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slan·der (sl²nd
r) n. 1. Law. Oral
communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation.
Billy Graham takes a 100 % salary as CEO and works less than
10 %! He is no different than Baptist preacher Rev. Jesse Jackson
who also doesn't work for a living and collects a salary!
"I can't stand very well, so I'll have to sit,"
said Graham, 83, who explained that shunts installed in his brain
to drain fluid have left him with an overall numbness. Fort Worth
Star Telegram October 16, 2002
Billy Graham and BGEA lied when they stated on a signed BILLY
GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION Federal I.D, 41-0692230 Form
990 for the year 2000:
Name and Address Billy Graham Montreat. NC
Title & Time Devoted To Position
Director & Chairman 40 hrs/wk
Compensation $174,000
Contribution to employee Benefit plans $19,786
BILLY GRAHAM HAS NOT WORKED 40 HRS A WEEK FOR THE LAST TEN
YEARS!
Speaking about liars did you read Nixon, Billy Graham Anti-Semitism
on Tape by James Warren Published on Friday, March 1, 2002 in
the Chicago Tribune?
Rev. Billy Graham openly voiced a belief that Jews control
the American media, calling it a "stranglehold" during
a 1972 conversation with President Richard Nixon, according to
a tape of the Oval Office meeting released Thursday by the National
Archives.
"This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's
going down the drain," the nation's best-known preacher
declared as he agreed with a stream of bigoted Nixon comments
about Jews and their perceived influence in American life.
"You believe that?" Nixon says after the "stranglehold"
comment.
"Yes, sir," Graham says.
"Oh, boy," replies Nixon. "So do I. I can't
ever say that but I believe it."
"No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might
be able to do something," Graham replies.
[Nixon speaking]
The best Jews are actually the Israeli Jews."
"That's right," agrees Graham, who later concurs with
a Nixon assertion that a "powerful bloc" of Jews confronts
Nixon in the media. "And they're the ones putting out the
pornographic stuff," Graham adds.
"Well," says Nixon, "it's also, the Jews are irreligious,
atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards."
www.commondreams.org/head...301-02.htm
Graham weathering the storm
Evangelist fighting for respect after controversy at the twilight
of his career
By Allen G. Breed Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Billy Graham's birthplace is long gone,
hauled off by fallen televangelist Jim Bakker to his now defunct
theme park.
All that remains is a stone marker with a bronze relief of Graham,
his fiery eyes and square jaw leaping off the plaque.
''Billy Graham is one of the giants of our time,'' reads the
1971 dedication. ''Truly a man of God.''
It's signed by President Richard Nixon.
Today, the great evangelist is haunted by words he said three
decades ago to that same president in the presumed privacy of
the Oval Office.
At 83, the ailing preacher is weathering a controversy over a
newly released tape recording in which he makes disparaging remarks
about Jews in a conversation with Nixon.
For some, the comments have all but erased the lifetime of good
will Graham had built.
''I fear, and it's with great sadness, that his legacy will be
tarnished by this permanently,'' says New York Rabbi James Rudin,
past interreligious director of the American Jewish Committee.
But while many are disappointed that a man of Graham's stature
would ever utter such words, they feel that the man should be
taken for the whole of his actions and deeds.
''Obviously, there are people who are so blinded by single-issue
morality that they will say that he is unworthy simply because
of that lapse,'' says James Dunn, former director of the Baptist
Joint Committee in Washington and a professor at Wake Forest
University Divinity School.
On the tapes, Graham's trademark Southern drawl can be clearly
heard agreeing with Nixon that left-wing Jews dominate the American
media.
''They're the ones putting out the pornographic stuff,'' Graham
says, adding: ''This stranglehold has got to be broken or this
country's going down the drain.''
''You believe that?'' Nixon asks.
''Yes, sir,'' says Graham.
''Oh boy. So do I,'' Nixon agrees. ''I can't ever say that, but
I believe it.''
What surprised many was that Graham didn't just mumble his assent
to his powerful friend's complaints about Jews -- he took the
conversation a step further.
''Not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of
mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they
know that I'm friendly with Israel,'' Graham is heard saying.
''But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing
to this country.''
The comments were all the more stinging because Graham had long
been considered a staunch friend of the Jewish people. He lobbied
for freer emigration of Soviet Jews, castigated Southern Baptists
for singling out Jews for conversion and has long supported the
state of Israel.
When the tapes first surfaced, Graham issued an apology but said
he couldn't remember making the comments.
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