The Daily Obsession: Palin/Bachmann 2012?

Minnesota was the place to be last night as Rep. Michele Bachmann welcomed guests Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin to a campaign rally supporting her reelection. Hannity riled up the crowd with the prospect of Palin/Bachmann ’12, and the cable news characters were stepping all over each other to come up with the wittiest analogies. But Keith Olbermann especially had a field day with what was either his biggest dream or his worse nightmare.

The creative writing departments at Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN came up with “twisted sisters”, “rodeo queens,” “Thelma and Louise,” and “a pair of Ronald Reagans with skirts on” –and no, those weren’t all meant as insults (just ask Pat Buchanan). And as for Olbermann, it took him a while to get over the shock that Palin and Bachmann are, indeed, separate people.

Here’s Newsweek‘s Daily Obsession:

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