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Makes Sense: Rep. Bachmann Used To Babysit Fox & Friends Host Gretchen Carlson Back In The Day

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On Tuesday morning’s Fox and Friends, Michele Bachmann was discussing her new memoir and how her family lived in poverty, when co-host Gretchen Carlson revealed the Republican presidential candidate was her babysitter when she grew up in Minnesota. “When I was 12-years-old, I had to get a job babysitting and I paid for my own glasses, my own clothes, my lunch at school. We just didn’t have anything.” “Speaking of babysitting, one of the families you babysat was my family,” Carlson disclosed. “That’s right!” Bachmann exclaimed. “One of the best families ever.”

“Thank you very much, but one of the small world coincidences,” Carlson noted.

A photo of the two lounging around together at a swimming pool was displayed.

“There you are!” gushed Steve Doocy.

“I think I was 15 and you were maybe 6?” Bachmann surmised.

“I was about 6 — 5 or 6,” Carlson recalled. “What I loved about Michele Bachmann — back then Michele Amble — was her long hair, it went all the way down!” “My Cher period,” Bachmann joked. That’s true!”

“And she let me drink grape soda!” Carlson exclaimed. “I was a very good babysitter,” Bachmann acknowledged.

Watch Michele Bachmann and Gretchen Carlson reminisce on Fox and Friends below via Fox News:

(h/t HuffPo)

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  • Anonymous

    Minnesotans of that era should all be checked for lead poisoning-related dysfunctions.

  • Anonymous

    This is old…. very old.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, that is so hot! Can you post some more swimsuit photos of beautiful, buxom Michele Bachmann? She got style, she got grace, she a lady.

  • BorntoSynthesize

    What the hell is your major mal-function?

  • Anonymous

    Who would ya have rather have been nursed by: Gretchen, Martha MacCallum, Megyn Kelly or Rachel Maddow?

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty sure Michelle Bachmann raised every American at one point or another.

    She is like a magical, wonderful, bat-shit crazy Mary Poppins.

  • Mencius

    Yeah, I love that that terrified and perplexed look in her eyes, and her smile–the smile of the most beautiful saleslady in the world. 

  • Mencius

    No wonder Carlson seems like she never learned much as a child. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    sounds like someone is jealous that Michele wasn’t with him growing up ;)

  • Anonymous

    Two beautiful conservative women. To bad the dems can’t say that. Hee-he-heeeee.

    The dems have to say, we have many liberal women who are very, very ugly. Hee-he-heee.

    Check the Supreme Court for example. Pelosi, Waters, &ect.

  • Anonymous

    No no, I think she was with me.

    I vaguely remember a wide-eyed woman sneaking in my bedroom window at night and breast-feeding me.

    My mom called her the Tit Fairy.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Too bad yo mamy never nursed you. 

  • Concerned Citizen

    Big Friggin Douche with another clever response and showing high intelligence  like his Joe Biden idol avatar.

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    “princess nancy” is from the supreme court? did the beckster teach you that?

  • Concerned Citizen

    James, whats the “Makes Sense” comment in the headline mean. Care to elaborate?

  • Kid Dynamite

    Gretchen’s parents never had to worry about Marcus Bachmann molesting her.

    Herman Cain would do both of them, human catepillar style.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Farax-Shirwac/100001414842261 Farax Shirwac

    First Mediate comment that has made me actually lol.

  • http://twitter.com/JustGrunt Just A Grunt

    Good grief, this is old news. I remember Gretchen and Michelle talking about this on the show a couple of years ago. Might have been back during the 2010 election cycle. It is not new, maybe the picture of her in the swimming pool is new but not the relationship between the two. Gretchen has referenced it several times in the past. I understand that folks who avoid anything Fox related except for the Simpsons might be surprised but really, meh.

  • Anonymous

    I bet this guy (y James Crugnale) feels really good about this discovery of his. However we’ve known about this for a while, Carlsson mentioned it on their show and I think Jon Stewart has also mentioned it.

  • http://twitter.com/jtanglewood76 realist

    What an incestual bunch of freaks.

  • m3

    Yes, it is a shame that fox prefers looks over substance.  And boy aren’t you being so above the ”liberals” by pointing out that looks are what makes you worth something.  What an excellent example for young girls.  Isn’t that what the right complains about all the time about Hollywood?  Looks over substance.  Pot meet kettle.  Hope you don’t have daughters.

