Michele Bachmann: A million people came

[brettdale]

Washingtonpost.com

[marmar]

1. She's just shoring up her idiot street cred.

nt

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Came where??????????????????

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. In their living rooms, most likely.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[krispos42]

29. *snerk*

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

3. Michele Bachmann: out of her ever lovin' mind. nt

[brettdale]

4. how nutty can one person be

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) hosted her own rally Saturday at the Washington Monument. The event coincided with high-profile gatherings organized by Fox News host Glenn Beck and civil rights leader Al Sharpton.

On a day when crowd estimates could provide their respective groups with political clout, Bachmann asked her audience how many thought more than 1 million people were in attendance. The question was met by big cheers from the gathering of about 1,000. "We're not going let anyone get away with saying there were less than a million here today because we were witnesses," Bachmann said.

The Republican lawmaker also took the opportunity to list members of the House Tea Party Caucus, which she chairs. When she reached the name of Rep. Joe Wilson, best known for shouting "you lie" during President Obama's address to Congress, the crowd started chanting "you lie."

Bachman told the crowd that her campaign was paying for the event, which she called a town hall meeting. Bachmann was then followed by a series of speakers.

Although the crowd was overwhelmingly white, the dais showcased a diverse group including a black woman, a black man, a white man and a Hispanic man.

Bachman got applause and cheers when she ran through a list of conservative candidates for Congress, including Senate candidates Marco Rubio in Florida, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Sharron Angle in Nevada and Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania. Bachmann also mentioned former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina -- who is running against longtime Senate incumbent Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) -- saying, "Bye-bye, Barbara. Hello, Carly."

The rally disbanded to the strains of Tom Jones's "She's a Lady.

[babylonsister]

6. 1M vs. 1,000?

:rofl:

[verges]

16. These two paragraphs made me l;augh very hard!:

On a day when crowd estimates could provide their respective groups with political clout, Bachmann asked her audience how many thought more than 1 million people were in attendance. The question was met by big cheers from the gathering of about 1,000. "We're not going let anyone get away with saying there were less than a million here today because we were witnesses," Bachmann said.

The Republican lawmaker also took the opportunity to list members of the House Tea Party Caucus, which she chairs. When she reached the name of Rep. Joe Wilson, best known for shouting "you lie" during President Obama's address to Congress, the crowd started chanting "you lie."



Apparently attendence is now decided by a vote by those in attendence! Hollywood is thrilled!

And the image of a thousand people chanting "you Lie" to Mrs. Bachman is funny beyond belief.

[wellstone dem]

17. I love how her campaign is paying for this event in DC

Here in her district, she spent two days during the whole break with us.

Please save me. www.tarrylclark.com

[depakid]

20. Since you're in her district, let me ask

How is it that people are willing to elect a person who's quite literally paranoid and delusional (not to mention outright dishonest)?

I get it with Virginia Foxx's district (dueling banjos) but Minnesotans always seemed somewhat more sensible on the whole than that.

[krispos42]

28. Gerrymandering, I think

Her district is rather odd-shaped. I used to be in the 8th District, and not terribly far from her border. Lots of rural people out there.

In fact, I was doing Census work out there on the edge of her district, and that's where I met my only really reluctant person... All he would give me is his age and race... and his race was "American". :eyes:

At least he was polite about it. I wound up getting most of the info from his landlord.

[depakid]

32. Fair enough, but surely even rural Republicans ought to recognize delusion

and perfidy?

:shrug:

Is this area really like Appalachia?

[wellstone dem]

38. It's the suburban republicans who keep electing her. Look at

Wright, Sherburne, and Anoka counties, all surrounding the Twin Cities. St. Cloud and Bachmann's own county--Washington, will definitely vote against Bachmann.

[krispos42]

40. Subrural and rural blue-collar, agricultural area.

It's basically the northern suburbs and "exurbs" of the Twin Cities, and those areas can be on the conservative side. It's a big outdoors-sports area, too. Hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, ice fishing, boating, etc. Sort of the "rugged individual" mentality.

A fair bit of farming, too. Of course, the farmers are massively subsidized by the federal government, but that fact seems to fall behind the wayside. If the feds change agricultural policy and it's perceived of as hurting the farmers, the people get all Teabagger.

And property taxes are up on the county and city levels because the state government cut back on funding due to the recession, so that makes the farmers and the landowners cranky as well. A lot of people out in that area own a fairly big plot of land, even in they don't farm. The last place I lived at was at the edge of town and had a fair-sized house with attached garage and a detached shed... on 10 acres.

Of course, a lot of housing plots were just suburban-sized plots in the middle of nowhere, but there were quite a few on one or two acres, and several that I had to drive about 300-400 yards from the road to get to the house. It might have been a shitty house surrounded by abandoned vehicles, but still, the acreage was almost certainly substantial.


However, in the last election she put her foot in her mouth about two weeks before the election and was almost wiped out in a last-minute surge by her Democratic opponent, but not quite. And she's been shoving her foot in her mouth ever since.

