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Michele Bachmann Demands Apology From NBC Over Jimmy Fallon Song Flap

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Michele Bachmann appeared on America’s Newsroom and called upon NBC to apologize for an inflammatory song that Roots drummer Questlove played to introduce her on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. “If that song had been played for Michelle Obama, I have no doubt that NBC would have apologized to her, and likely they could have fired the drummer, or at least, suspended him,” Bachmann fumed. “None of that happened from NBC, and this is clearly a form of bias on the part of the Hollywood entertainment elite but it’s also sexism as well.”

Bill Hemmer asked the Republican presidential candidate if she knew about the offensive nature of the song when she was brought out on stage.

“I wasn’t aware of it at all, I didn’t find out until later yesterday…I’m hoping to be able speak to Jimmy Fallon today, I don’t have anything against Jimmy Fallon, I love him, he’s a kick, it was a great opportunity to be on the show, I’d love to go back again (but) this wouldn’t have be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama, it shouldn’t be tolerated if it’s a conservative woman either.”

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“Of course I accept Jimmy’s apology, but this really needs to come from NBC and this is an outrage that happened,” Bachmann concluded.

Watch Bachmann’s outrage over The Roots’ introductory song via Fox News:

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  • Todd

    I may think Bachmann is a idiot but this was beyond pathetic and everything I expect from “celebrities” these days.

  • Anonymous

    If Fallon and his production staff have apologized — and they should — no further apology is necessary. Bachmann’s efforts to turn this into a full scale war on the media is just more political posturing.

    Let’s all move on.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe Bachmann should try not lying and see what song is played when she goes on talk shows.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    don’t worry Michelle. there’s no mistaking this Russian newscasters message to Obama.
    http://youtu.be/E7jKKZTpzh4

  • Lenny

    Not a Michelle fan in the least but I was with her on this one.  I felt she was totally slighted. Now that she is calling NBC “elitist” and throwing in Michelle Obama to boot-its back to the white jackets for her. 
    She still didnt deserve to be embarrassed by Fallon in this fashion, but she is such a freaking loon.

  • Anonymous

     Michele bleeds her weakness .

    But it’s very typical of a conservative crybaby .

    Can’t take the heat moochelle , get back in the kitchen .

  • Anonymous

    Liberals NEVER apologize…..they will make excuses to justify their actions!!!

  • Kid Dynamite

    Bitch, bitch, bitch.

  • joe

    i think fallon should apologize–it is not what we are about…
    and in saying that all conservatives need to apologize for booing the president’s wife, calling the president and his family names and any and all lies and hate speech..

    i mean–if you are going to spread hate–you cannot be too mad when it comes back..
    but as a liberal, i will not fall back on the ole conservative excuse as “they did it”…
    as liberals -we are better than that and we need to admit when we are wrong.
    if conservatives wish to spread lied like Bachman, Newt, Palin, Limbaugh, hannity, Perry, Mitt and on and on-without apology or accountability–that is on them..
    we do not excuse bad behavior and we are smarter and better than that..ignorance is not excuse..

  • Anonymous

    They offered a “David Lettermann” style apology. One that would never be accepted by the left if this had been done to the FLOTUS (see other thread). The same apology that would be given to a liberal or Dem should be given to MB. Not a back handed slap on twitter… but a honest, unequivocating apology that doesn’t come of douche-y.

  • Mindjester

    Bachmann is right, there is definitely a double standard in play here.

  • Anonymous

    So any Dem that “lies” should get this?

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for setting the low end of the grading curve.

  • Anonymous

    So then you would’ve been ok if Imus were allowed to stay on the TV?

  • Hugo Daun

    NONSENSE!

    Personally, I am sincerely sorry that you are such a fucking dummy.

    Now, dry those tears and go play outside.

  • Todd

    Right after the left apologizes for calling George Bush every name in the book. Including making movies were the guy was killed. Not going to happen.

  • Anonymous

    The only apology I have seenwas via Twitter. Did Jimmy put out an actual statement that we know of?

  • Anonymous

    Fallon has apologized, so there is very little else…

    There are many bloated Radio/TV Shock Jocks who spend all their waking hours  being offensive…

    …It how their business is done these days and it’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

  • Anonymous

    Twitter strikes again.  If the band members had not tweeted what they had done we probably wouldn’t even know about it.  It would have been like the recent Patton Oswalt prank just revealed that had gone unnoticed. .

  • Anonymous

    Take the word lies out of quotation marks buddy, this chick lies as a matter of course and constantly.  She lies about vaccines, she lies about about Obama’s position on healthcare for the disabled, she illegal immigrants getting free health care, she lies about death panels, she lies about abortion clinics for 13 year olds…and best of all, she lies about ever lying.

    Lying ass bitch is a pretty good theme song for this chick.

  • News Of The World

    I know, Michelle, it’s tough pretending to be a presidential candidate isn’t it?  Problem is, you ARE a liar.  And a bi*ch.  So, NBC has nothing to apologize for… 
    However, I will issue an apology on behalf of 95% of Americans for allowing the likes of you to embarrass our great nation on a daily basis while you vomit up your lies and hatred for all the world to see.  

  • Anonymous

    NBC should appologize for Brian Williams using a qoute from a Gawker.com story on his “news” program.

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann: “Of course I accept Jimmy’s apology,”

    If she’s unhappy with Fallon’s apology, she should say so, but she didn’t. I don’t understand why, in light of that, that becomes her excuse to take this up to the boardroom of a corporate media giant.

    Somehow I don’t recall Rupert Murdoch apologizing when one of Fox’s anchors charged that the Obamas’ were engaging in a “terrorist fist bump.”

  • John Choate

    The drummer would have already been fired and crucified if the guest was Michele Obama.  It’s a disgusting double standard, but one that conservatives are just used to by now.

  • Anonymous

    Nope… just the one on twitter so far. Unless there has been an update I don’t know of.

  • keninkansas

    All democrats…all black…all busted for voting fraud.

    12 former officials indicted for voter fraud

  • Rufus Danegro

    Sarah Palin thinks Imus has something to do with this; typical AND stupid.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Yeah that double standard that allows Rush Limbaugh to say vile things EVERYDAY.

    Sorry. Stop your whining chump.

  • Rufus Danegro

     Exactly.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Sweet Avatar!

  • Concerned Citizen

    So when Barack Hussein goes on these type shows they should play “lyin ass bastard”. See how that works. Some of Obama’s lies. I won’t run for president, I dont have the experience 2004, I will only take public financing for the election, no boots on the ground in libya, i will not rest until the bp oil spill is cleaned up, health care bill wont increase deficit 1 cent, cut deficit in half by end of first term, no earmarks in stimulus, most transparent presidency evah, gitmo to be closed in a year,ayers is a guy who lives in the neighborhood no other contact except sat on boards with him and he started political career in his house, mother was denied healthcare, no lobbyists, barely knows rezko, not affiliated with acorn etc etc etc

  • Anonymous

    All politicians lie. You just call out/hate one side.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Hey GOP-they fired ED Hill over that-fist bump nonsense. She got exactly what she deserved for calling the Obama’s terrorists.

  • keninkansas

    Nice job, hypocrite.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Liberals NEVER aplogize,,.. waah waaah even if in this case the one liberal (Jimmy) did as quickly as he could and the other liberal (Questlove) played the song so why apologize, and the GOP members (Most of the Senior NBC executives) arent apologizing because the GOP apologizes for NOTHING (at least the NEW GOP doesnt).

    DANCE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU

  • Anonymous

    Failed campaign promises and Rush Limbaugh conspiracies aren’t the same as straight up lies and you know it.

  • Concerned Citizen

    Libs what happened to the call for civility from Prez Obama after you wrongly accused Palin and conservatives of being responsible for shooting Gabby Giffords. The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

  • Rufus Danegro

    You mean the call for civility you IGNORED? Yeah ok…

  • Anonymous

    Re-post: My compliments to
    Jimmy Fallon’s stage band!

  • keninkansas

    things?

  • nomad28

    what about YOUR outrage James? Or is A-OK if the one being derided and insulted is of an ideology different than yours?

  • Anonymous

    There are degrees…and Michele Bachmann has shown in these debates that she is willing to lie to make her point.  She flat out lied, and you know this, about the HPV vaccine.  She lied A LOT about the Health Care law.  She lied about Obama’s trip to India.  She keeps lying and no one on your side calls her out about it…why?

