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Audience laughs at Bachmann during Minnesota debate
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was loudly laughed at during her first debate with Democratic challenger Jim Graves. At the hour-long debate in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Graves slammed Bachmann for attacking President Barack Obama instead of providing any specific ideas on how keep Medicare and Social Security funded. “At the end…
Bachmann’s opponent says she is part of the ‘war on women’
The Minnesota businessman running to unseat Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) named her as part of the “war on women” Sunday in an interview with MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. “She has engaged in a war on women,” said Jim Graves, who currently trails Bachmann by six points among likely voters. “She would…
AP editor: There wasn’t enough time and space to debunk Bachmann lies
An editor for the Associated Press said in a panel discussion on Wednesday that during coverage of the Republican primaries, fact-checkers for the organization would have to limit themselves to a “quota” of misstatements by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) during debates. According to the Washington Post, the AP’s Jim Drinkard…
Bachmann’s anti-Muslim ‘brain’ draws laughs at Values Voter Summit
Frank Gaffney, president of the right-wing Center for Security Policy think tank, said at the Family Research Council Action Fund’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. on Saturday that Islam is a “brutally repressive doctrine” that is “bad for just about all human beings.” Gaffney, the man largely credited with…
Bachmann: GOP is ‘a party of women’ because I won straw poll
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) dismissed the idea of a Republican war on women Tuesday morning because she won the Iowa straw poll during her failed presidential campaign. Bachmann appeared on Fox & Friends to fire back at the accusations against her party’s policies regarding reproductive rights, saying they have come…
Jennifer Garner channels Bachmann by battling heathen stripper in ‘Butter’ movie
Jennifer Garner channels former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann in a movie where an aspiring butter sculptor looks to defeat a young African-American girl who is being helped by a stripper. In the movie Butter, Garner plays Laura Pickler, an Iowa woman who “eyes what she sees as long-deserved glory,…
Gingrich defends Bachmann and McCarthyism: ‘There were real spies’
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was not wrong to accuse a top State Department aide of being an Islamic infiltrator, according to Newt Gingrich, because “behind McCarthyism there were real spies.” “People tend to forget this,” Gingrich told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “There were a lot of guilty people who would never…
Ed Rendell begs Romney to pick Bachmann for VP
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Sunday advised presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to pick tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) as his running mate. During a panel discussion about Romney’s selection for the Republican ticket, CBS host Bob Schieffer asked Rendell if he had a prediction.…
Bachmann joined GOP because of ‘snotty, mocking attitude’ of Gore Vidal
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Wednesday said that she would not be a member of the Republican Party if it were not for novelist Gore Vidal. “I had been a Democrat and I’d actually worked on Jimmy Carter’s campaign and I was reading a novel by Gore Vidal and when…
Republican lawmakers continue to defend Muslim Brotherhood claims
The five House Republicans who alleged the Obama administration had been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood have refused to back down, despite criticism from members of their own party. Reps. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Tom Rooney (R-FL) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) told The Hill on Sunday that the media was unfairly…
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