To be sure, the context O’Brien was referring to was the party Falwell hosted on his yacht inspired by the Netflix mocumentary series Trailer Park Boys.
To understand Falwell’s proclivities, his behavior must be situated in terms of the longer history of white evangelical masculinity. Before long O’Brien deleted that tweet, conceding that it was indeed Falwell, but asserting that the photo had been “taken out of context.” Malachi O’Brien, a fellow at Falwell’s Falkirk Center, initially claimed on Twitter that the man in the photo was not Falwell. When the internet erupted in consternation, Falwell’s friends came to his defense. One of his hands rested just beneath the girl’s breast, the other clasped a glass of “black water,” according to his own caption (translation: definitely not alcohol).
At issue, rather, was a photo Falwell posted to Instagram-a photo in which he stood, arm in arm with a young woman who is not his wife, each with their shirts tugged up, their pants partially undone, and, in the case of Falwell himself, his underwear clearly visible beneath his slightly protruding belly. This time, the matter at hand wasn’t his decision to keep Liberty open against public health recommendations, nor was it his threat to sue journalists who covered the decision, nor was it his tweeting a racist image of Gov.
And once again, Falwell had no one to blame but himself. Earlier this week Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and one of President Trump’s leading evangelical supporters, once again found himself at the center of controversy.
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