On Passing, AP Calls Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner 'Symbol' of 'Greed and Hypocrisy in the 1980's'

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As Tim Graham notes in his report on the passing of Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner, liberal MSMers of the past loved to portray the woman as the "very model of Reagan's Decade of Greed," but Graham made me wonder how the media is reporting her passing, at least during this early morning time as the country wakes to the news.

Of course, I have also observed Mr. Graham's reporting on how Tammy Faye was treated in the past. She has been reviled for many years, though recently seems to have gained a sort of kitschy popularity. So, I admit that I went in assuming that the MSM would unleash their worst comments on her passing and thinking that the MSM would use her death as just another excuse to attack her in their common, mean-spirited fashion. But, I was surprised upon finding that most of these early reports have shied away from the "decade of greed" tagline to her life and have refrained form gauche personal attacks.

All except for the Associated Press, that is.

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Even the New York Times didn't editorialize much about Bakker-Messner's life in their report. Neither did the L.A.Times. Both papers stuck closely to a rather straight forward reporting of her life and history, surprisingly enough.

I found but one MSM news source that used the occasion of her passing to get in a dig. Naturally, it was the AP that couldn't just report the facts and had to slip in an editorial comment. Here is the AP doing so when even the L.A.Times and New York Times, two of the most notoriously leftist papers in the country, wouldn't do so.

The AP says of Bakker-Messner:

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.

So, there is the first example on full display of the attack on Bakker-Messner as being representative of that "decade of greed" that Mr. Graham has alerted us to.

Now, I don't imagine that the MSM's niceties for Tammy Faye will stay de rigeur for long as we have yet to see any editorials about her passing and her life. No MSM columnist or pundit has had a chance to belch out their "feelings" on the evangelist's life as of yet, so I don't expect the MSM to much longer treat her passing with much respect.

But, surprisingly, so far there is little by way of attack.

Still, maybe the New York Times story referenced above holds the key to that reason.

Gay men came to embrace Ms. Messner as a camp figure, making her the subject of gender-bending look-alike contests. She embraced them as well. She began attending gay pride events, and in 1996, she became the co-host of a syndicated television talk show with Jim J. Bullock, an openly gay actor.

Maybe the Times and other MSM outlets have at last found a readership they don't want to offend by attacking one of their celebrities?

Maybe.

In any case, so far it is refreshing that they aren't all immediately piling on at her passing. Could the MSM have found a heart in their emaciated breasts after all this time?

I guess I wouldn't wanna bet on it.


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It is only sunday, they all

It is only sunday, they all have to wait for their editors and producers to come in on monday before they can form a collective insanity to belch out an opinion. They can't have just any reporter saying things all willy nilly before checking the reference book, which probably states more specifically to wait 24 hours after said persons death during which time you do some superficial resaerch apply it to modern logic (liberal agendas) and then make something really tasty we here on NB can pick apart!

"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana!" Groucho

The homos adore her. In the

The homos adore her. In the 1980s, Tammy Faye made some very supportive statements about gays suffering with so-called AIDS. Maybe that's why the media is going soft --- so far.

 To be honest they are not

 To be honest they are not far off. As far as refrerring to Reagan greed they are. I lived there through the rise and the fall of the Bakers. The air conditoned dog houses, classic cars, home in Palm Springs etc. I remember the time that Jim bought a boat. It was too big to go under the highway 49 bridge over Lake Wylie to get to his riverfront home. He had his staff call Bill Lee who was CEO of Duke Power to demand that the water level be lowered in the lake so his boat would go undedr the bridge. Lee laugh. He had to get a crane to lift it to the other side of the bridge.

I worked with a guy that was on the federal grand jury that did the investigation. He was on there for  almost 18 months. He couldn't talk about what had happened until the indictments were made. Once that was over, he spilled it. She was just as guilty as Jim. The federal attorney decided not to charge her.  

You would have had to been living in the area at the time. Answer this? Why did she drop Jim like a hot potato once he was convicted? She loved money. Jim had none. Roe Messner was filty rich at that time. She broke up Messner's marriage. I was suprised that she didn't drop him when he went to prison.  

