Michele Bachmann

Are Michele Bachmann and Allen Quist Peas in a Pod?

Dump Michele Bachmann (Free subscription) | yesterday

City Pages has the scoop .

Crazed Michele Bachmann fan threatens a Ft. Hood-type bloodbath against a Michigan paper

Chasing Evil (Free subscription) | yesterday

Crazed Michele Bachmann fan threatens a Ft. Hood-type bloodbath against a Michigan paper: " Violence is contagious. This Kentucky weirdo should be checked out very carefully.A Kentucky woman has threatened a Michigan newspaper with a bloodbath similar to the massacre at Ft. Hood if they don't lay off criticism of the District 6 congresswoman.Weird. We always thought Michele was a pro-life kinda...

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Fox News Caught in Another Lie

My Green Meadows (Free subscription) | yesterday

Have they no shame? clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News’ Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann’s smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was. Is Fox up to [...]

TPT On Your Radio Today, Friday November 20th!

MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ladies and Gentlemen, yours truly - the ol' TwoPutter - is hosting tonight's "Minnesota Matters - Friday Edition" on AM-950 KTNF , The Progressive Talk Station! The show runs from 6:00 to 7pm. So, tune in your radio today to AM-950, or listen live on your computer, here . I'll be joined in-studio by Dusty Trice, and perhaps even a special guest! We're going to be talking a little about Afghanistan...

MinnPost interview with Katherine Kerstin

Pair 'o Dice (Free subscription) | yesterday

Yesterday's part 1 of a two part interview conducted by MinnPost's token conservative, Michael Bonfield produced a predictable hail of spittle from the left leaning sites scary smart reality based readership. If the 77 comments didn't set a record, surely it's not far off. Today's part 2 started off briskly, but with their saliva glands evidently dried out, raging leftists turned from yesterday's hockerfest...

Fox News' year in apologies: fake videos, false info, cutting and pasting from GOP

Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

On November 19, co-host Jane Skinner apologized for Happening Now "mistakenly" airing a fake video of Sarah Palin's book tour "crowds." This was not the first time Fox News has apologized for airing fake videos and false information. Fox News' year in apologies Fox News presents year-old Palin footage as new Palin book tour crowd. As Think Progress first noted , on the November...

pause for dumb rant

Titivil (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

There's been more than one incident of a sitting representative in the House says something stupid and provocative about something happening currently. Like, "It's Obama's fault that Nidal shot up Fort Hood," or, "Health care reform has an abortion surcharge," or, I don't know, "ACORN has destroyed Twitter's trending topics," or whatever. A whole blog's worth, for reals,...

Meredith Jessup: Fox News Apologizing (Again) For Airing Wrong Footage

Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

First Sean Hannity's show aired old 9/12 crowd footage in a bit about Michele Bachmann's recent "House Call" health care protest. And now the network is once again under fire for using campaign footage from 2008 to...

A Parliament Of Third-Graders

Shot In The Dark (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

“When you’re taking flak, you know you’re over the target” — Mike Huckabee “When they call you crazy, you’re scaring the p**s out of them” — Mitch Berg “Most frequently, ideas about a struggle for truth and justice are formed by personalities with a paranoid structure,” — Vladimir Bukovsky Note to Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin,...

Fox News Caught AGAIN Using Fake Video

ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

(ChattahBox)—Fox News continues to act like a conservative propaganda outlet and not a legitimate news organization. Earlier in the month, Sean Hannity was caught using fake footage, when he misleadingly showed video of the DC 9/12 tea party protest held in September, when reporting on Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) anti-health care rally on Nov. 4. [...]

Fox News Just Can’t Get That Crowd Footage Right

Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Yesterday, as Fox News host Gregg Jarrett proclaimed that Sarah Palin was "continuing to draw huge crowds" on her book tour, clips of very large crowds cheering for Palin rolled onscreen. "These are some of the pictures just coming in to us," Jarrett said as the footage played. Yeah, just coming in to you ... over a year ago ! As Think Progress seems to have first noticed, Fox...

Are Bachmann, Quist peas in a pod?

City Pages - The Blotter (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

How close is Allen Quist to Michele Bachmann? Pretty close, according to Til Walz.

Truthiness in Action

Chasing Evil (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Truthiness in Action: " So as you may recall, a couple weeks ago Hannity “accidentally” used video from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally to show how well-attended Rep. Michele Bachmann’s rally was. An easy mistake, of course — anybody could accidentally mistake raw footage of a recent rally with archival footage from a completely different rally two months ago. So hey, I was...

Money Quote from City Page's Feature on Michele Bachmann

Dump Michele Bachmann (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

But more importantly, many worry that those and similar remarks are detrimental to the national Republican Party's credibility, which is why not everyone inside the GOP is thrilled at the prospect of Bachmann becoming the face of their party. One senior Republican strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity, concedes that there's some trepidation within the GOP establishment. * "I can tell...

Michele Bachmann – What happened to prevention?

The Lonely Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Michele Bachmann spoke about the new federal guidelines regarding breast cancer prevention. In a nutshell – she thinks we should ignore them. Good advice. Related: The Wall Street Journal warned that these new breast cancer screening guidelines are just a preview of what’s to come under ObamaCare.