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Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

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They’ve been having some big gets over at GBTV recently with Glenn Beck getting interviews yesterday with both Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann. Eagle-eyed fans will notice a slight difference in tone between the chats however. While Beck started his Gingrich interview by warning the candidate that he had serious concerns about him, he opened one of the two Bachmann interviews he did (one on his web show and one on the radio) by admitting, in full disclosure, that she was his current choice for President. Therefore, it shouldn’t be too surprising that the bit in the radio interview where he pressed her on her now-infamous confrontation with an eight-year-old son of lesbian mothers ended up just being a “Prove Bachmann’s Totally Not a Homophobe” contest.

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In the interview, both Beck and Bachmann agree that the actions of the two mothers who appear to have pressured their young son into confronting Bachmann were “shameless.” For the record, I agree with them. As I put it in my write up of the viral video yesterday, “Whether [I] agree with the the words the boy’s been scripted to say or not, it’s still a script. And whenever you force a child to get in an uncomfortable position and read from a script, it makes me uncomfortable.” However, this interview here doesn’t do Bachmann or Beck any favors. You could tell where it was going when Beck introduced the topic thusly:

“This is a recurring theme with you. This is how they’re coming and they’re coming with children to attack you on this. This is the nuclear bomb in politics, accusing you of a homophobe or whatever. They’ll do this to anybody they want to destroy. How do you navigate in that kind of world where you’re being, I think, set up every time to look like a homophobe?”

That’s so true. Evil shadowy liberals accuse everyone of being a homophobe. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bachmann’s comments calling homosexuality “part of Satan” and tantamount to “personal enslavement.” Oh, no. These critiques of Bachmann are completely random. She’s being set up!

Beck then asked Bachmann if she was a homophobe and she responded that she loved all people. She just happens to believe that gay people should never get married and should never even get civil unions because it’s too close to marriage. It’s ok, though. She loves them and still thinks they should get equal legal rights.

“How could you not agree with that?” enthused Beck’s co-host Pat Gray.

There was no mention of Bachmann’s past comments and, more damning, there was no mention of the very real allegations that Bachmann’s husband used to run a “Pray the Gay Away” clinic. You’d think that would have been brought up considering, y’know, that’s what the boy and his mothers were actually referring to.

Beck got some high praise for his interview with Gingrich yesterday and there were some other good moments in the two he did with Bachmann. This, however, was not one of them.

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  • Jane

    But somehow it’s OK to indoctrinate your children about Creationism/Intelligent Design or worse yet, that reparative therapy cures “the gay”?    Seriously.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arturo-Salas/100000258870856 Arturo Salas

    i guess the little boy wasnt hypnotized by her eyes.

  • Anonymous

    Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is a strong, independent, intelligent, attractive, articulate, powerful and accomplished conservative woman.  She has been selected by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women in America.  She is ranked number 22 behind Oprah (14), Michelle Obama (8) and Hillary (2).  She has also been slected by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Americans, male or female.  This terrifies the liberals who want their women wither to be “left wing kooks” or remain quiet, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.  Michele is living the life which Gloria Steinham and the “Womens Libbers” envisioned for women four decades ago.  She has an outstanding education, a husband, a family and a phenominally successful career.  She has it all!  She is a great role model for American women!

  • Anonymous

    STFU, paid troll.

  • Anonymous

    She dislikes “the gays”, except for the one she’s married to.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    You are delusional.  Name one bill that Michele Bachmann has ever sponsored that has become law.  Bachmann is not independent, she admits that she is subservient to her husband.  She is not intelligent, much of the stuff she says is ridiculous or an outright fabrication.  Like when she claimed that the HVC vacine caused “mental retardation” because she heard this from some radom lady. Look at her file over at Politifact.  They count 36 instances in which Bachmann has lied, compared to only 13 instances in which Bachmann’s statements have some factual basis.   http://www.politifact.com/personalities/michele-bachmann/

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/7nZpGKwT1fVdlb3YN6DXlA8PViJDMLL2bO_q#5aa2e ganymede

    Prompted or not by his parents, this 8 year old was talking from his 8 year old heart and it sounded genuine. Even this kid understands that the prejudice and ignorance promoted by the Becks and Bachmanns is evil.Unlike Beck,  Michelle Bachmann in many ways appears to be a nice person, but when it comes to sex, she is as twisted and repressed as many rightwing bigots are. The damage Bachmann and her husband have done to dozens, if not hundreds of gays who, out of ignorance have gone to them to be ‘fixed’ is despicable. I understand there have been a few suicides to boot. 95% of gay males are really gay, and probably 90% of lesbians are really lesbians. Don’t you bigots have enough life experience to know that. Man, are we in need of a change of consciousness, and with the collapse of the rightwing, it looks like that’s what we’re going to get. I think there is something to 2012 and the Mayan calendar. It’s time for a change. Thank God!

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    Most of the comments on here, and if I remember correctly even the author of the original post, thought the kid was being pushed by his mom and didn’t even really understand what he was asking Bachman.

