Chris Baker

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” [...]

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.

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 [...]

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:

Chris Baker desperately wants attention. It’s rather sad and pathetic. So we probably shouldn’t do him the favor. But given that Baker somehow commands four hours of air time each weekday in the Twin Cities market, it’s worth highlighting the KLTK (FM-100.3) host’s latest inane rant. As captured by Media Matters, Baker’s beliefs about voting [...]

KTLK radio’s morning host Chris Baker has likened “Barack Obammy” to the antichrist, while KSTP calls out a new pro-Norm Coleman ad “among the most misleading” this political season. This and more in today’s edition.

Conservative talk radio host Chris Baker took some heat yesterday for saying “You know what [the WBNA] is? That’s a place for lesbians to make out when they score.” Baker is carried by KTLK, Minneapolis-based Clear Channel station.
In April, he suggested police should use machine guns against people protesting the Republican National Convention:
“So we’ve been [...]