The Pastor and The President---Graham, Nixon, and Bush

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With all the talk lately about Wright and Obama, what about Billy Graham? He is President Bush's "savior" as Dubya reminds us. And, Graham also interacted with Nixon. Reading some old transcripts brought to mind things that Graham said that were bigoted. Why aren't we remembering the past and the Billy Graham TAPES? This thing with Obama is overblown compared to the bigotry expressed here....

Read on and you decide:

''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.''

(What did he say to Nixon?)


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

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.

http://www.cephas-library.com/complaints/complaints_about_billy_graham.html

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1. The Pope and Vatican have made wild statements too

Directly against the US. Nobody is in an uproar over that.