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Report: Bachmann Organizer Tied To ‘Kill The Gays’ Backer In Uganda

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On the heels of The Atlantic‘s report that an Iowa organizer for the campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann was arrested in Kampala on terror charges in 2006 comes a report tying the organizer to the key backer of the “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda. The Advocate‘s Lucas Grindley reports the terror arrest story immediately raised questions about possible ties to pastor Martin Ssempa, a backer of the “Kill the Gays” bill.

Grindley reports Waldron was seen visiting Ssempa’s church:

A journalist with The New Republic, Andrew Rice, bumped into them together while researching an article on evangelicals in the country.

Ssempa is well known for inflaming violence against gay people in Uganda, even screening gay porn to incite backlash. While no one is reporting that Waldron actively helped push for the “Kill the Gays” bill that is even now still being considered by the country’s parliament, Rice says that Waldron regaled Ssempa’s congregation with stories and seemed like a minor celebrity. Waldron spoke about his time in the military (which Waldron strongly implied was CIA related), his visit to the White House, and he bragged about being cozy with the Ugandan president.

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  • Blah

    Is this a news item or a piece of political smearing ?

  • Anonymous

    Are frozen vegetables as nutritious as fresh ? How can that be ?
    Why put fruit in a Happy Meal ? Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ?
    How about that airline food ? It’s bad !

    Someone forgot it’s  Attack Rick Perry Week , not Bachmann .

  • Anonymous

    I bet that is not far fetched from their dream for America. 

  • Anonymous

    Is Bachmann pallin’ around with terrorists?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    huh?

  • BLUEBUNNY

    IS THIS WHERE THEIR “PRAY THE GAY” AWAY RELIGIOUS SCHEME IS COMING FROM!                       “KILL THE GAYS” BILL?! WONDER WHO THOUGHT UP THAT LOVELY NAME!

  • Anonymous

    Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright would call it political smearing.

  • Anonymous

    Remember 8 months after the 2008 election when Bachmann was still babbling about Ayers?

  • Anonymous

    This is the poorest written smear on some unknown guy somehow working for Bachmann.  Horrible yellow journalism with nothing but rumor and innuendo.  

    I cannot believe that Mediaite would even print this crap.  Absolutely nothing more than smearing for the sake of smearing.  

  • Anonymous

    Peter Waldron and Marcus Bachmann make strange bedfellows, but it’s doubtful they’d endorse a suicide pact.

  • Anonymous

    Michele BACHMANN is also pals with – and has helped raise funds for – You Can Run But You Cannot Hide ministry and its pastor Bradlee Dean. He has said he admires the moral rigidity of Muslim countries calling for the execution of homosexuals, and that if America doesn’t fully commit to and enforce biblical laws, we leave ourselves open to invasion by “a foreign enemy to do just that”. Bradlee Dean is also an expert in imaginary statistics: “On average, [homosexuals] molest 117 people before they’re found out.”

    Mr. Dean is so fond of pulling things out of his ass, I’m curious about his sexuality.

  • Anonymous

    No suprise there.

  • Epzw

    Tea party please nominate this big government former  I.r.s lawyer.Thanks patriots.Each party needs a McGovern..

  • BatboysDad

    Mark, stick to journalism…I don’t believe you have a future as a Detective.

  • Texan

    You didn’t care that obama did so why would you care if bachmann was?

  • Anonymous

    But he’s pretty damned good at perpetuating innuendo based smears, while keeping his own hands clean.

  • Texan

    “an Iowa organizer for the campaign”

    Is this like the friend of a friend of a friend analogy?

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann obviously sought this guy out personally because she’s a Christofacist who hates gay people!
    You gotta brush up on how these leftist activists operate!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    wow, the Bachmanns must really not like gays.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    wow, the Bachmanns must really not like gays.

  • Greg

    Waldron is a scandalous character. This reflects terribly on Bachmann.

  • JulieZ77Strip

    Bachmann and the host of right wing fascist Confederate corporation butt kissers are nothing but cowards that can’t even answer a question concerning the lies they tell. These people are nothing but criminals.

  • Hagen619dj

    It seems that all candidates are in for a terrible hammering by those that don’t like them. Some of it is just damaging and some is to question backgrounds. It’s gotten way out of hand and yet it is they type of thing that does leave us to question them also. I don’t advocate this behavior but I do respect those that can put up with it. We all have a past that isn’t squeeky clean.  Just how far does that “squeekiness” have to go? How much of a persons past is really relavant? I do think that if Obama was “searched’ this deeply, that he wouldn’t be president.  I feel that if all these new candidates are going to be researched this deeply than what is good for them is good for Obama too….you can be sure he wouldn’t come out unscathed if if were done to him.

  • Nature Freak

    Do they want to Pray Away the Gay or Kill Away the Gay?
    Or is it you better Pray Away the Gay or we will Kill Away your Gayness by killing you?
    Convert or else infidel!
    No wonder The Bachmann’s are friends with Bradlee Dean. He is a brother in arms.
    I think it is all downhill from here for the Bachmann’s presidential hopes.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    A bad economy is just a means to an end for conservative fundamentalist Christians.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    That site got their iPhonies from some of the faux “Apple Store” locations that have been recently exposed, no doubt. Apple found over 30 of them just in Beijing.

    Good luck in your new job when your boss finds out the chinese TV packed with their hazardous wastes has poisoned his house and he fires your ignorant butt. What a racket – getting people to PAY you to store your hazardous waste in their homes while it poisons them.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    That site got their iPhonies from some of the faux “Apple Store” locations that have been recently exposed, no doubt. Apple found over 30 of them just in Beijing.