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Now that is CLASSIC. The problem is that people in this kindergarten we call a country cant in their most wildest of clear moments of higher IQ see the difference. Fact is as an American, I dont CARE who is in office, if someone from another country disses YOUR president, they can KISS MY A$$ and any support of such an act (like throwing around a like to the video in jest) is an affront to the flag and I hope that anyone who would do such a thing can take a nice long historic look at the greatness that IS their country and realize they enjoy getting the finger too. I took stances like this for George Bush and anyone else with the courage to sit in the White House and attempt to govern one of the hardest political/social yet grossly successful experiments that this globe has ever witnessed. Plus, I have to say that in some feeble minds, the president of the country and a wannabe presidential hopeful are the same thing. Good luck to you and yours. NOW DANCE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Concerned Citizen is one of those kids who was angered when he discovered there was no Santa or Easter bunny. LIES LIES LIES they are all telling me lies.. NO RAIN TOMORROW AND IT RAINED!! BOoo lies lies lies.. NOT TO MENTION, the BAND selected the song. Thats like 5 regular uninformed dudes. You want blood, ask for their jobs. BUT oHhh wait, the GOP is too stupid in general to make that type of play. Too bad.. if you wait too long you’ll miss the moment.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU

  • keninkansas

    if you’re a 6 yr old, maybe

  • keninkansas

    wow, how low does the bar go for obama?

  • Anonymous

    Someone whose approval is dismal like Michele will ride on this fake outrage till she gets more attention again.  Move over, Mr. Fallon had already apologize. 

  • Ricci Dats Me

    EXACTLY.. I’d say the percentage of people who actually KNOW that song are either out protesting or just laughing and tweeting each other because they were on an “inside” joke. A few thousand people BOOing however? Well thats understood around the globe. But why split hairs when we can CAIN DANCE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU 

  • Anonymous

    You Conservatives love Cain, Newt, Bachmann and Santorum, and you want to talk to me about a low bar?

  • Ricci Dats Me

    One conservative, a party leader, never busted for anything.. BUT HE DANCES! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU

  • Chrisg

    Did I miss a sincere apology from Cain for calling the house minority leader “Princess Nancy”?

    Hmmm?

    A band leader was rude and crude.  Oh boy!

    One of your top tier candidates is a sexist pig (and likely harrasser) so do please STFU you whining litttle hypocrites.

  • Anonymous

    So you’re in favor of firing people for unpopular speech?

    When are you starting your petition to get Limbaugh off the air?

  • Anonymous

    I’d have a lot of sympathy for her if she wasn’t such a pandering nut.

  • keninkansas

    yes, how low does it go?

  • Anonymous

    Your party is pretty close to electing a dude who is borderline illiterate (Cain) to the White House…thats pretty low, even for Conservatives.

  • Anonymous

    CVS.

  • Anonymous

    this woman is a mental case and an imbecile.  and she needs to STFU

  • Anonymous

    Michelle Bachmann is the death panel lady.  Why would anybody apologize to her?

  • keninkansas

    flagged spam

  • americanjew

    Rush Limbaugh JUST told Michelle Obama she’s UPPITY – so lets compare Jimmy Fallon’s drummer Quest Love VS. Rush Limbaugh – so Michele Bachman said that everyone would be apologizing if something similar happened to Michelle Obama? Where’s the reaction!!?!

    It must be tough to have constantly dished out HATE for years at this President and pretty much the entire liberal movement and now to have the same mud slung back at you it must suck!!! I’m not saying what Quest Love did is right…it’s wrong…and Jimmy Fallon as well as all the Roots should apologize…BUT yet in still Michele – you had it comin’ you lyin’ ass bitch!!!

  • Anonymous

    For the same reason your side accepts the Ted Kennedy’s, John Murtha’s, Rod Blagojevich’s, Gerry Studds’s of the Derm party. Don’t ask me to like MB. I don’t. She’s not my type of Repub. I’m a Paul, Huntsmann type of conservative. But when liberals on this blog claim their side is pure (or MORE pure) or that the other side “lies” more I will call bull$hit. The side are BOTH equal. BOTH the same. Neither side walks with the angles. They are equal in their negative attributes. People just decide which philosophy they like more and vote that way…. while holding their nose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Cry us a river, freakshow.

  • Anonymous

    I’m no fan of any of the Dems you listed, but I am not defending them on a blog, like you. They are not the same. The Dems are not electing one of those yahoos to the highest office in the land. The Conservatives are, and its not only insane but completely reckless to give someone so much responsibility simply because they say what the religious crazies want to hear. Its got to stop.

  • Doggielvr

    Moochelle is the FAFLOTUS’ name.

  • Doggielvr

    NBC GOP?? You need mo’ learnin’ der , Ricci

  • Doggielvr

    And apologize to President Bush for burning his likeness in effigy and booing him at BO’s inauguration, etc., etc. Yeah, right, ain’t gonna happen.

  • Pablo

    Who’s his boss?

  • Pablo

    How did she lie about the HPV vaccine? Quote, please.

  • Pablo

    How about lying about his dying mother being denied health care? Is that low enough for ya?

  • Anonymous

    “She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection. And she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. The mother was crying when she came up to me last night. I didn’t know who she was before the debate. This is the very real concern and people have to draw their own conclusions.”

    LIE

  • Roxsteady

    Bachmann is a moron!  And as somone who has repeatedly referred to the Obama administration as a “Ganster Government” she has no leg to stand on.  Anyone who doesn’t hear that dog whistle is also an idiot!  Oh, and she should stop comparing herself to the First Lady.  She’s a loonie congresswoman who is an embarrassment to the country. Everything that comes out of her mouth is a dammed lie!  That song was perfect!

  • keninkansas

    you’re not a jew, you’re a bigot

  • Anonymous

    “Conservative” santorum sucking scum should follow their own “personal responsibility” mantra and admit that if MB just stopped lying so damn much there might have been a different song playing.

  • Anonymous

    Your imagination got the best of you on this one. Or maybe you get your nooze from Murdochistan.

  • keninkansas

    What’s it like not being able to come up with your own thoughts and ideas?

  • Pablo

    Speaking of vomited hatred, you’re going to need to clean your shoes.

  • Say What?

    Jeez…the FLOTUS has been called everything from “Moochelle” by Limbaugh to “Obama’s baby Mama” on Fixed News and a lot more..but this one is over the line huh?

    Cry me a goddamn river.

  • Anonymous

    Link me please, I’ve never heard that one.

  • Pablo

    How many times are you going to post that? That’s at least 4 on this thread alone.

  • Roxsteady

    What I don’t get is why he’d even invite this dolt who’s polling at 5% on his show in the first place.  The media should be treating her with the contemt that she deserves by simply ignoring her.  She’s got no chance at beating Obama and they all know it.  Maybe she should check her husband into his “Cure The Gay” Clinic.

  • Anonymous

    Where exactly was that movie made again? Damnit Todd, you’re not teabagging right at all!! Get with it or no more teabags for you!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    This seems to be a reoccurring theme. Conservatives can dish it out but they can’t take it. 

  • bhodiedog

    Bachman is such an idiot she didn’t even know until her advisors decided to make a big deal of it….No one apologized to Michele Obama for all the terrible things the conservative radio shows have said about her….Grow a pair bachman, and put your big boy panties on……All she is doing is desperately trying to keep her name alive….

  • mosesdinoark

    “I’d love to go back again (but) this wouldn’t have be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama,…”  Again…this a fallacy because Mrs. Obama is NOT a PROVEN LIAR like Bachmann is.  If the shoe fits, wear it (Im sure Marcus will pick out a FABULOUS pair for you!!)

  • Todd

    This is the liberal mind at work. Nice cheap shot at the husband. You guys are pure class.

  • Anonymous

    Says Ken, who is obviously NOT in Kansas. You should join the rest of the “concerned citizens”, Ken. Your fitting is next Wednesday.

  • one pissed off liberal

    When the drummer is in the unemployment line, then we will know NBC is sincere….

  • keninkansas

    Hit a nerve, did I?

  • Anonymous

    So, no problem then, if the next time Hillary Clinton appears on Jimmy Fallon they should play this same song in her honor.

  • one pissed off liberal

    oops….

  • Anonymous

    never is a long time, sparky. especially when you capitalize it.

  • keninkansas

    You mean maddow or larry didn’t do a 2 week expose on that? LOL!

  • one pissed off liberal

    No, I’m in favor of firing people for behaving in an irresponsible, immature, and monumentally disrespectfull way.

    Like when a drummer on a national evening talk show plays “Lying Bitch” as the entrance song for an elected member of the house of representives…or for any one else….you inlcuded.

  • Anonymous

    making shit up is what they do.

