Michelle Bachmann denies saying she wanted the media to investigate members of Congress who might be anti-American
By John Amato Wednesday Nov 19, 2008 8:00am
Michelle Bachmann is a pretty wild person as we've seen, but after spewing venom at Barack Obama for a few minutes with Hannidate, she then lied to Alan Colmes and denied saying this on Hardball:
Bachmann: I would say, what I would say is that the news media should 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 the people would love to see an expose like that.
She's come up with a new one folks. She said that she never made those statements and they have now become an "urban legend." Is she living in a B type Horror/Slasher film world or what? Here's what she told Alan Colmes Tuesday night.
Colmes: You said you were concerned during the campaign that Obama had anti American views and you said the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look at the people and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America
Bachmann: Actually that's not what I said. It's an urban legend that was created and that's not what I said.
Colmes: I have the tape at my website Alan.com
Bachmann: What I called on Alan was for the main stream media to do their job. They failed to vet Barack Obama the way they had John McCain. That's what I was called for.
Colmes: 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. Do you really want...
Bachmann: What I said was that I'm not qualified to say whether members views are pro or anti American. That's not my job to do.
She really is out there. Obama was subjected to a level of scrutiny McCain never faced since he was in a heated primary battle that went on for months after McCain won his nomination. She really should apologize to Obama, but what the heck.
Here's the video of what she actually said.
Joe McCarthy would be proud. I think I can safely say that Michelle Bachmann has become an actual political "Urban Legend." There really aren't too many like her.
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fuckin nutjob
She reminds me of the Iraqi information minister....
Baghdad Bob = Mucked up Michelle
Damn! This is unfrigginbelievable! Who voted for this broad? Just like a right-winger! Keep denying everything, and it will come true. I hope she has fun serving her term being in the minority. Should be fun!
Can this lunatic be marginalized as much as possible? Isn't there a committee assignment for dangerous fascist asshats?
Ordering in for lunch meetings?
she could make drug runs for everybody else. except you couldn't trust her.
she's been voted back into office??? What's the matter with people up there?
First, Stevens was so close. Franklin is trailing. And the race down in Georgia is a nail-biter. Why are Americans so ignorant? Then again, some 28% think bush is doing a good job.
Ben Franklin?
I meant Al Frankin.
But these folks can't be very intelligent, either, to elect someone who may have alienated a majority of Congress and the President-elect. How can she find a sympathetic audience for any legislation she wants to have passed, either among her colleagues or the White House? Did she not THINK what would happen in the long term if she publicly stated these wacky anti-Obama lies but McCain was not successful?
My eyes must be getting tired.
For a second there I thought the headline read:
Michelle Bachmann denies saying she wanted the media to investigate members of Congress who might be African-American.
When ever I think that maybe we have made some progress to a better and more fair world I remember that Miss Asshat 2008 won her election.
Could you imagine being married to a lunatic woman like this? I pity her poor husband. This poor man must cringe when he puts his key in the door as he has no idea what he is up against. I don't often say it, but thank god I am not a man if they have to deal with loons like this.
I wouldn't feel too sorry for her husband. Remember, every Sarah has her Todd.
This video just shows that Michelle Bachmann puts the "liar" in Crooks and Liars.
Fuck her husband too. He's one of those nutjobs who thinks that gays can be "cured", which makes me suspect that Ms. Bachmann is a beard. You have to be extremely pent up and horny to practically make out with Dubya, like she did that one year at his State Of The Union address.
Based on the information you've given me, fuck him too.
In Bachmann's mind, I'm sure the question comes down to Who you gonna believe...her or your lyin' eyes?
I wish alan would have asked her "Congresswoman, If it was an urban legend, then why on earth did you release a campaign ad apologizing for what you said?"
Good point ! Of course I wouldn't ever expect any actual "journalism" from Fox Lies.
Good "journalism" would require preparation and who in this world would be prepared for her denying that she said what he actually said? There is video. There are transcripts. I know I would not expect her to deny it.
An Urban Legend in her own time. She should be proud.
Michelle Bachmann is Big Foot?
...a Big Foot in Mouth.
I watched the interview on Hardball live and my jaw dropped.
At first I thought that Matthews was not doing enough to counter what she was saying but later realized he was doing an excellant job of giving her all the rope she needed to hang herself.
She's just an out and out liar trying to now deny it. She said it! You betcha ! I think this is one reason why so many lies didn't stick this election season. There are too many video sources and fact check sites. (Thank you C & L !)
ps -different but similar subject has anyone heard the interview with Bill Ayers on NPR/Fresh Air ?
How about Bachmann doing her job? Representing the people instead of representing the fascist corporations.
