Michele Bachmann On Why She's Such A Lightning Rod

For the first time, apparently, in her career, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) appeared on Fox News Sunday. And in between offering the usually wild broadsides in denunciation of all things Barack Obama, she was asked by host Chris Wallace why she was such a lightning rod.

"Well," the congresswoman replied, "I think part of that may be because when I talk about what is happening in Washington, D.C., I use the actual statements or comments or the data that Nancy Pelosi or President Obama or Harry Reid refer to. I use their own statements on them. And usually they don't like that very much. They don't like to be quoted back with what they've said."

If only it were as simple as reading back quotes and statements. Bachman, among other things, has suggested that Congress needed to be investigated for anti-American members, that a significant portion of the scientific community didn't believe in evolution, that the Census would lead to a modern day equivalent of Japanese-America internment camps in WWII, that the Obama administration was a "gangster government," and that health care reform would allow 13-year-olds to get abortions done at sex clinics.

Fox News host Chris Wallace didn't ask about any of these.

Comments

[JohnHumphrey]

02:59 AM on 04/14/2010

What is this? My mom is a lightning rod, this B, on the other hand, is nothing but an ignorant piece of merde.

[missyme]

12:30 AM on 04/14/2010

I just cannot understand why there are so many dumb people in the world - scratch that - in America.

[iMissMollyIvins]

12:20 AM on 04/14/2010

My money's on the tin foil hat that's welded to her cranium.

[AirForce Vet]

12:54 PM on 04/13/2010

Someone has mentioned that Michele Bachmann is attractive. I must say this to the moths drawn to the flames. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Physical beauty is outward appearance but spiritual beauty radiates from within. Michele Bachmann lacks a spiritual beauty as thus being so saturated with a venomous spiritual ugliness; her outward appearance radiates with the essence of her inner ugliness. Some species in the animal kingdom are attractive in appearance; however, some of these are the most deadly.

[TomJoad1965]

11:42 AM on 04/13/2010

In an intelligent world, she would offend the electorate and she'd be sent packing. WHY IS SHE STILL HERE?

[talkpeople]

12:14 PM on 04/13/2010

horney old men and women who want horney old men to like them keep her in business.

[rhurc2]

11:40 AM on 04/13/2010

Of course, the real reason she's so hated is that she's very conservative and just so happens to be an attractive woman. Same reason conservative blacks are so hated.

[talkpeople]

12:12 PM on 04/13/2010

She is not good looking. She is hated cause she lies to her followers. She keeps them close by scaring them. She incites racial tention and violence.
I'm just waiting for the michelle and sarah cat fi ght. I'm think michelle would win, but i could be wrong. Maybe wall street will make bets on it and make millions at the same time.

[rhurc2]

12:21 PM on 04/13/2010

Yes she is. People that hate her will say nasty things about how she looks.. But leaving aside your bias, she is an attractive woman. Sorry. And as all liberals think, attractive women MUST be liberals in support of feminist causes and abortion.

[missyme]

12:28 AM on 04/14/2010

Yep! Tout ce qui se ressemble s'assemble!

[Cil]

11:35 AM on 04/13/2010

Really, did you expect Chris Wallace to ask those questions? Get real
he IS AFTER ALL a Fox host!

[EagleFliesInSky]

10:48 AM on 04/13/2010

Pointy heads attract lightening ergo she's a lightening rod.

[bmike]

09:21 AM on 04/13/2010

This lady is as dumb as a box of rocks with a hole in it.

[noaxe397]

08:55 AM on 04/13/2010

She is a lightening rod because the liberal and so-called MSM cover her like a blizzard on a meadow.

There are 435 members in congress. Can you even NAME yours?

See what I mean.

[yasunari]

09:25 AM on 04/13/2010

She's a lightning rod because she's loudly and proudly stupid. As for Palin, she's both ignorant and self-confident, which is a good recipe for being ridiculous.


However, being neither sharp nor connected to the ground, I'm not sure she can pretend to be a lightning rod...

[PWM]

09:34 AM on 04/13/2010

She is a liar

Bachmann truth check http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/personalities/michele-bachmann/

[bellabeach]

08:32 AM on 04/13/2010

I hope the people in her district, who by the way, have the highest unemployment, will VOTE HER OUT!! Everytime I hear or see her with those crazy eyes, I ask myself who in their right mind would vote for her!!

[yasunari]

07:33 AM on 04/13/2010

Don't know what she's drinking but I want the same..

[FanaticRealist]

06:09 AM on 04/13/2010

More importantly, she should answer why she shouldn't be tied to a lightning rod.

[FunkyMaverick]

04:24 AM on 04/13/2010

I can't help but think of this every time I see or hear her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-Fv_1uq-w

[iMissMollyIvins]

01:57 AM on 04/13/2010

My guess would be: She's dumb as a metal post.

[talkpeople]

12:18 PM on 04/13/2010

why would you insult a metal post?