Falwell calls comment ‘tongue-in-cheek’

So Rev. Jerry Falwell has followed his heart again I see.

“I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate,” Falwell said at a breakfast session Friday in Washington. “I hope she’s the candidate, because nothing will energize my (constituency) like Hillary Clinton,” he said. “If Lucifer ran, he wouldn’t.”

With followers of Christ acting like this, who needs Satan? What is even scarier is that no so-called religious leader there raised concern about the comments.

"Falwell told the AP that he did not intend to demonize the former first lady. “That was totally tongue-in-cheek and everyone in the building knew that and everyone laughed,” Falwell said."

I wonder if the "tongue-in-cheek" alibi would work if El Presidente Bush commented in jest about nuking the Middle East back to the Stone Age because of all those crazy Muslims running around there. “It’s just a harmless joke! Get over it! Of course we will only use conventional weapons to bomb them back to that Age.”