Comments on: So, how come the widely revered Billy Graham never got the heat Jeremiah Wright’s getting?

By: equalityrkfd=

equalityrkfd= — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:12:43 +0000

No, I meant that Don Imus wasn’t a presidential spiritual adviser.

By: Pat Cunningham

Pat Cunningham — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:24:23 +0000

Hey, equaliltyrkfd: You’re kidding about Billy Graham not being a “presidential spiritual adviser,” right? Of course, he was. The media frequently called him “spiritual adviser” to Nixon (as well as other presidents), and neither Graham nor the White House ever disputed the characterization. It would appear that Billy also was a bit of a liar. When Nixon aide H.R. Haldeman wrote in 1994 about the aforementioned conversation between Graham and Nixon, Graham said he had NEVER discussed the “Jewish people” with Nixon, either publicly or privately. He seems not to have figured that the conversation was recorded. When the tapes were released in 2002, Graham said he still didn’t remember the conversation, but he also apologized.

By: Kaus

Kaus — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:34:49 +0000

Imus was white….and it was subtle….
Blatant would be someone that said white brains are different than black brains….

By: equalityrkfd=

equalityrkfd= — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:22:59 +0000

Huh? He wasn’t very subtle, was he? He also wasn’t a presidential spiritual adviser.

By: Kaus

Kaus — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:15:21 +0000

Post 5 - In this day and age….Don Imus comes to mind, refutes your silly argument.

By: equalityrkfd=

equalityrkfd= — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:06:04 +0000

Well, duh, cuz he is…now wait for it…here it comes…cuz he is what? Yeah, White! Also his preaching style isn’t as upfront, it is so much more subtle and we like subtle racism.

By: Kaus

Kaus — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:00:11 +0000

Of course, Henry Kissinger was Nixon’s secretary of state and his right hand man. He was also Jewish. Nixon’s memoirs…do they mention anything about Billy Graham impacting his life….was there any anti-Jewish sentiment?

By: Menlo Bob

Menlo Bob — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:43:28 +0000

Billy Graham also thought AIDS was invented to kill black people? Then I guess we’ll have to take away his honorary degrees too!!!

By: Pat Cunningham

Pat Cunningham — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:16:56 +0000

Yeah, but Nixon’s and Graham’s remarks were sufficiently offensive, even then, that both of them knew they couldn’t make them publicly.

By: Mike Carroll

Mike Carroll — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:09:58 +0000

I would imagine it has something to do with standards of acceptability evolving over 3 1/2 decades. Bear with me on this anecdote.
At dinner one night when I was home from college (1968 or thereabouts), my father asked me “how is your colored roommate doing?”. I promptly lectured him on the use of that word and how the acceptable word was now “black”. He in turn let me know that he had used that term all of his life when those around him were using the N word. His subtle way of letting me know that I was a pompous little twit. On the other hand, I never heard him use “colored”again.
I guess that is a long way of saying that what Graham said in 1972 was far more offensive in 2002 when it was revealed.
I don’t think the Wright situation equates.