Bachmann: I’m comfortable with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck being the voices of the GOP.
Bachmann: I’m comfortable with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck being the voices of the GOP.
Tonight on CNN’s Larry King Live, a panel that included Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) discussed the impact and influence of the 24-hour cable news chatter. Bachmann once again demonstrated her true love for Fox News, arguing that Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck are gaining audiences because “people go where they think they’re going to hear the truth.” King then pressed Bachmann on whether she wants those right-wing pundits to be the “voice of the Republican Party”:
KING: Would you want the Limbaugh, that crowd — would you want them to be your voice as the Republican Party stands in this country?
BACHMANN: Well remember it’s who the American people are referring to Larry. And the American people are looking to voices like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck –
KING: I just told you — it’s 2 percent of America. It’s 2 percent!
BACHMANN: If you look for a critical mass, that’s the movement, that’s the direction that the critical mass is going. And the American people are very smart people.
Watch it:
Bachmann’s answer got a chuckle out of Larry King. “That’s funny,” he said.
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Shelly never disappoints, does she?
What a gem.
October 6th, 2009 at 10:34 pmI myself an sort of uncomfortable with Crazy Legs being my personal plaything but whatever sometimes shit just is what it is….
October 6th, 2009 at 10:36 pmSean Hannity,Rush Limbaugh,Mark Levin, Glenn Beck. . . .
And don’t forget Ron Paul.
You almost have to feel sorry for someone that’s so far gone
they can only relate to crazy.
Or, maybe not.
October 6th, 2009 at 10:42 pmSomebody’s anglin’ for a threeway…
October 6th, 2009 at 10:47 pmThis women shouldn’t be in congress, she should be in a nut house. She’s got some real issues with control. She wants to control people, but she accuses the President of all kinds of crazy things. The people in her district are NUTS!
October 6th, 2009 at 10:48 pmOf course she is comfortable with Limbaugh and Glenn Beck — they’re kindred spirits — all malicious purveyors of lies, instigators of violence, and pandering to the lowest, most base of their party.
October 6th, 2009 at 10:50 pmLarry chuckled at her answer.
Well, Michele, if and when your political career falls through, and I personally believe that can’t happen soon enough, you may have a future as a stand up comedian performing for all the teabagging parties out there.
October 6th, 2009 at 10:50 pmNo wonder Coulter is jealous…
October 6th, 2009 at 10:51 pmMichele works so hard to be popular.
She’s Countdown’s “Worst Person in the World” tonite.
AGAIN!
October 6th, 2009 at 10:54 pmWhy on earth does any news outlet (other than Faux News which is not a news outlet) give this crackpot ninny any air time at all? All they do is legitimize her craziness by letting her on the air. Why isn’t Russ Feingold on instead of this airhead?
October 6th, 2009 at 11:02 pmUp in Minnesota, she’s also known as the rock. In as dumb as a rock.
Maybe she and Anthrax Coulter could team up and have radio show.
They’d be better than the three stooges: druggie limpballs, bill o’liely and lonesome roads beck. ;)
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag carrying a cross.” Sinclair Lewis
October 6th, 2009 at 11:05 pmLimbaugh is comfortable with Michelly being his personal butt cushion.
Barack HUSSEIN Obama
mm mm mm
Barack HUSSEIN Obama
mm mm mm
October 6th, 2009 at 11:06 pm2% is a critical mass. Guess that makes her the third monkey, or something like that.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:07 pmRed Alert: Massive Butthurt. The Wingularity has been breached.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:09 pmI think she sounded a little too liberal when she spoke of investigating all suspected anti-Americans in congress. She should direct the FBI, SS, CIA to investigate ALL liberals in America.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:09 pm(From article:)
KING: I just told you — it’s 2 percent of America. It’s 2 percent!
BACHMANN: If you look for a critical mass, that’s the movement, that’s the direction that the critical mass is going. And the American people are very smart people.
