Bachmann: It’s All Chris Matthews’ Fault! ‘He Laid A Trap, And I Walked Into It’
Bachmann: It’s All Chris Matthews’ Fault! ‘He Laid A Trap, And I Walked Into It’
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is still on the defensive from an appearance last Friday on MSNBC’s Hardball, in which she called for the media to conduct a “penetrating exposé” into anti-American views of members of Congress.
Speaking with the St. Cloud Times on Tuesday, Bachmann said she regretted suggesting that Barack Obama held “anti-American” views. Referencing Chris Matthews by name 12 times in a 6 minute interview, Bachmann portrayed herself as the victim of a clever ploy devised by the MSNBC host:
Chris Matthews laid a trap, and I walked into it. [...]
Chris Matthews was using the term over and over, and I should not have used it. [...]
This was Chris Matthews. I made a big mistake by going on the show. I never should have. [...]
I just didn’t recognize — I never watched the Chris Matthews show before. I should have before I went on. I didn’t recognize that he would lay a trap the way that he did.
Bachmann concluded the interview by circling back to where she began: “I didn’t bring the word choice up. That was Chris Matthews who brought the word choice up. Unfortunately, like I said, I walked into a trap.” Watch it:
Bachmann, who appears frequently on Fox News, apparently doesn’t understand that journalists on other networks sometimes ask critical questions. The issue isn’t Matthews’ questions; it’s Bachmann’s answers. Here’s key portions from the transcript:
MATTHEWS: So you believe that Barack Obama may have anti- American views.
REP. BACHMANN: Absolutely. I’m very concerned that he may have anti-American views.
[...]
MATTHEWS: What parts of America would you say are anti-American? What parts of this country?
REP. BACHMANN: Well, I would say that people who hold anti- American views. I don’t think it’s geography. I think it’s people who don’t like America, who detest America.
[...]
MATTHEWS: How many do you suspect of your colleagues as being anti-American?
REP. BACHMANN: What I would say — what I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating exposé 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 exposé like that.
Bachmann’s biggest disappointment must be that she wishes she hadn’t been so honest about her true feelings.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 amWhen Chris Matthews outsmarts you, it’s time to resign.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 am“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
—President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
Probably the same saying in Minnesota, too.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 amBachmann was just parroting a Republican talk line. It has backfired and not just with her. If there was a trap it was of the Republicans own making.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 amBBB just went from Better Business Bureau to Bye Bye Bachmann. But House business without Bachmann would certainly be better.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 amThat sound you hear is Anti-American Michelle Bachman’s Anti- American career in the Anti-American Republican congress going up in Anti-American smoke. Good Riddance.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 amI watched that thing live. He did no such thing. He kept giving her the opportunity to back down. Asking over and over again, basically, “are you sure you really want to say this.” He just kept feeding her rope and she hung herself. Not because Matthews did anything, but because she is fascist. Just like Palin. Just like Martinez (who got an irate message from me yesterday as a (hehehehe) registered republican).
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 amWhat a lying sack of shit. This is the most transparently ridiculous piece of backpeddling I have ever seen. She said what she meant and she meant what she said. She can try to spin this around to that mean old Chris Mathews all she wants, but this is all on her.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 amIt was a trap. A trap with a GIANT SIGN ON IT saying ” YOU ARE WALKING INTO A TRAP“. a trap to catch moronic, paste eating, hate mongers !!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 amWe all saw him string her along until she made a fine noose and hung herself. this is a typical GOP representative.
This congresswoman is a fool, a bigot, a racist, hypocritical moron. Why does she make a salary paid by tax dollars?
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 amAh yes, the “strong independent” right wing feminist: “Chris Matthews is a big old meanie, and he was picking on me! After all, I’m just a girl…”
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 amTP, can you fix the video so it doesn’t play automatically? I’m tired of listening to that whine…
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 amAdios Michelle…and, take Mean Jean from Ohio with you. Don’t the door hit you on the way out.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 am“It was a trap, I tell you! He just let me rave on without stopping me! I was going to say that dissent isn’t anti-American, but he wouldn’t let me! Did you see the way he forced me to say the things I did?”
