Bachmann: ‘I have no reason to doubt that [Obama] wasn’t born in the United States.’
Bachmann: ‘I have no reason to doubt that [Obama] wasn’t born in the United States.’
On CNN’s Larry King Live last night, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was asked if she agreed with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that birthers are “crazy.” “That’s a non-issue,” replied Bachmann. “In my district, it’s a flat out non-issue.” King and guest James Carville pressed Bachmann to answer the question, but she continued to dodge it by saying her constituents just wanted to know “where are the jobs?” Eventually, King put her on the spot and she voiced support for the birthers:
KING: Congresswoman, I am — Congresswoman, the only thing was the question was simple — do you believe the birthers? Forget the district, forget the jobs for a moment. Do you believe President Obama was born in the United States?
BACHMANN: I have no reason to doubt that he wasn’t born in the United States. I have none. The only place that this issue comes up is on the left. You don’t hear people on the right bringing this issue up.
Bachmann appears to have misspoke though (she intended to say she has no reason to doubt Obama “was born” in the US). Later in the interview, when asked if she believed that Obama was “born somewhere else,” she replied, “The president has shown his birth certificate.” Watch it:
In the same segment, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer tried to compare birthers to Democrats who thought President Bush didn’t win Florida in 2000. “There were many people who called him illegitimate and said that he lost Florida despite there being no evidence of that being the case,” said Fleischer.
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I’m glad crazy Michelle was on ‘Larry King’. Give this woman a platform to show just how nuts she is.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:43 amMichele: The only place that this issue comes up is on the left. You don’t hear people on the right bringing this issue up.
– - Wow, some chutzpah there, Michele.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:48 amTotally agree, P. D.
A couple of things about this article, though… Bachmann says:
I have no reason to doubt that he wasn’t born in the United States.
As any close observer of language knows, this actually means that she believes he wasn’t born in the United States, since she doesn’t DOUBT that he wasn’t.
I tend to think Crazy Shelly isn’t a close observer of language and isn’t that clever, but let’s acknowledge at least the freudian slip when it’s showing.
She also says:
The only place that this issue comes up is on the left. You don’t hear people on the right bringing this issue up.
See, this is why I have a hard time believing she’s clever enough to pull that linguistic judo I pointed out above. She’s just delusional.
Either that, or she thinks everyone else is as stupid as the constituents who keep voting for her (apologies in advance to pete).
October 7th, 2009 at 10:49 amThe Left? If I remember correctly, when the Left brought up the fact McCain was born in Panama, DEMOCRATS told the Left to back off. What do you think about that Michelle?
October 7th, 2009 at 10:50 amIn the same segment, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer tried to compare birthers to Democrats who thought President Bush didn’t win Florida in 2000. “There were many people who called him illegitimate and said that he lost Florida despite there being no evidence of that being the case,” said Fleischer.
Whoever would have thought at the time that Scott McClellan would emerge as the most honest and forthright of the Bush-era press secretaries?
October 7th, 2009 at 10:52 amThe left keeps reporting on all this stuff. If they can stop proving things happen, things wouldn’t happen in the firt place.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:52 amBACHMANN: The only place that this issue comes up is on the left. You don’t hear people on the right bringing this issue up.
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Who knew Orly Taitz was a leftist? Or Alan Keyes? Or Jim Geraghty? Or Joseph Farah? Or Michael Savage? Or — well, you get the idea.
Does Michelle truly expect me to believe these voices are all coming from the left?
October 7th, 2009 at 10:53 amCrazy Shelley is so far to the right that virtually 99% of Americans are to the left of her, so maybe there is a grain of truth in her statement.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:53 amI imagine in the future some pathologist performing an autopsy on Shelly will crack open her skull and hear a giant vacuum-like sucking sound. On closer examination of the cavity the pathologist will discover that not only was her cranial cavity empty on the day of her autopsy, but it had likely been empty for her entire life.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:54 amMy, my. Keep bringin’ the kkkrazy, Shelley.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:56 amari couldn’t wait to try to comapare two things that are not the same for politial gain.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:56 amI still can’t believe this woman was re-elected! She is an embarassment. Lord knows, I cringe when I see her.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:57 amApparently, Ari, you guys had doubts you would win; otherwise you wouldn’t have taken to the supreme court a petition to stop the democratic process of counting the votes.