 I used to pray that God would do something about that mess in Fort Mill, SC that was deceiving so many people. He did. It showed me that the prosperity doctrine that they preached was a false doctrine just like the Apostle Paul warns us about in his letters.

 I hated to see her suffer like she did but she was not Miss Innocent and Victim that she made herself out to be.

I am just as conservative as of most of you. I hate the MSM with a passion but there is a lot of truth about them being the symbol of greed and hypocracy.

 

A bonafided and certified member of the beer guzzling, NASCAR watching middle class.

many will come in my

many will come in my name and if it were possible to decieve even the elect (the inference is it is not possible) let's pray that God used circumstances to reach all He would 

What Tammy Faye was however...

 

 

I disagree with the characterization of TF being a reflection of the erroneously stated "Reagan era of greed". What Tammy Fate was however, was a reflection of the Crybaby Boomer Narcissism combined with the heretical, reckless and practically Godless Charismatic/Pentecostal movement that tolerates, supports and promotes anything in the name of God as long as feels good, gets results, makes people say uncle...err I mean Jesus along with an Evangelical/Protestant Church that by in large believes that it is clever to spit on sound orthodoxy, view the church as a business and run it on such a model and gleefully forge God's signature as the author of such blasphemous teachings and practices.

In reality, far removed from Reagan, Tammy Faye was a reflection of the monstrous heretics and poli-christs such as Pat Robertson and now the likes of T.D. Jakes, Joel O'Steen, Joyce Meyer, and Rick Warren within Evangelical circles that are tolerated in the least by so-called sound teachers and energetically promoted by poisonous rats such as TBN's Paul and Jan Crouch. No, this isn't a Reagan shame this is a shame influenced most greatly by Pat Robertson and tolerated with great silence by much of Evangelicalism.

Shut up and blog! If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!

tammy faye

I remember when the Bakers first got in trouble, Tammy Faye made the claim people where after them because the Bakers were DEMOCRATS. I saw this interview myself, it is not hearsay.

I saw this interview

I saw this interview myself, it is not hearsay.

The above comment makes absolutely no sense at all. What interview? What is the source? Where can I see this statement? Your statement IS hearsay and should not be taken seriously. To prove the truth of the matter asserted required much more than your "word". Moron.

mostly

i heard an interview last night that said there were at 10 different alien species visiting earth, i heard it myself therefore it is not hearsay

where do you think hear--say as a word got its origins?

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.  

ROFL!!!!

ROFL!!!!

If only...

If only Leftists would apply that standard to themselves when presenting information.  Or, for that matter, learn to evaluate sources... 

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What do they need with

What do they need with research when they have their "feelings"?

Wow, you signed up as a

Wow, you signed up as a sleeper cell a year and 15 weeks ago just to post that?

PS, love the profile page.

Liberals love a dead Body

Have you noticed from Ted Koppel's necrolovemania of counting dead corpses to the game keepers counting every American soldier in Iraq with a hang nail as a war victim how the left just has this love of dead bodies?

Ms. Messner who never did anything to any of these liberals is drug around the grave just so a few ghouls can kick her dead body to make some asisnine political comments which do not make any sense.

These liberals just delight in dead bodies to a love affair. Terri Schiavo you remember looked according to her executioners "never more beautiful" when she was dehydrating to death.

Psychologically analyzing all of this one might deduct these miserable people are so vexed in their souls that they are envious to hate that these dead people finally got something from God in death that they are too cowardly in life to commit suicide to get.

Of course the coward comes from their knowing God does exist, even if they say He doesn't in Bill Maher fashion and they are terrified of actually facing judgement.

At least in Ms. Messner's death, that is part of the love to hate them to death, because Tammy Faye and all Christians are busy reminding them daily of hell is just around the corner.

Liberals have such an interesting way of wasting their lives. Running from life in hoping for death to end their misery and terrified of that death because they know God is on the other side. If they would just repent instead of trying to pass laws to sin (sodomy, aborticide etc...) they would have the Peace they are so longing for. Problem is they hate themselves so much in knowing what failure they are that in the end.....all you get is their kicking Tammy Faye around the cemetary one more time as their feel good psych pill for the day.

It is interesting studying the liberal creature.....and here am I so glad they blunder about revealing what they are in manfesting boils unable to control themselves.

 

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