Sorry, Michele — you obviously shouldn’t be allowed to serve on the board of your local homeowner’s association, let alone represent your corner of Minnesota in Congress.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 amSee, God don’t like ugly! Now Bachmann is trying to make excuses! She’s an embarrassment to all good christians in America!
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 amI give her credit for being coached very well in her retraction and displacement of the blame on to the interviewer. But she is a complete T O O L, and we aren’t buying it. You gave your honest opinion and, suprise suprise, the people didn’t like your divisiveness. Bin Laden is anti-American. The repug talking point that anyone not-repug is anti-American has worn too thin.
loser.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 amTo borrow from Conservative slogans of sympathy: Boo-freaking-hoo.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 amHey Zooey (#12), we tried to fix it, but unfortunately, their video player doesn’t allow for modification.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 amI think the difference in her demeanor between Matthew’s show and this interview is instructive. She bounced onto Matthew’s all full of enthusiasm for bashing Obama and Democrats. He didn’t lay a trap that she walked into. She (and all stupid parroting republicans) have been lulled into the idea that calling people who disagree with you un-patriotic is acceptable. She’s been living in Republican-land, and she had no idea that Chris Matthews wasn’t her friend like that dreamy Hannity fellow.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 amThis is a direct result of a major political candidate cris-crossing the country telling his supporters that it’s ok to be racist, insular hicks.
Looks like another republican leader who has no clue that they tape those shows and we can watch them over and over to see her actual words IN CONTEXT !!
Now she is calling us all stupid. we know what she said and we know what she meant, for her to try and lie to us is pretty sickening. but from her it’s not surprising.
Matbe she should stick to Faux news and Sean hannity’s lists.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 amThe politicos should stop believing in the existence of the ‘reality-based’ world they tried to create.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 amDear Lord
I know I don’t pray as often as I should, but please, this one time, can you get Michelle Bachmann to appear on the Colbert Report.
Always
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 amDHF
#Zooey Says:
TP, can you fix the video so it doesn’t play automatically? I’m tired of listening to that whine…
Putting the videos on auto-play also stops many people from checking in at TP while they are at work. I occasionally take a peek at what’s going on during the course of a day. Since I share an office with my boss, you can imagine how much trouble that has gotten me into. Even though I don’t take breaks and eat lunch at my desk, my boss thinks every minute I spend in the office must be consumed with work.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 amDumb_Hussein_Fox Says:
AMEN, DHF!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 amWhat a crock of crap…This woman is clearly an empty tool box for the reich…Put junk out there and then retract their statement’s if it do’s not go the way they want..I watched her interview while waiting for Keith to come on..There was no mistake there..She’s just trying to save her campaign…To late, ….Blessings
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 amBachmann’s opponent here in MN has now received in excess of $1 million in the last 4 days…thanks, Michele!
This is a woman who’s time has passed. In fact, her ‘time’ was the 19th century.
MN is proud to have a Muslim, Rep. Keith Ellingson in Congress.
Michele? Not so much…
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 amThanks anyway, Faiz. :(
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 amI use Firefox and the FlashBlock plug-in that stops that from happening. http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ not because of TP, of course, but the ever growing numbers of flash ads on web sites.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 amYou know this is stupid, we are all Americans, and we love our country. Bachmann thinks that if you do not spout Republican talking points that you don’t. Nonsense! I love my country, and I suspect that the vast majority of Americans do as well. It appears that this is a favorite thing of Republicans, including Sarah Palin, to say that Democrats don’t love America. I say, bull pucky, ladies!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:12 am“..and the words. I wish the American media would take a great look at words and find out, are they pro-Bachmann or anti-Bachmann? “
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 amCan’t y’all just turn off the speaker on your PC? Or hit “pause”?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 amMichele Bachmann would like to order a Whaaaah Burger and some French Cries!!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 amI never watched the Chris Matthews show before. I should have before I went on.
