Fawning Over Tammy Faye: What About the Victims of Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Tammy Faye in 2005 Photo: Frederick M. Brown / Getty Tammy Faye Messner has died after an extended bout with cancer. Stories about her life and death have been all over the news, with most editors and reporters choosing to focus on her “heroic” battle with cancer rather than any of the things which made her originally famous: scandal, corruption, and personal immorality while proclaiming to provide a source of positive, objective morality. That Tammy Faye is dead is certainly a tragedy, but is it any more of a tragedy than any other death or any of the many deaths that occur every day after people lose their battle with cancer? That would be hard to defend, but all the media attention gives the impression that Tammy Faye was important, influential, serious, and worthy of our attention. Ultimately, though, she was a religious version of Paris Hilton only worse, because Paris Hilton hasn’t been involved with bilking people out of
