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Rep. Michele Bachmann Disappointed NBC Apology Did Not Come From Network President

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The Rep. Michele Bachmann-Jimmy Fallon “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” controversy may be over, but Rep. Bachmann doesn’t sound too happy about its conclusion. Speaking to KLIF Radio this week, the New York Daily News reported the Republican presidential candidate said she “of course” accepted the apology from NBC’s Senior Vice President of Programming, but nonetheless considered it a result of a double-standard that the President of NBC himself did not send her a message.

RELATED: NBC Apologizes To Michele Bachmann For ‘Disrespectful’ Jimmy Fallon Song

“This shouldn’t be tolerated, it’s demeaning,” Rep. Bachmann argued, adding that “it’s an outrage if it happens to a liberal” but apparently it was acceptable for conservatives to be treated in such a way. “Of course I accept the apology but my guess is that it would have been the president of the NBC that would have been apologizing not a senior vice president,” she noted. While she did not say that bandleader Questlove should be fired for the intransigence (“Unemployment is bad enough, I don’t want to see anybody else thrown out on the street”), but she did call the claim that it was spontaneous “disingenuous… he had tweeted twice before the show what his intentions were.”

RELATED: Michele Bachmann’s Entrance On Jimmy Fallon? The Fishbone Song ‘Lyin’ Ass Bitch’

While she does say she expected liberals to have been apologized to more profusely, Rep. Bachmann did not demand another apology and explicit called for no one to be fired. That said, it is clear this incident is not quite water under the bridge just yet.

The interview via KLIF Dallas (h/t MRCTV) below:

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  • Dawks82

    She really needs to get over this.

  • mosesdinoark

    Whhaaaaa!

  • Anonymous

    Oh my what a nut she is.

  • Anonymous

    Call the waaaaaambulance!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Angli-Sclone/100002587894218 Angli Sclone

    The reason it has merit, it comes from  a Liberal Network of soldiers that would rather vomit then breathe those words.Real class acts, never cease to amuse.

  • News Of The World

    Silly Bachmann trying to keep her name out there – sorry, Crazy Lady.  Everyone’s forgotten about you (except 4% of Republicans, I guess).  Enjoy your trip into obscurity.

  • Erik

    Remember Truth or Consequences Game show?  If you constantly lie, just make things up, you’re eventually going to pay the consequences. Man-up Michelle. 

  • azgrandma

    Dumber then a box of rocks. 

  • labman57

    If Bachmann is disappointed about the apology, just wait til’ she sees her latest poll numbers …

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

    Almost couldn’t catch my breath because I was laughing so hard. There is no double standard and has nothing to do with her being a conservative woman, and EVERYTHING to do with her being a buffoon.  She expects respect (regardless of her inability to come up with any facts, regardless of her leaking classified information, regardless of her well-documented lies) when she routinely and consistently shows disrespect to the man our country ELECTED to the office of President of the United States? 

    You are way out of your league, Michele.  Suck it up.

  • Kid Dynamite

    Bitch, bitch, bitch.

  • Zona992007

    For such a tough guy party, they sure do play the victim a lot.  Her, Palin, Cain etc etc

  • Zona992007

    Sexist.

    :)

  • Anonymous

    My pet rock collection is offended.

  • Dawks82

    You are not serious. This has nothing to do with the network s

  • Dawks82

    Ain’t. That the truth

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UCQE6A7YKC3BOGL2HABPCVYE2A JimmyT

    I’m sorry, the Fallon Show was wrong in this situation, but Bachmann is relying on this to gain traction and I doubt it will work. Her claim about Conservative women double standards is arbitarily made based on the situation. Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin may be seperated by many partisan and socioeconomic factors, but you have to give the both of them credit how how graceful they are under this kind of pressure. I expected Michelle to be way more abrasive as First Lady than she turned out to be, while you didn’t hear a peep out of Palin when ESPN commentators were hooting and jeering as Mike Tyson joked about violating her body a couple months ago. If t this were Bachmann she would have shrieked foul. It seems that Palin only speaks up when her family is gone after, as in the Letterman case, while I haven’t seen Michelle go after anybody really, in retaliation.

  • Anonymous

    It’s what bitches do. Especially LYING bitches. :)  Cue ?uestlove for the rimshot. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Royce-Earnest-Jr/515733979 Royce Earnest Jr

    Can someone explain how she’s not a lyin ass bitch?