So, perhaps she thought this was a partizan conservative neo-con show (like she is used to with FOX). She thought she was preaching her hate to other haters.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 amah yes, the Admiral Ackbar defense!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 amBachmann is in a lose-lose situation. She’s either a shallow-thinking fascist or she’s so stupid that anyone can manipulate her into saying anything they want. Or, of course, both.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 amThe Alaska Independence Party is anti-America. They want to secede from the USA. It ain’t a double standard!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 amgummitch Says:
Can’t y’all just turn off the speaker on your PC? Or hit “pause”?
I have mine on mute, but sometimes the comments won’t open up for me, and if I hit pause the whole thing freezes. But I’m still running on ‘98.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 amI’m convinced that stupid people are incapable of understanding that people who are smarter than they are can see thorugh their lies.
Because they think they would believe for their nonsense, they are incapable of understanding that they are not fooling folks smarter than they are.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 amWell done Keith. That’s the first time in days that I’ve seen anyone spell secede correctly! :)
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 amI read a lot of Civil War history.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 amPoor Michelle. She accidentally stepped in America and it bit her.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 amOh, you definitely stepped in it, Michele. No doubt about that. It wasn’t a trap, and you sure did step in it.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 amHow did she step in it with both feet firmly planted in her yap?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 amBut but but… I didn’t mean to hit the guy, he put his face right in front of my fist!
Please. The one thing that annoys me the most about these right wing nut jobs is their utter inability to assume any sort of responsibility or accountability for their words or actions.
My three year old daughter has the gumption to admit it when she has done something wrong.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 amShe said she was taking responsibility for what she said at the exact time she wasn’t.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 amOh my gosh! She creeps me out more when she tries to be reasonable than when she is a far right wing nut!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 amThe stealthy. The nefarious. The James Bond of political journalism himself, Mr. Chris Matthews, lulled Bachmann the Loon into an inattentive stupor and then he POUNCED. Ah-Hah!!
And now Bachmann the Loon is awash in her own Bachsh*t. It’s what Matthews does all the time. The landscape is littered with his victims. Oh…it’s not? No victims? Just this one? Bachmann the Loon?
Oh. Well. Never mind.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 amcitizen_pain Says:
My three year old daughter has the gumption to admit it when she has done something wrong.
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Clearly, she’d also make a better elected official than most of the GOOPers.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 amSeriously?? 1 million dollars to Bachman’s opponent?? How i hell does THAT happen?? Hey, I live in the district formerly known as Tancredo’s district (colorado 6th), and no matter what stupid stuff he said or did his opponents never raised that kind of money- and Tancredo was WAY stupider and more racist than Bachman! Now we’ve got this terrific guy (Hank Eng) running, and his Republican opponent is Mike Coffman- maybe you’ve been hearing of him? He’s our Colorado Secretary of State, and is responsible for rejecting tens of thousands of new voter registrations, because he instructed registrators that if the voter doesn’t have his ID on him when he registers that he can simply put down his last 4 digits of his Soc. Sec. number, but he doesn’t have to check the box next to it that says he doesn’t HAVE a Driver’s license. Once the forms were turned in Coffman began rejecting all the forms that had a Soc Sec number, without the little box check. Of course we have no exact numbers, but it’s in the thousands- and we do know that new Democratic registrations are out numbering Republican 4 to 1. So why don’t we send some of that excess love to Hank- surely Tinkenberg has enough by now?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 amSo, Tweety Bird just caught a Puddy Tat!
If you can stand it, watch her eyes during the interview. They dart or flash down every time she lies, which is numerous.
Bachmann-Regurgitate-Overdrive comes to mind.
Or, as Al Franken so eloquently stated, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them’.
Michel Bachmann has become the female Rush. ICK!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 amPerhaps she should go tell this to the folks at Fixed Noise because we ain’t buying this crap. We actually saw what she had to say and how she said it. Matthews gave her the opportunity to back away from what she was saying and she didn’t take it. She stepped into her own mess.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 amI’m almost crying I’m laughing so hard right now cha cha cha.
