Politico calls DumpBachmann “perhaps the most comprehensive anti-incumbent blog” in the nation and mentions co-founder Eva Young. [Via PiM]

Schultz stuffed his day-before-Thanksgiving show from Minneapolis with Bachmann talk, devoting 16 minutes (or a quarter of the show) to her. [Via DumpBachmann]

The MSNBC clip kicks off with Schultz interviewing City Pages writer Matt Snyders:

Flying under the radar so far is ECM Publications reporter T.W. Budig’s revelation that all Bachmann wanted at the 2006 State of the Union address at which she held President Bush in an extended embrace-and-smooch was an autograph.

Actually a Lexis search for “Michele Bachmann” and “sleeveless” turns up two results, but one is a reader’s comment at the DumpBachmann Web site, which doesn’t really constitute a news mention.

The other, a report on President Bush’s 2008 State of the Union address from the Washington Post blog The Sleuth, recalls Bachmann’s extended smooch with Bush before his 2007 address. “Sleeveless” comes up only in describing the outfits Bush daughters Jenna and Barbara wore to the 2008 event.

So basically, members of the news media have gone ga-ga over Michelle Obama’s sleevelessness, while Bachmann’s unclothed upper appendages are the one subject about her upon which they’ve remained silent.

It’s like the press applying the “sore loser” tag to Vice President Al Gore within weeks of the 2000 election, and hardly at all to Norm Coleman months after the Republican fell behind Al Franken in the contest for his old Senate seat.

So yes: Obama is more famous (for now) than Bachmann and may bare her arms more often (though the style is a staple of both women’s wardrobes).

But even so, a double standard seems to be at play when a deserving media hound like Bachmann gets completely skunked on something as newsworthy as showing shoulders.