Your side’s mounting challenges to Obami’s birth certificate, on the other hand, is hardly eliciting chirping sounds in the lower courts.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:58 amSurprisingly, Bachmann’s been largely silent on birtherism. She’s espoused every other batshit insane right-wing conspiracy theory, but doesnt seem to be a birther. Huh.
Also, Ari..Ari..Ari..
You’re a pathological liar.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:00 amIn the same segment, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer tried to compare birthers to Democrats who thought President Bush didn’t win Florida in 2000. “There were many people who called him illegitimate and said that he lost Florida despite there being no evidence of that being the case,” said Fleischer.
Disagreeing with the SCOTUS would be more of a tenther-like position than a birther-like position, if youw ant to compare. However, the SCOTUS wasn’t even ruling on a point of constitutionality when they stopped the recount. The decision just stated that they wanted to do it and that it shouldn’t ever be used as precedent for anything. So it’s not even that.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:00 amWhat ever hapeened with her son? Remember when she told people that the Community programs were brain washing our youth. And he joined one? I never heard anything else after that.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:02 ammissmolly says:
Does Michelle truly expect me to believe these voices are all coming from the left?
I think the only voices Bachmann hears are coming from inside her head….
October 7th, 2009 at 11:02 amI wish we could lock up both the birthers and the 911 truthers in one room – and let them out-paranoia each other in a logic-less, delusional debate.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:04 amAri Fleischer lives in a separate universe from the rest of us.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:04 amOOHHHH Ari >>>>>>>> still spinning after all these years.
bless your pointed head.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:05 amDefund Bachmann
October 7th, 2009 at 11:05 amCrazy Legs, no one here thinks Bachmann is sane, except those with mental shortcomings.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:05 amWhy is Michelle on CNN anyway? I thought she would just stick with Faux News. They LOVE her crazy brand of wackyness.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:06 amSomeone said she wasn’t crazy?
Who, Crazy legs? Who said it? Point it out.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:06 amLarry King loves a good crazy guest once in a while. Livens things up a bit.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:07 amI wonder if the people in her district are embarrassed enough now.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:08 amI just love it when Bachmann’s eyes go all “Marty Feldman” and start spinning around in their sockets.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:08 amCrazy Legs says:
Yesterday, she was crazy. Today she’s not? LOL! You people are the ones that are batshit crazy!
who saids she not crazy? I know i have never change my mine.
think you need to have your wing nut tighten on your propeller tinfoil hat. before it comes off and hits one of your fellow trolls.
just a safety tip. you should always practice good safe proper trolling.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:09 amHey, do you guys really think Crazy Legs might eb soooo lazy as to see the headline, mis-read it, and then assume we would all agree with Crazy Shelly, thus accusing us of thinking that today, she’s not crazy?
Or is Crazy Legs just really touchy about that whole “Crazy” thing?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:09 amralph@27, At least King had the balls to ask her. Wolfie Boy (Blitzer) would just let her spew her nonsense. Wolf is a shill dressed in a thousand dollar suit.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:10 amCrazy Legs:
October 7th, 2009 at 11:11 amWould you like help with that resume?
Crazy Legs says:
Yesterday, she was crazy. Today she’s not? LOL! You people are the ones that are batshit crazy!
You think any leftist is going to put their ass on the line by saying Shelly is sane?
The leftists want to invest in your reading comprehension. Why don’t you yield them some returns?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:11 amShark, how do you practice safe trolling? Does Trojan make a product for that? Would Crazy Legs wear it if they did? Would it fit his pencil sized appendage?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:12 amActually, Ari, there WAS evidence in 2000 that the election was stolen, and the presidency bestowed upon Bush by the SCOTUS.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:12 amYanno, creasy sags, I doan know if Bachmann is crazy, Im not trained to diagnose and treat crazy.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:14 amOr is Crazy Legs just really touchy about that whole “Crazy” thing?
Ralph, it’s not that crazy was too lazy to read the whole post, the poor little bugger is illiterate, so reading it would be impossible.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:14 am@35, Ohh…. You showed us! LOL! What a Catch Phrase! Are you congradulating yourself! We heard them all. Now, don’t hurt yourself thinking of a new one!
October 7th, 2009 at 11:15 amas Gene Wilder said oh so eloquently in Young Frankenstien:
“You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind”
you might as well get a random quote from one of the guests at your local nut hut.
there is no diference.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:15 amCrazy Legs says:
The stalker is here…right on cue…yawn.
You’re posing in fish nets in front of my desk! LOL! Satin Crazy Legs!