  • Anonymous

    Now we know when the idiocy chip was implanted in Gretchen Carlson’s head. My guess is  the Reteablicans turned the switch on after she came back to the states from Oxford. 

  • Anonymous

    That’s sweet.  Our politicians could use a babysitter.  Maybe she’ll end up leader of the house one day.   I wouldn’t at all mind her as VP either.

  • Anonymous

    I would say there must have been something in the water.  

  • Anonymous

    Where do u think she gets her juice from? Little children’s soul!!

  • Anonymous

    Funniest sh*t ever!! 

  • Anonymous

    Hey hey hey! you don’t mess with Biden! Attack him… you can’t screw with Biden!!

  • Limpbaals

    They are all white, all 3 of them, Gretchen and both Mrs. Bachmanns.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Jimmie, I am just curious why this makes sense?

  • Sean

    If the universe could implode from sheer stupidity, this is when it would have happened.

  • Charlie Kane

    TWO MINNESOTA DUMBBELLS

  • Anonymous

    Liberals are just jealous that conservative women are so beautiful.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Because they’re both ignorant… like you!!

  • Anonymous

    Oh Leedog, that pains me deeply.

  • Anonymous

    Totally. I think WI_in_WC’s head has just exploded.

  • Anonymous

    Explains so much.

  • Iwannawatch

    Wish they did some porn together.

  • Anonymous

    I think i have seen that porno before! Is it the one with that involve Bill Oreilly, Imus, Ann Coulter and at the end Herman Cain, the black pizza man cums…oops … i mean comes? 

  • Anonymous

    The creepy guy from a cross the street did and unfortunately the nursing did not involve breasts. Let’s just say he was teaching him about some real conservative values.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! I heard some gross things about that “caterpillar” movie… but it sound like a must watch if you like horror movies!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Bachmann… idiot, Gretchen… idiot = perfect headline!!

  • BachmannMommie

    Mediaite, this is very old news.  this came out many months ago, but thanks anyway.

  • shonangreg

    Beautiful women for Liberals tend to be wives, girlfriends, the girl-next-door, etc., not our politicians and media hostesses. Don’t get me wrong, beauty in a politician is great, but it is secondary or tertiary to knowledge and ability to govern. I’d say it’s surprising the Republicans haven’t discovered this, but next to nothing you cult members do surprises me.

  • Anonymous

    I guess someone a mediaite just woke up – this is not new news – never was a secret.  Gretchen mentioned this at least a year ago.  

  • Anonymous

    You’re just a freaking pig.

    I would imagine your name is sam – same creepy derogatory comments.  
    Don’t you ever grow up?

  • Anonymous

    I reported you.  I am so sick of the slimy creepy porn comments you can’t even imagine.
    I hope they take you out for a while cause you make me want to vomit – and take the rest of the low life pigs with you.

    If you guys cannot converse like adults, you should not be allowed on here.  Absolute trash is what you are.

  • Anonymous

    Good look with that, hon.

  • proud2teabagu

    Hey James, did you accomplish what you wanted to? You worthless pos.

  • proud2teabagu

    only to you dumb ass.

  • Anonymous

    A word to the wise: don’t drink before you post. You have no clue how much of an idiot you sound like.

  • proud2teabagu

    All you have to do is read the posts on this thread to fully understand what happens when leftists have control

  • Anonymous

    You’re just learning this?  I guess you Journolisters at Mediaite Matters are still delivering the news by pony express.

  • Crazygaffa

    I so agree lol….

  • proud2teabagu

    Get back in your tent.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    Headline should read, Gretchen’s indoctrination.

  • Anonymous

    Get back in your cave. And keep your knuckles off the floor.

  • Anonymous

    Except that she’s 15 in that photo….

  • Anonymous

    So, what your saying ( you racist Commie moron ) all ugly women are intelligent & all beautiful women are dumb. Gretchen Carlson graduated from Stanford. And all you have is a worthless G.E.D. Pieces of crap you idiot. You uneducated Commie liberal asshole. Beautiful women for liberals tend to be big bull lesbians. Take a bath you stinking Commie. And when you take a bath leave your clothes on so you can wash them too, you Commie.

  • Bob Uda

    What a wonderful babysitting story!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    mitt romney used to babysit steve doocy…  newt gingrich used to babysit brian kilmeade…  i think they all should be treated for repressed trauma syndrome… 

  • Anonymous

    That’s funny!

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