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April 5, 2013
Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean both set to speak at right-wing event
Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean go way back. For instance, when Bradlee found himself taking heat for an anti-gay prayer he delivered before the Legislature back in 2011, Michele came to his aid with a prayer of her own where she professed support for Bradlee and asked God to transform Minnesota i ... More >>
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February 22, 2013
Bradlee Dean sends letter to Wonkette threatening another laughable defamation suit
As we've chronicled in painstaking detail, the defamation lawsuit Bradlee Dean filed against Rachel Maddow was so preposterous, a judge ended up ordering Dean to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to cover her legal fees.SEE ALSO: In St. Cloud, Bradlee Dean speaks to more protesters than support ... More >>
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February 15, 2013
Bradlee Dean booted from school grounds, so he gives planned speech at the nearest ditch [VIDEO]
We've been intentionally ignoring Bradlee Dean for months -- after all, America's foremost tracksuit-wearing homophobe just doesn't have the juice he did during the MNGOP's most recent heyday -- but this video is just too good to pass over.WHAT DEAN TALKS ABOUT DURING HIS SCHOOL SPEECHES: Bradlee De ... More >>
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November 15, 2012
Bradlee Dean still won't pay Rachel Maddow, wants presiding judge removed from case
Last week, judge Joan Zeldon ordered Bradlee Dean to pay Rachel Maddow and the now-defunct Minnesota Independent the $24,625 in legal fees he owes them by this Tuesday.SEE ALSO:-- Bradlee Dean mocks Rachel Maddow's looks on Facebook [IMAGE]-- Bradlee Dean crank calls Keith Ellison, alleges that Musl ... More >>
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November 8, 2012
Bradlee Dean ordered to pay Rachel Maddow legal fees he owes her by next week
Since late June, Bradlee Dean has owed Rachel Maddow and the now-defunct Minnesota Independent $24,625 in legal fees stemming from a ridiculous defamation lawsuit he failed against them.SEE ALSO: Dean foresees armed insurrection if Obama is reelected: "America deserves what it gets" [AUDIO]In the me ... More >>
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November 1, 2012
Bradlee Dean foresees armed insurrection if Obama is reelected: "America deserves what it gets" [AUDIO]
Bradlee Dean thinks President Obama is coming for your guns. And he's worried about the possibility of a Soviet-style, Obama administration-led mass execution of unarmed Americans after our firearms are taken away.SEE ALSO:-- Rep. Chip Cravaack says guns in the audience would've prevented Aurora sho ... More >>
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October 18, 2012
Bradlee Dean mocks Rachel Maddow's looks on Facebook [IMAGE]
Bradlee Dean took to Facebook on Tuesday to take a cheap shot at one of his longtime rivals, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.SEE ALSO: Bradlee Dean's troupe to Iowa public school: Homosexual lifestyle 'literally kills' gays [VIDEO] But instead of blasting Maddow for her lefty politics or support for "the r ... More >>
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October 12, 2012
Jim Graves to Bradlee Dean: "Michele Bachmann is a wonderful person"
Talk about an odd couple -- yesterday, Jim Graves called in to Bradlee Dean's radio show and did a fairly lengthy interview with Minnesota's most notorious tracksuit-wearing homophobe.SEE ALSO:-- Bradlee Dean crank calls Keith Ellison, alleges that Muslims want to execute gays [AUDIO]-- Jim Graves, ... More >>
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September 28, 2012
Bradlee Dean's attorney, Larry Klayman, allegedly sexually abused his own children
Bradlee Dean has long linked homosexuality and child sexual abuse. For instance, in a blog post from June about Larry Brinken's child porn arrest, Dean wrote, "The news about Brinken's horrific child-pornography crimes followed the conclusion of 'Pride Week,' yet again puling off the mask of the rad ... More >>
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September 4, 2012
Bradlee Dean shows up at RNC, poses with... Tom Brokaw? [PHOTOS]
SEE ALSO:-- Bradlee Dean crank calls Keith Ellison, alleges that Muslims want to execute gays [AUDIO]-- Bradlee Dean calls south Mpls a "Third World Country" [AUDIO]-- Bradlee Dean's troupe to Iowa public school: Homosexual lifestyle 'literally kills' gays [VIDEO]Last week, Bradlee Dean and his trus ... More >>
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August 21, 2012
Bradlee Dean cohort slams Rep. Bruce Anderson on church vs. state 'oxymoron' [VIDEO]
See Also: COVER: The Benediction of Bradlee Dean Bradlee Dean gives creepy opening prayer at Legislature Remember last year when Bradlee Dean told the Minnesota Legislature that Barack Obama didn't believe in Jesus? Well, you should, because it totally "rocked Minnesota - and much of the nation." ... More >>
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August 15, 2012
Bradlee Dean crank calls Keith Ellison, alleges that Muslims want to execute gays [AUDIO]
