Bachmann: ‘Not all cultures are equal.’
By on Oct 24th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Bachmann: ‘Not all cultures are equal.’
The Uptake has uncovered new video from Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) 2005 election bid in which she suggests that some cultures are inherently superior to others. During a debate, the moderator asked Bachmann about how America could better integrate immigrant communities into U.S. society in order to prevent riots similar to those that were then occurring in France. Bachmann responded by calling the French riots the “fruits of leftism” and proclaiming, “Not all cultures are equal.” Watch it:
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Hmmm. So, cable tv is the real problem, Michele? You mean cable tv like FoxNews? Maybe she’s not so stupid after all.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:02 pmDear Rep. Bachmann,
Please keep talking. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Democrats and Rational Americans
October 24th, 2008 at 5:02 pmAhh, yes, Bachmann. Good point. “Not all Muslims are bad, just the ones who want to keep being Muslims.”
October 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pmIf only that power of Stupid could be harnessed for Good. Oh wait, it has! She got her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, over 1.3 million dollars since Saturday! Furthermore he went from being a fairly long shot to a dead heat. That and he’s been swamped with volunteers and well wishers. Once again the Power of Stupid is seen in all its astonishing confusion!
October 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pmImpeach, while There’s Still Time!
Slightly off topic, google Bachmann Stupid Overdrive. There’s a Hillarious Bachmann/McCarthy video-song from some guy from Minnesota. Hillarious!
October 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pmHer seamless transition from ‘leftists’ to ‘jihadists’ is super frightening.
It’s been reported she cut an ad to address her anti-American citizen comments. I can’t wait to see it.
As a Minnesotan, I would like to declare that I don’t know anyone who could vote for this pol.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:09 pmSome cultures are good, like in yogurt. Bachmann, on the other, is the type of bacteria needing disinfection.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:11 pmAbu Ben Hussein Leporello Says:
If only that power of Stupid could be harnessed for Good. Oh wait, it has! She got her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, over 1.3 million dollars since Saturday!
October 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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Not only that, but the Republican Party has given up on Bachmann’s campaign, pulling all its media purchases from Minnesota’s 6th district.
The one-term Bachmann will soon be a blip in Congressional history.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:12 pmThe gift that keeps on giving! She is as good as Sarah Palin.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:15 pmThe cocooned far Right is already salivating over…
PALIN/BACHMANN 2012!
October 24th, 2008 at 5:20 pmIf all cultures are equal, why do Republicans always win in the states where incest is legal?
“The Nice Democrats”:
October 24th, 2008 at 5:21 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYxqSipov5E
All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell
October 24th, 2008 at 5:25 pmIsn’t thinking you are better than another person elitism as Palin described it?
Michele Bachmann is an elistist!!!!!
October 24th, 2008 at 5:26 pmI think I just found some of Bachmann’s culture in an old tub of sour cream at the back of the refrigerator.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:28 pmIt’s a short step for these twits to go from cultures to nations to races. The nuts don’t drop far from the Southern Strategy tree.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:29 pmI feel icky every time I hear her voice
October 24th, 2008 at 5:29 pmOnly in a district where whites make up 95.6% of the population could this walking reincarnation of John Birch hold a seat in the most powerful legislative body in the world.
She’s claiming a global satellite television network, lauded for critizing extremists throughout the Middle East, incites violence.
Just as FoxNews incites mindless jingoistic xenophobic ‘patriotism’.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:30 pmShe only likes homogenized cultures?
October 24th, 2008 at 5:32 pmIt appears that not all US Represenatives are created equal, either. Some are clearly stupider than others.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:34 pm#13 rocknerd Asks:
No, that’s called supremacy and if left unchecked, it can kill.
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October 24th, 2008 at 5:36 pmKnow-nothing Bachmann thinks the French riots were caused the “fruits of leftism.”
Now she’s going to lose her Congressional seat thanks to the “fruits of conservatism.”
Poetic justice?
October 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pmThis woman is truly an idiot. She is her own worst enemy. As long as she keeps flapping her jaw, it is good for us. As far as France being the only place that this is happening, does she ever read a newspaper? It’s happening in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Italy. It’s because immigrants are not assimmilating in their new homes and they are clinging to their old cultures and beliefs. Then, they are upset that these Western countries are so permissive and are not parcticing Sharia law. Screw them – send them back home – in fact, Holland, one of the most liberal countries in the world, is beginning to develop procedures to do precisely that.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pmThis clip confirms the deep-seated bigotry of this dangerous, scary, ignorant, pathetic, shallow, clueless airhead.
