Minnesota Independent

Bachmann: Glenn Beck can solve the budget deficit

By Andy Birkey | 02.21.11 | 8:34 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann was on a tear: In one of her most fiery stump speeches to date, the tea party leader told a South Carolina audience that the tax code was a “weapon of mass destruction,” that President Obama is “babying” terrorists, that the rich pay too much in taxes, that social issues like marriage and abortion cannot be put on the “back burner,” and that Fox News’ Glenn Beck can solve America’s budget deficit.

Bachmann to speak at controversial Glenn Beck rally

By Andy Birkey | 08.26.10 | 1:41 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann has become a late addition to a rally the night before Glenn Beck’s controversial Restoring Honor rally on Saturday. Black leaders have criticized Beck for planning the rally at the same time and…

Bachmann to hold ‘House Call’ tea party on same day as State of the Union

By Andy Birkey | 01.22.10 | 3:01 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann told controversial radio host Glenn Beck on Friday that she’ll be holding another “House Call” tea party in Washington on Wednesday, the same day as President Obama’s State of the Union address.

Bachmann gives death-panel ‘Lie of the Year’ a new lease on life

By Chris Steller | 12.23.09 | 11:14 am

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is giving Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” a new lease on life by helping death panels limp into 2010. According to Bachmann, “unelected bureaucracies will decide what we can and can’t get in…

Bachmann surprises Beck with stat on government piece of economy pie

By Chris Steller | 10.14.09 | 12:16 pm

A statistic from Michele Bachmann made Glenn Beck go, “Whoa!” on his radio show this morning: The federal government owns or controls 30 percent of private wealth. Beck exclaimed that the stat was new to him and even to his aghast studio crew. Where’d she get that? Bachmann (again) cited as her source an unnamed Arizona State University professor. The Minnesota Independent found the prof and asked him where he got the number.

Glenn Beck appeals to international body to shut down satirical site

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.07.09 | 12:29 pm

Back in fall 2006, before Glenn Beck was the household name he is today, he tried out a rhetorical tactic he’s now known for. He famously asked Rep. Keith Ellison, because the freshman legislator is Muslim, to “prove…

Jonesing for Norm Coleman news? He’s baaack

By Chris Steller | 09.28.09 | 10:23 am

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman was once a daily news staple but has largely fallen into civilian obscurity since bowing out of his recount battle with now-Sen. Al Franken. Now he’s back in the news and the blogs, and for…

Bachmann ‘hearing voices’ other than God’s, says top Dem

By Chris Steller | 09.02.09 | 1:38 pm

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s talk of stopping health care reform by fasting, praying and wrist-slitting has prompted not only lefty pundits but a top Democratic colleague to question what’s going on between her ears. Jim Oberstar, chairman of…

And on the ninth day … Bachmann was on TV again

By Chris Steller | 08.20.09 | 10:31 am

Meteorologists 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.

Conservatives: Kitchen-sinkism is only politics Dems aren’t guilty of … yet

By Chris Steller | 04.09.09 | 5:03 pm

Bill Clinton may have wanted to nail down the definition of “is,” but right-leaning critics of the Democrat-controlled federal government seem happy to use “-ism” loosely. In only the last three months, media conservatives have accused President Obama and…