The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

Shofar FTP Archive File: orgs/american//populist.party/salaman.01



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

Home ·  Site Map ·  What's New? ·  Search Nizkor

© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2012

This site is intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and to combat hatred. Any statements or excerpts found on this site are for educational purposes only.

As part of these educational purposes, Nizkor may include on this website materials, such as excerpts from the writings of racists and antisemites. Far from approving these writings, Nizkor condemns them and provides them so that its readers can learn the nature and extent of hate and antisemitic discourse. Nizkor urges the readers of these pages to condemn racist and hate speech in all of its forms and manifestations.