It’s a TRAP!
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 amCouldn’t have said it better myself. Matthews is a lightweight.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:45 amBachman: I think the media should investigate…
Interviewer: Why? do you think some of your fellow congresscritters are Anti-American?
B: No I just think the media should investigate…
I: Who should they investigate? Any suggestions?
B: That’s not my bidness. I just think the media should investigate…
I: Investigate what, you vapid slag? Who? Do you suspect some in Congress of being anti-american?
B: I just think they should investigate…
I: Investigate who, you mendacious whore? For what?
etc etc etc
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 amMichele McCarthy.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 amActually i’d like to back down from my ‘Matthews is a lightweight’ comment…
I forgot about one of my top 10 favorite moments in punditry:
Chris Matthews calling out the guy shouting ‘appeaser’ who had absolutely no idea what appeasement was.
That was awesome.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 amPoor Michele was born too late. If she had been around for the Salem witch trials more innocent women would have surly died.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:53 amWow. These people re-define stupid. I don’t know if the argument “I was trapped” is the worst part of “I’ve never watched Chris Matthews before”. How can you hold a national office and watch everyone from O’Reilly to Olbermann?
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 amChris Matthews calling out the guy shouting ‘appeaser’ who had absolutely no idea what appeasement was. That was awesome.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Knowing the definition of ‘appeasement’ does not qualify one as a “heavy-weight pundit”…except in the USofA…
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 amRep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)says,
“Ooh! Dat Wascully Wabbit! He twicked me! Oohh!
What is it about the Christian right Republicans today?
They have designed and implemented the greatest disasters to befall this nation and yet….
They are so funny today.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:56 amIt’s so obvious people like Palin and Bachmann watch Fox News only. And because Fox tells them that the other news programs only bad mouth Republicans and never investigate Democrats they believe that’s true. Obviously that’s why these two geniuses believe that Obama hasn’t been vetted. That’s the same problem Bush and Cheney had, tunnel vision from watching only Fox and not understanding what the rest of the country is saying.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 amnot much of a brain trust there Bachmann, eh? Oh yea, that’s right, you’re republican – the dumbest a-holes on Earth.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am“I didn’t know the gun was loaded and I’m so sorry friend.”
Do you remember this excerpt from an old country western diddy? Michele Bachmann does.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 amMichelle,
It’s called giving you enough rope to hang yourself. You succeeded brilliantly.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 amHey tokin librul did you see the segment Chris Mathews did with the “appeasement” idiot. No I didn’t think so. It wasn’t the fact that Mathews knew what the word meant it was the reich winger screaming it that DID NOT know what it meant that was the point. Why don’t you talk about something you know.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 amIMHO Chris Matthews really loves politics. He loves the game of it all. But he doesn’t know and hasn’t learned a damn thing about policy. Look at the book he wrote that John Stewart called “a manual for spiritual sadness” ( roughly).
Matthews took no philosophical umbrage at Bachmann’s words, he just knew that politically it was a dangerous path that she was treading.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 amShove it, you crusty old reptile. Your true colors were on display for all to see. All Matthews did was his job.
And about bloody time, one might add.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:02 amIt would be nice if this latest serving of stupidity guaranteed her defeat, but that’s definitely NOT a given in this district. Honest to God, there are more than a few people around here that actually agree with what she spouted! Don’t believe me? Just go to the St. Cloud Times (www.sctimes.com) Web site and view some of the comments on the relevant stories. Be warned, though. It takes a strong stomach to get through them.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 amno fitwit: “I didn’t know the gun was loaded and I’m so sorry friend.”
OMG! I think I know what you are talking about!
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 amSomething about a guy who had to choose between his girlfriend and his dog and he chose the dog and then he accidentally shot the dog?
Perry logan Says:
When Chris Matthews outsmarts you, it’s time to resign.
