Jerry Falwell in critical condition

[Jaguar]

I don't really want to PWN Boris, I just want him to stop defending Robert Byrd.

[Alexander's Horse]

can we remove Falwell's feeding tube?

[chequita guevara]

His movement is dead. The Moral Majority hasn't been a major force for over a decade. Of course, other things have risen and fallen in that time, such as the Promise Keepers.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Jaguar
I proclaim that Boris has PWND Jerry Falwell.

However, if he really hates corrupt bigoted people who were vocal supporters of racism back when it was hip, then maybe it's time for him to give up on defending Robert Byrd. I got into an argument with him over this in January, and I think I have to bring it up in order to point out Boris's partisan slant in judging people.

Jerry Falwell was a vocal supporter of racial segregation during the 1950s and 1960s.

This is enough for you to conclude that:

He's a racist bigot.

However, I remember bringing up Byrd's use of the n-word on National TV in 2001, and his Klan membership of several decades ago, and that wasn't enough definitive proof for Boris that the man is a racist.

Before you get all wet over this, let's get some things straight:

Falwell continues to be a racist. His comments about Jews are recent. He also continues to be a bigot, big time, as his comments against homosexuals show. I doubt you will find any similar stances of Byrd (the "n word" example is pathetic, since anyone looking at the context of that can see he wasn't using it with the intent of being racist).

Byrd was indeed a man of his times and a racist ****. But he also had a reckoning with that and has denounced his racist past. I see little reason to believe he is insincere about it. I can't find any such recantations from Falwell.

Furthermore, as to my "partisan slant," you might do well to remember that when Strom Thurmond died, I defended him from attacks by folks here. I believe he honestly repudiated his racist past as well. Not to say that makes him a great guy, but in that aspect I was convinced. That seperates him and Byrd from types like, say, Helms, who was always slyly maintaining his racist roots. And Falwell, who AFAIK has never made any attempt to repudiate any of his bigoted beliefs in the past.

So your huffery is a bunch of empty twaddle.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Jaguar
I don't really want to PWN Boris, I just want him to stop defending Robert Byrd.

I've never defended Byrd on all things, but I did defend him from the ludicrous insinuations you were making about him in the thread you posted (namely that his no vote on Condi was because she was black). And you were definitely "pwned" on that one.

[Jaguar]

I don't remember the Strom Thurmond thread. Maybe you just have a proclivity for defending senile possibly-reformed-racist old bats.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
His movement is dead. The Moral Majority hasn't been a major force for over a decade. Of course, other things have risen and fallen in that time, such as the Promise Keepers.

Good

Then I couldn't care less about his death

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Jaguar
I don't remember the Strom Thurmond thread. Maybe you just have a proclivity for defending senile possibly-reformed-racist old bats.

Then I would have been defending Helms, then, wouldn't I?

Maybe I just look at the cases individually and make a judgement based on the facts I see?

[Agathon]

Falwell appealed the case because the judge was Jewish

Right... I'm going to piss on his grave for that.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Pekka
Dude, if you consider using army puters for Poly, and regarding it as stealing the gov bandwith for your own purposes, you need to get out and seriously loosen up. That's like Korean Code isn't it?

Korean Code?

*teehee*
*giggle*

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Bkeela
The fact that Bill Gates seems healthy and fairly pleased with himself is proof there is no karma.

Quoted

[mindseye]

I vividly recall hearing Falwell preach on television about "gays crawling out of the sewers" to infiltrate society.

(Pushes one last, long pin into Falwell doll...)

[Elok]

Boris: You forget that Falwell is working for the ultimate good, and therefore the end justifies the means. Lying, cheating, breaking the law, it doesn't matter if it can prevent his visions of stormtroopers with pink armbands marching on the capitol or whatever. He's dangerous and crazy, but you shouldn't underestimate the potential of human beings to rationalize inhumanity.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Because life is precious and you only get one shot.

Life is cheap. We have six billion of 'em.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Life is cheap. We have six billion of 'em.

That's a pretty severe case of schizophrenia.