Michele Bachmann, Louie Gohmert, Steve King in Egypt

The three craziest GOP reps go on a field trip.
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Republican representatives Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and Steve King (R-Iowa) held a press conference last week in Egypt, praising and thanking the Egyptian military for a July 3 ouster of what Bachmann called the “common enemy” Muslim Brotherhood.

Via the Washington Post’s Max Fisher comes video of the press conference, which is bizarre, to say the least.

Bachmann thanked the Egyptian military for the coup and the military-led government’s crackdowns on protests, implying that the Muslim Brotherhood — of which former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was a member — was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“We were cheering in front of our televisions back home in the United States,” Bachmann said, referring to when the Egyptian military overthrew Morsi. “We were cheering for you.”

Bachmann, who took the lead in the press conference, said that the three members of Congress agreed that Morsi’s ouster was not a “coup,” but rather the “people of Egypt [giving] their voice loud and clear.”

“Many of you have asked, Do we understand who the enemy is? We can speak for ourselves: We do. We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed, here, for the people of Egypt,” Bachmann said. “We’ve seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We remember who caused nine-one-one in America.”

Their unconditional support is eyebrow-raising, to say the least. There is no reliable estimate of how many have been killed in the army-led crackdowns since Morsi’s ouster, but estimates as of last week put the number somewhere between 1,000 and 8,000.

More: Michele Bachmann, Louie Gohmert, Steve King in Egypt - Business Insider

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33 comments
1 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 9:56:45am

The arrival of clueless Congress-critters in the field has been every diplomat’s nightmare since the time of Washington. They are often monumentally insensitive and uninformed, likely to offend the locals and tarnish our image with their antics, and impossible to control.

2 CuriousLurker  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:13:14am

Good freaking grief, I can’t believe those idiots were allowed out of the country without adult supervision.

Let’s send ‘em to a few more ME countries and see if they can start WWIII. //

3 nines09  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:31:03am

Our best and brightest./

4 Dr. Matt  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:39:55am
5 blueraven  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:44:17am

What? Huey, Louie and Dewey were busy. Larry Curly and Moe?

Seriously, what an embarrassment!

6 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:44:21am

President Obama upon being told of this:

“They did WHAT?!?!?!?!”

7 Pygmalion  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:44:53am

Wow. These people have no respect for democracy.

8 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:48:20am

So, are they spreading lies in Egypt about the Muslim Brotherhood and Obama?

Good Morning Lizards.

9 Flounder  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:48:54am

So, what is the punchline?!
Don’t leave me hanging bro!

10 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:49:08am

Clown show goes on the road.

11 b.d.  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:52:29am

Can Egypt give them a guided tour of the pyramids and seal them in? One big pyramid each.

12 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:53:46am

If only the pyramids could accommodate their egos.

13 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:54:24am

Okay, we have banned Shahara-Zod law in Oklahoma and many other states so it’s time y’all did it here. And get rid of that Brotherhood thing before it re-animates any more mummies and forces you to keep worshiping them pharaohs in Mecca.

14 Flounder  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:54:36am

All freshly botoxed too!

15 Pavlovian Hive Mind  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:54:49am

re: #7 Pygmalion

Wow. These people have no respect for democracy.

Neither did Morsi.

16 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:55:54am

re: #14 Flounder

All freshly botoxed too!

You can tell by how smooth their heads are!

17 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:56:16am

Michele (stepping into the airport): So here we are in Tel Aviv!

Steve: Yep, where’s the baggage claim?

Louie: I don’t know, I can’t read Hebrew.

18 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 10:59:33am
19 lawhawk  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:02:22am

Conspiracies are currency in the Middle East. It’s what regimes there spread on a regular basis to maintain their power. Now we’re adding our own crackpot crew to add to the melange of madness.

Super.

Normally, I’d say that the experience should be educational and that these three might learn something about the situation in Egypt, but that’s not what Stockman, Bachmann, and King will get from this. They’ll simply reaffirm their weird worldview and blame Obama for all that ails the region and when things go from bad to worse in Syria (or Egypt).

20 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:03:14am

I seriously want to punch myself in the face for watching even a part of that video.

21 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:03:48am

re: #20 makeitstop

I seriously want to punch myself in the face for watching even a part of that video.

I made the right decision! Thx for confirmation.

22 Killgore Trout  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:04:13am

Egypt military seizes Gaza-linked weapons in Sinai

One mortar had a scale used for aiming with the caption “Saraya Al Quds.”

That is the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, which had previously defied the ruling Hamas movement by firing rockets at Israel when Hamas wanted a truce.
….
“A huge percentage of Salafi jihadis in Gaza were former members of Islamic Jihad or Hamas, and left out of frustration out of the fact that they were not attacking Israel,” he said.

An Al-Qaeda-linked group in Sinai on Sunday claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Egypt’s interior minister last week, in which a bomb targeted his convoy.

The claim by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis came as the military conducted air strikes on militant hideouts in Sinai.

23 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:06:25am

Louis: So these are the pyramids!

Steve: They look kind of beat up to me, like Times Square before Rudy’s big clean-up.

Michelle: Yeah, that Egyptian place in Vegas is a lot nicer.

Louis: That’s it! We could tear them down and put up some better ones out of concrete and marble pattern plastic sheeting. We could call it Pharaoh-land.

Michelle: Fantastic! It would be the Mecca, er, the Vegas of the Middle East.

Steve: But do you have the dough for it?

Louis: Not me, but I’m sure Rick Perry could find us some investors.

24 b_sharp  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:16:43am

Shouldn’t fictional characters stay in works of fiction?

25 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:20:19am

Moved.

26 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:40:25am

Deniers along de Nile.

27 nofurrythings18  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:44:49am

Who let these idiots out of the village?

28 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 11:48:47am

re: #24 b_sharp

Shouldn’t fictional characters stay in works of fiction?

The entire Republican worldview is a work of fiction, so there is no reason we should expect it to be populated with real persons. Indeed, one could make a case that Gohmert, King, and Bachmann are fictional characters themselves, sharp-eyed grifters only pretending to be dim-witted rubes because that is what the audience wants to see and, hence, where the money is.

29 Jayleia  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 12:21:26pm

*reads story*

Oh god…I have a sharp pain behind my eye now…mainly because I stabbed myself to sever the optic nerves that brought me this derp.

30 Ming  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 12:37:13pm

From the LGF post: “Many of you have asked, Do we understand who the enemy is? We can speak for ourselves: We do. We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed, here, for the people of Egypt,” Bachmann said. “We’ve seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We remember who caused nine-one-one in America.”

I’m stunned and appalled. Bachmann’s words, uttered on foreign soil, are so very much the polar opposite of what George W. Bush did a day or so after 9/11: he met with American Muslim leaders, personally visited a mosque, and he made it very clear that the United States has no quarrel with the entire religion of Islam.

I know, I know, even the Egyptians don’t take Bachmann that seriously. Still, her words are yet another “personal worst” for her.

31 Tribeca Mike  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 1:56:20pm

Who calls September 11 “nine-one-one”?

32 Fortitudine  Mon, Sep 9, 2013 4:35:19pm

Wow. So much concentrated idiocy in one place. If I were a chemist I’d be calculating the odds on implosion right now.

33 docproto48  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 7:28:59pm

This was a Comedy Channel special right?


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