Article: COLUMN: Falwell cleared on Tinky Winky slur

Josh Dickey
University Wire
02-25-1999
(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- I have no reason to exculpate the Rev. Jerry Falwell -- but the man never said boo about the damn Teletubbies.

A fusty doctrinaire, Falwell is a caricature of the outdated beliefs he supports -- obstinate and ornery like a sad old orangutan in the zoo for children to ridicule. So it's no wonder when it got out that the venerable reverend reportedly "said" something politically preposterous -- something so remarkably obtuse -- that it erupted into a media firestorm.

And by now, everyone is bored with cries to absolve Tinky Winky. See, word on the street was, ol' Jerry "said" the violet, boy-voiced, ...

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