Return of the Pool Boy

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

He has risen!

After an absence of several months, Jerry Falwell, Jr's handsome young pool boy is back in the news - and his ascension into the national spotlight is threatening to bring about the permanent removal of Jerry Junior from the leadership of Liberty University, the religious school founded by the evangelical leader's late father, Jerry Falwell, Sr.

Earlier this month Junior was placed on a leave of absence by Liberty University's board of trustees from his position as President of the University.  The board took that action after a photograph circulated in the press which showed Junior and a young woman standing next to each other grinning with their pants partially unzipped.   The political preacher said that photo had been taken as a "joke," but members of Liberty's board were apparently not amused.

Junior Falwell  was having a rough month, but now that has changed - for the worse.  Now he is officially having a disastrous month!

Yesterday, in what was reportedly an attempt to get out in front of a story that was about to come out through other sources, Junior Falwell went before the press and declared that he had been the victim of blackmail by a "former business associate."  Falwell said that the man had been having an affair with Falwell's wife, Becki, and was threatening to go public with the story.

But there was so very much more to the story than what Falwell released to the press.  The "business associate" turned out to be 29-year-old Giancarlo Granda, the former Miami pool boy who had made news with the Falwell's previously when it was revealed that the family spent a very large sum of money to help Giancarlo set up a gay-friendly youth hostel in the Miami area - a hostel that had an on-site liquor store and was described by Politico as being a "flophouse."

Then Giancarlo, who reportedly met the Falwell's in 2012 when he was 20-years-old and working as a pool boy at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, had his turn with the press.  After turning over some photographic evidence to Reuters, the former pool boy went on to tell about a long-term sexual relationship that he had with in Mrs. Falwell that had lasted seven years and had taken place in numerous locations - a long-term affair that he said had involved participation by both Becki Falwell and Jerry Junior.  

The pool boy's version of the affair was that he and Becki would engage in sexual activities while Junior sat in a corner and watched.

Jerry Falwell, Jr, has denied that he was a "watcher," and presents as a distraught husband who was just trying to protect his straying wife's reputation.  He describes the affair between is wife and the pool boy /business partner as being a "fatal attraction" type of relationship.

Yesterday afternoon Falwell reportedly let the board of trustees at Liberty University know of his intention to resign as the University's president, but sometime later in the day he had a change-of-heart and announced that he was not resigning.  Clearly more news is likely to follow today.

And, in a related story, the Republican National Convention began yesterday.