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They All Got Careless: How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual Games, Self-Dealing
The deposed university president secured backing by ousting critics and hiring the family members and businesses of loyalists.
Illustration featuring Becki Falwell, Jerry Falwell Jr., Donald Trump and Jerry Falwell Sr.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/01/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-becki-self-dealing-sex-430207
When Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki strolled around the Lynchburg, Va., campus of Liberty University, the evangelical school which Falwell led as president, they would play a secret game called Would you rather.
The middle-aged couple would point to students, men and women, and imagine what it would be like to have sex with them, according to a former student who said Becki told him about the game.
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Now, following an episode this summer in which Falwell posted a photo of himself with his pants unzipped and arm around his wifes assistant, Falwell has left his job and withdrawn from public life. Supporters of the university, which boasts it has more than 100,000 students, are left to wonder how to disentangle its reputation from that of the Falwell family, given that the two were synonymous for generations. And some are wondering why it took so long and until a direct act by Falwell like posting a photo for the universitys trustees to take any action.
A POLITICO investigation, including interviews with dozens of Liberty officials from Falwells time as president, found a university community so committed to the Falwell legacy that even trustees considered it unthinkable to exert power over the son and namesake of the universitys revered founder. Plus, the university employed at least 20 relatives of stakeholders defined as senior administrators and the 32-member Board of Trustees, according to federal tax disclosures which gave many leaders an incentive to stay on Falwells good side.
I didnt think there was proper oversight, or enough governance by the board, said Glen Thomas, a Liberty alumnus and former board member whose father was a multi-million-dollar donor to the university. The president, or the CEO, of a nonprofit should be working for the board to fulfill the mission of the nonprofit not the opposite. I feel like the board was mostly on the sidelines. I call it having accountability with no authority.
gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)Blue Owl
(50,256 posts)n/t
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)a) Have sex with a Falwell, or
b) sandpaper the asshole of an alligator in a phonebooth?
Raster
(20,998 posts)... would he also be watching while one sandpapered the asshole of an alligator? Seems like a Falwell* thing to do.
tanyev
(42,515 posts)I knew if they were having intimate encounters with someone as young as the pool boy and that personal trainer that they were also having encounters with students--or fantasizing about them.
obamanut2012
(26,046 posts)Friends in Lynchburg in the know say Becki was bonking him, too.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)once he realized his name was going to be besmirched by association.
Just sayin'
obamanut2012
(26,046 posts)I'm not saying it is true, but my friend's source at LU has always been right. But, we shall see!!!