Archive/File: ihr salaman.01
Last-modified: 1993/05/01

   By the late 1980s, FCBN [Family Christian Broadcasting Network] began
   syndicating some of its programs on other Christian networks. The
   most popular of these shows was "Accent on Health" with Maureen
   Salaman, also a frequent guest host on "California Tonight."
   Salaman's presence on FCBN (her show is also syndicated on TBN) is an
   example of how religious broadcasting can be used to promote the
   agenda of political extremists. Aside from her expertise on health
   food, Salaman is known nationally as a veteren activist in Willis
   Carto's Liberty Lobby. Carto has been described by civil libertarians
   as the most notorious anti-Semite and racial supremacist in the
   United States.<101> Carto's Institute for Historical Review publishes
   literature "proving" that the Nazi holocaust did not occur. In 1984,
   Salaman campaigned as the Vice-Presidential candidate on the slate of
   Carto's fractious electoral front, the Populist Party.<102> In early
   1986, the Populist Party fell apart during an internal power
   struggle. Salaman came out on the side of Carto against the slightly
   less extreme American Independent Party faction.<103> Backstage at a
   live "TV-42" filming of a Christian trade show in 1986, Salaman told
   the author, "I'm urging people to send their money directly to the
   'Spotlight' in Washington, D.C." The 'Spotlight' is the Liberty
   Lobby's weekly tabloid which, interspersed with tributes to Hitler
   aide Rudolf Hess and French fascist Jean Marie LePen, advertises Nazi
   paraphernalia and teaching materials from "Identity" preachers
   (described in chapter 4). Ronn Haus' promotion of Maureen Salaman on
   national television is an implicit endorsement of here extremist
   policies and an open invitation for born-again viewers to ally
   themselves with her cohorts. (Diamond, 27-28)


<101> For a history of the Liberty Lobby, see Frank P. Mintz, "The
      Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy, and 
      Culture," Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985
<102> Kristine Jacobs, "The Populist Party," Interchange Report, Fall
      1984. For background on the Ku Klux Klan and neo-nazi ties of the
      Populist Party, see "It's Not Populism," a eport released in
      October 1984 by the National Anti-Klan Network and available
      through the Center for Democratic Renewal, P.O. Box 10500,
      Atlanta, GA 30310.
<103> "Populist Leader Condemns Factional 'Party Bossism'," The
      Spotlight, May 12, 1986, pp. 4-6

Work Cited:

Diamond, Sara. Spritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right.
   Montreal, New York: Black Rose Books, 1990

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