Chris Wallace asks Michele Bachmann: ‘Are you a flake?’

The Daily Caller ^ | 26 Jun 2011 | Jeff Poor

[mandaladon]

One might expect to hear the term flake bandied about in a private conservation when talking about another person not present, but it is not a term that often comes up on Sunday morning public affairs talk shows — especially so directly.

However, on “Fox News Sunday,” it was a description moderator Chris Wallace asked 2012 Republican presidential candidate Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who Wallace said has a reputation in Washington of making “questionable statements,” to respond to.

“Finally, let’s talk about Michele Bachmann because — and you say — it’s interesting,” Wallace said. “You say that people saw in the debate, saw you as a serious person. I don’t have to tell you that you have — that the rap on you in Washington is you have a history of questionable statements, some would say gaffes ranging from — talking about anti-America members of Congress, to on this show a couple of months ago when you suggested that NATO airstrikes killed up to 30,000 civilians. Are you a flake?”

Bachmann called the description “insulting” and explained why that wasn’t a fair term to use to describe her.

“Well, I think that would be insulting to say something like that because I’m a serious person,” Bachmann said. “[W]hat I would say is that I am 55 years old. I’ve been married 33 years. I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship and in have worked in the Unites States federal tax court. My husband and I have raised five kids and 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

[End Times Sentinel]

Mr. Wallace, the rap on you is that you've made a career out of riding on the coat tails of your activist father, and prove week after week that you lack the mental acuity to interview serious, intelligent people. Are you a fake or a fraud?

[secondamendmentkid]

“Bachmann has no problem doing that.”

Please furnish some examples. I wish you were correct, but I think not.

[Gene Eric]

Bachmann was on Hannity tonight. She was great.