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| not really her book title, but since pretty much no one bought the book or read it, no harm done |
She is not only a lunatic who says and who believes outrageous fantastic untrue things, she persuades her followers who are foolish, low information voters to believe screwy, stupid things. Normal people with at least one (preferably both) feet firmly anchored in reality find her funny -- in a laughing at her, not with her kind of way.
But it is pretty hilarious that her inanity and insanity has spread, by floating fluffly popsie dust, across the ocean to Egypt - as if they didn't have enough problems.
I personally believe that the main reason that Bachmann is launching some of her current secret DEEP PENETRATION (because despite her anti-sex puritanism, sexual language seems to slip into her fantasy world expressions) into the State Department conspiracy theory is really that she wants to try to discredit the wife of former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Huma Abedin, who is from an ethnically Middle Eastern Muslim American family, is a long time aide to Sec. of State, Hilary Clinton. Former President Bill Clinton presided over their weddding.
Why would Bachmann go after this particular craziness? Perhaps in the hopes that despite being married to a prominent American Jewish politician with whom she has a son, something icky will stick to Weiner, or his wife Huma Abedin, or maybe to Hilary Clinton, if Bachmann throws feces long enough and loud enough and hard enough.
It's not like the woman cares who she hurts; she just wants to hurt anyone she perceives on the 'other side'. She's something of a loose cannon that way. Bachmann cannot see the contradiction for example in being a supporter and advocate for an actual Muslim terrorist organization. Why would she do that? Who knows - the woman is not rational; given her past track record, someone probably gave her money to do so. Or like the notion that the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine causes mental retardation, maybe she heard the story somewhere from someone who also didn't give their name, or source, or any other pertinent information.
Bachmann is good at one thing and one thing only, and that is self-promotion. Every single time she needs money, she knows just how to ramp up the terror of her sheeple followers. Nothing scares them quite as much as Muslims, about whom they consistently know nothing. Bachmann's base is exactly like the old, feeble minded, bloody minded bigot who was so embarrassing in talking with John McCain in the last presidential election. Yup, people like this are Bachmann's crowd, her bread and butter. Anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti- black people, anti-government, pro-Jesus and pro-gun, and whatever you do, ask for all the money you want, but don't ever confuse them with the facts. They HATE facts. They hate a lot of things, but especially facts.
But this should be the last straw; and if there is any hope of blood and fresh oxygen getting to their old brains, even the Bachmann base sheeple should be ashamed (and uncomfortably amused) by this latest reality check.
From the Rachel Maddow show:
God bless John McCain. In spite of some of the dirty political games he has stooped to in recent years, there are lines, boundaries of decency, across which he will not step. Michele Bachmann hurls herself across them headlong, and then smears herself with the ick, in contrast.
Like the defense in 2008 of Obama, McCain shows his character in defending Uma Abedin against the completely fabricated charges of Michele Bachmann. McCain deserves a standing ovation for his courage and his decency. Bachmann deserves to be ridden out of public life on a rail into the kind of disgrace that we once reserved for the shameful, utterly contemptible, fascist Senator Joe McCarthy. They are birds of a feather, proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same... especially among right wing extremists.
That defense was covered here by ABC news:
Describing the accusations against her as “ugly” and “sinister,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., came to the defense of Huma Abedin, longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Last week five Republican members of the House of Representatives, including former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, made claims that Abedin’s family has ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and questioned whether she is part of a nefarious conspiracy to harm the United States by influencing U.S. foreign policy with her high-level position at the State Department.
“The Departments Deputy, Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members – her late father, her mother and her brother – connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and /or organizations. Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy making,” according to the the June 13th letter, signed by Reps. Bachmann, R-Minn., Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, Thomas Rooney, R-Fla., and Lynn Westmoreland, R-GA.
The letter was sent to Harold Geisel, the Deputy Inspector General at the Department of State, while similar copies were sent to the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Read the letter to Giesel here.
