Tax-Funded Radical Pacifica Radio Spins Bachmann as Ayatollah, N. Korean Despot, and ‘Anti-American’ Racist
Left-wing media outlets are really eating out of former Christian evangelist Frank Schaeffer's hands as he paints Michele Bachmann as the outer fringe of the fringe, and “anti-American.” On the radical-left yet taxpayer-subsidized Pacifica Radio show Democracy Now on Wednesday, host Amy Goodman encouraged Schaeffer to unfurl charges that Bachmann was somehow comparable to Ayatollah Khomeini and Kim Jong Il — two-thirds of Bush's Axis of Evil countries — and somehow, an outdated believer in Bronze Age mythology. Pacifica touted his latest article on the lefty site Alternet, titled “Are Michele Bachmann’s Views about 'Christian Submission' Even More Extreme than She’s Letting On?” Schaeffer began by saying Bachmann “doesn't just come from the far right of evangelical politics. She comes from a fringe even of the fringe, which is the Reconstructionist, Dominionist movement, that honestly, in the best of all worlds, as far as they're concerned, would replace American democracy with a theocracy on a Christian level that would mirror something like modern-day Iran after it fell to the Ayatollah Khomeini.” Goodman played a clip of Bachmann as a state senator warning in 2004 about gay-activist Minnesotans getting married in Massachusetts and then trying to get it recognized in Minnesota, as if that warning was beyond daffy. Schaeffer was better at illustrating daffiness: SCHAEFFER: Well, look, you know, I spend the whole of my book Sex, Mom, and God
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