  • Anonymous

    Hy Michele: STFU!!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, she deserved an apology.  But when you demand someone apologize to you, it makes you look weak and chances are the apology won’t be sincere anyway.

  • Anonymous

    She’s now a whining ass bitch.

  • Anonymous

    She’s now a whining ass bitch.

  • david r

    Bachmann Disappointed NBC Apology Did Not Come From Network President

    She sure is trying to get the mileage out of this.  The Fallon Show appearance is the best thing to happen to her so far.

  • Anonymous

    can’t help but be on this nutjob’s side on this one.. temperature checking time…

  • Anonymous

    Since never has the conservative media apologised profusely to liberals.  Usually they double down or bring on Ted Nugent.  These conservatives are like angry teenagers demanding acceptance from their liberal parents.    

  • Anonymous

    If the song had been dumb azzed bitch it would have been more accurate.

    I love how Rethugs like to play the victim card but expect everyone else to suck it up and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

  • expatpatriot

    I guess I’ll just call her a dickhead, because a gender-appropriate label would hurt her widdle feelings.

    What a waste of skin.

  • Anonymous

    “she did call the claim that it was spontaneous “disingenuous… he had tweeted twice before the show what his intentions were.””

    uh, ah, his tweets were in the window after the show was taped and before it aired. your own claim is the disingenuous one, sweetie.

    …she just can’t control herself…

  • expatpatriot

    The lack of songs with “Marxist Socialist” in the title has limited the right wing’s ability to insult liberals in a similar fashion.

  • expatpatriot

    Was that comment in a tongue related to English?

  • Anonymous

    Considering the chutzpah of the lame stream media I’m surprised Michele got ANY apology.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    I believe the current president of NBCU/COMCAST is Steve Burke (?). If I’m right here is something really funny. HE IS A REPUBLICAN!!! LOL.. he was the guy a lot of PEOPLE felt was the reason for Olberman’s departure!! TOO CLASSIC!! Way to show your fractured status once again GOP. Bachman wants an apology from a very wealthy and powerful member of her own party!! Too perfect! Which s why I watch this often. It reminds me of the GOP fantasy. Don’t we wish it was yesterday when everything seemed so much easier? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  • Ricci Dats Me

    If NBC is run by a republican what exactly is NBC?

    Dance on that for a few. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  • Anonymous

    Did Bachmann get  the memo reporting she has become insignificant in the primary? Cry-baby extraordinaire, especially since she was not allowed to say very much in the debates. She depicts someone scared to not get all the attention and tries to hoard the conversation. She is one great example of what is wrong with the TEA-GOP-Republican movement. They are all too full of themselves to care about anyone else. But the will do everything their puppeteer handlers will tell the to do. She in one of the Grover Norquist puppeteer’s­, who chomp at the bits to keep from spreading the tax pain to the top 1%-ers.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Check my facts but the most funny aspect of tis story is the head of NBC is a GOP party member!!

    Makes you giggle!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  • Anonymous

    At 4% in the polls she’s lucky to have gotten a VP to respond!

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

    Two things:

    1.) Why the hell do people keep saying that Questlove’s song choice wasn’t spontaneous because he tweeted before the show? The tweet was at like 11:00 or midnight — Fallon’s show is taped at 5pm! Either Questlove figured out how to tweet into the future or the media is full of a buncha lazy ass reporters.

    2.) She’s gotten three separate apologizes now. Further victimizing yourself isn’t going to endear yourself to a right-wing base. “Oh poor me!” may work for Progressives, but not for Republican candidates.

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

    I wonder if she is any good in bed.  Like a good little teabagger, she certainly has no brains.

  • Anonymous

    Does Truth know you’re a double agent– performing missions for the forces of Sleaze and Stupidity?  I’m no fan of Bachmann, but that comment is just base.

  • Anonymous

    I was about to ask where the link to your You Tube video was and then, as soon as I had the thought, there it was.  Good luck on that going viral.

  • Anonymous

    And again!

  • Anonymous

    What an arrogant B**C*.  An apology from the President of the network!!!  Who does she think she is?  What a sense of entitlement!!!!!  

  • Anonymous

    NBC and its offspring MSNBC are the most liberal networks on television.  They would do anything to prevent Congresswoman Michele Bachmann from becoming President of the United States.  If they cannot defeat her by smearing her good name and reputation, they may even consider hiring a hit man (P.S., Just to be politically correct, they may even consider hiring a “hit woman”).

