Franklin Graham to be interviewed tonight on NC PBS

 Side by Side series by Nido Cobain the Presidnet of High Point University. . Will do my best to bring it to the attention of the several, three channels of UNC PBS comparing to what I imagine the late Bill Friday, chancellor of the UNC system would think. And a touch of Marshall Frady, Randall Balmer and the PBS documentary on Billy Graham which is definitive for my tastes.

    I  saw the interview Tuesday. It will be repeating and I think it is online. As expected it was a puff piece softball interview. Foxcues mostly on the logistics of Samartian's Purse which I commend Franklin for.

     Frank only metnioned two presidents, Bush 41 and Trump. Said he went with his father to the inauguration of 43 for Gov of Texas which woulda been early 90s. Sat by 41 at the meal and Georege Herbert Walker pointed around the table to his big family and told Franklin who those family members were. As you know it is a big family.

    Franklin said he wrote a note to Trump about his vulgarities, his speech, and Trump often made mention of the note publicly saying he was trying to do better.

    Nothing mentioned to compared Trump to Bonhoeffer or Lincoln or Alabama's Judge Frank Johnson, even Eisenhower.

       Nido is president of High Point University. Obviously ill prepared for this matter he should arrange to have some of the scholars on the PBS Doc to campus, in particular Randall Balmer of Dartmouth to discuss Frankling and his politics.

    Talk about the invitations Franklin made for Billy's 95th birthday which included Trump and Rogers Ailes and a couple other politics.

      In the early 90s Bill Friday a UNC PBS personality told Cecil Sherman, the pastor then of the FBC of Asheville the biggest event for the decade on the 1980s in NC was the fundamentalist takeover of the Baptist seminary in to the town of Wake Forest, Southeastern Seminary. Friday said Jesse Helms operatives led by Sam Currin knew that in SEBTS they could get in the heads of the next generation of Southern Baptist pastors and bend them toward the Right. That is a big part of the Trump base now across the SE and Franklin Graham is at the core of the movement. See Katherine Stewart Money Lies and Power. Also google Robert Jones, Shutting Down CRT debatle, Religion news.

      Billy Graham told Al Mohler an SBC fundamentalist leader that he sided with the fundamentalist in the SBC takeover

     That is what PBS NC should be reporting about the legacy of Billy and Franklin Graham and every graduate of High Point should know it too.