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Michele Bachmann: ‘I Just Want To Make It Absolutely Clear: I Abhor Slavery.’

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Tuesday evening, Fox News’ Sean Hannity spoke with presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann about the “mainstream media’s” attacks on her, particularly in light of the controversial marriage pledge the congresswoman recently signed.

Bachmann, for her part, says she’s choosing not to focus on negativity but, rather, on the economy and job creation. Hannity then offered Bachmann the opportunity to address recent comments she’d made that had some in the media enraged. Bachmann instead spoke about unemployment:

Regarding unemployment with African American youth, that’s about a forty percent level of unemployment with African American youth. When you look at Hispanic youth, that’s close to seventeen percent unemployment. These are unacceptably high numbers, and of course the stunningly bad job report that came out last Friday showed that it’s an uptick in unemployment at 9.2 percent. And of course the U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out yesterday and small business executives said that, sixty-four percent of them said they will not be hiring at all next year. Twelve percent are planning to cut. This is really bad news.

Hannity then pressed Bachmann to speak, specifically, about a portion of the aforementioned pledge that compared the plight of black children born into slavery to those living now under the Obama administration:

That statement was not on the document that I signed. Apparently the group had a statement about that in another part that they’ve now since removed and gotten rid of and disavowed. I just want to make it absolutely clear: I abhor slavery. Slavery iwas a terrible part of our nation’s history. It’s good that we no longer have slavery and under no circumstances would any child be better off growing up under slavery. But that isn’t what I signed; that isn’t what I believe.

What I signed was a statement that affirms marriage is an important part of our nation, and I agree with that. I think that marriage is very important, it’s the fundamental unit of our government and I think it’s important that we do uphold marriage and also the family because marriage is a very important institution.

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  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Odd that anyone should think he or she needs to say that.

  • BFD

    “That statement was not on the document that I signed. ”

    Does the pledge include anything about lying?

  • Perdido

    Pity. If she’d been a Democrat, even belonging to the Klan could be forgiven.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: I just want to make it absolutely clear: I abhor slavery. Slavery iwas a terrible part of our nation’s history. It’s good that we no longer have slavery and under no circumstances would any child be better off growing up under slavery. But that isn’t what I signed; that isn’t what I believe. Re-read it here liberals bachmann is a future president and deserves respect. Black Africans where the ones who captured their own black Africans and sold them to sailing ships bound for America. That is where the democrats put them on democrat slave farms and democrat slave ranches. Thank God the Whigs aka Republicans freed them all!

  • Thelonious Funk

    Give tax cuts to rich white people. They love to use money to hire poor, brown people.

  • Perdido

    Do like Castro did and take all the money from the rich.

  • Zakk

    Here’s a thought Mrs. Bachmann, if you hate it so much – STOP BRINGING IT UP!!!! Find a new analogy.

  • Bill Huggins

    I AM NOT A WITCH!!!!!!!!

  • RhapsodyinBlue

    Is she also not a witch?

  • Greg

    “I just want to make it absolutely clear: I abhor slavery… but I do love to discipline the barbarians… sweet sweet discipline of the dirty, bad little…. Sorry, what was the question?”

  • Nationman

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: I just want to make it absolutely clear: I abhor slavery. Slavery iwas a terrible part of our nation’s history. It’s good that we no longer have slavery and under no circumstances would any child be better off growing up under slavery. But that isn’t what I signed; that isn’t what I believe. Re-read it here liberals bachmann is a future president and deserves respect. Black Africans where the ones who captured their own black Africans and sold them to sailing ships bound for America. That is where the democrats put them on democrat slave farms and democrat slave ranches. Thank God the Whigs aka Republicans freed them all!

    thank god the southern democrats left for the gop.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Democrats, the party of slavery, love it.

    The Democrats want to enslave everyone to a debt and tax structure where people that earn over 30k a year, pay 55-75% of their income into taxes. I am not talking about only federal taxation, I am talking effective tax rates.

    For fun, while working out in California I did a breakdown of all my taxes that I paid. My effective tax rate was 70%!

    Yeah, Bachmann signed a marriage and family defense pact that used a bad analogy, so now she has to say she thinks slavery is abhorrent? Geez.

    Anyway, I slave for Dave, not the Democrat/Communist collective. You are not my slave masters.

  • phku

    Mrs. Bachmann, even if the statement was not on the page you signed, it was still within the document as a whole. How does this nutbag get away with constantly lying??

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Cooper/1058087532 kswheels

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Odd that anyone should think he or she needs to say that.

    That’s my thinking. If you have to tell people that you’re not a witch, the game is over.

  • WillP

    Way too gaffe prone to be taken seriously.

  • LoyalOpposition

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Odd that anyone should think he or she needs to say that.

    It is odd considering that we all know the Dems are the party of slavery and labeling blacks that stray from the plantation “Uncle Toms.”

    http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/07/08/caught-on-tape-racist-naacp-leader-says-kenneth-gladney-not-black-enough-to-protect-hes-an-uncle-tom-video/

  • Perdido

    And if she hadn’t said anything, then she wouldn’t be denying the left’s accusations. Lose, lose.