    Good luck in your new job when your boss finds out the chinese TV packed with their hazardous wastes has poisoned his house and he fires your ignorant butt. What a racket – getting people to PAY you to store your hazardous waste in their homes while it poisons them.

  • Nature Freak

    The Bachmann’s party like it’s 1399!
    The Bachmann’s are rather medieval.

    “Ssempa is well known for inflaming violence against gay people in Uganda, even screening gay porn to incite backlash.”
    I hate Gay people so much I will screen Gay porn. This is a closet case if I ever saw one.

  • BooBoo Bear

    Three American’s Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge, and Don Schmiierer pastors went to Uganda to try and help them pass the bill. Pay attention to world news… By now it’s old news.  Just google it and you’ll find 266,000 links.

  • Mari Johnson

    Actually Bachmann’s approach to gays is absolutely antithesis to Christian behavior.  Hate of  anyone is NOT acceptable in the Christian’s life.  We can hate sin, but what bothers me is the selective hate that goes on.  It seems the tolerate con compliance with the Scriptures on how we treat the poor all the while, dogmatically spending all this energy on gays.  It makes no sense to me at all.  Further, I would like to know if those being treated in the Bachmann Clinic are there voluntarily or are they pushed in by relatives, hate groups and the like.  Let us remember that in spite of Bachmann’s rant about people on the public ddole. let us remember that the clinic gets huge money from our Government (in spite of Bachmann’s anti-dole rants!    In the end, Christ’s standard is still to love all even those who seem disgusting to us and who seem irredeemable.

  • Anonymous

    If Bachmann was President, she would make an executive order to kill all gays and there wouldn’t be anything anybody could do to stop it.

  • Dicken’s Cider

    I think you’re right, I get the impression she dosn’t really like Marcus all that well.

  • Dicken’s Cider

    I think you’re right, I get the impression she dosn’t really like Marcus all that well.

  • Anonymous

    Currently, Obama is running his ” Death To America & Israel 2012 ) campaign directly out of our White House, so I’ll ask you again….what is your frigging point? 

    Are you actually implying culpability ( of any kind ) by Rep. Bachmann.

    This is it folks. Obama’s finest out & about proving once more just what losers they really are, not to mention the democrat party is the TRUE PARTY OF NO!…..no nuthin.

  • Anonymous

    Precisely.

  • Anonymous

    Really? So far I have seen a lot of crap with Mediaite’s name on it.

  • Anonymous

    “the clinic gets huge money from our Government”, Is a statement that is heavy in implication yet light on proof. Do you have anything to support this or are you assuming that this is the way it is based on what other internet bloggers have been claiming?

  • Anonymous

    So what?

  • Anonymous

    “right wing fascist Confederate corporation butt kissers”???
    “right wing fascist Confederate corporation butt kissers”???

    What the hell are you talking about?

  • Anonymous

    Not really, but thanks to you liberal progressives for providing us with that bad economy.

    Re-elect Obama? No way that will happen, he has p’ed off too many people.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I agree – no plan, no clue, no concern for the people who elect them, no remorse for who gets hurt by their short-sighted, self-serving legislation, not to mention no real relief from the misery their policies cause.

    They also have no conscience when it comes to blaming others for the messes they created either proactively or passively.

    Democrats are the party of NO, indeed.

  • Mari Johnson

    Actually I have relatives who live in her district and one of them had a foster child and met her at a meeting of foster parents.  And yes, Michelle clearly stated that they get government funds to treat her husband’s clients.  Besides, that fact is readily available if you want to check the internet.

  • Anonymous

    “Michelle clearly stated that they get government funds to treat her husband’s clients.”

    So does virtually every clinic and hospital in America. What is your point?

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Do you mean that Bill Ayers (Self admitted terrorist) isn’t a friend of Obama’s?

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    What do you think the headlines would read if Bachman’s Clinic refused to take “Medicare” patients.

    “BACHMAN’S CLINIC HATES MEDICARE PATIENTS”

    Almost all clinics take Medicare and Medicaid patients and they wait for years to bet reimbursed for their services from the Government.  Ask your doctor the next time you have an appointment about that.

    Mari, you’re big on preaching and hate for Bachman, I’ll just take that as a sign that you’re a hypocrite and let it go at that.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Seems like Mrs. Bachmann has been hiring terrorists into her organization…a bit worse?

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Ridiculous.

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Ridiculous.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Take your Anti-American hare back to the asylum that you escaped from. The guys with the white suits are looking for you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1528940071 Fiona Mackenzie

    BMG – Huh?  What’cha smokin’?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1528940071 Fiona Mackenzie

    Fortunately, as we have (unfortunately) discovered with O and the AfP teabots, it’s pretty difficult for even a SMART president to do much against Congress and/or SCOTUS.

    It isn’t even as if Congress makes a secret about defeating Republican and right-wing goals just to make Repubs hate him.  The problem seems to be with the lack of insight by the GOP electorate.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1528940071 Fiona Mackenzie

    You are correct, of course.  Anyone who studied the situation before touching the keys would have read ALEC model laws and caught up a bit on Daddy Koch’s strikingly similar if less polished effort (along with granddaddy bush, ford, etc.) to do exactly what they are now doing so smoothly and professionally and almost unopposably.  

    One of their greatest goals is, as you say, to gather the inflexible and unimaginative and fearful into a circle–actually, a mob–and do away with any possible opposition or attempt of the people to save themselves.

    Not understanding it by now, with all the leaked documents and analyses and other data, means either that the writer pays no attention to information in forming his opinions, or he is in deep, dark denial.

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