Matt Taibbi: A Guy He Saw Huffing Glue Out of Paper Bag Made More Sense Than Michelle Bachmann
By Heather Friday Mar 27, 2009 6:00pm
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Leave it to Matt Taibbi to tear into Michelle Bachmann in a way only he can. Matthews had to know what type of response he was going to get here and Taibbi didn't disappoint. His reply when asked about some of Michelle Bachmann's latest hackery.
Taibbi: You know it's funny this morning outside of Penn Station I saw a guy huffing glue out of a paper bag, and he was making more sense than Michelle Bachmann was making. I can't believe it. You need to pass a written test to drive a car in this country but I bet this woman can't even write her name in the ground with a stick. I mean it's just unbelievable to me that this person is in the Congress.
Political Base asks the obvious "elephant in the room" question: At what point should we start calling Bachmann "treasonous"?
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At what point should we start calling Bachmann "treasonous"?
As soon as she opens her yapper?
There are lots of folks in the long term mental hospitals who have the same ideas, and if they wear tinfoil on their heads or shit over on the table, they are still god's chillen.
They don't usually make it to congress though, but the RePUGs seem to have a bumper crop.
"Armed and dangerous?" "Revolution?" I'd be inclined to ignore lunatics like Bachmann, but given what we saw during the presidential campaign and the fact that American taxpayers are paying this nut an annual salary of $174,000, I'm beginning to think that some formal intervention might be necessary if her party can't get her under control. This is beyond a rant of an ordinary crazy person.
From the article at: http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/Mark%20N...
That women is on crack! Just look at her eyes! just look at the crazy BS she says! Washed up!
At what point should we start calling Bachmann "treasonous"?
I started yesterday.
At what point should we start calling Bachmann "treasonous"?
Hell, at what point should we stop?
Why is the Republican party chairman and leadership not calling this lunatic to at least shut if not resign?
Incitement is a line she has already crossed and with the crazies out on the street today along with the Klan groups that are agitated every day by the folks at Fox (on purpose) if violence is truly a result of this woman ravings, she should be put on trial for any laws broken.
She has gone over the bright red line of reality to insanity with incitement.
"Why is the Republican party chairman and leadership not calling this lunatic to at least shut if not resign?"
What leadership? A big mouth fat fuck or a weak kneed idiot that bows to the big mouth fat fuck? Just listen to the mouth piece idiots like Beck that cries "communism", "NWO", "black helicopters", "FEMA camps" and other crap!
Against her now for 2012! Something to simply distract the dingbat.
Somebody sharp, intelligent and progressive needs to announce their campaign against her who can start slapping down her B.S. and to let her know that the next election there will be ZERO chance of her slipping through the cracks! I wonder if they have a recall process in MN??
She's an idiot!!!
The people in her district should be ashamed of themselves.
It makes one wonder about the mentality of people who live in Minnesota. They elect her with no problem but we can't seem to be able to seat Al Franken in the Senate??
What the hell is going in that wacky state anyhow??
I think we all went insane during the Bush Administration didn't we?
Bachmann is a real loon. You can tell just by looking at her, not to mention her hysterical rantings. She's the poster girl for the lost in the wilderness, empty wild eyed, and scared shitless wrong-wing party.
Geez, come on now, we know she's auditioning for a job with Fox News but these traitorous, extremists rants of wingnut Michelle Bachmann have to be censured for the simple reason she is factually and morally wrong and she is a flat out LIAR.
Written test? Ha! Get this woman a psychiatric evaluation. There's a wild party in there, but nobody's home.
And people in Minnesota are normally so nice.
Let's not go overboard. She isn't smart enough to be treasonous. She could only be tried and executed in Texas.
Nurse Ratchet, we need you for a lobotomy on M.Bachmann. Ratchet, please report!
I want to pass a constitutional amendment forbidding dancing on one foot, while rubbing your stomach counter-clockwise with one hand, and picking your nose with the other, while whistling La Marseillaise.
For on air talent at Fox Snooze. I understand that Billo and Glenn Beck practiced for weeks before they passed. It's also my understanding that the entire Fox and Friends lineup had to resort to cheating.
This sounds like just another variation of Obama's a socialist theme.
Why doesn't she do something like working on a budget plan, or banking reorganization plan, or even import safety plans?
