Michele Bachmann was the Laura Ingraham Show Friday where she said China has "blinded the United States satellites with their lasers."
"I'm not sharing something I shouldn't, but China has blinded United States satellites with their lasers," said Bachmann, who reiterated that she sits on the House Intelligence Commitee. "They've also supplied arms to the Taliban, and they've helped North Korea deliver missiles to Iran and Pakistan. And they've assisted Iran with their nuclear program."
She also mentioned China's "cyber attacks"on the U.S. and "currency manipulation."
"China has widespread intellectual property theft of United States intellectual property," she said. "Don't forget that. They've also been engaged in industrial espionage against the West as well. And they actively have engaged in cyber attacks both on our military and on our commercial companies."


Finally an explanation of what happened to her eyes (@@)
Am I the only one thinking bat sh!t crazy has Marcus in his 'pink nightie' out in the back-yard with a laser pointer in retaliation? lol
I still don't know what she's on but apparently it's some pretty good sh!t! ;o)
*poporn*?
OMG Feisty, You are sooo right . Mystery solved about her eyes and that crazy stare....LOL
Ms. Bachmann - Thanks for the obvious.
Her eyes are like a train wreck - it's gross, yet I find I can't l@@k away... lol
I think carrot top must have also got blinded by those lasers! In an earlier post feisty claimed she looks like Julia Roberts! Yikes, that could only happen if Julia has been drinking mojitos and chain smoking non stop since her last movie!
Those who live in glass houses..... yada, yada, yada
I'll bet that China doesn't steal Ms. B's intellectual property.
Geeze Billy - just because I denied your request for admission into the Feisty Redhead Fan Club, doesn't mean you have to be so bitter...
After all, you can re-apply in 3 months and something might open up by then... ;o)
Keep the faith my friend...
OMG
The first requirement to sit on the Intelligence Committee ought to be ... intelligence.
Lol-
I sincerely hope Axelrod and Plouffe are concentrating on defeating Michelle Bachmann's challenge to President Obama in 2012.
THOSE slackers don't take her seriously enough.
Let's light a fire under their behinds!
Thank heavens First Readers recognize the threat.
Anyway...
Surprised to see YOUR face in THIS crowd, AM.
:-)
It was worth the stop just to see you, Bag Boy. ;-)
Aw, shucks...
[I'm not sharing something I shouldn't....]
Sureeeeeeeeee you're not....tomorrow we'll read how you were thrown off the committee for being a blabbermouth...A BLAAAAAAAABERMOUTH........
...Axelrod and Plouffe...that is so...last week...you can do better than that, can't you?
...oh, wait...forget it...
Wrong, mouse.
Axelrod and Plouffe are so...this election cycle.
Please...
a) Try to pay attention, and;
b) Stop babbling incoherently.
I'd hate to be you people.If all I had to do all day was sit and watch the computer and kiss Obama's behind,I think cliff jumping would be a good sport for you to take up.Haven't the democrats in Illinois got the unions to build any cliffs lately?The first lesson is free.
No srsmith,
they're waiting for those "job creators" to trickle money on them. Probably the same people who own the short bus companies that truck in the Palin worshipers to those "Fleece the Morons" rallies of hers.
AM,
I was thinking they were in hopes of some 'osmosis' type infusion? The anti science crowd will try anything.
She has the glazed over look in her eyes... she must be sitting on something !
Reading the childish, lib comments on this page makes you almost want to go back to the top and check if there was PG-4 rating from FR.
Really guys ... not one adult, relevent comment. Not one challenge to a statement or position Bachmann took?
China launched an 8.5 metric to space station module aboard a Long March 2F rocket on Thursday. Capt. Shen of the Chinese Navy Research Institute said: "The mastery of outer space will be requisite for military victory, with outer space becoming the venue for combat."
And now under Obama, we have to try to hitch a ride with the Russians as the greatest space crafts ever made sit in Museums.
