Falwell Accuses NYT, ProPublica Of Criminal Trespass While Covering COVID | Talking Points Memo

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., announced Wednesday that he is pursuing criminal charges against a New York Times freelancer and ProPublica for trespassing on campus while covering COVID-19.


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lol

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First amendment for me… none for you!

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Liberty Biberty U.? Is anyone even still alive there? I figured they would have all rapturated already.

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to know I don’t give a damn about the students just the money they pay me.

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Doesn’t this doofus recieve government contracts for jet fuel or something? If he can’t pull himself up without taxpayer help, his business should be our business.

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“They forced us into a corner,” Falwell said. “I don’t think God wants Christians to just sit back and not protect what they believe in…’

God hates falwells.

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Falwell going full Trump.

Attack, threaten, sue.

No space for “turn the other cheek” in Falwell’s Bible.

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“We actually went to the local magistrate, we’ve sworn out warrants for their misdemeanor arrest,” Falwell said on right-wing radio show, the “Todd Starnes Show.”

“We’ve”? Did the local magistrate pin a deputy’s badge on his chest? Be We So Scared.

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He’s biting back at perceived injustices which someday will be real.

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Unless they all ruptured.

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“Sgt. Alan Wilkins, a detective with the Liberty University Police Department.”

They get to pick their own uniforms, and their jail is a tree house.

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As we all know, Sgt. Alan Wilkins, a detective with the Liberty University Police Department, is better than your average cop. He doesn’t even need a judge’s signature to swear out an arrest warrant, thus demonstrating he’s not a run-of-the-(diploma)mill schmuck mindlessly following his employer’s orders to manufacture … something, anything.

Like the Father, the Son and the Wholly Ghost, I stand with Sgt. Wilkins in his pursuit of truth, justice and holy retribution. No one should be allowed to report what they see and hear — especially if it’s true.

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In the pool cabana, on the other hand…

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And their school mascot is a cabana boy…

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After 40 days in the wilderness of a pool-side cabana in Miami Beach, Jerry Falwell has emerged with a message from God: “You shall sueth the free-lance photographer who took a picture of the student who was afraid of dying because you brought students back to campus in defiance of common sense. And get your hands off that pool-boy, Jerry. Remember what we talked about?”

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Baptism by immersion takes on some other meanings when one remembers the Falwells’ heavenly pool boy.

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“They forced us into a corner,” Falwell said. “I don’t think God wants Christians to just sit back and not protect what they believe in and protect the people they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect.”

I don’t think God wants the Christian students to get sick because the university president is too greedy to set up online classes instead of in-person classes!

And furthermore, Falwell has the FIDUCIARY DUTY to keep the LU students safe and healthy…and he is failing that duty BIGLY!

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If there really was a God, Falwell would have been smitten or whatever they say God does in that bible I haven’t ever read.

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And he’s willing to take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Three reasons:

  1. Not spending his own money
  2. Already knows how the court will vote
  3. Possibility that SCOTUS will reduce press freedoms in their finding
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