I am glad that she made an “unforced error” on Hardball that will end up costing her a House seat and a soapbox that would allow her to continue spreading her toxic bile. She needs to return to Minnesota as a private citizen and quickly fade into the woodwork.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:46 pmPeople like this moron Bachmann aren’t in politics to govern in any form or fashion. She and the rest of her fellow ‘Christian Soldiers’ of the right wing in congress are doing battle with the forces of evil.
Sound stupid? Would be if it weren’t so unfortunately true.
Problem is, with these guys, EVERYONE is evil, except people EXACTLY like them.
They equate liberals with terrorists. That should be enough of a warning sign right there. What’s scary is this woman, and plenty of others like her, get elected. Now, I’m wondering if she’s that freakin’ stupid, what does that say about the people she represents?
October 24th, 2008 at 5:53 pmPerry logan Says:
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If all cultures are equal, why do Republicans always win in the states where incest is legal?
“The Nice Democrats”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYxqSipov5E
October 24th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
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The same reason people like you that vote democrat let the rapist off the hook and feel their pain instead of the victims pain. The rapist is more human than the victim, making them more equal in your culture. Culture should demand the death penalty for child abusers. Bachmann supports this idea, so I support her.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:57 pmMichelle Bachmann – butthead extraordinaire.
Go to: http://www.buttheadpolice.com
Vote for her, and others like her to get an ass stamped on her head. It’s funny. Pass it on. :)
October 24th, 2008 at 6:00 pmHer words have turned to money. We need her on the stump for Coleman. Franken could use the help. Thank you, Michele. You are my kind of Republican.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:01 pmKeep Seig Heiling, Nazi Bachmann Beeyotch!
October 24th, 2008 at 6:13 pmStickPalinUpYourArse ~ Give us a jackboot heel click and a smart stiff arm salute, will ya!
October 24th, 2008 at 6:15 pmIt is sad how many are still trying to defend this boil on the rump of the body politic. The sheeple are buying her “trap” nonsense. The good news is that it appears the good people of the 6th District are not buying it wholesale. They may just consign her to the scrap heap where she belongs.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm“Culture should demand the death penalty for child abusers. Bachmann supports this idea, so I support her.”
Cool do whever the f uck you want. Still I think culture ought to stick to cuisine and art… Now as to the possibility of executing an innocent, I assume that is just collateral damage…
October 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pmI’d say that a culture that respects other cultures is superior to a culture that does not. Wait, what?
Anyway, also, a culture that denigrates women or divides itself into classes is definitely inferior to a culture that does not, IMO.
So yeah, some cultures are better than others.
October 24th, 2008 at 6:21 pmNILAPSTICK Says:
Wow, just WOW!
October 24th, 2008 at 6:24 pmGuess there is no “American” culture in your narrow mind.
The Fuhrer would be proud!
Michelle Bachmann = Eva Braun
October 24th, 2008 at 6:38 pmAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
October 24th, 2008 at 6:43 pmSounds like a chapter from “Animal Farm”
October 24th, 2008 at 7:47 pmWow. How Orwellian of Michele. Spit.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:58 pmAaaaaaaaaaaaaaand,
War is peace,
Freedom is slavery,
Ignorance is strength.
Thank you Michele! Spit.
October 24th, 2008 at 8:59 pmShe called the French fruits and leftists? Shame on her.
I wonder if she still orders the Freedom Fries at the House cafeteria?
October 24th, 2008 at 9:22 pmoh really? conservatives feel the victim’s pain, huh idiot’slipstick? feel the victim’s pain so much they think the victim should have to pay for her own rape kit? feel the victim’s pain so much that they think woman who gets pregnant from a rape should have no choice but carry the rapist’s baby and give birth to it? yeah, you reichwingers are really empathetic when it comes to the victims of rape.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:54 pmLessee:
Literature: The Purpose Driven Life, the Left Behind books, and Atlas Shrugged
Music: Toby Kieth, John Ashcroft and Prussian Blue
Art: Jack Chick comics and Thomas Kinkade paintings
Drama: Red Dawn
Comedy: An American Carol and Dennis Miller.
Hmmm…you know, she’s right….!
October 25th, 2008 at 12:59 amNILAPSTICK Says:
The same reason people like you that vote democrat let the rapist off the hook and feel their pain instead of the victims pain. The rapist is more human than the victim, making them more equal in your culture. Culture should demand the death penalty for child abusers. Bachmann supports this idea, so I support her.
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That happens of course only in your substandard and very tiny, very useless brain. Its ok we know that what you really mean is that Bachmann is indisputably ignorant and stupendously stupid like YOU and THAT is why you support her.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:19 amObviously, this clown doesn’t know about the Watts riots or the riotous state of the US during the Viet Nam war. Maybe she’s just too stupid to comprehend.
October 26th, 2008 at 5:31 am