They have a pretty robust anti-satellite program going. Oh yea, the lauched their first aircraft carrier as we shrink our navy down to pre-WW I levels, introduced their new knock off of the F-22 stealth air superiority fighter (F-22 has been canceled), developed an anti-carrier ballistic missile as Obama hands the Russians our ability to defend ourselves with his START II insanity ..... oh well .... this probably is way over all your kiddos heads.
Try it this way. Don't you guys hear all those stories about people aiming little laser pointers at airliners as they are landing and taking off ..... how it kinda blinds the pilots?
And these losers are just playing around.
China ain't playing.
Oh well.
Dag gummit .... I shouldn't have mentioned the laser / airliners .... kids - don't do it - it real and really dangerous.
Bob -
The point of the article was that Ms. Bachmann was obviously trying to enhance her credentials as a foreign policy expert and member of the House Intelligence Committee, when in fact - as your post just demonstrated - the same information is pretty much available to anyone who likes to surf the Internet in their spare time.
And gosh, the Chinese are spying on us? Who'd have guessed? Boy, I sure hope we start spying back on them before it's too late!
Hey JoAnne,
My point was to illuminate how insipid the liberal comments are, how childishly irrelevent in the vain attempt to promote a discussion.
Secondly, Bachmann is talking about this important stuff.
Is Obama? How does he feel about it? What is his plan? Does he even have one?
Or is just spending all his time campaigning and collecting more money?
BTW - We have been spying on the Chinese, hence the lasers / satelite stuff (you are aware of one of their functions right?) They have been much much more aggressive with other means too.
Bob -
Uhh, yes, I'm aware of the various functions of satellites. Apparently sarcasm isn't my strong suit.
But do you really want the president to ANNOUNCE his plans for dealing with espionage and cyber attacks and currency manipulation to the Chinese? You know, sort of give them a head's up so they'll be able to plan better? Would President Bachmann/Perry/Romney/Christie do that? Or are you suggesting that we're already spying on the Chinese, just without the President's knowledge?
Bob – 180,
Here you go defending another faux Presidential candidate that is trying to get our President and the national intelligence community talking about issues that full disclosure would alert our enemies and not so friendly friends what we are doing so they can defend more effectively against our covert operations and better understand our defenses so they can circumvent them.
Greatest idea ever!!!
Article is about space and the future importance. The next person to step on the moon will speak Chinese. Obama has abandoned space for all practical purposes.
Plan? If he has a plan, what does the above tell you?
China intoduces new missiles, supersonic cruise missiles, ballistic missile, etc. Obama is killing anti- missile defense. China has introduced a 5th generation stealth fighter. Obama cancelled the F-22.
Plan? If he has a plan, what does the above tell you?
"Announce his plans" - I want him to have a plan. And yes take it to America in an APPROPRIATE way.
Obama is spending us into bankruptcy. The first big cut are already teed up to be defense - insane.
The guy has no plan. He doesn't have time with his progressive social agenda and campaigning.
Grow up.
You too Dennis.
Sheez, I'm not defending Bachmann, I'm mocking libs for their banality. Where did anyone mention "full disclosure."
Can't argue my points so you have to change tham?
Like Obama and his coverage of the Bin Laden raid? Like the administration revealing operational details on the mission, outing SEAL Team 6 which resulted in the death of 30+ Americans ..... bringing in Hollywood to do a movie about it to be released two weeks before the election?
Yea, he handled that real well ...... Pakistan is allowing attacks on our embassy, sold the stealth chopper tail to the Chinese ....
http://www.chron.com/news/article/AP-Investigation-Plant-deal-may-enrich-donors-2196106.php#loopBegin
Dems in action. Where sre the FR deflectors to offer cover for BAchmann? Not that she needs it. I really don't understand the obsession with every utterance she makes. As it has been pointed out, and appreciating her unique perspective because of position, this "news" is not new and the info she relayed already resides in the public sphere.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/09/30/al-sharpton-put-governor-christie-jail-90-days-lose-weight#ixzz1ZS4nH3FI
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/30/cornell_belcher_cains_brainwashed_remark_was_a_racist_bigoted_statement.html
The Dems are losing it. Well said Bob.
Look, just because China uses underhanded tactics, which everyone already knows, doesn't mean Bachmann isn't still batsh!t crazy.
