rssBachmann: ‘I’m Not Going to Fear Keith Olbermann’ (Video)
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor “most of the American people” paid attention to.
“Quite honestly I don’t even know anything about MSNBC,” said Bachmann. “It’s not a network that I watch, and most of the American people agree with that assessment. They aren’t watching it either. And that’s why Fox’s ratings — I mean, it’s like, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC combined. I think Fox even exceeded one of the major networks last week. They’re on the ascendency.”
Bachmann praised conservative bloggers for getting out the truth past the filters of the old media. “I didn’t fear my own editorial boards in Minneapolis-St. Paul when I lived there,” she said. “I’m certainly not going to fear the likes of Keith Olbermann.”
Video, shot by TWI’s Lazar Backovic, after the jump:
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Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
WHAT A SILLY SILLY WOMAN!! MINN DOES THIS STUPIDITY MAKE YOU PROUD??
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 8:17 pm
No, Bachmann doesn't live in fear of anything; that's ass-backwards; She is a SOWER of fear.
It is her calling
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
“Quite honestly I don’t even know anything about MSNBC.”
This does not imply that the Honorable Representative from Minnesota knows anything about anything.
The Libertarian Cato Institute documents the inability of Bachmann's choice, Fox News, to actually report the news. They go so far as to say Fox isn't trying to lie, they are just inept.
http://washingtonindependent.com/62685/julian-s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAlcPH9KcxM&feat…
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
Ah yes, Fox News… the only major news organizations that actually justified its ability to lie in a court of law… If they're on the ascendency, I fear for the country. There is nothing like a misinformed public to really screw things up.
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 8:45 pm
Hmmm..mighty funny that she doesn't “know anything about MSNBC” but then quite accurately names one of their marquis news anchors: Keith Olbermann.
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 9:38 pm
But how could she forget MSNBC? It is the network where she appeared last year, on the Chris Matthews Show, requesting that Congressional hearings take place to determine the loyalty of American politicians.
Comment posted October 6, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
Bachman- less aware than Palin. That's frightening.
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