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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…

Bachmann: Deem and pass ‘never been done before in history’

By Andy Birkey | 03.18.10 | 3:33 pm

bachmannnewsmaxRep. Michele Bachmann has been on a media blitz this week trying to drum up opposition to health care reform. In the last 7 days, she has appeared on Bill Bennett, Matt Lewis, Chris Baker and…

AM.MN: ‘Independent Republican’ Brown is new Eugene McCarthy

By Chris Steller | 01.20.10 | 8:45 am

am.mn logoScott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate election is making some old Minnesota political names new again. Brown calls himself an “Independent Republican” — the same name Minnesota’s GOP used for 20 years after Watergate.…

Bringing you Bachmann’s Tea Party Nation speech: rightwing media only

By Chris Steller | 01.14.10 | 2:32 pm

tea party pressPress covering Michele Bachmann’s remarks at next month’s Tea Party Nation convention will apparently be limited to five news outlets running the gamut from right-leaning to far-right-falling-over. By contrast, Sarah Palin has opened her address to all media

AM.MN: Fox News leads (not follows) Pawlenty to Minneapolis

By Chris Steller | 12.30.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoOn Tuesday Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer promised Gov. Pawlenty, “We’ll be following your travels, OK? Whether it’s Minneapolis or New Hampshire or Iowa or Washington, D.C.” (T-Paw had just made national news by saying he has…

Health-care yes votes explained by Franken at Kos, Klobuchar on Fox

By Chris Steller | 12.21.09 | 8:45 am

klo-fox al-kosMinnesota’s U.S. senators were explaining their votes for health-care reform right and left Sunday: Amy Klobuchar appeared on Fox News Sunday and Al Franken posted his rationale at Daily Kos. That left a progressive group…

Tornado blew off roofs but Pawlenty didn’t blow off Fox

By Chris Steller | 08.21.09 | 4:45 pm

Minnesotans saw a strange spectacle Wednesday — and not only the freak funnel cloud that visited Minneapolis. At about the same time, just blocks from where the twister struck downtown, their governor was spouting off on national TV about health care as if nothing had just happened.

Bachmann to government: Hands off my body!

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.20.09 | 5:42 pm

bachmannIn the Bizarro Land that is modern American politics, all is turned upside-down. Conservatives are toting dog-eared copies of “Rules for Radicals” by the late lefty Saul Alinsky, Jon Stewart has dubbed Fox News the “new liberals,”…

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: Health care reform efforts unconstitutional

By Andy Birkey | 08.19.09 | 1:11 pm

bachmannhannitySpeaking with Fox’s Sean Hannity Tuesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann asserted that health care reform is not constitutional, and falsely equated a public option with a “national takeover of health care.”