What's scarier is that the majority of Republicans would support a Palin-Bachmann ticket in 2012
I think that the majority of Democrats would, too.
You're so confused, you must have voted for her.
HINT: Think about how that ticket fare against Obama-Biden
Hint: Optimus prime and a two finger salute! Think about it!
Kitty Harris / Mich Bachmann
is Bachmann not in jail? Oh yeah I keep forgetting...IOKIYAR.
If it wasn't the time she ran from the ladies room complaining that the lesbians were after her, it was the pictures of her hiding behind the bushes watching the gay festival.
What is ABSOLUTELY frightening is that she is on the House Financial Services Committee!
I'll grant her that the IMF's use of a synthetic reserve currency may be a tad confusing to the non-econ/finance types, but to be so bewildered by it as to think that some nefarious world force (or the Chinese, Russians?) are going to come swooping into America and force us all to hand over our US dollars is just absolutely ludicrous. She is either actually psychologically unbalanced, really really stupid, or playing dog-whistle politics for her apocalypse-obsessed constituents who equate a one-currency world with the anti-Christ.
Those are the only three reasons I can think of that someone would believe that. They are also three very good reasons why someone should not be able to sit on the Financial Services Committee, much less even be in Congress.
She shouldn't be on any committee. She should be before a committee. That woman dont need help she needs a team of help.
Thank goodness Matt is getting more time on TV. We need more people calling out the insane right. Also, everyone should read his article in the latest issue on AIG. It's also online.
Isn't this just another "Freedom Fries" resolution to whip up public sentiment and distract Congress from important issues?
Seriously, I could come up with this crap all day:
"Let's pass a law preventing Liberals from demolishing Mount Rushmore."
"Let's pass a special amendment to the Constitution to protect our Second Amendment right to own a gun."
"Let's pass a law preventing the Hollywood and New York far-left elite media from killing kittens in cold blood."
"Let's pass a law to stop Communists from using fluoride to infiltrate our precious bodily fluids."
but I know a couple of crackheads and more than a few tweakers that are hands-down smarter than Bachmann...
Sounds like she's real taibbi...abibi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...aibbi...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgUXriv46Ik
Very apropo I think
I always thought Tweety huffed glue out of brown paper bag. I know, for a fact, he doesn't have the sense to get out a wet one.
...If a lot of folks think you're an idiot, it just might not be a conspiracy.
I had writing instructors who said if two or more people say your writing is too ornate, it's probably true.
Actually, that's one of the things this site helps me with, keeping my comments on point and pithy.
Even when I'm just joking (so it's only my point, not necessarily that of the thread), an entire joke might be only three words, but grammatical (unless I choose not to be.)
Michelle Bachmann is another lunatic like Glenn Beck.
This woman is out of her mind. She must be sniffing glue out of a bag, on crack, and doing meth...or all of this and more.
The site of her makes me physically ill...very much like Beck does.
Her campaign slogan:
"I used to be all messed up on drugs
but now I'm fuct up on Jesus!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2FrFBceLuY
Thank you a million times over for this video of the incomparable Ry Cooder. I always refer to this song as Salvation Army Band music at it's finest.
Thank you, thank you.
Saw him live once about 15 years ago. If you ever get a chance to see him live, GO! Worth the price of any ticket.
and I'll take it!
I just came across this website, where you can find all sorts of craziness from this whacked out, insane woman. Take a look, if you can stomach it.
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/
She sounds like soccer mom that's taken too many balls in the face.
Now be nice, not that way...
Said the boy named Beaver.
'En y's dad bad?
My sheep makes more sense than she does.
come on...they couldnt have been serious when they reelected her
arent they a bit embarressed?
she's just the kind of dumbass that americans need around to remind us what a bunch of numbnuts are running the thug party these days. keep 'em coming, you freaky, stupid bible thumping moron.
I mean, she ought to know by know that you don't challenge the Fed-Res/Tres without severe political backlash. One week ago, it was Michelle Who? Now the left has found a new whipping boy, and its a woman! Re-read the comments on this thread - seriously. The best argument is she's not as smart as 'the guy huffing glue'? Cant write her name in a ground with a stick??
These are arguments for political policy, are they? Sounds like childish name-calling to me. Maybe he can fling poo at her next.
Those are effective arguments because they happen to be true. And the left's been mocking her for more than a week or two; you just weren't paying attention.