SEE ALSO:-- Bradlee Dean's dishonest fundraising may land him in hot water with the IRS-- Michele Bachmann on Ellison: 'He has long record of association with Muslim Brotherhood'On a recent episode of his radio show, Bradlee Dean called Keith Ellison's office to ask the tough questions. Like, you kn ... More >>
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August 14, 2012
Bradlee Dean's dishonest fundraising may land him in hot water with the IRS
SEE ALSO:-- Hy-Vee store director apologizes for letting Bradlee Dean's ministry fundraise on-site-- Bradlee Dean's troupe to Iowa public school: Homosexual lifestyle 'literally kills' gays [VIDEO]-- Bradlee Dean uses "suicide prevention" to raise money for anti-gay ministryIn June, Bradlee Dean's Y ... More >>
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July 11, 2012
Hy-Vee store director apologizes for letting Bradlee Dean's ministry fundraise on-site
SEE ALSO: -- Bradlee Dean must pay attorney fees to Rachel Maddow, Minnesota Independent-- Bradlee Dean's troupe to Iowa public school: Homosexual lifestyle 'literally kills' gays-- Bradlee Dean uses "suicide prevention" to raise money for anti-gay ministry Last weekend, Bradlee Dean's You Can Run B ... More >>
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July 9, 2012
Bradlee Dean must pay attorney fees to Rachel Maddow, Minnesota Independent
About a year ago, after filing a libel lawsuit against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and the Minnesota Independent, controversial preacher Bradlee Dean sounded pretty confident. His attorney, Larry Klayman, even declared that Maddow's career was effectively finished. It turns out that might have been a ... More >>
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June 21, 2012
Gary Schiff challenges Bradlee Dean to debate over "Third World" south Mpls comments
City Councilman Gary Schiff is challenging Bradlee Dean to a debate over Dean's comments disparaging south Minneapolis as a "Third World country." "You call it the Third World Bradlee Dean, I call it the Ninth Ward," Schiff posted on Facebook. "When you are ready to crawl out of your cave, I will g ... More >>
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June 19, 2012
Bradlee Dean calls south Mpls a "Third World Country" [AUDIO]
Bradlee Dean came to south Minneapolis last week to pick up some steak sauce with his wife and they were shocked by what they saw. "My wife looked around at this particular area where these foreigners live, and these are people that are trying to implement their foreign law into America," Dean told ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Bradlee Dean attacks Dan Savage for calling parts of the Bible "bullshit"
Bradlee Dean is on the offensive again, launching a vicious and inane attack on Dan Savage for being critical of the Bible. Savage spoke to high school students recently and talked about how it's possible to "ignore the bullshit" in the Bible about gay people "the same way we have learned to ignore ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
In St. Cloud, Bradlee Dean speaks to more protesters than supporters
We hope it was worth it, St. Cloud State College Republicans.Thanks to your decision not to cancel Bradlee Dean's on-campus appearance last night, you may never have the opportunity to work for the MNGOP. Not only that, but the event itself turned out to be a embarrassing dud.According to the St. Cl ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
MNGOP tells St. Cloud State Repubs to cancel Bradlee Dean's appearance tonight, or else
MNGOP leadership has issued a stern ultimatum to St. Cloud State College Republicans -- cancel Bradlee Dean's on-campus speaking engagement and concert, scheduled for tonight, or you'll have trouble finding Republican jobs in the future.While working for the MNGOP doesn't exactly sound like a sun-dr ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
Bradlee Dean blasts MNGOP leadership, says party is run by "immoral people"
Bradlee Dean isn't taking the news that MNGOP leadership is demanding St. Cloud State Republicans cancel his scheduled on-campus appearance lying down. Yesterday, on his radio show, Dean put the MNGOP on blast, saying that if he were a state Republican leader, he wouldn't want himself speaking to yo ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
Trayvon Martin was "gang bangin'," says Bradlee Dean
It seems like everyone has something to say about the Trayvon Martin killing. Last month, Martin, a 17-year-old from Florida, was fatally gunned down by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman. Martin was unarmed, unless you count a bag of Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea. Zimmerman is calling ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Iowa not cool with Bradlee Dean's public school invasion
Bradlee Dean has really screwed up the town of Dunkerton, Iowa. Dean and his Christian-rap-metal troupe, Junkyard Prophet, hosted a supposed "anti-bullying" assembly at the Dunkertown high school last week that literally left some of the kids in tears. Among the more controversial messages deliv ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Bradlee Dean's troupe to Iowa public school: Homosexual lifestyle 'literally kills' gays [VIDEO]
Bradlee Dean's Junkyard Prophet troupe is getting beaten up in the national press following an over-the-line presentation at the Dunkerton, Iowa public high school last week.Dean apparently gave a relatively uncontroversial presentation at the school about a decade ago, and was invited back to ta ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Bradlee Dean: Michele Bachmann smells like rancid cheese
Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean: Friends no more?Things are not looking good for Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign these days. Earlier this month, her entire New Hampshire staff jumped ship. Recent polls show she's slipped into a distant fourth place in the race for the nomination. A ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Rick Santorum and Bradlee Dean talked about gay sex last weekend
Bradlee Dean, Rick Santorum: Track suit, empty suit.Rick Santorum, the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, announces that he's running for president every few days, waiting for someone to finally notice. With Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain (Herman Cain!) vacuuming all the oxygen from ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Bradlee Dean delighted by softball coverage in New York Times
In the past, conservative pastor Bradlee Dean has been an outspoken critic of the media. Dean (real name Bradley Dean Smith) is even suing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and Minnesota Independent writer Andy Birkey for their coverage, accusing the two reporters of defaming him by taking an excerpt fr ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
New York Times goes soft on Bradlee Dean
New York Times on Bradlee DeanThe New York Times has finally picked up the Bradlee Dean trail. This weekend, the Times published a story on Dean's relationship to presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. They even sprung to send reporter Serge F. Kolvaleski all the way out to Annandale to ge ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Amy Senser, Joe Senser's wife, sued for fatal hit-and-run
Anousone Phanthavong family asks $50,000 in wrongful death
Blogs
July 28, 2011
Bradlee Dean's lawyer: "Rachel Maddow's career is over"
Larry Klayman: lawyer, activist, character on West Wing.Bradlee Dean's lawyer, Larry Klayman, is quite the character. Really. As in, there's actually a character in the show West Wing based off of him named Harry Klaypool. Klayman is also the founder of Freedom Watch, might have been the inspira ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Bradlee Dean sues Rachel Maddow
Smith wants more than $50 million from the MSNBC host.Punk rock preacher Bradley Dean Smith will announce plans later this morning to sue MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for more than $50 million. According to Smith, better known as Bradlee Dean, Maddow and other unnamed news outlets defamed him by twe ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Bradlee Dean suing Andy Birkey of Minnesota Independent as well as Rachel Maddow
Photo by Nick Pinto, Village Voice.Sporting a Minnesota Twins t-shirt, Smith and his lawyer announced the lawsuit in New York this morning.Controversial pastor Bradley Dean Smith announced this morning that, in addition to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, he is also suing Minnesota Independent writer An ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Minnesota Independent, MSNBC respond to Bradlee Dean lawsuit
Birkey has won awards for his coverage of Smith.The Minnesota Independent is standing by its reporting, denying allegations that writer Andy Birkey defamed punk rock pastor Bradley Dean Smith. Smith, a.k.a. Bradlee Dean, filed a lawsuit against Birkey this morning, alleging that Birkey and MSNBC ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Video of Bradlee Dean lawsuit press conference
Smith held a press conference this morning in New York to announce the lawsuit.Minnesota pastor Bradley Dean Smith -- a.k.a. Bradlee Dean -- announced earlier today he is suing MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and Minnesota Independent writer Andy Birkey. The civil suit, filed today in Washington, D. ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Bradlee Dean Interview, Part 2: Taxes, Michele Bachmann, and the Capitol Prayer Debacle
Bradlee Dean on Kurt Zellers: "He's a liar. He straight up lied."In late May, pastor Bradley Dean Smith, the subject of this week's feature, launched himself into the public eye by delivering a controversial prayer on the floor of the Minnesota Legislature. Smith, better known as Bradlee Dean, ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Karl Bremer on Bradlee Dean, Michele Bachmann's pastor problem [Interview]
Courtesy Karl Bremer.Bremer has chronicled Bachmann and Dean on his blog, A Ripple In Stillwater.For more than 10 years, blogger Karl Bremer has been doggedly chronicling the misadventures of Minnesota's craziest politician, Michele Bachmann. Now that Bachmann's presidential candidacy has earned ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Gay Minnesota teens report rampant school harassment
Given the the vehemence with which anti-gay activists oppose anti-bullying measures in our schools, the results of a new survey hardly sound surprising: Straight Minnesota teenagers think it's fine to bully their LGBT classmates. What's worse, some teachers are leading the way with homophobi ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Bradlee Dean flunks gay sex law 101
