Even before her Friday Hardball debacle, Michele Bachmann faced a challenge back home that’s been little-noted but may pose difficulties for the first-term incumbent: the impact of the mortgage crisis in her suburban and rural district.
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
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Following Rep. Michele Bachmann’s appearance with Chris Matthews yesterday, America is learning what many in Minnesota already knew, which is that putting Bachmann in front of a live microphone is like handing an excitable 15-year-old a bottle of gin and a loaded gun. The only question is when something unspeakable is going to happen.
Bachmann is no stranger to the hysterical off-the-cuff reaction.
UPDATED: Since Michele Bachmann’s Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, Democrat El Tinklenberg has racked up $120,000 in donations (as of 10:40 a.m.) at the website Act Blue. Bachmann, the incumbent Republican representative in the 6th…
In a stunning interview with Chris Matthews of MSNBC, Rep. Michele Bachmann called on the media to investigate anti-American sentiment in Congress, after slamming Barack Obama as “anti-American.” The accusations by Bachmann spurred massive fundraising for her opponent and the…
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