- Yes, American people are very smart people. Except for that 2%.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:10 pmI understand you libs have your facts to put out, but you should be nicer to Michelle. She’s smiling all the time and you guys aren’t. Don’t attack her like a mean tiger.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:13 pmThe Republicans are headed for a nervous breakdown and Bachmann may just push the over the edge.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:21 pm…it may be only 2% but…
They are a fringe, whacko, looney, armed, nutso, extremist, dangerous, domestic-terroist, Faux News watch’n 2%.
I worry that they will do something REALLY bad…all in the name of the Rushpublics and The Party of No.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:21 pmPresident Bachmann
The end to all women in politics.
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ralph the wonder llama says:
Shelly never disappoints, does she?
What a gem.
A minor correction, if you don’t mind, ralph. As a, sometimes, proud Minnesotan I think it’s fair to say:
She never fails to disappoint.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:32 pmShes crazy.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:34 pmKing can’t challenge cuz he’s too comfortable thinking that her words alone – will indict her.
He’s wrong. The crazies are able to talk with impugnity. They aren’t challenged for their ‘views’. Lies are not supported by the 1’st Amendment.
When is someone going to say ‘there is fire in the theater’ – let alone that these people are bat shite crazy and have been calling out crazy stuff for years… and getting press -in the name of ‘balanced coverage’.
BS.
Its all in the name of the axiom – ‘if it bleeds it leads’.
Don Henley said it “Even if one of them could read a newspaper, cover to cover.
That ain’t wants going on; journalisms, dead and gone.
Frail grasp on the big picture.”
Frail Grasp on the Big Picture Long Road out of Eden , The Eagles, 2008.
And? The sad fact is that any mention in the local “librul press/media” will be reported as:
“Congresswoman Bachmann was taken out of context, again and she’s outraged at the liberal media”.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:36 pmBACHMANN: If you look for a critical mass, that’s the movement, that’s the direction that the critical mass is going. And the American people are very smart people.
The only thing that is “mass” Michele is the amount of delusion in your small cranial cavity.
Just saying…
October 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pm“And the American people are very smart people.” – M. Bachmann
Were they really smart, Bachmann would never get near an elected office, let alone US representative.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:39 pmLast nights Vikings vs. Packers game was the highest rated ever at 21.6 million viewers.
That would lead me to conclude that the “critical mass” of this country is ready to watch some football, get back to their lives, and leave the culture war to the freaks.
BTW, does anyone know FAUX’s numbers from last night?
October 6th, 2009 at 11:43 pmI notice the trollops have started going mmm mmm mmm must hsve been on the bush brain fax today.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:48 pmstewarjt says:
Were they really smart, Bachmann would never get near an elected office, let alone US representative.
Living just outside her District, I know some Bachmann fans. They aren’t so much stupid as misinformed and unsophisticated. Once their Pastor tells them she’s a “family values Christian lady” they stop paying attention. And, I must reiterate, the local press/media is wholly complicit.
One of the local TV stations devoted their entire Sunday “news” program to her defense after Chris Mathews “attacked her and twisted her words”. We curious folks in flyover land wouldn’t know what she is without her nationally televised rants and few of her supporters ever know they happened.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:51 pmXisithrus.
Rush started in with it when he was gloating about the Olympics going to Rio. It’s from the song the “brainwashed children” were singing.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:53 pm“>>>. And the American people are looking to voices …” And Michelle Bachmann is looking (and listening) to the voices in her head, which is why she smiles like that all of the time.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:53 pmEvery day more and more people grow weary of the Republican Party. And it’s because of idiots like this spewing their double-not-speak-think. 2% is critical mass? Oh really?? Look at them. The voice of their party lies buried six feet under for God’s sake.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:53 pm“The time for glorifying yourself will soon be at an end,dingbat.”
Maximus
October 7th, 2009 at 12:10 amBACHMANN: If you look for a critical mass, that’s the movement, that’s the direction that the critical mass is going.
Right off the cliff.
She should look up the term “critical mass” and what it’s actual connotations are before she starts trying to substitute if for “mainstream.”
