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"It appears that anti-gay Dallas television host Amy Kushnir, who is so terribly outraged by Michael Sam's kiss, is the daughter of legendarily disgraced scamvangelist Rev. Robert Tilton, whose multi-million dollar grifting empire first crumbled in the early 90s following an exposé by ABC News. Christian Nightmares points us to this 2011 post on the televangelists watchdog blog Snake Oil, which refers to Kushnir as "Amy Tilton Kushnir."
None of available bios on Kushnir list the names of her parents so I did a little digging.
Rev. Robert Tilton's first wife, to whom he was married during the ABC-spawned scandal, is named Martha and goes by the unusually spelled nickname Marte. Two weeks ago Kushnir posted a Facebook photo of her mother's birthday party and in the comments a friend of Kushnir's writes, "Happy birthday, Marte!"
Robert Tilton's mother, Margaret Ruth Tilton, died in 2006 and her obituary lists the scamvangelist and his current third wife among her survivors. Also listed is an Amy Tilton Kushnir and her husband Bill. The husband of the television host Amy Kushnir is indeed named Bill and his Facebook profile lists that he attended Oral Roberts University.
Fourteen years ago Charisma Magazine interviewed Marte Tilton and noted that she had four children with Robert Tilton, including a daughter named Amy, then aged 30. According to the Explore Talent site, Dallas television host Amy Kushnir is 44 today. In a 2001 interview with the Dallas Morning News, Marte asked that paper not say where her children live, adding that they have "suffered a lot because of their last name." Marte and Rev. Tilton divorced in 1993, when the television host Amy Kushnir would have been 23.
That's an awful lot of possible coincidences, but if I've connected the dots properly, it's certainly understandable that Amy Kushnir wouldn't want the world to know about her infamous father. But it's rather illuminating if she indeed grew up in lavish mansions that were paid for by the then-estimated $80M conned annually out of old ladies by Rev. Robert Tilton, who is still in the scamvangelism game and was raking in $24M a year as recently as a few years ago.
VIDEO: I won't go into all the ways that Rev. Robert Tilton scammed his followers, there's plenty about that on his Wikipedia page. Let's just close this post with one of the dozens of truly infantile and utterly hilarious YouTube clips that mock him. Maybe an Amy Kushnir remix is called for."
-VIDEO at site:
http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/05/is-dallas-television-host-amy-kushnir.html#disqus_thread
Likewise at the site: many link embedded references and sites supporting his various data points and "crossing of the dots."
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Something completely hypnotic about his act. Too bad he scammed so many stupid people, but it was great fun watching him.
My favorite? No question. That would be Brother Ernest Angley, the faith healer.
Z_I_Peevey
(2,783 posts)Ernest Angley was awesomely entertaining
Gene Scott blew 'em all away!
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Leroy Jenkins was also highly entertaining
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)TeaBagsAreForCups
(356 posts)was hard to top. He set the "standard," so to speak - providing many hours of comic WTF?
And according to Wiki, the grifter bastard still crawls amongst us at the age of 92. Apparently even his magic Jeebus doesn't want him.
Proving yet again, only the good do die young.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)I think his hairpiece has a lifetime warranty, so he's getting his money's worth.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,311 posts)Jesus' own personal collection service.
CurtEastPoint
(18,620 posts)Robert Tilton: AKA the Farting Preacher.
longship
(40,416 posts)Except the part that he is a scumbag. No wonder he farts so much.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)The sad reality is they prey on old people who are afraid of the dark and will send money to the TV so long as they believe they can buy their way into heaven. It's not as if those who are suffering from geriatric dementia are going to be capable of understanding all of this anyway. For every TV preacher there's thousands of shitstain charlatans running the same scam on a lower level. Even many, if not most, so-called legitimate churches prey on older people to one degree or another. It's not as if they are going to send the money back.