When it comes to political journalism, political activism, and politics in general--some of the dumbest MFrs in the world must be right here in the state of Minnesota. I'm not talking about the rank-and-file Minnesotans, now. I'm not talking about the people you meet when you're walkin' down the street, the ones who don't follow politics. I'm talking about Minnesotans who flatter themselves that they...
Uh-0h. Sean Hannity has been caught in the act of making up some more faux news. No surprise. Fox News holds the record for manipulating the news. In the video clip below, the world's favorite media critic Jon Stewart presents the evidence and demonstrates conclusively that Hannity is getting pretty sloppy over at the faux news factory. Fox News says Hannity will respond, no doubt with lame excuses,...
Yesterday I suggested that House Republican from Minnesota Michelle Bachmann had turned my " dynamic duo of demagoguery ," Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, into an "unholy trinity." While I think that it is dangerous to assume that someone like Newt will fade into the background, it's beginning to look like there is still a "dynamic duo" but that it has been restructured...
Rep. Michelle Bachmann, that balrog from the 6th Circle of Minnesota, has summoned her minions to descend upon the Capitol on Thursday, The Hill reports . What should our poor Hellmouth of a federal city expect? Invoking "every one" of Sean Hannity's viewers is probably a summoning feat too great for even an unholy overlord as powerful as Bachmann, but presuming that she is able to call...
From Los Angeles Times media columnist James Rainey's October 30 column : The debate over the meaning of Fox News has become so routine, and so routinely partisan, that one hesitates to join the fray again. But when the debate reaches a presidential level, it seems worth reminding everyone, again, how much the boundaries between news and opinion have blurred and how sanguine most people have become...
I know that the Congresswoman from Minnesota nearly let her passions suck the face off of the last President during his entrance to deliver the State of the Union, but I'm starting to think she's having some serious daydreams about s-e-x, particularly about s-e-x that she thinks other people might be thinking about or heaven forbid learning about or doing it. Particularly if it is of the same-sex...
David Weigel was at a Michele Bachmann appearance in St. Louis this weekend to record her insanity. As he writes at the Washington Independent , her speech was filled with the usual ACORN-hysteria, anti-Islam rhetoric, and anti-globalist dog-whistles: Bachmann touched on the priorities of Republicans if they retook Congress in 2010, to “pass repealer bill after repealer bill,” to prevent...
It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore , and link-share in the comment thread... Ah. We're 12-hours late with this...D'oh! Per usual though, below is what my cartoon sockpuppet Bookworm Bob & I have been looking at so far this week. • From Ernest Luning at the Colorado Independent comes Bachmann: 'Slit our wrists, be blood brothers' to beat health care reform : In a...
The best summary of Allen Quist is this report by a Pittsburgh Area station . Quist is a creationist who ran for governor of Minnesota as a Republican in 1994 and 1998. As a legislator, he stirred controversy by launching undercover investigations of gay bath houses and pornographic book stores. He also said men are "genetically disposed" to be head of the household. His wife, Julie, is a...
As Andrew Leonard once wrote , "When Michelle Bachmann speaks, people don't just listen, they gape." As Salon readers know, the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota is a seemingly bottomless source of outrageous wingnuttery ; when she gets on a roll, she can make Sarah Palin sound like a liberal academic. Boggling at what comes out of her mouth is so routine, it's hardly even fun anymore....
Here's a story in the Strib that commenter Lady directed us to. It's about this woman who runs a bakery with 65 employees, in St. Cloud (Bachmann's district.) She's a person of faith. She joined about five hundred other faith-based activists to go and push health care reform to Minnesota members of Congress, in D.C. But guess what happens at the end of the story? The responses she gets from Minnesota...
Firedoglake's Mike Stark asked unhinged Minnesota Congresscritter Michele Bachmann about her participation in the Congressional Birther Caucus . Behold the wingnuttery of the thorn in the GOP's side: Michele Bachmann is a member of Bill Posey's nine-member Birther Caucus. She originally blocked the resolution celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hawaii Statehood that included a line citing Hawaii as...
Andy Birkey at the Minnesota Independent has a story about Bachmann's attempt to the monkey wrench of "anti-abortion politics" into national health care reform: Bachmann, Kline and Oberstar in thick of debate over abortion, healthcare reform By Andy Birkey 7/22/09 2:16 PM Health reform could be hijacked by anti-abortion politics despite efforts at compromise — and some of Minnesota’s...
This Fourth of July, celebrate our freedom with Michele Bachmann's unique brand of patriotism! From the woman who said that President Obama may have "anti-American views" and that reporters should investigate which elected officials are "pro-America," comes news that she is considering a run for governor of Minnesota. Full release.
Cranky McDipshit is at it again, with an oh so witty swipe at Al Franken: "I'll tell you what a lot of people are thinking, and that is it looks like things are going to be over and we are going to get the clown from Minnesota ,'' he said. [...] " I didn't mean to be disrespectful. I don't know the guy, but … for a living he is a clown,'' the senator said. You have it all wrong, Inhofe....
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