  • LoyalOpposition

    kswheels said:
    That’s my thinking. If you have to tell people that you’re not a witch, the game is over.

    I bet you apply that same logic to Obama declaring he is NOT a Muslim, am I right? Didn’t think so.

    http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/15101761/detail.html

  • Skippy

    Bat sht crazy Bachmann had to wait and go to KKKlownnity to white wash her stupidity.

    Nice.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Cooper/1058087532 kswheels

    LoyalOpposition said:
    I bet you apply that same logic to Obama declaring he is NOT a Muslim, am I right? Didn’t think so.

    http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/15101761/detail.html

    I’m missing the document with Obama’s signature promising to replace the constitution with the Quran.

    I’ll be waiting…

  • Perdido

    Robert Byrd actually was in the KKK. But he was a Democrat, so all is forgiven.

  • redleaf

    Hannity is one of the great investigative journalists of our time.
    A man who will go to any length to ferret out the truth, even if it forces to him re-evaluate his own beliefs.
    Men like Hannity are at the pinnacle of the journalistic tradition. He is dispassionate and “just the facts ma’am” about his reporting. He cares only about the truth.

  • Paul G

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Odd that anyone should think he or she needs to say that.

    Yes it is…But thanks to the LSM……sad.

  • Doughboy

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Odd that anyone should think he or she needs to say that.

    She has to clarify that for libs who play dumb(at least I think they’re playing) and read way too much into some silly pledge she signed.

  • Bill Huggins

    Nice to see Romney diss this stupid pledge as “undignified” and “in appropriate”. At least there is a grown up in the GOP race.

  • Perdido

    It’s an old tactic with the left. “Here’s what I think you said. Now defend why you said it.”

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Skippy said:
    Bat sht crazy Bachmann had to wait and go to KKKlownnity to white wash her stupidity.

    Nice.

    Sorry, Bachmann is not running as a Democrat, the party of Robert Byrd and the KKK. Democrat, the party of slavery, the party of the KKK, the party that blocked the civil rights movement, the party that currently panders to minorities by keeping them poor, the party that thinks making everyone poor is the solution.

    You are not allowed your own version of history. That history thing sure hurts your comment doesn’t it?

    By the way, how goes that war on poverty for minorities? How goes that black unemployment rate?

    You are allowed your own opinions, but you are not allowed your own facts.

  • Greg

    Bill Huggins said:
    Nice to see Romney diss this stupid pledge as “undignified” and “in appropriate”. At least there is a grown up in the GOP race.

    It should guarantee a fair amount of disdain from the Teavangelicals… And deepen the divide on the right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Micah-Warren/721280309 Micah Warren

    How did the Republicans convince their base to celebrate stupidity? Palin and Bachmann are morons. I’m praying Mitt comes through. If they are going to take out Obama, we can’t get another dope in White House.

    But they’ve convinced so many that being smart is bad. “Oh those liberal academics!” Ummm…..you mean smart people? And they want people like Bachmann and Palin because of their backwoods Christian values. Like….they believe in stuff not based in science and facts, but on something they believe from some book that they were told is the word of god? I’m tired of catering to the back of the parade!!

    Any Republican with half a brain should distance themselves from these two absolute idiots.

  • darladoon

    only in america would a presidential candidate actually have to defend their
    disdain for slavery.

    and btw, can we please stop referring to “asking questions” as an “attack”
    by the media?

  • The Lantern of Truth

    If a Republican President had tried to scare seniors as a political tactic like King Obama did yesterday , the media would call him a lying , rotten ,no good , arrogant , ignorant ,community organizing scumbag .

    And they would be right .

    But today , they are still pulling this nonsense trying to discredit Bachmann.

  • darladoon

    DavidKramer said:
    Sorry, Bachmann is not running as a Democrat, the party of Robert Byrd and the KKK. Democrat, the party of slavery, the party of the KKK, the party that blocked the civil rights movement, the party that currently panders to minorities by keeping them poor, the party that thinks making everyone poor is the solution.

    You are not allowed your own version of history. That history thing sure hurts your comment doesn’t it?

    By the way, how goes that war on poverty for minorities? How goes that black unemployment rate?

    You are allowed your own opinions, but you are not allowed your own facts.

    the democrats blocked the civil rights movement?

    it’s no wonder we have candidates as vapid and ignorant as bachmann.

  • darladoon

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    If a Republican President had tried to scare seniors as a political tactic like King Obama did yesterday , the media would call him a lying , rotten ,no good , arrogant , ignorant ,community organizing scumbag .

    And they would be right .

