The other day, Chris Matthews asked nutcase Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann whether she thought Barack Obama had anti-American views. She said:
Absolutely. I’m very concerned that he may have anti-American views. That’s what the American people are concerned about. That’s why they want to know what his answers are.
She also said that she wanted “the media” to
do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would love to see an expose like that.
Here’s the video:
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When “the media” and “the people” noticed that she had said something this monumentally stupid, campaign contributions began pouring in to her opponent, El Tinklenberg. He raised over a million dollars in the few days following her disastrous appearance on Hardball.
Realizing she had made a mistake in letting her reason-impaired and extreme views out on national tv, she went on a local show a few days later to lie about what she’d said:
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Unfortunately for Bachmann, nobody bought that. So today, she spoke to a local Rotary club and said that it was the show’s fault. She also told the Rotarians that she didn’t
call for an investigation of members of Congress for their pro-American or anti-American views. That is not what I said.
Actually, that’s exactly what she said.
In an interview with a local newspaper, she used the Admiral Akbar defense, calling her appearance a “trap.” She also said that she’d never seen Hardball before. There’s just no way that’s true: Michele Bachmann is a regular on Larry King Live and other cable shows. She’s image conscious and (until recently) media savvy. To think that she’s never even seen one of the most influential political shows on television is simply not believable.
As noted previously here, Bachmann is a right-wing extremist:
She opposes legislation to strengthen women’s’ rights in the workplace, wants to outlaw abortion, voted no on more funding for schools, and voted no – twice – on SCHIP, which would have provided health insurance to two to four million children. One of her biggest boosters is Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-feminist crusader.
She’s also an alumnus of Oral Roberts University. Before getting to Congress, she ran a school, where
Conflicts arose when many parents and the school district questioned if money from public tax dollars was going towards injecting Christianity into the curriculum. Minnesota state law prohibits charter schools from using taxpayers’ money for teaching religiously motivated courses. Parents charged Bachmann with trying to set up classes on Creationism and advocating “something called ’12 Christian principles’ be taught, very much like the 10 Commandments.” Bachmann and the board of directors also refused to allow the in-school screening of the Disney film Aladdin, feeling that it endorsed magic/witchcraft and promoted paganism.
To her credit, Bachmann hasn’t previously tried to hide who she is, which says a lot more about the people of her district than it does about her.
