Rep. Keith Ellison. Photo: Kathy Easthagen for the Minnesota Independent
Rep. Keith Ellison. Photo: Kathy Easthagen for the Minnesota Independent

Slammed by Fox for Bachmann comment, Ellison appeals for funds

By Jon Collins
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 8:30 am

The campaign of Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison is using Fox News’ criticism of a recent comment he made about Rep. Michele Bachmann to appeal for donations for the upcoming 2012 election.

Ellison told student activists last week that conservatives, including Michele Bachmann, want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. Fox News picked up the clip. By Wednesday, Ellison’s campaign had posted an appeal for funds on his campaign site, saying the “right-wing noise machine” was targeting Ellison.

One of the Fox News appearances of the clip occurred Tuesday on “The Five,” a panel show that replaced Glenn Beck’s show this week.

Greg Gutfeld, host of a 3 a.m. show on Fox, referred to Ellison’s religion.

“It’s kind of rich coming from Ellison, who is a Muslim,” Gutfeld said. “There are plenty of Muslim countries out there that if Michele Bachmann was doing what she was doing would be killed.”

(Gutfeld also questioned why Ellison used such “florid” language to say that the goal of conservatives is to shrink government down to the size where they can “drown it in the bathtub,” which is actually a quote by Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist).

Eric Bolling, a Fox Business host, said he felt “bad for [Bachmann] having to share Minnesota with this [Ellison].”

The financial appeal from the Ellison campaign was up soon after the clips aired on FOX.

“In response to Keith’s strong support of women’s rights, the right-wing media has unleashed another vitriolic attack,” the statement declared. “As a supporter and friend to Keith, you know that his record of fighting for equal rights for women speaks for itself. But will you speak for him?”

The post on Ellison’s site boasted three separate linked appeals for donations.

Ellison’s 2010 opponent, Republican Joel Demos, raised a little more than $95,000 in that election cycle, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, while Ellison raised almost $1.4 million. Ellison won the four-way 2010 race with 67 percent of the vote.

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27 Comments

Simon
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 9:34 am

Are you kidding? this was no vitriolic attack, he is un-substantially attacking Michele. She is a business owner a politician a Mother, and Keith attacks her as though she is not for woman’s rights? Get real, Elison.
The far left should stop focusing on Bachmann and Palin and get their own house in order.


LadyKofOlmsted
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 10:15 am

Keith Ellison is 10 times the Representative Michele Bachmann would ever be!


John I
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 11:14 am

I am a constituent of Keith and I don’t appreciate this language. Poorly chosen words. On the other hand though, Michelle has continuously called us slave owners throughout her career and no one in the GOP has called her on this. Keith’s record speaks for him, Michelle’s record is frightenly silent but her statements are extremely regressive towards the gains made by women in the last 100 years.

I don’t understand Greg Gutfeld’s reasoning. Keith is an American. How do the actions of citizens in other countries have anything to do with him?? If a christian in Vietnam kills a buddhist does that mean that all christians in America are anti-buddhist? I just don’t understand the Fox era of republicans. It seems as if they have no ability to process a cognitve thought. It’s all talking points and ripping any one that they perceive as a threat to their “morals”. They are quick to create a problem but never to fix a problem.


Simon
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 11:29 am

It’s not the actions of other countries, it’s the actions of the ideology known as Islam where women are considered 1/2 a person by sharia law. NEWSFLASH: Ellison is islamic.


Scott Peterson
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 12:29 pm

“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

Yeah, Muslims are wacky like that.

Wait, you mean this is from the BIBLE? Timothy 2:12 you say? But I thought it was that scary Sharia Law that AAALLLL Muslims are bound by? But how can one religion pick and choose their ideals, while the other is so bound and restricted by theirs? CRAZY!

NEWSFLASH: Being a Muslim, does not make you a terrorist.


Keith
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 1:07 pm

Because Scott’s point bears repeating:

“NEWSFLASH: Being a Muslim, does not make you a terrorist.”


Zabazoom
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 1:23 pm

@ simple Simon
When a woman who is running for the most powerful job in the world, has vowed to submit to her husband all final decisions as the “head” of her. then she is not even 1/2 a person. She is not for woman’s rights and even she claims not to be. Since she lets Marcos do all the thinking for her, she’s not a business person, she’s a mother because her uterus was used, and since that swish of a husband makes all the decisions who do you think would be the real commander in chief?


Shannon
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 2:27 pm

Simon, please quote the part of the Quran that says women are half a person. Is it this? “Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”

Oh wait, that was the Bible. My bad.


Ahmed
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 2:49 pm

Dear Simon,
From your comments it is evident that you don’t know much about “ideology known as Islam.”

Actually, it is not any more or any less an “ideology“ than Christianity or other religions.
Second, it the religion of 1/4 of the world population.

Here is link that you can search the Quran.
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/quran/

Show me where it says “woman is half of the man.”
And don’t mention people’s cultures. Culture is not the same as religion.

Next, do a search on “woman” in the Bible, on Eve, wives … (as Shannon said), bout the punishments etc … then put the two side by side.
(Read 1 Timothy:2, 1 Corn:11, and many others)


charles thompson
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 4:39 pm

Ellison actually represents his district. While Michelle could be a character in Where’s Waldo. I used to live in Martin Sabo’s district. He was one of those socialist infiltrators from Scandanavia. Always looking to curb executive pay and looking out for everyones right to live.


Ahmed
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 5:01 pm

@Simon,
Another point: Ellison is NOT “Islamic.”

He is a Muslim.
Yes, there is a difference.


loonwalk
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 5:11 pm

MI, I’m afraid you are perpetuating the same edited clip from Elison’s full TH-style meeting that Fox put out there. The barefoot comment was a generalized sketch of RW male outlook. The Michelle comment was just an aside (during the question-answer part of his appearance) as an example of what some people must consider to be an example to emulate. Personally, I think the ton of make up, Saks outfits, and bouffant hair are just trappings that men seem to fall for and maybe no one will notice that lack of truthiness. That’s what women like Bachmann are depending on.


cb
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 6:22 pm

Michele Bachmann and her husband are both very far out. Not good for the U.S. She is running on her own “gay agenda” platform. We are closing schools, laying people off. Family’s are being foreclosed on and being put out in the streets. And all this Republican running for President and her husband can do is talk about is “praying away the gay”. It is a good money maker for her, but we have bigger things to do, and I am hopping God has to. If you or your church has the gay agenda on your mind, all the time you may need to set down and talk with someone. We need to start looking at what is best for the country. Not our own religion’s views.


kfreed
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 10:40 pm

@Simon:

“unsubstantially attacking Bachman”…

Correction: She’s a Dominionist. Submission and anti-feminist ideology are built-in components of the cult ideology.

Educate yourself.

62 news articles and videos related to Michele Bachman and here Dominionist cult compiled for inquiring minds: http://www.delicious.com/InsaniTEA/MichelleBachmann

*blue text links to original source material


kfreed
Comment posted July 14, 2011 @ 10:42 pm

Revised:

@Simon:

“unsubstantially attacking Bachmann”…

Correction: She’s a Dominionist. Submission and anti-feminist ideology are built-in components of the cult ideology.

Educate yourself.

62 news articles and videos related to Michele Bachmann and her Dominionist cult -compiled for inquiring minds:

http://www.delicious.com/InsaniTEA/MichelleBachmann

*Blue text links to original source material


Simon
Comment posted July 15, 2011 @ 9:26 am

@shannon I did not say the Qu’ran , I said Sharia law…
http://www.ntpi.org/html/womensrights.html


Simon
Comment posted July 15, 2011 @ 9:42 am

If you guys do not understand Islam as a dangerous, violent and fascist ideology..Then you no nothing about it..


Simon
Comment posted July 15, 2011 @ 9:45 am

kfreed you have no idea what you’re talking about, MB is not a dominionist… her theology is in-line with the Lutherans.


Shannon
Comment posted July 15, 2011 @ 4:06 pm

Simon, Islam is based on the Quran. I don’t give a shit about what you have to say about sharia law because it’s not in the Quran, so obviously it’s not Muslim. You clearly don’t understand the difference between religion and culture, which is why no one is listening to you. You are dehumanizing what you do not understand and fear. That is what cowards and bigots do. I bet you don’t even know any people who are Muslim, so why exactly do you have any authority to tell me what Islam is and is not?


Scott Peterson
Comment posted July 15, 2011 @ 5:40 pm

Simon, read this: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124494788


cyberstorm
Comment posted July 17, 2011 @ 7:51 pm

Ah, HELLO FOX? There is no such thing as a “muslim country”.


cyberstorm
Comment posted July 17, 2011 @ 7:53 pm

Simon, You are wrong about the “in line with Lutherans” Where the heck are you getting this stuff anyway?


cyberstorm
Comment posted July 17, 2011 @ 7:55 pm

Yeah, well – barefoot and pregnant is a “virtue of being that weird” LOL

I like Ellison.


Theoko
Comment posted July 20, 2011 @ 1:20 pm

It’s actually a badge of honor to be attacked by the GOP’s press organ. Well done, Representative Ellison.


fairobserver
Comment posted July 20, 2011 @ 3:41 pm

The blatant right-wing (not conservative) toxic bias of Fox News is the sad and destructive result of the repeal of the “Equal Time Rule” requiring true fair and balanced, objective reporting, not the hysterical John Birch Society crap offered up by Fox News. I am a conservative in the spirit of true American conservatives Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley, Jr., Robert Taft, and Dwight Eisenhower. The right-wing pronouncements being preached by the idiotic talking heads on Fox News and airheads like Bachmann, Palin, and others of their ilk, is not true conservatism, it is total insanity.


marie
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 5:08 pm

Simon,

Keith is an AMERICAN who is Muslim. He follows the Koran as a holy book as part of his faith. Just as Some follow the Bible, and some follow the Torah and others Tipitaka and dozens of others who hold other books holy to them.

I can’t talk for tpitaka but I can tell you the bible puts us women at the bottom of the heap!

Michelle has said she is subservient to her husband. That is oppressive in my book.


marie
Comment posted July 25, 2011 @ 12:48 pm

@ simon and all that scream how muslims are the threat to life.

Norway is exactly why YOU are the dangerous ones. And the Norway terroist is aligned in the same religious “faith” as Michelle Bachmann.

The dangerous ones like you are always wondering why we always mention Hitler, well there you go. …..

extremest is extremest is extremest.

I wouldn’t have my children in the same room alone with any of you.


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