A modern day snake
oil salesman. A charlatan, preacher type (usually a fundamentalist, Protestant Christian) who hawks her/his wares on television, promising miracles of a spiritual, or secular nature if the viewer would just fork over the cash. Think Peter Popoff’
s “Miracle Spring
Water,” or
Jim Bakker’s “Buckets of Survival
Food” for doomsday. These types think nothing of draining your grandma’s savings account while tooling around in a pink limo…think back to Jan and Paul Crouch of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).
When my
boyfriend met my uncle Fred, he thought he seemed like a used car salesman, or a scamvangelist, because he wanted to sell
us a timeshare.