Jerry Falwell dead

Published May 15 2007, 05:39 PM by Ryan Stewart

As reported here. Here's a guess: Giuliani will be the first person to reference him during the GOP debates tonight.

You can read a comprehensive list of things sympathetic media coverage will be sweeping under the rug here. We recommend starting with the section on apartheid. And this gem, following September 11th:

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"