SNL's Kristen Wiig as Michele Bachmann
SNL's Kristen Wiig as Michele Bachmann

Bachmann gets the Saturday Night Live treatment

By Andy Birkey
Monday, January 31, 2011 at 9:00 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tea party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address last week became fodder for Saturday Night Live when SNL’s Kristen Wiig lampooned Bachmann in the opening scene. She played with the fact that Bachmann used a number of charts during her response, and that she appeared not to face the camera during CNN’s live broadcast. During her Tuesday night speech, Bachmann was looking directly at a camera run by the Tea Party Express, but to the majority of Americans, who saw her on CNN instead, she appeared to be looking away from her audience. While Bachmann has been the subject of an SNL Thursday sketch in 2009, the show-opening lampoon Saturday night certainly means that Bachmann has arrived on the national scene.

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7 Comments

Dennis
Comment posted January 31, 2011 @ 9:45 am

Heh. This was a net plus for Bachmann. They tried to make fun of the technical difficulties she encountered but left her message pretty much intact, they actually helped her get her message out to people who didn’t see it originally.


Different Tim
Comment posted January 31, 2011 @ 9:58 am

Dennis is rite!!

Now all the peeple who watch SNL hate homos and love Michele and beleeve Obama was born in nijerea and is a soshulast.

And her message came thru in this skit, just wach it and yool see. Her message is she made a lot of good charts that show stuff. Libruls dont show stuff becuz libruls make stuff up. Like historee.

God Bless America!!!!!


charles thompson
Comment posted January 31, 2011 @ 10:28 am

Bachmann takes Manhattan. As if…


nathkatun7
Comment posted January 31, 2011 @ 10:57 pm

The University that awarded Congresswoman Bachmann a law degree should be ashamed. If the founding fathers (I suppose she included the Southern founding fathers who owned slaves) worked tirelessly to abolish slavery how come the country fought a civil war over slavery? Did the law school that granted Bachmann a law degree fail to teach, or even mention, the 1857 Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision? If everyone who came to America was welcomed as equal, regardless of race, then why was it necessary to pass three Constitutional Amendments: the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth? Did Rep. Bachmann learn any thing about the Jim Crow period that ushered in legal segregation of the races in the Southern States? Is it possible that the college and the law school she attended omitted any mention of the Supreme Court’s “Plessy v. Ferguson” decision? I have a sneaking suspicion that, Rep. Bachmann, a college educated and a lawyer, is not that ignorant. Rather, she seems determined to re-write history to conform with teabaggers’ claims that their mission is to restore the ideals of the pure and blameless founding fathers.

Who is dumber?; Michelle for saying the Founding Fathers eliminated slavery, or Sarah for saying that the Soviet Union collapsed because of Sputnik. What do you think?


Marie
Comment posted February 1, 2011 @ 1:18 pm

@Dennis,

Yes, the “liberal media” and the “liberal followers” of SNL are all now turned to the dark side.

Sorry, the last few “Liberals” that have not heard or even cared about such a nonsense and iq of donkey like Michelle Bachmann, Now know what a mess the “Conservative” party is. Yep, there is Michelle Bachmann, Chris Odonel, and Palin to thank to the last straws of the party finally figuring out that that just maybe they should depart from the extremist religious zealots that are claiming to be “Republicans”.


B-Resp
Comment posted February 10, 2011 @ 10:18 am

I cannot believe that the great state of Minnesota would allow a woman with such a small grasp of American history be one of their national representatives. You expect her line of thought from Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas or other states that have horrible education systems. She should be an embarrassment. I’m voted for Obama and I’m disappointed by the product, but their is no way this lady becomes my rep. Clowns deserve to be named as such. Add Carter, Nixon, Reagon , W, Jackson, Sharpton, and Obama to the list. The 90s were great for a reason. H.W was a good set up to Clinton, who was a great set up to W (who should’ve been impeached on a hire level than Clinton – if you get something wrong as big as Bush did to the point of invading the wrong country, you deserve to get fired – much like the CEO of Toyota had to resign over faulty breaking systems dropping their stock value).


ray
Comment posted February 19, 2011 @ 8:36 pm

bush invading Iraq goes back over 30 years ago when the u.n. chater created the
untied states to be the worlds police force,

there was a great article in the mid 80s about this in time magazine
or news week
this middle east crisis has been brewing for years , i would say about 1959 or so

so the thought of invading the wrong country , i would rethink that one

there has been instability in the middle east for way to long
its time to get the job done so our troops can come home
and enjoy the liberty’s they fought so hard for while protecting the freedoms we take for granted


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