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Flint on Falwell: Interesting Article

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From the LA Times

Soon after that episode, I was in my office in Beverly Hills, and out of nowhere my secretary buzzes me, saying, "Jerry Falwell is here to see you." I was shocked, but I said, "Send him in." We talked for two hours, with the latest issues of Hustler neatly stacked on my desk in front of him. He suggested that we go around the country debating, and I agreed. We went to colleges, debating moral issues and 1st Amendment issues — what's "proper," what's not and why.

In the years that followed and up until his death, he'd come to see me every time he was in California. We'd have interesting philosophical conversations. We'd exchange personal Christmas cards. He'd show me pictures of his grandchildren. I was with him in Florida once when he complained about his health and his weight, so I suggested that he go on a diet that had worked for me. I faxed a copy to his wife when I got back home.

The truth is, the reverend and I had a lot in common. He was from Virginia, and I was from Kentucky. His father had been a bootlegger, and I had been one too in my 20s before I went into the Navy. We steered our conversations away from politics, but religion was within bounds. He wanted to save me and was determined to get me out of "the business."

My mother always told me that no matter how repugnant you find a person, when you meet them face to face you will always find something about them to like. The more I got to know Falwell, the more I began to see that his public portrayals were caricatures of himself. There was a dichotomy between the real Falwell and the one he showed the public.
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Source:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printed...,1,6624077.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true



Both of these guys have been on my list of "people I'd never, never, ever want to be stuck on an elevator with," but this essay gives me a new perspective on both men. His lesson on people being more than a list of policy positions or a stiff caricature is a good one.

Except for Rebecca, of course.

I think we can all agree she's just plain evil.
 
FYI: This and other newspaper links ask to sign up and log on.:confused:

So who is Rebecca?
 
Is this article implying that Falwell might have been a human being?

I don't believe it :mad: !
 
steverino said:
FYI: This and other newspaper links ask to sign up and log on.:confused:

So who is Rebecca?
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Laddiebuck, you gotta get out of Politics, visit Forum Community now and then. Some genuinely interesting people there. And not a few force ten weirdos.

Rebecca is one of the former, let it be said.
 
You know, I always had my doubt about whether or not Falwell was a true believer. Sad to say that Larry Flint has proven to me that Falwell was just misguided but honestly believed.
 
BPSCG said:
Laddiebuck, you gotta get out of Politics, visit Forum Community now and then. Some genuinely interesting people there. And not a few force ten weirdos.

Rebecca is one of the former, let it be said.
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I know who Rebecca is. I still don't see what she has to do with Larry Flint.
Whatever.

I do contribute to, and read, the HUMOR section, as I am hilarious. Oh, and I am on this Sudoku kick.
 
So Flynt (note the correct spelling, people) and Falwell forgave each other and actually became friends, after a fashion.

How very Christian. Literally.

Compare with some people's reaction to a few cartoons published in a Danish magazine mocking their religion.
 
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