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marwick says:
I thought Larry King died years ago.
He did, technically. However, due to the Supreme Court considering a corporation as a person, the animatronic Larry King from Disneyland legally inherited his life and stepped in for him some time ago. Nobody noticed the changeover.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:26 am“Bachmann: I’m comfortable with Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck being the voices of the GOP.”
Oh, Shelly, Shelly, Shelly.. Oh how she hearts wingnuts like Beck and El Rushbo. They keep her blood flowing in her brain. Shelly never disappoints me. She is a gift that keep on giving. Stay classy Shelly.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:30 am.
Shorter Bachmann
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October 7th, 2009 at 12:38 amBachmann: “And the American people are looking to voices like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck ”
This woman needs to be tossed from office asap. She is deluded, crazy, insane, ignorant…. I could go on. It’s not the “American people”, you crazy doorknob, it’s the tiny %age of terrorist, ant-government, anti-American wackos like you & your nutjob followers. The “American people”, on the whole, hate extremists like you, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. Your promtion of racism, violence, & hatred — just not American values.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:44 am.
Can someone please tell Ms. Bachmann that…
… REALITY IS MORE THAN A T.V. GAME SHOW.
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October 7th, 2009 at 12:55 amginslinger, marwick,
When this old world gets me down and there’s no love to be found, I close my eyes and soon I find I’m in a playground in my mind, where the children laugh and the children play and we sing a song all day “My name is Michele, I got a nickel, I got a nickel, shiny and new, I’m gonna buy me all kinds of candy that’s what I’m gonna do!”
So go fu(k off.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:57 am.
Bachmann: “And the American people are looking to voices like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck ”
So does this mean Ms. Bachmann thinks that the President of the U.S.A. hates “white culture”?
Or that the President of the U.S.A. is a “half-rican”?
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October 7th, 2009 at 12:58 amMy mom always told me to stay away from that woman. She thinks whatever she has may be contagious.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:15 amWe should be thankful for people like Bachmann, Beck, Limbaugh, etc. They spout nonsense now but as elections get closer, people start having second thoughts on the people they elect. Endorsements from these kooks will be fatal for many candidates outside of Fox Country, the south. I say give them a lot of media exposure. The more the public sees and hears of them, the more reasonable the Dems candidates sound.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:16 ammarwick says:
I thought Larry King died years ago.
ginslinger says:
And what’s in the water in Minnesota? The state bird is the Loon. Wellstone, Ventura, Franken and Bachmann, I guess it fits.
STFU! I’M SMOKING A JOINT!
October 7th, 2009 at 1:16 amShe’s got the crazy in her eyes.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:26 amSorry, O.T.
Senate passes Pentagon budget, war funding
By ANDREW TAYLOR (AP) – 4 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gSjpsEKgUIbPQaGJJPMi0uZwsH_QD9B5U1481
What is NOT said:
Pentagon Fraud and the ACORN Standard
October 2, 2009
http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=f7458473-63ca-4209-bd06-387d3c495c05
October 7th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Because THREE links in a post will be moderated and not read right away…
Continued from post last post…
FLOOR SPEECH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7dP34aHTHo
October 7th, 2009 at 1:37 amKING: I just told you — it’s 2 percent of America. It’s 2 percent!
When you’ve got Larry King chuckling at you, you know you’ve really gone around the proverbial bend.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:49 amSrsly, whatever makes Batshit Bachmann “comfortable” makes me mighty uncomfortable.
That’s how I know I still have my wits about me…
October 7th, 2009 at 2:00 amA vote down for marwick means we all thought he died years ago.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:03 amHey Smelly, Since when is 2% viewership or listenership the majority of the American population?
Mathematically bankrupt much?
Shelly, 1 + 1 =
October 7th, 2009 at 2:05 amMichelle makes crack ho’s look like Playmates of the Year.
(I was trying to be nice.)
October 7th, 2009 at 2:24 amot,
This is great!
