Bachmann dodges question about murdered Census worker.

[Barack_America]

From Think Progress:

Bachmann dodges question about murdered Census worker.

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was in St. Louis, MO today for the right-wing How to Take Back America Conference, which features panels such as “How to stop feminist and gay attacks on the military” and “How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists.” The Washington Independent’s Dave Weigel attended the conference and attempted to catch up with Bachmann to ask her about the murdered Census worker in Kentucky, but she evaded his question:

After the speech, Bachmann had only a few minutes to sign autographs and collect a stack of CDs and books from fans who’d followed her into the lobby. I caught up to her as she headed outside and asked if she had any response to the murder of a Kentucky census worker, having noticed that the Census, a constant target for Bachmann, did not figure into her speech. Bachmann recoiled a little at the question and turned to enter her limo.

“Thank you so much!” she said.

Over the summer, Bachmann waged a high-profile, wildly-dishonest campaign against the Census, going so far as to claim that the data collected had been used to round up and intern Japanese-Americans in the 1940s.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/26/bachmann-census-worker/

Washington Independent link:
http://washingtonindependent.com/61037/bachmann-in-st-louis-defund-the-left-beware-one-world-currency#more-61037


Ballsy.

[Turbineguy]

1. She should probably refer such questions to

her Defense Attorney.

[Mrs. Overall]

18. How long before Orly Taitz is on the case?

[Turbineguy]

30. Excellent idea!

I can hardly wait.

[Happyhippychick]

2. I think she needs to have this question screamed at her every time she is in public.

[Island Blue]

5. Amen to that. n/t

[glinda]

36. Hold posters with the fellow's picture on it is better. That would say it all.

[MichiganVote]

3. A limo for Bachman...a jet for Stanford...a helicopter for Jindal...on and on and on.

No matter where you look, our representatives preen themselves at our expense.

[druidity33]

19. Biden took the train... nt.

[MichiganVote]

28. My point exactly.

[47of74]

4. Just like Bill-O-The-Asshole

Her words might have very well lit the fuse that lead to the murder of the census worker. And we see here the fruits of her words, but she is totally unable to accept responsibility for what she said.

[polichick]

7. Both of them should be shunned, if not prosecuted...

But the sick right wing makes heros out of criminals and sociopaths.

[Toucano]

6. Why do these people hate America and the Constitution? n-t

[AspenRose]

8. Can't keep running away

[Barack_America]

11. No. I imagine she will keep getting this question...

...until she answers it.

She must pray every night that the murderers don't mention her name when they're discovered.

[HughMoran]

9. Slap cuffs on that fucking *@#*&^# and throw her in jail as an accomplice

These people are fomenting violence and should be held accountable in some way.

[barbtries]

10. this conference:

“How to stop feminist and gay attacks on the military”????

let me guess, both women and gays serve in the military. gays want to know they can keep their jobs, women get raped...is this how they attack the military?

“How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists.”

what?!

that woman should be stopped, really. she is queen of crazy. :crazy:

Thank you so much!!

[lunatica]

12. "Backmann had only a few minutes to sign autographs"

So now she's a 'celebrity' who signs autographs? Wow! Just wow!

[Barack_America]

15. She now has her own action figure too.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/michele-bachmann-action-figure-now-available-for-3495.php?ref=fpb

:rofl:

[Generic Brad]

29. It's so lifelike

And so much like her - neither have a brain!

[mwb970]

31. Jeez, what a stupid looking doll.

What does it do when you wind it up?

[glinda]

38. Eyes roll around in it's head.

[CJCRANE]

13. “How to recognize living under Nazis & Communists.”

IIRC didn't the Nazis start by demonizing minorities, and Communists wanted everyone to be the same and follow their party in lock-step...

[valerief]

14. Good ol' Michele "Fed-Lyncher" Bachmann. She's what plants crave. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. what she meant was,"Thank you so much for stopping that fed."

Think progress missed her real point.

[RKP5637]

17. She's clearly deranged, delusional and paranoid!

It's concerning people like this get voted in... what does that say about her constituents... they are even more concerning than she. Are they looking for sideshow entertainment or frightfully that ignorant and misinformed? Sadly I fear the latter.

[gatorboy]

20. "turned to enter her limo."

I'm sure it was one of those "average joe" limos.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Well NOBODY will prosecute her for incitement, but that is exactly

what she's done

[onenote]

23. not under the legal definition of incitement

leaving aside the issue of whether there is any proof that the perpetrators of this heinous act ever heard a word Bachman has spewed.

[glinda]

39. That is what she has done provided that they can connect that to the murderer.

[BuyingThyme]

22. I don't think she killed him.

But we really should check into it.

Why hasn't she provided some kind of travel records to prove her whereabouts?

[opihimoimoi]

24. The equation simplified..DUMB VOTERS ELECT DUMB "BACHMANNS"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. She recoiled at the question, rattled her tail, bared her poisonous fangs & slithered into the limo

[Barack_America]

26. I like the way you put it.

;)

[foxfeet]

27. She's been dodging reality for years.

Why would this be any different?

[felinetta]

32. All I had to do wasI just had to stick my head out the window and I could smell her guilt!

[Le Taz Hot]

33. Anyone who voted for this woman

should have their right to vote taken from them -- they're far too stupid to engage in the activity.

[B Calm]

34. Congress needs to censure this bitch before anyone else is murdered!

[DainBramaged]

35. Bachmann needs to LOSE her campaign next year

vertical shit piles like her need to be out of Government. She is a shit stain on Congress. Fucking hater.

[saltpoint]

37. Feminists and gays are attacking our military? This observer had no idea.

[LibDemAlways]

40. Part of what Bachmann has been railing about is a

28 page booklet of questions called the American Community Survey that is sent to about 3 million households annually by the census bureau. I think most people would find some of the questions quite intrusive - Does anyone at your address need help bathing? How much is your monthly mortgage payment?

The census bureau only has a 50% response on those things - despite warnings that failure to comply will result in penalties. Some of the non-respondents are targeted for follow up phone calls and unannounced home visits by census personnel. There's a website called "American Community Survey. Just Say No" full of stories about people who received the thing and their encounters with the census bureau.

So even though Bachmann is one of the wingnuttiest wingnuts and she hasn't been at all clear what the hell she's talking about with regard to the census, there's a slight kernel of truth in some of what she's been saying. No excuse, however, for stirring up the kind of right wing outrage that apparently got a man tortured and killed.

[bridgit]

41. The soon to be anguish of Lady MacMN: "Out, damn'd spot! Out, I say - One; two: why then...

'tis time to do't — Hell is murky! (not unlike my mind-thought's brain) — Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power
to account? — Yet who would have thought the old
man to have had so much blood in him?"

MacMN Act 5, scene 1, 26–40

And so, Lady MacMN, as has become her want, sleepwalks through the ignoble castle. As her waiting-woman and her doctor listen in, she mutters fragments of an imaginary conversation that recalls the night she and her husband conspired to murder King Duncan's census taker