Minnesota Independent

Michele Bachmann to join Bradlee Dean at Freedom Jamboree

By Andy Birkey | 05.10.11 | 1:13 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann is the first potential presidential candidate to confirm that she will speak at Freedom Jamboree, a tea party “nominating convention for the offices of President and Vice President” to be held in Kansas City in September. The convention has already drawn a motley crew of personalities, including Minnesota’s own Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International ministries.

Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: Bachmann for Congress, Facebook

‘Reagan in pumps’: Religious right excited about potential Bachmann prez bid

By Andy Birkey | 01.12.11 | 8:36 am

When Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office declined to rule out a 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for president, religious right leaders responded with glee at what they say could be the next Ronald Reagan — except “swap boots for pumps.”

Bachmann: No reason to question Obama’s citizenship

By Andy Birkey | 06.29.10 | 12:42 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Star Tribune Monday that she doesn’t question President Obama’s citizenship despite her upcoming appearance at an event organized by prominent “birther” Joseph Farah and featuring a half-dozen conservatives who question…

Bachmann to headline ‘birther’-packed Taking America Back conference

By Andy Birkey | 06.28.10 | 12:15 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining September’s Taking America Back conference, an event that includes notable “birthers” Jerome Corsi, Aaron Klein, Joseph Farah and Alan Keyes. In fact, of the 15 speakers, at least 9 have expressed…

Bachmann headed to St. Louis with Glenn Beck

By Andy Birkey | 01.25.10 | 1:03 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann will head to St. Louis next week to speak at the Educational Policy Conference 21 put on by the Constitutional Coalition, a Missouri-based conservative group. The conference, “What makes America work?,” will be headlined by Fox’s…

Bachmann and WorldNetDaily, together at last

By David Weigel | 11.18.09 | 8:28 am

My Washington Independent profile of WorldNetDaily made the case that the conservative website, which opinion-makers brush off as a conspiracy hub, is actually incredibly influential on the right. Here’s some evidence for that argument.

Religious right watch: September conference promises birthers, Bachmann, infidels

By Andy Birkey | 09.02.09 | 12:19 pm

Some of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s comments in Denver this week — notably, that opponents of health care reform should “slit our wrists, be blood brothers” — generated plenty of attention in the media and blogosphere. But in just three weeks, she’ll have plenty of competition for those headlines. Speaking at the “How to Take Back America” conference later this month, she’ll be sharing the stage with a pastor who says conference attendees will be trained to “turn out the infidels”; a radio host who doubts President Obama is a U.S. citizen; and a columnist who opposes statehood for Puerto Rico because he says it’s a “Caribbean dogpatch.”