  • Anonymous

    I saw the show, but not being hip, I did not realize the name of the song they were playing!  Jimmy Fallon was very gracious to her and seemed flattered that a candidate for President would come on his show even if her motive was to sell her book. I thought the appearance was a success!

  • Anonymous

    NBC and Jimmy Fallon should purchase one million copies of her book and distribute them to the”poor” people they claim to care so much about!

  • Anonymous

    What a disrespectful sexist question!  Do you work for NBC?  Teabaggers are known for their powers and their prowess in the bedroom when they have other teabaggers as partners!  Liberals are specifically known for their poor performances in bed, because they want the government to do everything for them!

  • Anonymous

    As if she weren’t bad enough – now she’s getting uppity!

  • Anonymous

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

  • Larry Linn

    If anyone is going to appear on a
    late night comedy show, they should be accepting the fact that they will be a
    target for humor. The band played the music without the lyrics. If Bachmann
    cannot handle a group of session musicians, why does she assume that she can endure
    the slings and arrows directed at every President?

  • Anonymous

    Wonder if she remembers the names of all those “28″ kids she has raised.  That alone is enough to DRIVE HER CRAZY!

  • Anonymous

    Be careful about calling her that if you don’t want to arouse Marcus.

  • Anonymous

    Lol.  Only a con would think that is insulting.  It’s too lame!

  • Anonymous

    Gosh, ‘the mainstream media leans left’.  I’m only going on the never endless accusations about the ‘liberalness’ of the media issuing from the x-treme right wing, Fox and the shock jocks.  Just like a teenager – gotta have it both ways.

  • expatpatriot

    The smartest thing anyone who wants to prevent Bachmann from becoming president can do is . . . nothing.

    She is a sanctimonious, foolish, ignorant prig. This is writ in letters 40 feet high. The self-destruction that most of us predicted when she first started taking herself seriously is now happening.

    Bye, Michele. It wasn’t that great to know ya.

  • expatpatriot

    Forbes Magazine? Sure. No rightwing agenda there.

    “Most influential Americans?” Noisiest, perhaps, but her mouth will revert to its usual unheard mumble once she’s tumbled out of the race and reverts to the backbencher mediocrity that has characterized her career to date.

    Your notion that you have any insight into what “liberals prefer” is as risible as the notion that anyone is terrified of Bachmann.

    To be fair, it is a pretty terrifying prospect that she could ever get into the White House, but no more so than the terror you’d see if Homer Simpson or Paris Hilton ended up in the Oval Office.

    Education? Her law degree is from Oral Roberts University, fer chrissakes. Only Liberty University would be more laughable. Husband? A despicable fraud, making money off the pain of others.

    Bachmann is a shrill and sleazy prig, and in less than a year, no one will remember how to spell her name.

  • Anonymous

    It sounds like you are in love with her and she has rejected your advances!  I know men who speak more lovingly of their ex-wives than you do of poor Michele!

  • Anonymous

    Marcus is very busy these days trying to protect his wife from Herman Cain’s advances!  He may even make her wear a chasity belt to the next debate.

  • expatpatriot

    Err, right . . . Whatever.

    Has anyone noticed what a rich fantasy life wingnuts live?

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

    Give in inch you try and take a mile. That’s what I’m seeing with this. If there had to have been a apoligey it should have ended with Jimmy Falion. This her pulling a page from Sarah Palin page. Plain pulled the same thing when David Letterman make a joke about one of her kids. Quit while your ahead Michele

    There two other song’s that fits her.  Carzy Bitch by Buck Cherry, Or Cold hard Bitch by the White Stripes,

    I wonder how she would have reacted if the band used those songs ?

  • Edmund Spenser

    Oh, of course she does.  It is unworthy to suggest otherwise.  No on takes on twenty eight different foster kids as a stunt.  And of course, some of them suffered from eating disorders.  Nobody takes on children with special treatment needs a stunt.  Democrats just assume that anyone who doesn’t agree with them is evil.   It is a shame. 

  • Anonymous

    My comments were non-political. I am a Democrat but I don’t believe that people I disagree with on Policy, are evil. My hat is off to anyone, that can take on the responsibility of raising 28-kids and remain SANE is a very special person!  However I don’t see that as a  Qualification to be President of the United States.  Others may disagree.

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