How anyone could vote for this-I don't even know what to call her-at all completely frightens me. I'm tired of Repugs saying that unless we are just like them that we are unamerican. At least we care about the other people in this country and don't expect anyone to do and be just like we are. Live and let live has always been my motto.
Minnesota is quickly becoming Mississippi north.
for sending this lying nutjob back to congress
there is no way this bitch was ever a foster parent...no fucking way
....for giving the Nation two additional years of this psychopathic bitch!
Just what we need at this time.
Wouldn't it be nice if the Press did broadcast the crazy crap that is said on the floors and in the halls of Congress. Those of us that are retired can catch it live on CSPAN, but I can't see most working people TIVOing the House or the Senate. To quote a legal term res ipsa loquitor......things speak for themselves, and if the press would cover some of these antics the public would actually see who they they elected. I mean, who can forget Alaskan Ted hollering NO! NO! NO!.....and then threatening consequences.
It's hard for me to believe that she would claim this is an urban legend (which I'm sure she claimed was started by Chris Matthews). Doesn't she know that there are tapes of these things? It's hard for me to believe that she hasn't seen the clip. It's impossible to take her comment out of context. It stands on its own. But she continues to lie with a straight face. She should do a "Foley" and just go away.
Me or your lying video?
The way she talks, and talks, and talks makes me think she is aunti-american.
Is she competing with palin for "fast talker of the year"?
Someone please stuff something into her mouth to shut her up.
Pick me sir...me sir...me...me!!!
is a sock is not what you have in mind...
They talk in sentence fragments and throw them out at an alarming rate. I dated a cokehead that spoke in a very similar fashion ( yeah, not a good idea dating a cokehead, but to be honest she was GORGEOUS! Was being as shallow as they come..mea culpa). And have been around other cokeheads that speak like that. HMMMMM?
crystal meth, which made me post that congresscritters need drug testing, blah blah blah.
....for exciting political job opportunities. Incredible...this woman can just tell that outright lie and it's OK. Why should she stop?
... Bachmann claimed she was tricked/manipulated into making that statement. So, in her private reality, she never said it.
The funny thing is that there are orders of magnitude more references about the sinful nature of bearing false witness (lying) in the precious bible, than homosexuality for example.
They sure are selective these moral majority conservative types...
How's it feel to be the poster child for deception and lying Michelle? You don't care? Can't understand what the problem is? How Neocon of you.
Do us a favor. Quit now and never soil or compromise American public service again with your toxic presence. And the dupes that voted for you should have their voting privileges revoked.
What an ego this woman must have to want her fellow congress members investigated for "anti-American" views. She deserves what she gets.
The weird turn pro.
Bachmann is one of a long line of rightwingers who, clearly, suffer from delusional psychopathology. Unfortunately, they have millions of supporters who share and believe in their delusions.
It probably doesn't bode well for our (long-term) future.
I cannot believe the fine people of rural Minnesota voted this woman back in. She is a clueless tax lawyer. A bible thumping bigot.
This is exactly the type of people we should not have in our government.
Her constituents must be just as clueless.
I know that she makes good TV, but why have her on TV. She has nothing of value to say.
thanks alan....good job turning it into a he said/she said, when you didnt have to
when he scheduled her. Why not have her older vid cued and ready to go? Oh, that's right, it's Fux...
What a lying sack.
Bachmann has the chutzpah to deny what is RECORDED on video. I probably shouldn't be surprised on a personal level. My ex-wife was very similar in her self-delusion. She transformed over our 15 year marriage from a compassionate, progressive person into a materialistic, hate-filled racist. The parallel I see between my ex and Bachmann is this: When I caught my wife cheating, she denied it till the bitter end. I had witnesses, hotel receipts, phone call records, etc. Everything short of finding her in flagrante delicto, but all she did was accuse me of being paranoid and controlling. So in an odd way, I have experienced that kind of narcissitic detachment from reality.
I had a girl friend who was a "Bachmann". When we broke up she kept sending me bullets in the mail, put my 66 year old(very religious) mother's info on a "women seeking sex" website, etc. When my Detective brother got me to finally get a restraining order the woman cried and lied so much in court that the judge(who wasn't buying, thankfully) ordered that she also get psychotherapy.
Psychotics like Bachmann should never be elected to any office.
the caliber of bullets back to her, with a note thanking her for the ammo...
Was the woman born between mid June and mid July?
And was she white?
Are you asking if she's a Gemini or a Cancer?
Yes and no.
heh heh. I know you didn't, but there was a guy that lived here w/ his new GF and the old one had a restraining order out and would show up here, just to be arrested, I guess. She was nutted up, to put it politely.
Me? Or your lying eyes?
-Michelle Bachmann
what a concept!