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Another option to ease the pain of THAT might be supuku
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 amTrue Republican form — my screw ups are someone else’s fault — no accountability. I saw the piece with my own eyes and heard her words and Matthews’ words with my own ears. If anything, he was trying to make this fire breather think about what she was actually saying, namely that she was accusing a member of the US Senate of being unAmerican. And she kept digging and reveling in the orgy of her own stupidity.
Memo to the GOP — THIS IS NOT A WINNING STRATEGY. Dividing the country into us and them ain’t a workin. I mean, for Nancy Pfuttinfluffer to go on and insult the largest segment of voters in a battleground state as somehow inauthentic is astonishing. I am sure the families in Arlington and Alexandria whose family members burned to death in the Pentagon on 9-11-01 in fake Virginia are very understanding of and in agreement with Ms. Pfuttinfluffer’s views. (snark off). This is why you are losing and deserve to lose BIG.
Neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin have a monopoly on Americanism. So STFU on this already. It’s offensive.
Signed also a Real Virginian in Arlington
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 amThat was no trap that you stepped in, Bachman,
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 amit was the sh!t that fell out of your own mouth.
The appeasment idiot was Kevin James a talk-radio lightweight of the Rush Limbaugh. Tweety thoroughly eviscerated him and I have given Tweety the benefit of the doubt ever since that glorious segment, And now Bachmann. They are being exposed for who they are — a bunch of mindless robots spewing talking points without even knowing the impact or the content of they are saying.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:15 amA battle of wits usually includes two people armed for the conflict. Politics is the venue where this is no longer required.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 amShe seems to equate “anti-American” with “liberal” as what she meant to say at about the 2:50 to 2:44 minute mark.
And I don’t think that she cleared anything up at all… what exactly does that mean: anti-American?? I don’t think that she really knows what the hubbub is all about…
And Chris Mathews’ term “Anti-American” came from Sarah Palin, did it not?
And RFK Jr’s remarks about The Alaskan Independence Party is based on “anti-American” remarks espoused by the founder of the AIP — clearly Michelle Bachmann doesn’t have a clue about the AIP.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 amI really have to give Chris Matthews credit for the restraint he showed. He loves talking/shouting over some guests. I honestly wonder if he just couldn’t believe the crap coming out of this idiot’s mouth? Whatever it was, I am delighted these creeps are starting to show their true colors. Maybe they are forgetting they are talking to a national audience and not one of their little repuke-only campaign audience. Keep it up and the Dems will probably have a bullet-proof majority!
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 amAnd the beat goes on Says
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
I really have to give Chris Matthews credit for the restraint he showed. He loves talking/shouting over some guests. I honestly wonder if he just couldn’t believe the crap coming out of this idiot’s mouth?
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Even Tweety recognized the wisdom of just sitting back and allowing his guest to hang herself. There wasn’t really anything he could add to make Bachmann look sillier.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 amGeez, Bachmann and all the sleaze ball neo-con Republicans are liars, whiners and behave like spoiled 2 year olds. They always blame, frame and play the attack game to detour their own evil shortcomings.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 amHoney, the ‘dog ate my lunch’ excuse just ain’t gonna cut it…
Sadly it wasn’t a bear trap.
Michelle Bachmann is your typical, scatterbrained republican puppet. She said what she said because that is how she truly feels and now since Americans and Minnesotans have expressed their anger she thinks she can throw the blame of her ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-CHRISTIAN, hateful rhetoric at Chris Matthews whose only mistake was to allow this psychotic b*tch to ramble on and on and on and on! I pray that my fellow Minnesotans wise up and vote her out of office.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 amany chance she’s related to Palin?
closely related? sisters, perhaps?
a combined IQ of <100.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 amHas John McCain repudiated Bachmanns comments yet? Has he repudiated the jackass congressman from North Carolina yet? Has he repudiated Mel Martinez comments yet? Has he spoken out against the Alaskan Independence Party yet and what they and Todd Palin stand for?
