Word: televangelistic
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...emotional distress. In 1984 his privacy claim was thrown out by a federal judge, and a jury found no libel, believing no reasonable person could think that the spoof was being presented as factual. But the jury agreed with Falwell's complaint about emotional distress and awarded the televangelist $200,000. Despite the novelty of the verdict, an appeals court upheld the judgment. The jury's award to Falwell set off alarm bells among journalists, political cartoonists, comedians -- anyone who might poke fun at public figures...
...announced that "his credentials with the church" were under review. One person who has seen the pictures troubling the church said they include a photograph of Swaggart and a prostitute outside a motel. ABC-TV reported that the allegations had been made by the Rev. Marvin Gorman, yet another televangelist who was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1986 for what one church official called "immorality." Gorman had accused Swaggart of spreading rumors that cost him his reputation. The sad saga of sin and stone casting among the preachers seems far from over...
Robertson, the former televangelist, might be doing Dole a service by eating into Bush's Southern strength. But though the South is Robertson's strongest geographical base, he draws only 15% of likely Republican voters there in TIME's poll. He also attracts wall-to-wall hostility. When registered voters from both parties are asked which candidates "would you definitely not vote for," Robertson tops the list with 72%. Only 17% say they would consider casting a ballot...
...joined the army. Not the U.S. army. My mother just joined the "invisible army" of former televangelist Pat Robertson...
...more attuned to their country's desires before concluding that today's moral crisis is easily handled with secular expertise. Pat Robertson's practiced intimacy, his instant if shallow friendliness, may frighten some. But it reassures others exactly because he is not theatrical or compelling (as, say, an earlier televangelist, Fulton Sheen, was). That breathy and winking chuckle we heard, debate after debate, did not constitute a last laugh by any means. But we are going to suffer that chuckle's soft abrasions for a long time -- for as long as we remain deaf to the alarm bells it responds...