Minnesota Independent

Wal-Mart, Salem radio dump Bradlee Dean

By Andy Birkey | 05.25.11 | 2:43 pm

Wal-Mart and Salem Communications have severed ties with two entities run by pastor Bradlee Dean, who made headlines last week for a controversial prayer before the Minnesota House of Representatives. David Brauer reports that AM 1280 The Patriot, owned by Christian broadcaster Salem Communications, dropped Dean’s “Sons of Liberty” radio show, and Nick Pinto writes that Wal-Mart has told Dean’s ministry, You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, that it can no longer fundraise in the parking lots of its Minnesota locations.

Bachmann fears ‘politically correct re-education camps for young people’

By Chris Steller | 04.06.09 | 10:06 am

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to…

Bachmann lashes out at critics

By Andy Birkey | 02.24.09 | 12:14 am

“The DCCC is after me again!” read a fund-raising e-mail Rep. Michele Bachmann sent to supporters Monday afternoon. It’s the first time Bachmann has acknowledged — at least implicitly — the…

Shock-jock Baker: Media to blame in murder of transgender person

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.19.08 | 11:29 am

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.

KTLK’s Baker calls transgender man ‘mutilated lesbian’

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.17.08 | 11:56 am

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: Obama’s a ‘little bitch’ who ‘won’t stand up to a smoking hot chick,’ Palin

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.07.08 | 3:04 pm

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…

Beavis, Butthead and Baker: KTLK hosts opine on Palin’s hotness, panty lines

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.07.08 | 11:29 am

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:

KTLK host Chris Baker: ‘I’m not that excited about women voting’

By Paul Demko | 10.03.08 | 10:20 am

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…

Imus wannabe strikes again: Chris Baker’s WNBA/lesbian comment draws criticism

By Andy Birkey | 07.18.08 | 1:50 pm

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,…

‘To hell with Shakespeare!’: KTLK’s Lewis decries Hmong rapper’s work at Woodbury school

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.20.08 | 10:01 am

Listening to conservative radio host Jason Lewis, you’d get the impression that a week of hip hop in a public school will shatter the very foundations of Western civilization. During his May 2 show, the KTLK talker…