  • Anonymous

    Love a good Simpsons reference

    :D

  • Anonymous

    Waiting on that link…tick…tock…tick…tock…

  • one pissed off liberal

    So, since we all know that Obama lied when he said there would be no earmarks in the stimulus bill, is it now ok to play lying bitch when he goes on Jay Leno or shows that are similar?

  • Anonymous

    The liberal TV hosts play down to their lowdown viewers.
     
    The viciousness, hatred and lack of class of the most rabid liberal is evident all around , especially here.

    Keep it up, ladies and germs, and see what it gets you.

  • azgrandma

    Have not one ounce of sympathy for this whiney idiot – if you are so worried about being picked up then stay off those shows.  oooppppsss I forgot if she did that she could not cry poor, poor me. hey bachmann follow your leader sarie and take up residence in alaska or how about this – how about doing your job you were elected to do in DC. 

  • one pissed off liberal

    Heres the BS shovel dude…keep digging…you’ll get out of your contradictary logic any time now.

  • Anonymous

    You know what really cracks me up?

    The fact that NBC is purposely and merrily going out of its way to alienate a good 40% to 50% of its potential audience. The message is unmistakable — this network loathes and actively disdains a significant portion of the overall market for their shows and for the products and services of its advertisers. What sort of business executive in his right mind would think that’s a smart way to run a business that survives or dies on the ability to appeal to the largest share of the viewing public?

    I’ve already eliminated all NBC properties from my viewing routine and more and more people are doing the same every day.

    Great work, Peacock Network. We hear you LOUD and CLEAR. Message received.

  • Anonymous

    No, it means that you don’t understand how government works, and how compromise works. So, you are a Republican.

  • Anonymous

    And I’m no fan of MB and I’m not defending her policy. I’m pointing out that Jimmy is a classless jerk with no couth and if the same was done to a Dem you would be taking the exact opposite position.

  • mosesdinoark

    Really?  What she lyin’ about?

  • warrenlee

    She is a world class whiner. 

  • one pissed off liberal

    I can tell by your avatar name and your post that you are a mature, smart, and enlightened liberal with a wealth of education who easily influences others with a sharp wit and a sharp mind to match.

    Am I right?

  • Anonymous

    If that Dem made their name base don lying and pandering to idiots within my party, then I wouldn’t have a problem with it. If they played “lyin ass bastard” when Al Sharpton was a guest I would be laughing!

  • keninkansas

    Your google broken?

  • Anonymous

    Um…so you want to elect an ignorant imbecile because I am a liberal?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, all politicians tell lies. Some more than others. There used to be a penalty for telling real pants-on-fire whoppers. Nowadays, not so much. What real penalty did Bachmann pay for her assertion that Obama’s India trip cost taxpayers $200 million a day? Very little. In fact, after that she decided to declare her candidacy for president.

    And her claim about the HPV vaccine was incredibly misleading but rather than apologize for the assertioin, she doubled-down on it, putting forward a bizarre rationale.

    (And recently she claimed that she’s made no gaffes during the campaign. None?!)

    Why does a candidate think that they can make stuff up with impunity? Because now there is a hyper partisan media outlet called Fox News that she and others can go to and not really be challenged. And they can speak to a credulous audience that demands little or no proof.

    It’s made the lying game much more respectable, particularly — though not exclusively — in Republican circles.

  • Anonymous

    I guess the Roots will be looking for a new job. Unless they have lower standards than Fox News at NBC???

    Ed Hill – fired.
    Roots – ?

  • Anonymous

    It’s ROGUE .  But you’re not an imbecile, huh?

  • one pissed off liberal

    Mentally…you are correct in the age assessment required to find that funny.  It’s the hallmark of an enlightened, progressive thinking mind.

  • Anonymous

    When it stops being funny.

  • mosesdinoark

    Not to mention that a former First Lady/Secretary demands infinite more respect than a backwoods daffy, cuckoo, psycho, comgresswoman.

  • Anonymous

    “I’m in favor of firing people for behaving in an irresponsible, immature, and monumentally disrespectfull way.”

    Then obviously you’ll also be signing that petition to get Limbaugh off the air. Good luck with that!

  • Anonymous

    OMG- the King weighs in under his racist persona of Rufus”Where are my teeth” Danegro!

  • http://www.larry-kelly.com Larry Kelly

    yo is one nasty grandma

  • Anonymous

    Poor King still has SPDS!

  • SYSPROG

    This is absolute BS and you know it.  It is TACKY and Fallon has apologized.  As far as the FLOTUS?  Rush Limbaugh calling her ‘uppity’???  Every conservative pundit in Christendom talking about her BIG BUTT?  Honest to God MSM newspapers telling her to ‘cover her arms’ because they could call them THUNDER and LIGHTENING???  How many times have you seen Michele Obama or the WH DEMANDING AN APOLOGY?  MB GOT her apology but now she wants to make it a big f’ing deal and blame NBC for her unpopularity.  She could’ve been a CONTENDER if it wasn’t for THEM.  Always a victim…

  • Anonymous

    List her lies.

  • Anonymous

    Pharmacy?

  • keninkansas

    nbc/ge=state run media

  • Anonymous

    Hey uncledick, explain Obama’s lies:

    Close Gitmo? End rendition? End warrantless wiretaps? End the Patriot Act? Unemployment not to exceed 8%? Provide a missile shield to the Czech Republic and Poland? Transparency? Health Care debate will be carried on C-Span? His mother was denied Health Care coverage? Shovel ready jobs? No lobbyists in his administration? Americans want higher taxes? Pledge to cut the deficit in half during his 1st term? USA involvement in Libya will be in days not weeks?  Pledge not to rest until the BP leak stopped?  ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax?  His pledge to “immediately” implement “Pay-As-You-Go.” No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus? 2010:Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half in first term? Obama promises a comprehensive immigration bill in his 1st year

    Come on and spin it , child!

  • Anonymous

    While speaking on the House floor, Michele Bachmann said an Obama health adviser thinks health care ought not to be extended to the disabled:

    “Rep. Michele Bachmann, R- Minn., made a statement from the floor of the House on July 27 in which she said the American public needed to know what the people who advise Obama about health care reform think. Specifically, she said, Dr. [Ezekiel] Emanuel “says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you’re disabled.”

    Politifact.com ruled this claim false, calling Bachmann’s claim a “gross distortion of his position.”

    “But to make the sensational claim that Emanuel says health care should not be extended to the disabled is a gross distortion of his position, lifted out of context from an academic paper in which he poses philosophical ideas but doesn’t necessarily endorse them. Emanuel’s hefty medical record also counts for something, as well his unequivocal public position against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. We rule Bachmann’s statement False.”

    While on the Dennis Miller radio show, Bachmann stated her belief that the Democrats’ legislation would result in all current health care coverage ending in five years:

    “On the 16th page, it says whatever health care you have now, it’s going to be gone within five years. So your current health care plan, you’re not going to have in five years.

    What you’re going to have is a government plan and a federal bureau is going to decide what you get or if you get anything at all.”
    Calculator and Forms

    Factcheck.org debunked “Illegal Private Insurance” theory:

    “What page 16 actually says is that those who like their current policies are ‘grandfathered’ and can keep them, even if the policies don’t meet new standards.”

    Factcheck.org goes on to say that private insurance plans would still be offered in the health insurance exchange, though they would have to compete with a public option.

    In an interview with Newsmax on September 10, 2009, Bachmann claimed that the Democrats’ health care reform legislation would allow 17 million illegal immigrants access to taxpayer-funded health care:

    “So, an illegal alien can say, ‘I want free health care for me and for my family.’ No one asks, ‘Are you a legal citizen?’ No one asks, ‘Will you show me your documentation that you’re a legal citizen?’ Which means 17 million, potentially, illegal aliens that are in the United States, would have the ability to receive taxpayer-funded health care.”

    The notion of illegals being provided free health care was debunked by Factcheck.org:

    The idea that illegal immigrants would receive free taxpayer-funded health care was found to be false by the non-partisan factcheck.org. The bill specifically states, “Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”

    In the same Newsmax interview as above, Bachmann reiterated her understanding of “death panels” in Democrats’ health care legislation:

    “…‘Death panels’ isn’t just about end-of-life counseling. Death panels are the bureaucracies that President Obama is establishing, that will — where bureaucrats will make the decision on who gets health care, and how much. Who will have access to doctors? How quickly? What will the delays be? Because we know, this bill will include rationing.” [Newsmax.com, 9/10/09]
    Patient Care

    Politifact, on a similar statement:

    “Language in the House version of the health bill specifically states: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the Commission or the Center to mandate coverage, reimbursement, or other policies for any public or private payer.”