October 7th, 2009 at 11:16 amI think Bachmann is pointing at democratic townhalls and trying to pass off the birthers as leftists like FOX does by changing (R) to (D), technical glitch, of course.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:16 amdifference!
October 7th, 2009 at 11:17 amso very very afraid. Sort of sad…
October 7th, 2009 at 11:18 amRoaches have crazy legs …
October 7th, 2009 at 11:18 am“The only place that this issue comes up is on the left. You don’t hear people on the right bringing this issue up.”
Not only is she crazy, she is also dyslexic.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:18 amSo Crazy legs…. ya gonna back up your claim in Post 17?
Who here said Crazy Shelly wasn’t crazy?
Or should we just put this comment down as yet another (yawn) self-pwn by a troll?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:19 amOh, I see. You’re playing the “incoherent” card. Smart move.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:20 amThere were many people who called him illegitimate and said that he lost Florida despite there being no evidence of that being the case,” said Fleischer.
Yes. Like a consortium of the N.Y. Times and other major newspapers. They are Crayyyyyy-Zeeeee!!!, I tellya.
Cheers,
October 7th, 2009 at 11:21 amThe real issue is jobs. Yet during the Bush term, even with ‘tax cuts’ only about eight million were created during his TIO.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:21 amwhat an embarrassment.
bachmann i mean, not you trolls.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:22 amBACHMANN: I have no reason to doubt that he wasn’t born in the United States.
This is what you put up, Leggy?
You should note, she’s saying she has no reason to doubt he was not born in the United States.
Slip or not, this is what you’re putting up to call ralph a birther.
Reading comprehension- check it out. Oh, and projection, diversion, so on.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:22 amI have a feeling if you asked Shelly about offshoring jobs she would agree with it.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:23 amHi Tanqueray.
can we get a “Barry(fist-tap)” from ya?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:23 amNo proof? Shocker!
October 7th, 2009 at 11:24 amWhen the radical right compares Bush 2000 to whether Obama was born in the US is an effort to establish an equivelency that is false. It is like comparing a murderer to someone who ran a stop sign, saying they are both lawbreakers. Bush was selected by a 5-4 Supreme Court which has no power to select a President. Obama was certified as born in the US by the State of Hawaii which has a definite right to do so.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:25 amCrazy Legs says:
No proof? Shocker!
Electroshock therapy for troll! Shocker!
October 7th, 2009 at 11:25 amIsn’t Bachmann’s statement a double negative? She has no reason to doubt he was not born in the US translates out to she has a reason to doubt he was born in the US.
Looks like Crazy legs here is trying to out crazy Crazy Bachmann.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:26 amfergus says:
Shark, how do you practice safe trolling? Does Trojan make a product for that? Would Crazy Legs wear it if they did? Would it fit his pencil sized appendage?
Well i was only passing out a public service message>>>>> its up to the trolls to hopefully protect them selfs.
and went you think about it they might be using protection now. as it seems really can not penetrate there brains.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:26 amYou mean like the countless times that msnbc and cnn referred to obama as “osama?” Selective outrage much?
You forgot flocks noose. And, no, my outrage only exists, because somewhere deep in the ghiadome blackhole abyss you call a cranium, you hope I am outraged, selectively, when I am not
October 7th, 2009 at 11:29 amBachmann speaks in double negatives to obscure what she really means. It is a typical distraction for Republican politicians.
Fascists will say anything.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:30 amI suppose that TP ends up with the really stupid trolls because other lefty blogs have better moderation. I’ve noticed that sites like Media Matters have trolls at least capable of constructing entire paragraphs in the English language. Here? We get the idiots who write: “No proof? Shocker!” whenever their stupid comments are ignored.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:30 amYou do shoddy trolling. Take a break and lick the sand off my boots. I’m the boss.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:30 amPlease point out where I agreed with Crazy Shelly.
Then re-read my first comment on this thread.
Then have someone read it you out loud.
Then have someone explain it to you.
Then acknowledge that your illiteracy and incoherence may garner sympathy from others, but they don’t excuse your continual foolishness.
And around here, we find them darn amusing, because of your determination to mine their depths for your performance art.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:32 amI dont agree with Bachmann because she doesnt ever have solutions, just points fingers.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:33 amThank you for your concern, ralph. Crazy Shelly is a bit of a millstone around our necks up here.
