Iowa ads will push Bachmann movie in weeks before straw poll

The Des Moines Register | Saturday July 23, 2011 | Jennifer Jacobs

[Bigtigermike]

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[Bigtigermike]

A little eerie since Fire from the Heartland,” stars a lot of conservative women not Bachmann exclusively!

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[abcc2011]

I kinda shrugged it off before when people said that Michelle Bachmann is copying and trying to be like Gov. Sarah Palin, but this is SO obvious.

Gov. Palin has a grand slam hit movie and now you want one too? You even had to hire the same producer? Lady please!!! Michelle, why are you being a copy cat? LOL. It’s not going to work. I like you and you have a lot of Tea Party fans, but you’re not Sarah Palin, accept it and move on. Do your own thing. Amazing.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Shhh. If you don't say anything, maybe nobody will notice.

[RegulatorCountry]

What’s it called, “The Undefeaated Too?”

[gov_bean_ counter]

Ed Rollins is reducing Rep Bachmann to a scripted soundbite caricature. Grabbing top billing in a movie that probably contains women of greater achievement isn’t going to help.

[Bigtigermike]

It’s the deceptive lie that that they are saying the movies stars Bachmann, making it like it’s only about her that is upsetting! It’s a total disservice to conservative women

[Prokopton]

kinda shrugged it off before when people said that Michelle Bachmann is copying and trying to be like Gov. Sarah Palin, but this is SO obvious.

There might be "copying" but it wasn't from Bachmann. Fire from the Heartland debuted September, 2010. Maybe that's where Palin got the idea, huh?

[gov_bean_ counter]

I think Gov Palin started shopping her idea shortly after the 2008 election.

[MestaMachine]

Bachmann: “We can’t even begin to calculate how expensive that loss of individual liberties is. So when government interferes with those rights – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – government’s treading on very dangerous ground. It isn’t that men aren’t seeing what’s going on, women feel it. And that sense is coming over us, that something is terribly wrong.”

Oh boy.

[MestaMachine]

Undefeated was NOT Palin’s idea. It was purely Bannon’s, using his own money. He never even talked to Palin.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I hope that pearl of wisdom wasn't her only contribution to the production.

Again, disingenuous for her to attempt to take top billing for a movie that probably features several women with more significant accomplishments.

[txrangerette]

Fire From the Heartland was screened in September of 2010. It featured Michele Bachmann, Deneen Borelli, Ann Coulter and S.E. Cupp. Sarah Palin got the producer of this movie to produce her movie, Undefeated.

[curth]

Palin didn’t make a movie. Bannon did and he is the same guy who made Fire From The Heartland.

[txrangerette]

I see it AND I feel it, too. She’s right. There’s nothing wrong with what she said. Wanna make something of it? Make my day...

[txrangerette]

Your “contribution” to the discussion is incredibly childish and petty.

[abcc2011]

Actually the Palins approached Bannon way over a year ago to do some YouTube videos about her career, but decided not to do that, but instead to make a full feature movie about her career. So, actually them asking him to do the videos gave him the idea to do the movie in the first place.

[Bigtigermike]

Palin’s people approached Bannon to do videos of her record in Alaska, he refused and told them that he does film only and would do a film on Palin with his own money because he always wanted to do it.

This right here in this article seems to be a hijacking of a film about conservative women and promoting it as exclusively being about Bachmann which is at best deceptive, she’s in it but so is a lot of other women including Palin

[gov_bean_ counter]

What part of the article did you not understand? The implication is the movie was ALL ABOUT HER?

[txrangerette]

I was going off of your statement that Sarah Palin had a hit movie so now Michele Bachmann etc etc... I then googled it and found that Sarah only benefitted from the movie, she didn’t actually “have a hit movie”. It wasn’t hers, but Bannon’s. But the part about Fire From the Heartland coming first, then the Palin film second, is correct.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

I disagree. I’d also wonder what your grand contribution to this discussion has been other than picking fights and belittling the contribution of others.