Michelle Bachman: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
By Nicole Belle Saturday Oct 25, 2008 4:30amFaced with overwhelming condemnation and the NRCC basically dumping her campaign after her appearance on Hardball where she suggested that Barack Obama was anti-American and that the press should do an expose to see whether Democrats hold pro- or anti-America attitude, Bachmann taped what was billed as an "apology" ad.
The resulting ad? Not so much of an apology.
I don't always get my words right, but I know my heart is right...
Meh. That's not an apology as far as I'm concerned. Further, it doesn't square with her own reaction to the blowback from her appearance. First, she claimed she never said it. But she then did a 180 and re-asserted Obama’s views were anti-American. Then, after her Democratic rival Elwyn Tinklenberg raised $1.4 million from Americans disgusted by her neo-McCarthyism, she tried to fundraise off her outrage at Matthews and liberal blogs for twisting her words.
And then this...it doesn't come close to actually apologizing. Clearly, she didn't want to repeat what she said, but polls are showing a significant slippage in her approval:
Nearly four of 10 likely voters in the Sixth Congressional District say they are less likely to support Rep. Michele Bachmann because of her comments about Barack Obama and Congress.[..]
Overall, the poll found that voters favored Tinklenberg over Bachmann 45 percent to 43 percent, with 5 percent supporting Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
Does she honestly think this will help? *snort* Of course, it won't stop the NRCC from raising money off Bachmann, even as they've cast her out.
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Michele Bachman is totally finished and is now digging herself an even larger hole into which she will bury herself now.
It's obvious that because this woman was hoisted into office by the right wing evangelicals she's one of their locksteppers. What she fails to even remotely comprehend is that she is supposed to be "representing all americans" in Congress.
For this Bachman will lose her seat and I couldn't be happier to watch her leave.
She's slit her own throat and can't stop the bleeding....the more she opens her mouth, the more disgusting diarrhea comes flowing out.
Like Palin, she's not intelligent enough to help herself.
You can't go around accusing people of being Treasonous and Un-American and then just say sorry. She accused half the people in Congress and she still can only say "she didn't get her words right"?
If there is anyone deserving of losing their Seat in the House it is she.
Tinkle Tinkle little twerp, now we know you are a jerk"
PLEEEASE
Give us LIBERTY & FREEDOM from GOVERNMENT officials like Bachman.
She says that we can choose either "Government" or "Freedom and Liberty" as if these things were in opposition!
That "Government" is meant to ensure these things seems beyond not just Bachmann, but most Republican Faithful.
And it is their own fault. The GOP has fostered sloganeering and false equivelancies for decades. Their followers adopted these positions without reason or reasoning.
Now, when America needs its people to THINK, they can not.
Ask a Republican to tell you who the Government is and what it does.
See how long it takes them to list something we can do without.
She is cuter than Marie Antoinette...don't expect food because I love you too much to endanger your personal freedom to choose to starve.
:<[)
succinctly.
DemoChristian - you are 100% dead on.
These people do nothing but spew talking points. Whenever I point out the facts or connect the OBVIOUS dots that exist between republican's and disaster for them - they just stare into space with a look of complete stupidity on their face. Kinda like "yeah, that make sense. Damn, those republicans are full of shit!"
Unfortunately, they lack the intelligence to put the information into long term memory, and default to "GOP imbecile mode" within a few moments.
No matter how much information or knowledge you share with these moron's, there really is no fixing "stupid."
Just as long as she doesn't have any problems saying, adios.
Can he use some of it to change his name after he is elected? Just saying.
What's with approving her own statement.
Was she trying to be funny?
Are there times when she doesn't approve of what she says?
then answering it.
She's CRAY-ZEE!
(No offense to crazy people. I grew up with a crazy mother and sister. I know crazy.)
I'm Michelle Bachman, and I approve of whatever in the hell just came out of my mouth!
The Reptiles do not, I repeat DO NOT apologize.
Dingbat Ladies For President!
Palin/Bachman '12
When did she say she was sorry?
I did not hear it. She is just an idiot that got put in office by the rightwing christian nutbags. Maybe this year we can put some of these crazy people out of our government!
For good!
"My heart is right" is religious code for "My heart is right with God." In other words, she's saying that she meant everything she said and is offering this faux apology for "the world," and remains true to every vile and nasty thing she accidentally revealed to the secular among us.
Didn't even think of that but good point. Ugh, just thinking it was worded that way for that reason makes me ill. I think the chickens have come home this year finally. After the Nov. 4 election I'll wonder if Bachman and the other religious nut jobs will be thinking why their god abandoned them....nah, probably chalk it up to "God works in mysterious ways"
that anyone would refer to this as an apology.
it's more like:
"I guess some people are upset with what I said, but I meant every word."
Bachman in Overdrive, Just 'Taking Care of Diss-ness'
A WalMart associates job would be too good for the likes of Bachmann.
These people belong on a chain gang.
The enemy within!!
That's an apology??? Ha ha ha. She choked even gettting that much out.
Honey, we know who you are and we heard what you said. Words come from your heart, unless you're reading a teleprompter, either way...
She's an embarrassment to the state of Minnesota - the quicker they get rid of her, the better.
After all---you have a total lock on the crazy vote. And there's no taking that away from you.
If nothing else she has provided the entertainment of watching her and her campaign combust.
I especially love the part where her party pulled all their support out from under her. That is hilarious.
Narcissists are never wrong about anything.
This woman is pathetic. Chris Matthews gave her several opportunities to save herself but she took the rope that he was handing her and hung herself. She is the victim of a self inflicted "rope a dope" and I do mean "dope"
Now she has gone on air and lied about what she said. Come on Michelle it is all on tape. She did this to herself.
