Bachmann falsely claims ‘flying imams’ were in Minneapolis for Ellison party
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 8:26 pm
A new transcription of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s April 9 interview on San Francisco AM station KSFO yields another error:
On the station’s morning show, she recounted the 2006 controversy of the so-called “flying imams,” six Muslim clerics who were removed from a US Airways flight after passengers grew uncomfortable with their behavior. “The imams, the imams were actually attending, ah, Congressman Keith Ellison’s victory celebration, when he won as a member of Congress,” Bachmann said.
Actually, they were in Minneapolis attending the fourth annual conference of the North American Imams Federation, as the Minnesota Independent, the New York Times and others reported at the time.
She also related that local “Somalis have been recruited, ah, taken, apparently to, ah, training camps, and, ah, one of the Somalis, ah, became a suicide bomber in the Middle East.” While there’s evidence that these young men weren’t “taken” but saved up to fund their own trips, the error here is in the story of a local Somali man who is thought to have died as a suicide bomber: He did so not in the “Middle East,” but in Somalia.
The interview, reported on earlier, featured Bachmann calling President Obama “shameful” for allegedly “bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia … and then lying about it.” In it, Bachmann also discussed a range of topics, including how she believes the Obama administration’s cap-and-trade energy plan would “double” monthly energy bills and send us “back to four and five dollars a gallon for gas” and that the concentrations of Somali and Hmong immigrants, two groups that come from warm climates to chilly Minnesota, were the result of a government “relocation” plan: “So I think this was a decision on the part of the federal government,” she said.
Here’s the transcript of Bachmann’s KSFO interview, from the blog Dump Bachmann.
106 Comments
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 9:51 pm
Actually Michelle, those immigrant groups located to MN through religious groups, mostly Lutherans, who assisted refugees in settling in the United States. So blame religion, not the government. My god, when is this woman going to go away? It is getting to be too much.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 9:59 pm
Michelle Bachmann is insane. Why does Minnesota tolerate her antics? She makes the whole state look ignorant.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:08 pm
Oh I am so relieved to read the story, because I thought she saw Imams on magic carpets. Now isn’t this much more believable?
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:11 pm
Michelle Bachmann could quite well legitimately be referred to as Bat S**T (crazy) Bachmann.
From some of the utterly insane things she comes up with the woman needs to be in a padded cell not the Halls of Congress.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
She looks like she screams all night in her sleep. I love it, actually. She’s been a gift for Democrats. Her continued re-election will guarantee Republicans will never take back the house.
Sorry for Minnesota, though. Whatever her district is, they must be on serious drugs, or in comas, all.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:17 pm
Sorry Linda, she is not only making the state of Minnesota look ignorant, but also the entire United States, and much of English-speaking Canada.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:24 pm
I can’t wait to find her in bed with Cantor. Literally. Between her vivid imagination and paranoia and his clueless whining, they will make room for a new political party by destroying what’s left of the GOP and turning it into the fringe lunatic party that it has become. And America desperately needs a new political party that don’t believe that government is the problem, and then does everything to make it the problem.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:27 pm
There is a bed set aside for her at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and a lot of nice people in white coats waiting to greet her.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:31 pm
the wide eyed look goes well with her mindless chatter about all that weird stuff.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:32 pm
Wow!! I don’t know much about Bachmann, but her national stage giving Minnesota worse PR than the movie Fargo ever could have.
I mean really, we have Bachmann spouting this nonsense coupled with Norm’s “I don’t wanna go! No, I won’t go!” antics.
Wow, people are going to start thinking there is something in the water up here or that the long winters somehow affect our minds…
I just want to say “Thank you, Rep. Bachmann” for voicing an opinion that really does wonders for your state’s image!
