“Don’t let them Palinize me!’ cries the subject line of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s email to supporters today. Laying claim to the Sean Hannity–bestowed title of “second most hated Republican woman,” Bachmann makes a pitch for cash: “With Governor Palin taking a well-deserved step out of the spotlight, it appears that I may be absorbing even more of the liberals’ scorn. And, I’d really appreciate your support so that I can defend myself against their attacks.”The Palin theme seems predicated not only on Hannity’s phrase but also on news yesterday that Bachmann’s son has joined Teach for America, part of the AmeriCorps program that she has publicly berated:
But just as they did with Sarah Palin, the more I talk about the issues, the more they attack with below-the-belt personal hits. In fact, yesterday, a Minnesota paper gave a full column to a hit piece on one of my kids!
Today’s “Bachmann Blast” (pdf) comes only a week after Palin gave Bachmann a shout-out on Facebook, seemingly signaling symbiosis between the two rightwing divas.
Making a verb with negative connotations out of Palin’s name is an unusual step for a fellow Republican.
It was no compliment, for example, when CNN’s Larry King blurted out former Sen. Norm Coleman’s name as a verb of derision during the heat of Coleman’s recount battle with Democrat Al Franken.
A negative definition of “Norm Coleman” even made the Urban Dictionary, a source Bachmann quotes directly at the end of her missive:
From the Urban Dictionary:
Palinize:
To smear or mock someone using falsehoods, baseless accusations or unsubstantiated character assassinations for the purpose of blocking them from achieving a goal.
To exaggerate the truth or lie by omission.
To attack a person for his or her conservative values by focusing an inordinate amount of attention on a single example of that person falling short (or being perceived as falling short) of the values they espouse.

















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Comment posted August 13, 2009 @ 3:46 pm
Don’t send her any money. It gets reported to the government and then the black helicopters will come to your house and take you to the same re-education camp in which her son is being imprisoned. Secretly slip her some cash at the State Fair and walk away quickly before the socialist fascist nazi gay people see you.
Comment posted August 13, 2009 @ 4:16 pm
Keep her in Washington, its cheap entertainment.
Comment posted August 13, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Sarah Palin and Michelle – stop blogging all day long and pick up a book and educate yourself. You really are showing just how stupid you are.
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 5:10 am
In her Aug. 13 “Bachmann Blast” fundraising letter, Rep. Bachmann asks, “Remember last fall how the Democrats attacked me for my interview on the Chris Matthews show?”
That’s a reprise of her April 27 fundraising letter, in which Bachmann wrote: “We thought we saw the height of their [Democrats'] spin machine last October, but, really, it looks like this is just the beginning.”
Bachmann is referring to her infamous October 17, 2008 interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC “Hardball,” in which she said she was “very concerned” that Barack Obama “may have anti-American views” and that “the news media should do a penetrating exposé and … take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out if they’re pro-America or anti-America.”
When Fox News Channel’s Alan Colmes confronted Bachmann a month later, on November 18, 2008, with the transcript of her “Hardball” comments, Bachmann responded: “Actually that’s not what I said. It’s an urban legend that was created.”
Considering how despicable the views were that Rep. Bachmann expressed on “Hardball” and her refusal to take responsibility for her words, it’s utterly shameless that she would use that low point in American political discourse to troll for campaign cash.
It’s all the prompting I need to counter Bachmann’s fundraising appeal with one of my own, in order to raise the money necessary to oppose Bachmann yet again for the Republican nomination.
More information at http://www.immelman.us/news/bachmann-plays-victim-again/
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 8:32 am
Bachmann just understands the necessity to be free and not too well governed. She tries to be shrill voice of the minority republicans, but most republicans ran away from the bush doctrines like their hair was on fire. Now righties are villianized quite profoundly, when the bush policies that all the rethuglicans pushed down our throats for 8 years were not truly conservative, but more along the lines of fascism.
All that being said, fascism has been embraced and employed by Obama as well. The game is up, folks do not want freedom, they want mama government to take care of them.
When you all get what you want here, Minnesota, you will regret it later. I KNOW I am a monority of one on this board, but the hegelian dialectic is working overtime on all you communist liberal marxist market fantasy players, and you believe what the government wants is good for you.
Keep drinking the Kool aid of mainstream media and the libtards here at the minnesota “Independent” liberal press.
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 10:14 am
ZNOFOB – I suspect you are a monority no matter where you are.
Congratulations on being able to spell “hegelian dialectic”. Now please explain it to a communist liberal marxist market fantasy player.
And I’m a little confused – are we Fascists or Communists?
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Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 10:50 am
on the dialectic, and how it applies to modern political structure, please feel free to “google” or whatever you overly educated idiots do to find out facts, then try to look into what is happening in modern america today.
I am a minority, of one. Indeed. I Thank providence I am different than this crowd on a daily basis.
Communitarians is what I call all those who subscribe to groupthink rather than individualism. And, just because you congratulated me on spelling, try to spell minority with one “o” and one “i”.
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 11:17 am
ZNOFOB –
I also thank providence that you are different.
As far as spelling goes – “When you all get what you want here, Minnesota, you will regret it later. I KNOW I am a monority of one on this board, but the hegelian dialectic is working overtime on all you communist liberal marxist market fantasy players, and you believe what the government wants is good for you.”
I suspect you get confused between minority and moron – although in your case I suspect the descriptions are interchangeable.
Feel free to “google” either.
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
ZNOFO,
It’s MORONITY. As for your preferred political system, I’m sure it is Fascist. “Government controlled by and geared to benefit corporations through belligerent militarism and heavy handed control of the markets and the people” You know, Bushism?
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
moderated board and cut my posts.
fine.
Idiots and assholes make me hate people.
This board makes me hate “independent media”.
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
ZNOFOB: We have basic comment policies. If you’re going to post using various handles, as you’ve been doing, those posts won’t appear, per our stated policy. http://minnesotaindependent.com/policies
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
ZNOFOB –
BUSTED!!!! HEEHEEHEEHEE!!!
Time to take your ball and go home.
And I’m willing to bet that the “hating people” part is something you do naturally.
Comment posted August 14, 2009 @ 7:58 pm
What they dont tell you is that the guy who wrote about her son was nothing but complimentary and made no mention of her other than he must have been raised well.
This woman is a complete moonbat that actually makes Sara Palin seem somewhat intelligent.
Comment posted August 15, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Death squads, hitler, cant they be original? Everything the GOP describes is how they have governed! Bachman just happens to be the craziest of them all and they all act out like they are on drugs! Bachman has a thing going on with her eyes when she talks and it must be that cord needs severing between her brain and her ass.hole. As Christian and pro life she touts herself to be, she sure displays no care about the lives of others, only her own selfish wants to be seen and heard. Palin/Bachman-2012 would provide CHEAP entertainment seeing many of us cant afford vacations and trips these days!
Comment posted August 16, 2009 @ 6:58 am
I, personally, encourage the ranting. The good outweighs the bad in that it speaks volumes about the legitimacy of right-wing politics today. Whether left, right or in between, comments by those such as Bachman are so far over the line that their intent is glaringly obvious. These are desperate ploys for attention, pleas for someone to tell them they are still relevant; their careers depend on it. Maybe the most compassionate thing we can do is send them some tin foil to protect their heads from mind-controlling rays from outer space…
Comment posted August 17, 2009 @ 10:50 am
I think we need to keep “Rugburn” Bachmann in office a few more years…. she represents the face of the REAL GOP (rascist, self-centered, hypocritical liars) and the more she speaks the more true Americans are reminded of it….
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