If you want a discussion on something less "childish" let's talk about Teapublican protection of corporations who offshore, who headquarter in the Cayman Islands, who hire illegals, and the only answer from them is a Race to the Bottom. And why is it that China can afford to invest in their future, including buying American real estate at fire sale prices, but the US is too broke to do the same things?
I think I'll go to the Occupy Wall Street rally in my city this month with a sign that reads Pass This Bill!
Richard - 348259, you have to actually possess intellectual property before it can be stolen. So, you're right, China won't be visiting Rep. Bachmann any time soon.
I don't support Bachmann, but everything she said is true and has been reported before, so why is everyone surprised?
I'm not a supporter, nor a political person, and have little to say about the person quoted in the article, but this foulmouthed Redbrained churl that lurks in all these MSNBC forums to spew abuse and personal insults at everyone who has a different political perspective is a menace, a mean-spriited and evil person with a dirty mouth and a filthy brain who makes my skin crawl and my stomach turn in revulsion.
I have never elsewhere seen such gleeful meanness and malevolence, such snake-like poison, such an eagerness to spring upon every person with whom she disagrees as though she has already condemned them to death and is just playing with them like a cat to see how terrified she can make them.
Does anyone else out there smell the eternal sulfurous flame that accompanies her every cruel and evil post?
More importantly, it speaks volumes about the executives at MSNBC that such a venomous and demonic person would be their chosen hired spokesperson, given the heads-up to open every single political thread that appears here with an abusive personal attack.
The odiousness of this person is a stench that fills the room whenever she says anything whatever. Her every word is
creepy.
The malicious evil that reeks from every utterance of hers is, like a vile and rotting cadaver, ghastly,
...
and yet MSNBC executives apparently keep paying her to spew this vomitious filth.
They must be equally evil.
The genocide they plan and savor is therefore all to easy to read between their every line.
These controllers of the world's dialogue.
They really are every bit as evil as the worst-case warnings we have heard.
It sure fits their visible character.
How long will it be before this red-painted creature is priding herself on being just like Idi Amin
in every evil way
and her MSNBC patrons are cheering it?
Really?
One thing you are though, is a BOLD FACED LIAR a quick visit to your Newsvine account says quite the opposite...
I'm not going to waste my valuable time on a sociopath other then to recommend you get some HELP you oh so desperately need!
John, believe me many share your sentiments! It's too bad..... we come here for political discussion, but instead get a sleazy carrot top (feisty) comedy act more appropriate for an episode of Real Housewives of New Jersey, not a political forum!
The only personal attacks that I see here are more foul mouthed right wing morons chiming in that they do not like Feisty's posts. You two clowns need to get yourselves a life. If you don't like what you read here, go back to Faux. You'll feel more at home there with the rest of the ignorant foul mouthed tea smoking Koch sniffing scum. There. Blast away. Collapse it. Right wingers never meet a truth they could stand. I'm sick to death of reading your personal attacks on here. The shoe fits both feet and Jim and John are neck deep in their own poop here.
Feisty,
Looks like you've got a new 'john' in your fan club stable. They just can't get enough!
LOL
roy - because FR libs like to carry on about nothing.
x
Michelle Batwoman can't see thunder and will say any darn thing. Like Feisty said it's the laser.
Feisty,
I meant to congratulate you on your question.
Be careful on the way to the Dew Drop Inn if you drive along the lake. Don't let the rip currents get you.
See you there in a little bit. We have a lot to celebrate tonight.
Thanks honey!
I saw it on the news - super bizarre!
Let's get over to the Birthday parties at the Dew Drop Inn shall we?
tgifatddi!
Feisty:
How'd you know it was my B'Day?
Who, pray tell, can see thunder?
Crack got ya?
She blinded me with science fiction?
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
No one ever said she was bright, but she needs to say something so people will look at her and say "WTF"?
Forrest Grump 2.0
She blinded me with science fiction?
She blinded me with her stupidity. Much worse, she is stupid enough to think she could be President!!!