~1542
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 10:54 pm
Michelle Bachman is an embarassment not only to MN but to the entire country. to this country. She would do well to keep her mouth shut.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:11 pm
It’s amazing the lunatic right can’t learn basic geography. Well, maybe considering they’re lunatics, it’s not so amazing. Anyway, I don’t think she thinks Somalis went to some other country than Somalia. I think she thinks all Muslim countries are Arab. The nutcase right that thinks Obama is an Arab know his father came from Kenya, but they don’t know where Kenya is.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
I spent three pleasant years in graduate school in St. Paul in the sixties, and came away thinking that Minnesota was a special place where political discourse was civil and the milk of human kindness flowed freely. Sadly, I can’t help but feel that today’s Minnesota harbors a profusion of freaks and flakes that makes me want to stay away from old haunts. I’ll take those old days when the DFL folks like HHH were a class act. How far we have fallen!
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:15 pm
Yes, she is entertaining, like watching the stupidity of “Speeders” on TruTV.
As a person who knows little about Minnesota, she gives me the impression that people from Minnesota must be nuts. Why else would she have a job?
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:22 pm
From the brain-trust that elected Franken and Ventura as well, these comments are really too little, too late. Just what’s in the water in those 10,000 lakes?? You guys actually make the folks in Wisconsin look intelligent.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
Wow, let’s just all pile on Minnesota. I guess since Lieberman is Jewish then Connecticut is.
You know that little couple on the farm that only went out to church and maybe for groceries… and that homeschooled daughter they had… who did go to town but not “that kind of town” (staying in “Real America”) and connects with the extremist churches located mostly near the countryside (i.e. exurban)… that’s Bachmann. Not her bio but religious to the point of delirium and outspoken.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:43 pm
The ironic part is Bachmann took in $300,000 dollars in campaign cash in the first quarter.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:48 pm
I can’t believe that back in the late 70s I actually put in an employment form to move to Minneapolis to work for the Post Office. And they picked me up! Fortunately it was after another office picked me up first.Otherwise this pathetic woman could’ve become my congresscritter.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
Wow, she’s a special kind of crazy that’s for sure. And I mean no disrespect the mentally ill. She’s everything I couldn’t imagine getting into office, and yet, she did.
Comment posted April 15, 2009 @ 11:55 pm
Minnesota get rid of this witch,
I can’t believe this witch represent the beautiful state of Minnesota. Why congress doesn’t investigate her after so many crazy statements. I’m sick and tired of these so called right wing who are trying to change the country by inciting hate. You think this happens aonly in Afghanistan adn Iraq, we are seeing it now here. I hope Minnesota will wake up and fire this sick B.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 12:26 am
I always had an impression that Minnesota was populated with sensible people from good, sensible immigrant stock. Not anymore.
You had a wonderful opportunity, with the financial assist of many people across the country, to put this woman and your state and our country, out of our collective misery. But you elected her again anyway.
Is there no one who cares enough about her to get her to psychiatric help immediately? Where is her family?
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 12:29 am
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about with pirates, foreign terrorists, a failed economy, we have these rightwing extremist wingnuts going crazy.
In the last two elections that Republicans lost, they went crazy. In the recent two elections that they won, they were incompetent AND crazy. They were only sane and happy with the actor in charge and his make believe world.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 12:32 am
Don’t be so hard on Bachmann. It’s not her fault. Blame the voices in her head for her irrational rantings.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 12:36 am
I once visited the University of Minnesota and thought that it was a reasonably rational place even though they were on the verge of electing Jesse “The Body” Ventura. But the Norm Coleman insanity… and “mad” Michelle, I am beginning to wonder what kind of kooks live there? How many different ways does Norm have to lose before somebody tells him to quit? As for Michelle, conservatism is one thing I can understand that–insanity is quite another. At least the Republican moose hunter wasn’t crazy…so I guess there’s still hope for the GOP.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 12:45 am
Your Canadian neighbors worry about you folks, we really do.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:07 am
“Oh I am so relieved to read the story, because I thought she saw Imams on magic carpets. Now isn’t this much more believable?”
Very funny…I thought the same thing when I saw the headline…. Is Bachmann now seeing Imans on Magic carpets ? Did she Aladdin too many times ? I really do think she’s been on the carousel at the Mall of America one too many times !