But I would be interested to hear the stupid troll’s list of outrageous statements/actions from Ventura, Wellstone, and Franken so that I can compare them. Please note that both Ventura and Franken, as entertainers, said some pretty outrageous things but I’m talking about their comments during reasoned political discourse.
Then there’s the voting record. Franken hasn’t had time to really establish one but Wellstone obviously considered the actual merits of legislation rather than the politics and Ventura’s term as governor was fairly unremarkable besides his relationship with the press.
Frankly, I would think the trolls would love Jesse. He actually did everything within his authority to reduce the size of Minnesota government and his whole term was a battle to get him to sign ANY spending bills. That’s the kind of thing they claim they want to see.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:34 amCrazy Legs,
When the Republican violence begins, liberals are going to arrest every wingnut, and that includes people who post on Blogs. You are probably going to have to spend the rest of your life behind razor wire.
Is it worth it?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:34 amCrazy eric odom troll:
Care to comment on the presidents approval ratings taking a big jump?
Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Jumps 6 Percent
October 7th, 2009 at 11:35 amGiven Crazy Legs’ obvious learning and cognitive disabilities, I guess what most of us recognize as “three” would appear to our friend as “countless”.
My apologies. You have indeed, from your perspective, provided “countless” examples.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:35 amginslinger says:
Wellstone, Ventura, Franken and Bachmann! How wacked out are the voters of Minnesota?
The state bird is the Loon so I guess it follows.
so you are in replete mode here think you used these exact words yesterday.
you should really try new stuff. this old stuff is very stale
October 7th, 2009 at 11:36 amLevi,
His crazy legs will see him thru.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:36 amYouTube – Fox News Jokes About Killing Obama
15 sec – May 25, 2008 -
… Liz Trotta on Fox News Channel first referred to Barack Obama as “Osama”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYpkvcmog0
Dont go away mad Crabby Sags.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:37 amCrazy Leggs… about that evidence for your twice-repeated claim that I “agreed” with Crazy Shelly?
Still working on it?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:37 amThe only time I can recall agreeing with Crazy Shelly was when she said “I’m Crazy for Jesus“.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:39 amCrazy Legs says:
Here ya go.
Cheers,
October 7th, 2009 at 11:40 amAwww … Crazy is playing with his toys. I’ll go for accuracy and call ‘em Crazy Leggos.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:40 amInteresting how Crazy L’eggs is willing to ignore the sentence following the one he quoted in order to try to smear me as “backpedalling”.
In fact, the sentence he chose to truncate read as follows:
My apologies. You have indeed, from your perspective, provided “countless” examples.
Our troll friend has some odd ideas about political discourse.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:41 amYou dont have the mental ability to outrage me, or anyone else, for that matter, Crusty Legs.
But do keep trying you are slightly amusing.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:41 amUh-oh… Crazy L’eggs has got his hands on a new catchphrase and he’s gonna use “selective outrage” until it bores him, even though he doesn’t know what it means.
He’s like a little kid who pretends that a martini shaker is a space ship.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:43 amIm waiting for Crayfish Legs to post a fox poll now to prove that shelly is right.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:46 amSince “ralph” claims he never said he agreed with Bachmann, it can only mean he disagrees with this statement!
Maybe he chose ‘C:’ neither of the above
October 7th, 2009 at 11:48 am” its up to the trolls to hopefully protect them selfs.
“
But, Shark, that goes against all of their righty teachings. No safe sex. No safe trolling. No safe anything. If they weren’t born with protection, then, it’s against God’s will to provide their own.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:50 amTechnically, stupid troll, it’s not a proper sentence and, as such, one can neither agree nor disagree with it. It would be like “agreeing” with the bark of a dog or the bleating of sheep.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:50 amWHY does this empty suit continue to get media time?? Are the media so saturated with their coverage of everything else that they stoop to her level??
October 7th, 2009 at 11:50 amCrazy Legs says:
Y’know, they have medicines to treat Restless Leg Syndrome, and it’s even covered by insurance. You should check it out.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:51 amCrazy Legs says:
And last year CNN apologized for promoting a story on the search for bin Laden with the headline, “Where’s Obama?”
In a separate incident, a CNN reporter said “Barack Obama’s campaign has been dogged by false rumors, among them that Osama is a Muslim, Obama rather.”
October 7th, 2009 at 11:32 am
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Outrageous.
I am outraged.
There, now you can no longer say that liberals are not outraged by CNN accidentally switching “Obama” and “Osama.”
