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Bachmann Coins Fox News Slogan: "The Factor" Is The Factor
Eric Kleefeld | September 23, 2009, 12:04PM
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Fox News caught up with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) at the Values Voters Summit, where she praised Fox News and slammed the competition over at MSNBC -- and even coined a new slogan for Bill O'Reilly.
Bachmann couldn't even bring herself to say the competition's name. "Whoever these guys are on MS-- they aren't a factor. The Factor is the factor," said Bachmann, in the midst of an epiphany. "You know, that's it - the Factor is the factor. That's what's important."
She also heaped praise on Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck, for being sources of truth: "People vote with their feet, and they love Bill O'Reilly, they love Glenn Beck, they love the shows that are on Fox. That's what matters, because people want to go where they can find truth. They obviously aren't finding truth over on some of these other channels."
(Via Think Progress.)
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storm
September 23, 2009 12:27 PM
"bat shit crazy" is crazy.
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johnmccsf
September 23, 2009 12:35 PM
Nice to hear that Fox News caught up with Bachmann but what about TPM?
Too cheap to send Kleefeld to the BatShit Summit????
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Schmed
September 23, 2009 1:16 PM in reply to johnmccsf
They were starting to call him "Dirty Eric." Time to spread the crazy around.
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johnmccsf
September 23, 2009 1:52 PM in reply to Schmed
Could there be a warrant out for his arrest in DC for stalking Michele?
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Schmed
September 23, 2009 2:09 PM in reply to johnmccsf
I was thinking of "Dirty Harry": "Now you know why they call me 'Dirty Harry' - every dirty job that comes along."
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GTFOOH
September 23, 2009 1:59 PM
You need to push back from the valium girl.
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AhTrini1
September 23, 2009 2:08 PM
D-E-L-U-S-I-O-N-A-L!
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 23, 2009 2:58 PM
At the risk of being repetitious, the reason they keep saying stuff like this, and the reason they think they're going to sweep back into power in 2010, is because the only "people" they see are the ones who look and think like them. Everyone else is, in some strange, almost literal, sense, invisible to them.
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mans_best_friend
September 23, 2009 3:05 PM
Thank heaven we have our weekly Michele Bachmann story.
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chimpale
September 23, 2009 3:14 PM
The Bachmann Truth: "It's whatever I want it to be. If I want something to be true then it is. All I have to do is fast and pray and even the most ridiculous bullshit suddenly turns into truth. That's what truth is."
If she doesn't get utterly destroyed in the next election then I'm going to run against her in the one after that. Somebody has got to call bullshit on this walking bullshit factory known as Michele Bachmann.
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Matt Jones
September 23, 2009 4:44 PM
So if body count determines truth, does that mean Bachmann believes that churches are lying? Because a lot more people watch WWE wrestling than go to church...
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Elizabeth2
September 23, 2009 5:10 PM
I wonder ..... does anyone know if Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman have ever had a 1 on 1 conversation? preferably without handlers and *with* microphones. New image for "theater of the absurd" What gets me is that, unlike Rush and Beck and most of the others, you get the feeling these women truly **believe** what they say! ---------- Totally agree with NCSteve that the rest of us are invisible to them. How I wish that was reciprocal.
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