Hannity vs. Moore. The S-man claims he went to mass on sunday, but can’t remember what the sermon was about.
Moore eventually looked at Hannity incredulously and noted, “It was just two days ago!”
Busted!
h/t Huffpo
October 7th, 2009 at 2:35 amIt’s like Bachmann, Oily Taintz, and Palin are having this big competition to see who can exhude the most crazy.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:50 ameyeswideopen1,
October 7th, 2009 at 3:23 amCall it the ‘Crazy Queen Pageant‘.
eyeswideopen1,
Crazy Town racetrack five miles long, doo dah, doo dah!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:32 amI personally feel (this means I have tons of points I just can’t put my finger on, like that zombie stare Rep. Bachmann has… come on, you all see it… it’s killing me. It’s like any minute, she’s gonna stand up and blurt — Brrrainsss) the Republicans are desperate for any victory at any cost, dishonesty, foolishness, inciting riots, what ever it takes. Lying is nothing, when one would prefer Nazism to loosing their power. It’s not like they ever cared about this country or its people in the first place. It’s greed.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:08 ampersonally, i like the part after king dismisses crazy shelley and the other guy says, “unfortunately, people are taking faux “news” seriously” and you can hear crazy shelley saying in her best “pouty repukelican” voice, “it is serious”
October 7th, 2009 at 5:52 amActually I am comfortable with Beck and Limbaugh being the leaders of the Republican party, the question is whether they will have anyone left to lead, except for Bachmann who can bring them coffee, or in Beck’s case Vicks Vaporub.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:07 am“If you look for a critical mess, that’s the movement, that’s the direction that the critical mess is going.
And the American people are very smart people.”
And we’re going to clean up the mess.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:43 amThere’s a vicious rumor that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. I don’t claim to know the truth — only that the rumor floating around saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 should be discussed. So I’m going to do my part to try and help get to the bottom of this.
Why won’t Glenn Beck deny these allegations? I’m not accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a young girl in 1990 – in fact, I think he didn’t! But I can’t help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations. Why won’t he deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990?
http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com/
October 7th, 2009 at 6:45 amThe creepy part is, you know these people are praying every night for another big domestic terror attack. They know that’s their only chance.
The prayer goes like this: “Dear Lord, please let us get hit hard soon. I don’t care how many people get killed, just so long as it hurts the Democrats.”
That’s patriotism, Republican style.
A Pig of a Bill
October 7th, 2009 at 6:47 amKING: I just told you — it’s 2 percent of America. It’s 2 percent!
BACHMANN: If you look for a critical mass, that’s the movement, that’s the direction that the critical mass is going.
No Michelle. That 2 percent is the uncritical easily duped batshit crazy mass
October 7th, 2009 at 6:54 amThe ‘critical mass’ is the tiny little peanut that lays in the base of all neocon brains amongst all the air!
October 7th, 2009 at 7:14 ammost whack jobs are right about something once in awhile, or at least have a point about something.
she doesn’t seem to have that.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:28 am‘A Play For All Time’
Beck: “So, you are my guest, Rush Limbaugh.”
Limbaugh: “Yes. On average, I will expect to have approximately ten minutes, as a typical TV show’s guest.”
Beck: “Well, now. We can approach this from two angles: interaction or communication. The first approach would emphasize our social roles; the second, would highlight how we fill those roles, both productively, and beneficially to our society!”
Commercial, break.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:38 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
There’s an off button for trolls, too.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:21 amSean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck can’t pass legislation, raise your taxes or issue subpoenas.
No, but they can gin up phony controvercy. Remember Terry Schaivo? The screeching monkeys of the right so inflamed republicans in the House and Senate, that they introduced legislation benefitting a single person. The big thinkers of the Right have never tried to apologize, or explain that ill-thought legislation. Perhaps you’d like us to ignore them, but their rhetoric can influence weak minds, like Bachmann.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:59 amYou mean like the orchestrated run up to the war in Iraq?