NOPE!
John McCain is a liar, he is not worthy or suitable to become our next president. His judgement alone in choosing Sarah Palin proves it but one can delve deeper. He was connected to Charles Keating, he is friends with a KNOWN felon G Gordon Liddy, he song like a canary to his North Vietnamese captives, he didn’t defend his family when smeared by the Bush campaign.
How does he know anything about healthcare when he has been receiving taxpayer paid for healthcare for most of his life? What does he know about struggling Americans when he has enjoyed the life of luxury since hitching up with a rich heiress? The man has No character or morals as proven by his dirt ball campaign, his dumping of his first wife, etc.
He is an American scumbag who used his family name to get where he is today. He used the Navy to launch his future, and didn’t ever count on being shot down but has since used his POW status to portray himself as something more than he really is. He is what he claims he’s against in DC.
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 amSorry for the long rambling comment…Can you tell I despise John McCain?
October 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 amshhheeeeeeesssssh! What an idiot. You just parrot what other people say, right. Somebody says something and you just repeat it as your own without thinking. Sounds about right.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pmdae Says:
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm““““““““““““““`
Hey how about you crawling back up McCain’s wrinkled old corrupt a$$, that is if you can chew thru the Depends.
Of course it’s Chris Matthews’ fault. When Bachman inserted both feet in her mouth and swallowed, he didn’t administer the Heimlich.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:12 pmNo…you simply said exactly what you meant, you are going to be kicked out of office….buh bye.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:13 pmThere was no trap there…
She was free to say what she feels during the interview. Chris was nice to her…and asked the same question , and twice she repeated her answer..
Now that she is in deep trouble in her disctrict,as a result of this interview…she is now blaming Chris.
I saw the interview, just like millions of Americans.
These people never admit wrong doing even when they were caught with hands in the cookie jar..
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 pmThe filthy news-hobbitses, they tricks us preciousss!! They trickssss usssss!!!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:20 pmChris Matthews calling out the guy shouting ‘appeaser’ who had absolutely no idea what appeasement was. That was awesome.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Knowing the definition of ‘appeasement’ does not qualify one as a “heavy-weight pundit”…except in the USofA…
No, but calling out the ignorant wing-nut screaming the word like a battle-cry DOES.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 pmconniptionfit #49—
PROVISIONAL BALLOTS, Get the word out now! I did not know what they were for until WaltTheMan told me but they are for this.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pmThen it’s confirmed – You ARE as stupid as you look!!!
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pmDidn’t she have several minutes on Hardball to do her stupid little rant? Didn’t she just keep going blah, blah, blah and hanging herself ever more with each word? No one put the words in her mouth for her to sh*t out.
Wonder how her husband is doing with his “preach the gay out of the gays thing”, too?
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pmAh, a fine addition to my miniseries, “The Bachmann Debacle,” on RealityChex.com. Here’s hoping the last installment will be titled “Tinklenberg Defeats Bachman.”
For a break from the serious stuff, please check out one of the best Obama videos I’ve seen/heard at RealityChex.com at http://www.realitychex.com Put your dancin’ shoes on. Oui, on peut! There’s a link back to Faiz’ post under “The Bachman Debacle” at the bottom (where it belongs) of the center column.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 pmChris Matthews uses mind trick on Michele Bachmann.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rlThKe1qo
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pmOh, wait, my post #92–Palin put the words in her mouth when she sh*t them out first. My oopsie.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pmWhat is most unsettling is that you could write the script a la Barack Obama (the race baiter) who pointed out the republicans would be doing exactly what they are doing right now.
The blaspheme is always followed by an assertion they said what they meant, which is usually followed by a denial and always by a non-apology or excuse.
The tactic is transparent. I hope this election seals it for the republicans. They’re in a corner and lurching at any and everyone. This while most American are trying to figure what’s for dinner, not having the luxury to watch the Jerry Springer madness.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pmkasinca Says:
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“This congresswoman is a fool, a bigot, a racist, hypocritical moron.”
