What IS it with people trying to weasel out of things they actually said on the record? Or somehow indicating that it's someone else's fault? in a written appeal for funds, Falwell Ministries accuses "liberals, and especially gay activists" of launching "a vicious smear campaign to discredit him." [...] The Falwell fund-raising letter says donations to his ministry have plummeted, saying "we have lost more than $500,000 in income since the terrorist attacks."
You know, there are two things that are notable there, flipsides of the same thing: (1) That somehow, they feel that the drop in donations is due to the criticism, rather than that Americans' charitable giving has been extraordinarily focused in the past seven weeks (I'd imagine that donations to all non-attack related charities are off badly right about now), and (2) Falwell apparently normally takes in about $100,000 per week in donations normally, or just a bit less. $5.2 million per year or something like. Apparently, some aspects of the Religion Biz pay startlingly well.
Gives you just a bit of pause, doesn't it?
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