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:14 am
you don’t have to take an I.Q. test to be a congress woman/man
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:24 am
I, too, am confused by the crazy people in Minnesota. They didn’t used to be there, did they? I say this as someone who long ago, for economic reasons, moved from Michigan to Texas, fully aware that there would be many loose wingnuts afoot in my new home. I’m used to apologizing for my adopted state, but I still feel a connection with “Up North”, and I’m sorry to say that MN (which is often confused with MI by non-Northerners) is giving the entire region a bad name.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:37 am
Minnesota: really– is there some kind of environmental toxin in your otherwise lovely lakes? You had a chance to vote this delusional pinhead out of office…and instead you re-elected her. Actually, let’s take a step back: you elected her in the first place. Of course, I’m from Wyoming…but at least Dick Cheney wasn’t an OBVIOUS lunatic, that only came out later. This woman is clearly crazy from the get-go. It’s not just this photo, I’ve seen her on TV, and she’s clearly in need of a strait-jacket.
Wassup with you guys?
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:49 am
Just spoke with my daughter tonight and asked why Bachmann got re-elected (Bachmann is her rep). She referred to Bachmann as a “moron” and told me the democrat and independent candidates unfortunately split the opposition vote. Minnesota is a beautiful state – I’ve always
enjoyed my visits there, but, between Bachmann and Coleman you have to wonder about
their political system.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:53 am
Please stop saying “Why did MN elect her?”
It’s a hideously gerrymandered CD that is shaped like a dumbell – (no snark intended, but that is good) – which includes Stillwater, Anoka and a tiny strip of exurban wasteland in between. I volunteered for Patty Wetterling, the first opponent this clown faced – and Patty is a saint. Bachmann buried her with fundraising from the religious right – some under very questionable church/state IRS violations and MB is what they got.
I then moved to Eugene, Oregon where I now reside.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 2:02 am
I used to have the highest respect for Minnesotans, growing up next to your state and having the privilege of using your boundary waters for canoe trips when I was a teen. I am dumbfounded that you would have a Senator like Coleman and a representative like Michelle. I grew up as a conservative Republican but I never knew anyone like either of them in Wisconsin and we had some pretty unusual people there. Well, perhaps Joe McCarthy was worse than they are because he hurt a lot of people for no particularly good reason.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 2:07 am
Either Michelle Bachmann is crazy enough to talk this stupidly or stupid enough to speak this crazily. Either way she is unfit to represent anyone, who can match socks, in Congress. To call her behavior “conservative” would offend conservatives. Who in the 6th District will even admit that they voted for her? Well, if you’re ashamed to admit it in public, don’t do it again.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 2:29 am
In answer to TJ’s question: “Is there no one who cares enough about her to get her to psychiatric help immediately? Where is her family?”
Her husband is a therapist. He’s famous throughout the community — i.e. throughout the Fundamentalist Christian/right-wing/whack-job community — for “repairing” gay men to make them strait. I suspect that would be a trivial undertaking when compared to adjusting Michelle Bachmann so that she fits on some page of the DSM that doesn’t scream “psychotic.” With some serious work, he could probably train her to pass as a “borderline personality.” I’m sure that I am not alone in saying that I’d welcome any positive change in Michelle Bachmann’s mental health.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 2:34 am
Honestly, when I see an article or a clip of Michele Bachmann, I just kind of feel sorry for her. I just think that FOX News and other right leaning media egg her on and get her on their shows for their own benefit. They probably even have a laugh behind her back, since guys like Hannity aren’t stupid, they’re calculating in what they do and say, so they must be amused that there is someone who really believes in the stuff they’re saying, and that it’s crazier than what they come up with !
If certain media treated her comments as the should be treated, maybe she wouldn’t be so vocal, but then at the end of the day it is really only hurting her image, while getting ratings and coverage for the media outlets that let her rant on.
I guess the really worrying thing would be, after all this crazy, that it doesn’t hurt her image with certain demographics in America.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 2:49 am
What a bunch of talk.I live in her district and know for a fact that she has hosted meetings.If you would like to prove yourself wrong,go to the web site for mn Senate district 56.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 3:23 am
Hello from London. I wonder if Minnesotans have any idea how much entertainment Ms.Bachmann provides around the world? This woman needs to be imported to the UK, ennobled and inducted to the House of Lords as soon as possible. Not since Lord Clancarty revealed to CBC radio that the earth was hollow and that flying saucers emerged at special points on the surface have we heard anyone so deeply aware of what is REALLY going on in the world.
There is also a vacancy in British public life following the recent death of Jade Goody which Lady Bachmann (or whatever title she adopts) could fill with great aplomb. She is also much more attractive.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 3:36 am
Minnesota is a very nice place with as many cuckoos in the nest as lakes in the state, apparently.
Why is it so many hold office here? Crazy!
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 4:14 am
What a bizarre, crazy woman! Can she not be recalled for insanity?
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 4:54 am
What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, Michelle Bachmans come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was Michelle Bachmann comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes Michelle Bachmann goes away… but sometimes she wouldn’t go away. Sometimes Michelle Bachmann looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about Micehlle Bachmann is she’s got lifeless eyes. Dead eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When she comes at ya, she doesn’t even seem to be livin’… until she bites ya, and those blue eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 5:17 am
Minnesota:
Please note in future that `entertainment value` is NOT a reasonable criterion for electing a Congressional Representative.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 6:08 am
The scary part is that plenty of folks believe her, and agree with her. Andrew posted :
“You know that little couple on the farm that only went out to church and maybe for groceries… and that homeschooled daughter they had… who did go to town but not “that kind of town” (staying in “Real America”)”
Spot on. And, the folks that vote for her don’t care if she sounds crazy. They may be from immigrant stock, but in their minds the immigrants are only good if they are the right color, and right religion.
In Maine we have plenty of people that think like that too…. and with our diverse cities ( Portland, Lewiston) some tension has been growing, and known to come out. But for all of our issues, we would never elect a woman like this, and I hope that the good folks of MN get her out as soon as possible.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 6:18 am
Coleman, Bachman – if I ever go to Minnesota I don’t plan to drink the water.
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Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 6:31 am
With all of the crazy behavior from Bachman wouldn’t it be prudent to try and remove her from office? She does seem like a bona fide mental case.
I know it wouldn’t be easy but this lady has made more incoherent statements then Iran’s Amadinijhad.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 6:46 am
Bachmann represents Stearns County mostly, a hotbed of fundamentalist white power inbred German catholics. It is not at all like the rest of Minnesota.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 7:02 am
Bachmann isn’t going away as long as the media continues to publish Bachmann’s lies without fact-checking or corrections. And you don’t have to go to San Francisco to find evidence–start at the Star-Tribune.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 7:16 am
Why do you people keep putting this lying nut job in office?????
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 7:24 am
Michele -did I leave my pills over your house?
I’m limp noodle willy !!!!
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 7:36 am
The people of Minnesota (her district in particular) need to get it together and ship her out. The United States Federal Government has no place for idiots like this lady, let alone in an exclusive body like the House of Representatives. People who are as ignorant as her hear this crap and become the kind of right-wing terrorist the Homeland Security report cautioned us about.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 7:40 am
The Republicon party has become a religious cult. Like most cults, it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with having power over submissive, gullible followers.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 7:53 am
Unfortunately, the GOP must love her – they have so many in congress who are trying to imitate/emulate her, and I would bet she will make some sort of bid for the GOP Presidential nomination in ’12.
PALIN/BACHMANN in 2012! They’d get some votes.
Lot of laughs, too.
mark
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 8:00 am
It’s the Media, Stupid!! “Tea parties, Communists, socialists, and Hannity” are all given greater time on most of the mainstream media than the environment; the fact that we were on the verge of a depression world-wide and how that would have affected the average citizen; the chaotic and still undemocratic mess in Iraq; the complete disaster in Afghanistan; the genocide and starvation in Africa; the complete lawlessness and criminality that accompanied the meltdown of our financial institutions; and how actual tax structure in the U.S. continues to favor the wealthy (among a few possible stories). We “report” on Michelle Nutbag and her cohorts without spending time on the facts and the important issues of our day.
