anti-American

Minnesota’s entire Democratic Congressional delegation, Republican and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman (sort of), and Republican Rep. John Kline (possibly) have all rebuked Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Friday statement suggesting that Barack Obama and [...]

While Rep. Michele Bachmann’s “anti-America” flap continues to generate donations for opponent El Tinklenberg — nearly $800,000 in three days — many are wondering when the Tinklenberg campaign is going to hit Bachmann with ads while she’s down.
Tinklenberg has previously said he wouldn’t do negative ads this campaign, but would using Bachmann’s comments in full [...]

Michele Bachmann is our Sarah Palin, right? Not so fast.
Even though Bachmann seemed to be echoing Palin’s controversial sentiments from late last week about the “pro-America” parts of the country, she’s not getting back-up from the would-be VP. Via MNpublius we learn that she doesn’t agree with the freshman Minnesota representative’s plan to look into [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann spoke with Fox 9 News on Monday morning in an attempt to clarify her statements calling for a media investigation into ‘anti-America’ views of members of Congress. She said that MSNBC’s Chris Matthews brought up the word “anti-American,” and that Bachmann merely meant “radical liberals” when she said: “I wish the American [...]

Minnesota’s DFL members of Congress are unified in opposition to statements made by Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann questioning whether liberal members of Congress support America. Reps. Betty McCollum, James Oberstar, Keith Ellison, Collin Peterson and Tim Walz, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar released a joint letter on Monday denouncing the statements made by Bachmann on Friday.
“For [...]

We wondered: After Michele Bachmann’s MSNBC meltdown the other day, would Elwyn Tinklenberg have trouble finding local TV ad time available for purchase this late in the game? The DFLer is suddenly flush with contributions in his 6th Congressional District campaign after Bachmann’s “anti-American” gaffe.

But three other more costly contests — for U.S. president, senate and house (3rd District) — are already consuming $29.7 million of Twin Cities TV. What’s left for El?

The DCCC announced Monday that they will drop $1 million into ad buys targeting Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional district. The buy was motivated by the intense scrutiny over Bachmann’s remarks on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews on Friday.
Bachmann told Matthews, “I wish the American media would take a great look at [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann now says her words were “misconstrued” when she said she wondered if Barack Obama has “anti-American views,” and she says MSNBC’s Chris Matthews used the A-word first. A look at the transcript shows she’s correct — but that just before Matthews did, she described Obama and other Democrats by using a Russian word that had its heyday in Stalin’s time.

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s comments that she believes Barack Obama “may have anti-American views” and that the media should investigate whether members of Congress are “pro-America or anti-America” has done more than fill the coffers of her Democratic challenger, El Tinklenberg: it’s prompted a challenge for her congressional seat from within the GOP. The St. Cloud Times reports that Aubrey Immelman, Ph.D., a professor of political psychology at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, registered yesterday as a write-in candidate.

El Tinklenberg responded Saturday to statements his opponent, Rep. Michele Bachmann, made Friday afternoon to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that perhaps the media should investigate members of Congress for “anti-American” sentiment.
Congresswoman Bachmann says everyone who disagrees with her is anti-American. Once again revealing her extreme ideology, Congresswoman Bachmann yesterday called for an “expose” on Senator [...]