Since Bradlee Dean's "ministry" operates out of Annandale, he's a homie of sorts for those of us fortunate to live in sunny Senate District 18. Out here, we've had our time on the cross with Dean and have learned there's more than enough to share.
Aiming for his latest round of fifteen minute fame, Dean's riding on Michele Bachmann's presidential coattails by linking his $50 million lawsuit against Rachel Maddow and Andy Birkey with a nefarious gay plot to destroy Michele Bachmann's higher ambitions.
At least, that's what his lawyer, Bachmann's self-proclaimed BBF Larry Klayman told WCCO radio host Michele Tafoya yesterday (via Dump Bachmann):
Klayman says Bachmann is "the real target here".
Klayman claims the lawsuit will cost MSNBC "hundreds of millions of dollars" and will end the career of Rachel Maddow.
Over at City Pages, Andy Mannix continues root around in this story, turning in Bradlee Dean's lawyer: "Rachel Maddow's career is over". The whippersnapper writes:
Bradlee Dean's lawyer, Larry Klayman, is quite the character.
Really. As in, there's actually a character in the show West Wing based off of him named Harry Klaypool. Klayman is also the founder of Freedom Watch, might have been the inspiration for the Tea Party, and claims to know Michele Bachmann "very well."
He's also the guy who sued Facebook for more than $1 billion earlier this year. And, according to state records, his license is currently on "administrative suspension" in Pennsylvania. In 2009, Klayman released a book called "Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment."
Read the rest at CP. The crew at Dump Bachmann also checked out Bradlee Dean on the Alex Jones Show:
Wow! If you didn't think Michele Bachmann's favorite, heavy metal, tracksuit pastor could get more wacky, Bradlee Dean went on right-wing, conspiracy maven Alex Jones' show (they share the same podcast/radio network with Bachmann pal Jason Lewis) resulting in the one of the most hilarious wack-job gab-fests ever.... the money quote:
Alex Jones: "All over the country it is a fact, and I wouldn't want heterosexuals recruiting seven-year-olds, they target children and I can't even say on the radio what's been for twenty years taught, but they teach people sexual acts that can kill you. We are talking about... well, fisting, ladies and gentleman. Things like that are taught to seven-year-olds."
At Think Progress, Igor Volsky has more about the Alex Jones video in Bachmann Pal Bradlee Dean: Lawsuit Against Maddow Is About ‘Protecting’ Children From Homosexual Agenda:
Radio minister and former rocker Bradlee Dean canceled his appearance with SiriusXM’s Michelangelo Signorile yesterday afternoon (claiming that he was overwhelmed with “interview requests”), but felt well enough to appear on Alex Jones’ show to discuss his lawsuit against MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and the Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey. Dean alleges that Maddow and Birkey defamed him and his ministry when they suggested that he wants to kill homosexuals and ignored a “very clear disclaimer” on his website saying that he does not endorse such action.
In his appearance on Jones’ show, Dean doubled down on his long record of anti-gay rhetoric, claiming that his lawsuit aimed at “protecting the young in public high schools” from homosexual indoctrination and agreeing with Jones that gay people teach fisting to young children. . .
TPM also collected additional examples of Dean's wisdom in Bradlee Dean Never Calls For The Persecution Of Gays, Except All The Time. Check them out, along with Dump Bachmann's Pearls of Wisdom from Michele Bachmann's Favorite Tracksuit Preacher.
Perez Hilton finds Maddow guilty of raised eyebrows, but little else.
Closer to home in nearby Carver County, Bradlee Dean's name turns up in the Chaska Herald's review of Minnesota's 2011 legislative session, Legislators share viewpoints on 2011 marathon:
The 2010 election brought many new faces into the Legislature, one of them a staunchly conservative Republican from Mayer named Ernie Leidiger, who filled the House seat vacated by Paul Kohls, a Victoria Republican who retired from the House following his failed bid for the Republican nomination for governor in 2010.
Leidiger made headlines this session, not so much for the legislation he authored but because he invited a controversial talk radio preacher from Minneapolis to lead prayer on the House floor. The preacher, named Bradlee Dean, suggested that President Barack Obama doesn't believe in Jesus Christ, and in the past Dean has reportedly equated homosexuals with predators and molesters.
Leidiger later said the reason he invited Dean was because of Dean's advocacy for Constitutional education in public schools, and he said he was unaware of his radical anti-gay views. . . .
And that's the news from Onion County, Minnesota, where women are uncertain, men inappropriately attired, and Bluestem sends the stuff it couldn't possibly make up.
Photos: Bradlee Dean's sartorial splendor at his NYC press conference (photo by Nick Pinto via City Pages).
Larry Klayman, the guy so venal he sued his own mom: http://www.slate.com/id/2317/
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Jul 29, 2011 at 01:55 PM