Palin: “Whichever direction life takes me, I’m going to continue to speak up for we the people and that tea party movement and the mama grizzlies.”
Rep. Keith Ellison told student activists last week that conservatives, including Rep. 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.
Conservative Fox News commentator Sean Hannity went after Rep. Keith Ellison in an interview Wednesday evening, criticizing the Minnesota congressman for saying Fox News has contributed to the scapegoating of Muslims. “I don’t apologize for it,” Ellison said. “If you are telling me you are going to be more even-handed on issues of religious tolerance, that’s a good step, and I thought that by inviting me here, I thought that’s what you were trying to do.”
A potential GOP candidate getting flak from Fox News’ conservative anchors for criticizing President Obama? That was the case for Tim Pawlenty on Wednesday when the Fox and Friends new macho image isn’t sitting well with some of Fox News’ conservative anchors who called Pawlenty’s recent comments about President Obama, “inappropriate,” “out of hand” and possibly “bad for the country.” The Fox and Friends crew took Pawlenty to task on Wednesday after Pawlenty made a comment on Tuesday that Obama gets so scared by intelligence briefings that he soils himself.
A study last year by the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota found that Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on cable news programs every nine days on average. Last week, she shattered those expectations by appearing on a cable news program at least once a day from Tuesday through Saturday making 14 national television or radio appearances.
The Republican Party of Minnesota criticized Secretary of State Mark Ritchie for “massive” voting machine failures across the state on Tuesday. But reporters around the state investigating the downed machines found the issue to be overheated rhetoric, not overheated machines.
Rep. Keith Ellison says the anti-Muslim fervor currently being seen around the country is “religious bigotry, nothing more, nothing less,” and in an interview with the BBC he pointed to Fox News as a contributing factor in the…
Minnesota’s Christian hard rock band frontman had his turn as a Fox News commentator on Tuesday. Bradlee Dean, head of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, was invited to participate in a panel discussing plans for…
Delegates at last week’s NAACP convention in Kansas City voted to repudiate what it calls racist elements within the tea party. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a tea party darling who is leading the effort to create a House…
Fox News hasn’t been quite as welcoming a place for Michele Bachmann these days. On Friday, Bill O’Reilly praised President Obama for getting BP to fund an escrow account for…
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