On HLN: Perry and Bachmann Pandering to Christian 'Fear'
Substitute hosting on HLN's The Joy Behar Show, on Tuesday,
CNN's Don Lemon prodded Jay Bakker, the son of televangelist Jim
Bakker, to accuse Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann of exploiting
fears of Christians as he claimed that the GOP presidential
hopefuls were: "playing to a group of people who deal a lot with
fear and using fear to control folks."  The dismissive Bakker
then asserted: "I feel like they've kind of hijacked
Christianity," and added that he thinks the Perrys and Bachmanns
were advancing "fairy tales" that global warming doesn't exist
and claimed they wanted to "ignore" science.  Lemon initially
invited on Bakker to analyze the discussion he had with his
previous guest, Randy Roberts Potts about what it was like to
grow up gay in the "shadow" of his grandfather televangelist
Oral Roberts. However it wasn't long before Lemon switched
topics to the 2012 GOP primary race, as seen in this exchange
from the August 23 show:  DON LEMON: I'm ba