Another talk-radio scandal

On the heels of controversial remarks made by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, this transcript reveals shocking, inexcusable comments by yet another member of the right-wing media machine:

HH: He may be the most well-known American over the last fifty years. He may have spoken in person to more people than any other person in history. His name, of course, is Billy Graham, and he’s the subject of a brand new book by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Preacher And The Presidents. He’s always in the headlines, really, but Billy Graham is very much alive in this book, and Nancy Gibbs, welcome, what a wonderful effort you’ve put out here. This is just grand reading.

NG: Oh, I’m so glad that you enjoyed it. It was quite a project for us. We had no idea what we were going to discover before we got into this.

HH: Just give the parameters quickly when you began it.

NG: We began after the 2004 election, really out of frustration with all the misunderstanding about the role religion played in that race, and we…

HH: And how timely is it now with the Romney issue coming? In fact, as I read the account of the 1960 campaign, I was stunned by the parallels of what’s going on right now, although Dr. Graham, of course, not playing a big role here.

NG: I found that fascinating, too, and we’v talked about that before, and you know, there are so many echoes, and because you have this fifty years sort of political ministry with so many presidents, which I always thought going into this was sort of just a public thing, that there is Billy Graham on Inauguration Day, I had no idea of all the private and very personal dimensions to it with all these presidents, Democrats and Republicans, and that was the real surprise to us. [emphasis added]

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Damian P.

Posted by damian at September 28, 2007 02:57 PM