It is a massive irony that in order to have a successful democracy, we need accurate information from independent sources and therefore have to defend the media and the First Amendment when, in fact, what we get from them (Idol, Bachmann, O’reilly, rappers, big mouthed athletes, and fluff) is bringing us to the brink of disaster as a people who do not have the information and therefore cannot properly conduct a democracy. Pitiful!
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 8:02 am
She’s been either dipping liberally into the business drug stash…or NOT taking her meds. I was SHOCKED to read on her House website:
“Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, live in Stillwater where they own a small business mental health care practice that employs 42 people. The Bachmann’s have five children, Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia. In addition, the Bachmanns have opened their home to 23 foster children, which has inspired Congresswoman Bachmann to become one of Congress’ leading advocates for foster and adopted children, earning her bipartisan praise for her efforts.”
Really, she’s either over the edge paranoid schizophrenic…more likely drug induced psychotic. You can’t even make this stuff up!!
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 8:12 am
Minnesota was great until the religious fundamentalists moved in.
I grew up there and my hero was Hubert Humphrey. I still have the autograph I got when I was 12 at the State Fair with my prize pig!
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 8:16 am
Believe me, no group of people dislike this lunatic more than everyone in MN who does not live in her district. Many of us refuse to even drive through that district in fear of having to stop at a gas station or something. We’ll take the long way around. We have no idea what kind of pod people live there, nor do we want to know! Bachmann is NOT reflective of MN. I live in Keith Ellison’s district. We voted the first Muslim into Congress. Give us some credit. We also voted unanimously for Obama. As for Coleman, he lost. There is nothing to discuss. It’s too bad his ego can’t catch up to reality. If our loser Governor had any guts, not to mention class, he’d end that fiasco right now.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 8:17 am
State bashing…that’s brilliant and very Michelle Bachmann of you. I’ve seen some of these same posters knock California and its “San Francisco Values” for electing a Republican for governor and belittle Indiana and its “redneck/KKK” populous for electing Evan Bayh, a Democrat, as a Senator. Come on–enough with the stereotyping and interstate warfare. It takes 10-12 hours to drive from the southern point of Minnesota to the northernmost tip: almost the same amount of time it takes to go from Georgia backwater to the bricks of NYC. Maybe, and I’m just saying, MAYBE, there’s some diversity of thought somewhere in all of those miles, and within that diversity, there may be places where there exists no thought at all. That “no thought place”…that’s where you’ll find Ms. Bachmann. And why Wisconsin, NCMike? If you don’t like Madison then move to Janesville; they’re as socio-politically different as two towns can be–something for everyone. Still not satisfied? Then go back to the cave where you and Michelle live, and wait for the Apocalypse in silence. The grownups are trying to talk.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 8:28 am
Don’t let Bachmann and Coleman colour your opinion on MN, the Twin Cities voted overwhelmingly for Obama and we did elect our first Muslim congressman (the one that associates with flying Imans). There are rednecks in every state and unfortunately Bachmann represents the bible gun clinging Fox News/Nascar watching set in our state.You would think winning an election by a few % points would humble you or make you tone it down but not crazy bigot and racist Michelle or any of those GOP’s – arrogance. She’s still in love with W. I just don’t get how she’s not investigated, if Obama or Ellison made those remarks they would be on trial. Oh and Coleman, he’s from New York, we wish he’d move back.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 9:06 am
Why does she always have this crazy insane look in her eyes? Is she on drugs?
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 9:11 am
As a life long North Carolinian, I understand what some Minnesotans here feel. We had Jesse Helms represent us seemingly forever, I cannot tell you how many times I was asked, “How can you guys keep electing him?”
I don’t know if Bachmann is nuts or just shrewdly knows her base. In Helms’ case, he was an extremely shrewd politician. He knew exactly how some of his “crazy” stands would play with his base. However, I have to think even ‘ole Jesse would listen to Bachmann and think, “Boy, she’s out there.”
