Death Of A Hillbilly Huckster

Here in the South we have an aversion to speaking ill of the dead, but other than having sympathy for his family I can't think of anything good to say about Jerry Falwell. Falwell and his ilk wrap themselves in the Bible to promote their bigotry and intolerance. This was a guy who was a segragationist, supported apartheid, and called a true man of God, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a "phony." This man was a huckster who scammed money from poor elderly folks in order to build his "university," and his numerous business endeavers. Falwell was quick to swoop down and buy the PTL ministry after Jim and Tammy Faye went down, he was an opportunist who claimed way too much credit for Reagan's win, and his influence on the GOP was always exaggerated in my view. We have something in the water here in Virginia that grows this type of person, the other titan of televangelism, Pat Robertson has his hq and "university" in Va Beach. Falwell to me was anti-american and anti-constitution to the core. He was against free speech, (remember the trial with Larry Flynt?) against the separation of church and state, and blamed gays, feminists, and the ACLU for 9-11. What a class-A asshole. May his empire built on lies and bigotry crumble.