Maybe we can get her to stare at China and blind their satellites or just set their pants on fire.
I was blinded once by some ugly fat chick in a bad swimsuit.
Love is blind, and besides fat chicks need love too!
Clinically delusional.
To think the GOP let the dumbest woman in the world stand on the same stage with the other contenders, is totally absurd.
You mean the other dumbest contenders on stage didn't notice?
Holy mackeral,.....will somebody please get the straight jacket back on this chick?
She 's ready to spill classified data, and she needs to be stopped!! Next we'll be hearing about flying monkeys.
"Aunty Em,...Aunty Em...."!!!!
I do not even know why she is going through the motions anymore.
Get off the stage and make way for Jabba the Christie, the real GOP nominee.
Course Christie is so gigantic that his gravitational influence bends light, but he'll make for a fine target as the late-night comics tear Governor Circumference to tiny, flabby shreds.
Can they arrest her now, giving away all that secret information from the "intelligence" committee she's on? I've always suspected they "told" her she was on the committee just to make up crazy things to tell her and see what she does with it.
Maybe she should be on the artificial intelligence committee.
I wish they would steal our table, chair, and fork technology, I'm tired of sitting on the floor eating with sticks!
OMG, this is what's running for Pres.? Be afraid, be very afraid.
I am afraid......Obama scares the bejeesus out of me.
Two thoughts as I read this:
First, if by some horrific cosmic joke she does become President, I'm thinking Canada isn't far enough away; I might flee to Australia instead.
Second, when I read her quote all I can do is picture her doing the Dr. Evil thing as she says it. "They blinded our frickin' satellites with their <air quotes>lay-zers</air quotes>."
With sharks that have fricken laser beams attached to their heads.
Forrest,
You are the greatest comedy writer on this blog. BWAHAHAHAHA!! You're killin' me.
Where's Lotta Fahgina when you need her.
My mouth sometimes gets me in trouble GOP, but every once in a while I can get a belly laugh out of somebody and it is strange I do not how to explain it exactly, but it makes me feel good, kind of like when you do a good deed, something like that, I can't explain it, but it is a double edged sword sometimes. Bottom line is you got to laugh once in a while and enjoy life and I think even a little dark humor can take the edge off of some of the troubling times in our lives. Ha and then one other theory is that Forrest is pretty much a grumpy A-hole.
What a great way to start the weekend--what fertile soil for laughs! I especially love "she blinded them with science fiction" and "The first requirement to sit on the Intelligence Committee ought to be ... intelligence." You just can't make up this stuff! Priceless!
I hope she don't think those paper lanterns they hang everywhere are lasers.
Holy Bleep,......you mean they're not?
No they are LED's left over from Solyndra!
I'm no Bachman fan- but those posting, and the author of this article, raise your ignorance levels to Bachman's.
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_weapons_and_global_security/space_weapons/technical_issues/chinese-lasers-and-us.html
Note, please, that the source is a lefty, peace-love-and-understanding organization. Therefore, they attempt to put these laser attacks into 'context'- as in, the Chinese really did not mean to do anything wrong.
That the Chinese steal intellectual property is well documented. That they are manipulating their currency is also well documented.
So, tell me- how does it feel to be revealed as more ignorant than the person you are ridiculing? Tell me, Matt, think you should have done a little Google search- never mind real research- before you wrote this piece?
Here is another source
http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/sgs/archive/17-1-Butt-Effects-of-Chinese.pdf
Please note that the research paper was done in 2006, when reports of laser interference was first noticed. At that time, the conclusion was that, while the lasers employed could temporarily blind the satellites, the damage was unlikely to be permanent.
What's happened in the ensuing five years?
Well that's the problem with being as ditsy as Bachmann has been, even if you are right sometimes nobody takes you seriously any more. besides it's the weekend, and we are having a little fun, come on have a little fun NJ you don't have to be buzz kill, there is something you must think is funny about her.
Sorry, I don't find ignorance funny. As I said, I'm no Bachman fan, but a Google search gave me the two sources I used- and, there are more.
If you want to make fun of anybody, it should be the "journalist" who quote this piece- as HE displaced his "ditziness" far more than Bachman.
