1. Mediaite
  2. Gossip Cop
  3. Geekosystem
  4. Styleite
  5. SportsGrid
  6. The Mary Sue
  7. The Jane Dough
  8. The Braiser
Advertisement

Is This The Best Picture Of Rep. Bachmann Eating A Corn Dog The Telegraph Could Find?

» 643 comments

America’s pundit class hasn’t quite finished talking about Newsweek‘s “intense” cover photo of Rep. Michele Bachmann, but it’s already safe to say the UK Telegraph has found a way to grossly outdo it. In a scathing look at the Iowa State Fair that makes it sound part Rome during Lupercalia, part French Revolution mobbery, the Telegraph decided to run a somewhat blurry photo of Rep. Bachmann, mid blink, chomping on a corn dog.

The photo actually goes quite well with the article, which sounds like it was written by a high-class 17th century English fop who the Telegraph forced into a time machine and sent to Iowa because none of their actual reporters would reduce themselves to the indignity of on-the-ground coverage at a crass American “state fair,” whatever that is. Author Toby Harnden turns his nose up at everything from fried twinkies (understandable) to Tim Pawlenty‘s cowboy boots (really?). This is the opening:

On the eve of the Ames Straw Poll, the Republican candidates made a last push for votes at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines – a huge spectacle in which cattle, pigs and horses are on display as well as politicians and Iowans queue to for fairground rides and some of the most unhealthy food on the planet (I was going to try the Fried Twinkies but the queue was, alas, too long).

Tom Harnden doesn’t stand on lines. Alas, he “queues.”

But the maddening arrogance of the text will almost certainly get lost behind the photo– one that would work well in a slightly trashy campaign ad but is obviously not fit for print. As what reads like a hasty attempt to justify using it, Harnden ends the piece by noting that Bachmann drove away on a golf cart with her husband, buying the corn dog and “after applying mustard and allowing Mr. Bachmann to take the first bite, she chomped into it with gusto.” This is highly salient to the piece, apparently, as a cultural note: in America, presidential candidates eat “some of the most unhealthy food on the planet” (the correct word is “unhealthiest,” by the way) and drive golf carts and have husbands who get first dibs on whatever disgusting thing the lady’s having. Oh, those Americans– so quaint!

But it’s not hard to see how her supporters– and even some of her detractors– can begin to see a deliberate attempt to undermine the one characteristic Rep. Bachmann has that no one seems to disagree with: she’s photogenic. There are photos of all the Presidential candidates that are equally unflattering, because, as has been explained many times by many critics, photographers often take a rapid series of photos to get the best shot. It’s difficult to believe that professional photographers are this bad, or that Rep. Bachmann is simply difficult to photograph in the wild.

Then there’s the sexist subtext here: would the Telegraph have run a similar photo of a presidential candidate consuming an obvious phallic symbol if said candidate were male? Phallic symbols make for good comedy, sure, but the Telegraph is not Mad Magazine, and there appears to be no intent at humor here, only degradation. The image sends a clear message to any woman thinking about pursuing such high public office: we at the Telegraph are unable to look at you as anything but a sex object, no matter what your qualifications for office. That’s not to say the decision to public such a photo is always innately sexist– some outlets clearly would have run the photo no matter who was in it, particularly on the internet (looking at you, Wonkette). Whether a print publication– a British one with no theoretical reason to work for or against any American candidate– would have is an entirely different question, one that we can expect to get addressed often among conservative commentators in the near future.

Follow us on Twitter.

Sign up for Mediaite's daily newsletter.

Email Twitter Facebook Digg Reddit Stumble Upon Yahoo Buzz LinkedIn Tumblr Delicious
  • Anonymous

    LMFAO!!!!!!!!

  • Paulhmull

    lol

  • Anonymous

    The Telegraph has Britain’s highest circulation among the legitimate papers, not the scandal rags. It’s also conservative. Although the Brits do like to poke the noses of Americans in their papers this picture is excessive, even by their standards.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    “Lines” in England are called “queues”.  It’s not an upper class thing.  You even have to wait in queues just to get a taxi.  No hailing a cab on a whim.

    The liberal media is sexist btw.

  • Johnjguy

    Please tell whose idea this was.

    I don’t there’s really much you can say is there?

    My throat hurts just looking at that!!!

  • Anonymous

    Like this picture, Francine?

    http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/285049/Obama+Blowjob/

    I’ll take your foolish ban, ye, the dog who eats corn the long way. And be back again.

  • http://twitter.com/BIGGUY53 Lester Ayers

    i just love this corndog

  • Anonymous

    Waiting for Marcus to come running into the picture. “No, No, No….You do it like this”

  • Mlkbeat

    Selcetive photos won’t undemine this candidate… her words will.

  • Anonymous

    I think a picture of her “husband” doing that would have been more appropriate.

  • http://www.twitter.com/danny6114 danny6114

    Marcus showed her how to partake and as a submissive wife that’s how she rolls!

  • Poop

    Oh shut up Frances… who cares, stop whining about how Bachmann is portrayed in the media… she is crazy, so she should be portrayed as crazy.

  • Ron

    Oh Please! Telegraph is just as out of the main stream far right wing-nuts as mediate.com

  • Oshush

    Mediaite has reached a new low.

    ALL CONSERVATIVES WHO HANG AROUND HERE GIVING THIS BLOG
    CREDIBILITY, WHEN IT’S NOTHING BUT A MEDIAMATERS WANNABE
    Shame on all of u.

    As a woman, I am, appalled.
    It would be an outrage if it was Michelle Obama,
    or Hillary, ANY WOMAN>!
    Liberal low life Media types, still stuck i n the mindset of
    B rated porn flicks with their hand down their pants: go to hell.

     
     

  • Anonymous

    You know why Richard Nixon saw “Deep Throat” more than 10 times?  So he could get it down Pat.

  • Anonymous

    You know why Richard Nixon saw “Deep Throat” more than 10 times?  So he could get it down Pat.

  • http://twitter.com/DrivelLady Laurie B.

    They should have gone with the similar picture of Marcus.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=827719443 Mary Jones

    The word is “publish”, not “public”.  No excuse for the photo but from what I understand, Ms. Bachmann is protected from all press contact except certain favored outlets under very rigid circumstances. That is why she always looks ‘photogenic’. Other than that I agree with Oshush’s post above.  It’s really low.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/look-out-mediaite-commenters-we-are-watching-you/

    Where is the referee now? This PHOTO and “story” are offensive. And Dan Abrams allows it.

  • Anonymous

    Somewhere is Massatoilet, Barney Frank is jealous. Speaking of a teabagging deep throater.

  • Anonymous

    How many articles has Mediaite run about unflattering photos of Michele Bachmann?   So many, I’ve lost count.  And now an entire article devoted to….a photo of her eating a corn dog?   Just when you thought Mediaite could not sink any lower, they put up a story that National Enquirer would be embarrassed to run.   Come on, Frances, you’ve shown you can do better than this.  Much better.

  • Anonymous

    And you were there with him? Liberal retard comment with no basis in fact. You going down Pat on Barney now, libtard?

  • Anonymous

    You libs just don’t quit, do you?

  • e-scribblah

    hmm, has anyone considered that among conservative middle-aged males, that picture reflects their secret MILF fantasies about bachamann?

  • Maynard314

     Oshush send your first angry letter to the telegraph.. a right leaning “conservative” paper… 

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Thank you, my sentiments exactly. And you see how the liberal posters just eat this stuff up!

  • Anonymous

    Instead of running stories just to show unflattering photos of a conservative woman, how about looking at the media’s coverage hit pieces on  Tim Tebow.  Here’s one example, among many

    http://nation.foxnews.com/tim-tebow/2011/08/13/cbs-attacks-tim-tebows-christian-faith

    I suspect that if the media were attacking an athlete for his Muslim faith, the liberal press would rush to his defense.  How about looking at the fairness of the Tebow situation?

  • Oshush

    I don’t give a flying flock WHO ORIGINALLY PRINTED.
    IF IT WAS MICHELLE OBAMA WOULD DAN ABRAMS ALLOW
    ON HIS RAG?

     

  • Anonymous

    Not a lib. Re-read the post d-bag. Barney is jealous that a woman can get a dog that size down. Reach out, make a lib feel really good and hug them, or you will be banned here for challenging the libturds.

    Check this out….

    http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/285049/Obama+Blowjob/

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Why did Martel even show this picture in the first place knowing it was just going to feed the liberals’ appetite for the vulgar?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregg-Sanchez/1671411211 Gregg Sanchez

    I don’t get this article. I may not be a fan of Ms Bachmans but this picture could have been of anyone and it still wouldn’t bother me. I mean it’s a corn dog you have to open mouth and insert to eat so what is the point. I do not think the picture does anyone an injustice

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Well she isn’t getting it from her gay husband.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • ceeza

    Hey Felix the Telegraph is a right leaning “conservative” paper.. which boast the biggest readership in the UK..They ran the picture and story to begin with… what say you now?

  • Republicans are Liars

    I have a corn dog she can chomp on.

  • Anonymous

    Touche’

    I very much doubt the photo would be printed were it Michelle or Hillary.  Furthermore, I would be just as unhappy were it so.

    Purveyor

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

    Yes, of course they’re sexist — that’s why nearly all of them came to Bachmann’s defense in the Newsweek fiasco – the best publicity she could ever have gotten.  If Bachmann was dumb enough to eat this at the fair, she gets what she deserves. Anyone with half a brain knows that you don’t do anything in front of the media and photographers that you don’t want plastered across the front pages.  I think it is you, sir, who are sexist be feeling that Ms. Bachmann needs your protection.

  • Anonymous

    A huge spectacle where cattle and pigs are on display? Unhealthy food? bangers and mash, anyone? Of course Americans indulge in over the top fried food at a fair that is part of the experience – but the British wouldn’t understand indulgence, they are into suffering, resentment and stuffiness right?  The British will find this photo of Bachman as high humor – after all they gave us Mr. Bean and James Bond.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what’s known as a “joke,” you moron.  It doesn’t have to have a “basis in fact.”  The point is a pun on the phrase “down pat” and Nixon’s wife’s name, “Pat.”  Hell, this has been around since the ’70s.  But Rethugs are historically challenged, we see that all the time. 

  • Nature Freak

    Dang!
    That is a huge corn dog.
    I guess size does matter!

  • Anonymous

    Amen. You and I will soon be banned. Save the pages, save the comments, and re-post after they shut your diverse thoughts down. How LIBERAL are they, really?

    http://gawker.com/5308086/where-were-you-when-mediaite-launched

  • http://www.darklady.com/ Darklady

    If you don’t care who originally published the photo — and especially since the publication in question is CONSERVATIVE — then don’t write partisan crap like: “Liberal low life Media types, still stuck i n the mindset of B rated porn flicks with their hand down their pants: go to hell.”

  • Anonymous

    Sorry about that. Misinterpreted you. I liked your links.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry about that. Misinterpreted you. I liked your links.

  • Larry

    I just got turned on watching this. And I’m a gay man!!

  • Anonymous

    That first picture is a child.  There is nothing funny about using a child in this manor.  It’s not a corn dog, it’s not an ice cream …. it’s a child.  I truly hope you can see the difference.  Shame!

  • Hugo Daun

    Here ya go…I like things to be fair and balanced:

    http://30.media.tumblr.com/tum...

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • Anonymous

    And here we are with Brain Trusts like Francine Martel spreading the hate… And liberal haters like you agreeing with it. See Ms. O’bama “taking down” a rack of ribs? A pound of fries that she loves?

  • Anonymous

    Like you do?

  • Anonymous

    I agree completely.  This may be the most contemptible article I’ve seen at Mediaite.  

  • Anonymous

    Liberals need not apply. Unless you are Barney Frank-n-beanbagger.

  • ceeza

    A Michelles not running for anything B They call Michelle Fat everyday and show unflattering pictures all the time… get outta here.. C this wasnt a liberal hit ..it was a conservative ..so get outta here 2 times..

  • BLUEBUNNY

    OMG!! HAHAHHAHHAHA! THIS IS THE BEST PICTURE THEY COULD FIND?! HAHAHA FUNNY AS HELL THO!  LOOK AT THE GUY IN THE PICTURE CHECKIN HER OUT HAHAHAHAHHAHA! GO BACHMANN!!!

  • Nature Freak

    Exactly, although some Conservatives here will say it is not “Conservative” due to being a newspaper from the UK. They are wrong. Nature Freak laughs at Conservatives and their tiny mutated souls.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph
    “The Daily Telegraph has been politically conservative in modern times.”

  • Anonymous

    Selective photos will undermine this website, however.  There is no excuse for this kind of garbage.  

  • Anonymous

    Hail General ZOD the corndog ruler.

  • Anonymous

    So then you must really be appalled by the picture with Obama and a young child that was posted by a conservative in this thread.

  • Anonymous

    I’m happy that you are a happy man too!

  • Nature Freak

     Marcus Bachmann felt the same way!

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t even have to look, I knew it was Frances.  One day she will grow up – but perhaps not.

    Frances, we realize you’re in the tank for the democrats, but honestly – you enjoy reading bathroom humor and just had to write this?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    No I get it from your wife.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t need to lecture me on The Telegraph.  I am fully aware of the political affiliation of different UK newspapers.  But your point is bogus.  The Telegraph used this photo as part of an article on fried food at the Iowa State Fair.  Mediaite runs it to ridicule a candidate — the same candidate they have ridiculed in countless similar articles.

    Here look at the Telegraph article for comparison

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100100848/fried-food-and-retail-politics-at-the-iowa-state-fair/

  • Hugo Daun
  • Hugo Daun
  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    between her liking to be submissive and this picture.. she just might win some favor on foreign relations. Just looks like washington as usual if you ask me.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks kitty. I thought you were trying to make this a cleaner, more civil site.

  • Anonymous

    You are too dumb for words.  The original was published in England.  Get over yourself.  Want a picture of Michelle doing same?  You would think that’s fine also?  All the foul comments from lowlife democrats and you are still stuck on stupid.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    EVERYONE LIKES A GOOD DOG IN MOUTH PHOTO!

  • Anonymous

    Request to Dan Abrams:

    Show some class and pull this article off your site.  

  • Nature Freak

    I’m impressed.
    Michelle likes corndogs.
    She needs to enter this contest ASAP!
    http://www.mediaite.com/print/the-new-york-post-takes-female-competitive-eaters-out-to-lunch/
    Some women just like to “go to town” on corndogs. They have fun at it while taking pride in their skills. And they do not feel guilty about those skills.

    You go Michelle!

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes I can’t tell which side of the fence she’s on.

  • Anonymous

    The article in the Telegraph was about fried food at the Iowa State Fair.  This article, in contrast, is a vile hit piece.

  • Anonymous

    You are really trying to tell us that the reason the Telegraph chose this particular photo was to highlight fried food?  Really ????  LOL

  • Anonymous

    I think you’re mind in in the toilet and you’re proud of it.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D7ZXLQWAIWYID3S5BJYQEETHTQ DavidT

    Looks pornographic to me and much more offensive than the cross-eyed cover of Newsweek!

  • ceeza

    OSHUSH wont dont you understand about the Telegraph is a CONSERVATIVE paper… your qoute” Liberal Low life Media types still stuck in the mindset of Brated porn flicks with their hands down their pants”…   it just simply doesnt make sense..

  • Hugo Daun

    ANOTHER REQUEST TO DAN ABRAMS:

    Please, pay no attention to the humorless pussies who regularly try to tell you how to do business.

  • Anonymous

    You are really trying to tell us that Mediaite chose this particular photo to report on The Telegraph. Really ???? LOL

    Touché

  • Anonymous

    I sent a note – think everyone else who feels that this is about the most classless move on mediaite’s part should do the same.

    Enough is enough.  Frances writes the stupid article on how the freaking British Press blah blah – just to incite the freaking idiots around here.  

  • Slipperywhenwet

    Damn shes hot!! Ol crazy eyes Must be a firecracker in bed. Too bad her husband is weak in the knees.

  • Anonymous

    See the reason the right see a photo like this as hate is because they have all sorts of issue around sex.  Who should and shouldn’t do it and with whom and when.  The reason the left can laugh at this photo and laugh regardless if the person is a righty or a lefty is because we don’t have the slightest problem with sex between any consenting adults.  We take something like this as completely tongue in cheek.  Imagine that!

  • Nature Freak

    I read the Telegraph article and I found it funny. I also love British wit and irony. It has been awhile since I have been to a state or county fair, but fact remains they are culturally interesting and can be a spectacle on occasion. I think even many (not all) of the fairgoers would have laughed at the article. BTW I spent much of my childhood in a small town and live in one again.

    I almost have an urge to go to a county or state fair. Oh well…No summer fairs down here in Florida.

  • ceeza

    the main issue with Newsweek seemed to be the photo .. some viewed the profile negatively but by in large the most criticism came from the photo choice… Do you take issue with this photo choice Felix from the telegraph?

  • Nature Freak

    snap!

  • Anonymous

    The only ones who seen incited are the right.  The left just take it with a grain of salt.

  • Anonymous

    are you really that dumb?

  • Anonymous

    LMAO….and this picture appeared in the CONSERVATIVE Telegraph….just show they know a clown when they see one.

    Looking forward to the photoshopped versions…LOL

  • http://www.darklady.com/ Darklady

    (deep breath)

    I may be “too dumb for words” but I get paid to write words and I gave three presentations at the recent MENSA Annual Gathering, so… it’s possible that you’re incorrect.I am aware that the original was published in England.I am well over myself. I don’t really have an opinion about photos showing Michelle Obama OR Michele Bachmann eating corn dogs. The photo is just a photo of a woman with crazy eyes eating a corn dog. It’s the mind of the viewer that turns it into something naughty. As a professional writer, I think the photo is kinda stupid, but it’s not pornographic unless you think of it that way. Your last comment makes even less sense than the rest. I simply pointed out that the poster in question specifically singled out liberal publications… when the publication in question isn’t liberal. Seems like an important point to this dumb person. If said person is upset because Mediaite has republished the photo (which conservatives might otherwise have missed and thus missed out on a chance to slam liberals while salivating over the Bachmann/corn dog possibilities), then said person should have said as much. Frankly, given the heavy conservative readership, I don’t think I’d consider the site to be particularly “liberal” nor its conservative readership particularly free of “lowlife” types. After all, you just spent a post trashing me for no real reason and the terms “libtard” and “libturd” weren’t posted by Democrats or liberals. 

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    yeah it’s tasteless..who ever heard of eating a corndog without mustard!!! totally tasteless!

  • Chasmc

    Hey, maybe the more people learn about her and her hubby, she just doesn’t so good anymore.

  • Dr. L. E. Kauffman

    Soft porn has no place on the cover of Newsweek.  Shame on them.  Filthy minds in the arts department.

  • Anonymous

    Flagging me for posting a photo of Santorum eating an ice cream in a thread featuring that photo of Bachmann?  LOL  The right is just so uptight when it comes to sex, it’s hysterical.

  • Anonymous

    I respect a woman who can eat a corn dog with her eyes open.

  • Hagen619dj

    Well, you can sure bet that if a woman like you were in public with that attitude, your protection would be nile.  You are so angry at everyone. What is your problem?  what is going to a fair if not to have a corn dog?  Of course, the degradation of Bachmann will continue because of the newsweek magazine photo. It’s all that’s needed to bring out the slobs that find that sort of thing extremely funny. It’s all because this is a man’s world and if a woman wants to run of office that a man usually has….it’s just not right!!  Who says?  Amazing how the only ones who find this funny are mostly democrats. Shows your IQ.

  • Nature Freak

    Social Conservatives believe adult consensual sexuality is dirty unless the deed is done in the missionary position, in marriage, exclusively for procreation and always done with ones eyes closed.
    The guilt I suspect still lingers, even when they play by their rules.
    Its too bad. I pity them.

  • Nature Freak

    Social Conservatives believe adult consensual sexuality is dirty unless the deed is done in the missionary position, in marriage, exclusively for procreation and always done with ones eyes closed.
    The guilt I suspect still lingers, even when they play by their rules.
    Its too bad. I pity them.

  • Hugo Daun

    Enough is enough.  Frances writes the stupid article on how the freaking British Press blah blah…

    And who was it that forced your tear-filled eyes to read it?

    …just to incite the freaking idiots around here.

    Well, don’t get so INCITED!

  • Anonymous

    Darklady – get over yourself again.  Your post indicates you have the depth of a tack.  Sit on it.

  • Hagen619dj

    Thank you.  I agree. Some hear or see something to make fun of and then just run with it. Never mind that its degrading someone else…that is, as long as it isn’t them.

  • ceeza

    its the crux of the story Felix hence the mediate headline” Is this the best picture of Michelle Bachman eating a hotdog the TELEGRAPH could find”    what don’t you get????   should Mediate have used a different picture when running the Newsweek story?… what is wrong with you seriously?/

  • Anonymous

    Nope.  I don’t believe that for a minute.  There are a number of suggestive photos of the candidates eating at the fair.  They are all over the place.  They’re used to having cameras following them around and they should be conscious of that.  Ultimately it is their responsibility.  It’s light and funny fair and should be treated as such.

  • Anonymous

    Good lord woman. Learn to laugh at life. We all know you’ve sucked down a corn dog or two in your entire life, and if you say you never did, you’re lying. It’s hilarious, but nothing to pretend you haven’t done, or that no woman should ever own up to doing (even if it’s front of thousands). 

  • Nature Freak

    Sometimes it is good to keep ones eyes shut.
    You don’t want to get ketchup in your eyes. Corndogs are messy!

  • Hagen619dj

    Thank you Oshush. You  put it very well.  Low life in the mindset is just what this is.

  • Anonymous

    ohhh do they make obscene comments and slander and smear grains of salt?  

  • Hugo Daun

    Dude, your porn must REALLY suck!

  • ceeza

    no ..i dont think they can..

  • Anonymous

    That’s the photo of the year.

  • Epzw

    Family values.

  • Thomas

    Great piece Frances. You’re the best reporter at Mediaite.

  • Hagen619dj

    Oh, who cares if it’s left, right, liberal, conservative, or any other name.  Your answers are like a bunch of kids in school who are afraid to go against the leader.  Let’s all chime in and follow the leader now.  If he trashes,  let’s all trash.    If any of you are so great, let’s see you up there in front of crowds selling your ideas to become president.  Bashers aren’t that kind…they stay in the background and follow their leaders. Heaven forbide that they could think of anything on their own.

  • Hagen619dj

    Amen…..well said.

  • Hugo Daun

    Soft porn has no place on the cover of The Telegraph.

    Hey Doc, didn’t you mean “soft corn“?

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • BLUEBUNNY

     GO SEEK SOME OTHER PLACE TO POST! NO ONE WILL MISS YOU!

  • Anonymous

    No.  That’s your department.  If you don’t like the picture leave the thread instead of kvetching!

  • Anonymous

    Any picture you take of someone eating is not going to be flattering.  She should have put the corn dog in a doggy bag and told them she would suck on it later.  I mean eat it later.

  • Hagen619dj

    Pull your head out of the sand and write something meaningful.  Keep it above the low life comments and inuenduo. 

  • BLUEBUNNY

    AMEN! OR OFFER THEM A JOB!

  • Hagen619dj

    Feel better now?  got your crap talk all posted? Now grow up and add something that is readable.

  • Anonymous

    Really?  They used to have them when I lived in Sarasota.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    HAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHA! THAT’S TO FUNNY!!!

  • Hagen619dj

    Still don’t think the picture is necessary. We all know why is was posted. We all understand what the picture is trying to depicted….it’s just not necessary to slame a person that way. it’s not funny and not cute. This country has enough problems without another slamming candidates. What they think should mean nothing to the US.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    SEEMS PRETTY SIMPLE! YOU DON’T LIKE THE COMMENTS TURN THE PAGE!

  • Anonymous

    And that is why it is so much richer when they get caught having sex they condemn.  Must be rough living a life of cognitive dissonance.

  • BLUEBUNNY

    CAN HARDLY WAIT TO SEE WHAT STEWART AND COLBERT DO WITH THIS PIECE OF COMIC GOLD!

  • Anonymous

    This is HILARIOUS!!!

    Why are Righties such total and utter Pussies?

  • Tedderman

    This looks like a woman who’s starving for a good “corn dog.” 

  • Hagen619dj

    Par for the course.!! There seems to be alot of middle-aged males who think this way. Woman are someone to degrade. Too bad you were born of a woman.  See, you just can’t get along without one!!

  • Anonymous

    It’s the one and only thing that sets me off here. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Good one… Well, I must say — there’s just no way of ducking a photo such as this… sorry, Michelle.

  • ceeza

    I just cant anymore.. when Newsweek runs an unflattering picture it’s liberals faults.. and when the Telegraph ,a conservative paper, runs an unflattering photo it’s liberals faults again… njwdv9denvijefnvijefnvji fnij nfij!!!

  • Tedderman

    Were you this outraged when a magazine depicted Michelle and Barak Obama as terrorists?  I don’t think so.

  • Johnjguy

    Who is the guy in the bottom left of the picture and why is he smirking?

    Sometimes these events are Photo Ops, part of the event and other times, like this, you ask ‘,Whose idea was that?’

    Still, lots of fodder for late night TV Chat Shows.

  • Nature Freak

    Because Conservatives believe looking at a picture of a woman eating a corndog at a state fair will eternally damn them in the hellfires of Hell.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a funny photo.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Lighten up …. life is too short.  Enjoy it.

  • Hagen619dj

    Nope!  size doesn’t matter.  The inuendo does however.  The age of tell all and do all is here and alive in this country. Make it dirty and make it degrading…that seems to be the age of this generation.  Do anything…if it feels good…stupid is as stupid does.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Jost picturing Barney Frank “doing his thing” is enough to gag a maggot…..so this photo has no effect.
    Just more hate from the left-wing attack rats.

  • Anonymous

    That is a nice picture of her being submissive.  ROFLMAO

  • BLUEBUNNY

    GROW-UP AND GO ELSEWHERE IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE ARTICLES HERE!

  • Anonymous

    This was the time for the Ron Jeremy Avatar

  • Anonymous

    I hadn’t thought of this angle but having been raised Catholic as a child this very likely true.

  • Anonymous

    after viewing the photo in question, my initial wince was followed by…..

    (channeling my best Seth Meyers..)

    Really? There wasn’t a campaign aide there tugging her by the arm saying, “Hey Michelle, let’s go over here and get some Freedom Fries, or any other non-phallic type of treat.” I mean, really! I might understand Marcus catching the “Corn Dog” sign out of the corner of is eye. But, really? You just had a picture of you published on the front page of a national magazine that made you look like you had a head shot for your Century 21 bio taken by my Uncle Ted took in his broom closet studio in the basement of the community center down the block: you would think that someone on your staff would say, “Let’s take it down a notch on re-filling the mainstream media’s quiver with those poison frog-dipped arrows.” REALLY?

    I blame the lack of image strategery. (snicker)
    and yes, dammit, I meant to type “strategery”.

  • Nature Freak

    The guy in the photo smirking needs to be interviewed ASAP!

    I would love to see a wider photo.

  • Nature Freak

    Will do. You are so right. Patrick McGoowan avatar can wait.

  • Nature Freak

    gar1956: “This was the time for the Ron Jeremy Avatar ”

    Will do. You are so right. The Patrick McGoohan avatar can wait.

  • Anonymous

    This picture is so hilarious

  • Anonymous

    Great photo! Imagine Hannity if this photo was on the front page of Newsweek ;)

    Would have been even better if someone caught Marcus instead of Michelle in that same position

  • BLUEBUNNY

    GOOD GOD MAN! GO ALREADY!

  • BLUEBUNNY

    DO YOU OFTEN THINK ABOUT BARNEY FRANK ” DOING HIS THING”?! YOU SHOULDN’T JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE! POLITE PEOPLE KEEP THAT KIND OF STUFF TO THEMSELVES!

  • Anonymous

    Naw.  Stop yer nasty thoughts.  Face it  -  a hick is a hick is a hick.

  • Nature Freak

    progressive_kitty,
    Guilt rears its ugly head regarding sexuality. This photo is a Rorschach test for Conservatives. What they see and how they respond I find interesting.

    BTW,
    I find it interesting that Conservatives on this site joke about and even condone and encourage prison rape.
    http://www.mediaite.com/online/heres-your-global-hacking-poster-boy-our-first-look-at-the-face-of-lulzsec/
    I also find it interesting that vile and disgusting things are said about President Obama on this site, day after day. Yet Bachmann eating a corndog and us joking about it is so very wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Yup!  Them left-wangers are so full o hate.  Hour hole history shows thet, don’t hit??    Reel good comment thar, Brains!

  • Anonymous

    Indeed.  I rather think there are millions of wingnuts out there who quietly long for & pray for an hour or so with Mr. Frank.  Imagining somehow that he’d be interested in them in any way.   They are typically dull, dumb, downgrading, & dirty. 

  • Hugo Daun

    Rorschach?

    Sounds like a Communist…

    (hehehe)

  • Nature Freak

    Hugo Daun,

    LOL! Good work.
    Now you get it!
    Learn to be a Tea Bagger in 12 easy steps!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brent-Labeau/100002070403647 Brent Labeau

    I don’t know, I kind of like it.

  • Anonymous

    you guys are bad!

  • Anonymous

    Uh-oh, Here we go again!  This is gonna piss of the Bachmanns supporters and the Palinstream media (Fox News).  I’m sure hubby loves it and wishes it were he bitin’ the dog.

  • Anonymous

    hell, I’m a middle-aged male progressive. That would be my fantasie too!

  • Anonymous

    I’m a liberal and I think that photo was clearly and undisputably in poor taste.

  • Anonymous

    I’m a liberal and I think that photo was clearly and undisputably in poor taste.

  • Tedderman

    Hey Freak, I think your avatar is very relevant to the discussion today.LOL

  • Anonymous

    Apparently, the only people that have anything to “worry about” here are the conservatives that disagree with liberals like progressive_kitty the hater. So much for diversity and tolerance…. And the right of strong women to disagree with her. Any Lewinsky “open wide” photos?

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/look-out-mediaite-commenters-we-are-watching-you/

  • Anonymous

    General ZOD speaks. And by the way, not married. Good assumption from a stupid liberal talking point knuckle dragger.

    Shut up ZOD.

  • Anonymous

    I’m impressed that you can read with your public school education and all. How’s segregation down there in the “deep south” of snowbird Florida, retard?

    Isn’t Barny Frank-n-Beans jealous?

  • Anonymous

    And you know that how, you data turd? Any more assumptions you want to throw out to prove how stupid you are?

  • Anonymous

    You just know Marcus taught her how to swallow the whole thing without gagging or touching her teeth.

  • Anonymous

    What does being a liberal have anything with or hating the photo, and why is it in poor taste?  People eat corn dogs when go to fairs such as this.  Why doesn’t Bachmann just ban all photo taking of her, then we’ll all be happy. 

  • Anonymous
  • Nature Freak

    Harry Reems heiped many couples. He was an educator.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    This is the best thread ever.
    Not because Bachmann has a giant wiener in her mouth but because of the reaction of the teabaggers.
    Very entertaining.  :)

  • Anonymous

    You ought to know….

  • Anonymous

    Bring back ZOD retard.

  • Nature Freak

    Conservatives have no sense of humor. Only anger and resentments.

  • Anonymous

    What’s so funny is their selective outrage.  Have you seen what the same people are saying over on the Don Lemon thread? 

  • Nature Freak

    Life without innuendo and double entendres is not a life worth living!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    hugalib 9 minutes ago in reply to progressive_kitty
    Comment Please:

    I’ve already commented on that suggestive photo using a child.  Nothing worse that I can think of and you should be ashamed.  I doubt you have children because if you did you would NEVER cross that line. 

  • Nature Freak

    I bookmarked your link. Funny stuff. I forget to go to Comedy central’s site.

  • realdeal

    Will Michele be the new linda lovelace?

  • Nature Freak

    The General ZOD avatar needed a rest.
    ZOD has little respect for the ways we select our President.
    ZOD is megalomaniacal. Palin BTW has a deep respect for General ZOD.
    ZOD will be back. Trust me.
    Kneel before Ron!

  • Nature Freak

    Who will be the new Harry Reems?

  • Nature Freak

    I obviously like to satirize Sarah Palin , but I never make fun of or even mention her minor age children.
    Children should be off limits.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bonnie-McGuinness/100002588403595 Bonnie McGuinness

    Judge bachmann on her beliefs and actions. These pictures are like adolescents playing sick games. Why not take one of hannity the little frog eating a corn dog. . or even better, coulter.

  • Nature Freak

    I do.

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely.  Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely.  Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    The Family Guy’s take on Ann Coulter …
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8WQM-KVFwE

  • Anonymous

    to the teeny, tiny brains of a lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist, such juvenile stuff is “funny”.  I mean, how else could anybody “explain” a sewer-rat like bill maher havng a show?

  • Anonymous

    to the teeny, tiny brains of a lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist, such juvenile stuff is “funny”.  I mean, how else could anybody “explain” a sewer-rat like bill maher havng a show?

  • Nature Freak

    Less segregated here than much of the northeast and north central states.

    I only made it through the third grade in a one room shack, but I taught myself to read from old copies of High Society and Oui laying on the side of the dirt road.

  • Anonymous

    There is one!  He’s not as enthusiastic in his picture.

  • Centre

    All comes back to just how far to the right America is on the political spectrum.

    Even a right leaning conservative British paper like The Telegraph thinks Bachmann and the Tea Party are crazy.

  • News Of The World

    Yeah, the teabaggers on Mediate are very defensive and pissy today.  It’s fun!

  • News Of The World

    By the look of those eyes, she finished before the corndog did.

  • ThroatWobbler

    Not the first time she’s done that……..or maybe it is.

  • News Of The World

    I’ll bet I’ve seen that scene about a dozen times and still laugh every single time.  Family Guy rocks.

  • Anonymous

    I know.  I laughed for days every time I thought of it.

  • Anonymous

    that pretty much tells us about the state of your existence Alice – I’m sorry for you. 

  • Anonymous

    I noticed those eyes and she is lovin it!

  • Nature Freak

    I have avoided that thread.
    Don Lemon already has two strikes against him for many on the right. It can not be pretty.

  • Anonymous

    Hey is this not an “action”?

  • Anonymous

    Save your pity for yourself.  You rarely offer much except snide comments about other posters.  Stick to the topic of the threads.

  • Thomas

    Marcus is one lucky man!!

  • Anonymous

    Basically it just proves that you’re a classless, slimy bunch.  Nothing to do with sexuality doofus – you’re a pig.
    I hope you comport yourself with a bit more class in person because here you are showing a side which would only appeal to other perverts  

    Then you compound your tasteless comments by attempting to vault it into thoughtful comments regarding peoples sexuality.  You’re just a freaking pig – I’ve seen better behaviour from teens.  If you tell them they’ve crossed the line, they usually apologize and quit with the smut (at least while you’re in the room).  You don’t seem to have a moral filter and your attempts to elevate your comment as a
    some kind of psychologic insight is laughable at best and moronic at worst.   

  • Nature Freak

    She may be more into “femdom”.
    The “submissive to her husband” thing is perhaps just a cover up.
    Could be.

  • Anonymous

    right you freaking hypocrite – you had no trouble sliming Palin’s kids.  What the hell is the matter with you?

  • Anonymous

    want me to dig out some of your old posts Alice?

  • Anonymous

    Talk about being submissive….hahaha

  • Anonymous

    No your name is ellen and you have to have the most pathetic life imaginable if you sit around replaying some comic scene and laughing.  Honestly, take up knitting.

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Those 10 guys you call ‘Daddy all had corn dogs that put a big smile on your mama’s face.

  • Thomas

    OMG.

  • Nature Freak

    I support adult consensual human sexuality.
    We as a society are too uptight. We need to be more open.
    I am not a social conservative. Never have been, Never will be.
    I am not a Christian. My Pagan and Unitarian beliefs are pro human sexuality.
    The Bible is wrong on many an occasion regarding sex and love as well as the body.
    People have the right to be chaste and celibate as well. But, people have the right to choose.
    I have a different world view than evangelicals and Conservative Catholics have.
    If this makes me a Sus Scrofa, so be it.
    I love Double entendres.
    At least I keep it real.
    I do not worry about original sin. Augustine of Hippo was wrong.

  • Nature Freak

    I have never seen a county fair in the summer here but I admit I am far from being an expert.
    I have seen September ones.
    I would think with the rain and heat a summer fair here would be problematic.
    I was wrong. Cool!

  • Anonymous

    As long as you comment on posters rather than comment on the topic I’ll not respond again.  Get a life of your own.  This one is taken.

  • Outside

    You are All….idiots, both sides of the fence. Sadly these petty attacks and arguments are all you have. Very few of you have put much thought into your words, however, you all seem to be quite adept at parroting the words of others. There is no point to what you are doing and no positive outcome. If someone’s post lacks finesse or contains misspellings then that person must be a redneck. If someone posts using correct grammar and spelling then that person must be a liberal snob. All of you have serious social issues that can’t be solved by blaming what you perceive to be an opposing side who is responsible for your misery. Your misery is your own and is created in your own head. I understand that flailing about blindly in the dark affords you some measure of accomplishment but it is a short-lived accomplishment and will only last until the next poster. Berating anonymous people in a forum is egotistical and pointless.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Male repugnant ones are careful not to stick phalluses in their mouths in front of cameras (of which they’re aware, anyhow)… they hire escorts from craigslist, or take a “wide stance” in the public loo to play drop the paper and footsie with the cop in the next stall.

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Did your mama date him on Saturdays, Sundays or any day he was available?

  • Anonymous

    Very back door yet typical left wing bomb thrower tactic there MEDIAite.

  • Anonymous

    Bet she learned those skills by watching and imitating Marcus giving “therapy”. 

  • Dac

    look like she about to suck a big one

  • Dac

    The guy in the background is clearly using his imagination.

  • Nature Freak

    I thought you liked Leonard Cohen? You listen to him.
    Have you read his poetry or really listened to his lyrics?
    You do realize he has been a proponent of “free love” through his career.
    THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE

  • Actual Brit.

    Actually the daily mail is the most circulated and is a legitimate paper, it is its website which is more celeb fuelled. Also above the Telegraph is the Metro which is not particularly scandal led and The Sun is basically Fox News on paper. That, combined with the fact that the Telegraph is central with only a minute lean to the right; as well as the fact that it is more interested in ridiculing any politician regardless of party, shows that really you don’t know much about British newspapers and should probably not comment.

  • dynariffic D

    Poor Michelle, Marcus won’t let her eat his hot dog cause he’s saving it for his male patients!  She looks hungry!  Slurp slurp…..LOL

  • dynariffic D

    She has to get it somewhere!  Marcus won’t let her eat his hot dog as he is saving it for his male clients!  LOLOL

  • dynariffic D

    Oh BOY, it is a CLASSIC SANTORUM.  Google is going to love that one!  hahahahaha lol.

  • dynariffic D

    You are so right.  Marcus saves his hot dog for his male clients that he gets government money for!

  • dynariffic D

    Michelle is SO HUNGRY because Marcus won’t let her near his hot dog!

  • Nature Freak

    Good for Mama! She enjoyed it.

  • News Of The World

    You really are a boring, humorless troll.

  • dynariffic D

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROFLMAO!  I just know he has a secret closet full of leather, whips and chains!!

  • dynariffic D

    I guess you have a problem with humor!

  • dynariffic D

    And a good belly laugh!

  • dynariffic D

    Yes, because she doesn’t get any, not from Marcus anyway.

  • Nature Freak

    Nature Freak says let your Freak Flag Fly!

    America needs to be more open, not less.
    BTW, adult consensual sexuality is not dirty or degrading. It is social conservatives who feel sexuality is dirty and degrading.

  • dynariffic D

    Marcus doesn’t have any need for Michelle, he’s more interested in his male clients!

  • dynariffic D

    Slurp slurp burp……hic……

  • dynariffic D

    THEN LEAVE AND DON”T COME BACK!

  • dynariffic D

    Great one Kitty!

  • Anonymous

    Aren’t you the author of “Liberalism for Dummies”?

  • Nature Freak

    Have you ever laughed before?
    Humor is good for you.
    Cartoons are not just for kids.

  • Anonymous

    Five foot two, eyes of blue and scares the shit out of the vile Femdems.
    Whats not to love about her!!

    Do you feel like a big tough Lib now Frances….way to show your true intellect of a 5 yr old.

  • dynariffic D

    Here you go!  ENJOY!  Abbondanza!

  • Anonymous

    And how would you feel if it was Michelle Obama instead of Bachmann or Santorum?

  • Anonymous

    What doesn’t compute, that there is a time and place for everything?
    I’m well aware of Cohen and his prose.  Yes, his lyrics are pretty raw.
    Have all his music 
    Also loved Jacque Brel – another with pretty raw lyrics.

    Like I said – time and place.

  • Anonymous

    I’d never vote for Bachmann, but that picture just gave me a woody!

  • Anonymous

    You forgot to change sockpuppets.

  • Anonymous

    Finally, a new desktop pic.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S2FKTF3MVLASN3KN6R6ZSMIXUM Christian

    You are more elitist than the writer of the article you are complaining about.  Most unhealthy is not a permissible way to say unhealthiest? They sound like the same damn thing to me. Also, in England, they say queue, not line. You are a fucking England-hating, Michele Bachmann-loving, elitist half author you fucking jerk you. Also, that photo is her is disgusting.

  • Anonymous

    It was published in a right-wing paper.  And why do you want to imagine Barney Frank doing his thing?

  • http://profiles.google.com/amcdonald70 Allen McDonald

    Au contraire, mon ami, she is just practicing being submissive to her husband. :- )

  • Greg

    And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he [is] unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
    Leviticus 11:7-8

  • Anonymous

    Why didn’t she buy the big one?

  • Anonymous

    I’m still trying to decide if you’re the redneck or the liberal snob.  Oh, the angst!

  • Fudge441

    This ditz actually looks pretty good with a foot-long in her yapper

  • Anonymous

    I never “slimed” any of Palin’s minor children … ever.   Now just go away you’re the world’s biggest Debbie downer.

  • Anonymous

    Yep.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Why don’t you get a job like Marcus and take it down like a real slut does!  By the way Bachmann won the caucas so she says bit me!

  • Anonymous

    She should have given it to Don Lemon to see how it is really done . . . 

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Bachmann wins Iowa caucus and she says liberals
    all need to bite me!

  • AmericanJoe

    Regarding Tom Harnden; Someone may have mentioned this, but in the UK, the proper parlance for waiting in a line is to queue, so to say that he queues would be proper english, the Queen’s english if you will.  You sound like an uptight bigot for making fun of his language.

  • Anonymous

    ..and what’s your excuse?

  • Anonymous

    Well, ya gotta hand it to her.  She is addressing and clarifying those, “submissive wives” comments from earlier in the week!

  • Anonymous

    zzzzzz…the tired and shopworn, “media bias” whining never ceases, does it?

  • Greg

    Prevert

  • Another Actual Brit

    Actual Brit. is pretty obviously a right-wing extremist.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t blame progs for going crazy over this pic. Its not like they have anything else going for them right now. They need something to distract them from the fact that their irrational and childish ideology is dying off. So I say let the kids have their fun.

  • labman57

    Look on the positive side.  If she’s eating, then she’s not talking.

  • Nature Freak

    seek123,

    Perhaps were we differ is that I consider this forum to be for adults. I am not being sarcastic when I say that. Mediaite can be “blue” on occasion. That is one reason I like this site. For me their is a line. I do have boundaries. I never wish violence on people. I have a great dislike of violence. Some people here wish violence on people. And no, I do not believe in degrading women or men for that matter. My humor is a celebration of bawdiness with limits. I love Comedy Central because it is frank.

    I also read the most vile and disgusting thinks being said about the Obama’s here at Mediaite day after day by posters. I avoid certain threads because of this. Sometimes one needs to fight fire with fire.

    BTW, I was not trashing your religious beliefs. Some of ours do clash a bit. Some of our beliefs are probably very similar. Christianity has its good points as well, but I will never be a Christian again.

    I rather error on the side of Free Speech than on the side of censorship.

  • Anonymous

    I agree! American excess has been a source of humor to the Brits, as I was poking fun at them. The Iowa State fair has fabulous people watching entertainment, and is most definitely a cultural experience for anyone born and raised on either coast. It was indeed, a very unfortunate photo.

  • http://twitter.com/thewatusi thewatusi

    . .eyes rolling to the back of her head!  She’s really taking it in!!

  • Anonymous

    OMG how the hell did I miss this?!

  • JR

    Michelle…where in world were your PR people.  WHAT the HELL were you thinking??!!  Better get smarter if you think you are going to swim with the sharks in a presidential campaign. You had better start thinking about each and every move no matter how small.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Looks like your sister last night in my car.

  • Anonymous

    ahh boo boo STFU…you hobbits cry too damn much….the problem is the mainstream repukes dont like michelle bachmann…stop blaming the left for the elephants eating their own….you wingnuts tried this same line of bullshit when tucker carlson posted the article about that batshit crazy nuttcase’s headaches…the republicans used you dipshits to gain power…now they are finished with you….michelle bachman, ron paul, herman cain, tim pawlenty, rick santorum, newt or sarah palin will NEVER EVER EVER be president….NEVA !!!!!!!!…not because of democrats like you wish but because the business wing of the republican party simply wont allow it…youre to stupid to run a pop stand let alone a country..and heaven forbid any of you holy warriors get your murderous hands on a nuke…..

  • Cara Cartwright

    Oh, for heaven’s sake. What a whiny reply to the Telegraph story. What happened? Did the “high class fop’s” observations cut too close to home?

  • Latin2

    Obama has more experience eating wieners;

    http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/07/05/obamadog_wideweb__470x351,0.jpg

    before and after….lol

  • Anonymous

    If you mean that wheel-less, rusty bucket of bolts sitting in your front yard, you need to stop calling your mother my sister.

  • Anonymous

    whoaaaaaaaaa……you go michelle….. with a picture like that you can be the #1 advocate for preventing unwanted pregnancies

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    well, we all know right is right.. and they don’t call it the right for nothing…

  • Anonymous

    Yeah.  Exactly.  What was she thinking, eating a hot dog?  I mean, she’s a WOMAN.  Come on.  Didn’t she know how ‘liberals’ would snicker at that?  Didn’t she suspect ‘liberals’ would take a bad picture of her as if she were about the copulate with phallic food and post it around the internet?  Didn’t she have clue ‘liberals’ were this low brow and sexist?  How can she play into their hands… Every.  Single.  Time.

    She should always be more careful.  Just think what would happen if she were photographed opening a door for her husband.  How would THAT look?????   You know, a MAN wouldn’t have made this mistake.  Why wasn’t Michelle born a man!?!?!?

    /sarcasm

  • i see both sides now.

    of course were going to here  the media has a bias ,but if it was obama or hillary  they would print the worst phota to,happens all the time ,if i could think of one i’ll let you know.

  • Hes-dead-jim

    If this is the best picture they could find, fire the editor. If that is the best photo the photographer took, hire me I am a better photographer with my itty bitty canon camera. This is horrible and seems to be done on purpose to make her look badly. 

  • Anonymous

    I will simply say that Frances Martel was right to publish this piece against the use of the photo. It was necessary to point out the Telegraph’s contemptible use of the photo and Tom Harnden’s disdainful take on our political process. Mediaite might have used a link rather than the actual photo.

  • Anonymous

    Excellent post…two thumbs up!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIKH2YFVNOIFEHIABNQA2MUNY Zona

    Jost picturing Barney Frank “doing his thing” is enough to gag a maggot…..so this photo has no effect.Just more hate from the left-wing attack rats.     

    Your hypocrisy is probably lost on you.  Wow.

  • Anonymous

    you have no idea about my religious beliefs.  
    It’s my moral beliefs you’re having trouble with.

    I’m sure many of “us” let freedom fly because we think we are anonymous.  We say things we wouldn’t say to anyone in person.  

    I think that people who are trashing Bachmann for being a closet gay are despicable.  I have no idea if he is or isn’t – the issue is that when you insist that yes he is gay because you absolutely positively know for a fact that he is that is below contempt.  I’ve have known a # of people who appear to have either feminine or masculine traits and they aren’t gay – they are straight.  They just don’t fit into the cookie cutter norm.  

    By people on one hand accusing others of being homophobic and on the other hand denigrating someone by calling them a homosexual, that is just nuts!  You either accept people the way they are, or you don’t – you can’t have it one way when it suits your agenda, and another way when it doesn’t.  That would be the height of hypocrisy.  

    To use that bailiwick against Bachmann for political gain is beyond contempt. It’s to diminish the stature of Michelle.  Everyone has the freedom to approve or disapprove of a political figure at the ballot box.
    I think smearing a candidate or their family indicates moral corruption.  

    Lord knows there are issues with any candidate that either qualify or disqualify them for the office they seek (in our minds).  An organized hatchet job indicates that you have nothing therefore you must manufacture a grievance.  

  • Anonymous

    Damn that’s a big corn dog.  I bet Marcus  was jealous.

  • Nature Freak

    Cara,
    Exactly.
    Tom Harnden is very observant and funny. I like his wit.
    He hit too close to home for some here.
    And I grew up in small town USA.

  • Anonymous

    I hope the next time she insists on white corn used on her corn dogs rather than yellow corn.

  • Anonymous

    Oh yeah like the right wing blogasphere went apes$%T when it was reported that the FLOTUS ate a burger and fries.

    They spent all day calculating the calories and grams of fat in the meal. LOL

  • Anonymous

    It’s the social conservaitves’ repressed sexuality. The see sex everywhere even when Michele Bachmann is eating a corn dog.

    They are some sick sad people.

  • Anonymous

    bite me.  You raving hypocrite.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah the one in South FL is held from the middle through the end of January.

  • Anonymous

    I bet social conservatives bathe fully clothed.

  • Rod Sullivan

    msnbc advertises on this site,  therefore we have to assume that the approve of the posting of the photo of Michelle Bachmann eating a corn dog.

  • Nature Freak

    I am not sure Marcus Bachmann is gay. I do think there is a 50 50 chance. If he is doing reparitive therapy, the odds of him being gay are much higher than the national average. We all have opinions.

    Who cares if he his or is not Gay. People here on this site call me Gay almost daily, and I am not. I laugh it off, because there is nothing wrong with being Gay.

    Hypocrisy is the issue.
    Hatred of gay people is the issue.
    Personally, if adults want to pray away the gay, go ahead. The fact remains this world view will influence a Bachmann presidency. I have Gay family and friends I care deeply about. I do not want them to be second class citizens in the USA!

    I just presumed you were a conservative Christian. Sorry. It is very cool if you do not want to disclose, but what are you?

  • Gerry Nance

    Ok, so she can handle a long one, but she will improve her chances if she don’t spit.

  • Nature Freak

     I’ve have known a # of people who appear to have either feminine or
    masculine traits and they aren’t gay – they are straight.  They just
    don’t fit into the cookie cutter norm.

    Well written. I respect what you wrote here. A lot. I am no John Wayne myself!
    Perhaps the problem is that we support two different candidates for POTUS and we feel strongly about it.
    I am raunchy on occasion. I grew up in a dysfunctional family were sex was dirty. I prefer openness. Humans are sexual creatures.
    Enough. I do not wish to argue.

  • Anonymous

    It was a conservative newspaper.

  • Nature Freak

    deleted

  • Anonymous

    for the reading impaired.

    /SARCASM

  • Nature Freak

    “I’m sure many of “us” let freedom fly because we think we are anonymous.
     We say things we wouldn’t say to anyone in person.”

    What you see is what
    you get with me. I am less conformational but not always.
    I am a laid back person off the computer. Very
    polite I like to shoot the breeze on my porch with people. Wine bottle
    or Six pack optional. I am still ribald. I still have the same opinions
    that you see here.
    I use a nom de plume because radical right wing
    Conservatives can be violent. I have more in common with the small town
    rednecks in my neighborhood than some of the loudmouths on this site..
    At least they keep it real.   

  • Nature Freak

    Would not surprise me.
    Nudity may give one imprudent thoughts.
    Self abuse could even happen!

  • Nature Freak

    I live near Ocala, and the county fairs here are usually held in the spring or the fall.
    January is too cold for a far in this part of Florida. Nights get really cold even here.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7322MMCIFFRX6MZEKASBHFGTEQ yawho1610

    Deepthroat Bachmann! Slurp it all down!

  • Donovanrivers

    HELLLL-LLLOOWWW!, madame President. You are beautiful baby.

  • Donovanrivers

    Long Dong Silver much?

  • Anonymous

    seek123 2 hours ago in reply to progressive_kitty
    bite me.  You raving hypocrite.Just as I thought.  You couldn’t produce anything because it didn’t happen.  Have a nice life, this one is already taken.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I don’t know this article made me horny.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    That picture is so sensual. God bless Michele Bachmann. I am in love with this picture. mmmmmm.

  • Nature Freak

    This photo is iconic.
    See you at the state fair!
    Indiana still sucks.

  • Nature Freak
  • Nature Freak

    Long Dong Silver retired after the Clarence Thomas conformation.

  • Tony

    Yeah, the telegraph is sexist.

    Ignore the decades of loyal support to Maggie Thatcher, the fact that she remains to this day their ideal candidate for prime minister. The fact she proved you could be a conservative woman, understand the aspiring working class, and still outhink and outdebate anyone in the room.

  • Anonymous

    She did EVERYTHING to win in Iowa :)

  • KT

    You wrote:  ”Tom Harnden doesn’t stand on lines. Alas, he “queues.”

    *People don’t stand “on line.”  They stand IN line.

    “some of the most unhealthy food on the planet” (the correct word is “unhealthiest,” by the way)”

    Actually, the correct word is “unhealthful,” you snarky dolt.

  • Nature Freak

    What a photograph!

    Technology rules!

  • KT

    Furthermore, it’s ironic that you were ignoring that “queueing” is a regional variation, just like standing “on line” is particular to a certain region. So.  You fail at your argument

  • Anonymous

    Nah, there is another one in which she sucks corn too, but from a different angle :)

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8700179/Republican-candidates-gather-for-Iowa-straw-poll.html

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I hope one day I can have future sex with Michele Bachmann, she looks like she can take it like a champ.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, yeah baby – eat that corn dog. Mmm, eat it slowly. And when you’re through, eat this banana for dessert. Then wash it all down with a glass of creamy, ice cold milk.

  • Hugo Daun

    Don’t you EVER get tired of crying all the time?

  • Hugo Daun

    Sounds more like you’re sorry for yourself, dumplin’…sitting there surrounded by moist and wadded tissues.

  • Anonymous

    I just watched Bachmann handily bend  that left wing bomb throwing tool, David Gregory, over and then shove that corn dog where the sun don’t shine. 

    He, who was one of the most vocal Obamaphytes when the president’s lying about being a christian was questioned had no problem whatsoever interrogating Bachmann on her belief in God. 

    Again, she just pushed a little harder on the corn dog, he just winced and shut up.

  • Anonymous

    I’m all for destroying this chronic liar but this is really an example of how low media can sink

  • resist we much !

    Liberals are such pond scum.

  • resist we much !

    Pictures like this ………. and liberals can’t understand why more than 20% of America doesn’t think like them or agree with them?

  • Anonymous

    Yes. That’s the best picture. Look at all the attention she’s getting over it.

  • DanMingo

    Much ado about NOTHING.
    I would not care who the subject of this photo was. It is nothing.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not going to paint them all with a broad brush, but most of them who responded to this picture surely are.  

    I’m surprised at the women who sell their morality to support such blatant pornographic imagery under the guise of “politics”.  Perhaps it’s not a guise at all – perhaps they really are that morally bankrupt.

  • Michael Holland

    This was enlarged out of proportion. Everyone involved knew exactly what they were doing. Bachmann would have smoked a cigarette afterward if that was still popular. 

  • pseudonymous in nc

    Actual Brit. may reduce the value of your house / cause cancer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

  • Anonymous

    I once read a sci-fi story about a culture that consumed or ingested food (eat) in privacy.  Eating was considered an unpleasant activity, uncouth and uncivilized, hence, there were no restaurants.  Food was bland, eating was done, mostly, in private cubicles.  

    Of course, there were the rebels who promoted bringing eating “out of the closet,” so to speak, but they were ostracized, even threatened with civil and criminal sanction.

    Conversely, people would get together for the sole purpose of defecating and urinating together.  They would deliberately eat and drink quantities of food in private so as to excrete feces and fart all to the joy and amusement of the attendees.  As I recall, home life was similar, just in a smaller scale.  

    Note: Certain foods that was not as fully digestible as others, was desirable for the excretion soirees…

  • GOP Stomper

    Can you blame her?  It’s not like her husband Marcus is going to give her any!!! 

  • BLUEBUNNY

    SHE WAS HORRIBLE AT ANSWERING DIRECT QUESTIONS!  SHE HAS A HARD TIME GOING OFF HER PREPARED ANSWERS!

  • just4thefux

    Fact:  Nobody talks about my boyfriend Marcus and gets away with it!

  • Moosenuts99

    HILARIOUS ON MTP

    CANT ANSWER ANYTHING

    BUT BUT WAIT ONE TERM PRESIDENT

    BAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    ON TO PARRY!!!

  • Moosenuts99

    Gregory= left Wing bomb thrower? BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    THE SAME DUDE WHO DANCED WITH MC ROVE?!?!

    BAAAAHAHABAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Anonymous

    I’m not the one who got “excited” by the picture there dude.  Go clean yourself up.

  • Anonymous

    hey your fingers moved – see you didn’t wear them out.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Thomas/1705108010 Jeffrey Thomas

    Michelle Bachmann “comes in hard” at Iowa State Fair. 
    Michele Bachmann won the poll/pole in Ames, Iowa. She’ll be riding on that for some time to come.
    This is probably the best performance we’ll get from Bachmann in the polls. After this, her performance will “head south”. In other words, she will “come short”.

  • HawkCW4

    So what Im seeing here is dozens of people who will not ever admit now to ever eating a corndog at a fair. 

  • HawkCW4

    What you fail to understand is the fact she is SMART enough to be herself and thats human.  You want fake, look to the left.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    My front yard is the Pacific Ocean….
    Love,
    San Diego

  • HawkCW4

    Amen,  if thats all you have against your opponent, you are in mucho trouble.  But It Is The Liberal Way

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Thomas/1705108010 Jeffrey Thomas

    Michelle Bachmann “comes in hard” at Iowa State Fair. 

    Michele Bachmann won the poll/pole in Ames, Iowa. She’ll be riding on that for some time to come.

    This is probably the best performance we’ll get from Bachmann in the polls. After Ames, her performance will “head south”. In other words, she will “come short”.

  • Anonymous

    While Mediaite’s column feigns indignance toward The Telegraph, they were more than happy to run with the photo, which remains on their home page’s “best of”. The Mediaite editors are simply hypocritical assholes.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t care anymore if femnazis think it’s sexist. They’re becoming tiresome.

  • Guavagoddess

    You go Ilene K–I am with you and beyond.. why don’t the dudes say what they really want to say..LOL

    do it baby..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_J6K37DAH5SHYQQ5Y77FKNJYFBM Rodolfo V.

    This picture is almost sexist but that may be the way to shut her up! The TEA’s main theme is anti Obama, anti gays, anti Hispanic, anti Islamic, anti government, anti other-than-christian, anti black and on and on and on! Bachmann the poison on the tip of the spear and every effort must be taken to shut her down! Every TEA/GOP-er running for the presidency shows how far right they are in comparison to the middle America they espouse to represent! TEA party Yahoos are closely associating themselves with GOD in an effort to bring the evangelicals to vote for their narrow-minded religious based beliefs they want to shove onto the American public! Do not get swayed America, The constitution does say “separation of church and state” and the Yahoos are not doing this. TEA party skewed thought processes are the culmination of the bigoted extremist of the TEA party which has subverted the GOP!  The sad result is the defunct GOP resulting from the TEA party subverting any sanity and taking the once proud GOP to the fringe of lunacy!

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Chief Warrant Officer. Just for fun, scroll to the first page of the Bachman thread, near the top. I made an unusual post about various cultural mores and customs? LOL You’ll like it…

  • LADYLADY

    This pix would have some meaning if they substituted Michelle B with Debbie WassermanShultz…since jew woman are reknown for not “eating corn dogs”,Hey debbie you might like

  • Anonymous

    Fact: You spelled “Caucus” wrong

    Fact: Bachmann won the Straw Poll…not the Caucus. There is a difference. You know kinda like there is a difference between a “Blank” check and one written for “2.4 Trillion”

    Fact: The Iowa Straw Poll is about as important as winning the NBA Regular Season. Just ask president Steve Forbes, President Mike Huckabee, etc…..
     

  • Anonymous

    What a dildo. More straw men then you can shake a stick at. Seriously, do you believe that stuff, which makes you _really_ ignorant, or are you just tying it for political purposes, which makes you a dishonest asshole?

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

    anybody with half a brain knows that you do NOTHING in front of photographers or reporters that you don’t want s[read across the front pages. Further proof of her innate idiocy.

  • Frank

    With all due respect, the selection of this picture reveals more about the misogyny of Mediaite than it does about Michele Bachman. Is this the best you can do? 

  • Guest

    Dear Frances,

    The news sites I normally read would never have posted that
    photo of Bachmann. So thank you.
     

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure all who published this photo knew perfectly well what they were doing, as opposed to Rep. Bachmann, who does not share that attribute.

  • Hagen619dj

    My goodness,  do you even know what you said?? Lots of swearing and big talk but said nothing!

  • Anonymous

    What an idiot. How does it feel to be a tool? Yes folks, here’s a well trained jerk off doing his duty, calling a college grad and success story dumb, in the comfort of his mom’s basement.

  • Anonymous

    You ask much, Bonnie.

    Bachmann’s true beliefs, beyond money and control, are difficult to determine, and her actions of substance–well, list them for us, if you would. Of course the pictures are juvenile, but no more so than Bachmann’s public persona and her  shameful, ignorance-laced “speeches.” If Bachmann were worthy of being taken seriously, such pictures would be candidates for condemnation. As it is, they are no less contemptuous than the woman herself.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, Sahib. I’m a college grad success story with college grad success story kids who are older than you are.

  • http://twitter.com/msagnostica Agnostica

    I agree, I certainly hate Michelle Bachman and think shes a nutcase, but that is no reason to endorse sexism towards her.  This is obviously sexism and it disgust me that they would sink this low.  It’s an insult to women everywhere. 

  • Billlines

    Really! I could probably understand her if she had a mouthful of weiner at the microphone. Where are the South Park guys, I have an idea.

  • Anonymous

    Your kids are all in their sixties, huh? That would explain your senility.

  • Anonymous

    Your kids are all in their sixties, huh? That would explain your senility.

  • Republicans are Liars

    This reminds me of the great scene in the Howard Stern movie a few years ago where the gal is in the studio and swallows a 12 inch kielbasa. I am sure she can do it as well. The girl who would be president. Please, please, please don’t let this woman down. It looks like she won’t let you down. Make her the Republican nominee!!!

  • http://Mediaite.com Frances Martel

    I think “snarky dolt” is my favorite commenter insult so far.

  • Anonymous

    She should actually know better.  No woman ever eats anything on a stick in public for exactly this reason, especially things like corn dogs or frozen bananas.  And definitely not if there are cameras in the vicinity.

    That being said, publishing this by the MSM just reinforces that they’re tools.

  • Anonymous

    It is not like the Telegraph isn’t the penultimate British tabloid

  • Anonymous

     You don’t seem to be in a hugging mood now, are you?

  • Anonymous

    Raj,

    Unfortunately, you are playing “black” on the chess board, metaphorically speaking.  Put them on defensive as they are truly in the weak position. 

     Sun Tzu counsels “a good General chooses the field of battle.”  So far you are playing their game.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    1. “Eliminate Excessive Taxes”

    2.)”Eliminate the National Debt”

    3.) “Eliminate Deficit Spending”

    Those are the first three items of the Tea Party Platform.  Most American’s would agree with such.

    Yet you claim the Tea Party is a Racist Plot.  Frankly, responding to you I find unsavory, however, perhaps others will receive this information as you are a lost cause most of us are better off without.

    Be careful with your response as others may read it…

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6XLKJQVNHYEQ3YXB5FISJLEAGA TEXAZ REB

    HUMMMMMM…..FOOT LONG….CORN DOG……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6XLKJQVNHYEQ3YXB5FISJLEAGA TEXAZ REB

    HUMMMMMM…..FOOT LONG….CORN DOG……

  • http://twitter.com/awaronignorance beeryblog

    Did Marcus every get that lucky?

  • Anonymous

    Nope, they’re in their twenties. I was just going by your emotional age, since I can’t see you (see? the anonymity of the internet does have some saving graces).

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of Parry …

    Rick Perry and the Myth of the ‘Texas Miracle’http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2011/08/12/Rick-Perry-and-the-Myth-of-the-Texas-Miracle.aspx#page2

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Loy/674665599 Jim Loy

    The Constitution does NOT say separation of church and state… idiot….

  • Nature Freak

    The Romans during the Roman empire had communal bathrooms. They would crap and pee together. Men and women in the same room openly defecating without shame (the Roman baths were segregated by sex). These same bathrooms were social scenes as well.

    At least the communal sponges they used were rinsed out after use.
    Times change.

  • Nature Freak

    It Would not surprise me.
    Nudity may give one imprudent thoughts.
    Self abuse could even happen!

  • Anonymous

    How much CHURCH would you like with your STATE?

    Does your neighbor, friend or boss want the same amount of CHURCH with his STATE?

  • Nature Freak

    I live SW of Ocala and the county fairs here are usually held in the spring or the fall.
    January is too cold for a fair in this part of Florida. Nights get really cold
    even here. Below freezing temp.are not that unusual.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Loy/674665599 Jim Loy

    Zero… I’m an athiest… but the point is, the Constitution does NOT state separation of Church and state.

  • Anonymous

    Something told me that you would know know that.  Its funny, I was expecting you to comment.  LOL

    I guess I am trying to make a bizarre point about regional customs.  In Bachmans, Mid-west world, biting into a Bratwurst or corn dog wouldn’t merit a comment, nor should it.

    How did you like the phrase “excretion soiree?” LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YUXEVFGB4TOFL2FAUILFBM5KJU John Doe

    Why do conservatives have the sense of humor of a twelve year old boy? The jokes are just so damn terrible! Mind numbingly bad. When you get the urge to be funny just squeeze your b@ll$ till the urge goes away.

  • Anonymous

    Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia treatise on religious freedom whereby he mentioned almost verbatim a separation of church and State.

    Rhode Island also included such in its State treatise.

    Furthermore there was extensive debate in 1787 as to how expansive the first Amendment should be.

    Then, in 1882, during Jefferson’s Presidency he coined the term “Wall between church and State.”

    So, without venturing down the hermeneutical path of Constitutional interpretation, I believe I could make a case that, YES, it’s in there!  In fact, I conclude the entire treatise screams for a wall between Religious caprice and reason?

  • Anonymous

    That’s hilarious! If you consider it “lucky” to get a blow job, you need to trade in your old lady for a better model, homes.

  • Anonymous

    All the more reason for the car (probably a used Prius?) you banged your mother in to be so rusty.

    Up yours snob, 
    Rochester, NY

  • http://twitter.com/cek100248 charles kirtley

    You’ll never catch Rachael Madow in a picture like that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Loy/674665599 Jim Loy

    One can interpret and “read” it in there… it does not exist in fact. That’s why we can have “In God We Trust” on our money. Many people WANT it in there… but it is not there. Same as the right to an abortion is not in the Constitution… it has been “read” into it. “…entire treatise screams for a wall between Religious caprice and reason”… yep, and it screams for it because it is, in fact… not in there. It is a good idea, a brilliant thought, but, not in the Constitution.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2FA4JBSPYJLFTBVYQPE3CNVF5I Tseno Konseqwenz

    Photogenic? She’s the only woman running and she’s eating a corn dog. Of course, she’s going to get more pictures.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2FA4JBSPYJLFTBVYQPE3CNVF5I Tseno Konseqwenz

    Photogenic? She’s the only woman running and she’s eating a corn dog. Of course, she’s going to get more pictures.

  • Fudge441

    She appears to know what she is doing.

  • Fudge441

    She appears to know what she is doing.

  • BJFan

    Sexy!  I want her to go down on me.

  • donow

    Its a funny photo but a serious editor would save that one for the break room and publish something more reasonable.  Ahh, but that would not sell as many papers to the public.  So we just need to accept that we live in a world were we can all pretty much make each other look absurd. 

    This is not a big deal except it disqualifies the publication as anything other than an entertainment rag.  Thats fine we need those too I guess.

  • donow

    Wow I bet you are a lot of fun at parties.  The photo speaks noting of Michelle and it speaks volumes about the publication.  Its a simple disqualification of this publication. 

    It is a funny picture to any adult with a sense of humor because you see all it shows is someone eating what looks to be a hot corn dog – that is all.  There is nothing in the world wrong with that (unless you care about health or meat or whatever). 

  • Anonymous

    She’d be diving into a pie, then she might go to the fair after that and eat a corndog.

  • Anonymous

    Most Democrats would just as soon sit on the corndog. Yes, I’m implying the almost all Fags are democrats. Was that politically incorrect? What do these turdstabbers like to be called now a days? 

  • Anonymous

    Another historical issue that bothers me, is when I hear that some of the Founders were NOT Religious men, that “they were deists and agnostics.” I disagree, they were men of their time, and, men of their time were Religious. (to varying degrees.) However, almost to a man, the convention of 1787 recognized a need for a separation of church and state. Those men were still living in the time of powerful Monarchies and theocracies. The age of enlightenment was upon them and the Founder’s recognized a unique opportunity, hence The American Experiment. Nice chatting with you JIM LOY

  • Anonymous

    You know apparently little about the UK press. “Michael Moore conservatives” maybe

  • Scotte

    What? You’re right about queues, what Americans call waiting in line, we call queueing. But other than at taxi ranks, where taxis wait for customers, it’s quite possible to hail a taxi in the street. It depends on where you live though – not all towns licence their taxis to pick up in the street.

  • Scotte

    The Daily Mail isn’t a legitimate paper, it’s a drivel-filled rag. The Telegraph is right-wing and filled with pictures of Elizabeth Hurley, the Metro is yesterday’s stories from the Express reprinted and the Sun is Fox News with tits.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I am still hard for Michele, she looks like a cock champion.

  • Anonymous

    No.

  • Anonymous

    Crammer correction. That should be: make her look bad.
    Unless you think her eyes are crossed…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6RWJPK6275ZTJG2LUFSYHP34BE matt

    He doesn’t stand on line, he ‘queus’. Do you mean exactly as EVERYONE IN ENGLAND DOES by any chance? The English don’t say ‘stand on line’ (And if we did, we’d use ‘stand IN line’). I think the snobbery might run both ways in this article. Incidentally, of course the British press have an interest in possible future VPs, as does the rest of the planet.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    I think Michelle would have gotten more in her mouth..we are talking about a corndog right?

  • Anonymous

    This is pretty hilarious. its really unfair to bachmann, cause its obviously sexist and degrading to photograph any woman like that, but i gotta admit its really funny. also what the hell is wrong with middle-america’s diet? i mean i’m fat so i cant really judge, but fried twinkies? they even had deep-fried butter sticks at that fair

  • TruDat

    Maddow’s in a pie eating contest, now that would be gold!

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    (cleverly inserts innuendo in a way that hasn’t been done yet)

  • Dr. Bumpy

    how is it “unfair” to bachmann??

    ….she took that corn-dog to the throat in front of a thousand cameras.

  • @JIIL

    Michele Bachmann Gives Good Head!

    If this photo ran with that headline in a US tabloid or on TMZ would we still be talking about it or would we write it off as the trash it is…

    Small minds discuss people.
    Average minds discuss things.
    Great minds have ideas.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1227072213 Mickey Morgan

    I’ll be in my bunk…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SJOVGY7WQKO5JRUOAVPJMAFV44 Charles Martel

    I suspect that the vaunted progressive “sense of humor” would be sorely tested if this were a photo of Sasha or Malia Obama deep-throating a corn dog.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WDNYYLCCA5WGGNCYDMBRYTSXXI Kathygriffins Stankeypoon

    Yea I think Madcow is more into donuts.  

  • Anonymous

    Oh no! Well, please accept my apologies then. I’m just not in the habit of picking on bums. I sincerely hope the sand keeps you warm at night (don’t let the sea crabs bite), and that you’re planning on seeking real shelter and some sort of counseling. Good luck, buddy.

  • Nature Freak

    “Small minds discuss people.
    Average minds discuss things.
    Great minds have ideas.”

    The greatest minds can multitask and do all three.
    What’s your point?
    Humor is undervalued.

  • Mitchellvii

    Note to self – If I ever run for higher office, never eat a corndog in public.  Bad optics.

  • Klawnet

    Here’s hoping he gets thoroughly beaten in a riot.

  • Klawnet

    “Conservative” in England is what we call “socialist” here, dear.

  • Samjewett

    Hummm. Last i heard they were CHILDREN.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/CIWELQC2XYYHKBG3IVT3F25DBQ Tomas M

    Yeah, poor picture to publish… but it’s still kinda hot.

  • @JIIL

    point being the topic at hand should be her beliefs and the implications of the policies that she prefers. I’m no stranger to humor, look at my headline. It’s funny because it can’t be true, she’s not catholic…

  • Anonymous

    the media just wants to see if media credibility polling survey results can reach single digits. Living the dream…

  • Anonymous

    the media just wants to see if media credibility polling survey results can reach single digits. Living the dream…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SJOVGY7WQKO5JRUOAVPJMAFV44 Charles Martel

    Boo hoo — tell that to Bristol and Trig Palin.

  • Thuttysix

    Michele “Deepthroat” Bachman has a nice ring to it…

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    They aren’t paying my taxes and they’re not voting, so I could care less what some foreigners think of our politics.

    Don’t you guys have some plasma TVs to loot?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GH5XY3HLQKQZKPJJQEW2TTVG7Q Martin

    Great job taking Harnden to task.  As for why overseas lefties hate American conservatives, maybe they fear at some point the gravy train running from Yankee taxpayers’ wallets to Europe might eventually be halted.

  • Jhricik1

    crude, rude and lewd!  Perfect description of our sorry culture.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KP3J63YB3WELCTJHL32TZIXAHA RICHARD

    Is that Newt she gobbling on ????

  • Wewe45

    finely a reason to vote for Michele Bachmann

  • 27Reasons

    This was put out by the UK.

  • 27Reasons

    “The image sends a clear message to any woman thinking about pursuing such high public office: we at the Telegraph are unable to look at you as anything but a sex object, no matter what your qualifications for office.”

    She has no qualifications for office. Bachmann is a hateful uneducated stooge. She has no business running and yet she very well could get the GOP nod. If this happens, it’s a guaranteed Obama victory.
    RON PAUL 2012 (The only voice of intelligence, reason, and nonrhetorical solutions.)

  • Anonymous

    (Tries to out-do you, but fails)

  • Mrs. Corndog

    The corndog would make a better president than Bachmann. That’s why she ate it. She couldn’t handle the competition from a smarter, well spoken candidate with better ideas.

  • Anonymous

    The snap was good, but the snap-back was the topper!  Game, set, match.

  • Anonymous

    I tried that but it didn’t help.

  • Anonymous

    Better (and less creepy): Michelle, banana.

  • Anonymous

    Now, we don’t know that.  Rumor has it he’s quite the one for the furry fish taco, if you know what I mean.

  • Anonymous

    That’s “Bwarney Fwank.”

  • Anonymous

    Well they can bloody well sod off then, the fooking wankers.  Bloody koonts, the lot!

  • Anonymous

    That corndog wasn’t too short.  Hey-oh!

  • Bob

    In all fairness to Michelle, her picture was nowhere near as funny as the same shot of her hubby, Marcus the Homophobe.

  • Dskfk

    Republicans are just uglier.

  • FunnyPicture

    Funny picture. I think the writer of this article should take a pill and seriously relax. This ‘oh, just because it’s a female thing, is so OverUsed, Lame and old’. Ok, let’s say it was a Male candidate taken with that picture. It would be absolutely hilarious to Both Male and Female readers. Doesn’t bother me if were a Male taken with that picture. It would be great entertainment. So what’s your problem???.
    Relax feminists and have a sense of humor(although that is a word you probably have to look up in the dictionary to understand).

  • Charlotte

    All the Libs demonstrating their intellectual superiority and highly evolved sense of oneness radiating their peace and joy  It’s heartwarming.  Good thing they realize what is inside creates what is on the outside or I would be really worried!  I would be worried all these Romper Room characters were recalling the hilarious poo-poo and pee-pee jokes that always got a chucke out of Mommy. All together now ☞ Alle Menschen werden Brüder!  Fantastic!

    Frances you bleeping bleep.  I know this is Mediaite but reprinting the picture serves no purpose at all.  Especially when you didn’t publish that picture of Weiner pawing at his junk in the House gym.

  • Truth Shall Set You Free

    Darklady,
    From reading your responses, I can only imagine that your presentations at the MENSA gatherings was something amounting to Dinner for Schmucks.  I am sure you won the trophy!!! Congratulations.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DPKGLVWFWSZSKE3VD62XQ5E3G4 Rush.Lumpbut

    I can’t decide. Between her and Palin which is the better one to bend over ?

  • Anonymous

    my balls ached when I saw this.

  • Anonymous

    no we just don’t swallow it all at once!

  • Roo Ulrich

    I think that picture picks up a hole new round of male votes for Michelle Bachmann.  Did I spell “hole” correctly?  :->  Enjoy your day.

  • Robertotassicelebration

    It is a perfect example of modern “correct” way of behaving.
    As a journalist you have a privileged access to a large audience. Your duty is not to provide information but “to amuse” the readers. The level of elegance and distinction of the amusement is strictly connected to the quality of your audience: not necessarily the one that receives the “news”, but the one that develops from the reaction to the news.
    This photo has not increased the sale of the Telegraph (it is conceivable that some conservative readers may have decided to stop buying it) but has only enhanced the fame of the Director and of the shakespearean journalist among the “crowd”. 
    Everything is made only for your own interest. There may be some sort of sense of revenge, though. How many corns did our good journalist had to swallow before reaching the important position he got at the Iowa State Fair?

  • dick head

    I must say the reporters must have something else to report on other than Michelle Bachman eating habait
    Please tell me they aren’t getting to pay for this. I mean you spend 100,000 or more on a proper education
    then you go get a high paying job with you boss expecting you to tell a story but instead you show photos of a lady eating I would fire you for sure your nothing but trashy reporters

  • Anonymous

    Lighten up! It’s summer. Have fun!

    http://www.yourfunnystuff.com/tag/michele-marcus-bachmann-eating-a-corn-dog/

    Marcus is fierce :D

  • Nature Freak

    More silliness from Michele Bachmann:

    http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/127884223.html
    But apparently, she doesn’t know enough not to confuse the
    anniversary of his birth — January 8 — with the anniversary of his
    death — August 16.

    According to CNN,
    on Tuesday as she started a rally in Spartanburg, South Carolina, she
    said: ”Before we get started, let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis
    Presley today…We played you a little bit of Promise Land when we
    pulled up. You can’t do better than Elvis Presley and we thought we
    would celebrate his birthday as we get started celebrating taking our
    country back to work.”

    How do you confuse the two?

  • Nature Freak

    If it had been Marcus Bachmann downing a corndog, it would have been ten times as funny.
    Rick Perry and a corndog would have been funny as well.

  • http://twitter.com/DANEgerus DANEgerus

    Your right, Nancy Pelosi & Debbie Wasserman-Schultz would look so much more attractive deep throating a corn dog.

  • OBAMA CHANGE is comming

    Yes I would rather see a foul picture of that One  Big  Ass Mistake America, OBAMA who promised change that never came to pass.  but he is protected by the media so they wont do it.  Oh well.

  • Butcher99

    the best?   How the hell could you possibly beat that…
      

  • sasha

         You should see “DUMBO” obama eat a corny dog .

  • malia

         What do you mean if ?

  • malia

      Republicans have all or their teeth , take showers and generally change their clothes more than once a month .

  • malia

          Mike , I banged your mom (dentures and all) , and both of your dads .

  • malia

          Mike , I banged your mom (dentures and all) , and both of your dads .

  • http://twitter.com/ElijahsFury Elijahs Fury

    Whoa! Its already halfway down her throat!

  • malia

       True , He’s too busy with big ears obama . No , barry is too busy with Marcus .

  • malia

        You misspelled Michelle’s’ last name . It’s spelled  O  B  A  M  A  …..

  • malia

        You misspelled Michelle’s’ last name . It’s spelled  O  B  A  M  A  …..

  • Vickie

    If Michele was drinking a milkshake with a straw, someone would say something degrading about that, I bet!   All of you have nasty minds….leave the girl alone!

  • malia

         He has every right to point out that barney frank loves corn dog eating contests . He finished “behind” your Mom .

  • Anonymous

    this is obscene. 

  • Anonymous

    Either I need to reassess what I’ve generally thought of Tom Harnden’s keen insights into American politics, or accept the fact that he Is British after all.

    We have different ideas on what a ‘holiday’ means as well. In Britain it means getting the heck out of Britain, to any one of numerous ‘paradises’ located in far-flung, cheap-livin , places run by despots.
    In the states, most of us just hop in a car or plane and go to Colorado, California, Florida, or one of the many vacation spots within our home states. We actually Like it here.

    in addition, Bachmann is not running for Queen, but the president of the United States.

  • malia

       You would rather think that , or you personally know that ?

  • malia

       By “we” , are you including your sister ?

  • malia

        Only a fruit and nut would think it’s dumb to eat a corn dog at a fair .

  • TMay

    Well I’ve been reading Theodor Dalrymple aka Anthony Daniels and he talks about how Britain is going under because of the absence of impulse control, the breakdown of family, the lack of discipline, the narcissistic no restraints no standards do it in the street mentality that is evident in the London Riots.
    Here is a write-up

    http://www.edgewaysbooks.com/columns/069dal.pdf

    He has written books and articles and is still writing.

    He predicted the behavior in the London
    Riots, summer 2011.

    He has written about the London
    Riots specifically.

    British Degeneracy on Parade

    The Barbarians Inside Britain’s Gates

    Our Culture, What’s Left of It

    The Frivolity of Evil

    All Sex, All the Time

    Life at the Bottom

    The New Vichy
    Syndrome

    Not with a Bang but with a Wimper: The Politics of Decline

    Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
    Political Correctness- The Revenge of Marxism

    The British Left Goes Anti-Semitic

    Youtube

    The Skeptical DoctorTheodore Dalrymple.org

      etc
    Once a civilization and its civilizing forces
    are removed it is very difficult to get it back.

  • Rhombosis

    I’d be described by most as a “liberal,” and I’d describe myself as a socialist.  But this post is very funny and the point is well taken.  

  • Anonymous

    I want to know if it’s true that Michelle Bachmann’s grandmother lost her life when she went down on the Titanic. Maybe there’s a genetic link.

  • Dnrlt1

    or barney franks!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DPKGLVWFWSZSKE3VD62XQ5E3G4 Rush.Lumpbut

    SHE REALLY HAS A HOLD ON OBAMA !!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DPKGLVWFWSZSKE3VD62XQ5E3G4 Rush.Lumpbut

    SHE REALLY HAS A HOLD ON OBAMA !!!!!

  • im

    ugh

  • ji23

    OMG!
    The guy next to her , his face is precious , fantasizing as far as his mind will take him.
    Her eyes, in the picture were like all zonked out , in a trance.
    Just critiqueing the picture,  no  pollitics involved.

  • http://www.facebook.com/garydenton Gary Denton

    No one posted the Rick Perry eating a corn dog picture from the same event?  From Perry’s favorite bathroom publication:

    http://www.dallasvoice.com/pic-day-gov-rick-perry-deep-throats-corndog-iowa-state-fair-1086254.html

  • Kingmikemix1979

    she has to get some play somewhere. you know her NOT gay husband is too busy “working” with his gay men at all hours to “fix” them. so shes left to fend for herself….being a christian and all. lol

  • Ann Observer

    “but the Telegraph is not Mad Magazine”
    Actually it is, in a way.

  • sasha

       Big ass michelle can do the whole press corp. in the rose garden . You should have seen it .

  • Malia

      You should see the one of Ms. obama and the tire iron .

  • Dear Sir or Madam

    hey Francis Martel, you are far worse than the Telegraph author: ‘to queue’ is standard contemporary British English, yet your suggestion “stand on line” is not universally American, rather U.S. regional — the rest of the U.S. says “stand in line”. furthermore, your pedantic attempt to correct “most unhealthy” with “unhealthiest” is also misguided, as both forms are grammatically correct. learn a few things before trying to become a media critic.

  • Malia

        Mrs. obama can take three dogs .

  • Malia

        Mrs. obama can take three dogs .

  • hilariousstuff

    Well. If you are running for President, don’t get interviewed on video in front of a guy slaughtering turkeys or get your photo taken eating a corn dog, especially if your husband has a pray-away-the-gay syndrome. It both tempts people with cameras and confuses the public.  Now if we could just tweak the photo a little bit so she looks like The Joker we’d say things are evening out.  Meanwhile, confusing Elvis’s birth date with his death date brings the whole “born again” issue up for us. Is resurrection the same as being born? Is it a social faux pas to wish someone happy birthday on their birthday rather than on the day they die? I think she may have either gained or lost the Elvis/Alien vote, but who knows which? Clearly she believes Elvis was a privileged Christian who has not had to wait in line for the Rapture like the rest of them.

  • Anonymous

    not to mention turning “public” into a verb as in “That’s not to say the decision to public such a photo is always innately sexist..”  

    “To public”?  

  • subtleknife666

    Well said. As I mentioned to a Facebook acquaintance a few moments ago:

    Just read that piece of… er, that article about the Telegraph article about Bachmann. My, that author doesn’t like us, does he/she? Also, why does he/she seem to want the Telegraph journalist to write in American English? “To queue” is correct in UK English. “Most unhealthy”, ditto. The Telegraph is mostly read by Brits. Well, duh.
    I despise the Telegraph, which is so right-wing it makes the Tories look moderate, but when reading that concentrated vitriol I felt like springing to its defence. Yes, its defence. Not its defense. :-)

  • Anonymous

    The reason that Re-thuglican candidates are such an irresistible target of mean-spirited reporting is that their campaigns are so sanctimonious.

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely…white just don’t excite.

  • Anonymous

    The funniest, most accurate and most representative photograph of a white conservative woman I have ever seen!
    @twitter-301717090:disqus 

  • Erich4757

    Why is your car in the ocean?

  • Anonymous

    There is a picture of Mitt doing the same thing. It looks just as bad, perhaps worse if you are of Bachmann’s ilk.
    But do we want to elect anyone who isn’t bright enough to avoid brown, phallic like, food on a stick when the cameras are around? Maybe a nice vegetarian burger would of looked better.

  • Redraptor27

      Only a pervert would “relish” in a picture like that .

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann is going to build the Wall with Mexico.  Of course, the media will attack her anyway they can.

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann is going to build the Wall with Mexico.  Of course, the media will attack her anyway they can.

  • Percy35

    I wish that was my big &^$#

  • Mr. Fusion

    Charles,
    Trig and Bristol were trotted out by Palin as props. Obama didn’t promote their children as the example of a typical American, gawd luvin, family. Now did the media OR progressives ever portray Palin’s children in the manner you suggest.

    The fact that Bristol had two children out of wedlock is beside the point. Show us Trig’s birth certificate !!!

  • Messa

    Not the ones in Alaska !!! 

  • Messa

    Can’t you do any better ?? Can’t discuss real politics ?? 

  • Mr. Fusion

    Republicans have this hangup that female politicians have to be physically attractive. The candidate’s politics don’t matter. Democrats prefer substance in their politicians.

  • Mr. Fusion

    Would you care to show us which one?

  • Mr. Fusion

    Would you care to show us which one?

  • Mr. Fusion

    Would you care to show us which one?

  • http://profiles.google.com/jfrockon jack franklin

    The difference between Bachman and Obama. Bachman is eating a corn dog. Obama normally eats penis.

  • Fifthqdrnt11

    “…most unhealthy” is correct.  The word “unhealthiest” could be used if you dropped the word “most.”

  • Guest

    “Most unhealthy” is actually correct in this context vs., as the author of this article suggests, “unhealthiest.” The two terms could be interchangeable as long as preceded with “some of the.” Just saying, if you’re going to throw out corrections, you might as well be correct. 

  • Anonymous

    No but I did include your daddy. Idiot

  • Anonymous

    No but I did include your daddy. Idiot

  • Jbw248

    is that a joke? Clinton and his ladies…. does that qualify as substance?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZKGLVXTREWI7TP4GAOXYXQSX6Y Published this day -

    It’s not the corn dog hunger bite that worries me but instead her psychotic eyes rolled into the back of her head.  

  • Jbw248

    Aparently you didn’t see the video of here doing “the running man” dance without a bra on….but of course the media brushed that clip under the rug.

  • Washington

    Correction: That’s not to say the decision to [publish] such a photo…

  • Anonymous

    It’s the Wall with Reality she is building that worries me worse.
    And anyone who has flights of fantasy should be questioned by the media. I’m pretty sure that is their job, unless you work for FAUX news(?).

  • Anonymous

    The guy was British. Perhaps they know more about the use of English than you do?
    Just Sayin.

  • Binky

    Rick Santorum was right!!! It’s Bach-mann on dog sex!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like the British version of Beck, or Limbaugh.
    Just change the location names.

  • http://yourclearskinsolution.com brittany

    WOW WOW WOW! Biggest corn dog ever!!!

  • Redraptor27

      I’ve seen pictures of the whole obama family  “eating”  corn dogs . They were even more funny .

  • Redraptor27

       Like his gay priest in Chicago , who was murdered !!!

  • Redraptor27

        Do they even have corn dogs in Kenya ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1140799161 Bill Bresler

    I blame the campaign staff. As an old newspaper photographer, my advice to any campaign’s staff is to never let your candidate near a corndog. Don’t even let them hold it.  Even the most innocent photo will smack of the movies you can rent late at night in your hotel room.

  • Redraptor27

        You only have to worry about corn dogs when you know the perverted left will be watching  : )

  • Whorling1

    you should have seen the photo of Marcus….”pray away the gay, brother!”

  • Anonymous

    You lost me the moment you tried to make this about sexism. As someone else has pointed out, you search hard enough, and you can find pics of just about every candidate out there – male or female – who is portrayed in a sexual way (I seem to remember a pic running around with Obama on what appears to be the receiving end of a BJ for example).

    The real question with women in politics is whether or not they can “run with the big dogs” or if they – or their pundits – will constantly pull out the gender card at every turn. THAT is the single best way to undermine a candidate…or more importantly the best way to undermine the belief that women can compete.

  • Anonymous

    You lost me the moment you tried to make this about sexism. As someone else has pointed out, you search hard enough, and you can find pics of just about every candidate out there – male or female – who is portrayed in a sexual way (I seem to remember a pic running around with Obama on what appears to be the receiving end of a BJ for example).

    The real question with women in politics is whether or not they can “run with the big dogs” or if they – or their pundits – will constantly pull out the gender card at every turn. THAT is the single best way to undermine a candidate…or more importantly the best way to undermine the belief that women can compete.

  • ProudAmerican

    Disgusting, down right ugly….no way to report the news.  I’m ashamed of our friends across the pond.  Still haven’t gotten over our beating your butts, have you?  Now you turn to insulting our candidates for the Republican nomination for President of our Nation.  Shameful and degrading.  You are a newspaper? or a porn rag?

  • ProudAmerican

    Newspapers should print the actual news; not what the editors belief; but the NEWS without bias and a legit family read paper should not print crap such as this.  It shows the morals, ethics and manners of their readership.  Pathetic.  You Brits can have this type of journalism.  It seems that the British people have low regard for themselves and their country by allowing such trash.

  • Redraptor27

       You should see the one of barney frank and michelle obama .

  • Redraptor27

       You should see the one of barney frank and michelle obama .

  • Anonymous

    She should ask hubby for some pointers.

    Are there ANY Teapots who have had oral s*x?

  • Anonymous

    She should ask hubby for some pointers.

    Are there ANY Teapots who have had oral s*x?

  • Macage69

    I want to see a picture of her husband taking a bite. He is the one I thought of when I saw the picture.

  • Malia

       What do corn dogs and politics have to do with each other fool ? Now , do you want to discuss how obama is a Nazi  ???????

  • Redraptor27

         You must be from the land of fruits and nuts .

  • Redraptor27

       How about both of your dads ?????  Freak …….

  • Redraptor27

       That is because you are GAY .

  • Anonymous

    If there’s anything to be gleaned from that picture, it’s that Bachmann can most certainly “run with the big dogs” – that dog is about as big as they get.

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Shartwel/1102283836 Steve Shartwel

    No, they always get distracted by the tea bags…

  • Cornin’ the Barbarian

    ‘ … presidential candidates eat “some of the most unhealthy food on the planet” (the correct word is “unhealthiest,” by the way) … ”That’s not to say the decision to public such a photo is always innately sexist … ‘
    The correct word is publish, by the way. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Shartwel/1102283836 Steve Shartwel

    “or more importantly the best way to undermine the belief that women can compete.” — No way that Bachmann could compete with that little Japanese guy who eats all those hotdogs. 

  • Macage69

    No it is because he is in the closet, just like most homophobes, as you surely know. I am just waiting for him or you to get caught in an airport bathroom practicing your wide stances. There is nothing wrong with being gay, you both just need to accept who you are, then we can have some respect for you.

  • Macage69

    No it is because he is in the closet, just like most homophobes, as you surely know. I am just waiting for him or you to get caught in an airport bathroom practicing your wide stances. There is nothing wrong with being gay, you both just need to accept who you are, then we can have some respect for you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Shartwel/1102283836 Steve Shartwel

    She is just trying to protect her corneas from flying dog juice. Its a little trick she learned from her tea bag cockus. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Shartwel/1102283836 Steve Shartwel

    Maybe you should head back.  I hear they’re giving away free stuff in London. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Shartwel/1102283836 Steve Shartwel

    That comment doesn’t “cut the mustard.”

  • Gandalf

    Has any one on this post ever made it past grade school?

  • Irinakiev

    I am sorry, but none of what you have written makes sense.  What did you want to say, Mr. Patriot?

  • Irinakiev

    I am sorry, but none of what you have written makes sense.  What did you want to say, Mr. Patriot?

  • Redraptor27

         Being gay is O.K. But with your own father macage69, that is just sick .

  • Trulyinteresting

    She’s beautiful and this pic just makes her sexier…lol   :)

  • Mr. Fusion

    Why? Wait, don’t tell us, you’re into gay porn.

  • Redraptor27

         Yes I am . I am a big fan of both of your Dads .

  • Anonymous

    You’re posting dirty as a little black girl and I’m a freak?

  • Joshcassell13

    Do none of you understand that English in the UK is not the same language we speak? Oh dear, let’s not pick on someone with stupid ideas by showing a stupid looking photo, don’t worry, if you pray hard enough god will change you from the dick that you naturally are. According to Bachman, it works for being gay too.

  • Anonymous

    so personal attacks are your trait?

  • Joshcassell13

    Do you not realize that unfounded degradation immediately makes you lose all credibility.

  • Redraptor27

       You must be from Green Bay . You sure are a “PACKER” .

  • Joshcassell13

    You mean like the republicans Larry flint and Hugh Hefner?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wayne-Dehart/1255955043 Wayne Dehart

    Did she swallow?

  • Anonymous

    And their time in office is spent stealing from nearly everyone to give to the rich…they are, each and every one, sanctimonious, hypocritical thieves forever waging class war in the employ of the wealthiest contributors in the United States.

    Not that it matters anymore.  The next time they’re in power will be the end of the United States of America.  Don’t worry too much about them, though.  They’ll slip away with every dollar they can steal and leave the rest of us for the slaughter…and then they’ll write the history books and blame it all on the middle class and the poor, because the middle class and the poor aren’t examples of ‘exceptionalism’ like they are.

    Hint: an example of ‘exceptionalism’ would be anyone who is born to wealth or who believes as they believe.

    And if you can call any of the Republicans in Congress ‘conservative’, you don’t have a functional brain.  You cannot rationally describe an extreme radical lunatic who wants to destroy America (the American people) as a ‘conservative’.

  • Redraptor27

       1954don : So , a small pecker is your trait ?

  • Redraptor27

       Yes , Mrs. obama swallowed , twice : )   

  • Redraptor27

       Credibility with who ? a freak lefty ? That’s credibility I don’t want .   

  • Redraptor27

        The don’t like fudge .

  • Redraptor27

         Super freak is more like it .

  • Macage69

    Redraptor27 does not even know what credibilty is. Since he seems to be a Bachmann fan you know he doesn’t hink being gay is ok either. However, for a 8 year old he can spell better than most.

  • Mr. Fusion

    You’re a sick puppy. So typical of those who hate blacks.

  • Mr. Fusion

    malia,
    You demonstrate the intelligence of the average bible thumping, intelligence deficient Tea Bagger. How many teeth do you have?

  • Mr. Fusion

    Ah yes, both my dads. My biological father who lost his life in Korea and my step dad who raised me until he was killed by a drunk driver.

    Thank you. Your empathy is so anti ignorant Tea Bagger that I had pegged you as.

  • Mr. Fusion

    Your name must be Grumman, from riding the short bus so often. Obviously you have no couth beside being so intellectually challenged.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705652537 John E. Wurl

    Yeah, I want to know if she choked or spit it out?

  • Jeremy

    Thats a possible president????? Come on wake up people, if you want justice vote Ron Paul!

  • Jeremy

    Thats a possible president????? Come on wake up people, if you want justice vote Ron Paul!

  • Anonymous

    Dear Media:
    May we please have a moratorium on corn dog eating pics unless the eater is really hot?  Like, Brooklyn Decker hot?  And can you make sure there’s extra mustard?

    Thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Michele you’re welcome to eat my corn dog anytime.

  • Anonymous

    public -> publish

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Love/100000176580210 Kevin Love

    I haven’t tried fried twinkies but if fried oreos are any indicator, I bet they’re awesome. It’s like a donut with hot fudge in the middle, you just can’t go wrong.

  • doug daluga

    The President’s daughters are minors and are NOT running for office, therefore: off limits.

  • TMay

    More like Thomas Sowell “Social Degeneration” I
    and II and III, and like Victor Davis Hanson “Young Westerners Deprived or Decadent”. However it should be noted that England does not have talk radio. Dalrymple is brilliant, wise, articulate, and worked
    as a psychiatrist for violent prisoners for years within the British system
    until he retired, and he has also travelled extensively. He has written and been published extensively under a pseudonym, until he retired.

  • Robinsw

    You haven’t seen the one of Rick Perry eating a corndog? :P

  • Anonymous

    WOW ~ she may have a talent that I have previously overlooked. In a Limbaugh presidency she appears to have all the stretch necessary to be Secretary of the Department of BJ

  • http://twitter.com/withered Anon

    stay classy, mediaite user comments.

  • Bedroombully999

    Enjoying a foot long.  Apparently, she likes black guys.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mike8743 Michael Duggan

    Conservatives aren’t funny, hence there has been no good answer to shows like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, etc.

  • leo moon

    Is This The Best Picture Of Rep. Bachmann Eating A Corn Dog The Telegraph Could Find? I’d have to give a resounding YES to that question! Absolutely, it’s the best one.
    Incidentally, Mr. Harndon, your fear/discomfort with persons not from America leads you, in a childishly clumsy attempt to dismiss and demean, to embody & embrace the attitude you accuse them of: “Author Toby Harnden turns his nose up…”, & in doing so you fail to understand/research/recognize that “most unhealthy” is absolutely proper usage, and to also ignore that “queue”, a word you may never have encountered before, is a much older, longer held term than the American usage of “line.”
    And again, YES, this is the best possible photo of Ms. Bachmann eating a corn dog that could be found.

     

  • TMay

    i disagree. I think republicans have an excellent sense of humor.For instance I like the cartoons at Townhall.com
    I love President Reagan’s line “The trouble with our liberal friends is not
    that they are ignorant, but that they know so
    much that isn’t so.” 
    It has so much depth to it in addition to the friendliness. 
    I like Jon Stewart. He has a wonderful mind. 
    Too bad so much democrat humor is snarky, and simplistic..
     

  • Anonymous

    Are you in any way familiar with the average Briton’s humor? This photo and the text are actually quite funny (if you’re British). Also, what does America care? Last I checked British citizens are not casting ballots come election time. Furthermore, I don’t claim to be an expert on Oxford vs. American English but are you sure most unhealthy isn’t the proper Oxford term? You know like tyre vs. tire, to-mah-toe vs. to-mae-toe etc. If you want to take issue with the photo, take issue with the photo. Don’t slam British culture. I’m totally sick of my countrymen being completely oblivious to the fact that there are other cultures on the planet in addition to the American culture.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T473AUNWHU6QE3DQOFDP6VAWBQ Jim

    Black is nasty and purple….

  • Novangelus

    way too much teeth.  She’s probably a woodchipper.

  • Djbremerton3433

     The MSM is, has been, and, probably, will forever be in the pockets of liberals and progressives. If you truly “see both sides now,” you cannot argue, with one iota of intelectual honesty, that the MSM doesn’t have an unending and tireless bias for all things liberal. Here’s a news flash for you…I looked for any picture of Obama and Hillary, that even closely resembles the smear jobs foisted upon the public by ABC, CBS, CNN, Time, Newsweek, NY Times, and MSNBC. I was unable to find any pictures taken by the main stream media that looked so…bizzare. And no, it doesn’t happen all the time to Democrats. Come to think of it, it hardly ever happens to Dems. Have a nice day. Yours, Dave Johnson

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VEQ4KJUJ4X6FR6TKQXPY74OXSE scotus

    First of all, that’s a great foto, and she looks great in that photo. There’s no comparison to fotos of bush where he looked like a smirking chimp who’s just eaten somebody’s face and fingers, or obama where he looks like a guy who’s stolen credit card was just confiscated. She looks fantastic, she eats huge, slightly bent corndogs with great aplomb and style, and she can eat my corndog any day any time, I’ll buy a 50 pack of ‘em now just in case she comes by s. florida. I love her.

  • Anonymous

    How about a pic of Obama eating watermelon to show how balanced you are?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HFWLNSVNN62FPGTVPM3P3OCW6I cyberties

    Mr. Martel:
     
    I begin by stating that I whole-heartedly agree with the premise of your article. However, when you corrected Mr. Harnden’s grammar, you made an error equal to his and possibly worse since you were correcting him.

    You stated the following: “…presidential candidates eat “some of the most unhealthy food on the planet” (the correct word is “unhealthiest,” by the way)…”
     
    Contrary to your assertion, the correct phrase would be LEAST HEALTHFUL or MOST UNHEALTHFUL food. Food is healthy, people are healthy, but only when you are referring to the state of health of the subject at hand (food or people). Food, diets, or physical activities, are HEALTHFUL when you are referring to contribution those things make to the HEALTH of an individual.

    Think of the distinction this way:

    Healthy describes the good state of health in which the subject is found. One can compare states of health: healthy, healthier, healthiest, unhealthy, unhealthier, unhealthiest.  

    Foods, exercise, actions, activites, etc.can contribute to the state of health and are therefore healthful or unhealthful. Degrees of positve contribution of something to the state of health can be delineated: healthful, more healthful, most healthful, less healthfull, least healthful. There are also degrees of negative contribution: Most unhealthful, more unhealthful, least unhealthful. 

    So, please check your grammar before correcting someone else on theirs.
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1034588163 Feudi Pandola

    Ahh yes…nothing quite like the sharp, incisive journalism the Brits spew out year after year.  Very intelligent stuff…now swallow the evidence.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6CAV5L6GG5T7A7B6WQGPBTKBCA The owner

    “snarky and simplistic”? ……………just like your post?

    You are an idiot………..and I am sure you know that already :)

  • Danathewonderdog

    She’s not eating – she’s ramming that shaft whole down her throat and if you’re patient and look carefully, it’ll either emerge unskathed thru the old poop shute or the vaximus major.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6CAV5L6GG5T7A7B6WQGPBTKBCA The owner

    i agree – the best teeth a stacked health care can buy.

  • TMay

    The fact  that the discussions on this board have been so low is proof of how low the article and photo were and              also is proof of  the  lowering effect on the readers.

  • Sweet ‘n’ Tender

    wow… she’s really trying to get it all in there. her eye’s are rolling in back of her head too which means she’s on auto pilot savoring every inch of that hot piece of meat. I disliked her before, but now, I don’t know… I think I actually wouldn’t mind partying with her for a night.

  • TMay

    What a loathsome comment.Obviously when you decide to break one of the 10 Commandments like Do Not Covet, Do Not Envy, you do it with gusto. What a miserable person you are. I never imagined people walking around a society looking at peoples’ teeth and being envious. First of all, more dems are super rich than republicans as far as I know.(Buffett, Gates Soros, Hollywood..)  Secondly how about Kennedy teeth? They are dems. Are you envious of Kennedy teeth?     You need help. Why don’t you try emulating the behavior of the people who got rich like getting educated , getting skills, and  working hard and making sacrifices, and postponing rewards, instead of stewing in your disgusting self-pity juices? If you can’t pay
     a therapist, go to a church except choose a better one than President Obama did. Furthermore, why don’t you volunteer at a hospital where people are dealing with pain and sorrow and loss with better grace than you are dealing with walking around. Why don’t you be grateful for what you’ve got? At the moment you come across as someone who is sick with a contagious disease, mainly your thinking, plus your soul is sick. And furthermore, teeth are largely genetic. Diet has something to do with it too like not eating sugary stuff and not drinking sugary sodas all the time. If you have a bad set of teeth why don’t you make it your goal to work for the money to have them fixed? They can be fixed at any time. There are also dental schools where dentistry students practice on patients and it does not cost much.

  • Guest

    This article turned out to be a low-budget blog by someone who can’t spell very well. Perhaps some community college courses.

  • Anonymous

    Best shot since the Palin Turkey Massacre;)
    They also have shots of Rick Perry and Marcus Takin one.

  • Hgfbh

    Some people act like they have never held one in their mouth……..

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001224409264 Smail Buzzby

    Everyone keeps saying how photogenic this fugly hag is…every time I see an image of her she looks like a crazy bitch to me.  With her eyes closed and a weenie in her mouth she looks a little less gruesome, but she is not a pretty woman no matter how staged her photos are.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JBOYM7U5CPER73JX57LWIMKHJU Jillian

    Although I don’t support any politician who won’t pledge to legalize adult marijuana sales, I don’t see what the big deal is with this picture. So it looks like she’s giving head, how else are you supposed to eat a corn dog?

  • Nobody Special

    They “queue” in England. They don’t “stand in line.” That’s not a ’17th century English fop’ figure of speech. It’s quite normal. So is “most unhealthy.” Don’t you know any Brits, Frances?  You may benefit from exposing yourself other cultures.

  • MrEvolution

    the word is actually “most unhealthful”

  • MrEvolution

    no sexual overtones were ever said of bristol or trig

  • 12voltman

    Make me gag just to look at the picture. I’m blinded for life.

  • Liyah623happyliberty

    P.s you don’t say most unhealthiest because that’s like saying most baddest. Next time you want to correct someone elses grammar make sure that you are actually correct. The correct way to say it is most unhealthy. Once you put the ‘most’ you don’t need to put the ‘-iest’

  • Anonymous

    All she needs now is some 70′s porn music. But I have to admit that I’m jealous of that corn dog

  • Snake5875

    At least we don’t have to worry about her going unemployed if politics doesn’t work out because I can see a long career ahead of her in film.

  • awol8

    If you are going to criticize someone’s English, and that persons writes in British English, you really ought to know something about the difference between American and British English.  In addition, the target audience for this article was the average Daily Telegraph reader, i.e. snobbish upper-middle class conservatives, so what do you expect?  And you really think that what she is eating is in any way healthy? It’s a tongue in cheek article, but you Americans don’t see to get British humor.

  • ac/dc

     You must be white…. To our black women/men a big ass is a good thing….Baby got back and we like.

  • ObaMAO Tse Tung must go

    You put down “b ampersand double l dollar sign” for balls.  It just goes to show you that  democRATs are ball-less and don’t have a clue to how to even spell it.  
    Anyway I rather a the sense of humor of a twelve year old boy than a sniveling little prissy fruitcake like you.
    As Dr. Savage says,” Liberalism is a mental illness”.
    P.S. Google “Is Obama gay?”  and that way you can have some sweet dreams tonight.

  • Monotteness

    You’re right.  Conservatives are serious because they see our country going down the sewer and the democRATs are the ones putting us there.   
    We don’t really need idiots like Jon Stewart, and Stephan Colbert because we have real Americans like Rush, Sean, and Glenn just to name a few dominating the airwaves.  When the Liberals tried with AirAmerica and Al Frankenfurter it turned out to be a dismal flop and now they want to cut Conservative radio because they can’t stand to have us dominating the airwaves (see Fairness Doctorine.

  • Monotteness

    boo hoo hoo,  get over it.and enjoy your savior, ObaMAO, while his last days are dwindling down.  Your great experiment has failed and this country is worse off because of it.

  • Monotteness

    what did you parents do to you to make you like you are?

  • Monotteness

    Three dogs, three logs, and three hogs are more like it.

  • Monotteness

    we ain’t polite…………were democRATs.

  • Monotteness

    and your mom finished the old tijuana donkey…..

  • Tea party got balls

    It’s those damn tea party people sliding their testicles across the face of hard working American blind crippled handicap children,they are claiming the morality of tax breaks to hide the testicle across the face agenda

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OW47XNCHJW6FYZBWP2WQ435GOA Tom

    its sad.  all the terrible comments above show whats happened to our nation concerning the debate on issues.  now, its all about seeing who can slam the other most effectively.  if we dont get our act together, it wont matter if we’re republican or democrat…we’ll all be broke and under some other entities control.  When the kids are done acting like 11 yr olds perhaps a debate on the issues can begin. We need to change course and it needs to happen soon.  let me know when you are done with the slandering of one another and we can then have a good debate. 

    i relish a good debate but have no desire to jump into this disgrace.  i once heard it said: “never get into a wrestling match or fight with a pig…all you do is end up smelling like the pig, and the pig likes it.”

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PHCU2Y2VEPNG47656W5ONRIFKA AdanR

    I need a picture of Palin doing the same. That guy in the corner of the picture is VERY happy.

  • Richard Rivera

    I’m in love!! Is this Michele or lindalovelace?

  • David

    I hope you realize that “queue” is the ordinary British word for what is called a “line” in American English.

© 2012 Mediaite, LLC | About Us | Advertise | Newsletter | Jobs | Privacy | User Agreement | Disclaimer | Power Grid FAQ | Contact | Archives | RSS RSS
Dan Abrams, Founder | Power Grid by Sound Strategies | Hosting by Datagram