If You Want To Know Where Michelle Bachmann Is Coming From...

Does Michele Bachmann Think the Apocalypse is Imminent?
Want to understand the Minnesota lawmaker's prophecy-driven politics? Tune in to her favorite end-times-themed radio show.
By Tim Murphy | MoJo
Wed Jun. 1, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

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Markell's show is just a small part of her Olive Tree Ministries, which she founded in 1982. The organization's site covers everything from Harry Potter (a gateway to the "occult <2>") to the Girl Scouts' moral vacancy (because of its associations with Planned Parenthood) to the New World Order. The commander-in-chief is an unpopular figure on the site, if not exactly end-times-worthy; he's not competent or popular enough to be the Antichrist, Markell cautions <3>, but "Obama's efforts are a run-up to it." One story promoted by Markell's group warns that the president intends to declare himself "World President <4>."

But the largest issue for Markell, who got her start in ministry as a member of Jews for Jesus, is Israel. The Olive Tree logo features a Star of David overlaid with a dove. A promotional video <5> splashed on the site's main page links a national identification system, international climate change accords, the global financial crisis, and the continuing conflict in Israel to the end times. As Gary Kah, author of the apocalyptic tract En Route to Global Occupation and a speaker at Olive Tree's 2010 conference, warns, we're "living in the last of the last days." A two-state peace plan, he says, "will give rise to the Antichrist."

When Minneapolis' City Pages first reported <6> on Bachmann's relationship with Markell in 2005, the then-state senator denied any knowledge of Olive Tree Ministries. However, Markell tells Mother Jones that she's known Bachmann off and on for 35 years, and says she spoke about Israel at Bachmann's church in the late 1970s. "My hunch is that they misquoted her," Markell says. "She's been at my conference. Why she would have said , I don't know."

Indeed, Bachmann has attended at least one of Olive Tree's annual "Understanding the Times" conferences in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie. "Thank you for the wonderful conference April 25-26," she wrote in a 2003 testimonial on the organization's website. "Both Chuck Missler and Bill Koenig were terrific. May God bless you, and may He bless Israel." Bachmann's appearances and statements suggest a more than passing familiarity with the ministry. She once dropped by the studio unannounced to interrupt Markell's interview with Gordon Klingenschmitt, a former Navy chaplain who was court-martialed for protesting the service's ban on sectarian prayer. (He was not disciplined, however, for performing an exorcism on a lesbian service member who sought counseling after being raped.)

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More: http://motherjones.com/print/115386

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This sounds like the same hit job that the reich wing did, when it tried to tie Barack Obama to his pastor's wildest rantings.

whatever.

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to someone who runs an organization that has a few oddballs that speak at conferences, which oddballs have written some apocalyptic BS. That's the same thing as trying to tie Barack Obama to William Ayers just because they happened to be in the same room at the same time.

Michelle Bachmann is more than stupid enough to say her own outrageously damning things, lets focus on them, and not look as silly as our enemies did during the last campaign.

want to bring the antichrist around and hasten the end times anyway? I don't get why they want to continue to delay it.