Jerry Falwell's polemical bigotry as the idol of the evangelical right-wing fascists of America became a shining example of everything wrong in our benighted ally in the aftermath of 11th September 2001.
After the attacks that brought down the World Trade Centre twin towers, he said that gays, atheists, civil-rights activists and legal abortions in the US had "angered God and helped this happen".
Now he is dead. This evil man has finally met what he so fondly called "his maker", and I sincerely hope that all the neo-Nazis who adored his every word follow him.
Unfortunately it seems his malign influence carries on - Senator John McCain, a Republican contender for US president, describes him as "a man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country".
Nice to know that the "land of the free" continues its decline into a political situation that is anything but.
Ridiculously, Falwell's greatest media legacy remains the occasion in 1999 when he denounced the BBC TV children's show Teletubbies because he believed one character, Tinky Winky, was homosexual.
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