[enough]

Call me a tin foil nut, but I find the timing of this interview suspect. Elections less than a month away, I think 60 minutes is attempting to stir up controversy. Connect the dots between the wascally religious right and the Republicans. Think about that at the ballot box, yadda, yadda, yadda.

[Revelation 911]

agreed - and Falwell is in love with his mug & the camera - so he obliges - Dont get me wrong - I agree with his sentiments - but we dont need a political imbecile making it easier for democraps

[Cicero]

Well, I had to take a break for lunch, but let me respond to a few of these posts all at once, because now I have to go out and buy a picket fence.

As I said in my original post, I think Drudge (who has always disliked Bush) is trying to use Falwell to bash Bush once again. And no doubt 60 minutes has the same agenda. They may stack the interview to try to make Falwell to look like a fool. And they are the guys who do the cutting and pasting.

So, maybe Falwell has put his foot in his mouth again. He has clearly spoken the truth, but at a bad time in the run-up to election. The liberals would love to make Bush look like a dangerous fundamentalist-lover, which would make some voters hesitate to vote Republican in November.

But they tried it once before, with McCain and Bush's visit to Bob Jones University, and it backfired on them. I think most Americans will agree with Falwell, and it will make them think a bit more about what's already on their minds about the Islamic problem.

I agree that Bush should keep his distance from this kind of stuff. His job is to split the opposition, and that can best be done by the useful fiction that Islam isn't really, truly violent, but that it's only a few misled fanatics we have to worry about. It's not true, if we go by the historical record and the present behavior of most Muslims, but it's politically and strategically useful.

That doesn't mean that people like Falwell can't speak out. Jerry doesn't represent the government. Probably he will make himself unpopular again with this, but he's used to it. And it will serve the purpose of telling some home truths to the American people that Bush can't say from the White House.

[DeweyCA]

Call me a tin foil nut, but I find the timing of this interview suspect. Elections less than a month away, I think 60 minutes is attempting to stir up controversy. Connect the dots between the wascally religious right and the Republicans. Think about that at the ballot box, yadda, yadda, yadda.

This is EXACTLY what "60 Minutes" is trying to do. And Falwell is too stupid to see it.