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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMike Huckabee declares reports of Billy Graham's death "Fake News"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/mike-huckabee-billy-grahams-death-fake-news-hes-alive-ever-heaven/Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), an ordained Baptist preacher, insisted on Wednesday that the death of televangelist Billy Graham was fake news because the holy man will live on forever in Heaven.
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It's official. The term "fake news" has gone the way of "literally" and "metaphorically".
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Mike Huckabee declares reports of Billy Graham's death "Fake News" (Original Post)
DetlefK
Feb 2018
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)1. So then, is every obituary column in every newspaper "fake news"?
Because doesn't Mike Hucksterbee believe all Christians (never mind the other people) go to Heaven?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)6. Maybe they are... "fake fake news"?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)13. Only if you are the right kind of Christian.....
but if you are not........you suffer in hell for all eternity.......so I guess obits are all fake news.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. Does he have proof??
Are you going to have him over for dinner?
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)4. He spins as well as his crappy daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Apple - tree.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)5. what is Fake to some is Good to others - n/t
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)8. Yup. Wherever Billy Graham went, at least he's not here any more.
He was a major player in getting the whole pernicious evangelical/political movement going. And his son Franklin, who is still with us, is even worse.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)7. Do us all a favor and go join him.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)9. eyes roll.
Squinch
(50,955 posts)10. What a has-been tool.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)11. in other news: huckabee is still a sanctimonious asshole. that is all.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)12. Like father, like daughter.......
The Apple does not fall far from the tree.
Initech
(100,080 posts)14. Really Mikey?
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)15. zombie? vampire? waiting 3 days for an empty coffin?