Who are the local fundy Media Whores in your area?

In the Kansas City, it's Jerry Johnston.

This his "church"

of Coral Ridge Ministries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kennedy_(televangelist)

Dennis James Kennedy, Ph.D., is Pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and founder of Coral Ridge Ministries, a $37-million-a-year corporation with an audience of 3 million which he founded in 1974. His weekly television program, The Coral Ridge Hour, is carried on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and INSP Network, and syndicated on numerous other stations. His daily radio program, Truths That Transform, is heard across the US and in over 200 countries and is available on the program website.

Dr. Kennedy was a ballroom dance instructor before he became a born again Christian and entered the ministry.

Dr. Kennedy is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, having transferred his membership there in the late 1970s from the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He is considered a conservative evangelical minister who is often involved in political activities within the Christian right; TheocracyWatch identifies Kennedy as one of the leaders of the Dominionism movement. <1> He has written and coauthored several political works such as What if America Were a Christian Nation Again? and The Rewriting of America's History, arguing that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. Critics contend that he is excessively conservative on certain politically charged topics such as abortion and homosexuality. Kennedy runs The D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship, an evangelical ministry on Capitol Hill. The Center awards a "Distinguished Christian Statesman Award" annually to high profile Christian political leaders. Past recipients include Tom DeLay, Sam Brownback and John Ashcroft.

His theological works include Why I Believe, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born, Skeptics Answered, and Truths That Transform. He also developed the Evangelism Explosion (EE) method of evangelism and holds to a traditional Calvinist theology. He has also worked with other Christian ministers such as RC Sproul, a faculty member at Knox Theological Seminary which Kennedy founded.

Kennedy is also involved in Christian apologetics and is critical of groups such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Freemasons, working with such people as Sproul and John F. MacArthur against Catholicism and Ron Carlson against Freemasonry.

Don't have enough fundy cranks around here to fill broom closet. A few keep trying, but they are generally marginalized.

We do have a lot of church-goers. but they tend towards the main-line politically sane (and 0r liberal leaning) denominations. And even the Christians who are religiously fundamentalist generally have a moderate outlook politically.

"Tower to Nowhere" . . . reminds me of a smokestack . . . and he runs (or did run) the local WB station . . .

(Cuyahoga Falls Ohio)

He goes on "The 700 Club" to talk about his battle with crack addiction, which actually is a rather sad story of his downfall and a happy story of him getting his life back.

Still, he went on "The 700 Club", not on "Oprah" or a secular talk show.