    But today , they are still pulling this nonsense trying to discredit Bachmann.

    you obviously forgot (it’s only been 24 hours) that the reporter asked if obama:

    “can you GUARANTEE checks will go out on august 2?”

    obama replied “i cannot guarantee that”

    hardly a “scare tactic”

  • Perdido

    So Micah, even though Obama also went to church, there were no Christian values going on there, so he’s okay.

  • http://www.davesplash.com Dave Splash

    The level of right wing ignorance and dishonesty grows exponentially on this site every day.

  • Just4thefax

    darladoon said:
    the democrats blocked the civil rights movement? it’s no wonder we have candidates as vapid and ignorant as bachmann.

    Fact; Public education is a failure today do to unions and here is proof. Read any comment or post this idiot does and I rest my case!

  • Azarkhan

    Thanks for stating the obvious Michele. Now go kick Romney’s ass.

  • Greg

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    If a Republican President had tried to scare seniors as a political tactic like King Obama did yesterday , the media would call him a lying , rotten ,no good , arrogant , ignorant ,community organizing scumbag .

    And they would be right .

    But today , they are still pulling this nonsense trying to discredit Bachmann.

    “If we go into default [Obama] will say that Republicans are making the economy worse and try to convince the public, maybe with some merit, if people start not getting their Social Security checks… and all of a sudden we have co-ownership of a bad economy. That is very bad positioning going into an election. – McConnell

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/sen-mcconnell-i-refuse-to-help-obama-get-re-elected-by-making-gop-co-owners-of-a-bad-economy/

  • darladoon

    Dave Splash said:
    The level of right wing ignorance and dishonesty grows exponentially on this site every day.

    gee, you think?

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact; Public education is a failure today do to unions and here is proof. Read any comment or post this idiot does and I rest my case!

    actually, proposition 13 (the flat 1% property tax) is the fault.

    how are unions inherently at fault? oh yeah, they make soooooo much money, and
    get such lucrative stock options and benefits. lol.

  • AikidoJoe

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    :-)

  • Fokker News

    darladoon said:
    can we please stop referring to “asking questions” as an “attack”
    by the media?

    The only way they will do that is if Sean Hannity is the asking the question.

    P.S.
    We are talking about people who proudly consume NewsCorp products.

  • Just4thefax

    Azarkhan said:
    Thanks for stating the obvious Michele. Now go kick Romney’s ass.

    Fact: I agree Romney is the media’s darling. RINO to the bone! Any Tea Party backed candidate will do!

  • Greg

    Azarkhan said:
    Thanks for stating the obvious Michele. Now go kick Romney’s ass.

    Your angry divisiveness is good for the Republic… Feed it and vote with your heart independent of Romney’s eventual establishment ascendancy.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    2 choices :

    Obama is lying or he’s stupid .

  • http://www.davesplash.com Dave Splash

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact; Public education is a failure today do to unions and here is proof. Read any comment or post this idiot does and I rest my case!

    “due” to unions, dummy.

    Considering it was liberals who comprised the abolitionist movement and the civil rights movement, it is ridiculous to cite individual democrats as responsible for racism. The racist element left the party after LBJ signed the civil rights bill. The Republicans have had them since. Sticking with party ID to make your point is stupid and obviously irrelevant.

    The right loves talking about Byrd’s time in the KKK, when he was 15, but ignore their heroes like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms. Byrd apologized and changed his tune. The right didn’t.

    The modern confederacy/KKK is the tea party. Fact.

  • LoyalOpposition

    Dave Splash said:
    The level of right wing ignorance and dishonesty grows exponentially on this site every day.

    That’s actually comical coming from yourself. Thanks for the laugh, with the constant butt raping that Obama is giving our economy and Constitution, I needed that.

  • Azarkhan

    darladoon said:
    actually, proposition 13

    Miss Loon is back! And she is still po-ed about 1978′s Prop 13. But she never explains why Cali spent $573 million to build one (1) [that's right, exactly one] high school. Only in the left wing paradise that is California could that kind of ignorance take full bloom!

  • darladoon

    Dave Splash said:
    “due” to unions, dummy.

    Considering it was liberals who comprised the abolitionist movement and the civil rights movement, it is ridiculous to cite individual democrats as responsible for racism. The racist element left the party after LBJ signed the civil rights bill. The Republicans have had them since. Sticking with party ID to make your point is stupid and obviously irrelevant.

    The right loves talking about Byrd’s time in the KKK, when he was 15, but ignore their heroes like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms. Byrd apologized and changed his tune. The right didn’t.

    The modern confederacy/KKK is the tea party. Fact.

    all of this is true

  • Azarkhan

    darladoon said:
    all of this is true

    Says one idiot to another.

