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Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, Evangelist, 65, R.I.P.


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Top (from YouTube): Tammy Faye Messner speaks to host Larry King, by satellite link, during a taping of "Larry King Live," on Thursday. Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire and then saw it collapse in disgrace, died Friday, said her booking agent, Joe Spotts. She was 65. Bottom photo: Tammy Faye Bakker and her then-husband, television evangelist Jim Bakker, talk to their TV audience iat their PTL ministry near Fort Mill, S.C., in this Aug. 20, 1986 file photo.

This video is not for the faint of heart. It's extremely disheartening to see someone in Tammy Faye's condition. For me, this goes beyong politics or religion or anything like that and directly to the human condition. I've posted previously about my thoughts on mortality so you may understand that it's definitely hard for me to see this, but I think it's important to understand how the world works -- Sam The Reporter/Vandal Sense.

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.