bachmannIn the Bizarro Land that is modern American politics, all is turned upside-down. Conservatives are toting dog-eared copies of “Rules for Radicals” by the late lefty Saul Alinsky, Jon Stewart has dubbed Fox News the “new liberals,” and — wait for it — Michele Bachmann, a vehement abortion opponent, is telling the government to keep its hands off her body.

On The Daily Show yesterday, Stewart shows how conservative rhetoric on Fox has flipped. As Gawker puts it:

Stewart and his staff dug deep into the archives to find some great footage of various Fox News personalities vehemently condemning the very behaviors that they’re now so enthusiastically championing, like criticizing the president during a time of war and taking to the streets in protests. These are the types of things that liberals do! So Fox News = the new liberals!

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Then comes Rep. Bachmann, whose logic about health care would seem to also apply to reproductive health. She told Sean Hannity on his Tuesday radio show that “people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.”

As Matthew DeLong puts it at our sister site in Washington, “Somebody call Planned Parenthood. Looks like they’ve got a surprising new spokesperson.”

While it is surprising, it’s not the first time Bachmann’s used this kind of logic. During a July 22 floor speech, she tested out an appeal to pro-choicers, citing how complicated she feels reformed health care would be:

On this issue of women making a decision about whether or not to have an abortion, one of the main arguments that was proffered was: No government should get between a woman and her doctor. The government should not get between the woman and her doctor when she comes to making that decision.

Yet it’s so curious. When you look at these 33 new bureaucracies that are created, when it comes to that decision about an abortion, you’ve got 33 new bureaucracies now that are created… The government is going to be between them and their doctor in a whole new way, a big way, a 33-bureaucracy way.