October 7th, 2009 at 9:03 amYou want to know how to turn off a Liberal? Just picture Bachmann in the nude on a cold day.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:18 amlocomotivebreath1901 says:
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck can’t pass legislation, raise your taxes or issue subpoenas.
No they can not you are right about that.
However, they can and do spewed hate and misinformation (no wait that should be out right lies).
October 7th, 2009 at 9:20 amQuite true. Limbaugh, Levin, Beck, Hannity, etc. cannot pass legislation, but here is what they can do:
- Lie about the legislation’s implications and fine print.
- Slander the administration over trivial things.
- Blame the government for imaginary results from the legislation.
- Scare the public.
That’s a political machine there. They’re lobbyists.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:25 amLevi, that’s not as fearful as you might imagine. Replace “Bachmann” with “Coulter”.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:29 amThe GOP is in the first stage of its death spiral. It has been decapitated by itself, and is stumlbing around and shitheads like Bachman are implaments of the body of the GOP. Eventually all the blood will ooze out, and the Monster that the Fright-Wing had created will coming crashing down to reality, much like Frankestein.
Unfortunatelt, Frankie took out some of the towns people in his short life.
These people should be forced out of the polical arena and put up on Pay-Per-View.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am“implaments” should be impalements, meaning the body GOP is impaled by the likes of Bachman. It is not helped. Let her speak, the more she speaks the worse it is for the GOP.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:50 amBACHMANN: If you look for a critical mass, that’s the movement, that’s the direction that the critical mass is going.
Critical mass = Steaming pile.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:51 ampurple state,
October 7th, 2009 at 9:52 amYOu just gave mark levin a huge hardon, by you raising his name up to the pantheon of the traitors Limpbag, and Innsannity, and Bleck.
Uh, there he goes, he just shot his load.
I was in Minneapolis this last week. It had lots of people who seemed perfectly sane and rational. What institution does Minnesota put the people who voted for Bachman in?
October 7th, 2009 at 9:52 amA critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for sustained nuclear chain reaction. In her case I hope it blows soon.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:58 amThe first law of politics: SMILE!
October 7th, 2009 at 10:04 amIt doesn’t matter if you are saying something inane, provocative, insulting, hurtful, moronic etc. Click into insta-smile and hope that people will think that you are smart, insightful, strong, caring and a leader. I am truly conflicted since I can’t decide whether to hope she’s removed next term, for the good of the many or retained for the laughs of all. She’s a perfect example of what has happened to the once proud Republican Party.
How ironic that she’s on a panel discussing the whack jobs representing the republican party. I read the quote about her not fearing the likes of Keith Olbermann. It’s all about fear with these people. Keith, and many like him, just point out the zanniness, and sometimes dangerous motives this woman comes up with.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:18 amThat’s right, Michele, sweetie, the American people are very smart – and that’s why 98% of us think that you, dear, and the rest of your nutjob ilk ARE RAVING LUNATICS.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:29 amlocomotivebreath1901 says:
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck can’t pass legislation, raise your taxes or issue subpoenas.
Yeah, and that’s the ONLY good reason this atheist has heard in months that might inspire me to believe in God – and to thank Him fervently.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:54 amShe misspelt “hear what they want to hear, and disregard the rest….” [apologies to S&G]
Cheers,
October 7th, 2009 at 11:48 amgo ahead, every comedy or circus of clowns needs it’s ringleader, including the republican party.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:56 pmEvery journey starts with the first step.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:16 pmKING: I just told you — it’s 2 percent of America. It’s 2 percent!
HA! It’s like a parent talking to their 2 year old, when the toddler chooses to eat dirt over ice cream – which is saying something since it’s Larry King we’re using in the role of parent here.
October 8th, 2009 at 2:20 amThank you for your sharing.!
October 11th, 2009 at 5:18 pmGlenn Beck uses smear attacks to push for White House staffer Yosi Sergant’s resignation for organizing artists to support Obama’s national service program. meme dikle?tirme ameliyatlari
October 13th, 2009 at 6:26 am