October 7th, 2009 at 11:54 amWinski says:
WHY does this empty suit continue to get media time??
Whether it’s intentional or not, the national media is the only way her constituents will ever know what kind of freak they voted for. The local press/media have their collective heads so far up her rump they stare out of her batscat eyes.
I can understand getting bored with the constant appearances but I’m hopeful that she will earn enough national competition to rid my beloved Minnesota of this embarrassment. So, please bear with us. Every time she opens her mouth she earns a little more opposition.
October 7th, 2009 at 11:56 amYou had posted no proof of your claim “You mean like the countless times that msnbc and cnn referred to obama as “osama?”
When you posted proof of the “countless” times (although we are perfectly able to count up to single digits, we understand how that would be an overwhelming task for you) I acknowledged your feat and apologized for doubting your inability to count to ten.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:01 pmSo Crazy L’eggs… still nothing on your claim that I “agreed with” Crazy Shelly?
“Cause I’m just not seeing it. Help me out here.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:02 pmCrazy eric odom troll:
I asked you what you thought about the President’s huge jump in approval ratings and so far all I have heard in response is this.
Crazy, I noticed that you have been silent regarding my question about why Rick Martinez(Twajie) is too cowardly to debate me one on one. Surely you must have an opinion as to why he is being such a pussy.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:05 pmSaid it before and say it again:
October 7th, 2009 at 12:07 pmThe first law of politics: SMILE!
It 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.
Crazy, are you defending Bachmann? Do you think she conveys the sound and rational voice of the GOP? Quit fixating over the “he said, she said” garbage and show your spine. Is Bachmann the future of the GOP?
October 7th, 2009 at 12:10 pmExactly right.
If she had said “I have no reason to doubt that he WAS born in the United States”, that I would agree with.
Understand now? If you’re still having trouble, let us know. We’ll do our best to help you, but we’re really not set up to provide remedial thinking assistance.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:11 pm“There were many people who called him illegitimate and said that he lost Florida despite there being no evidence of that being the case,” said Fleischer.
Guess he just doesn’t read much then. Bush lost Florida
Bachmann replied, “The president has shown his birth certificate.”
What she means is “The president hasn’t shown his long form birth certificate.”
October 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pmI gotta say here, Crazy L’eggs, this standard troll trick of trying to claim that someone else has “proven my point” when there really wasn’t even a point there to be proven in the first place, really gets boring. It’s been done to death, and it isn’t any more effective now with this screen name as it has ever been under any other screen name you’ve used here.
It’s just lame. I would say you’re above it, but we both know that isn’t true.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pmBACHMANN: I have no reason to doubt that he wasn’t born in the United States.
She didn’t actually say she didn’t doubt it. What she said was she had no reason to. Obviously she’s capable of believing things without having reasons.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:16 pm“In my district, it’s a flat out non-issue.”
Flat out non-issue…REALLY!
…That must go along with their Flat-Earth view.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:17 pmI notice the Crazy person with legs claims above that “there is no proof.” Then someone actually refers him to a Wiki article which presents the facts.
Crazy person with legs pretends he didn’t see it.
Hey Crazy person: you can also Google on “Keating Paper” and “Florida election” to get the actual pdf of the results of the analysis. Under ANY OF THE COUNTING STANDARDS, if all the votes were counted, Gore wins.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:19 pmBasically, Ari Fleischer can’t finish a paragraph of writing or talking without lying. Same with Andrew Card. Can’t even make a proper sentence without lying about something.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:20 pmWould it be too much to ask Larry King or any of these lame talking heads to correct lies like this when their made on television? Maybe that would be working too hard.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:22 pmcrazy doesn’t understand what the use of “not” does to a logical expression??
(he’s way worse off than i thought)
October 7th, 2009 at 12:24 pmCrazy Legs:
You still haven’t explained why you are so obsessed with Keith Olbermann and Charles Johnson that you virtually stalk them 24/7.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:25 pmCrazyeggs sure seems to have a crush on the crazylady.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:26 pmI don’t know if she’s crazy,wacko,abnormal. or a combination of the three.
But I do think she’s a nut (barney fife)
tony and lido
Hey Crazed Person with Legs, have you gone over to look at the Keating Paper or the Wiki entry they gave you on the Florida recount yet? Check it out. It’s good reading. Turns out that if those “states-rights” conservatives on the court had actually been advocates of states’ rights and let the State of Florida count all its votes, we never would have had Bush as president.