/snark
Michelle is pro-life and that is all that matters in that district. It isn't exactly rural. It is kind of a weird mix, exurbs and farms. I would say the farmers and rural areas tend toward DFL (Democrat/Farmer/Labor). My girl in pearls gets a big boost from evangelicals and Pawlenty suburbanites. I had hoped otherwise, but I knew there was no way she was going to lose. It seems every state has it's collection of know-nothings and redneck. There are some folks up around St. Cloud that are a little different. The thing that is kind of funny is that some of these guys don't have anybody close to them that is willing to let them know that they are dumber than a bag of hammers. So they keep showing up on TV and making asses of themselves. They must think they're smart. Entertainment for us I guess. Think of her as Palin's running mate in 2012. Wheee!
Carps
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Sarahs mate or maybe Press Sect.,someone has to take dana perino's lieing job.
Obama is anti american
She still won. :(
I see business oppertunities for the folks who elected her. 'Folks I have 'light weight' gold bars here for only $5.00'.'
"I tuat I saw a Puddy Tat!
I did, I did! I saw a puddy TWAT!"
Katherine Harris part two?
Stepford skank.
If Ms. Bachmann really feels her documented words are actually "urban legends" (simply because she wants history to go "down the memory hole"), then she (or someone) should post her "mythology" at www.snopes.com and let them tell the world if it's an urban legend or not.
By the way, are we at war with Eurasian or East Asia? I can never keep that straight.
Uranus.
Sarah Palin also declared her innocence, immediately after being found guilty of impropriety in the troopergate scandal.
This "you can say anything and the chumps will buy it" style of lying was inspired by George Bush and the Iraq war. He even turned it into a comedy routine in 2003 at that Washington press corps dinner. As I recall, he got a lot of laughs from the assembled journalists that night.
This woman is so dumb she's practiclly inhuman. She's like a really bad country western song "If you're down in a hole don't keep diggin."
Is the one standing michelle when she was younger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ5LaSPThfc
well...unless, youre investigating illegal activities committed by members of the GOP, in which case STOP HARSHING MY BUZZ!
Its a typical tactic by people like Bachmann to make anyone who hates the direction America is being dragged in by the radical right anti-American.Sorry Toots,it doesn't work that way.
Obviously the fringe frothers are big on guilt by association these daze as well,provided of course you have a "D" before your name.
i.e.-They have zero problem with Palin's "paling around" with rightwing seperatists in Alaska or Witch Doctors for that matter.
It is important to remember this was a three way race. The democrat and independent candidates combined, received somewhere near 57% of the vote. I believe she was elected by garnering around 42% of the vote. Minnesota needs to develop a instant "run-off" for general elections.
The same thing is occurring in the Senate race...Dean Barkley received about 17%...a immediate run-off would have sealed that election for Franken or Coleman without a recount.
I have hope that God will smite her for lying.
God had his hands full smiting Sarah Palin by slamming 2 doors in her face in 2 weeks, the VP and AK senate seat. The good Lord's going to turn his attention to this lying crazy b*tch in 2010.
Trust in baby Jesus, he knows what he's doing. He gave us the white house and increased congressional majorities didn't he? The GOP in the party of the devil and baby Jesus knows it.
God will quietly say, "Have you learned nothing? You're the one who chose to lie, and now these are the consequences."
If the GOP are willing to lie when there is undeniable and incontrovertible evidence exposing their lie, how can you trust anything they ever say about events with no public records?
A history revising Republican that lies through her teeth. Nothing new to see here, move along.
of this woman's crap.
"Once again, our nation is at a crossroads, and it's a time for choosing. We could embrace Govt as the answer to our problems, or we could choose freedom, and liberty.
"I may not always get my words right, But I know that my heart is right, because my heart is for you, your children and the blessings of liberty to remain, for our great country."
So what? I mean, it sounds to me like she's for anarchy, since the govt [of which she is an elected part] should not govern, but 'Freedom' and 'Liberty' should. Whoever they are when they're at home.
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I think the media should step up and do it's job and investigate if Michelle Bachmann is a Fascist of not, and other members of Congress too. I mean, I'm not an expert on the subject or anything but what I'm saying is that the media should vet people like Michelle to see if they are Real Americans or if they're anti-American. But that's not my job...
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But what are the criteria? Never having criticized the president? Always believing the country does the right thing (that is, slavery, Chinese Exclusion, Japanese internment, McCarthyism, miscenegation, separate-but-equal, Roe v. Wade, et al)?
It seems to me that a lot of the folk screaming anti-American this and that would fail their own test. It at least presumes that the test will be based on THEIR definition.
Is she copping a feel of her own boobs?