    But I see now with Beck calling it “shameless”, it’s a sign that Republicans hate everyone.

    What a load of crap.  Do you people not read your own blog? 

  • Anonymous

    Conservatives get to force their extreme fundamentalist Christian values on others, and everyone else gets to take it.  That’s the “equality” she wants.  Anything less would be “special rights” for people who aren’t extreme fundamentalist Christians.  Duh.

  • david r

    So if I vote Democratic, I’m cured, right ?

  • Anonymous

    Women’s lib was for submitting to your husbands because you believe in Old Testament values?  That’s the most epic revisionist history I’ve heard in ages!  I love trolls sometimes.  LOL

  • Anonymous

    Uh, I don’t think the kid was speaking from his heart at all, sorry.  I’m sure he would have been in a few years, but that was just too scripted and unwilling-sounding.

    I pretty much agree with the rest of what you said, though.  (Except the bit about the Mayan calendar.  What the heck?  XD)

  • Anonymous

    It WAS shameless- don’t use your kids to promote YOUR agenda. The libs will use children as shields as long as they’re not called out on it. “Umm, umm, umm, Barack Hussein Obama.” Remember THAT little ditty, sung by schoolchildren. Too bad the mother didn’t have the “cojones” to ask her own question. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arturo-Salas/100000258870856 Arturo Salas

    Trolls are fun! i had to do a double take as this clow Tenn3501 said that liberals wanted the women in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant. For real? Thats what liberals have fought against, conservatives  were the ones that wanted women to know their roles and not have a career for themselves. But then again, were arguing with idiots that think that tax breaks pay for themselves.

  • Anonymous

    You sure live up to your user name!  If I were to be paid for expresing my views, a kiss from Michele would be all that I would need!

  • Anonymous

    Okay let’s go through the whole thing so you can better understand it:  The mother probably coached her kid and Republicans hate anybody whom they see as from themselves.  Sorry to be so long winded.

  • Anonymous

    She and her husband love and respect each other.  The comment she made about submitting to her husband was made in a church to Evangelical Christians who knew what she was talking about.  She was quoting scripture (New Testament) which also calls for husbands to care for their wives. 

  • Anonymous

    I am sure that her political views have offended many gays, because her vews on gay marriage are not the views of the gay and lesbian community!  However, as soon a the scientists get off their butts and prove once and for all that sexual orientation is genetic and not a “choice”, this whole controversy will become history. 

  • Anonymous

    She does have good qualities and IMHO is the most likable of the GOP crew. She’s attractive, intelligent, and her background in foster care is admirable. I also think she’s not mean-spirited like the others.

    Where she goes wrong, however, is when she plays loose with the facts, her comments about how the founding fathers wanted to rid the country of slavery, for example. Her statement about how the media should investigate Washington to find out who the real Americans are is another stretch. 

    I don’t think she’s lying, per se. I think she’s sincere and really believes in what she says.

    That being said, she is definitely not presidential material.

  • Anonymous

    I agree that kids shouldn’t be part of what their parents are promoting or demonstrating against except in very rare cases.

    Unfortunately, it’s not strictly a “lib” tactic. Let me remind you of some of the hate-filled, anti-Obama screeds that were on placards held by the children of parents who projected these beliefs at the Beck rally, for example. 

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann is really getting desperate when she has to resort to Beck.  

  • Anonymous

    Beck then asked Bachmann if she was a homophobe and she responded,  ”Of course not! I married Marcus, didn’t I?”

  • Anonymous

    I have read that comment word for word elsewhere. So, you are in deed trolling. BTW…suffragists and the women burning their bras in the 60′s were mostly progressives. They were unchaining themselves from the Phyllis Schlafly vision of the American (conservative) woman; Yes…the one who is supposed to be barefoot in the kitchen, and whose only job is to be subservient to her master — aka husband. Note that the three other women you mentioned in the FORBES  magazine list who are more powerful than krazy Bachmann ARE liberals. Guffaw.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JSRPNLB6FNGPJ4XICED5SQPCLM ganmerlad

    The same way evolution and global warming ceased to be controversies once they were proven?  Scientists can prove it till they are blue in the face and it will still be a problem for fundamentalists.

  • Anonymous

    Common, but you speak of the past.  That no longer matters.  See Newt’s past indiscretions no longer matter.  This is the new teabagger party – where Conservative principles are on hold until they beat the negro.

  • Anonymous

    Your earlier comment is a pre-scripted “astroturf” comment, so yeah, that would kinda make you a troll.  But carry on, everyone needs to make a living…

  • Anonymous

    I fully support Michele Bachmans right to be married to a gay man .

  • Anonymous

    Another liberal monkey squawking about what some other conservative host said. How original. I’d trust Bachmann’s leadership over any of the others anytime. It drives liberals crazy to see a woman with strong convictions and an unabashed devotion to God.

