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Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner dead at 65 :(

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Tammy Faye Messner, who earlier this week took her battle with cancer public, died Saturday. She was 65.

Messner appeared on "Larry King Live" Thursday to talk about her inoperable cancer. She told King that she trusts God with her life.

I foulnd the news via a clip at www.wfsb.com (CBS in Hartford). They show a short clip of her on "Larry King Live" from as recent as Thursday. My goodness she looked terrible. She had inoperable colon cancer which spread to her lungs in 2004. She was down to only 65 pounds.

R.I.P. Tammy :(
 
So sad. I liked her. I enjoyed her talk show with JIM J. BULLOCK. I saw a preview of part 2 of the interview Thursday afternoon. Then Thursday I was at a bar outside of Philly with a few friends from just before 9PM until closing. After I got back to my hotel I went right to sleep, so I missed the Larry King Live at 9PM and the replays at 12AM and 3AM.
 
I didn't like her for a long time, after what her and her husband did, but I enjoyed her bit roles on different shows. I am glad she doesn't have to suffer anymore.
 
snoman said:
I didn't like her for a long time, after what her and her husband did, but I enjoyed her bit roles on different shows. I am glad she doesn't have to suffer anymore.
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She spent a long time as punchline fodder for folks like SNL, but I hope she will be remembered for two things:

1. Her resilience and reinvention of herself. To have fallen as far and as hard as she had, she managed to bounce back in way I truly admire.

2. Her great sense of humor about herself. She was really wonderful at embracing the silliness about her own fame and making it work for her.

Her pain is mercifully over now.

I wish nothing but the best for all of her family, friends and fans.
 
I will always remember Tammy for her magnificent singing voice and the joy of the Lord which served as her strength. She was a great inspiration to many, myself included. She had unshakeable Faith and a great sense of humor. Many said unkind things about her, riduled her but she was full of love, had a most forgiving Spirit. Though she was not perfect, I know that she went home to be with the Lord for all eternity. Rest in Peace Tammy Faye, you were a Blessing to me. My heartful prayers to her family..her husband, children and grandchilren.
 
im not a religious person or anything... being a gay man, the church seems to push me away more than embrace me

but Tammy Fae was a truly, truly awesome person. Religion was about LOVE to her, and not HATE. She was a beautiful person, with a beautiful soul.

The world truly has lost one of its best.

If there IS a heaven, You can bet your ass that she is there (with puppets)

R I P :(>
 
I thought she was a great example to many others, by focusing on loving and forgiving everyone for their sins, instead of being judgmental. I really enjoyed her appearance on The Surreal Life.
 
Despite my confused Roman Catholic/African-American Baptist upbringing, I'm no fan of organized religion or commercialized evangelical Christianity. But I'll make an exception for Tammy Faye -- she was the real deal. You have to admire how she rebuilt her life and rose above the "lemons" she sang about, and how she faced her illness with the bravery and fearlessness we all hope we can if we're ever in that situation. Her life was a living testimony, and one can find solace in knowing she is no longer in pain.

Having said that, it was interesting how the two networks she and Jim Bakker helped grow (CBN) and build (TBN) responded to her passing. Trinity Broadcasting aired wonderfully produced, half-hour tribute (http://www.tbn.org/watch/files/index.php?file=2007_7_23_300k.wmv&show=92) which focused on her career in Christian television, with clips from the Bakkers' CBN and PTL days, while omitting the specifics of the collapse of PTL. There were also several extended clips of her interviews with Paul Crouch Jr. over the last three years, and one of an appearance she made during a TBN Praise-a-Thon with Jan Crouch (aka "Tammy Faye Lite").

The 700 Club, on the other hand, ran a small story in the middle of the program -- not at the top during their "news" headlines -- and minus the usual "commentary" from "Pat" Robertson, though there is a very brief statement from him on the CBN website on Tammy's death (http://www.cbn.com/about/pressrelease_TammyFayeMessner.aspx). The story didn't even mention Jim and Tammy's work on CBN during the 1960s and early '70s.

Whatever was the cause of the Bakkers leaving TBN, Tammy Faye was embraced by the Crouches in her later years. As for Robertson, well...if the recent deaths of Jerry Falwell and Mrs. Billy Graham merited top story status on CBN News, then Tammy Faye Messner's couldn't? That's right, good ol' Pat fired Jim and Tammy Faye, didn't he? What a hypocrite!!

Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner, R.I.P. Sixty-five is much too young. :'(
 
Having watched the interview I felt that it was a last grab for attention by Tammy Faye. She clearly was suffering but seemed more bent on getting a last bit of a hurah than having dignity.

As for her relationship with the gay community, it is one of condensation. She always said "It's Adam and Eve," not "Adam and Steve," and while she found she "likes gay people," she fooled the gay community into thinking her mere TOLERNACE of them is somehow the same as acceptance.

Tammy Faye in the end remained exactly Tammy Faye, as she was then and as she always was.
 
Mark said:
Having watched the interview I felt that it was a last grab for attention by Tammy Faye. She clearly was suffering but seemed more bent on getting a last bit of a hurah than having dignity.

As for her relationship with the gay community, it is one of condensation. She always said "It's Adam and Eve," not "Adam and Steve," and while she found she "likes gay people," she fooled the gay community into thinking her mere TOLERNACE of them is somehow the same as acceptance.

Tammy Faye in the end remained exactly Tammy Faye, as she was then and as she always was.
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she did that tv talk show with Jim J Bullock and he's gay
 
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