A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a televangelist’s defamation lawsuit claiming ABC’s “20/20″ news program used a fictionalized sermon portraying himself as a wealthy braggart out of context.
A trial court judge had earlier tossed out the lawsuit filed by the Rev. Frederick Price, ruling that the video apparently showing the founder of the Crenshaw Christian Center boast about his wealth didn’t leave the audience with the wrong impression of the preacher: Price is wealthy and he does boast, going as far as calling himself a “prophet of prosperity.”
