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Bachmann: Obama falling farther than any president in history

By Andy Birkey | 04.12.10 | 1:06 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann hit Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace to talk about repealing health care reform and defend her stance that President Obama may hold anti-American views (though she says…

Clark fundraises over Bachmann’s latest ‘Anti-American’ comments

By Andy Birkey | 03.25.10 | 3:21 pm

At an anti-abortion event on Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann reiterated a statement that she’d herself repudiated in the past: That President Obama is anti-American. “I said I had very serious concerns that Barack Obama had anti-American views,”

And on the ninth day … Bachmann was on TV again

By Chris Steller | 08.20.09 | 10:31 am

bachmann hannityMeteorologists may have failed to forecast yesterday’s freak tornado, but political scientists are now able to predict when U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will next appear on a national cable news show: Aug. 27.

Bachmann earns fifth spot on British “shame” list

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.31.08 | 11:17 am

Madoff, Palin, Bush, Blagojevich… Bachmann? The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky ranks Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District Rep. Michele Bachmann fifth in “America’s hall of shame.” Her suggestion that journalists should investigate whether Barack Obama and other members of Congress…

Bachmann’s dime-turn on Obama wasn’t evident on Election Night

By Chris Steller | 11.09.08 | 2:14 pm

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s 180-degree turn on Barack Obama has made her a New York Times cover girl today, the lead example in a front-page story on Republicans whose opinions of Obama have undergone drastic makeovers in the five days since his landslide victory in the presidential election. But hers wasn’t an immediate conversion, or even overnight as the Times has it. The political calculation required to move from worries about Obama’s “anti-American views” to his gladness over his African-American background took a little more time, even for a woman who also promised him a kiss.

MnIndy video: Bachmann claims victory over Tinklenberg

By Chris Steller | 11.05.08 | 12:38 pm

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann avoided remarks about anti-Americanism in Congress as she claimed victory in a speech to supporters at the Minnesota Republican Party’s election night gathering. Her re-election came in spite of the nationwide furor over controversial

‘Nonsense’: New anti-Bachmann mailers quote Colin Powell

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.28.08 | 1:51 pm

A new mailer sent out by the Alliance for a Better Minnesota accuses Republicans Michele Bachmann and Norm Coleman of being distracted from the work of “finding solutions to the most difficult economic crisis facing America since the Great Depression.” But Bachmann gets the sharpest jab: Instead of dealing with the financial meltdown she’s “questioning people’s patriotism.” The flyer prominently features a quote and image of Gen. Colin Powell who, referring to Bachmann’s infamous comments on “Hardball,” said, “We have got to stop this kind of nonsense and remember that our great strength is in our unity and our diversity.”

Bachmann releases two new ads

By Andy Birkey | 10.27.08 | 8:39 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann is out with two new ads this week. Rumors that she might apologize for remarks she made on MSNBC’s Hardball insinuating that Sen. Barack Obama and certain members of Congress may have anti-American views were quelled when the first ad was released Friday.

In the ad, Bachmann says “I may not always get my words right, but I know that my heart is right. Because my heart is for you, for your children and for the blessings of liberty to remain for our great country.”

Survey USA poll: Tinklenberg leads Bachmann by 3 points in 6th CD

By Chris Steller | 10.23.08 | 10:06 pm

Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg leads U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) 47 percent to 44 percent in a new poll of 621 likely voters in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District that Survey USA conducted Oct. 21–22 for KSTP-TV. The poll shows that 6 percent…

MnIndy video: What do Bachmann’s constituents think about the ‘anti-American’ controversy?

By Paul Demko | 10.23.08 | 8:59 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent Hardball blow-up has undoubtedly endangered her re-election prospects. But what do constituents in the 6th Congressional District think of Bachmann’s latest episode of foot-in-mouth disease? On Tuesday afternoon Chris Steller and I ventured into the northern suburbs to speak with voters about the controversy and their feelings regarding Bachmann. The responses were diverse, from a man who calls Bachmann a “nutcase” to a woman who shares Bachmann’s concerns about Barack Obama to a man who no longer votes because he feels all politicians are crooks.