tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post3164416336519648569..comments2024-03-19T09:08:02.505-04:00Comments on PowerPop: New Pornographers 1, Jerry Falwell 0NYMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-83791832279479164042007-05-15T23:06:00.000-04:002007-05-15T23:06:00.000-04:00Falwell was a bad person, but Jimmy Swaggart was t...<I>Falwell was a bad person, but Jimmy Swaggart was the one who called rock & roll "the new pornography"</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Hmmm. I did find it in an academic source. Could be wrong, I suppose.<BR/><BR/><BR/>More concerningly, you've just removed the one mitigating circumstance of his life. Oh well.<BR/><BR/>--NYMaryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-32619759918732802372007-05-15T21:46:00.000-04:002007-05-15T21:46:00.000-04:00Falwell was a bad person, but Jimmy Swaggart was t...Falwell was a bad person, but Jimmy Swaggart was the one who called rock & roll "the new pornography"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-25460282573921803822007-05-15T14:50:00.000-04:002007-05-15T14:50:00.000-04:00Nice job, kiddo.BTW -- one of the facts about Falw...Nice job, kiddo.<BR/><BR/>BTW -- one of the facts about Falwell that the media has conveniently overlooked since day one is that he was a stone segregationist back in the 60s.<BR/><BR/>One of his sermons of the period got reprinted in the 80s in a book on conservative pols of the Reagan era -- I think it was by the late Randy Shilts -- and it was pretty damning.<BR/><BR/>If memory serves, if Falwell was ever asked about that part of his past, he was generally allowed to skate with the usual "well, I changed my mind, God forgives us," bullshit.<BR/><BR/>In any case, he was a thoroughly awful guy, and I'm with you -- I'm not above doing the Snoopy Dance now that the fat shitheel is having a three-way with Satan and Strom Thurmond.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.com