http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/83449/jim-bakker-convicted-felon-trump-supporting-huckster-back-hawking-apocalypse-survival-kits
In the trailer to the recent two-hour episode about Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker on ABC’s “20/20” titled “Unfaithfully Yours,” Ted Koppel, host of ABC's late-night news broadcast "Nightline" from 1980 to 2005 says: "Sex, religion, money: We’re suckers for that kind of stuff. We always have been, we always will be.” The Bakker’s fall from grace, and Jim Bakker’s imprisonment, was one of the most sensational religion-based stories involving televangelists in the late-1980s. Imagine if there had been social media! Now, Bakker is back, broadcasting from Blue Eye, Missouri -- nestled in the Ozarks -- where he’s hustling real estate and End Times Survival Kits.
James Orsen Bakker is a televangelist, huckster, con man, grifter, convicted felon, Trump supporter, and the man who tried to cover-up the hush money paid to his former New York church secretary, Jessica Hahn, for alleged rape. Bakker, who along with his late wife, Tammy Faye Bakker – who divorced Bakker while he was in prison, and died in 2007 -- ran the financially lucrative “The PTL Club,” and Heritage USA, a North Carolina-based Christian theme park. In 1989, Bakker was convicted in federal court of 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. Some of those convictions were overturned and he served only five years of the original 45-year sentence.
Bakker personifies the immortal words of the late-great Dan Hicks: “How can I miss you when you won't go away?”
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article200297074.html
Three decades after his PTL empire near Charlotte crumbled amid financial and sex scandals, Jim Bakker is back on TV with a different, darker message:
The Apocalypse is coming and you better get ready.
Ready to be judged by God, sure. But the main mission of “The Jim Bakker Show” – broadcast from a Christian compound deep in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri – appears to be to sell you fuel-less generators, doomsday guidebooks and freeze-dried food with a shelf-life of up to 30 years.
Bakker, whose co-host is second wife Lori, says stocking up on such survivalist merchandise could keep you alive amid the catastrophes – earthquakes, hurricanes, war, famine – that some Christians believe are signs that End Times are near.
“Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive, ah, ah, ah, ah,” Bakker’s daughter, Tammy Sue, now 47, sang on one show as her dad promoted buckets of long-lasting emergency food. That day’s “Staying Alive” special: Ten buckets, with 2,410 servings, for a $600 donation plus shipping.
Is there a televangelist who isn't a con artist?
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