Minnesotans hang in there; maybe ya’ll won’t have to wait quite as long as we did to replace her.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 9:18 am
I grew up in Anoka County, in the middle of what became her district. 30-40 years ago, Anoka County was reliably blue-collar Democrat. Humphrey-Mondale-Kennedy-LBJ-RFK Democrats. Then Reagan came along, with his “government is the problem” mantra, and blue collar Democrats nation wide swallowed it hook line and sinker. The GOP cut the funding for our schools, taking Minnesota students from the top in national rankings to well into the middle. The state Democratic party aged, and the second generation was simply not up to the task of national leadership. Oh sure, we had some great leaders sprinkled in there. The most promising of them all died in a plane crash just days before the 2002 election.
The dumbing down of the nation has resulted in Michelle Bachmanns in every corner of the nation. Yes, she is exceptional in her hunger for the spotlight and her obliviousness to reality. But Minnesota is not the hotbed of nutjobs that some have painted us as. As people have pointed out, we also elected Keith Ellison, Tim Walz, Amy Klobachar, Barack Obama, and let’s not forget Al Franken. Bachmann has won narrow victories over 2 candidates that would have served the district and the nation far far better than she, by relying on character assassination, lies, religious extremism and fear mongering. The district was gerrymandered to make it very Catholic, thus ensuring that anti-abortion candidates could win by running only on that issue. It is mostly suburban/exurban, filled with starter castles, many of which are now vacant due to foreclosure. It is a very different district than what I grew up in.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 9:32 am
As a student of American politics, I predict that Ms.Bachmann will be caught up in a sex scandal soon or will be the Republican presidential candidate in 2016
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 9:41 am
I’d do her but not vote for her.
What is with the Republicants and their trophy wife nut job candidates?
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 9:46 am
Ya’ll are missing the point about the GOP…They have always said mean and stupid things, esp over the last 16 years. Look back. Shell Bachman has been saying this stuff for quite a while, how come we are just noticing how shabby, hollow and sad GOP folks like Bone-er and Cantor are, I mean just now we see it. 5 years ago we didn’t see it….hmmmmmmm. Gee, we have someone sane in the WH to judge these yahoos against and it really really shows. Great entertainment.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 10:29 am
And I thought the Vikings were Minnesota’s biggest embarrassment…
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 10:51 am
I get the “flying Imam” all the time at the Turkish restaurant near work. It’s a stuffed eggplant and a chicken kebob on salad. Mmmm mmm good.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 11:04 am
I lived in Minneapolis for 4 years in the 1990s. I can attest: Mrs. Marcus Bachmann is an anomaly. But having said that, Minnesotans REALLY need to do something about her at this point. She is a serious menace on a national scale.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 11:36 am
I’m from California but Bachmann keeps on popping up in National news with astronomical disaster.
Maybe, the flying saucers will land on earth with the Imams in it and Pres. Obama would welcome them and she would charge “fire!”
That spells indication how a nutcase she has been more than the embarassment. Can’t wait to hear what the next headline would be in the next few weeks.
Wake up, Minnessota….!
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
Her and Glenn Beck should have a baby. It would be the most paranoid, ignorant, hateful baby known to man.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
From next door in Wisconsin I thought we had heard the last from our own lunatic, Joe McCarthy, but I do believe Bachmann is channeling him.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:12 pm
I think we should take a book out of the “tea bag deliveries” and have everyone start sending her tin foil hats so she can more clearly hear those voices in her head.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
In my business, if a person says God is telling him/her to do things, we medicate.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
I guess the ‘bearing false witness’ business doesn’t apply to her. The trouble here is that she can lie and not be challenged. Also, whether mentally ill or not she apparently represents a significant number of people who probably agree with her dribble (they twice elected her). As I life long Minnesotan I fear she represents the beliefs of more people than just those in her district.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
I thought we had strange psychos in office in Canada but Michele takes it to a whole new level.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
Couldn’t her supporters see that this women was missing a few marbles; couldn’t they see the elevator didn’t go all the way up. What is the matter that you would elect this liar to a national office? The country just doesn’t understand, how could this have happened. WHAT WERE YOU THNNKING
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
I would just like to defend Minnesota a little here, she is is just one bat-sh– crazy lady from one bat-sh– crazy district. I’m from the district of Betty McCollum, which hasn’t gone Republican since 1947. We have other fine Representives such as Ellison (the only Islamic rep.) and Jim Oberstar. We’re generally a great state! Everyone has the one insane person in their family, that just happens to be one of our congressional districts.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
There’s the deep South..and there’s the Sixth Congressional District in Minnesota.