She does have some doesn't she?
Fuckin Crazy!
Someone needs to explain to Batshit Bachmann that we no longer get our news from the Pony Express and the telegraph and that Horace Greeley is long dead. Honestly, they do these interviews and public appearances and are clueless to the fact that it's all going on public record! That's right, Michelle, we actually heard what you said. We actually saw you fawning all over George Bush like a drug-addled groupie. What boggles my mind is that this nutcase managed to get herself re-elected. Does the wind coming off Lake Superior freeze the brains of Minnesota voters?
Evidently Bachman believes some of the Ten Commandments shouldn't be broken, but the one about lying isn't important. She's a liar. She's also nuts. She also has a thing about gay people. Her stepsister is a lesbian. Bachman once was held hostage in a ladies' room (according to her accounts) by two lesbians in Scandia, MN. She also was filmed hiding in some bushes during a gay rights demonstration. Is there a pattern here?
Some people have theorized that a certain percentage of voters think she is from the Bachman family that owns local nurseries and floral shops - they are well-regarded in Minnesota. She's not related.
Eventually she'll self-destruct. In the meantime, we're stuck with her craziness for two more years.
My parents are Christians, but they're honest.
They would never lie like this crazy lady does.
GOTCHA!!! This is embarrassing, she and sarah need to go moose hunting together
A little bit of flannel-shirted lebianism?
Or should we send uncle dick to chaparone them?
And she calls herself a "christian"? What a laugh. She lies straight faced with the rest of the gop party. Bunch of lying sacks of shit.....with a shit eating grin on her face...ALL the time. What an idiot.
What is really needed here is for some talking head to ask Bachmann to explain what she means by "anti-American" and to state how and why certain congressmen (including the president-elect) come within that definition.
As we already know, "anti-American" is a bullshit phrase -- just as it would be bullshit to accuse some political opponent in Iceland of anti-Icelandism.
What Bachmann really means is that she has some half-cocked conception of what America should and should not be, and those who disagree with her are "anti-American".
The wingers will figure out, someday, that when they act out, and say stupid stuff, and then lie about it, they are recorded and can be played over and over and over. What a lying, hypocritical wingnut. I say the show on Hardball. She said it and she was asked if that is what she said by Chris Matthews and she confirmed. These scumbags are all low life liars.
The only "Urban Legend" is in her mind, which seems to be the size of a peanut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFZMJrtrd0o
It was the drugs.
if you don't think so, replay the video and watch her deer-in-the-headlight eyes and frozen smile.
That's why they call it Crystal.
mandatory drug testing for congresscritters. Blood draws and hair analysis. Won't even waste money on pee tests, unless they pee in front of certified pee watchers.
Anything found not prescribed will be reported publicly, at the top of the congresscritters home page on the web.
That is one job I will forever pass on...certified pee watcher. Of congresscritters (uhm, you wanna watch Rockefeller or Inhofe take a wiz? God, I am tainted for life just with the visual image.)
If they run together it will be a real competition to see if the Republicans or the Democrats bring back Witch Burning first!
There is already a call for just that!
Google it.
(To which I say: OH PLEASE DO!!)
...totally without credibility or shame, a living anachronism.
She still thinks this is the early 1950's and that the House Un-American Activities Committee is still happening. Fuck, I hate this mentality.
Not only that but she is too chickenshit to take responsibility for her own remarks. Shame on you Michelle Bachmann; you represent all that is bad about America.
Can she possibly have any touch with reality? This time her comments
will surely come back to bite her but more seriously, how is it possible that this
laughing stock is still working? The mind boggles.
another lying liar who lies even when confronted with the truth.
"If I say one thing over and over again, it must be true."
Surely, this is some form of psychosis.
with the facts?
She might be a whack-o, but she is definitely a liar.
they actually reelected this scumbag
after she called Obama unpatriotic, the Thugs dropped her skinny arse like it was a hot potato. That's how you get the national ads to stop, candidates -- offend the party to the bone. They WILL withdraw them. It's not impossible.
Bimbo must think God is hers to command.
It's hard to remember all the lies one has told, aye?
The one who tries to rip you're hair out at the Bus stop until the Vice principal shows up and then next week she's at your lunch table asking for a dollar so she can buy Funyuns.
The woman needs to be medicated.
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Edit: Sorry. >.<
Stupid lying "B"-word. Now I dislike her even more, cuz she sez we're lying.
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The woman is clearly brain-damaged.
I would suspect due to long-term substance abuse,
but then, I'm no doctor.
Perhaps her parents were completely stoned when she was conceived - if she even believes in conception, that is.
Just think of the good she could have done if her excellent looks were matched by an excellent brain.
Ah, well . . . .
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