My, my, how that changed the world. It’s funny what a political coup in the world’s oldest “democracy” can do to the world isn’t it. 9-11, Iraq, The Patriot Act, kidnappings, torture, Katrina… all of it didn’t have to happen except for your “States Rights Conservatives” on the Supreme Court.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:26 pmI understand why conservative trolls steer discussions off topic, but why would liberals around here cooperate and help steer discussions off topic to spar with an idiot? Check yourselves people. If you’re not responding with facts and arguments on topic, the troll wins.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pmIn Loony Town, when a right-winger says “Obama was born in the United States”, it’s code for “I have to say this in public so the Liberal Media doesn’t say mean things about me but I’m with you, fellow nut-jobs, wink wink”
I’m sure sure there’s a Birther version that accepts he was “technically” born in the US, but his parents spread Muslim soil under the birth bed, or whisked him off to Iraq to be anointed with heathen oils. Some little bizarre detail that makes him “really” an Evil Islam-o-fascist of the worst kind.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:30 pmstefan: “Some little bizarre detail that makes him “really” an Evil Islam-o-fascist of the worst kind.”
Right. I think that detail is that he is black.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:33 pmBy the way, if Obama was walking around holding hands with Islamic dictators like Bush always did with the Saudis, what do you think conservatives would be saying?
October 7th, 2009 at 12:34 pmCrazy legs, you’re still here, but I’m wondering if you have found out yet that your opinion that there was no evidence that Bush lost the election is not supported by the facts. The facts actually point to the opposite conclusion. Have you educated yourself yet, or do you prefer to stew in your own ignorance. I’m trying to help. I would suppose that a thoughtful person might go see the evidence and then reconsider the news and opinion personalities who have been telling you lies. Are you a thoughtful person?
October 7th, 2009 at 12:36 pmExcept she didn’t even say that. She said she has no reason to doubt that he WASN’T born in the US.
The rules of grammar say that this means she believes (”doesn’t doubt”) that he was born outside the US (”wasn’t born in the US)
Plainly stated, Crazy Shelly went on Larry King and admitted that she’s a birther.
Yeah, they try embrace explanations like the following:
As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:41 pmI thought Mark Koldys and Eric Odom were your girlfriends, why do you need a third one.
Nice hat, do you wear it to hide the bald spot?
October 7th, 2009 at 12:43 pmJeffy Bovine, guess who wrote the following:
If you ask around, we can help you find some kind soul to declare you officially retarded and find you a nice room.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:47 pmMaybe Pat Pomery has seen the Keating Report. Pat, your thoughts? Don’t you think principled “states’ rights” conservatives should have let Florida count its ballots?
And, since the report clearly shows that Gore would have won if all the votes were counted, can you really blame liberals for questioning GW Bush’s legitimacy? I mean, you’re a reasonable person, right?
October 7th, 2009 at 12:48 pmI know that, grammatically, she used double negatives that when parsed out, translated into Bachmann saying she doubted Obama was a US citizen.
But I think she really was trying to spit out the words – for the sake of appeasing the Librul Media perhaps – that she accepted his citizenship. Only, her brain wouldn’t let her actually say it all the way.
I suspect she *personally* believes he’s a US Citizen, but she has to play this crazy game of going along with her wack-job base yet not appearing TOO crazy (by her low standards) on TV.
Life is harder when you’re a hypocrite.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:03 pmI don’t know if this lunatic showed her birth certificate already. Even if she did, that doesn’t prove her status. For that matter, we need to take a closer look at the birth certificates of all the GOP leaders in Congress as well as Fox news “mental” cases. We need to find out what’s there in their birth certificates that President Obama’s birth certificate doesn’t have? We need to find out if this lunatic entered this nation illegally as a child and bribed the state officials to create a birth certificate for her. May be her illegal immigrant parents did. Let’s check everybodies certificates now. We need to see her hospital birth certificate, get sworn statements from the doctor and the staff who delivered her and if any of the staff members expired already, let’s go and get sworn statements from their families as well. We need to go back couple of generations to find the truth about this lunatic Bacchman. Until then, she is a illegal immigrant for me. How about that? I think it’s time the Democrats start questioning the authencity of the birth certificates as well the actual event of every GOP leader. That’s the only way to put these lunatics in their place.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:06 pmI suspect you’re right, stefan. I think she got tripped up by language. That risk is generally increased by muddled thinking and a desire to parse the truth, and I suspect that’s what happened here. But I disagree completely with your judgment that
I think it’s just the opposite. I think she personally believes he’s not eligible to be President due to a foreign birth, but that she recognizes that the mainstream audience for Larry King would look at her like she’s got lobsters crawling out of her ears of she admitted it on air.