    Politifact also pointed out that the House bill actually specifically prohibits rationing of care through comparative effectiveness research.

    In a September 30th statement on the House floor, Bachmann wildly claimed that a provision in the Democrats’ health care reform bill would allow for spur-of-the-moment and secretive abortions for young girls at school:

    “…comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care – is that abortion? Does that mean that someone’s 13-year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and Dad are never the wiser.”
    Magnifier

    According to Politifact.com:

    “We see no language in the three main versions of the bill that would allow school-based clinics, which have a long history of providing basic health services to underprivileged students, to provide abortions. Nor would the clinics even be new — they have been around for three decades.”

  • Anonymous

    …one nasty-azgrandma :)

  • Anonymous

    Paul Krugman believes in the DPs, so tell me who the liar is.

  • Anonymous

    You first.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry King- you fool no one!

  • one pissed off liberal

    Open your mouth then…he’ll get it right.

  • Lenny

    Yeah good broad statement that makes ZERO sense..Just brilliant!

  • keninkansas

    you forgot to change names…ooops!

  • SYSPROG

    In-f’ing-credible.  WHEN are you gonna grow up and DEMAND that people be FIRED for everything you don’t LIKE?  This is ridiculous.  We have become a nation of ‘punishers’.  You don’t LIKE what Fallon did?  Write to the NETWORK.  Stop WATCHING.  But for pete’s sake, who the hell are YOU to ruin a person’s life over YOUR pissed off-ed-ness?

  • Anonymous

    Cool. Didn’t expect anyone to call me on this. You can Google to get more, but here’s a good start from a Real Clear Politics article back in 2008. No doubt the list is longer 3 years around the course:

    Admitted Lies

    • Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
    • Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was
    wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
    • She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
    • She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in
    the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)

    Whoppers She Won’t Confess To

    • She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
    • She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
    • Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
    • She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
    • She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
    • She opposed NAFTA at the time.
    • She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
    • She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
    • She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery.
    • The billing records showed up on their own.
    • She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
    • She was always a Yankees fan.
    • She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after
    they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White
    House about the pardons).
    • She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).

    Thank you again for asking. :)

  • Anonymous

    Well, we might have to reach all the way back to yesterday, when he called Michelle Obama uppity.  Those kinda  ‘things.”

  • Anonymous

    Cool. Didn’t expect anyone to call me on this. You can Google to get more, but here’s a good start from a Real Clear Politics article back in 2008. No doubt the list is longer 3 years around the course:

    Admitted Lies
        
    • Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
        • Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was
    wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
        • She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
        • She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in
    the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)

    Whoppers She Won’t Confess To
       
    • She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
        • She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
        • Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
        • She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
        • She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
        • She opposed NAFTA at the time.
        • She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
        • She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
        • She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery.
        • The billing records showed up on their own.
        • She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
        • She was always a Yankees fan.
        • She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after
    they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White
    House about the pardons).
        • She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).

    Thank you again for asking. :)

  • Anonymous

    Nice to know you will accept such a lame, half-hearted, backhanded non-apology when a Dem is treated this way… with no complaints. ;)

  • Anonymous

    That’s it?

    here are Obamas:

    Close Gitmo? End rendition? End warrantless wiretaps? End the Patriot Act? Unemployment not to exceed 8%? Provide a missile shield to the Czech Republic and Poland? Transparency? Health Care debate will be carried on C-Span? His mother was denied Health Care coverage? Shovel ready jobs? No lobbyists in his administration? Americans want higher taxes? Pledge to cut the deficit in half during his 1st term? USA involvement in Libya will be in days not weeks? Pledge not to rest until the BP leak stopped? ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax? His pledge to “immediately” implement “Pay-As-You-Go.” No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus? 2010:Obama vows to cut huge deficit in half in first term? Obama promises a comprehensive immigration bill in his 1st year

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Oh I don’t know, CBS fires Don Imus for inappropriate language, ESPN fires Hank Williams Jr. for an analogy that I am not even sure equates the president with Hitler, so maybe it would be prudent for NBC to fire the band for what is equally an outrageous statement. 

  • gwgm

    I have never watched that Alec Baldwin / Tina Fey show (name?) precisely because of what you’re saying. And I figure Oprah pretty much killed her show and doomed her network by outing herself as a partisan.

    It’s just not smart for comics and entertainers to basically give the finger to half the population. But their ego and misplaced self-importance usually wins out and they can’t help themselves.

    I’m sure you can remind them that their only talents involve looking good and being able to read other peoples’ words, but it doesn’t resonate. They are ultimately compelled to share their political brilliance and disdain for conservatives.

    By the way, how that Garafalo person pays the bills is a mystery. When was the last time she worked? And she had a nice little career going before she stopped bathing and turned into the female Michael Moore. Maybe Soros throws her some pennies?

  • SYSPROG

    thank you.  Lies?  Yeah…Obama ALSO said he’d bring compromise to WA DC so he LIED?  Please.  You can have IDEAS and be blocked.  It’s NOT A LIE.  LYING is making shit up and saying ‘NO REALLY THAT HAPPENED’…which is what MB DID and continues to do.  Oh and Obama LIED because there were earmarks in the STIMULUS bill?  WTF.  Do you KNOW how Congress works or is EVERYTHING OBAMA’S fault because he be the MAGIC NEGRO???  Grow the F up!!!

  • Anonymous

    Most of those are failures, not lies. He fails a lot. Thats what presidents do. Bachmann’s are flat out lies.

    You either don’t know the difference because of stupidity or willful ignorance.

  • Anonymous

    They are lies!

    Stop LYING about Obama’s lies!

    You are truly an embarrassment!

  • Rufus Danegro

    Sorry pal- big differnce between a news anchor and a band.

    I guess that’s lost on you?

    Entertainers get to say whatever they want-just ask Rush Limbaugh!

  • Rufus Danegro

    Yo mamy and I are waitin for ya son!

  • Rufus Danegro

    You are SOOOOOO confused!!!! I LOVE IT!

    LOL

  • Gethistoryright

    Screaming and crying and pitching a fit.  This is what we expect from the GOP.  We don’t bother to ask for apologies for the racist attacks that Flush directs at the FLOTUS, because we know it isn’t coming. 

    We have gotten used to the fact that the GOPbaggers constantly lie and shriek insults, only to turn around and whine and demand apologies.

    It’s time for conservatives to make a choice.  You should either stop lying, stop making racial insults part of your party’s platform, or you should stop whining.

  • Rufus Danegro

    I’M FOOLIN THE HECK OUT OF YOU CHUMP!!!!

    I LOVE THIS!

  • Anonymous

    Looks like your wife.

  • Guest

    this is great: i loath fallon as much as i loath bachman, so either way this goes i’ll be stoked

  • keninkansas

    He called her uppity? Oh, the horror!

  • Anonymous

    So let’s get this straight: a few band members on a late night TV show watched by a tiny fraction of the total audience pulls a dumb stunt and this translates into some kind of conspiracy by the entire network? Right.

    I’m glad to know how the game is played now. So now every time some dumbass Fox News hack $hits all over Obama with made-up facts and manufactured outrage, we’re all going to demand an immediate apology from Rupert Murdoch, lest he show that he’s out to get 50% of his potential audience.

    You’re nuts.

  • Anonymous

    Press your lips King!

  • one pissed off liberal

    You know your comparison is false at the get-go unless you’re a fool, but I’ll refute anyway.  Pundits like Rush, Hannity, all the liberal no-names on MSNBC, etc…attack elected officials as a matter of political discourse.  And I could go pound for pound with you on any statement Rush has made versus any statement that fat guy on MSNCB has made without issue.
     
    This is a seemingly neutral talk show, where candidates go on are are interviewd in a friendly, non evasive, and personal manner.  The fact that a drummer who doesn’t like bachman decided to get the band to play lying ass bitch is completely out of line and you know it.
     
    So quite with you false comparisons, and quite making excuses for this type of behavior. 

  • Anonymous

    Ahhhhhhhhh, the Kid has learned a new word! Congrats, (-)

  • Anonymous

    Hill was from Chicago and lived in Arkansas.

    Did she throw a dart at a map and say ” That’s where I’ll run for the Senate”?

    What if she hit Mississippi or Oklahoma?

  • Anonymous

    I struck a nerve in the King!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Always with the excuses.