The lawmakers point to a report by the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank, which makes the allegations about Abedin’s family ties and calls on the Deputy Inspector General of the Department of State to begin an investigation into the possibility that Abedin and other American officials are using their influence to promote the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood within the U.S. government.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took to the Senate floor today to rip apart his fellow Republicans’ accusations and came to the defense of Abedin, whom he calls a “fine and decent American,” after observing her work as both a long-time aide to Clinton while she was a Senator and as the Secretary of State.
“These sinister accusations rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma’s family, none of which have been shown to harm or threaten the United States in any way,” McCain said. “These attacks have no logic, no basis, and no merit and they need to stop. They need to stop now.”
McCain argued that there is no evidence to back up the claims by the House Republicans.
“To say that the accusations made in both documents are not substantiated by the evidence they offer is to be overly polite and diplomatic about it,” McCain said. “The letter in the report offer not one instance of an action, a decision or a public position that Huma has taken while at the State Department or as a member of then-Senator Clinton’s staff that would lend credence to the charge that she is promoting anti-American activities within our government.”
McCain said that no one, “not least a member of Congress,” should launch such a “degrading attack against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are an ignorance of that hey stand for.”
A statement issued after McCain’s speech by Bachmann suggested the letter was being taken out of context. Read it here.
The controversy comes at a time when Abedin’s husband, disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, may be trying to revamp and clean up his image. After being out of the public eye for over a year following an embarrassing sexting scandal which led to his resignation from Congress, rumors are swirling that Weiner may be planning a bid to succeed Michael Bloomberg as New York City’s mayor.
“It took a lot of work to get to where [we] are today, but I want people to know we’re a normal family,” Abedin told People magazine in an interview this week with her husband.
A press release from Michelle Bachmann’s office immediately followed McCain’s speech.
“The letters my colleagues and I sent on June 13 to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State – and the follow up letter I wrote to Rep. Ellison on July 13 – are unfortunately being distorted.”
The letter encouraged “everyone” to read the 6 letters sent to various agencies. They can all be found HERE.
No one needs to distort anything from Michele Bachmann; the precise reality is bad enough. The woman likes to try to play the victim card anytime someone holds her properly accountable for the heinous things she thinks, does and says.
It is time for her to go, time for decent and intelligent Minnesotans to get rid of her. Anyone else remember when she insisted she wouldn't run again after her massive fail at being a presidential candidate that no one wanted? Time to hold her to that declaration.
Hello Dog Gone,
ReplyDeleteMichele Bachmann, like many of her other “ME TOO” clones will grasp at anything that they think the following mindless drones will grasp onto so long as it has a negative aspect to others whom they want to attack.
Proof and viability have no validity with this aspect of what was once my Republican Party.
To conclude, allow me to say, “Well Done once again.”
Thanks EoK.
ReplyDeleteShe is fundamentally dishonest; apparently this election cycle she is raising even higher percentages of money from outside Minnesota. Minnesotans don't want her; she's on her way out.
Her attempts at gay bashing and homophobia, even her religious fanaticism, isn't the wedge issue it used to be.
Increasingly, straight people are realizing that if they themselves wouldn't want to be restricted to marrying someone of the same sex while attracted to the opposite sex is equivalent to someone who is gay being restricted to marrying someone for whom they have no love or sexual attraction.
We have a much saner understanding of human and animal normal sexuality than we used to have. We now realize that same sex couples fulfill the same roles that heterosexual couples fulfill, including as parents.
So now Bachmann has to pound on the fears associated with Islamophobia to motivate her base. She is like the fable of the boy who cried wolf, only for her it was "GAYS!" and "God!", and now it's "The MUSLIMS are coming!".
The woman is a living human monstrosity.
FYI #1. Michele Bachmann, who does not reside in the Sixth District is being challenging for the November ballot against fellow Republicans Aubrey Immelman from Sartell and Stephen Thompson from Lino Lakes.
ReplyDeleteIf you live in the Sixth District, vote in August 14th Primary Election !
FYI #2. I read her book ... it's appeal is simplistic ... the government is the problem -- wasting money, failing to protect our kids who are being exposed to wanton lifestyles, telling us what to do, etc. She knows how to exploit fear ... and that's her appeal. Like a slick preacher, she knows what buttons to push.