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Bachmann: My Capitol Tea Party Is 'The Super Bowl Of Freedom'
Rachel Slajda | November 3, 2009, 10:41AM
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann took to Fox this morning to promote her tea party rally this week, calling it the "Super Bowl of freedom."
Bachmann has called for a rally Thursday at noon on the steps of the Capitol, starring such conservative luminaries as Jon Voight. She then wants tea partiers to stream into the halls of Congress to talk to their representatives directly.
"The only way they're going to listen is if real freedom-loving Americans come here to Washington noon on Thursday, look at the whites of the eyes of their members of Congress and say, 'Don't you remember, I told you don't take away my health care,'" she said.
Video after the jump.
Her plan for the rally, and the inside-the-Capitol tea party, has been endorsed by House Republican leadership.
She also repeated her new catch phrase, that "socialized medicine is the crown jewel of socialism. This will change our country forever."
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tiowally
November 3, 2009 11:09 AM
What? No Chuck Norris? No Pat Boone? No Orly Taitz? Michelle is failing us. Surely she can muster more crazy than just Jon Voight.
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tiowally
November 3, 2009 11:12 AM in reply to tiowally
It just occurred to me: There will be more crazy than Jon Voight. Fox News just announced the event is expected to draw 6.4 million teabags to the Capitol.
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Minne sconsin
November 3, 2009 11:38 AM in reply to tiowally
Each one of the crazies is bringing 10,000 teabags?
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midnight rambler
November 3, 2009 12:33 PM in reply to Minne sconsin
No, they're each bringing 100,000.
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jeffgee
November 3, 2009 11:50 AM in reply to tiowally
And if only 30 show up to Michelle's party, Fox will Photoshop the crowds in.
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pixeloony
November 3, 2009 5:00 PM in reply to tiowally
It's gonna be one mighty tea superbowl.
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commie atheist
November 3, 2009 11:10 AM
Ahhhh...what's the point of commenting on this. Breaking news: We have insane people stalking the halls of congress. What a great country.
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jenzinoh
November 3, 2009 12:35 PM in reply to commie atheist
Actually, the breaking news will be the cease and desist order that comes from the NFL... Even advertisers are not allowed to use the words Super and Bowl in the context of a big event. I don't know if it's the NFL or the Network that carries that game that holds the rights to the name, but it would be funny to see them slam the door on Bachmann...
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greylox
November 3, 2009 2:20 PM in reply to jenzinoh
**Just call it the Toilet Bowl of Freedom.
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UTMark
November 3, 2009 3:16 PM in reply to greylox
Damn it! This was my first thought, but I figured I'd better check to see if someone else had already posted it. I guess all that's left is to say "you got that right!"
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TBender
November 3, 2009 3:24 PM in reply to jenzinoh
The Big Game of Freedom?
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jo3wang
November 3, 2009 11:17 AM
We as democrats, progressives, and liberals must all fight back against this right wing lunacy. Where are our leaders in Congress organizing marches and parades in Washington. Why don't all these sights like TPM, Firedoglake, Dailykos, etc., help encourage us. Instead we all stand back and do nothing while people like this sway the minds of the public. Here's a question: What got more attention in the media and what do you think swayed the mind of the public more, the tea party marches and town halls, or a couple doctors standing up in the SFC mark-up and a couple speeches by the president? The obvious answer is the former which is why we all need to start marches of our own.
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midnight rambler
November 3, 2009 12:35 PM in reply to jo3wang
More importantly, we should be doing them at the same time as the teabaggers, so that the pro-reformers can't just be ignored on another news day.
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sashimi
November 3, 2009 12:44 PM
Forget "Super Bowl of freedom."
"High Noon", "Jon Voight" and "look at the whites of the eyes"?
Is that just me? Those sound like lots of fire arms to me.
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vincent75
November 3, 2009 12:51 PM
I have never seen a woman more in need of an actual tea bag.
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Matt Jones
November 3, 2009 2:17 PM
She's right - it's just like the Super Bowl. A totally artificial spectacle, bought and paid for by massive corporate interests!
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TBender
November 3, 2009 2:58 PM in reply to Matt Jones
Well played.
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Jaycal
November 3, 2009 6:38 PM in reply to TBender
With no real societal value and only good for entertainment.
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Indie Tarheel
November 3, 2009 2:51 PM
More like the Super Bowl of Krazy!
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lousgirl84
November 3, 2009 3:01 PM
Amazing stuff here!! Makes me real tired of having to share the planet with these folks. What amazes me is the attention these folks are getting. I doubt it would be the other way around if the dems were doing this and the thugs were in power.
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LBJs Brain
November 3, 2009 3:01 PM
I predict: massive letdown for teh stoopid.
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Dave Bowman
November 3, 2009 3:05 PM
Don't forget to bring your guns!
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Nandemosan
November 3, 2009 3:06 PM
Does anyone doubt that, like Palin, if Bachmann weren't as attractive as she is that no one would pay her the least bit of attention?