[EDIT: the reply was to above mjULTRA.]
You seriously contend that this woman, who is an elected congressional representative, with views that you disagree with, cannot write her own name in the ground with a stick? That's seriously a point worth making on national television?
Whats really going on is that the mainstream media is desperate for relevance again, so fox gives BECK his own show, and tells him to crank up the right-wing fringe type of shit, and go for that alex jones market while MSNBC falls over themselves to bring on guests that can lighten their heavy overtones of media brainwashing with clever street metaphors from balding rolling stone columnists who specialize in making assanine comparisons in order to distract people from thinking rationally about serious events. whew.
pre-emptive love for my haters.
If she want's to "go behind enemy lines", why don't she enlist to go fight in the budget busting Republican war in Iraq instead of pretending to be in a war?
Combat dodging cowardly conservatives with all their analogies to wars and battles who never go to fight in a actual war they champion for someone else to might make me sick. As far as Bachmann being treasonous, the whole anti-American fascist Christianista base of the GOP are treasonous. They steal elections they loose and want to over turn elections they loose in a landslide that they can't steal by calling for a revolution. That's some "pro-Democracy" Republicanism for ya! Deport these treasonous traitors of the GOP, they are a home grown threat to our nation. Havn't they done enough damage to this nation already? I think our forefathers would support kicking their anti-American, anti-democratic asses out of the country stat.
lose.
I guess Tweety's comments are part of the backlash against St. Michelle. Bachmann is by far the most un-American person in the Congress! (Sorry, Marsha Blackburn, you're going to have to get a lot crazier to compete with this loon.) Her calls for armed rebellion against the "tyranny" of Obama are obviously seditious (to everyone but Hannity, that is). She is a traitor to her country.
Another wonderful spokesfool for the republican party. How much stupider are they going to get, anyway?
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC;"
She has promoted revolution rather than actually taking a concrete action, so isn't her behavior more seditious? Was the Smith Act ever repealed? Seems like a good application.
Treason is more appropriate to the bumbling band of bushies who did take concrete action to subvert the constitution.
Sedition would be more accurate, and it has nothing to do with no concrete action. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the one who promoted the Clear and Present Danger defintion limiting Freeh Speech. But from at least the 1930's to the 1950's and into the '60's. justices used the Bad Tendency Test, favored by Justice Edward T Sanford, derived from English Common Law, which had been the norm (NORM!), and seems to have resumed with the Patriot Act.
The interesting thing is, however, Holmes didn't see Clear and Present Danger as opposing the Bad Tendency test, but clarifying it, although other justices felt his standard was just as unclear, because, as you pointed out, it had to do with words and not concrete action.
Sedition on the other hand is more often internal, like a military coup d'etat, perhaps assasination, or what's called a bloodless coup, not necessarily violent revolution, or aiding and abetting the enemy like treason, which is defined in the US Constitution in Art. III, Sec III: cl 1:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
No definition as such appears for sedition.
The Bad tendency test has been most favored by conservatives, and under it's test, many of the pronouncements of conservatives like Bachmann and hate radio pundits would ironically qualify. It's the more liberal definition that protects them.
Okay, I'll quit now, I'm bored too.
At what point do we take away all sharp objects from the people in her district who re-elected this whack-job?
The republicans gerrymandered to get her to congress?
get Ariana Huffingglue into a paper bag anyway?
Wow, I used to enjoy this site when Bush was Pres., but now I see that this is where the blind Dems come to hate on the opposition. Treason? REALLY? Remember when the Rep. said you were treasonous or unAmerican for speaking against Bush and we all said how crazy that was? Now, this woman disagrees with Obama and it is treason? WTF is the difference, and how are you folks acting any better then the Reps did back then?
Do any of you understand at all that one POSSIBLE problem with all this spending is hyper-inflation? I am not saying it is going to happen, but you must admit that there is considerable risk of it isn't there? After all we are spending trillions of dollars that we do not have! Now, if hyper-inflation does happen, don't you think that some will say the solution is a new currency because the dollar is to far gone? What makes you idiots think the Fed cares anything about the dollar? They are a private bank that answers to NOBODY!!! So long as they are in charge they wouldn't care what our currency is! Oh never-mind, everything is fine, the FED is great and Geithner is an economic genius!! Do any of you know what his previous job was?