  • LoyalOpposition

    AikidoJoe said:
    SOUTHERN STRATEGY, BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED, KARL ROVE TACTICS, RAYGUN, WAR ON BROWN PEOPLE, SOUTHERN STRATEGY, BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED, KARL ROVE TACTICS, RAYGUN, WAR ON BROWN PEOPLE, SOUTHERN STRATEGY, BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED, KARL ROVE TACTICS, RAYGUN, WAR ON BROWN PEOPLE, SOUTHERN STRATEGY, BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED, KARL ROVE TACTICS, RAYGUN, WAR ON BROWN PEOPLE, SOUTHERN STRATEGY, BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED, KARL ROVE TACTICS, RAYGUN, WAR ON BROWN PEOPLE, SOUTHERN STRATEGY, BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED, KARL ROVE TACTICS, RAYGUN, WAR ON BROWN PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    :-)

    Jared Loughner?! They let you have access to Mediaite in the loon bin?

  • darladoon

    Azarkhan said:
    Miss Loon is back! And she is still po-ed about 1978’s Prop 13. But she never explains why Cali spent $573 million to build one (1) [that's right, exactly one] high school. Only in the left wing paradise that is California could that kind of ignorance take full bloom!

    yeah, california is such a “left wing” paradise that 1/2 of the state is left, and 1/2 of the state
    is right; dozens of defense contractors and hedge fund managers live here; it banned gay
    marriage not once but twice; it defeated marijuana legalization; it has numerous military
    bases; it has a shitload of racists (and even some nazis); bechtel and the gap are HQed
    in san francisco, etc, etc

    hardly a “left wing” paradise

  • Just4thefax

    darladoon said:
    gee, you think? actually, proposition 13 (the flat 1% property tax) is the fault. how are unions inherently at fault? oh yeah, they make soooooo much money, andget such lucrative stock options and benefits. lol.

    Fact: You have to negotiate on how you maintain their ability to teach (aka testing them) at a high level and ones that are crap having a seniority position are untouchable. Progressive teachings have ruined you look at your post. Those teachers are partial to blame for you and is why you have no reasoning skills in capitalism on America as well as history of America and what makes it great! You are an example of what is wrong in America’s schools.

  • darladoon

    Azarkhan said:
    Says one idiot to another.

    boy, you’re such a nice, nice person.

    always have substantive and relevant arguments

    it’s nice to see you have important stuff to do all day….

  • Skippy

    I still don’t know what gave us the wrong impression.

    It must have been something bat sht crazy Bachmannn said.

  • darladoon

    Just4thefax said:
    You are an example of what is wrong in America’s schools.

    yeah, i suppose good grammatical skills, fluency in logic, cultural/political history, and art
    is my downfall….bummer

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    darladoon said:
    yeah, california is such a “left wing” paradise that 1/2 of the state is left, and 1/2 of the state
    is right; dozens of defense contractors and hedge fund managers live here; it banned gay
    marriage not once but twice; it defeated marijuana legalization; it has numerous military
    bases; it has a shitload of racists (and even some nazis); bechtel and the gap are HQed
    in san francisco, etc, etc

    hardly a “left wing” paradise

    LOL-Yes you are right, it is not a leftist utopia yet, but they are working on it!

    San Fransisco wants to make ex cons protected class giving them special RIGHTS!

    Now if they can only completely destroy their economy and tax everyone at 100% and give ration coupons, the utopia can be complete!

  • Just4thefax

    Dave Splash said:
    The modern confederacy/KKK is the tea party. Fact.

    Fact: Does your parents let you mouth off to adults? You are on mama’s tit and can’t see over the counter at the real world. Unions are problems in many states and are being dealt with! Tea Party is fiscal responsive people voting together and you will get there too some day kiddo!

  • Skippy

    DavidKramer said:
    LOL-Yes you are right, it is not a leftist utopia yet, but they are working on it!

    San Fransisco wants to make ex cons protected class giving them special RIGHTS!

    Now if they can only completely destroy their economy and tax everyone at 100% and give ration coupons, the utopia can be complete!

    I guess you don’t live in California.

    Thank God. And STAY OUT!

  • Greg

    Instructive reading on Bachmann and T.Paw’s Minnesota…

    http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/91758/minnesota-government-shutdown-dayton-pawlenty

  • TfT

    The things republican women go through for the sake of serving the public. If only there was a single standard applied to all politicians…but alas, the media work for the oval, as long as the manchild or any other dem sits in there…..and they will attack, slander, criticize, make shit up, dumpster dive, and trash family members of any/all conservative republicans.

    The public is growing ever so tired of the ridiculous double standard applied to republicans and to conservative women in particular.

    CNN stillhas not issued a statement regarding Piers, Maher and MILFs, I presume…..how typical. Just think if a democrat had been referred to as MILFs, TC and everyone here at mediaite, CNN, NBCABCCBS would be screaming at the top of their lungs for that individual to be reprimanded.

    But since it was directed at Palin/Bachman, it gests a pass.

    Did mediaite even ask CNN for a comment on that level of misogyny, or did ya’ll just give Bill and Peirs a pass on that?

  • Azarkhan

    darladoon said:
    always have substantive and relevant arguments

    Says someone who rarely if ever cites references for her arguments.

    darladoon said:
    boy, you’re such a nice, nice person.