  • Anonymous

    And Michele Bachman fully supports Michelle Obama’s 2nd Amendment Constitutional Right to bare arms!

  • Anonymous

    That poor kid didn’t wan’t to say what his mother obviously made him say so he had to whisper it. You could tell he was embarassed and now that video will live on the internet forever to embarass him later on in his life.

    It is very creepy to use your kid as a prop in a political stunt. If the mothers idea was to show the world that she is just a normal mother like anyone else, she failed miserably.

    And Bachmann handled it well so as not to further hurt the boy.

  • Anonymous

    NOT SO!  Before he left the race, Herman Cain said that he opposed gay marriage, because he thought being gay was a “choice”!  He said that if science could establish that sexual orientation is genetic, he would re-evaluate his views.  Evolution and “intelligent design” are not mutually exclusive.  Scientists have proven that the climate is changing, but the dispute concerns what is causing it.  Scientists took us to the moon 42 years ago, but still cannot answer questions about sexual orientation being genetic. The issue needs resolution!  It will change everything.  Nobody believes that smoking is bad for your health today, but 42 years ago the issue was far from setled!

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, that last sentence should read. ”Nobody believes that smoking is good for your health today, but 42 years ago, the issue was far from settled.”

  • cma cma

    It is shameful for gay activists to exploit and manipulate a 8-year-old to advance their radical homosexual agenda.  “Gay marriage” is an oxymoron, since marriage means “a permanent union between one woman and man.”
    For 5000 years, “marriage” has meant “a contract between one man and one woman”, not some other random combination of humans because it feels good. That definition of marriage is the bedrock of human society. MB’s response meant that society should not endorse gay marriage by giving it the high status of “marriage”. Ignore the perverted and false “interpretations” of her comments by gay media bloggers. She remains the most principled Constitutional Conservative on the American political stage.
     This was a  particularly moronic screed on MB’s commonsense response and instruction to clueless gay activist students. The radical left, gay media no longer even pretends to report political news but instead feeds us radical left gay propaganda.
     The argument for “gay marriage” is equally valid (and equally invalid) for 1 man-2 women and for  2 women-1 man; etc. The logical extension of allowing “gay marriage” is legalizing polygamy.

  • Anonymous

    “This, however, was not one of them.”

    Cuz, you don’t agree.

  • Anonymous

    “I have read that comment word for word elsewhere.”  Tell me where so I can sue for plagiarism.  BTW, of course the women burning their bras in the 60′s were liberals, but Michele Bachmann is proof that women can find happiness and success without becoming hippies and dropping out of society.  Of course the three other women mentioned in FORBES are liberals, but Hillary was a “Goldwater Girl” at the 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco and we can always hope that “the prodical’s daughter” will return home to her roots.  We count on her to give President Obama his shots of testosterone whenever he has an important foreign policy decision to make during his Presidency!

  • Anonymous

    Are you offering me a job?

  • Anonymous

    The couple should be charged with child abuse. It might be wise for the child protective services to remove the child from the home. The exploitation of a child for political purposes shows that the parents are not capable of being responsible parents. 

    We must insist that exploitation of children does not occur in any format. I am very concerned about the safety of this child please join me and contact the protective services and have this child placed in an environment where he will not be exploited. 

    Children first. 

  • Anonymous

    You would be surprised at what “reparative therapy” can do.  When I told Marcus Bachmann that I was in love with Michele and wanted to run off with her to an island in the South Pacific where we could lie on the beach all day sipping pina colladas, he told me that I was the victim of “barbaric heterosexual thoughts.” He said that if I would pray and undergo six months of “reparative therapy” I would convert from straight to gay and be ready to play the lead in “Pricilla, Queen of the Desert.”  He boasted that Gloria Cain had hired him to give Herman “reparative therapy” to cure his barbaric heterosexual thoughts concerning women” and that when he got done with Herman, Herman would be the Grand Marshall at Atlanta’s Gay Pride Parade.

  • Anonymous

    Child exploitation for political is wrong. Please contact the protective services and have this child placed in a safe environment. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Nice: you say the boys mother’s actions are depraved and then give the “but”, Bachmann is also depraved and the Lesbians, already not fundamentally depraved, wouldn’t be forced into acts of depravity beyond those not depraved acts if the depraved Bachmann and her depraved view on religion were not so…..mmmmmm how can I put it?

    Depraved?

  • Anonymous

    You are a liberal racist. Hate filled liberal racist. What difference does it make on Obama being half white. I hate racism. You are a racist. 

  • Anonymous

    Show me he hate filled sign. You can not. Hate is a liberal trademark, Racism is a liberal trade mark. Look at the racist post on this page. 

  • Anonymous

    Global warming is a scam and it has been proven to be a scam. What has that got to do with this woman abusing and exploitation her child. This child well being is in danger. 

    Please demand that protective services protect this child from exploitation. One hour more is to long for this child to be in the hands of people that exploit children. This is horrible.

  • Anonymous

    Even if it is genetic so what? The life style of a person is his choice. 

  • Anonymous

    Bull even you do not believe this. It time to remove this child from this home. He is being exploited. This lady does not love this child she is exploiting him. This is abuse. There is no other word for it. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001154023994 Daniel Thompson
  • Anonymous

    And you are the authority on who is and is not Presidential material. Liberals are hate filled racist and the worst of the worst as far as being mean spirited people. 

    Quit deflecting liberals weakness on to others.

  • Anonymous

    So, you want government regulating the values parents instill in their children?

  • Anonymous

    I do not want children exploited for political purposes. Can you not see the danger in this behavior? I want children protected. Don’t you?

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:25 AM
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    MichaelJKeane wrote, in response to without_hate:
    So, you want government regulating the values parents instill in their children? Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s unseemly, but I don’t know about dangerous. Most parents are going to raise their children with the values they think are right. Christians will raise their children to be Christians, Muslims will raise their children to be Muslim, conservatives will try to instill conservative values, and progressives will try to instill progressive values (like: “there’s nothing wrong with gay people).

    Do I think this woman was right to use her child like that? No. It’s kind of weird. And like I said, unseemly. But the alternative is to have the government go into every home and police how parents are raising their kids. That sounds bizarre to me. I don’t think Christians or Muslims are right about God, and I think sometimes they can teach their children things that are problematic to coexisting with a diversity of other human beings, but I don’t think the government should go into the homes of those parents and make sure the values are right. That’s totalitarianism. That’s fascism.

    I think it’s dangerous to have children like Madeline Neumann who die horrible, painful deaths because their parents are Christian Scientists who refuse to give their children medication when they are sick. I think it’s dangerous to raise children to be racists or bigots or sexist. THAT’S dangerous to children.

    Using a child as a political pawn? Kind of gross, kind of pathetic, definitely not something people should be doing. But, getting the government involved to protect that child? From what? Being raised with progressive values? You’re literally arguing for a government telling parents how to raise their children. I don’t think you really want that.

  • Anonymous

    Um. Yes that is indeed preferable to telling them that it’s okay to take it up the azz.

  • Anonymous

    Nope voting Democrat would pretty much MAKE YOU GAY.   ROFLMAO!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JSRPNLB6FNGPJ4XICED5SQPCLM ganmerlad

    First off, Herman Cain doesn’t speak for all, or even most, fundamentalists.  He is also no longer running for president and doesn’t hold any office so I don’t understand what he has to do with anything.  He isn’t in a position to do anything about it one way or the other.

    Secondly there are way too many people who think the world is 6000 years old despite every kind of scientific evidence to the contrary and who believe evolution is a complete lie because it doesn’t fit their mythology…they think God waved his hand and the earth was full of all the animals we see today and that’s that.  Science will not/can not change the mind of these people. 

    Even if it was conclusively shown that homosexuality is in the way the brain is formed or is a combination of genes, the problem would then become that gays are ‘sick’ or in some other way are defective and they would be no better off than they are now in the way they are treated.   I can honestly see Christian radicals calling for them to be exterminated so that they can’t pass the sickness on…(which happened before in Germany.)  Attitudes have to change within these groups to make a difference — science can’t change the minds of people who are conditioned to hate and who have very little trust in science in the first place. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    This isn’t ESPN.

  • Anonymous

    You’ll find some If you Google (in the images option) “tea party rally posters children.”

  • Anonymous

    What they teach in their home is none of my concern as long as they are not mistreating the child. The child was exploited and this is my point. One incident is one to many when a child is concerned. It is obvious that these women put their belief over the security of the child.
    The People that let their children die rather than seek medical help should be jailed for a life time. The charge should be murder in the first degree. To deny medical treatment is tantamount to murder.
    Christian that I know do not teach racist, or sexism. I find this prevalent in the liberal community. Hate and racism dominates the liberal philosophy.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 11:17 AM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

    Disqus generic email template

    MichaelJKeane wrote, in response to without_hate:
    I think it’s unseemly, but I don’t know about dangerous. Most parents are going to raise their children with the values they think are right. Christians will raise their children to be Christians, Muslims will raise their children to be Muslim, conservatives will try to instill conservative values, and progressives will try to instill progressive values (like: “there’s nothing wrong with gay people).
    Do I think this woman was right to use her child like that? No. It’s kind of weird. And like I said, unseemly. But the alternative is to have the government go into every home and police how parents are raising their kids. That sounds bizarre to me. I don’t think Christians or Muslims are right about God, and I think sometimes they can teach their children things that are problematic to coexisting with a diversity of other human beings, but I don’t think the government should go into the homes of those parents and make sure the values are right. That’s totalitarianism. That’s fascism.
    I think it’s dangerous to have children like Madeline Neumann who die horrible, painful deaths because their parents are Christian Scientists who refuse to give their children medication when they are sick. I think it’s dangerous to raise children to be racists or bigots or sexist. THAT’S dangerous to children.
    Using a child as a political pawn? Kind of gross, kind of pathetic, definitely not something people should be doing. But, getting the government involved to protect that child? From what? Being raised with progressive values? You’re literally arguing for a government telling parents how to raise their children. I don’t think you really want that.
    Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    lol…and you call yourself “without hate”? Jeeeez, and after all the nice things I said about Bachman.

  • Anonymous

    I will check and see what signs you are referring.

    ________________________________
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    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
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    4ucommonsense wrote, in response to without_hate:
    You’ll find some If you Google (in the images option) “tea party rally posters children.” Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    Some people like lesbians, some people do not … for me I would sooner be in Phila

  • Anonymous

    To speak the truth is the ultimate act of kindness. You called republicans mean spirited and this is not true. You trying to deflect the hate of a liberal on to the republicans. Both parties have people who are not nice people.

    ________________________________
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    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
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    4ucommonsense wrote, in response to without_hate:
    lol…and you call yourself “without hate”? Jeeeez, and after all the nice things I said about Bachman. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    The only thing worse for children is not to be indoctrinate at all… & to be sent out into the world saying no one ever taught me.  Psych sessions are full such people

  • Anonymous

    How is the security of this child being compromised?

  • david r

    Same old religious right b.s.  Attack gays.  Pandering to the idiot vote. 

  • Anonymous

    Are any of the candidates running for president or are they all just on a book tour?  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    I saw the youtube video. The look on Bachman’s face tell’s the story. 

  • Anonymous

    and your name is “without hate”   ROFLMAO !    

    thanks for the laugh

  • Anonymous

    I realize no one on this site cares about fact and truth but the details of what exactly went down, are NOT what bachmann and beck stated.

    prosecute and hang’em without the facts. geeshe

  • Anonymous

    Hey HATE,

    THE PARENTS OF ALL THESE KIDS AND THE PEOPLE ON STAGE SHOULD BE IN JAIL TOO THEN, CORRECT ?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdt_f0hwUg

  • Anonymous

    says the bigot

    btw, the mothers didn’t put the kid up to it.. but hey, we know facts don’t matter to faux sheep.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AMrSmith Robert Smith

    Yet if I brought my son in and had him tell Barney Frank he was unnatural in his sexual preferences, I’d be a hater. Sick of this type of generalization and setting up of people who have an opinion and wantt to run for office on their beliefs, If you don’t agree, say so yourself, do not have your child speak for you, that shows the immaturity of you. Gays and Lesbians are just that though, immature in sexual responsibility, for what ever reason.

  • Heather

    Why does it even matter if it’s a choice or not? People make choices all the time that go against the bible, ie Atheists, Satanists, etc., and they’re allowed to marry. If all these people who are always quoting our founding fathers actually cared about what our founding fathers wanted, they would honor the separation of church and state. And there is no reason but a religious one for keeping gays from marrying.

  • Anonymous

    Yep, and that is what was cool about it. It is about time Bachmann began to understand that the intolerant things she says, the hurtful things she says about gays, do not damage just adults but also children.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ronda.m.fulfer Ronda M Fulfer

    without_hate:  you have a lot of nerve passing judgement on this child and his mother based on your limited knowledge of them.  I think your desire to tear a random family apart is pretty hateful.  Your comments trying to paint liberals as being everything conservatives have always been (hateful racists) are insane.  You may think you are “without hate” but your statements have plenty of venom.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ronda.m.fulfer Ronda M Fulfer

    nope don’t see any danger BUT the fact that you DO and you are so convinced by one sentence that this little boy should be ripped from his mother and home is disturbing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JSRPNLB6FNGPJ4XICED5SQPCLM ganmerlad

    I think that is why people are basically ignoring him/her.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ronda.m.fulfer Ronda M Fulfer

    @_hate, Again, you are passing judgement on people you know nothing about.  What if that little boy and his mother were watching a news story where michele and her husband were talking about “curing people of the gay” and “fixing” gay people and the little boy turns to his mother, who he knows is gay, and says, “mommy, you don’t need fixing”.  Then, his mom is so touched and moved, she takes him down to see Michele to tell her himself?  I think she is showing her child that his opinion matters and he has the right and obligation to speak out for what he believes in.  Why don’t you mind your own children and stop trying to break up innocent families?  Could it be that you don’t think a gay woman should be allowed to raise her own child?  Could it be that you, like Newt, think children should be taken from their homes and put to work cleaning toilets?  It might be wise for you to inspect your own life before you pass judgement on others.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ronda.m.fulfer Ronda M Fulfer

    HOLY COW!  Scary video!  Is it real?

  • http://www.facebook.com/ronda.m.fulfer Ronda M Fulfer

    That kid did not insult Michele Bachmann or try to pass judgement on her lifestyle.  If that kid had, then he’d be a hater.  Your analogy makes no sense.  What if that little boy and his mother were watching a news story where michele and her husband were talking about “curing people of the gay” and “fixing” gay people and the little boy turns to his mother, who he knows is gay, and says, “mommy, you don’t need fixing”.  Then, his mom is so touched and moved, she takes him down to see Michele to tell her himself?  I think she is showing her child that his opinion matters and he has the right and obligation to speak out for what he believes in.

  • Anonymous

    She’s using her child to make her political point, and it’s wrong.  Who tells their child that a stranger wants to ‘fix you’ let alone coaches you to tell them  to their face, when you’re around 8 years old?

    She’s the ‘nutty’ mom everyone sees around, she just happens to be gay.   

  • Anonymous

    Using your child to make YOUR political point and should be condemned by everyone.  Be a parent first, activist second.   

  • Anonymous

    Wow Rhonda, what was your childhood like? When I was an 8 year old I didn’t know that my divorced parents were any different from other families other than the fact they didn’t live together, for you to suggest that this 8 year old understands the difference between heterosexual vs homosexual is alarming, if they’re teaching him anything about sex at this age never mind about sexual preferences and describing the differences, that borders on sexual abuse and they should be investigated for child abuse.

  • Anonymous

    This story is an example of why homosexual households are not a healthy environment for children, here’s another example, the lesbian couple who were providing their very young adopted child estrogen because he wasn’t sure he wanted to be a boy? What a coincidence, that they happened to adopt a young boy that subsequently discovered his gender identity issues. This problem is only going to grow thanks to the liberal / progressive agenda, thanks Democrats.

  • Anonymous

    Stop lumping all  Conservatives together.

  • Anonymous

    As soon as it is established that sexual orientation is genetic, attitudes will change dramatically.  You are too pessimistic and too cynical.  Attitudes are already changing, because so many gay people have come out of the closet and straight people are already becoming aware of the fact that many of their friends and relatives are gay.  This trend will continue.  Scientific proof that sexual orientation is genetic will accelerate the process and there will be greater peace and understanding.  There will always be a few bigots, but capture the mainstram and the battle is all but over.

  • Anonymous

    I am not disagreeing with your views on gay marriage.  I support gay marriage, but the quickest way to get the overwhelming majority of Americans to accept it is to scientifically establish that sexual orientation is genetic.  This will end the controversy except for some isolated bigots.  Even if the scientists are too busy with other things, acceptance of gay marriage is coming and it is inevitable.  I want to speed up the process!

  • Anonymous

    I am actually rfeplying to your latest comment, but there was no room next to the comment to do so!

    I confess!  I am a supporter of Michele who is tired of seing her denounced by the liberals who post on mediaite.  I find that posting comments in support of her makes me her internet knight in shining armor who rides in on a white horse and slays the dragon of liberalism. She then joins me on the back of the horse and we both ride off into the sunset!   If I were Robin Hood, she would be my “Maid Marion.”

    P.S. Please send your complaints about my posts to Michele’s campaign headquarters.  She might want to meet me.  LOL

  • Anonymous

    You’re right, but “yes” as far as the “tea” party, by the standard they set and own!

  • Anonymous

    Two things, you’ve posted this before and “quiet, barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen” is 100% a “tea” standard!

  • Anonymous

    I liked that post because I think you really believe such!

  • Pit Boss

    I hate to admit it, but I think I kind of agree with Beck here. That kid didn’t at all look like he wanted any part of that exchange, and I think the mother used the sympathy card. That being said, it was actually pretty awesome to see Bachmann’s face turn white and confused.

    I’d still bang her though.

  • Anonymous

    Hannity, Beck, Rush, Breitbart, Rove, Ingraham, half of “Fox” and you try to spin away from that with a couple of left comments. This is why people consider your party a joke and not-grounded in reality! Own the “tea” hate and spin!

  • Anonymous

    Much hate, you really should take these comments and beliefs to your local PD and don’t leave out any of your theories or thoughts, just show them your posts, have your insurance card out and your bags packed!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Len-Hoffman/100002258284505 Len Hoffman

    Cretinite stop broadcast Glenn Beck’s bullcrap

  • BooBoo Bear

    I believe you mean Philly, if you’d rather be in Phila…you’d want to be in an old Macedonian town.

  • BooBoo Bear

    You must not know what the word genetic means. If you did you’d know if they find homosexuality is genetic it means that they really don’t have a choice.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Glenn who???  Is this stupid half educated dry alcoholic mormon cultist still alive???   I thought he had given his last conspiracy blow job when his daddies at Fox fake news kicked is worthless ass out of their studios.  What a complete loser….

  • Anonymous

    I did not complain. You are free to advocate for anyone. Just don’t whine when you are challenged.

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone force you to go to church?  Does anyone force you to read the Bible?  Does anyone force you to pray?  Then your talking out your backside with your idiotic comment.  No one forces anyone to do anything unless it is a muslim culure where they will murder you if you don’t believe in their Satan.  Democrats just love to Whine about everything and they love to use the Christian religion as their footmat.  Grow up and get real, girl, your head is stuck up your rectum right at the moment.

  • Anonymous

    So you agree with the guy Obambi placed as head of education when he wants to teach kids how to fist and play homosexual games?  America certainly does need a bit of gene cleansing to rid it of the sickness that prevails in the Leftists minds!  How sick!

  • Anonymous

    They have a choice on how an who they choose as a gratification partner. Just as I do. If they want the same plumbing gratification partner it is their choice. I do not care who they choose as long as they do not shove their life style on me.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 8:20 AM
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    BooBoo Bear wrote, in response to without_hate:
    You must not know what the word genetic means. If you did you’d know if they find homosexuality is genetic it means that they really don’t have a choice. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    You justify child abuse. Liberals say they care about children but you do not care if  you think that is is ok for the child to be exploited by this woman. What is wrong with you? I bet you pulled wings off of butterflies when you were a kid.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 3:24 AM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

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    timcajun wrote, in response to without_hate:
    Much hate, you really should take these comments and beliefs to your local PD and don’t leave out any of your theories or thoughts, just show them your posts, have your insurance card out and your bags packed! Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    She put the kid up to it she a liar if she said she did not. Kids do not think in these terms. Another reason to remove this child immediately from her care. Child abuse makes me ill to my stomach. The reason abuse exist is because people do not speak up. This is the worse form of exploitation and you defend this behavior. You do not care about the well being of this child just a political agenda to be filled. How can you let this happen and not speak up?

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 2:45 PM
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    GoneRouge wrote, in response to without_hate:
    says the bigot

    btw, the mothers didn’t put the kid up to it.. but hey, we know facts don’t matter to faux sheep.

    Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    Exploiting a child and you can not see the danger. I know now  why we have so many abused children in the states. Adults are supposed to protect them from exploitation and instead you agree with this action. American children are in grave danger if you reaction is the norm. If you love children you will rethink you reaction to this story. If you think it is ok to abuse children then there is no hope.

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    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:38 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

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    Ronda M Fulfer wrote, in response to without_hate:
    nope don’t see any danger BUT the fact that you DO and you are so convinced by one sentence that this little boy should be ripped from his mother and home is disturbing. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    It is ok for you for a grown woman to exploit this child? Child exploitation for any reason is shameful and wrong. With a blatant act of exploitation such as this what occurs in the home? Maybe you do not care if children are abused and exploited for political agendas, I do. We have requested that this woman is monitored and that she will not dare use another child in this manner again. This is horrible.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 1:11 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

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    MichaelJKeane wrote, in response to without_hate:
    How is the security of this child being compromised?
    Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    I do not belong to a political party. I do not believe in child abuse. Apparently you do. This lady exploited this child and this child should be removed from her care. Do not tell me you care about children being abused and exploited. How can you live with your self knowing that this eight year old child is being used as a political tool?  Turn a blind eye because it fits your agenda. This is why liberals are hated because they have no core values. Child exploitation as long as it is used to advance an agenda, what is wrong with you people.
    I am sure that you are a nice person and it amazes me that you find this behavior acceptable. What if it was a conservative child asking Obama why do you lie so much? You would be outraged as I would be. Wrong is wrong and what this lady did was wrong. I am hoping by having her monitored that she will not exploit this child again.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 2:42 AM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

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    timcajun wrote, in response to without_hate:
    Hannity, Beck, Rush, Breitbart, Rove, Ingraham, half of “Fox” and you try to spin away from that with a couple of hard right comments. This why people consider your party a joke and not-grounded in reality! Own the “tea” hate and spin! Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    It is an accepted fact that liberals are hate mongers and racist. They have kept our Afro brothers in poverty for decades. They exploit them as a group and do not accept them as individuals. You must accept the truth liberals are so full of hate look at all the posts on the blogs. Hate and racism on display with ever post by liberals.  You have been lied to all of your life about conservative, when the hate and racism is coming from the liberals. You know the truth now examine your heart and change your ways. We will be correcting the lies by getting involved and taking back our schools and have an education agenda, not a hate filled racist agenda of the unions.
    Quit defending child exploitation to push a political agenda. You have your agenda but do not bring children into an adult game. This was a terrible  act by a horrible parent. I am amazed that child exploitation means nothing to you. It’s ok to abuse children, if it to advance a political agenda. You can not see a problem with this then you really have a problem. CHILD EXPLOITATION FOR ANY REASON IS WRONG.
    Sleep well tonight knowing that this child was exploited. I can not. That is why we are requesting that this woman be monitored to prevent her from exploiting a child again.

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    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 8:31 PM
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    Ronda M Fulfer wrote, in response to without_hate:
    without_hate:  you have a lot of nerve passing judgement on this child and his mother based on your limited knowledge of them.  I think your desire to tear a random family apart is pretty hateful.  Your comments trying to paint liberals as being everything conservatives have always been (hateful racists) are insane.  You may think you are “without hate” but your statements have plenty of venom. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    Children should not be exploited. I do not know if jail time is needed but child protective service has been informed and they will be looking at the exploitation of this child. It is amazing that so many people find that child exploitation is acceptable. If you feel there was other children being exploited please report it and have the parents monitored.
    In this situation the lady will be monitored.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 2:44 PM
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    GoneRouge wrote, in response to without_hate:
    Hey HATE,

    THE PARENTS OF ALL THESE KIDS AND THE PEOPLE ON STAGE SHOULD BE IN JAIL TOO THEN, CORRECT ?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdt_f0hwUg
    Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    To protect a child is the job and obligation of all Adults. You seen to think that it is ok for a child to be exploited. Do you hate children? Do you think that it’s ok to exploit a child as long as it fits your political agenda. I do not understand an adult that will not protect a child. Maybe you are so hung up on your agenda that you rather turn a blind eye to exploitation. This woman chose to use her child in a despicable manner.
    We must see that she is monitored so as she can not exploited this child again.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 2:39 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

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    GoneRouge wrote, in response to without_hate:
    and your name is “without hate”   ROFLMAO !

    thanks for the laugh
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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JSRPNLB6FNGPJ4XICED5SQPCLM ganmerlad

    Is it wet and lonely under your bridge?  I have to admit, I am impressed with your tenacity though.

  • Anonymous

    Will you not condemn child exploitation and forget about it being a right of left items. We all must protect the children. It is unforgivable for this woman to drag a eight year old boy in front of the camera and use him as a tool to push an agenda. My heart is broken to see children used in this manner. Do you have any feeling for children? Are they just piece of meat to be used for the expediency of adults?
    This woman is wrong to use this child in the manner. I feel like Moses crying out in the wilderness against this injustice.  I have fought for children to be protected all my life and now I find I am a lone voice that condemns exploitation. I expect to see children chained together and tethered to a post at the next big event this lady has on her agenda. No one will stop her because the world does not care.

    ________________________________
    From: Disqus
    To: without_hate@yahoo.com
    Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 7:58 PM
    Subject: [mediaite] Re: Glenn Beck Asks Michele Bachmann About ‘Shameless’ Confrontation With 8-Year-Old

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    ganmerlad wrote, in response to without_hate:
    Is it wet and lonely under your bridge?  I have to admit, I am impressed with your tenacity though. Link to comment

  • Anonymous

    If it were true anyone could force Christianity on others, the world would be at peace everywhere. Jesus is the Prince of Peace and is yet to take rule over all the  earth.
    We witness to what we know is the love of God our Maker. The government-owned and union-run “schools” enforce their atheistic teachings on the hostage children they are allowed to keep captive by law. Freedom to evangelize would cause peace to break out around the globe. That’s why Christians are killed by the churchfull and Bibles burned.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    What’s shameless is Michele Bachmann’s views on gays. What’s FRIGHTENING is that she is on the House Intelligence Committee and didn’t even know we haven’t had an embassy in Iran for 30 years. Yeah, yeah, “well, what she meant was …” Why is it whenever these rwnj’s say something stupid (daily) it’s always something that’s “taken out of context,” or “misunderstood.”  

  • Anonymous

    she is a big liar

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    yeah…  you wouldn’t catch any liberal democrats being all christian fundamentally on anyone’s ass, now would you?…

  • Anonymous

    Wow. That’s a load of crap. The chief complaint of fundamentalist “Christians” (notice the quotation marks) is that prayer is “not allowed” in schools. It IS allowed. It’s just not allowed to be TAUGHT or allowed to be a school ACTIVITY. What’s more fundamentalists are ADAMANT that creationism (which is by no means a science, but is instead religious dogma DRESSED as science. And I don’t care if you decide to call it “intelligent design”. It’s the same thing) be taught in ALL schools. The fact that fundamentalists WANT those things is, in effect, forcing someone to go to their church and pray to their God.

    Do you really think everyone is so stupid we would never call you on that? Or did you never think that far? Either way, your post is ludicrous.

  • Anonymous

    And why ISN’T that okay if they are consenting adults? How exactly does that effect you? Are you afraid that you’d see it, get infected like a gay virus and go all crazy for butt sex. I fail to see what dog you have in this hunt.

    Is your sex life REALLY so pathetic that you actually CARE if someone grows up gay or straight? Do you really possess that much spare time that you can sit around worrying whether a kid learns that it’s okay if they have gay urges and not straight urges? Are you really that pathetic or are you just kidding?

  • Anonymous

    Wow. You need help. You’re a danger to yourself when you start spouting paranoia that is that far gone. Please seek professional help. You’ll be happier for it.

  • Anonymous

    He’s saying you already HAVE one, Mr Astro-turf. And it’s obvious. Perhaps you’d do better if you created a new name and started agreeing with yourself. That’s in the playbook isn’t it? Don’t they give you guys a manula or something?

  • Cori Bedois

    “I love black people. It’s just that, when they try to marry white people, it’s a part of Satan and it should not be permitted by law. I think they deserve equal rights, though.”

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