I expect she’s used to getting such looks from people.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pmAt the end of it all, stefan, I thionk we’re in complete agreement when you say, “Life is harder when you’re a hypocrite.”
October 7th, 2009 at 1:08 pmCrusty Bags.
I just want you to know I am outraged, outraged I say! Because we cant get better trolls than you.
Heh
October 7th, 2009 at 1:20 pmhehe Ralph – I think I may be the deluded optimist who thinks “they can’t possibly be THAT crazy”, while you lean the other way. The thing is, the pessimists usually are right…
October 7th, 2009 at 1:23 pmI’m not so wure that “hypocrite” is the right word. hypocrite entails betraying one’s standards and this particular stupid troll never had any standards to betray.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:23 pmOops! “wure”=sure
October 7th, 2009 at 1:23 pmXisithrus, why the “selective outrage”?
I don’t you recall being this “outraged” when Crazy L’eggs was trolling these boards as Trajan or Pee Pee or any of his other lame sockpuppet names! His trolling was just as pathetic then as it is now.
“Selective outrage” I say!
October 7th, 2009 at 1:24 pmXisithrus, why the “selective outrage”?
Well, since its been the same one over and over its not really selective because I want another troll. Not the one they, troll lair numero uno, selected for us. See? =)
October 7th, 2009 at 1:27 pmMichele Bachmann is the type of Republican (of which there are MANY) who wants to make English the “official” language of the United States, yet consistently exhibits that she has been unable to master the language herself.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:28 pmRicky M is way popular, did you see all those people hanging around him at the bar?
October 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pmWhat’s Crazy Shelly’s bold plan for the future? “bring down their (Democratic) leadership” and “defund them”. All partisan obstruction, all the time.
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-is-bizarre-even-for-michele.html
October 7th, 2009 at 1:32 pmThe combination of the meth and all the Bachmann talk has our stupid pet troll in a real tizzy. He’ll be screwing a light-socket soon at this rate.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:35 pmActually there were people sitting beside Ricky Retardo When he raised the arm holding the beer, they passed put from the smell.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pmOf course, Crazy Shelly is one of the few elected officials with the guts to flat our call for an overthrow of our elected government because the local press/media refuses to comment on her extremism. And she’s just crazy enough to want to replace our Democracy with theocracy.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm.
Bachmann:
‘I have no reason to doubt that [Obama] wasn’t born in the United States.’
YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!!
Bachmann blocks resolution declaring Hawaii to be Obama’s birthplace.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/27/bachmann-hawaii-resolution-obama/
What isn’t Bachmann telling us about Obama’s birth certificate?
http://minnesotaindependent.com/39995/bachmann-birther-birth-certificate-obama
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October 7th, 2009 at 1:41 pmNo your not, Mark Koldys only told you that so you would go down on him.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:47 pmIs there any evidence that Rep. Michele Bachmann was born with a brain?
October 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pmWhy is it hypocrisy to make fun of a troll sent here by Eric Odom to spam threads with gibberish?
October 7th, 2009 at 1:59 pmCrazy Legs: “there WAS evidence in 2000 that the election was stolen
Really?”
I and one other poster have provided you that evidence. You pretend not to notice. That’s how we know you’re not here to discuss things. You questioned the existence of evidence. The evidence was given to you. I’m not sure why anyone bothers with you, but I gave it a shot. You’re obviously not worth the effort.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:03 pmCL, could you please stop using the c*nt word here?
October 7th, 2009 at 2:07 pm“One simple mistake”?
Faux News identifies disgraced Congressman Mark Foley (R) as a (D).
Faux News identifies disgraced Governor Mark Sanford (R) as a (D).
Faux affiliate identifies disgraced Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) as a (D).
With Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) Faux News maybe decided it was getting a little obvious, so they neglected to identify his political affiliation at all.
But doesn’t it ever work the other way you might ask? Doesn’t Faux News ever mislabel a Democrat as a Republican?
Funny you should ask. It might be evidence against any kind of bias involved if Faux News ever mislabeled as scandal-ridden Democrat as a Republican. Eliot Spitzer, maybe? Jim McGreevey? Nope.