    It’s impossible for me to be nice to leftists. I really do despise them. Sorry!

    darladoon said:
    it’s nice to see you have important stuff to do all day….

    Pot calling kettle black?

  • Rokker

    LOL

    This crazy teabagger loon has to backtrack again on her lunatic talk.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Skippy said:
    I guess you don’t live in California.

    Thank God. And STAY OUT!

    Left September 1st 2008, just before the collapse. How goes that utopia by the way, I hear businesses are FLEEING, the water for the farms SHUT OFF and Moonbeam RAISING TAXES.

    Also, another call for the conservative parts of the state to secede from the leftist enclaves. I guess I left just in time.

  • szore

    Why isn’t the MSM attacking Obama and his radical policies? The ‘teabagger loons’ are taking back our country, porch monkey. Deal with it.

  • Azarkhan

    darladoon said:
    hardly a “left wing” paradise

    Yet somehow the California state legislature is controlled by Democrats:

    Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor’s office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.

  • seek

    darladoon said:
    yeah, i suppose good grammatical skills, fluency in logic, cultural/political history, and art
    is my downfall….bummer

    exactly what is “fluency in logic”? lol
    That’s a new one – Which left wing prof came up with that or did you dream it up all by yourself?

    ….and darla yeah and good grammatical skills are sort of like maybe a sign that perhaps just maybe you flunked the course? Call me crazy but…..

    yeah, o.k. then – whatever! lol

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    darladoon said:
    and btw, can we please stop referring to “asking questions” as an “attack”
    by the media?

    Are you STILL SLEEPING with your children?
    Are you STILL VIEWING child porn?
    Are you STILL………………….

    What were you saying?

  • Greg

    szore said:
    Why isn’t the MSM attacking Obama and his radical policies? The ‘teabagger loons’ are taking back our country, porch monkey. Deal with it.

    Well aren’t you just a precious Georgia Peach? Thanks for your contribution!

  • Skippy

    DavidKramer said:
    Left September 1st 2008, just before the collapse. How goes that utopia by the way, I hear businesses are FLEEING, the water for the farms SHUT OFF and Moonbeam RAISING TAXES.

    Also, another call for the conservative parts of the state to secede from the leftist enclaves. I guess I left just in time.

    Sounds like you didn’t leave on time.

    You are somewhere else “quotes” better off “quotes” and STILL bit chin about California.

    And you know what, leave that damned coyote back here. We need it. It chases away the rats and the cats.

  • Azarkhan

    Azarkhan said:
    Yet somehow the California state legislature is controlled by Democrats:

    Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor’s office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.

    Miss Loon? Hello? No response?

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Hey, I did not hunt in California, otherwise that coyote hide would of made me about $50 or more.

    I am sure it is still running in the Fresno hood.

    I bitch about California because I was born at Castle Air Force Base and it is my home state. I have many relatives there yet beginning to think about the exodus. I gave it a second try from 03-08 and over 50% of my earnings went to government taxation. Now it is down to about 45%

    Oh well. Making strides here in my current purple state, I am sure you have seen our tribulations extensively being that Walker has been a media “darling” for the past 7 months. LOL

  • AikidoJoe

    Azarkhan said:
    Yet somehow the California state legislature is controlled by Democrats:

    Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor’s office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.

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  • Skippy

    DavidKramer said:
    Hey, I did not hunt in California, otherwise that coyote hide would of made me about $50 or more.

    I am sure it is still running in the Fresno hood.

    I bitch about California because I was born at Castle Air Force Base and it is my home state. I have many relatives there yet beginning to think about the exodus. I gave it a second try from 03-08 and over 50% of my earnings went to government taxation. Now it is down to about 45%

    Oh well. Making strides here in my current purple state, I am sure you have seen our tribulations extensively being that Walker has been a media “darling” for the past 7 months. LOL

    That’s BS and you know it.

    I can walk you through your CA 540 and you only pay whats fair.

    No freaking way you pay above Feds. BS.

  • LoyalOpposition

    szore said:
    Why isn’t the MSM attacking Obama and his radical policies? The ‘teabagger loons’ are taking back our country, porch monkey. Deal with it.

    Please stop pretending, it isn’t fooling anybody.

  • skyfet

    This is asking questions Hannity style. Feeding them the talking point and then ask the question, thats just moronic.

  • glenn113

    What about pornography? You’ll lose every male vote out there.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Skippy said:
    That’s BS and you know it.

    I can walk you through your CA 540 and you only pay whats fair.

    No freaking way you pay above Feds. BS.

    When I talk taxes, I talk about aggregate taxation. What, do you think property tax and gas tax are not taxes or something?

    Let me make a small list for you-
    Federal State Local Income tax
    Federal State Medicare or equivalent taxation
    Social Security tax
    Gas tax
    License tax
    Registration tax
    Property tax
    Water tax
    Sewer tax
    Garbage tax
    Sales tax
    etc etc etc

    Funny how those that attempt to debate taxation ALWAYS forget that is not just the income taxation that hurts people. It is the aggregate or effective tax rate. Oh, and I did not even include the largest tax, inflation.

