Franklin Graham – Douche Bag of the Day
I didn’t bother to check I am so certain this won’t be Graham’s first Douchey. This time it is for his comment that Donald Trump’s affairs (and I presume many other sins) are personal, not public, so they don’t matter. The nation’s so-called moral guardians, Evangelical Fundamentalists, gave Trump a “mulligan” for it as long as he gives them what they want on culture-war issues, and Graham is leading the way.
The hypocrisy of these Sharia Law loving Fundamentalists is nothing short of spectacular, and Graham leads the way. This past week while out promoting his new book, “Through My Father’s Eyes”–which claims to offer lessons from his late father, Billy Graham(what a joke, first, I don’t think he learned shit from his father, and second, I don’t think he ever thought his father had anything to teach him)–Franklin gave his take on the Daniels saga. Graham actually said Trump’s sex life is “nobody’s business.”
I could say I’d agree, except for this bit that Graham (Franklin that is) had the temerity to write in a 1998 Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Clinton’s Sins Aren’t Private.”
Just look at how many have already been pulled under by the wake of the president’s sin: Mr. Clinton’s wife and daughter, Ms. Lewinsky, her parents, White House staff members, friends and supporters, public officials and an unwitting American public,’ Graham wrote. The God of the Bible says that what one does in private does matter. Mr. Clinton’s months-long extramarital sexual behavior in the Oval Office now concerns him and the rest of the world, not just his immediate family. If he will lie to or mislead his wife and daughter, those with whom he is most intimate, what will prevent him from doing the same to the American public? What will prevent him from doing the same to the American public? We already know the answer: nothing.
Grham’s advice to Clinton back in 1998? “A repentant spirit that says, ‘I’m sorry. I was wrong. I won’t do it again. I ask for your forgiveness,’ would go a long way toward personal and national healing.”
Here’s what Graham had to say about Donald Trump’s transgressions all the way back in January when he was busy excusing The Don on Don Lemon’s show on CNN, all of us are sinners” and “he’s not the pastor of this country.” A story in the Charlotte Observer reports it this way:
“There’s a lot of presidents that have had rough language,” Graham told Lemon, noting that Trump comes from a business, not political, background.
Graham, however, said Trump has denied asking during a White House meeting why he should accept immigrants from “shithole countries” rather than people from places like Norway. “He said he didn’t say it,” the evangelist told Lemon, adding that some others in the meeting have said they never heard Trump use that language.
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“He’s accused of an affair with Stormy Daniels,” Graham said. “He said he didn’t.” Trump also has denied that one of his lawyers created a private company in Delaware to buy Daniels’ silence for $130,000, Graham said. “I don’t know that that’s true,” Graham said about the payoff.[/perfectpullquote]
Regardless, Graham said, “I believe he’s a changed man. He gets attacked by the media every day.”
And now that we all know the Stormy Daniels story is true, and that his lawyer set up a company to handle a payoff, what do we get from Graham? “Nunya.” It’s nobodies business. Graham claims, “we’ve got other business that we need to deal with.”
So Franklin, for being about the biggest tool in tool shed of American Evangelical Fundamentalism, we’re proud to award you yet another Douche Bag of the Day Award. You go girl…making good Atheists out of good Christians every day.
