FOR THE RECORD: The Christian leader warns "liberals are using anything and everything they can to promote candidate Harris" and says his father would appreciate Trump's conservative values and policies: https://t.co/LFJjdhdeA8 pic.twitter.com/PQImo9fTfC
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 16, 2024
Right wing propaganda network Fox News on Friday reported just about what they needed to get their fans outraged by a perceived misappropriation of the visage of dead Evangelical leader Billy Graham, quoting from a tweet by his son Franklin, who wrote “The liberals are using anything and everything they can to promote candidate Harris. They even developed a political ad trying to use my father @BillyGraham’s image. They are trying to mislead people. Maybe they don’t know that my father appreciated the conservative values and policies of President @realDonaldTrump in 2016, and if he were alive today, my father’s views and opinions would not have changed,” on Wednesday.
Fox News mentions that “Graham is president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse,” which appears to imply that Franklin is the sole custodian of his father’s image. They also tossed some race bait in for the fans, writing “On Wednesday, the group held a Zoom conference hosted by ‘reparations activist’ Ekemini Uwan, who has argued that ‘Whiteness is wicked’ and the police as an institution ‘needs to be destroyed and rebuilt. Policing was founded on the re-enslavement of Black people,'” unsubtly hinting that only whites can be Evangelicals.
So they covered their bases on one of Billy Graham’s spawn reacting to the Zoom call and one of the women who appeared on it, which makes one omission of both all the more fucking blatant: The Christian Post on Thursday reported that one of the speakers on the call was Jerushah Duford, whose mother, Virginia “Gigi” Graham Tchividjian, is Billy Graham’s oldest daughter. Just going to go ahead and hazard that it was Duford and not Uwan or former Republican Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger (Fox News didn’t mention him in their article either), who blessed the group to use her grandfather Billy Graham’s image in the promo for the Zoom call that drew 40,000 viewers.