Oops clicked on the wrong death thread
RIP, what a life he lived. Archie Bunker was one of the greatest TV characters ever created.
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âI got to outlive that dbag Kissinger!â
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If Trump lives to 100 Iâm going to be so pissed. I donât want to be drawing Social Security, or worse, when he kicks it.
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Well, you probably wonât be no matter how long he lives.
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Alf Garnett was better
unbelievable. and high pitch erik still walks among us
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One of Hollywoodâs most outspoken liberals and progressive philanthropists, Lear founded the advocacy group People for the American Way in 1981 to counteract the activities of the conservative Moral Majority.â
At one point he had 8 shows running at the same time.
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I canât think of a single Democrat who belongs in this thread when they die.
(Rev. Billy Graham may have been the last one.)
Bullshit
He gave the world Franklin. Pure ghoul.
Then there is his embrace of Nixon
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IN MY OPINION, Rev. Grahamâs positive influence on the lives of literally millions of folks, and given that he later apologized for those comments that he made about Liberal Jews controlling the media, I would still clearly place him in the ânon-terribleâ category.
Having said that, I think I can say with confidence that no Democrat still alive would qualify for this thread when they die. (IMO, of course)
I think Graham should get the Kissinger treatment, which is not enough, but itâs a start. Grahamâs pernicious influence advocating for a brain dead theocracy is recounted at length in Kevin Kruseâs One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Hereâs an excerpt from a short piece by Kruse. A Christian nation? Since when? by Kevin M. Kruse - Freedom From Religion Foundation
Enter Billy Graham
The most important clergyman for Christian libertarianism, though, was the Rev. Billy Graham. In his initial ministry, in the early 1950s, Mr. Graham supported corporate interests so zealously that a London paper called him âthe Big Business evangelist.â
The Garden of Eden, he informed revival attendees, was a paradise with âno union dues, no labor leaders, no snakes, no disease.â In the same spirit, he denounced all âgovernment restrictionsâ in economic affairs, which he invariably attacked as âsocialism.â
In 1952, Mr. Graham went to Washington and made Congress his congregation. He recruited representatives to serve as ushers at packed revival meetings and staged the first formal religious service held on the Capitol steps. That year, at his urging, Congress established an annual National Day of Prayer.
âIf I would run for president of the United States today on a platform of calling people back to God, back to Christ, back to the bible,â he predicted, âIâd be elected.âDwight D. Eisenhower fulfilled that prediction. With Mr. Graham offering scripture for Ikeâs speeches, the Republican nominee campaigned in what he called a âgreat crusade for freedom.â His military record made the general a formidable candidate, but on the trail he emphasized spiritual issues over worldly concerns.
As the journalist John Temple Graves observed: âAmerica isnât just a land of the free in Eisenhowerâs conception. It is a land of freedom under God.â Elected in a landslide, he told Mr. Graham that he had a mandate for a âspiritual renewal.âAlthough Eisenhower relied on Christian libertarian groups in the campaign, he parted ways with their agenda once elected. The movementâs corporate sponsors had seen religious rhetoric as a way to dismantle the New Deal state. But the newly elected president thought that a foolâs errand. âShould any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs,â he noted privately, âyou would not hear of that party again in our political history.â Unlike those who held public spirituality as a means to an end, Eisenhower embraced it as an end unto itself.
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Yes he was a big part of the gateway drug of evangelism spread through television across the country.
And everything that followed.
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Difficult not to be moved by these. What a send off:
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I think this thread is the right place. RIP
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Ugh. Homicide GOAT show IMO.
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