Posted on 09/04/2012 7:38:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I told my apolitical daughter I'd interviewed Michele Bachman the day before and asked if she knew who Bachmann is. My daughter thought for a second and said, "Yeah, that crazy lady."
With the exception of Sarah Palin, no one has been demonized by the media as much as the congresswoman from Minnesota. The notorious Newsweek cover picture, headlined "The Queen of Rage," epitomized scores of hit pieces by the boys and girls of the MSM. But when open-minded writers actually spoke with her, it was a different story. According to Bachmann, reporters for three major publications -- she wouldn't name them -- after extensive interviews with her, submitted stories that were not only fair and balanced, but sympathetic.
These were spiked by editors looking for yet another slash-and-burn article. The writers were unhappy, and they let Bachmann know.
But apart from revealing this information, even when pressed, Bachmann would not criticize the MSM. "When I entered the race," she said, "I made a decision that I would not whine about my treatment by the media. All that negative media coverage does is force you to be better." She attributes the failure of her campaign to the lure of new "flavors of the month" rather than to media attacks.
Doesn't sound much like a "queen of rage."
Like Ronald Reagan and a great many others, Michele Bachmann is a convert to conservatism. Hubert Humphrey's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party dominated politics in Minnesota, and Bachmann's family always voted Democrat. With her college boyfriend Marcus, later her husband, she worked hard for Jimmy Carter. To the bright-eyed, idealistic twenty-year-old, the peanut farmer seemed like a decent, humble, pro-family, pro-American guy. Bachmann's first trip to D.C. was to attend Jimmy's inaugural ball.
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She would make an awesome GOP Majority leader
Another shoot-from-the-hip useful idiot!
Sometimes I think converts to conservatism are better conservatives.
Or speaker of the house. She’d face a lot of opposition from the enemy within but it would be great practice for bigger and better things.
Plus she doesn’t cry as much as Johnny the jellyfish.
There just isn’t much bad you can truthfully say about Michell Bachman, a wonderful woman. I hope Romney puts here in charge of the taskforce to get rid of Obamacare.
They MUST flush that idiot Boehner out of the Speakership, along with McConnell. Bachmann would make a great Speaker.
There just isn’t much bad you can truthfully say about Michell Bachman, a wonderful woman. I hope Romney puts here in charge of the taskforce to get rid of Obamacare.
She should be the next Attorney General.
I would like Bachmann or Allen West as Speaker. However, it’s the good ol boys club and you have to put in time to get consideration. More importantly, the club doesn’t like “boat rockers”.
Just read the local Twin Cities newspaper online comment sections when there’s a story mentioning her to see how tolerant and peaceful leftists really are.
“Queen of rage”?it looks like they got the wrong person. The person they’re looking for is tha nut Nancy Pelosi.The wicked Witch of the West.
Talent, not time should be the deciding factor. And if we would insist on TERM LIMITS, time wouldn't matter.
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