Bachmann actually raised money off of Mr. Hoffa’s remarks!
Alan Colmes
At an April 2010 Tea Party event, MicheleBachmann’s rhetoric was similar to James Hoffa’s, even though Bachmann is using Hoffa’s comments to raise money.
“We’re on to this gangster government,” she declared…
She appealed directly for tea partiers to swing behind “constitutional conservatives” in congressional campaigns, just as they contributed to Scott Brown’s upset in the Massachusetts Senate race in an early test of their potency.
“I am the No. 1 target for one more extremist group to defeat this November,” she said. “We need to have your help for candidates like me. We need you to take out some of these bad guys.”
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- Guess Who Called Opponents ‘Extremist Group,’ Urged Supporters To ‘Take Them Out’: Michele Bachmann (mediaite.com)
- Media continues to edit and misrepresent Hoffa remarks (dailykos.com)
- Bachmann tries to fundraise off Teamster President Hoffa’s Labor Day remarks (dailykos.com)
- Hoffa: ‘They Declared War on Us’ (abcnews.go.com)
Yes, but you don’t expect intellectual consistency to be associated with Bachmann and her supporters, do you?
I still think that the “take them out” bit is nothing compared to Sharron Angle and her “Second Amendment remedies,” but maybe that’s just me …
I still think that the “take them out” bit is nothing compared to Sharron Angle and her “Second Amendment remedies,” but maybe that’s just me …
WK, I agree 100%