    Here’s why it’s OK on my side… see the difference… see how it’s OK.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Glad that you have finally seen the light regarding president Obama being a failure…

  • Anonymous

    Michelle has GOT to demand an apology from NBC, I applaud her on this This is much bigger than Michelle Bachman, we cannot accept sexism like this, regardless of party.  NOW should already have demanded an apology as well.  Whether the song was played for Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama or Bachmmann, the intro song referred to her as a b** and that is simply unacceptable and incredibly vulger.

    Bachmann is wrong, though, This sexist ugliness crosses party lines.  Conservative women are bigger targets but really is for any tough, women in power, really. 

  • Anonymous

    So, uncleduke, it’s a “lie” if a Republican does it, but its COMPROMISE if Obama (or any Dem) does it. Got it.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, many lib racists, such as yourself, find such portrayals of black people funny.

    Do you wear your “black face” when ya watch it, or are you content with just belching and farting as you watch it?

  • Anonymous

    I struck a nerve!

  • Anonymous

    Dis cracka kunt is a krazy azz biatch!  

    But she ain’t ugly like dat fat nigga azz gorilla lookin chickenhead in da white house named Meechellee…..

    Fuk the libruls.  

  • SYSPROG

    must be nice in that bubble you live in…

  • Anonymous

    Fallon’s apparently not as nice as he seems.  A decent man would have called her personally, and on the following show would have apologized for his band being completely offensive and for insulting ALL women with the action.

    To Jimmy Fallon, I say ‘forget you’, like the song goes.     

  • Anonymous

    This from libs who were crying over a few people booing their  Princess!

    LOL

    “We have gotten used to the fact that the GOPbaggers constantly lie and shriek insults, only to turn around and whine and demand apologies”

    Insults like calling a woman a c@nt? Or saying a group of people shold be wiped out or should go “straight to hell?”
     
    What a joke you are!

  • azgrandma

    Nasty?  what is nasty about that – she threw her hat in the ring for the presidential race and a song upsets her!! 

  • Anonymous

    I agree – It’s escalating. It’s worse to Obama than it was to Bush.  The last president that was treated with any civility by the opposition was George HW Bush ( yes there were exceptions, but as a rule it there was a different level of civility.)

    Both sides own some of the blame, but if there is one overriding catlyst to the personal hatred trumping policy, it’s current GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich.  In early 1994 he had his political action group GOPAC which was heavily involved in recruiting and training extreme conservative candidates for congress in 1994.  They were the class that had the big wins that tipped the house to the GOP for the first time in decades.  During a long series of workshops with these candidates, Newt preached about how they needed to go beyond messaging that they disagreed with their opponent’s stances and policy positions.  He taught that it was important to demonize the opponent himself.  Gingrich advocated using words like anti-family, anti-American, anti-God, anti-Flag, evil, destructive, etc… to describe opponents.   It’s all available to see in memo form via Google.  The presentation is called Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.

    Four years later Newt applied many of these principles and more as he led the charge to impeach Bill Clinton.

    Add another 15 years of Roger Ailes depicting anyone left of center as Satan, then add in the furious liberal backlash and counteraction to all this that kicked in after Bush’s election and here we are.

  • Anonymous

    Please tell me you’re not actually equating a rock band on a late night TV show with a (so-called) journalist hosting a news program.

  • mk

    You people freaking out know that there were no WORDS to this song, right? It was just the music. It was a joke. And as a woman, I would be just as pissed off if they played it for Michelle Obama and she was a crybaby about it, too. Get a sense of humor.

  • Jane

    You’re a very disturbed individual.   

  • SYSPROG

    ‘pound for pound’…you mean when Ed Schultz had to grovel to Laura Ingraham for calling her a slut and got a two week suspension?  How about when Keith Olbermann was suspended?  Yeah, I’ll go ‘pound for pound’ about how Rush says SHIT all the time with no consequences.  Oh and those morons on Morning Fox?  THEY pay don’t they…please. 

  • Anonymous

    If a joke on twitter is an apology, then you’re crazy.  I don’t like Ed Shultz, but his apology for calling a woman a ‘slut’ was honest and heartfelt.  There’s a decent person hidden in there somewhere.  The clip I saw with Fallon and the Roots guy joking around rather than apologizing made me realize that there’s no way Fallon’s a nice guy.  No decent person thinks its funny to call a woman a b***.  Would you want your wife, sister, mom called a b*** during an intro on a national TV show.

    If I were her daughter, I’d be on Fox News demanding an apology for all women. 

  • SYSPROG

    Not when they can attack NBC, they don’t.  It’s a power play by MB.

  • Anonymous

    It was a joke.”

    Ah, the old Joy Behar defense.

    Thank you, you  bitch! 

    BTW, “bitch” is a term of endearment- just ask Joy!

  • Anonymous

    Michele Bachmann, one of the all-time stupidest persons in the history of the United States, probably has a point here regarding NBC’s failure to apologize.  They should.  Ugly is ugly no matter which side practices it.

    Having said that, Have I mentioned that Michele Bachmann is one of the all-time stupidest persons in the history of the United States?

  • SYSPROG

    Do you VOTE?  Do you understand how CONGRESS works?  Do you understand who makes LAWS?  Do YOU KNOW ANYTHING?  Time to back away from the keyboard and study government.

  • Anonymous

    Michele Bachmann, one of the all-time stupidest persons in the history ”

    No, I think that is reserved to the person who thinks there are 58 states in the USA and thinks Austrians speak— Austrian!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    “Lies”?? Aren’t you being a little liberal with that definition? He said he *wanted* to do those things….he didn’t say he *had*. And anyway….isn’t it you whack-a-doos fighting against those measures?? Come on now, doofus.

  • Anonymous

     If David Shuster got reprimanded for the ‘pimp’ comment, shouldn’t the guy be reprimanded for his ‘b** intro song choice?

  • Anonymous

    I’m a person of color and that’s very racist of you to say that.  
    I’d appreciate an apology immediately.  

    BITCH!

  • Anonymous

    Garafalo was in a show this past year.  It was a version of the CSI concept.  It failed and was cancelled mid-season.

    Many “insiders” reportedly say it was doomed because of her role on the show.  Of course, no one in Hollywood would admit it.

    She is a negative to any TV show.  Because she was such a minor character, she was unable to destroy “24.”

  • Anonymous

    Man, are you a child- this was a lie:

    Obama:”What I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision in 2008.”

  • Anonymous

    Ok…

    So in the other thread about apologies, you said that you couldn’t possibly guess at why the NASCAR fans were booing Michelle. You said that there was no way for you to determine what they were thinking.

    However, in this thread you’re suddenly prepared to tell us quite emphatically that the Fallon apology was clearly “half hearted” and backhanded.”

    It’s kind of amazing how you have this selective ability to read minds.

  • Anonymous

    Agree on both points -  Michelle Bachmann is a crazy, twisted moron.  But she was also a guest.  That was a cheap ugly thing for the Roots to do, and she was owed and apparently got an apology.

  • Anonymous

    The one mistake that was made about this whole joke is that it should have been left alone…play the song, see if anyone catches.  Outside of Fishbone fans, chances are nobody would have caught it and we wouldn’t have this outrage and and stuff.  Instead, ?uestlove tweets a follow up.  No smart, really. But oh well.

    My hopes are that they aren’t 86′d from the show. Too good of a band.

  • Anonymous

    Kudos…Videosavant, good post!!!

    Nice to see facts to back up the truth.

    Of course, she and most on the left get the usual mainstream media pass….

  • Todd

    I know more women need to deal with men calling them lying bitches. Whats wrong with your females?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, when Obama says he will do something and doesn’t, that’s just fine with you. It’s called lying, lib!

    Obama:”What I can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support and that I’m promoting,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision in 2008.”

  • http://www.larry-kelly.com Larry Kelly

    If that’s how you think guests should be treated, I hope AZ Child Services keep the grandkids away from your Thanksgiving.

  • Anonymous

    Not at all.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, not- NBC/MSNBC love the Clinton’s – they hate Bachmann.

  • Anonymous

    Obviously your comprehension skills aren’t too keen. The question I was responding to was about Imus.

    Care to walk back any of that patent nonsense?

  • Valkyrie101

    Yes, without a doubt Fallon owes Michelle an apology.

  • Anonymous

    Did Rush call M.O. uppity to her face? Was she sitting in the chair next to him? The outrage is in the fact that Bachmann was an INVITED GUEST to Fallons show. If Bachmann hadn’t been a guest and instead Fallon just joked about her in a monologue while the band played that song in the background, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Whether you like Bachmann or not, she is an elected representitave of Congress and deserves the respect due the position.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you.

