He was a massive liar.
He was a raging alcoholic his entire adult life.
He tried to blame his liver damage on eating McD’s for a month. Even the doctor in the movie wasn’t buying it. “You have the liver of an alcoholic!” the doctor said.
Yes. He lied. And mislead people. He did a documentary on his 30 Days program on FX channel about prolife pregnancy help centers. The idea was to take a pro-choice person and introduce them to pro life people and have them live in a pregnancy help center for 30 days. A fish out of water scenario. His crew came to my house because at the time I was the president of the California chapter of Democrats for Life. So we were supposed to be another perspective on prolife. We met the “star “ of the show and explained why pro life makes sense on so many levels in addition to “God said so”. (The pregnancy center she stayed at was evangelical Christian. ) The star was a planned parenthood volunteer who was getting her Ph.D. in women’s studies. We had a professor from Pepperdine with us. He and the “Star” agreed to meet and talk further to discuss pro- life. We did a great job I think, in explaining calmly and rationally why the Democratic Party had once been and could again be a place where life was protected at all ages and stages. (this was about 2006?)
When the show came out, we were not in it. All our efforts ended up on the cutting room floor because they did not advance the narrative that prolife people were crazy right wing Christians who are anti-women.
So, oh well. I will say a prayer for the guy’s soul and for the consolation of his family. (pray for your enemies, and do good to those who hurt you.)