Sorry MRC, Tammy Faye was a whacked-out crook.
I just can’t be one of those teary-eyed folks who are grieving the death of the infamous Tammy Faye Bakker. Yes, I know that she got re-married, but I don’t know who to.
This woman became notorious for her life of excess that included air conditioned dog houses, piles of clothes and her clownish makeup. This woman was just plain ugly, but her faults go way beyond that. Together with her hubby Jimbo, she milked thousands of gullible, ignorant fools into financing their greedy lascivious lifestyle. In the name of religion, she bilked millions and was fully culpable with the crimes of their “ministry.”
Sure it was their fault. I could tell just by looking at her and her freaky husband that something was terribly wrong. Still, what she did with her life is inexcusable.
Differing from her husband, this wretched female never served any prison time for her criminal activity. She even managed to revive her charlatan lifestyle by becoming a female minister and again raping the stupid and gullible who persisted in their refusal to recognize this wench for what she was.
Listen to the twisted mishmash the MRC has spewed out concerning media coverage of this woman’s death:
“Tammy Faye Messner — who became infamous as Tammy Faye Bakker — died Saturday of cancer. Jim Bakker and his wife were rich fodder for the liberal media
[The media certainly is liberal, but what does that have to do with exposing two freaks who exploited the silly and ignorant to finance their lavish lifestyle in the name of religion? Those two crooks deserve to be exposed and should have been made to pay the price for all their wicked deeds. ]
as their “PTL” televangelism empire collapsed in 1988 and their financial excesses were exposed, right down to the air-conditioned doghouse. Liberal media types found the Bakkers to be the very model of Reagan’s Decade of Greed back then.
[Where does the MRC get off trying to make the Bakker's an example of lliberal media persecution? What has that to do with Reagan? This is nothing short of a straw man argument concocted to coincide with the MRC's blind agenda.]
Apparently, that liberal line was not retired.
[It's not a liberal line folks: it's the truth. The Bakker's were crooks. They were frauds. They were despicable in that they used religious pretense to build their riches. Regardless of Liberal or Conservative, ALL people should condemn both these people and what they did to hurt innocent people and to detract from the credibility of Christianity in general.]
In his report on Messner’s death, Associated Press reporter Steve Hartsoe concluded: “For many, the TV image of then-Mrs. Bakker forgiving husband Jim’s infidelities, tears streaking her cheeks with mascara, became a symbol for the wages of greed and hypocrisy in 1980s America.”
For the Raleigh-datelined AP dispatch: news.yahoo.com
As the MRC’s Notable Quotables cited almost 17 years ago, in a December 29, 1990 column, then-former Washington Post editor and then-current columnist Haynes Johnson asserted:
“To the self-indulgent age of the ’80s and to the characters that gave it special flavor at home — Oliver L. North and Ronald Reagan, Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker,[This is way out of line. I agree with MRC on this. Jim and Tammy Faye have nothing to do with great Americans such as Ronald Reagan and Oliver North. To make such an association is preposterous.]
Arthur Laffer and his curve, the Yuppies and the leveraged buyout dealmakers — good riddance.”
Johnson — one of the Post’s most dramatic liberal hacks — was a regular on Washington Week in Review and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. For a time, Johnson was even included mysteriously on the NewsHour’s panel of historians.
I join in the chorus of all those with a sense of decency and justice to say to Tammy Faye, “GOOD RIDDANCE!” I hope she enjoys her time in Hell.
