Tammy Faye Bakker is Dead

This just a brief blog today. You could call it a footnote in the Hall of Fools.

I just finished watching this tribute on Larry King to Tammy Faye Bakker-Messner (televangelist, co-founder of PTL and Jim Bakker's Ex-Wife.)

She died of lung cancer today at age 65. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person. Okay, that was probably a little nasty but fuck her. She duped millions of people into giving up their hard earned cash because the lord wanted the bakker mansion to have gold plated toilet seats and air conditioned dog kennels and now she's being immortalized as an achiever in spite of great adversity? That's bullshit and the media knows it.

To her credit though, she appeared to have a soft spot for gay people while other evangelists were preaching hate, though I imagine that had more to do with their disposable income than anything else. She still remains a gay icon. And why not? Her whole being screams drag queen: (unintentional) sarcasm, exaggeration and caricature with a slight hint of irony that she seemed to adapt towards the end.

In spite of the corruption and hypocrisy that surrounded Tammy Faye she seemed to be a fairly nice person. She was just really stupid. Again, not her fault since she'd been brainwashed as a child.

She said on Larry King that she wanted to be remembered for her eyelashes...and her faith in god. Well, her face is definitely burned into my mind as the avatar of televangelism.

"We Lost a Moron." - Bill Hicks

You might like to watch her last interview online at CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/video//video/bestoftv/2007/07/19/lkl.tammy.faye.god.cnn