Last night, Michele Bachmann [Wingnut-MN] gave the Tea Party response to the Republican response to the State of the Union address. But before that, Michele Bachmann told a group in Iowa that our Founding Fathers worked to eradicate slavery and that all immigrants were treated equally, which is not only not true, but is an astonishingly ignorant statement for an elected official to make. Watch as Chris Matthews and Joan Walsh tear apart Bachmann and one of the Teabagger mouthpieces, Sal Russo, who was tasked with defending the indefensible on the program.
[h/t PZ Myers]
I don’t suppose there is a non-msnbc source for the video so those of us in other countries can see it?
Oh believe me, people in other countries will be seeing this, and laughing their asses off.
“Are you hypnotized?!?!” LOL
Michele Bachmann has just surpassed Sarah Palin as the dumbest person in America.
Chris did a good job grilling Sal the Shill. He was pathetic and embarrassing. Bachmann is a buffoon and a disgrace to her office and to this country.
I have mixed feelings about Matthews–but not here–he was brilliant. The Tea Party seems to have been built on misinformation and downright lies. They are always talking about “the Constitution” but they get all their information about it from Glenn Beck. It’s just terrifying. Sadly, I think Russo realizes how idiotic Bachmann is but he’s sold his soul to this Orwellian Dumbtopia movement and he can’t just get out.
Emma said “Oh believe me, people in other countries will be seeing this, and laughing their asses off.”.
Well, then how about telling me how I can see it seeing as I live in a different country.
Michele Bachmann is like Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle and Linda McMahon, they are just not right but funny. I especially like the clip of Bachmann saying that the founding fathers abolished slavery, wow, what a liar, not the first or last time that will happen. Does anyone with self-respect real believe her?
Her response failed to say how we got here from eight years of poor leadership, two wars without end, diminished Civil liberties. Its like she crawl out from under a rock just to complain about our current President. We all know that Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works started the Tea Party, grasroots, please.
This woman is crazy like a fox. Don’t let her deceive you she is very bright. She is targeting a certain group of voters who want to hear it said a certain way. They love her. Why escapes me.
Don’t you read those special history text books the right wing is rewriting?
You know, the ones that claim that the Bush years were filled with rainbows and unicorns and cherry lollipops. There was no unemployment, no sickness, the economy was booming and every day was sunny. Everyone had a wonderful job, Katrina was the name of the waitress at your favorite diner and there were no criminals, no terrorist attacks, and the whole big, wide world loved us. The folks in Afghanistan and Iraq were really just having picnics in the desert and wore camo to make it more of a challenge when they played hide and seek. And Guantanamo Bay was for square dancing! And finally the Virginia and Texas Board of Education just approved the book and its use in their public schools.
Didn’t you read that part yet???
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