But when a victorious Democratic challenger defeated a centrist Republican in Rhode Island, Faux News found it worthwhile to switch THOSE party affiliations.
Interesting, no?
October 7th, 2009 at 2:34 pmAs you wish, Lady Edith.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:00 pmWe have no reason not to think that BatshitCrazy Shelly isn’t in control of her miniscule mental faculties.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:17 pmLady Edith:
October 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pmI have been flagging the nasty troll and complaining about his use of the c word, but it has fallen on deaf ears.
Maybe you might have better luck if you complained directly to the head honcho.
faiz@thinkprogress.org
“Big Tony” Scalia says:
October 7th, 2009 at 4:03 pmI think it is a very important issue, this troll has been using the c word to describe a specific poster at Think Progress.
I have flagged him repeatedly for that offense, yet he is still allowed to post here under that nickname and several others.
Tony, maybe he is wearing his fat Supreme Court Justice sock.
Nice try Twajie, you aren’t fooling anyone but yourself.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pmHeh! Crazy Shelly is so stupid she can’t figure out who steals the hour she loses every time she flies from Minnesota to Washington. Being a Republican, she just pretends she didn’t actually get those hours back flying East to West.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:31 pmCrazy Legs,
Your hatred is not welcome here. You represent the political party that hates America, blacks, Hispanics, woman, homosexuals, drug users, and the elderly.
You are yesterday.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:33 pmSchizophrenia is treatable. The sad fact is that our stupid pet troll suffers needlessly. Though perhaps he doesn’t have insurance that covers mental health care?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:34 pmTroll Central bought them “no claims” health insurance. It doesn’t cover anything but the rates were low and it came with no deductible.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:38 pmAll I’m looking for, CL, is a retraction of the use of “c*nt” here. I’m pretty surprised TP allows that word to go undetected here, even if it’s part of an insult.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:54 pmWell considering how f ucking scared on me you are, I suspect you really are…
October 7th, 2009 at 4:56 pmThe socially alienated housebound already have no life. I am hoping with a continued regimen of cognitive and behavioral therapy along with some basic job training we might be able to help this extreme case…
October 7th, 2009 at 5:17 pm“Bachmann: ‘I have no reason to doubt that [Obama] wasn’t born in the United States.’”
Well, I have no reason to doubt that Crazy Shelly is really from Planet Wingnuttia. There was the invasion of body snatchers and the real Michelle Bachmann was abducted by aliens. And this wingnut was beamed down to earth in her place. I am Bachmann fatigue right now. She is getting too much airtime in the media.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pmCrazy Legs says:
Shaking in boots…..
Restless Leg Syndrome can be easily controlled with medication.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:26 pmExit polls in Florida in 2000 said Gore won by 300,000 in that state alone. Exit polls were always accurate in the US and around the most developed nations to about 0.2%——before the US began using voting machines made by conservatives and extremely theocratic conservatives—then they began being impossibly off.
Why do we not hear about Clint Curtis, the Florida software engineer who testified that he made the software for the state’s voting machines to “flip” the votes?
Why do we not hear from the Republican’s vote tabulation expert, Spoonamore, who said the tabulators for Ohio in 2004 must have altered the outcome from Kerry to Bush?
October 7th, 2009 at 10:06 pm“That’s a non-issue,” replied Bachmann. “In my district, it’s a flat out non-issue.”
Let’s do the math: Bachmann’s district is District 6 in Minnesota. District 6 is Republican leaning, with a CPVI value of R+7. That means slightly over half of her district votes Republican. The population of District 6 is 614,935. Half of that is 307,468. I’ll just use the half number, even though like I said, her district is slightly *more* than half Republican-leaning.
According to a well-publicized poll, 58% of GOPers don’t believe or don’t know if Obama is a natural born citizen. That means 307,468*0.58 = at least 178,331 of Ms. Bachmann’s constituents don’t believe – or don’t know – if Obama is a US citizen.
(178,331)/(614,935) = 29%. So there’s a strong possibility that nearly a 1/3 of Ms. Bachmann’s district presumably thinks this is NOT a non-issue.
I call shenanigans on Michelle Bachmann.
October 8th, 2009 at 1:57 amIf this all takes off and some credibility to our movement comes forth… liposuction
October 13th, 2009 at 6:33 amThank you for your sharing.!
October 14th, 2009 at 9:07 am