SNL’s Michele Bachmann Finally Gets To Blink While Explaining Why She Dropped Out

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by Sarah Devlin | 12:48 am, January 8th, 2012

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SNL’s Weekend Update had Michele Bachmann on for her swan song following her disappointing finish in the Iowa caucus on Tuesday. Although she was bummed that her time as a Republican candidate was over, she was much more excited about being able to blink “for the first time since this all started.” Seth Meyers quizzed her about her statement that God told her to run for the presidency, and Bachmann placidly acknowledged that it may have been a mass text.

Although Bachmann has been very good for the show, this exchange was a little weak, if only because most of these jokes about and from Bachmann have been told before. It was also very distracting to have Kristen Wiig as Bachmann singing pop songs each time she had the opportunity to blink, as it’s hard to believe that she’d be much of a Top 40 fan. Marcus Bachmann, maybe.

See the sketch here via NBC:

Michele Bachmann, SNL

Henry Wood

The impression doesn’t work. Not enough crazy in the eyes. You have to find someone with 2 inch fire engine red pupils and a neck that rotates 360 degrees or it won’t look like Michele.
Hout Bosques

She’s on a BREAK!

I like the tone: it fits how Bachmann turned down the glare as her campaign dissolved; the pressure off, she seamlessly returned to the standard Republican behavior model of deflecting, obfuscating & prevaricating (Look at her recent appearances on FuppetNews & MarxistSocialistNBC.).
Anonymous

Funny stuff!
That would be just like Bachmann to blame Obama after she found Marcus’s gay mags.
Anonymous

Give it a little brown tint and this skit could very well be about the other Michelle.

No, not Malkin, but the obese and hypocritical, vegetable-preaching, but steak-and-lobster-gobbling free-loader whose husband hoodwinked his way into the White House.
Anonymous

A little bit of the “long way around” to vomit out that misguided ”tea” hate, wasn’t it? Keep the hate and spin alive!
Anonymous

Wow, GavinsSplooge, you’re so Special! Obese? Free-loading? My, I guess you trailer park Tea Baggers are feelin’ kinda down these days, yes?
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The racist Republican conspiracy theory about this is that Bachmann had to bail on the campaign, or the NYT was going to expose the Marcus B & Sandusky affair. She heard the wet butt slapping herself, but the nearby shower mirror broke as she looked to see who was doing who in the bathroom!
Anonymous

That’s just one of the problems that you baggers have. You don’t recognize class when you see it. The only thing those two have in common is the name, and bachmann doesn’t even spell hers in the normal way. If a female doesn’t act like a lower intelligent life form who speaks with a nasal twang, you can’t handle it. I sure hope you don’t have any girls of your own since your expectations of them are so low.