    But carry on.

  • adlerman

    Bachmann is a liar- she gets more government handouts than any 20 poor people.

  • Skippy

    skyfet said:
    This is asking questions Hannity style. Feeding them the talking point and then ask the question, thats just moronic.

    No.

    It is what drives the “demo”

    Just like you said.

    MORONS.

  • Gefforyk

    Nationman said:
    thank god the southern democrats left for the gop.

    See Skippy, here is a man who understands his party’s history… however the GOP didn’t want them hence the growth in independants..

  • Skippy

    DavidKramer said:
    When I talk taxes, I talk about aggregate taxation. What, do you think property tax and gas tax are not taxes or something?

    Let me make a small list for you-
    Federal State Local Income tax
    Federal State Medicare or equivalent taxation
    Social Security tax
    Gas tax
    License tax
    Registration tax
    Property tax
    Water tax
    Sewer tax
    Garbage tax
    Sales tax
    etc etc etc

    Funny how those that attempt to debate taxation ALWAYS forget that is not just the income taxation that hurts people. It is the aggregate or effective tax rate. Oh, and I did not even include the largest tax, inflation.

    But carry on.

    Oh, dear.

    You have to be fugging kidding me.

    You CANNOT prepare a California income tax return WITHOUT a FEDERAL TAX RETURN.

    And at FEDERAL RATES, you DO NOT PAY ABOVE 33% of your income.

    THAT is how I know your are full of sht.

    EASY.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Skippy

    I guess you do not believe sales, gas, ss, medicare, property, licenses, registration etc etc etc are not taxes. I guess you have a reading comprehension problem.

    By the way, since moving I have formed a corporation, now all of my expenses are kept track of and if I say JOB or WORK during the expense, it is now corporation related. I have learned things from GE. I suggest everyone looking into becoming contract workers for their employers. Time to eliminate those “employee” taxes, which are really just another name for “slave” taxes.

  • Gefforyk

    Dave Splash said:
    “due” to unions, dummy. Considering it was liberals who comprised the abolitionist movement and the civil rights movement, it is ridiculous to cite individual democrats as responsible for racism. The racist element left the party after LBJ signed the civil rights bill. The Republicans have had them since. Sticking with party ID to make your point is stupid and obviously irrelevant. The right loves talking about Byrd’s time in the KKK, when he was 15, but ignore their heroes like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms. Byrd apologized and changed his tune. The right didn’t. The modern confederacy/KKK is the tea party. Fact.

    Fact – Eisenhower introduced civil rights legislation in the 50′s that LBJ striped before he would allow it’s passage…
    Fact – The 1964 Legislation that the Dems are so proud of was LBJ bringing back much of what he had striped from Eisenhowes bill and was passed with stronger support from republicans than from democrats… Democratic stallworth Strom Thurman had a melt down and tried to filibuster Eisenhowers original legislation. You don’t get to make up your own facts. If you take a look at history you will see that the Democrats have never been a friend to the black man. KKK was a democratic organization, that too you can look up…

  • felixw

    You want a measure of the corruption of the mainstream media? Here’s a good one. “Journalists” (I use the term loosely) refuse to present any of Michele Bachmann’s views on reducing the size and scope of government — views which are the ONLY REASON SHE HAS A FOLLOWING AMONG REPUBLICANS. But instead they try to make it look like she is in favor of slavery. The intellectual dishonest of the media is so glaring here, that it is almost breathtaking.

    Hey liberal reporters, if you disagree with Bachmann’s views on the key issues, then present a frank and open debate on them. Try to convince us that big government and high taxes are good. If you can. Prove the superiority of your liberal ideology. If you can. But quit playing the smear and gotcha games. They make you look desperate and corrupt.

  • Skippy

    Hellooooo! Stupid!

    Your Social Security and Medicare goes into your FEDERAL INCOME TAX form.

    Your LOCAL, HELLOO!, property TAXES are EXEMPT, you moron. It MEANS you pay to the STATE, not to the FED.

    HELLOOOOO! Your WATER, SEWER, GARBAGE TAXES go to clean YOUR sht.

    Talk about personal responsibility. Now you gNOpigs want us to pay to clean your arse.

  • Gefforyk

    Skippy you are a bit naive…

  • Skippy

    DavidKramer said:
    I guess you do not believe sales, gas, ss, medicare, property, licenses, registration etc etc etc are not taxes. I guess you have a reading comprehension problem.

    By the way, since moving I have formed a corporation, now all of my expenses are kept track of and if I say JOB or WORK during the expense, it is now corporation related. I have learned things from GE. I suggest everyone looking into becoming contract workers for their employers. Time to eliminate those “employee” taxes, which are really just another name for “slave” taxes.

    More BS.

    Your “corp” and YOU have to pay taxes.

    How do you like that?