  • Anonymous

    No, just look at the Obama “lies” as compared to the Bachmann lies. Obama has failed to live up to promises, but that is not a lie. When Bush I said “read my lips no new taxes” he wasn’t lying, he failed to get what he wanted. You’re being very childish about this.

  • Anonymous

    I know…he’s been so right wing its ridiculous. If he was more progressive he would have done a whole lot better.

  • Anonymous

    57, but who’s counting? Obviously not Obama (LOL)!

  • Anonymous

    Stonepark, you’re a bigot and a imbecile. If you can’t tell the difference between a lie and a failure then you are too stupid to talk to.

    Also, can we talk more about your repressed sexual tendencies? When did you start hating gays so much? Are you catholic maybe? Did a priest by chance touch you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    No it isn’t. LOL. It’s called stating your intentions. Putting those intentions to work in the face of obstructionism from folks like you is another thing. You conservatives are the most intellectually dishonest people on the planet. Srsly.

  • Anonymous

    Go get ‘em, Stonepark!

  • Anonymous

    Yes NBC just loves Clintons – That’s why, next to ABC, they were the fastest to take direct leaks – many of which later turned out to be false – from Ken Starr and run them without any checking during the impeachment trial.  That’s why there was a congressional subpoena after the 2000 elections for floor footage from the NBC news camera to follow up on reports from producers and crew that GE Chairman at the time Jack Welch had confronted Tom Brokaw on the news floor and demanded that he declare Florida for Bush.   Henry Waxman’s office dropped the subpeona the week after 9/11 in a show of support for Bush.  Google it.

    So you’re so right – NBC is totally in bed with the Clintons and the Democrats..

  • Anonymous

    Actually, 58- he had visited 57 and thought he had one more to go!

  • Anonymous

    And what an inappropriate choice to play a character working for the Counter Terrorism Unit!

  • Anonymous

    And it would be more fitting.

  • Anonymous

    “Backwoods daffy, cuckoo, psycho”? Buster, Michelle Bachmann has probably forgotten more than you will ever know.

  • azgrandma

    Who said guests should be treated that way?  What planet do you live on??  Glad you showed your total stupidity!

  • Anonymous

    Keep trying to push that boulder up the hill.  Are you sure you aren’t getting a little achy trying to make the case that he got into Harvard Law, and made head of Law Review based on race?  

    Also, have you allowed your brain to be exposed to the video of him, without notes or the dreaded teleprompter, taking questions from the entire GOP house delegation at their retreat last February?  He destroyed them with facts and logic.  In the 1 vs 100+ showdown, it became sure an embarrassment to Republican talking points that Fox cut away and the press called it an ambush by Obama.   Go watch it on Youtube, then lets talk about his intellect.

  • Dooxie

    Oama tells the TRUTH hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahh

  • Anonymous

    Reposted from above since it’s the exact same issue: Yes NBC just loves Clintons  and the Dems:  That’s why, next to ABC, they were the
    fastest to take direct leaks – many of which later turned out to be
    false – from Ken Starr and run them without any checking during the
    impeachment trial.  That’s why there was a congressional subpoena after
    the 2000 elections for floor footage from the NBC news camera to follow
    up on reports from producers and crew that GE Chairman at the time Jack
    Welch had confronted Tom Brokaw on the news floor and demanded that he
    declare Florida for Bush.   Henry Waxman’s office dropped the subpeona
    the week after 9/11 in a show of support for Bush.  Google it.

    So you’re so right – NBC is totally in bed with the Clintons and the Democrats..

  • Anonymous

    Do you need to see the list a third time?

  • Anonymous

    You should be checked into a clinic for the mentally disturbed.

  • Anonymous

    Please tell me your not making excuses?

  • Zona992007

    Meanwhile, Hank williams Jr. is a hero for the right.  So are nascar fans now.

  • Anonymous

    I believe that was Sarah Palin, not Michelle Bachmann.

  • Anonymous

    Michele Bachman can read? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Anonymous

    If you read at the top of the thread, I’ve already agreed that it was an ugly prank by the Roots and she was a guest, and therefore deserved to be treated with respect. 

    My response was to KlaninKansas who was asking for examples of things Rush says that are offensive.  I went back a whole day to find one.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Glad you recognize your mom son!!!!

  • Anonymous

    No he probably is rouge, i.e, red.

  • Anonymous

    As I’m sure yours is just as nice….

  • Zona992007

    Michelle is just being Uppity.

  • Anonymous

    You’re right. Palin was a bigger death panel lady.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNMXmRGE7t0

  • Anonymous

    Calling politicians names – Hag Hillary, Mooooshell, etc. – are par for the course it seems, but I’ve never seen it done TO THEIR FACE. Bachmann was an invited guest to Fallon’s show. That intentional insult was in poor taste. Bachmann deserves an apology.  

  • Anonymous

    I’m judging actions… you were projecting motivations. See the difference. You were projecting the motivations of those booing MO. You claimed then (and still do) that you KNEW what was going on in their head to cause them to boo. I simply pointed out that you were not psychic and could in no way say with absolute certainty the motivations of every boo-er. But we both agreed the ACTIONS were wrong.

    I am judging Jimmy’s ACTIONS. Not his motivation or what is going on in his head. I’m evluating what he DID… not what he was thinking. Much like David Letterman’s “appology” for making a statitory rape joke about Palin’s daughter was sarcastic and a continuation of the joke… so was Jimmy’s. Again… I’m judging action (his apology)… not his motivation or thought process.

    PS… David Letterman later offered a “real” apology.

  • Anonymous

    BINGO!

  • Anonymous

    If you say so… it must be true.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Your silence is telling.

  • Anonymous

    Of course she deserves an apology. Don’t like her all you want, but when you’ve invited her as a guest, treat her as such.

    This is pretty easy America.

  • Eddieb_98_98

    Jimmy should have called and apologized like an adult. NBC does not owe her squat, plus she accepted his apology. Did anyone notice Ms. Bauchman’s one word response to Sarah Palin during the “skit” (2nd segment). She said, “gorgeous”. Double standard? If a male would have said this…especially a liberal.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think a tweet qualifies as an apology.  

  • Anonymous

    stupidest persons?  lol and you call someone else stupid?

    Why is it, that you don’t agree with someone’s politics and suddenly you figure you’re so much brighter than they are?  Michelle is far from stupid.  You don’t agree with her – fine, you don’t agree with her.  Calling her “stupidest” relegates your response to the garbage pile where it belongs.  

  • Anonymous

    darn stone – that’s not stupid, it wasn’t a lie, it was a damn misspeak and get over it!  Don’t you know the democrats are allowed to misspeak and we are freaking stupid if we don’t know what they mean’t and even notice.

    Corpsman – can you even imagine what they would have called a republican who said something so asinine?  They would have been crucified for that one – never to live it down.

  • GDC

    The problem is tht Todd is mentally sick and not on his meds today.

  • GDC

    well the N I G G E R S are positng today.

    Obama IS bring civil war to America and the N I G G E R S along iwth their communist supporters will lose this time.

  • Iklwas

    I would agree that “lying axx bxxxx” was inacurate in that Michele Bachmann is psychotic and actually believes the madnness that she says. She has my sympathy.

  • Anonymous

    Poor Michele.  She’s really not mad about the song.  She’s just worried that her husby will leave her for the Space Needle.
    http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/11/bachmanns-anti-statue-of-liberty-bias.html

  • Anonymous

    “Michelle [sic] (Bachmann) is far from stupid.”

    Have I mentioned that seek456 is one of the all-time stupidest persons in the history of the United States?

  • Darr247

    “, I’d love to go back again (but) this wouldn’t have be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama, it shouldn’t be tolerated if it’s a conservative woman either.”

    If FLOTUS was a lyin’ ass bitch, it would be tolerated the same way it’s tolerated when the song was played to introduce you, honey.

  • Darr247

    Her made up testimony about a woman that approached her with claims that the HPV vaccine caused her daughter to become mentally retarded, for one.

  • Larry Linn

    If anyone whom agrees to appear on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, must realize that they are entering a lion’s den of comedy, and they will be targets.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OTNG3XOBO7MNX6ZCHGOQHCS3CM YGeronimoG

    Well, NOW I know that I will NEVER EVER vote for a WOMAN candidate this year!! Duhhhhhhhh NEVER in a MILLION years… She doesn’t have the finesse that it takes. Not nothing to be PROUD of to represent (THE UNITED STATE OF AMERICA) NEVER.

  • Anonymous

    you’ve been reported.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, but you don’t get off the hook with that answer. I can just as easily say that you’re projecting the motivations of Fallon & company and you’ve concluded that they’re not sincere. You may or may not be right. But YOU DON’T KNOW.