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CranialRectalLoopback
November 3, 2009 3:28 PM in reply to Nandemosan
We already know the answer to that. Granny Foxx of NC-5 is equally insane as Bachmann, and nobody gives a shit what she has to say.
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Jaycal
November 3, 2009 6:40 PM in reply to Nandemosan
Eeeeewwwww.... please don't say 'attractive' about either of those women. Once they open their mouths, about the only attraction taking place is with flies.
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CranialRectalLoopback
November 3, 2009 3:26 PM
I'd love to see this cougar tea-bagging at the Super Bowl.
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SkippyFlipjack
November 3, 2009 3:28 PM
The really sad thing is that the public option has been so watered down that Bachmann gets to squawk about it being socialism but it's only going to apply to a small percentage of the population, so it's not even close to socialist. It's lose-lose.
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CranialRectalLoopback
November 3, 2009 3:29 PM in reply to SkippyFlipjack
The only way to solve that problem is to primary Harriet Reid.
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dal
November 3, 2009 3:30 PM
I'd LOVE to see me some good political method acting here...
Franken can lure them all into a conference room and keep them occupied with stories and art projects while the rest of the MN delegation locks Batshitcrazymann in a broom closet...
...maybe 5-10 D-members could get CIA-style Batshicrazymann disguises and, during their rally, start a fight "to find out who the real one is."
...I still think somebody oughtta hire a whole team of clowns to intermingle normally among them
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geofu54
November 3, 2009 3:32 PM
There is something deeply wrong with this country.
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Noam Sane
November 3, 2009 3:36 PM
Michelle Bachman takes the Browns to the Super Bowl!
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Cleo
November 3, 2009 3:36 PM
You guys really think Bachman is hot? She reminds me of Karen Black. A stupidly dangerous Karen Black.
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geofu54
November 3, 2009 3:58 PM in reply to Cleo
Though she is not "my type" (saying this as a straight girl), I do think she is telegenic such a way that the media covets her appearance on their programs. I remember somebody saying the same about Ann Coulter (i.e., she is a "looker" in that she, combined with her nuttieness, grabs visual attention on the TV screen).
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Matt Jones
November 3, 2009 5:22 PM in reply to geofu54
Coulter's a "looker" alright; you "look" twice to figure out why Faux News hired a tranny, what with their family values and all.
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Winston Smith
November 3, 2009 3:42 PM
She's wearing enough eye shadow to paint my house. Of course, I have a very small house because the banks lost all my money on the "free" market.
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714Day
November 3, 2009 3:44 PM
Pretty pea brained Michelle out of the pen again. Love that rallying cry which simpply needs another clause.
"Don't take away my health care! That's my insurance company's job!"
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kash79
November 3, 2009 3:50 PM
All of this would be hilarious, if she weren't a congresswoman and if didn't reflect the IQ of the base voters of the nation's second largest party.
onservative luminaries as Jon Voight
Ha ha
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adyacent
November 3, 2009 3:56 PM
What bothers me is the abuse of the words Freedom, tyranny, and the like. They have all the right to shout their ideas, but the use of these words in the mouth of these people is an insult to those who actually fought against tyranny. They gather together in a trip payed by who knows who, shout for a while, and then go back comfortably at home. They think they are "fighting against tyranny" and in a couple of years they will be enjoying the health benefits passed by the supposed "tyrants".
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Delaware330
November 3, 2009 4:03 PM
Please call it "The Super Bowel of Freedom"
That is all.
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Stoneking
November 3, 2009 4:21 PM
dal, you don't want to lock her in a broom closet...If she starts flying around the capitol, we'd really have problems.
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ThePinfield
November 3, 2009 4:26 PM
holy moly, I know who'll be in her superbowl
http://moronswithsigns.blogspot.com/
it's a cast of allstars
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Matt Jones
November 3, 2009 5:35 PM in reply to ThePinfield
Or maybe this:
http://lookatthisfuckingteabagger.com/
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erica
November 3, 2009 4:28 PM
The sad part is that as these people hog the cameras and yammer away about nothing of real importance, their handlers are happily shaking apart the structure that supports the middle class and pocketing the money that falls out.
Talk about tea partying while Rome burns.
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hologram5
November 3, 2009 4:58 PM
Sounds good, I'll go right in and ask for her resignation personally. Nice idea, thanks.
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chimpale
November 3, 2009 5:09 PM
While taxpayers are paying her salary, is this freakin' ditz doing anything productive at all to earn her pay or is she just spending every day thinking up goofy shit like this?
I invite everyone to go to Washington and to check in on Bachmann to see what the hell she does all day long. That is, when she's not waxing psychotic for her talk radio fans.
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jazzy
November 5, 2009 12:01 PM
I'm a conservative Republican. I am against the proposed Dem health care bill, BUT Bachmann and Paul and Beck et al are a special kind of crazy. My party would be much better cutting off this fringe.
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