  • Skippy

    Gefforyk said:
    Skippy you are a bit naive…

    Talk to me, baby.

    Have I told you about my 12 inch?

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Skippy said:
    More BS.

    Your “corp” and YOU have to pay taxes.

    How do you like that?

    Corporations have to pay taxes on INCOME. If there is NO INCOME, there is no tax.

    How do you think ol Barry’s crony corporation GE got to pay no taxes? Come on, you are this oh so smart skippy that was going to teach me about taxation and stuff.

    Can you keep up? You do not pay taxes on gross income, you pay it on net income. Do you know the difference between an asset and a liability? Do you know that LIFO and FIFO rules are being changed? Do you know it usually takes $1.75 Trillion EVERY YEAR for businesses to follow regulations? Do you really want to engage?

  • Gefforyk

    Skippy said:
    Talk to me, baby. Have I told you about my 12 inch?

    hahahahaha thanks that was the best laugh of the day… :-)

  • Paul G

    Outside of you MM libturds getting/earning your penny…You can’t actually believe the bullsh!t you post here.

  • Fokker News

    We have some new material on Michelle Bachman’s church.They consider the Pope the anti-Christ:

    Since Scripture teaches that the Antichrist would be revealed and gives the marks by which the Antichrist is to be recognized, and since this prophecy has been clearly fulfilled in the history and development of the Roman Papacy, it is Scripture which reveals that the Papacy is the Antichrist.”

  • skponggol

    ” I abhor slavery. But I abhor Barack Obama even more.”

    That’s why this hypocrite strongly believes that African Americans living under Obama are worse than they were in pre-1860 slavery.

  • Fokker News

    Here is a link to Bachmann’s church website and their opinion on the papacy:

    http://www.wels.net/about-wels/doctrinal-statements/antichrist?page=0,8

  • BoomShakalaka

    Well …that was boring.

    The only funny parts about this “interview” is how much softballs there was,and the fact that Hannity keeps saying the “mainstream media”, like Fox is not mainstream or something…
    How can you brag about having the best ratings in cable news and not consider yourself “mainstream”?..Doesn’t make any sense,but fits into the “victim” narrative that Fox likes so much.

    Blah….

  • Mosesdinoark

    Michele Bachmann’s Church: The Pope Is The Anti-Christ

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/michele-bachmanns-church-the-pope-is-the-anti-christ.php?ref=fpb

    These wacky politicians and love their wacky priests..howboutit?? lol

  • Fokker News

    Mosesdinoark said:
    .howboutit??

    It is okay that their preachers are wacky, as long as they are white and Republican.

  • david r

    Fokker News said:
    Here is a link to Bachmann’s church website and their opinion on the papacy:

    http://www.wels.net/about-wels/doctrinal-statements/antichrist?page=0,8

    Mosesdinoark said:
    Michele Bachmann’s Church: The Pope Is The Anti-Christ

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/michele-bachmanns-church-the-pope-is-the-anti-christ.php?ref=fpb

    These wacky politicians and love their wacky priests..howboutit?? lol

    Fokker News said:
    It is okay that their preachers are wacky, as long as they are white and Republican.

    Hey, here’s Obama’s church:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnlRrxXv-v8

  • lillyluminatus

    I am so confused. I thought the government was too big, and needed to stay out of our personal lives. Now you’re telling me that the single most personal decision we make–who to spend our lives with–is the “fundamental unit of our government”?

    Shouldn’t that be a cause for concern? Or is big government only a concern when it doesn’t allow conservatives to impose their own bigoted views on the rest of us?

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    lillyluminatus said:
    I am so confused. I thought the government was too big, and needed to stay out of our personal lives. Now you’re telling me that the single most personal decision we make–who to spend our lives with–is the “fundamental unit of our government”?

    Shouldn’t that be a cause for concern? Or is big government only a concern when it doesn’t allow conservatives to impose their own bigoted views on the rest of us?

    As the government and legislation exists today, advantages are given to families and children. This is so the fundamental unit of society will flourish. That was the basic idea behind the government giving advantages to family units.

    Now, if you remove all of these advantages, I could care less if you go marry a goat. Being a Constitutional Libertarian, I am a slightly different type of conservative. Of course you being a leftist, it is not that you want the right to marry, you want the advantages given to those that get married. Am I right?

  • dougx

    That is one good looking 55 year old. She has my vote if Rom falters.

  • lillyluminatus

    dougx said:
    That is one good looking 55 year old. She has my vote if Rom falters.

    Thank you for ‘fessing up to the real reason Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann have made it anywhere—they provide conservative men with something fun to look at.

  • Bill Huggins

    dougx said:
    That is one good looking 55 year old. She has my vote if Rom falters.

    She still won’t sleep with you.

  • lillyluminatus

    adlerman said:
    Bachmann is a liar- she gets more government handouts than any 20 poor people.

    Silly alderman. They’re not handouts when they go to Republicans!

