Michele Bachmann Response Gets Straightened Out By TeaPartyHD

TeaPartyHD, the television and internet network behind now-infamous video of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) delivering her own rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, endeavored to straighten out the conservative congresswoman on Friday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

Bachmann made headlines for her response to Obama and not just for the controversy it stirred within the Republican party. In one version of the video, the Tea Party darling doesn't appear to be looking into the camera. Instead of addressing her audience, she seems to be looking off to the side.

Per the Star Tribune:

The reason, it appears, is that Bachmann delivered her speech to TeaPartyHD's camera, which had the teleprompter she used. But most of the world -- well, nation -- saw the footage shot by network cameras that were allowed to video the speech.

During an appearance on MSNBC following the president's State of the Union, White House senior adviser David Axelrod made light of the footage. "Am I looking at the right camera?" he asked at the beginning of a segment with network host Lawrence O'Donnell.

The Star Tribune reported on Friday that a spokesman for Bachmann signaled that TeaPartyHD had "guaranteed" a version of the video with the congresswoman's eyes looking straight into the camera would be posted online by the day's end.

Click here to read more on what Bachmann had to say in her speech.

Below, the off-kilter version of Bachmann's response. Click here to watch the other clip.

Comments

[Chingiss7]

08:08 AM on 02/03/2011

Bachman reminds me of the reptilian leader in the V series. The camera should zoom into those insane eyes of hers, well if they can get her to look into the right(pun intended) camera.

[Brian 28152]

07:45 AM on 02/19/2011

She probably is. Alot of the politicians have those eyes.

[thylawyer]

04:11 PM on 02/01/2011

I don't get this criticism of Bachmann. Obama never looks at the camera, either. His head just swivels fro side to side. At least she looked into A camera. WShen we Obama learn to either use a middle teleptompter or at least pause his swivel-head and look into the amera for a second or two. Is he afraid he'll lose his train of thought?

[Nic Hollins]

02:58 PM on 02/02/2011

maybe because when he's talking there are actually people there ie an audience and not just camera men....ever give that a thought? you talk to your audience otherwise known as "public speaking"

[Chip W]

10:04 AM on 02/01/2011

Michele Bachmann's popularity is another indication that the United States isn't ready for democracy.

[UKLib]

09:42 AM on 02/01/2011

Worsening education + an absence of serious journalism = more unqualified idiots like Michelle Bachmann getting elected in America.

[RedDog79]

09:31 AM on 02/01/2011

yeah that won't really help the true problem and that was the horribly mislead factless crap that she said.

[sasidechick]

08:40 AM on 02/01/2011

So it's the "lamestream" media's fault? Is nothing they do wrong EVER their own fault??

[Fredday]

07:05 AM on 02/01/2011

"which had the teleprompter she used."

Ruh roh, Raggy. lol

[keshea01]

09:53 AM on 02/01/2011

and I thought they 'HATED' teleprompters.

[Fredday]

03:07 PM on 02/01/2011

Oh they do when some black guy uses them.

[psmarc93]

12:43 AM on 02/01/2011

MichaelGuy, let's ignore the self-serving overgeneralization of America is two nations idea for a moment. How can you say Bachmann is "worthy of honor and respect" when she so blantantly misrepresents the statistics over the past 10 years. Her little chart on the budget doesn't take into account the fact that Bush's budget did not factor in Afgahnistan or Iraq (about a total of 3 Trillion of debt) AND she counts 2009 as Obama's first year of debt -- when that was actually Bush's last year. Had she shown the true figures, the chart would show a skyrocketing debt due to Bush/Republican administration, brought down a tiny teensy bit by Obama's first budget year -- i.e. the truth. Again, I ask, how is breaking the commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness..." worthy of respect and honor?

[OceanSize]

12:46 AM on 02/01/2011

Tea Partiers love to harken back to the days of our more pure Federalist system, conveniently forgetting that our brand of Federalism was never fully put to the test at the time of our country's creation. That test only came 100 years later, and proved the fault in pure Federalism.

How do we know? A little thing that Tea Partiers conveniently forget called The Civil War.

[Cailleach Echo]

10:14 PM on 01/31/2011

She gives you the feeling that she was born stoned.

[shanghaislim]

12:36 AM on 02/01/2011

Please!!!!!!

Don't give me ANY reason to vote for her?????

[nypapajoe]

09:54 PM on 01/31/2011

Ok tea baggers you got her eyes straight can you now do something about her brain?

[Mychal]

02:46 AM on 02/01/2011

Well, said, papajoe...I don't think there's a brain in that coconut of hers...Just a programmed sheep, with a wet teabag in her head...

[keshea01]

09:54 AM on 02/01/2011

ummmmmmm, shame on you for insulting sheep

[castleb]

08:24 PM on 01/31/2011

Perhaps Justice Scalia can take her in hand. I understand he lectured her Congressional group on the Federalist Papers. Heavy stuff.

Hopefully, Ms Bachmann will read the overwhelmingly dismissive comments posted here. She might even learn something. What were those who voted her in (more than once) thinking?

[Hopeforu]

08:58 PM on 01/31/2011

She needs some schooling-----or maybe she MISSED some schooling.

[sasidechick]

08:49 AM on 02/01/2011

she is home schooling her children. G O D help us all.

[Branson Huggins]

08:20 PM on 01/31/2011

For a group that has been so quick to distinguish themselves as "independents" they sure do seem to flock to the Republicans. I just don't get it. If you are an independent, then why have 100% Republican members running for office, and winning, on the backs of your votes? have you seen a democrat member of tea party? I have not. If it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, chances are it's a duck. I love how people have eaten this it, and seem so quick to forget that a good bit of these "independents" were former Republicans. Republicans that quickly ran to the side of the Independents the moment they saw turmoil in there party. I would rather have a member of a party stand by what they actually believe, rather then flip flop the moment they realize things aren't going there way. Seems to me like no one cares about that, all they care about is what these "independents" promise them at the time. I would rather have a person that stood by there beliefs then someone who ran to whatever side they thought would get them into office. I may not agree with you, but at least I will respect you for standing by your beliefs.

[MajMike]

07:43 PM on 01/31/2011

The TP would have a lot more credibility with me if they chose better reps than Bachman/Palin/Angle, these idgits turn me off to their message.

[timekiller25]

07:16 PM on 01/31/2011

Much ado about nothing. Who cares, really?

[sandracoston]

08:10 AM on 02/01/2011

It really isn't about her teleprompter mishap that disturbs me it more about what the tea party stands for...If you really listen to what they are saying it is this ,,,They want no universal healthcare ,,no social programs to help our citizens no foreign aid to help other countries, no regulations on corporations, so what this means to me they want this country to become a godless self absorbed nation that starves it's citizens while the wealthy ravish our lands and keep us isolated from the rest of the world so no one is the wiser...this is scary stuff when you add it all up and we need not to make light of it..I think that we need to understand that the tea party is not a grass root organization it was co opted by the Koch brothers and Dick Armey, we can not sit back and let this happen to our country...We need to wake up america,,

[mercedes1947]

06:18 PM on 01/31/2011

From the right vantage point the speech is still from the right vantage point.

[dn sf]

09:58 PM on 01/31/2011

then why bother to post a comment

[mercedes1947]

10:30 PM on 01/31/2011

It's a joke a play on words and meanings. Looks like a couple - a other people got it,