On HLN: Perry and Bachmann Pandering to Christian ‘Fear’
Substitute hosting on HLN's The Joy Behar Show, on Tuesday, CNN's Don Lemon prodded Jay Bakker, the son of televangelist Jim Bakker, to accuse Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann of exploiting fears of Christians as he claimed that the GOP presidential hopefuls were: “playing to a group of people who deal a lot with fear and using fear to control folks.” The dismissive Bakker then asserted: “I feel like they've kind of hijacked Christianity,” and added that he thinks the Perrys and Bachmanns were advancing “fairy tales” that global warming doesn't exist and claimed they wanted to “ignore” science. Lemon initially invited on Bakker to analyze the discussion he had with his previous guest, Randy Roberts Potts about what it was like to grow up gay in the “shadow” of his grandfather televangelist Oral Roberts. However it wasn't long before Lemon switched topics to the 2012 GOP primary race, as seen in this exchange from the August 23 show:
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