    And that’s exactly what you were telling me in the other thread. You can’t have it both ways.

    There’s this poster here named Tatboy who’s a real stickler for consistency and this would absolutely blow his mind.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OTNG3XOBO7MNX6ZCHGOQHCS3CM YGeronimoG

    GDC  I can’t for the life of ANYONE on this forum see WHY U aren’t TABOO’D right off of this forum. I think you are sure a poor representation to WHATEVER you R…. OMG, I had to read this TWICE, cuz you are so DISRESPECTFUL/SICKENING…

  • Anonymous

    Again… I was evaluating what Jimmy did. You were evaluating why someone did something. I will let others judge if I’m way off base with my distinctions between the two things. I can live with consequences.

    But thanks for engaging maturely. I mean that.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OTNG3XOBO7MNX6ZCHGOQHCS3CM YGeronimoG

    Howcome you are saying that NBC/MSNBC loves the CLINTON’S… and hate Bachmann?

  • PattyLikes

    I would like to see more opinions from government goons here. LOL

  • Valkyrie101

    He’ll say something on the air…

  • http://www.facebook.com/matttwain Matt Twain

    Somehow the outrage from right wingers here seems to suggest that Bachmann is actually serious, when that couldn’t be further from the truth.  She’s a lying S.O.B., makes crap up on a daily basis, has no concept of the American Constitution, and yet somehow she still gets elected to office by the idiots who know as little as she does.

    The intro song was appropriate.  Right wingers on this sight can’t take a joke, nor do they understand how pathetic the Republican field looks right now, as they are all merely shilling their books while using the Presidential nomination process in circumventing the Constitution.  They are ALL a joke, very much like Michelle’s intro song on Jimmy Fallon’s show.

    Now, let the right wing whining begin.  Oh, wait, it already has.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is a ‘Lie’n Ass BITCH’ 

  • Anonymous

    I asked you if you were for the firing of people for unpopular speech?

    So I will ask again, was it ok for Imus to be fired but ok for the Roots to not be fired? Other than The Roots not being the main host, what is the difference between what Imus said and what The Roots did? I would think that The Roots is even worse because it was premeditated.

  • Anonymous

    GDC’s post is unacceptable and should be deleted.

  • Anonymous

    Bachmann has been proven to be a lyin’ axx bitcx. Politifact a few moths ago had her record at ONE TRUTH for 20 statements! Cant get much worse lyin than that! She deserves it and more! 

  • keninkansas

    that was way before ge bought nbc and way before obama gave them billions in cash. so, you were saying?

  • Anonymous

    GE bought NBC in 1986 and sold controlling interest in NBC/Universal to Comcast in 2009.  You just have no grasp of any reality, do you?

  • AliveStillkickin

    When is NBC going to take responsibility for their programming?
    Ed Schultz with his evil “right wing slut” comment about Laura Ingraham and now POS Fallon and his  “lower-than-whale-shit” treatment of Bachmann.
    The personalities apologize but NBC just keeps on condoning it without an apology.
    They suspended Schultz for a few days but Fallon gets no punishment at all.
    What bullshit.

  • Iklwas

    When you go on the show they should play, “uninformed and I don’t care who knows it.” President Obama changed his mind about running for president. He didn’t have experience at the time that he ran in 2008. He hasn’t put boots in the ground in Libya. He got BP to clean up their mess and pay restituion for that mess. ( Which Republican Joe Barton called a shakdown.) In the long term the health care bill will reduce the deficit according to the CBO. If the Republican leadership would not have filibustered every economic program, including the jobs bill, that he gave them he might have cut the deficit in half. What earmarks are in the stimulas? The tax cuts? He said that Gitmo would be closed and the Republicans lost their religion because the prisoners would be given trails in the United States of America. The rest of your rant is too ridiculous for me to address. You forgot his birth certificate, his religion, the soap that he uses when showering, his second wife, or any of the garbarge that your ilk will fabricate to discredit our president. Anyway… have a happy thanksgiving. Wait, President Obama just pardoned some turkeys. 

  • Iklwas

    I disagree with you dayoh. GDC is reflective of the character of those who want to see our president and nation fail at any cost. GDC is one reason why I will do everything that I can to see that President Obama is reelected. GDC’s ignorance and those who agree with him make me more committed to seeing them go down in flaming defeat. They are a reminder of what is at stake in the next presidential election and what we have to stand against. Thank you GDC for not hiding your agenda behind “trickle down economics” or “hurting the job creaters” as others do. Your honesty is both sickining and refreshing.

  • Anonymous

    No apology needed. Bachmann is a proven liar. SHE is the one who needs to apologize for all her twisting the truth. 

  • Norbit

    NBC REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE!

    FIRE QUEST (HATEMONGER) LOVE!

  • Norbit

    BOYCOTT NBC’s ADVERTISERS!

  • Norbit

    Wow, I haven’t heard that “whale shit” comparison in years.

    It applies to the political Obama/Democrat sellouts at NBC.

    That network, the NY Times and A.P. are the biggest culprits in the re-elect Obama propaganda news.

  • Nlebou

    A real man would not have done it…the A real man would not have let him do it. It was planned after all. It’s not like he didn’t know it was going to happen. Disgraceful.

    What would happen if Obama went on Tonight Show and the band played “He’s A Loser”????

    *He’s a loser, pay no mind to what he says.*He’s a loser, he got rocks in his head.*He’s a loser, he can’t win can’t place or show.*He’s a loser, and you know how much I hate to say I told you so.

  • Al Gore

    How drunk does a person have to be to even want to watch Fallon’s show?  He pretty much sucks.

  • david r

    The whole thing is sophomoric, especially the kids defending the musician by pointing out that Limbaugh is a windbag.  You youngsters need to wake up.  If you don’t, by the time you are my age you’ll be paying half your salary to the government as they do in France.  You’ll need a graduate degree to afford an apartment.  (If you live in Manhattan, think “New Jersey.”)  Looks like the left is winding itself up into a hateful rage to get “energized.”

  • Pit Boss

    They should apologize only when Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck apologize for their hate-filled and bigoted quotes. They’ve said far worse about people–most recently our POTUS–and you rarely hear an apology. The Roots, Jimmy Fallon, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh–they’re all entertainers, right?

    It was a dick move though on the Roots’ part for sure. Not sure why people are calling it “sexist” but whatever.

  • Bob

    she may have had a case for a complaint here originally. But the fact she’s taking it to this absurd level even after Fallon apologized just shows how consumed the right is with crybaby victim syndrome.

  • Al Gore

    Rush is popular, that’s why he makes so much $.  You many not like what he say’s, but I’ll bet you never listened to him either. 

  • Bob

    as opposed to the right, who never apologize for their ugliness. Remember Limbaugh calling a 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton ‘the white house dog?” to this day, the fat man tried to blame that on his staff.

  • expatpatriot

    And this furious termagant wants to be president?

    Michele? Go perform an unnatural act with yourself.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree with you Iklwas. I don’t think GDC was being honest at all. The post was made for shock value and I question the true reason for the post.

  • cdnhawk

    Limbaugh. Beck. Limbaugh. Beck. Limbaugh. Beck…….never hear any apologies for these two clowns.

  • Anonymous

    Yes… Rush and Jimmy are highly offensive.

  • Anonymous

    Some posters here justify the use of the song, because “Bachmann is a liar”. In 2008, if Hillary Clinton had gone on Fallon’s (or anyones) talk show and the band played “I Like Big Butts” when she was introduced, would that have been fine? After all, Hillary has a few pounds on her. And it would have just been “a joke”. Nothing to get upset about, right?

  • Dugcoinc

    What Mediaite bitches no Limbaugh today!!! I Like Big Butts!!!

  • bumsrush

    If they fire the Roots, they’ll be looking for new viewers.

  • troy l bowen

    I am Pablo   6’4″ 245  that want to put you our of your misery 

  • Anonymous

    NBC does not have the moral fiber to do the right thing.

  • Dugcoinc

    You fat assed Moochell Hussien Obama right, douche.

  • expatpatriot

    If you don’t wipe that stuff up from your keyboard quickly, the keys will stick.

  • expatpatriot

    Places fingers against lips and waggles up and down while exhaling. Produces classic “phlbbbbt!” noise.

  • expatpatriot

    NORBIT STILL A DICKWAD!

    WRITE EVERYTHING IN CAPS!!

  • expatpatriot

    Ingraham *isn’t* a rightwing slut? Now that’s news.

  • Dugcoinc

    oops I  apologize for the typo I meant “You mean fat assed Moo “the cow” chele Hussien Obama right douche!!!  

