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It’s not the most gracious apology I’ve ever seen, but Sean Hannity admits Jon Stewart was right, and says he’s sorry for using footage of large crowds from the September 12th tea party in his coverage of Michele Bachmann’s protest last week. Hannity says it was “inadvertent,” but it’s a ...
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
Jon Stewart catches Fox News and Sean Hannity red-handed in their coverage of Michele Bachmann’s “house call” rally, slipping in footage from the September 12th tea party in Washington DC to make Bachmann’s rally look bigger: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage. [Video]
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel condemned signs containing Holocaust imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Michele Bachmann’s “tea party” event last Thursday. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner “National Socialist Health Care.” Another sign said ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Elie Wiesel, Tea Party
Pastor Stephen Broden from Dallas Texas gives the benediction at Michele Bachmann’s “house call” protest against the health care reform bill, and immediately launches a political diatribe about “death panels!” and “death care!” and tyranny and socialism and anti-Christ abortion and violation of all the laws of God and ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics, Pastor Broden, Death Panel
C-SPAN 3 is covering the Michele Bachmann anti-health care tea party swarm right now; as I write, Jon Voight is speaking on the steps of the Capitol. I’d estimate the crowd at between 7.3 and 8.2 million people. At least. UPDATE at 11/5/09 10:03:39 am: The word of the day ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Michele Bachmann’s (R-Mars) chief of staff is bailing out, and declines to say why. The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) continues promoting her bizarre, obsessive “SCHOOL-BASED SEX CLINICS” distortions, in her latest crazy rant to the US House of Representatives. [Video]
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Twilight Zn) introduces Ron Paul in Minnesota: “He’s an awesome man!” [Video] Also see: Ron Paul and the John Birch Society LGF search: Ron Paul
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Ron Paul, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) announces the latest far right fever swamp fantasy: the health care reform bill is going to allow the demonic Planned Parenthood to set up ... I hope you’re sitting down ... sex clinics in the schools of America! With free abortions for 13-year olds! What’s worse ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion
At the “How to Take Back America” conference last week, attended by Republican leaders including Mike Huckabee, Steve King, and Michele Bachmann, speakers railed against the “Marxist and/or Nazi dictatorship” of President Obama, and promoted a full raft of far right conspiracy theories. Following the Values Voters Summit the previous ...
Far Right, kooks, Phyllis Schlafly, social conservatism, Religious Right, Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachmann, Extremism
Two of the craziest right wing politicians in America, together at last to dispense a double dose of burning stupidity: Reps Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul speak tonight at U. A student town hall at the University of Minnesota tonight will feature two high-profile Republicans — 6th District Rep. ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Ron Paul, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), always a dependable source of loony rants, really uncorked a winner today as she told a wildly cheering audience that she wanted them to slit their wrists. “This cannot pass,” the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. ...
The mainstreaming of paleo-libertarian isolationist Ron Paul in the GOP continues apace, as wacky Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann announces she’s a convert to the Paulian cult, and has invited the crazy uncle to speak as an expert on monetary policy: Bachmann to host town hall with Rep. Ron Paul. ...
Ron Paul, Idiocy, Conspiracies, kooks, GOP, Federal Reserve, Michele Bachmann
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) goes on the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, and repeats her contention that the government might use census data to round people up and put them in internment camps. Beck closes his eyes and shakes his head when she says this, and almost immediately cuts her off ...
Michele Bachmann, Census, Barack Obama, Acorn, Internment, World War II, Loopy, Glenn Beck
In an interview on Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s taking a stand against the US census because it was used to round up Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps during World War II. [Video] (Hat tip: Killian Bundy.)
Michele Bachmann, Census, Barack Obama, Acorn, Internment, World War II, Loopy
Rep. Michele Bachmann says her family plans not to answer some of the questions on the 2010 census form, because ACORN is involved. She may be fined $5000. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Washington Times that she and her family will not be fully filling out the 2010 ...
Former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter John Avlon, author of Independent Nation: How the Vital Center Is Changing American Politics, has a new feature for CNN’s “American Morning:” Wingnuts of the week. Here’s how Avlon introduces the segment: We’re trying out a new segment on “American Morning” called “Wingnuts of the ...
John Avlon, Rudy Giuliani, Cynthia McKinney, Michele Bachmann, extremists, kooks
For the past couple of months I’ve been writing about the “mainstreaming” of paleo-libertarian Ron Paul; he’s been a regular guest on Fox News and other networks, and his drones have been heavily involved in organizing “tea party” demonstrations. Lots of LGF readers didn’t want to believe this was happening. ...
Ron Paul, Antisemitism, Idiocy, Conspiracies, kooks, John Birch Society, Racism, GOP, Michele Bachmann