Michele Bachmann Confronted By 'Gay Robot' During Iowa City Stop

Iowa City Patch:

By now the GOP presidential candidates have seen it all: hecklers, protesters, haters of all shapes and sizes. Well, mostly all.

On Thursday afternoon in Iowa City, Michele Bachmann encountered a man dressed in a robot suit, who shouted her down with the aid of a built-in megaphone. He called himself, "roboprof," and was quickly asked to leave Hamburg Inn No. 2, where Bachmann made a campaign stop.

"I am a gay robot. I oppose Bachmann's position on gays, whether they are human or robot," said the man, who declined to give his name, although he admitted to be the same robot who heckled Bill Clinton at the University of Iowa in 2007.

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Comments

[TalkingWithYale]

02:28 PM on 01/29/2012

Here’s our interview with the “Gay Robot,” University of Iowa Professor Kembrew McLeod, on who he is, why he dresses as a robot, and the effectiveness of pranks and pranking.

http://patv.tv/blog/2012/01/26/talking-with-kembrew-mcleod/

[MartiniVirtuoso]

12:29 PM on 12/27/2011

Michele Bachmann was offended by someone playing a mindless robot, the kind the repeats what it's told without any independent thought? Doesn't that describe Michele most avid supporters?

[Makos62]

05:29 PM on 12/24/2011

Actually, Bachmann's current campaign contributors consist mostly of comedians, scared she will leave the race. Nothing about the rest of the candidates is funny. That is why mostly horror movie writers are backing them.

[ethelmertzrules]

01:11 PM on 12/24/2011

Well of course she is going to have to talk to him sometime, they ARE married.

[Atwill]

09:25 PM on 12/23/2011

Hysterical. I want us all to do a write in vote this Nov for Roboprof for president

[Cicero Hood]

05:18 PM on 12/23/2011

Beware the robosexual agenda!

[ethelmertzrules]

01:12 PM on 12/24/2011

Nice.

[Rantibus]

04:19 PM on 12/23/2011

Personally, I think the robot thing was rather silly, but what surprised me was the number of supporters who got righteously bent out of shape over it. I thought that anyone considering voting for Bachmann, had, at the very least, a decent sense of the absurd.

[Ioan Lightoller]

11:38 AM on 12/24/2011

If they did, it's likely they wouldn't be voting for Bachmann!

[Happy Clb]

03:55 PM on 12/23/2011

she gets the best hecklers. roboprof the gay robot who also heckled clinton? awesome.

didn't her staff get attacked with glitter, too. lucky girl.

[clivechristy]

03:45 PM on 12/23/2011

Oh Rick Santorum was there too?

[DawnK]

03:26 PM on 12/23/2011

"She is the only one I can trust. We feel she is the most conservative," said Michael Clark, 70, of Coralville, who attended with his wife, Myra, 56.

They forgot to say that Myra didn't speak since she wasn't spoken to.

[Badwater]

03:49 PM on 12/23/2011

Conservatism is a religion. Myra was praying.

[Helloise]

08:13 PM on 12/23/2011

An Iowan conservative admitted that ironically, although conservative men liked Bachmann, they would have a hard time ever voting for a woman for president. Congrats on digging your own submissive plot, Michy.

[bjp4321]

03:17 PM on 12/23/2011

The good news is that Bachmann missed the filing deadline for the VA primary. Believe that this is because of lack of support, or money to collect the 10,000 signatures necessary to qualify.

[Badwater]

03:49 PM on 12/23/2011

Perhaps she thought that prayers would be enough to get on the ballot.

[The Albany Kid]

03:11 PM on 12/23/2011

I wonder what would happen if this 'bot and Motorhead's "Orgasmatron" spent a few nights together in a repair shop. ;)

[SickHippie]

02:50 PM on 12/23/2011

"I think so... That guy, Tex, is really a robot, and you're his boyfriend. So that makes you... a gay robot!"

[Mizzourah]

02:46 PM on 12/23/2011

The next headline will read "Michele leaves Marcus after catching him with a cucumber and wd-40".

[MissCupcake]

02:34 PM on 12/23/2011

Was it her hus/band?