  • lillyluminatus

    DavidKramer said:
    Of course you being a leftist, it is not that you want the right to marry, you want the advantages given to those that get married. Am I right?

    Um, considering the fact that, as a straight woman, I already HAVE the right to marry, that is a ridiculous assertion.

    Being a “leftist,” I happen to believe in something called equality and personal freedom.

  • im_lovin_it

    felixw said:
    You want a measure of the corruption of the mainstream media? Here’s a good one. “Journalists” (I use the term loosely) refuse to present any of Michele Bachmann’s views on reducing the size and scope of government — views which are the ONLY REASON SHE HAS A FOLLOWING AMONG REPUBLICANS.

    Oh…really? Hmmm…….

    dougx said:
    That is one good looking 55 year old. She has my vote if Rom falters.

    ???

  • glenn113

    Fokker News said:
    We have some new material on Michelle Bachman’s church.They consider the Pope the anti-Christ: Since Scripture teaches that the Antichrist would be revealed and gives the marks by which the Antichrist is to be recognized, and since this prophecy has been clearly fulfilled in the history and development of the Roman Papacy, it is Scripture which reveals that the Papacy is the Antichrist.”

    Where is that link at?

  • e83talus

    I don’t believe she is a racists and I am African American, however she uses the slave analogy a lot! She uses it regarding Obama and taxes, and gay people, and children, and debt. She needs to give it a rest or else people will think there is something to the continued obsession with slavery! Just like people who are always talking about gay people are often gay themselves.

  • Bill Huggins
  • Fokker News

    Bill Huggins said:
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHhha

    “Clearly, that is anti-Catholic,” said Bill Donohue” “She said must address the matter promptly”

    Just wait, we will hear a load of crap from Bachmann.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    lillyluminatus said:
    Um, considering the fact that, as a straight woman, I already HAVE the right to marry, that is a ridiculous assertion.

    Being a “leftist,” I happen to believe in something called equality and personal freedom.

    Did not answer the question, I notice most do not. If all the advantages of the marriage are not given, would you still accept that or not?

  • Skippy

    DavidKramer said:
    Did not answer the question, I notice most do not. If all the advantages of the marriage are not given, would you still accept that or not?

    Let’s see here.

    Line 4 of your 1040 FEDERAL return.

    add the other exemptions for your children.

    AND YOU ARE STILL LYING TO US, ER, TELLING US YOU ARE OVER TAXED?

  • lillyluminatus

    DavidKramer said:
    Did not answer the question, I notice most do not. If all the advantages of the marriage are not given, would you still accept that or not?

    I guess I don’t understand the question. Ideally, I would like the government to get out of the marriage business altogether, if that is what you’re asking.

    But no, giving gay couples “marriage” without any of the rights of marriage, while maintaining those benefits for straight couples, is absolutely unacceptable.

  • carlinist

    DavidKramer said:
    Anyway, I slave for Dave, not the Democrat/Communist collective. You are not my slave masters.

    We all are.. slaves for the government.. not just democrats..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvsADU2OOWM

  • dougx

    DavidKramer said:
    As the government and legislation exists today, advantages are given to families and children. This is so the fundamental unit of society will flourish. That was the basic idea behind the government giving advantages to family units.

    Now, if you remove all of these advantages, I could care less if you go marry a goat. Being a Constitutional Libertarian, I am a slightly different type of conservative. Of course you being a leftist, it is not that you want the right to marry, you want the advantages given to those that get married. Am I right?

    David, i agree. I am against any preferences for anything given out by the govt. to anyone, married, minority, whatever.

  • CosmosDan

    redleaf says:

    Hannity is one of the great investigative journalists of our time.
    A man who will go to any length to ferret out the truth, even if it forces to him re-evaluate his own beliefs.
    Men like Hannity are at the pinnacle of the journalistic tradition. He is dispassionate and “just the facts ma’am” about his reporting. He cares only about the truth.

    That’s some good sarcasm right there.

  • CosmosDan

    I don’t know about you all, but I believe her when she says she thinks slavery was a bad thing and I appreciate her keen insight. I think it’s entirely possible she didn’t see that section in the Marriage Vow. Perhaps she didn’t read it before she signed it.

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  • Republicans Are Liars

    dougx said:
    That is one good looking 55 year old. She has my vote if Rom falters.

    I think you should go have a menage a trois with her and her gay looking husband. A “Meathead” sandwich!!!

  • CAconservative

    How about “indentured servitude” Mrs.Backmann? So far, the Democrats have given in, will the Republicans fight Obimbo’s quest to force all Americans to be economically subordinate to the government?

  • Devil’s Spawn (formerly George L)

    CosmosDan said:
    I don’t know about you all, but I believe her when she says she thinks slavery was a bad thing and I appreciate her keen insight. I think it’s entirely possible she didn’t see that section in the Marriage Vow. Perhaps she didn’t read it before she signed it.

    Yup. That’s who I would vote for; a politician who will sign anything to get some votes.

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