a syndicated Sunday-morning gospel hour.
Ah, the old days ...
Posted on 05/24/2016 4:05:18 PM PDT by NRx
In 1987, the TV evangelist Oral Roberts told his viewers he needed urgently to raise $8 million — or “God will call me home.”
Even by the standards of pray TV, Roberts was seen as a huckster and a charlatan, so when God finally did call him home (22 years later) his earlier appeal received prominent placement in the obits.
Today, though, TV hucksters don’t even need a syndicated Sunday-morning gospel hour. They make their pitch on YouTube and they raise money from a different congregation — the The One True Church of Victimology, Inc.
Take the Rev. Jordan Brown, a gay man who hoped to cash in on an appeal as bogus as Roberts’ last month in Austin, Texas. Picking up a wedding cake at a Whole Foods, he made a YouTube video claiming that, though he had ordered the legend “LOVE WINS,” some unseen hater had added the word “FAG.” He sued Whole Foods within four days.
Commenters pointed out that he would likely have seen the hateful word (which was anyway written with a different frosting tool than the rest) immediately upon picking up the cake, which was packaged in a box with a transparent top.
Plus, seriously: Whole Foods? In Austin?
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The only hoaxes that are caught are the ones with definite proof.
Many others get away with it.
The burden of proof in these hate crime accusations is always on the accused, never on the accuser.
The faker never is arrested or made to pay, so they have nothing to lose.
Who is that? Is that real? Lol
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