The other night Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner appeared on what has been regarded in some circles as her final television interview on CNN's Larry King Show. She is a "stage 4" cancer victim. I couldn't watch more than a minute of the interview given that I recently lost my mom to cancer.

From what I saw of it this is sooo what I would call "ratingsploitation." It is both funny and sad how one of the great innovators of cable news, CNN, has turned into a bad parody of FOX News without the gaudy graphics.

I swear that when Larry King dies (unless perhaps that he is a present day reincarnation of God and is immortal) CNN is going to have him taxidermied and turn on a camera on him every night at 6 p.m. till the end of time (or be the last live host) and run a tape loop of his standard questions to which the guest sitting there answers.

What a piece of modern artwork.


Here is a sample of the interview.

CNN interview, part 1 of 3
CNN interview, part 2 of 3
CNN interview, part 3 of 3

The most shocking part of the interview is how Mr. Praise The Lord, Tammy's ex-husband and televangelist, Jim Bakker, has not contacted or given support to his former wife.