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Referring to the 6th District Republican as a “lightning rod for leftist hate,” KTLK’s Chris Baker welcomed Michele Bachmann to his radio show Thursday morning. She accused Barack Obama of using the bank bailout fund as his “slush fund,” said we’re “observing the destruction of… capitalism,” and again borrowed columnist Michael Barone’s term “gangster government” [...]

Right-wing bloggers are up in arms about a Department of Homeland Security report (PDF) leaked on Monday that urges a careful watch over right-wing militias in light of increasing economic uncertainty, the election of the nation’s first African-American president and possibility of more stringent gun control laws. Though the report never mentions the words conservative, [...]

So says MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. He spent seven minutes fact-checking Republican U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent interview with KTLK’s Chris Baker. Olbermann pulls in Chris Hayes from The Nation to add some analysis to the critique of Minnesota’s most conservative member of Congress.

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s ranting has the blog world buzzing yet again this week. In an appearance with KTLK’s Chris Baker, the Minnesota Republican said, “We’re running out of rich people in this country.” She said she thinks Obama will lower the “rich” threshold to couples making $65,000 a year. The Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen went through her comments line by line and found some false, albeit interesting, ideas held by Minnesota’s most conservative member of Congress.

A sign that the culture war is being waged anew took up an entire page of the New York Times on Friday. United under the moniker “No Mob Veto,” a coalition of religious-right figures vowing to shame “anyone who resorts to the rhetoric of anti-religious bigotry” placed the ad, which has raised ire among gay and lesbian activists and others. But the group’s role in championing religious freedom is suspect: Several of its members have expressed bigotry against Mormons, Muslims and Jews.

KTLK radio’s Chris Baker followed up his Nov. 14 comments about a transgender person being a “mutilated lesbian” with a tirade in which he blames the media — and transgender people themselves — for the murder of Latiesha Green in Syracuse, New York. He says “a majority of the blame does not lie with” the killer, but with the media who “enable people who need serious psychological counseling.” Now activists from Soulforce Q are trying to get on Baker’s show to discuss the issues.

The day before protests nationally and locally against Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage, right-wing radio host Chris Baker took to the airwaves to call a transgender man a “mutilated lesbian.” KTLK’s Baker called Thomas Beattie, a trangendered man who’s pregnant, “a freak” on Nov. 14 as well. Baker’s contributions to [...]

Some on the far right, including local rightwing radio’s Chris Baker, have likened Barack Obama to the anti-Christ, while others have feared the election of the now-president-elect would hearken “the Obamageddon.” (Snopes.com even has an entry debunking the Obama/anti-Christ claim.) So, is the election of America’s first African-American president bringing on the Second Coming, as [...]

Chris Baker (still) desperately wants you to notice him, and apparently it’s working. Frequently featured at MnIndy, the rightwing KTLK radio host was also included in MSNBC’s “Worst Person in the World” segment yesterday for admiring Sarah Palin’s “panty line” and pumps (”if you catch my drift”) at last week’s VP debate, a distinction proudly [...]

Remember Beavis and Butthead? With their voices in mind, read this exchange about Sarah Palin between KTLK’s Chris Baker and Langdon Perry, broadcast Oct. 3 on the public airwaves during Baker’s radio show: