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Michele Bachmann Says ‘Anderson’: The Highlight Reel

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Michele Bachmann spent a lot of time at Tuesday’s debate trying to get moderator Anderson Cooper’s attention.

Where low-polling candidates like Ron Paul and even Rick Santorum — who has emerged as something of a mascot at these debates, always willing to throw the jabs at the frontrunners that make good TV — had no problem getting their face time during the Las Vegas debate, Bachmann seemed to think she didn’t get the focus she deserved.

Below, TPM’s video squad has compiled the many times Bachmann said “Anderson!” in an attempt to get the moderator to pay her some mind. This author’s personal favorite is the last one, when Bachmann cut off Cooper’s debate ender to get in one last point:

For the record, Bachmann’s campaign thinks she did a pretty good job stepping up and grabbing her piece of the crowded spotlight at the eight-candidate forum.

“Bachmann Commands Stage at CNN Presidential Debate,” read the post-debate release from Team Bachmann.


Note – this post was written by Evan McMorris-Santoro for Talking Points Memo and appears here via a content sharing agreement with Mediaite.

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  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Her whining for attention was almost as funny as her outfit!! Lol!!

  • david r

    Poor thing. 

  • Anonymous

    Michele Bachmann is a beautiful woman. She is seductive, torrid, tempestuous, the sort of woman a real macho man could never ignore; but, Anderson…well..

  • Anonymous

    Michele who?

  • Mencius

    Yeah, she’s got a real manly husband… The sort that can really appreciate the full torrid, tempestuous, autumn flower she is when he lays her down and starts talking about reforming gays above her quivering body. 

  • noneofyourbusiness

    Oh, please . . .

  • Mencius

    This reminds me of the time she grabbed onto GWB’s sleeve as he tried to pull away after his state-of-the-union. 

    Bueller? Anderson? Bueller? Anderson? 

  • Anonymous

    She invited him to have cake?

  • Pious Jeffy

    The stench of desperation oozing from that bat sht crazy zombie is almost funny.

  • Anonymous

    LOL.  Did you graduate from Marcus’ class or are you still in training?

  • azgrandma

    And the brain is fried!  What an idiot.

  • Tedderman

    Attn:  Zippy the squirrel is looking for somewhere new to live, the bat-shit in Michelle’s head is taking up all the room and he has to be out by Friday.

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann is seductive? Hahaha! To a blind, deaf man perhaps!

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    I agree she’s not doing a good job representing the Tea Party.  I think we should’ve put up another Tea Party candidate.  

  • cres

    some you want and can ignore, unless you’re weak.

  • joe

    too bad she married a closet homosexual huh?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I can’t the only person thinking this, but I’m becoming increasingly convinced that this Republican presidential primaries debate show is part of a plan aimed at getting the American people to vote for Romney.

    There have to be at least ten thousand white male Republicans in this country more suited by background, education, credentials, talent and lack of baggage than anyone on this stage. Some of their names have come up already as people who supposedly were considering or being urged to run. Some of them are in Congress, more in state legislatures and governors’ mansions, in a mayoralty chair, serving in some public capacity. Others are in business, in universities, in the armed forces or recently and early-enough retired from their careers that they could do this job – even Wall Street. 

    So where are they? Why are not at least a few of them on this stage? Why is it that Romney, someone this country already knows an awful lot about, is so easily – okay, mostly easily – able to make monkeys out of the est, either by pandering to those who don’t pose any threat or by dancing around or over those who do – or at least APPEAR to – when, quite obviously, the points he makes are mostly not true and simply hackneyed Republican mixed in with Tea Party talking points that in the end are all dog whistles and make no sense?

    What if this is really the RNC version of the old Bum-of-the-Month combination educational and promotional tours that fresh up-and-coming potential boxing stars went through in the hay-days of boxiana? 

    Take Huntsman: he’s angling for something, but sat this one out even tho he has negligible support; clearly he’s angling for a future job, maybe in someone’s cabinet, maybe eventually as a serious candidate, his way to the White House trail-blazed by another Mormon.

    Take Paul: he doesn’t even do a credible job of pretending he can win the presidency, he’s there, and allowed to be there, because of a mixed nutbag of colorful but at least somewhat fair and in any event attractively blunt positions and a huge bag of campaign donation money that just as clearly was given him by others who know just as well he’ll never be elected. But he’s danger to the rest of the field, because he’s clear to himself at least on what he can say and get away with, so he needs to be buffered – the winner needs to be insulated from him to look unruffled and sound no matter how unsound or pandering the winner feels forced to be, by all the dog whistles the many extreme parts of the R party require him to blow – or even no matter how much he outright lies. 

    Santorum also isn’t there with any rational basis to hope to be elected. But he’s funded ENOUGH to get in his few messages, which just by his voicing them make Romney look more reasonable, even where Romney feels compelled to agree with them, like Huckabee has just this week – but, critically, not actually ON that stage. So Santorum gets sponsored to be available to be lumped in with Crazy Uncle Ron, even while he’s speaking to an equally ridiculous nutbag of extreme views.

    Bachmann is no different than those two. Her crazy eyed look and the stuff she says and the way she says that stuff make her look crazy, and maybe because she is crazy in a still-can-cope way; but she, like these last two, has a very narrow agenda, and like Santorum little money to work with, so she gets lumped in with, and as one of, the ‘fringe’ candidates, to pander to her own narrow portion of the Republican base. And like Santorum – and like Cain too – and somewhat like Paul, in a slightly but unimportantly different way – has no real “organization” behind her. But like them, she too plays her role in placating a portion of the R base while serving to make Romney look more sane, more reasonable, more rational, more together, more all-encompassing … more presidential.

    Then there’s Cain, who surely now must be seen, and indeed is now being seen widely, as a gigantic gift to … Romney again. Cain raises nutty things which then no one else needs to, but placates the sliver of the base that thinks government needs no money and the poor and lower middle class can pay all to support the few things the federal government should do – like bail out the merchant banks on Wall Street. Cain seems like some sort of fictionalized front man who should be in a Charles Stross book in his Merchant Wars series. How can he stay there, with no hope of winning, unless he is more or less what he appears to be: a front man to pander to some specific slivers in the party, and to make Romney look good (which sometimes means he has to or gets to make Perry look bad.).

    And Gingrich – please: is there any more clear example of a narrow range hopeless candidacy? He is there because it’s a marketing strategy forced on him; he had to run or stop pretending anymore that he would run, and now all he has to do is ‘look credible’ on stage and gain enough support to return to his career of pretending he’s running for president. Look at how Newt acts: he KNOWS the fix is in and he’s figured out how to be a player in it. He even did this ridiculous challenge to MItt on Obomneycare and somehow was blinded by the brilliance of Mitt into appearing to ‘back down’ to him. It made Mika practically orgasm on Morning Joe.

    Now I ask you: How can Perry possibly have won Texas governor 3 times and be this bad? Answer: He’s throwing this thing. He’s in it to win it, just as he says, but not for himself, just as he says – for Romney. Perry is the guy cast as The Opponent, to lend Romney the appearance of gravitas, and sane reasonableness, and for every skeleton in Romney’s corner, Perry has two. Okay, maybe Perry isn’t actually in on the fix, but all it would take to get him in would be a nice fat number on a huge check from a key backer who says to him: Rick, you do this, or I go elsewhere and find a guy to take you down. Perry is 62, and all that’s left to him is mostly retirement. He can leave Texas safely and do this show, lose, and be back in time to pick up where he left, and with a happy backer or bunch of backers and their undying devotion to keeping him in office as long as he wants or hunting or golfing whereever til he dies. This is Perry’s big contribution to his own personal 401K. Nothing else makes sense.

    All that leaves Romney, who might as well be – who IS – the representative of Wall Street. One of the reasons we are seeing all this conflicting crap about Obama being paid so much by Wall Street but meanwhile Wall Street now is saying, Behave or we go elsewhere, is that it’s two part disinformation: Wall Street already has it’s very own candidate, one of its own, a proven titan of vulture capitalism, who can open the vault of the nation’s actual 401Ks and pensions to Wall Street – the last place Wall Street has left to steal from.

    And thus this long drawn out soap opera, to build the myth of St Mitt the Rational. 

    So why, you ask, does Mitt ever falter, like he did on the lawn amigos? Because at the same time, this is an exercise in reputation laundering. By the time this is over, the right wing media and the msm will be joined in saying, all his skeletons are now yesterdays news, fish wrap – he’s been vetted, after all, by The Party of the American People, and everything the Dems try to do is an attack on that old dead and buried Romney, not this   one reborn as St Mitt the Savior. 

    This RNC show is the bookend to what’s going on in Congress, with the Republicans ruining the ability of the government to rebuild the economy and blaming it all on Obama.

    And you know what? The plan is working. They’ve got people blaming Obama for the Bush mess with the economy, they’ve made lots of folks see a regulated private health care insurance scheme seem like socialism and big government, and they’ve got every one of right in the crotch.

    Last time, it was your home equity. This time, it’s your pension, your 401k, all you have left. They’re coming and it looks like they can’t be headed. Next stop for all of us: feudalism. 

    We’re all going to be single income or unemployed extra labor families with the woman barefoot and constantly pregnant at home, and 4 families to every home, with a gun each to shoot vagrants “posing” as protesters.

     

  • Anonymous

    Cake is big??? Is that what she said?? Now there’s a campaign slogan.

    CAKE IS BIG!!
    Bachman 2012

    I gotta have that T Shirt.

  • Anonymous

    I think she said, “the cake is baked,” as in, Obama’s fate is sealed as a one-termer. What a harpie, though. We’ll soon be relieved of the sight and sound of her – the Bachmann campaign will end with the Iowa caucuses.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe if she hadn’t dressed up as some kind of space empress–it’s not Halloween yet!

  • Anonymous

    Any debate is going to favor Romney, because, let’s face it, cult or no, he’s the most articulate and sane of the Republican candidates.  Jon Huntsman boycotted, and they won’t let Fred Karger join the debates.

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

    She could use a facial, and whoever did her last highlight job only got 1 strand of her bangs.

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