As did the rest of you, for accepting it as gospel, rather than doing any research.
I guess irony is lost on the remaining cult members- but, don't you find it odd that, Bachman talks about something that actually happened- and gets ridiculed- but Obama speaks about this country building an intercontinental railroad, and there is silence on the subject?
By the way- it was not a slip of the tongue, but in the written text. So, not only did the brainiacs who write his speeches misidentify the Transcontinental railroad as Intercontinental, but Obama did not catch it.
I guess he thinks he can hop a choo choo for Brazil the next time he has Samba lessons waiting.
Michelle Bachmann is a Congresswoman and an "insider" when it comes to this kind of information, so the only thing that makes her comments "funny" or "stupid" is MSNBC's attempts to paint her as a "stupid" woman to suit the liberal narrative. We know Obama is desperate BUT this attempt to attack the opposition is so obvious. It's sad that the lemmings go along and continue with the derision of a U.S. Congresswoman and a tax attorney ! You liberal lemmings calling her stupid, is like a 5 yr.old calling his parent stupid !! GET REAL.
The things that have come out of Michele Bachmann's mouth are hers alone no liberal journalist made a fool of her they did not put words in her mouth, truthfully it is a damn shame that this is what we elect to lead a nation in trouble, or at any time, damn ironic isn't it, it is what it is, an idiot on the intelligence committee, and if that is not funny enough some want her to be president, so some of us just shake our heads and laugh. You guys will just have to deal with it, after all you are living in a nation where one of the most popular and longest running TV shows is based on film clips of peope falling down and putting a new crack in their ass
Well, some people don't like Obama but he's not stupid.
On the other hand, we've had king stupid (dubya), Sarah the Dunce and Michelle the dingbat leavened with creationist Perry and a liberal helping of global warming denial.
It's amazing to find Mitt Romney in the same party with these idiots.
Well that is his political problem Dave, he has to play down to this so he sells out on himself to win over republicans who really don't like him because they know he just said what they want to hear, and then he losses the other side for playing along with the republican base, and turning himself inside out again. In the end he will lose if he goes up against Obama because neither side likes him well enough, because he does not really fit either side very well, he attemps to be whatever anybody wants him to be, but still nobody really wants him.
I have in-laws as creepy as Bachmann. Can't wait for Thanksgiving!
Don't feel bad I have to go to my brothers house this year and his wife's cooking is so bad I pray after the meal.
How on God's green earth, did this stupid person, ever get elected? and then to compund that monumental screwup, she is then appointed to the House Intellegence Committee, as if that it is reward? Really? We are in serious trouble. (Shakes head)
Here is another Republican's first!! Just heard on the news that the republican state of Ohio and their republican Governor past a new law today that allows people to carry concealed guns into bars, one exception being, that while in procession of the gun in the bar you can't drink. Meaning you can't drink in a bar while in the procession of a concealed weapon. Do we make any CENT? Who and how are they going to enforce the law making sure everyone that comes into a bar who has a concealed weapon doesn't drink. And then if that person that has a weapon gets drunk, who is going to take it away from him since he isn't suppose to be drinking, the guy next to him who has been drinking.
Where do you republicans come up with these ideas and policies????
"Where do you republicans come up with these ideas and policies????"
You honestly don't know, Derf? God gives them to 'em!
I think this was basically copied from the 1848 GunSmoke amendment, It was sponsored by representative Dillion the great, great, great, great grandson of US Marshall Matt Dillion.
Why would anyone go into a bar if they weren't going to drink?
I was wondering about that too, Mo, so I looked this story up. Not only is the "it's okay as long as you come into a bar and don't drink" part true, but there's more to this law:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohioans with concealed-carry permits can take their firearms into bars and other facilities where alcohol is served and consumed, as long as they don't drink, under a law taking effect Friday.
Supporters say the measure is about allowing people who legally have concealed weapons to carry the firearms into restaurants that happen to serve alcohol, instead of leaving them behind in a vehicle.
Opponents have said it will lead to a dangerous mix of booze and firearms.