Kasinca contined, “But, other than that, she a very nice person.” Of course, no one saw Kasinca cross all of her fingers and toes!
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 pmThe country’s come a ways since the days of McCarthy and HUAC. Those were rip-roaring days for the fascists, I know. You’ll be very lucky to retain your seat, Michelle.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 pmIt’s obvious that the trap is located in her head and it’s clogged. Nothing in her thoughts that a good flushing won’t cure. Good luck keeping your job.
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:57 pmMathews may have used the phrase, but she picked it up with gusto and ran with it.
This is what Republicans do though, they take a meaningless word or phrase (and never both to define it) and then blather about the mouth with it relentlessly.
It’s all bluster and no substance. That’s exactly what she did here. I kept thinking, ‘what are these anti-American views? what are they?’
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pmToken,
check out the clip on youtube. It was brilliant. This twit was shouting that Obama was an appeaser and that he no different than Neville and Matthews completely called him on it… with follow up.
I’m by no means a Matthews fan, but it was refreshing to see a talking points factory taken down a few pegs. It’s the type of thing that should happen more often.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pmYou’d think if you’re going to be pretty much batshite crazy, you could at least have courage in your convictions.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pmAssuming she and Mean Jean and the Boner all get re-elected, won’t it be fun to watch their collective heads explode when they are constantly in the minority and all they can do is throw tantrums and cry?
Will make C-SPAN the No. 1 comedy channel!
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:29 pmBullsmith Says:
You’d think if you’re going to be pretty much batshite crazy, you could at least have courage in your convictions.
Probably watching your opponent raise a cool Mill in 5 days might have had some impact on her ‘lack of conviction’.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pmI’m kind of pissed off at Michele Bachmann. She caused me to spend a grand on her opponent, some guy named Tinkleberry or something like that. There goes the kid’s new shoes, the case of whisky, and the gross of condoms. Magnums, so you know.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm.
Foot-in-mouth syndrome
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 pm.
Q U E S T I O N:http:
If Chris Matthews was distorting missing links to Patriotism and anti-Americanism, then why didn’t she correct Chris at that moment instead of play along…
… Because she believed it on some level?
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October 22nd, 2008 at 2:21 pmRepublican rats are turning on each other now. Let’s not leave out the corrupt Dems too.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:31 pmDon’t these morons in DC ever take responsibility for what they say. What is this nonsense of her being trapped. I watched that interview in real time and was appalled at her attacks on points of view contrary to the Republi-con Party as un-American and I am sick and tired of these mental midgets
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pmusing the term un-patriotic as Israel uses the term anti-semite. We do not live in a theocracy and disagreements with Government policies does not make you Anti-American. Besides, isn’t Michele Bachman the twit that fawned and gushed all over George “The Emperor With No Clothes” Bush at the SOTU address when he outright lied to America to send us to war.
Hey twit, why isn’t that Un-American!!!
soooo, botox beyotch bachmann had NO idea…the name “hardball” didn’t give her a clue. The only trap this skank walked into is appearing on a show where the viewers didn’t share the same disgusting point of view as herself and she got called to the carpet for it.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 pmLOL . . . what a total doofus! Apparently Mz. Bachman has no control over her own mind. Her vacuous expression proves that.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pmMichele Bachmann has been on Chris’s show many times. She is on Larry King all the time lately. She always says stupid things, this is nothing new. She talks over everyone, she is a PITA.
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:36 pmDoesn’t accept responsibility for her own words. It’s Chris’ fault.
Why does not rightwing nutjob Republican ever accept responsibility for anything?
Why do the Republicans continually use “the dog ate my homework” defense when ever caught in a lie or crime?
Republicans are NOT the party of personal integrity nor personal responsibility.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:39 pmJoe McCarthy was trapped by spineless talk show journalists as well… time after time after time… in his own mind.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 pmWow. That Matthews is a sly dude.
He gave Bachmann “enough rope to hang herself”.
She did.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 am