Posted on 10/15/2022 3:42:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
BEFORE THE EVENTS related in this excerpt, Giancarlo Granda was just another 20-year-old Miami high school graduate: pool attendant at an iconic Miami Beach hotel, eager to please, ambitious, open to suggestion. A chance poolside encounter with Becki and then Jerry Falwell Jr., first-born son of an evangelical legend and his attractive 40-ish wife intrigued him. He acted on a lark, and was suddenly in the middle of a complex sexual affair with Becki. The affair gave Granda a firsthand view of immense wealth, unexpurgated power and unwavering faith, as well as the duplicity and destruction it takes to maintain their illusion.
(The Falwells have denied Granda’s account and insist that Jerry was not a participant in the affair.)
A decade later, it all looks very different. Their predatory nature, abuse of power, complete lack of moral compass and monumental hypocrisy is breathtaking to look back across the full sweep of it. In this excerpt from their new book Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty, co-authors Giancarlo Granda and Mark Ebner recount how those first few tentative steps set Granda on a dizzying path to near destruction.
At the tail end of the high season at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami, on March 13, 2012, I was close to ending my shift at around 4:00 p.m, when I noticed a woman staring at me. She was camped out in my section—maybe in her mid-forties, attractive, fit, and very charismatic, stretched out on one of the poolside daybeds in a bikini. Daybeds are way more comfortable than the lounge chairs, and the going rate was $150 a day, so anyone with a daybed already had my attention.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Title is intentionally misleading. This is about Junior, not Senior.
Apple, Tree.
Would you say the same thing about Ronald Reagan and Ron Jr?
Yawn. Another kiss (if true) and tell
Same. My ***** is for me only.
I prefer Ale....but whatever.
LOL. I love how society pretends that women are wonderful and only men are sexually promiscuous. As if there’s only a couple town bicycles.
“Especially chicks in the military.”
USAF Security Forces was loaded with panty droppers.
I know...
All USAF dudes know.
I know for certain that Reagan would never have said this on broadcast television three days after the destruction of the World Trade Center while thousands of people were still unaccounted for by their frantic and panicking families:
"[T]he pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America," Falwell continued, "I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" - Jerry Falwell
Ummm, evidence? Nice try.
It’s obvious you disliked Jerry Falwell. Whatever his failings, the sins of his son are his son’s alone, and your initial comment was a smear without evidence.
I think he would have said that had he seen what degeneracy hot the nation. Thankfully he avoided the worst of it. I think Jerry Sr was probably a good guy or we would have heard about it by now.
Aging "Rolling Stone" magazine is still permanently stuck in adolescence, worshiping at the altar of Leftist pop culture. Nothing is sadder than aging hippies who have run out of creative steam. They are the very definition of the word pathetic. Dragging up an unknown family member of their nemesis from 40 years ago reeks desperation.
His son has his own free will. His father may be the perfect person his whole life. But I can't say that. I was never around his family.
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