not enough hours in the day... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 600 Registered: 08-2006 |
May the buffet in the Place Below always be in need of a refill. The dustbin of history just got a lot heavier. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1926 Registered: 03-2006 |
Well said, RB. Though I refused to devote much headspace, or precious seconds of my life, to it, I watched a few moments of media coverage, and was reminded of some of his hit parade, his golden oldies of hate. I think my fave, though, has to be his pronouncement that Tinky Winky was gay! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 599 Registered: 01-2005 |
Maybe he's with the Rev. Jim Jones now! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 432 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hard to say...from what I remember, Jim Jones actually had a few redeeming qualities...before he became an utter lunatic, that is. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 601 Registered: 08-2006 |
Just got back from a meeting. Driving home, "Fresh Air" replayed an interview Terry Gross did with JF back in '86. Wow. He was, then as now, truly, deeply and irredeemably wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 602 Registered: 08-2006 |
Here's a clip of Christopher Hitchens doing a post-mortem on the good reverend on CNN. Hang on to your hats: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/16 /hitchens-slams-falwells-life/ | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1374 Registered: 04-2005 |
Great stuff--thanks Rob. I'm not a fan of Hitchens, but that was spot-on. | ||
| Michelle M Member Username: Michelle Post Number: 39 Registered: 09-2004 |
I am not sure I ever had knowledge of this cretin before this post. His passing has been good news for me. I have complained over the past 12 months that it seems only the good people have been dying. I would say to family, "why isn't "so and so" dead?" and then continue on about their wanton lives and hateful activity to fellow human beings. This was because lately good people I knew had gone. Young folk through silly car accidents and suicide. And older people through sudden heart attacks (and I know more than one) leaving families devastated. I saw TV footage here in Oz about him last night. A US headline said "Gone to God" and I said to family "I don't think so!" | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1173 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for this very entertaining link, Rob. I've never heard Hitchens speak before, only read his frequently exasperating columns. Here, Padraig, is the ultimate example of bloviating. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1446 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Randy. That word (and I'm sorry I ever doubted you over it) perfectly suits Mr Hitchens. My favourite ever Hitch story is here though http://www.theonion.com/content/node/279 96 (I insist you all read this if you know who he is - or even if you don't) | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 604 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Bloviate" is the perfect world to describe Hitchens, but in this case I was delighted by his performance. Can't image an American commentator with the venom and guts to say what the "immoral majority" - that is, those of us who gladly recused ourselves from Falwell's vision of a virtuous society - felt about JF all along. Padraig, that Onion article is classic. Describing him as hopped up on single-malt scotch is spot on. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1928 Registered: 03-2006 |
That is a beautiful eulogy the Hitch proffers...In a perfect world, it'd play on one of those tombstone video screens, in perpetuity, an eternal flame, of sorts, for a scumbag. You read Amis' "Experience", right, Rob? There's a great anecdote about Hitchens, whom Amis counts as a good friend. They were in a pub, and for some reason which escapes me, were both holding on for dear life to the same pint glass, neither wanting to let go as some kind of point of honor. However, Amis finally acceded, when he realized Hitch would never let go, would hold on to the glass broke and one of them suffered a sliced artery... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 600 Registered: 01-2005 |
I was disappinted that Hitch didn't mention James Dobson, another repugnant Christian who spews hatred and bigotry with radical right wing politics. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 607 Registered: 08-2006 |
I always thought it was funny that Amis and Hitch are friends, LK, especially since the personality Hitch most reminds me of is Kinsley Amis, a noted bloviater (in addition to his other "colorful" characteristics) of his time. I read a bio on the elder Amis not long ago and Hitchens kept leaping to mind with each page. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1500 Registered: 05-2005 |
What an asshole. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 608 Registered: 08-2006 |
More fun with Hitch. This time they pair him up with the execrable Ralph Reed, on whom he unloads for his Abramoff ties. And, of course, he gives not an inch on his Falwell stance. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/17 /hitchens-brutally-eulogizes-falwell-on- hannity-colmes/ | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 603 Registered: 01-2005 |
Rob, Those Fox hacks, they are the only network that would have Ralph Reed on these days. Sean Hannitty reminds me why I have FOX PC locked on my cable so I don't have to view the garbage spew forth when I'm channel surfing. NP The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 610 Registered: 08-2006 |
Say no more about Fox "News," Michael. I watched Jon Stewart the other night and he played a clip from the second Republican debate (theme: "we (heart) torture") in which Brit Hume announces that the event is co-sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Party and Fox News. The camera cuts to Stewart who, with a puzzled look on his face, asks, "isn't that redundant?" |