Bradlee Dean, scholar.Everyone's favorite odious preacher Bradlee Dean has made a cottage industry out of anti-gay rhetoric on the radio, the internets and, most recently, Walmart parking lots. So is it too much to ask that he at least be familiar with the law around gay rights, since he's wo ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Bradlee Dean uses "suicide prevention" to raise money for anti-gay ministry
Bradlee Dean, the man behind the ministry.When Julia Miller pulled into the BP station on Lexington and St. Anthony in St. Paul last month, she was immediately approached by a young man from an organization called You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International. While Miller pumped her gas, th ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Bradlee Dean lied to Walmart about his church, is now banned from parking lot
Bradlee Dean, kicked out of Walmart.It's been a rough week for Bradlee Dean. On Friday the gay-baiting minister was universally denounced by just about every state lawmaker who could get near a microphone. Now it turns out that not only is Dean permanently unwelcome in the state legislature ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Bradlee Dean's church spotted in Walmart parking lot
Bradlee Dean in his track suit at the legislature.Bradlee Dean wants very badly to be taken seriously. He begged Republican lawmakers to let him give the Legislature's opening prayer, then turned around and attacked them once the appearance blew up in the GOP's face. But since even that nega ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
House OKs gay marriage ban question: GOP Rep. John Kreisel votes no [VIDEO]
John Kreisel, Iraq war veteran, patriot, and opponent of the gay marriage ban.A 2012 ballot question that aims to ban gay marriage via the state constitution has now been approved by both the Minnesota House and Senate, in a mighty demonstration of how lawmakers really know how to prioritize ... More >>
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May 22, 2011
Katherine Kersten distorts truth about language of gay marriage amendment
Katherine Kersten wants to defend you from the truth.There are many falsehoods in today's latest loony epistle from conservative school marm Katherine Kersten, not least of which is the notion that enemies of gay marriage are the ones who need to fear intimidation--as if gays were trying to whip ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Bradlee Dean, homophobic preacher, gives creepy opening prayer at Legislature [VIDEO]
Bradlee Dean, Axl Rose look-alike and legislative chaplain.There's something fitting about this: On the day that the Minnesota Legislature is likely to vote forward a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, the Republican leadership invited the most notoriously bigoted preacher in the s ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Kurt Zellers apologizes for Bradlee Dean's opening "prayer" [VIDEO]
Kurt Zellers apologizes.No Republican has stepped forward yet to admit inviting homophobic preacher Bradlee Dean to give the opening "prayer" at today's House session, but Speaker Kurt Zellers was man enough to take ultimate responsibility for the debacle, and repudiated Dean in comments from ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Rep. Ernie Leidiger outed for inviting Bradlee Dean to lead House prayer
GOP Rep. Ernie Leidiger, Bradlee Dean's host.He hasn't stepped forward on his own, but MPR is reporting that Republican Rep. Ernie Leiiger, of Mayer, was the lawmaker who invited homophobic preacher Bradlee Dean to give the House prayer this morning. Leidiger represents District 34a, which i ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Bradlee Dean's "prayer" not first at Capitol to exclude Jews
Terri Bonoff wanted Jews included in a Senate prayer. Bradlee Dean replied, "Get her name eradicated."As offensive and creepy as Bradlee Dean's "prayer" was today at the state Capitol for other reasons, it's also not the first time that Jews have found themselves not welcomed by a Christian p ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Michele Bachmann prays for Bradlee Dean's homophobic ministry [AUDIO]
Michele Bachmann and Bradlee DeanThe Minnesota Legislature erupted in controversy today following the opening prayer this morning by Bradlee Dean, the Axl Rose-lookalike homophobic minister.The boneheaded decision to invite Dean to the party has backfired on Republicans, who now face a groundswel ... More >>
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July 31, 2010
Anne Rice quits church, blaming Bradlee Dean, among others [UPDATED]
Image via FacebookRice quits Christ's followersUpdated: "You'd like the UCC, Anne Rice" launches on Facebook. Details after the jump. Anne Rice, arguably the modern-day mother of America's obsession with all things vampire, made big news a decade ago when she converted to Christianity. Now s ... More >>
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May 25, 2010
Tom Emmer finesses Bradlee Dean's sympathy for executing gays
Bradlee Dean's happy to support Tom Emmer, above, anytime he's asked. Dean also sympathizes with Muslims wanting to execute gays.Bradlee Dean, leader of the right-wing punk rock ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, really is a love-thy-neighbor kind of guy. A good, patriotic Republican, ... More >>
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