Businesses don't have to allow the weapons, and facilities home to Ohio's major professional sports teams plan to continue to ban weapons for safety reasons.
The law also allows a person with the proper permit to have a loaded handgun in a vehicle even if the gun is not secured in a holster." (emphasis mine)
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/09/concealed_handguns_ok_in_bars.html
I guess they must not have as much of a problem with road rage in Ohio as the rest of us do. But hey, this should help them catch up fast.....
You can now bring your gun more places than you can bring your cigarettes.
Personally if I was in this bar I would be more worried about second hand bullets, than second hand smoke!
Nothing like having shots fired while people are firing shots!
A dog limps into a saloon holding a gun, the whole place goes silent and nervously gazes in his direction, and the dog says I'm looking for the man that shot my paw.
first, once a "citizen" decides to take up arms against their own country, it is called treason. Treason is a crime punishable by death. So for those questioning whether it was legal to take out awalala the short answer is of course it is. For treason, not to mention that once war was declared against alqaida all bets were off. so bush's own law covers the deed.
It is an amazement to see republicans actually giving more grief about killing a traitor than perry allowing the execution of an innocent man for political purposes,or for that matter, an auditorium full of republicans booing an American soldier serving on foreign soil. And then the utter silence as no candidate rose to the occassion to defend the soldier.
Please, someone, correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall Ms. Bachmann did NOT file the paperwork to run for the house again... It was due right after the Iowa Straw Poll, and I'm sure her confidence was quite high. Perhaps we're about to hear the last from this chickie.
I can dream... although she has been entertaining...
Derf,
you libs haven't a clue. It does make sense.
To be able to legally carry a concealed weapon, you need a license to do so.
It is preferable to have a law abiding citizen carrying a weapon for defense, than a criminal. Especially a drunk criminal.
Weapons carried by law-abiding citizens are for defensive purposes. Criminals dont give a damn either way about laws, they will bring weapons into bars.
Yeah, out here in Utah we have people that want the next president of the University of Utah selected only if he approves of carrying guns on campus.
Gee, frat parties, binge drinking and guns. What could go wrong there?
Just another realisitic republican idea.
Here's a fact, bob: guns are carried by law abiding citizens for defensive purposes. That's the idea. But it's not unknown for tempers to fail and for guns to be used on each other by said law abiding citizens. Out here in Utah we had a recent case where two armed neighborhood watch citizens confronted each other under mistaken circumstances. One in now in jail and the other is paralyzed for life.
Ever hear of the law of unintended consequences, bob? Or is that just another dumb liberal invention?
I generally favor gun rights but sometimes these issues have nuances that need some actual thinking and that's something I often find lacking in simplistic, conservative rantings.
Chinese lasers..ha ha, say the ignorant moonbats, what a joke.
More snarky headlines from First Read, whiich is catnip for the ignorant unfunny moonbat comedians.
No joke, losers.
"A September 28, 2006 Defense News story reported that China had recently "fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese ability to blind the spacecraft."[1] ("Blinding" usually refers to causing permanent damage to an imaging satellite's detector.)
Shortly after this report appeared, Command Sergeant Major David Lady of the Joint Functional Combat Command for Integrated Missile Defense, was reported by Janes Defense Weekly to have stated that these incidents were discovered when operators noticed a "sudden decline in effectiveness as the satellites passed over China"
Bob-1887910
"Chinese lasers..ha ha, say the ignorant moonbats, what a joke."
Look, Juven Bachan- this is the municipal sewer department, and we've had just about enough out of you!
So all of us libs are dummies, huh bob?
Well, here's one liberal who has been in favor of missile defense for a long time. Where do I fit in your antilib diatribes?
And bachmann is right about the theft of intellectual property but given her history that might just be an accidental mistake. She's still straight from dingbat central.
Michele Bachmann (She) blinded ME with science! ............not really.
"It was worth the stop just to see you, Bag Boy. ;-)"
A-Frikkin'-men, A.M.
BUT- it IS a relief to one of us old farts to know age isn't the reason our eyesight is failing. It's them there damned lasers!