Remember who voted for this nutcase. That’s where your disgust should be directed.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
Huh?
Tsk, tsk. Does this person listen to what she is saying? Has she got no clue at all? Anybody know when the guys in the white coats will be coming to take her away?
Some quiet time in a padded room just might do her good.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 5:14 pm
Every time I read about Michele’s latest ravings I can’t get Pink Floyd’s The Wall out of my head. “Craaaaazy, toys in the attic, she is craaaazy.”
http://cosmicoverdrive.blogspot.com
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Dear MN Republicans of the 6th Congressional District – Can you PLEASE find someone credible to run against this loon in the primary?!??!?! Don’t get me wrong…I’m a Democrat and would prefer a Democrat beat her….but being realistic, the 6th Dist. is very unlikely to elect a Dem. However, don’t you have a worthy Republican that can represent you with honor and bring pride to your District?
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
Interesting, she was a nutcase before the last election and you people from MN actually believed her BS ‘sobby’ commercial and re-elected her? You deserve every nasty look, every satirical remark and every question regarding your collective sanity. Idiots, to a man, to a Bachmann!
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
we are hoping she will move to texas where they will appreciate her. then if they secede they can take her with them ..there would be much
rejoicing in minn.
Comment posted April 16, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
To a former Floridian lamenting 2000, I feel for Minnesotans who have to see this woman in the news. You, of course, were blessed after she fasted for several days, then received the message she should run for Congress. Can anyone suggest that perhaps, she should fast far longer next time? Like the remainder of her term?
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Comment posted April 17, 2009 @ 5:25 am
You Lefties are mindless drones.
I’m not sure if URLs will cause my comment to filter.. so here is parts of a CBS story from 2006. I’ll give the link in a follow up comment.
CBS News
21 Nov 2006 (hmm right after an election)
Bachmann said: They were in Minneapolis
” Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport”
They were based in Phx
“The six Muslim scholars were returning from a conference in Minneapolis ”
Keith Ellison was present at the event they were at,according to CAIR’s Hooper
“Hooper said the meeting drew about 150 imams from all over the country, and that those attending included U.S. Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, a Democrat of Minneapolis, who just became the first Muslim elected to Congress. ”
So you are in a tissy because they did things other than exclusively celebrate ellison for the entire duration they were in MSP?
So pathetic what the Left is doing to discourse in this country.
Comment posted April 17, 2009 @ 5:26 am
This is the link to the story
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/21/national/main2202386.shtml?source=search_story
Comment posted April 17, 2009 @ 2:16 pm
Man, what’s in the food and water supply in Minnesota? I can’t believe that this nutcase is floating around there, masquerading as a congresswoman. Some will say she is clearly a few raisins short of a fruitcake, but please, let’s not insult raisins and fruitcakes by associating them with this idiot!!
What goes on in this woman’s head before, during and after she makes these bats**t crazy statements, really boggles the minds of us normal folks. Michele Bachmann, please, I beg you, GET HELP, GET PROFESSIONAL HELP, AND GET IT NOW!!!
Comment posted April 17, 2009 @ 10:57 pm
World of Michele Bachman 618
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Comment posted May 4, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
Don’t be so distraught, she represents only one district and actually does serve the purpose of shining a light in some very creepy corners of the GOP – it’s good to know what the opposition is thinking when they become this twisted.
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