So maybe this whole thing is one big misunderstanding huh?
Call ppl anti-American and then say it`s a misunderstanding- you’re literally walking to a place called deception lane.
Hmm this statement reminds me of the Disaster from Alaska with her anti-American spew too ( the old misunderstanding spin)
Botchmann
has dug her own grave……..spinning it out of context -doesn~t convince anyone because those were the words that came out of her mouth. And whats in your heart--its dark and ugly.
Face defeat in the next election. ...
RIP
I'm trying to find the video where she calls James Carville a sexist for pointing out Palin's lack of experience but I can't find it.
(Sniff) Gee, Michelle, (sniff), I'm sorry if we upset you. (Sniff, Sniff) I know your heart is right. (Sniff) How much money do you need?(Sniff) Name your figure. Anything. Just so long as you don't abandon us in your (Sniff) time of (Sniff) need. Oh, Michelle, you need us. Help yourself, Michelle. (Sniff)
Sorry, I ca ca can't write any more. I'm crying uncontrollably. Poor Michelle. She just got her words wrong. (Sniff) Oh, poor, poor, Michelle.
Just remember, Michelle, I'm probably on a half a dozen terrorist watch lists and if you take money from me you could get into big trouble (Sniff) with Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA, and a whole bunch of other organizations just working to protect the country from me. (Sniff) So, how do we launder the money so you're in the clear? (Sniff)
The spokesman for all dumb Reslug whores is the true hating Anti-Christ.
So in your heart you know you are right? Nawww---in our guts we know you're nuts.
In reality you are just another Neocon ass who needs to get her sorry ass out of public service---permanently.
This doesn't even qualify as an apology which normally would begin with "I'm sorry...". It is a statement that hints at something she said wrong but that is about it. Why can't these republican fucktards just man up (et tu Coulter?) and say that we have different opinions of what it means to be an American and that has nothing to do with patriotism? I'm loving watching Hannity, Bill O, Rove and all other right wing nobs lose their shit as all their formerly effective tactics blow up in their faces. It's a great show and the grand finale on Nov. 4 should be very tasty and LONG LONG overdue. (I'm keeping my fingers crossed)
My children, Akbar and Mohammed, will be so relieved!
This insane woman is absolutely ridiculous and scary. Crazy-eyed woman can go back to her crazy Christian cult church and her religious quest to pass the Light Bulb bill. Nutcase.
...Minnesota, you better buy lots of garlic - and sharpen yer crosses!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfJepxPPBok
The Republicans are now saying that Chris Matthews tricked Bachmann.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/22/pol...
I know Matthews has a lot of detractors on this site, especially when he brings on right-wingers, but how can you expose these people if you don't bring them on? Check out the youtube videos of the job he did on Kevin James and Michelle Malkin. These are perfect examples of why I wish Keith Olbermann would abandon his policy of only preaching to the choir.
The force can have a strong influence on the weak minded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo&fe...
from that spot is a banana cream pie in her face.
-- Ronald Reagan
clouded the issue where Reagan was concerned, and the electorate was happy to be relieved of the responsibility to THINK!
Reagan was the beginning of the end for us.
She knows just how to make me puke
More effective than the Heimlich Maneuver
what a strange and hollow phase this country has gone thru.
...if we deem you American enough.
by the propensity for stupidity by the average American voter. An awful lot of our voting citizens are terminally anal and morally immature.
She's done.
"I don't always get my words right, but I know my heart is right..."
In fact, her words are extremely right and her heart, if any, is righter than Attila the Hun
The only people who should be apologizing Michelle are the dumb fucks from Minnesota who voted for your racist ass in the first place.
She has the prison industry on the east side of her district, St. Cloud State (one of our lesser-ranked party schools) on the west where some chucklehead can be counted on to spray swastikas around campus every few years and a lot of exurban Republicanism all around. The northern metro is the Lovecraftian, inbred pioneer lumberjack center of the state. Not that surprising she still has 43 percent.
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Dear Miss Bachmann,
The Founders created the Government of the United States of America to ensure our Freedoms and Liberties. Without the Government, Americans would not have the Freedoms and Liberties that are enjoyed by Americans.
I will, however, agree with you on the one point you made; You do not always say the right thing. However so, without clarity, how are Americans to know where your heart is in the first place.
p.s.
If Mr. Matthews "TRAPPED" you into saying Obama was unamerican, it sure is strange that you took the "BAIT" and ran with it. Not only on the Matthews show, but on subsequent interviews, you've continued that line of reasoning; that Obama is unamerican on some intrinsic level. Why else would you run your "TRAP" and continue to "BAIT" other Americans into your demented line of reasoning?
I can't help but wonder who Michelle Bachmann is for "BAITING" other Republicans into racism.
R E M E M B E R:
It isn't the Democrats that called Obama unpatriotic...
It isn't the Democrats that call Obama a Muslim...
It isn't the Democrats that called him a traitor...
It isn't the Democrats that called him unamerican...
It isn't the Democrats that cried kill him!
Sorry Michelle, YOUR team, YOUR followers, YOUR message, YOUR responsibility!
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You own it bitch.
My heart knows the truth even if my words are ugly.
Hitler loved his dog, lady. The capacity to feel does not rule out a dark and twisted heart.
The more she opens her mouth the further she gets behind. Love watching her implode.
I think Obama's open and straightforward, no-BS approach has improved the entire political discourse in the States. After listening to him, it becomes very obvious when someone like this woman is shoveling snow.
The most telling response is,
Sat, 10/25/2008 - 06:35 — CoIntelPro.Pron...
that anyone would refer to this as an apology.
it's more like:
"I guess some people are upset with what I said, but I meant every word."
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