Skip to content

Tag: Michele Bachmann

Media Goes Locker Room on Bachmann

Every man is familiar with that grade school taunt reserved for a woman standing up for herself: “What are you, on your PERIOD?” It is probably one of the worst insults that can be leveled against a woman, so much,

The Tea Party is Dead. Long Live the Tea Party.

The Tea Party movement, which was so heralded in 2009 and 2010 and played a large role in motivating voters and candidates to move to the right, is dead. It’s chief accomplishment was to elect enough Republicans to the US

Bill Maher's Easy, Politically Safe Humor

Bill Maher recently complained that “We can’t throw around the word [sexist] just to stop people like me from pointing out that Michele Bachmann, now running second for the Republican presidential nomination, is a dangerous nincompoop.” Hmm, sort of sounds

Bachmann Responds to Migraine Story

Browsing Gateway Pundit today, I ran across Michele Bachmann’s response to the hit piece that accused the Minnesota Congresswoman of suffering from “stress-related” chronic migraine headaches that “incapacitate” her and which she combats with “heavy pill use.” I fully expected

Numbers Don't Lie, Does Jon Stewart?

Culture and Media Institute: It was contentious and dramatic. On Sunday, June 19, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace grilled funnyman Jon Stewart on his obvious liberal bias and Stewart replied, “… there is not a designed ideological agenda on

NewsBusted – Biden, Twitter and Toothless Hillbillies

Topics in today’s show: — President Obama says economic challenges weren’t created overnight — Rumors Biden will be replaced with Andrew Cuomo — Biden has a Twitter — Michele Bachmann said Obama thinks Tea Party is “just a bunch of

The Tea Party Is Ceiling the Deal

There are a lot of pieces to the debt-ceiling deal. There are the taxes upon taxes, as the Wall Street Journal editors describe it. That’s the roughly $1 trillion in new Obama taxes on top of what he’s already signed

'View' Launches Racial Rant Against Michele Bachmann

—– With her poll numbers rising and her closing in on the front-runner, it’s time for popular culture to jump in and do their dirty work against Rep. Michele Bachmann. The three boxes are all checked in this segment: racist/stupid/crazy.

Programming Note: Friday

I’ll be on CNN tomorrow morning (every Monday, Wednesday, Friday) at 9:30 central to talk political headlines of the day. After my 2-4 pm CDT show, Jason Lewis kindly invited me to fill in for him 5-8 pm CDT. My

David Axelrod: Lincoln Built an "Intercontinental Railroad"

When I caught the President talking about President Lincoln’s “intercontinental railroad” in an interview he gave in February, I thought it was just an off-the-cuff gaffe. But it turns out his former chief political adviser made the same mistake just

Liberal Media Renders Bachmann's Virtue Moot

Liberal news site Talking Points Memo manages to almost (but not quite) turn being a foster parent to 23 at-risk teens into a negative campaign issue with a wee bit of burying the lede legerdemain and by squarely playing into

Partisan Heartbreaker Tom the Petty

In an effort to further promote the message of love, peace, and the type of compassion intrinsic to all dedicated liberals, Alec Baldwin, a paunchy comedian with anger issues, called attention to what he feels is Michele Bachmann’s inability to

Michele Bachmann: The Hated Jew

When Sarah Palin burst upon the national scene and the liberal media attempted to destroy her, it occurred to me that this honest and decent woman was being transformed into a hated Jew. No matter what she said, no matter

NewsBusted: Ron Paul & Barney Frank Share a Toke?

Topics in today’s show:– Democrats say Republicans are sabotaging ‘economic recovery’– Michele Bachmann says Obama has let down minorities– Ron Paul and Barney Frank issued bill to legalize marijuana– Newt Gingrich’s top fundraisers quit– Maryland requires high school students to