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Daily Kos: Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
INSTAPUTZ: George Will likes Michelle Bachmann.
Political Animal: Will puts on leather jacket, dons skis, eyes shark
| (By George Will) The Bachmann burr http://bit.ly/3JlGGe (In her teens, Michelle was Gretchen Carlson's nanny) 30 days ago |
| I'd say chances are 50/50 someone gets shot today at Rep Bachmann's Alamo at the Capital. G. Will is so proud. http://bit.ly/3JlGGe 30 days ago |
| http://tinyurl.com/yf7euz3 I had no idea Michele Bachmann was once a nanny to Gretchen Carlson (via @LisaGraas) *Wha'?! Wacky. 30 days ago |
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... George Will: Michele "Bachmann, an authentic representative of the Republican base" is a complete nut case and has my full support. "Some of her supposed excesses are, however, not merely defensible, they are admirable." and "even if that mean Chris Martthews baited her into saying what she thinks about "whether Barack Obama and some other Democrats have "anti-American" views"." The excesses are to be ignored because IOKIYAR. ...
George Will likes Michelle Bachmann.
INSTAPUTZ —
When even the 'polite' village Republicans like Will are writing love letters to objectively crazy bomb-throwers like Bachmann, does anyone wonder why the GOP is in the toilet? ...
Will puts on leather jacket, dons skis, eyes shark
Political Animal —
... , but even he wouldn't put his reputation on the line with a laudatory Bachmann column. I stand corrected . Will notes early on that, last October, Bachmann told a national television audience that she wants a neo-McCarthyist witch hunt, ...
Conservative Women; Making a Difference.
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
... I cannot tell you how much I admire these women. They talk the talk AND they walk the walk. I didn't think I could admire Michelle Bachmann (a Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota's 6th Congressional District) more than I do now, But then I didn't know this about her: ...
The Obsession Continues: Olbermann Condemns George Will’s Praise of Michele Bachmann
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... In the Oct. 25 Washington Post, George Will penned a column about Bachmann, outlining her ascendancy into the national spotlight, which told of her start in politics and how she grew to become reviled by the left. And it was just a matter time before one of the charming personalities on MSNBC made some remark about the column, albeit two days later. That came on Olbermann's Oct. 27 "Countdown" broadcast. ...
OHMAGAWD! Michele Bachmann Was Gretchen Carlson's Babysitter!!
News Hounds —
... And if George Will says it, ergo, it must be true. In a Washington Post article about America's most conspiratorial congressperson, he says this: "When she was a teenager in Anoka, Minn., she was a nanny for a young girl named Gretchen Carlson. Today, Carlson, a Stanford honors graduate who studied at Oxford, is a host of "Fox & Friends," the morning show on -- wouldn't you know -- Fox News Channel." Providing even more credence to this story is the fact that Miss America 1988, when she greeted Bachmann on Fox&Friends; ...
Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Helps Promote Her Former Nanny’s Health Care Protest
Think Progress —
... In his Washington Post column late last month, George Will revealed that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was once Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson’s babysitter: ...
Fox 'News' Proves Its Bias Extends Into News Segments to Win BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... , including Carlson's reference at the end to providing a link to Bachmann's "Super Bowl of Freedom." But no one mentioned the conflict, where George Will of all people , disclosed that Bachmann used to be Carlson's nanny. Yet, the "news" department at Fox didn't have an issue with Carlson interviewing Bachmann and a lack of disclosure over their relationship. Do you think Keith Olbermann could interview his nanny (if he even had one) without mentioning a conflict of interest and not receive scorn from the MSM? Carlson's two "questions" weren't any tougher than those seen on a ...