The downsize is that there is a lot of RW talk radio out there... 1400 The Patriot is a big powerful AM station, and 100.3 KTLK is a powerful FM station. Little AM960 "The Voice of Minnesota" only has a thousand watts of output, a fraction of the RW stations.

[CatholicEdHead]

37. She is skipping the State Fair for this

We see her attack ads against Tarryl Clark on TV all the time, but Michele refuses to rub elbows with the locals and her constituents. She feels like she has too large a national prominence for the little people. :puke:

[polmaven]

46. Her "mind"

is NOT "lovin'" She apparently does remain well within her ever hatin' mind, though.

[book_worm]

5. I haven't been watching--what is the crowd estimate? BTW, I think Bachmann is an even bigger dope

than Palin.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. 87,000 via CBS News Aerial photgraph count at noon...high point of the "rally"

[tourivers83]

14. One would be too many.

From looking around the internet the general consensus is around 500k. Some say many more some say many less. :hi:

[Hannah Bell]

18. baloney.

[tourivers83]

19. Numbers are all over the place.

The New York Times just reported it as “an enormous and impassioned crowd.”

[Hannah Bell]

21. you can tell from the overhead pictures it's not 500K.

[guitar man]

22. Exactly

There were between 80-100k people there

[tourivers83]

23. Anyway.

Whatever, the big problem is how many will be at the ones next year?

[Hannah Bell]

26. no, the first problem is, how many exactly were there this year. under 100K.

big difference from half a million.

[tourivers83]

31. Google news.

Look on the internet. You will find support for any number you choose. Unfortunately the pictures of the event don't lie. My partner is only eighteen. I do worry about next year.

[Hannah Bell]

35. pictures look like < 100k

[cleanhippie]

44. Hey, guess what? You are already ON the internet!

You made a claim that at least 500k people were there. You have been refuted several times from several differnt sources. Unless you have a source you can provide other than "look it up on the internet..."









Or is it back under the bridge with you?

[tourivers83]

45. Trolls trolls trolls and monsters, oh my.

“From looking around the internet the general consensus is around 500k. Some say many more some say many less.”
This was my post. Show me where I said the number was 500000. I personally think it was around 150000. But I don’t really care. You are looking behind every tree for a fox and not seeing the monster over the ridge.
And calling someone a troll even with a metaphor is against the rules I think. And I guess I do care.
:eyes:

[cleanhippie]

50. Is there a troll here?

I know I am not a troll. Are you?

[tourivers83]

51. No, I am here to stay.

Although I do hang around down in the gungeon I stay out from under bridges. The dampness makes my arthritis hurt and those blasted
vampyres come out at night.

:pals:

[Touchdown]

7. Is that what she's doing here?

[Hubert Flottz]

43. Batgirl?

[onehandle]

8. tarrylclark.com nt

[H2O Man]

9. I wasn't even

breathing hard, though I did laugh a couple of times.

[babylonsister]

15. Haha!

You're in one of 'those' moods! :evilgrin: :spank:

[AsahinaKimi]

13. Aw come on Michele ...

You sure it wasn't 500 Million people? I suppose they were all hiding behind the trees...so as to not be photographed by the Liberal Media..Someone is off their meds again...

[red red red]

24. Proof now...

Thats why the 'Pugs' think that Reaganomics works - They cannot count! :dunce:

[Turborama]

25. Maybe she was raving about this...?

[gort]

27. This must be the honor BeckKK wants to restore to the USA to.

nt

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Yes, because she thinks sperms and unfertilized eggs are "people"

Why, even Glenn Beck has his own little, teeny tiny million man march- in his pants.

[Mimosa]

33. I bet they'll keep lying about the crowd size. n/t

[Arkana]

34. Haha, no they didn't. 87K per CBS. Nice try, Crazy Eyes.

[Glimmer of Hope]

36. Not even close! I live in downtown Washington near some popular

tourist spots including Hooters - and I think haved spotted less than 10 of them since Friday. It is all hype.

[stevedeshazer]

39. She has an enormous head, a tiny body, and a microscopic heart.

[Politicalboi]

41. You know, for all the celeb R's there

There sure wasn't that many people there. All this talk about how many went to Beckk's rally, but Lady Blah Blah was there too. And Batshit crazy Bachmann had her own rally. There should have been elbow to elbow Teabaggers there. All they needed where the Monster Trucks rolling down the Lincoln Monument.

[Dappleganger]

48. Gov. Quitter didn't draw the crowds like they planned.

Listen up, her star has burned out already.

[orleans]

42. yeah, she said she was going to say that

michelle counts the stairs up to bed

1, 3,469, 10,078, 25,243, 50,165, 80,857, 110,439

WOW MICHELLE! THOSE IS SURE A LOT OF STAIRS. no wonder you're so tired by the time you go to bed. all that stepping--whew! and all that counting must really make your brain ache.

[tomm2thumbs]

47. It's too bad that 1 Billion People weren't there, like at Obama's Inauguration

When will those poor Republicans get a Billion People like we had? I wish they would explain that

[Hubert Flottz]

49. Who would have ever thought that the "Children Of The Damned"

would get big and become republican gawds and gawdasses?