Bachmann: I Want People "Armed With Knowledge"
It looks like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has now become more careful with her use of the English language. In an interview with NewsMax, Bachmann spelled out in detail what she means when calling for people to be "armed and dangerous" on the issue of cap-and-trade.
Check out the 3:25 mark:
"I want my people in Minnesota to be the most educated people," said Bachmann. "I want them to be armed with knowledge, so they can be dangerous to the policies of the left." (Emphasis hers.)
In an interview from last week, Bachmann toned down her previous rhetoric that the country was at the point of revolution, by making it absolutely clear that she was calling for people to organize against President Obama in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Bachmann did get a few details wrong in this latest interview, though. Among other things, she referred to Judd Gregg as Obama's former Commerce Secretary, though he never actually took office in the cabinet, and she referred to Obama's Climate Czar Carol Browner as being the Energy Secretary. But those are small concerns, if she is in fact turning the rhetoric down a notch.
(Via Dump Bachmann.)
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Nah, she doesn't want them "armed" with knowledge. If people in her district were "armed" with knowledge, she would never get elected. She wants them dumb and stupid and swallowing the republican insane policies and talking points without question. These people are so full of sh*t it is amazing.
April 6, 2009 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heh that was exactly what i first thought when i saw this.
April 6, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Me, too.
April 6, 2009 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Concerning her statement comparing the "Serve America Act," a community service program for young people, with "re-education camps":
I wonder if anyone cares to ask her about the religious camp in North Dakota that was training adolescents to be warriors for Jesus and to be ready to die for Him. Would she consider that to be a "re-education camp?"
April 6, 2009 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is she trying to look disingenuous? She may as well be winking at the camera after the phrase "with knowledge."
April 6, 2009 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
This from the woman who thinks there's a plot to replace the dollar as U.S. currency.
Sure, she wants to get the "truth" out. So do many others in the tinfoil-hat brigade.
April 6, 2009 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry. Toothpaste won't go back into the tube, and those remarks cannot be taken back without an explicit denunciation on her part.
That ain't gonna happen.
April 6, 2009 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
hmph.
A Faber College alum:
"Knowledge is Good"
April 6, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
heh. Neidermeyer!!
April 6, 2009 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice to see Bachmann going down the shortest route to crazytown:
MSNBC > FoxNews > Hannity > Pam Atlas > NewsMax
April 6, 2009 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
When will WND be offering her a column?
April 6, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd just as soon be armed with a Browning 50 cal M2 if it's all the same to Michelle
April 6, 2009 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought Republicans were against Bare Arms!
April 6, 2009 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
In fact, I believe that they are for burkas. According to republican elected officials, they are the american taliban, so they must be for burkas as well, right?
April 6, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
In a battle of wits, she's a conscientious objector.
April 6, 2009 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's on a roll.
Appearing on Minnesota radio station KTLK-AM, (h/t Minnesota Independent) the Republican congresswoman expressed her concern that that White House was trying to put in place "re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward." Furthering the Obama-as-autocrat theme, Bachmann said the youngsters would "then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums."
April 6, 2009 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I want them to be armed with knowledge..."
You first, Ms. Bachmann.
April 6, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scientific wins the thread
April 6, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Took the words right out of my mouth.
April 7, 2009 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
How about we stop giving this fascist bitch face time?
Just mention her name, type "More Bachmann bullshit rant", and then type "yada yada yada".
This is just as informative as her fascist rants.
Bachmann explains why there's an issue in Minnesota between Coleman and rationality. apparently, some combination of Minnesotans are stupid enough to vote for anti-democratic politicians and to put them in office.
April 6, 2009 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seconded re stopping giving her face time.
April 6, 2009 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
If they were "armed with knowledge", they wouldn't by definition be Republicans. She's either calling for defections from her party, or somewhere there's a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic called "Knowledge".
April 6, 2009 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me, or do many female Republican politicians have the "crazy eyes"?
April 6, 2009 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Regarding "crazy eyes"--Bachmann and Palin do, Olympia Snowe and Kay Bailey Hutchinson don't. Susan Collins has a very strange voice...
April 6, 2009 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heather wilson, the rep and r senate candidate from new mexico had the crazy eyes as well. It's like this far off, drug induced hazy look. It's kind of creepy and stepford wife like. Why don't run of the mill voters see it? It really freaks me out and I would think most people would be freaked out by it. Snowe and collins don't have it and maybe that's because they are semi-sane. Hutchinson doesn't have it, but she just sounds nuts. Maybe she's better at covering up the insanity.
April 7, 2009 2:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does she ever work? It seems she just goes around talk shows and says crazy shit all day.
April 6, 2009 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
She has exchanged saliva with a certain former President. She has that going for her.
April 6, 2009 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't know that stupid was a communicable disease. Is there an airborn vector too?
April 6, 2009 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nobody thinks less of Bachmann than I do, but I think people are harping overmuch on the "armed and dangerous" quote. When I first heard her say it, I assumed that she was talking about arming people with information; this is a plausible interpretation.
This woman is a horrible person with an extremely limited understanding of the world. Her opinions are despicable. Surely we can find nasty things to say about her without resorting to this kind of nitpicking.
April 6, 2009 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Over the weekend the Minneapolis Star Tribune had a lovely little piece on Michelle. A co-worked called it a balanced piece on an unbalanced person. It was really really horrible and yet one more reason why the Strib is about to go bankrupt. We once had a very very good newspaper in this town, but those days are long gone. The sadness we feel at its passing with be a sadness for the paper as it was, not as it is today.
April 6, 2009 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hooray for an arms race that the GOP will lose.
April 6, 2009 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm calling for a Bachmann/McKinney cage match!
I have McKinney in the second round - her sound argumentation will destroy Bachmann.
April 6, 2009 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink