While I do firmly believe he died about 70 to 90 years too late, it does bring me some comfort to know he spent a few decades in disgrace. Unlike many of the other televangelists who were finally exposed, he never really recovered to the same level. Although that kind of worked out to his advantage as when he was caught with a prostitute the second time in 1991 he didn’t receive nearly as much attention over it.
I don’t know, he might have enjoyed the rubber head. (And again, my favorite part about making that joke is that I get to refer to him in the past tense.)
(In the voice of the great lead singer Napoleon Brock)
Swaggert be a messin’
with a plastic rubber head. Rubber head! Rubber head!
But ya know it ain’t happenin’
Cause the bastard be dead. He be dead! He be dead!