  • Sean68

    Ah, made up personas make the internet less interesting and useful.

  • Sean68

    Contrast GDC’s fake persona with iklwas: He/she/them/it is/are the real thing.

  • Thinker

    ***Breaking News that none of the mainstream media is touching on right now: Today George W. Bush and Tony Blair were found guilty of war crimes for fabricated intell of WMDs and the death of over 1mill Iraqis since 2003. Just google it if you’re interested in hearing what the media doesn’t want you to know! Still want to go into Iran without any proof!!?

  • Dugcoinc

    I Like Big O’ Butts

  • Anonymous

    Women up Michele .  If by some freak of nature you are GOP nominee their will be plenty were that came from as well other places. 

  • Anonymous

    This came from athe book by Janny Scott, in her biography, “A Singular Woman”  This has neither been confirmed or denited by Obama.

    Obama’s words: “My mother, when she contracted cancer, the insurance companies started suggesting that, well, maybe this was a preexisting condition; maybe you could have diagnosed it before you actually purchased your insurance. Ultimately, they gave in, but she had to spend weeks fighting with insurance companies while she’s in the hospital bed, writing letters back and forth just to get coverage for insurance that she had already paid premiums on. And that happens all across the country. We are going to put a stop to that. That’s point number one”.

  • Ryan Callahan

    Or like Ted Nugent saying stuff on fox news about Hilary Clinton. She is a liar, and a bitch, case closed. 

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    I don’t think liberals have a corner on that type of behavior. Besides Michele needs to Women up if she wants to play in the big league.

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

    C’mon Michele! Jimmy Fallon has already issued a sincere apology, but you know that the only part about those three words which is not accurate is Bitch. The rest is pretty much true. You’ve been caught 16 times with your pants on fire, 9 times making false statements, and the rest barely true or distorted. So in substance, the 1st two words are you.

  • Anonymous

    So if I say “Tomorrow I am going to give a homeless man 5 dollars” and then tomorrow I don’t come through on what I said … would that be a lie or a failure? You are digging a deeper whole with your continued failed logic 

  • Anonymous

    Imagine Hillary in this position – heads would have rolled.

    If NBS hasn’tapologized yet, they should be shunned, ignored, and spat upon.  They are garbage.

  • Anonymous

    Did the FLOTUS demand an apology?

    See the deference in this case?

    Political Victim™ posturing…

  • Anonymous

    If your sales projections for the year are $10,000,000 and you come in at $9,000,000 were you a liar?

  • Anonymous

    So what you’re saying is that a politician can make any promise they want (project any stats they want), and then if they don’t live up to it, it’s not a lie but rather just a failure?

    The example you gave me (sales projections) would be the same as a POTUS saying: We will have 1% unemployment by the end of the year. If unemployment is actually 5% at the end of the year, did that POTUS lie or fail?
    I would say that they lied, because 1% unemployment is essentially impossible and the politician had no actual intention of reaching that goal … they just said it to get elected. There you have Obama’s MO – he will say anything to get elected. 

  • Anonymous

    MB reaction to Jimmy’s song choice in no way makes the song choice ok. It was rude and you know it.

  • Dr2380

    Michelle Who??

  • Deliver Us

    When, oh, WHEN are we all going to realize that we are all interconnected and when we hurt one another we hurt EACH OTHER.  It is so sad and tragic when we don’t see that as Americans we are a family; a UNIT; and when you add a ‘Y’ to unit, you get UNITY.  Y, oh, Y can’t we understand this???

  • Anonymous

    The First Lady is not a lying ass bitch, so Questlove and The Roots would never play that song in her honor.

  • expatpatriot

    Thanks for the clarification. The exit door is right over there. Next!

  • Bludiamond12k

    You uncleduke, just dont know what you are spouting.  She did NOT lie about those vaccines, try Googling it yourself and find out how terrible they are. Who are YOU to say she lied?  She didnt and you are a left hand liberalist who is a troll on this site.

  • Anonymous

    What a bunch of GOP whiners  About this, NBC will fire and tone down its rhetoric after Roger Ailes fires his hate mongers like Sarah Palin, Carl Roves,  Sean Hannity, to only mention a few.

  • Rio Ratone

    Buck Cherry’s “Crazy Bitch”  is simple enough, even Bachman would “get it”.

  • Anonymous

    His claims were not outrageous, but no one could expect the GOP to go full retard and just say no to everything.

  • Anonymous

    Not a single scientific study supports what you’re saying. Not a single piece of evidence supports your comment. I know the GOP hates science, but come on.

  • Anonymous

    This is where the Tgags and radio personalities would tell a minority to “Get over it” after a racial slur. That would be followed by something about too much political correctness and liberals being too sensitive.

    Now that the shoe is on the other foot it is an outrage. 

    Questlove nailed it in my opinion.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you say something of substance instead of being a cheerleader LAPhil?  Put down the pom poms and don’t break a nail!

  • Anonymous

    Wow why don’t you personnally boycott NBC Why don’t Michele and the 7 dwarfs Boycott them as well.  She wanted face time on a late late night show.  They also do extreme things on this show since the young crowd is in bed by then.  However in her case the song may have been  apropos after the current debate and many of her lies.    

  • Anonymous

    Unclear Thinker:

    If you read this forum regularly you’ll find I do post things of “substance” and I’m not just a cheerleader. For that matter I haven’t seen you post much of anything, let alone of any substance.

  • Anonymous

    Name one lie, jerk!

  • Anonymous

    I”ll go back to the latest debate however there many more I could list:
    Bachmann quotes:
    1. “Obama has essentially handed over our interrogation of terrorist to the ACLU. Our CIA has no ability to have any form of interrogation for terrorist.”

       Fact:  The CIA has the ability to interrogaqte terrorist. Obama formed the High Value Interrogation Group, which include the FBI, the CIA, and the Pentagon. Who does she think was responsible for the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki?

    2. “Almost every decision that the president has made since he came in has been one to put the United States in a position of unlateral disarmament, including the most recent decision to cancel the Keystone pipeline.  That would not only create jobs, but it would have helped us in energy independence.”

      Fact: Obama did not cancel the Canadian oil pipeline.  He delayed the decision to explore an alternative route to avoid areas of Nebraska that included wetlands and an aquifer providing water crucial to the US cropland.  Bachmann also overlooked the fact that the pressure came from the Gov of Nebraska Dave Heineman a Republican.

    I could go on.  There is a boat load of them.  Either she is the most misinformed person on this planet or a lying fool.

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  • Anonymous

    OK, fair enough. I admit I wasn’t paying all that much attention to everything she said during the debate, but at least you didn’t just make a baseless charge like some other people on this forum do.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should do your homework before you start your talking points for the day.  I think you should apologize to Truth001 for your incompetence.

  • Anonymous

    Unclear Thinker:

    I couldn’t give a rat’s ass what you think I should do.

  • Wayne Harropson

    The incident says everything about NBC and absolutely nothing about Michelle Bachmann.

    The difference between conservatives and liberals is liberals want to shut conservatives up and conservatives want liberals to keep talking.

    I hope they keep it up.

  • fyonalon

    It says more about the Roots. Damn funny but the B word is offensive and that was not right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000265741517 Adam Gill

    i think the key difference in comparing michelle obama and michele bachmann is that michelle obama is not a batshit liar.  sorry, michele.  you reap what you sow.  take your lumps like an adult.

  • Anonymous

    Surely you would have the same response if this was MOOcehlle ???

  • Anonymous

    I never heard her say anything like that. Where is your source? Show me the link where Bachman blames MSDNC for her being (supposedly) unpopular… Why do liberals just make up information as they go? And Bachman didnt bring this up. SHE WAS ASKED ABOUT IT!

  • Anonymous

    What does this even mean? We’ve got the guns…always remember that lefty. 

  • Anonymous

    Rush was fired from ESPN for stating a fact: Mcnab is black. He said he is overrated but was fired because he said he was black. Most things that people get pissed off at Rush for are distorted or out of context words. Like when it was said he called Obama some racist name but when the full audio was played it showed that all he was doing was READ A CLIP FROM THE LA TIMES! He never called Obama that! But that didnt stop the MSM from reporting it as his words.

  • Anonymous

    No, but Obama lies as easily as he breathes and you know it

  • Anonymous

    He’s never said anything to make me believe that, but then again, I don’t listen to Right Wing hate radio for 6 hours a day and subscribe to 4 dozen conspiracy theorist email lists like you modern conservatives. When exactly did you guys get so shithouse crazy?

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