This trend of one party labeling decent from the other side treasonous is scary to me. America is TRULY in great trouble.
She's talking about Americans arming themselves to fight against march against Obama.
And it's not just hyperbole when the only retail business doing that well now is gun sellers.
Rom Emanuel himself admits to wanting more gun restrictions. He says he wants to prevent anyone on the watch list from owning a gun! Just 6 months ago DEMS were crying foul over these lists, now they should be enough to prevent gun ownership? You do not have to be guilty of anything to be on these lists, you are ok with this?
You keep shifting your arguments to different subjects; are you that unsure of them yourself?
Obviously you're a troll with nothing to add to the argument, so I'm just putting you on my ignore list.
played like a douche.
just plain paranoid and nuts. Fits right in with O'Reilly, Limpballs, Hannity, Savage Weiner, Beck, Coulter, Ingraham and the rest of the radical Conservative nutjobs.
Two points: First, Michelle Bachmann is a big soggy bowl of fruitloops with no grasp whatsoever of what's happening in reality. End of story.
Secondly, Chris Matthews keeps referring to the magazine Taibbi writes for as "The Rolling Stone".
Uh, maybe you're getting it mixed up with your favorite rock group, Chris, but the magazine is called "Rolling Stone". Like you don't say The Time Magazine, or The MSNBC.
Jeesh, they've only been publishing for 45 years...
And maybe Chrissy has this earworm running through his head...
Bill Maher called it that the other day, as well.
Yes, it's annoying, but what are you gonna do.
Sedition would be more accurate, and it has nothing to do with no concrete action. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was the one who promoted the Clear and Present Danger defintion limiting Free Speech. But from at least the 1930's to the 1950's and into the '60's. justices used the Bad Tendency Test, favored by Justice Edward T Sanford, derived from English Common Law, which had been the norm (NORM!), and seems to have resumed with the Patriot Act.
The interesting thing is, however, Holmes didn't see Clear and Present Danger as opposing the Bad Tendency test, but clarifying it, although other justices felt his standard was just as unclear, because, as you pointed out, it had to do with words and not concrete action.
Sedition on the other hand is more often internal, like a military coup d'etat, perhaps assasination, or what's called a bloodless coup, not necessarily violent revolution, or aiding and abetting the enemy like treason, which is defined in the US Constitution in Art. III, Sec III: cl 1:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
No definition as such appears for sedition.
The Bad tendency test has been most favored by conservatives, and under it's test, many of the pronouncements of conservatives like Bachmann and hate radio pundits would ironically qualify. It's the more liberal definition that protects them.
Okay, I'll quit now, I'm bored too.
While you are all laughing at Bachmann's paranoia, I just read Taibbi's feature article (April 2, 2009, ROLLING STONE) "The Big Takeover." If he's right about HALF the allegations he makes, we'll all be turning to Michelle Bachmann for directions to the Revolution.
Highly recommend you read this article before you laugh at the Cassandras amongst us.
Admittedly, Bachmann is not the brightest star in the sky, however what she commented on was certainly not treasonous nor all that wrong. The Federal Reserve is unConstitutional and just because a given Congress along the way decides to let a private banking cartel issue our currency or a sitting president declare war, doesn't make it Constitutional.
From my interpretation any sitting Congress HAS NO RIGHT to reassign nor allocate powers beyond the Constitution. It is simply not their right to defer their responsibilities and duties to a President or the banking cartels or any other body inside or outside the government.
And now the talk of giving up our currency and essentially our sovereignty to the IMF & World Bank for a global currency is the final nail in the coffin. And you think this can't happen, then picture the scenario where your dollar is so diluted and inflationary, when the "solution" is presented to allow a conversion to another currency helps restore the buying power of your remaining dollars, you will jump at the change. "Cause the problem"--"fix the problem" the classic strategy at play.
By the way, I have always considered myself a progressive so don't think I could ever vote for today's republikan candidates.
Also, today tens of thousands of people protested these "bailouts" across the world.
I know C&L doesn't care much for Chris Matthews -- in truth, I like him mostly because he's a character and fun to watch, regardless of the topic -- but you have to give it to him that he recognizes the worth of Matt Taibbi as a commentator. I bet any money we start to see Taibbi on Hardball quite frequently.
As for Bachmann -- just give her enough rope and watch her swing.
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