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Subscribe to RSSMIAMI -- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign for president may be over, but top aides are still rushing to her defense.
Bachmann’s former campaign manager, Keith Nahigian, directed a lawyer Friday to write South Carolina radio stations to ask them to stop playing an advertisement he says is funded by the group Winning our Future, a super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich.
Nahigian says the ad, apparently called "Bachmann," uses archival tape of the former candidate praising Gingrich in order to create the impression she's endorsing him. (Winning our Future did not immediately respond to an email from NBC News. The ad does not seem to be available online.)
According to a transcript provided by Nahigian, Bachmann says of Gingrich's time as speaker of the House, “He made an indelible mark that literally changed the United States,” adding, “he was almost better known than our president during those years.”
A narrator says: “Michele Bachmann is right. Newt helped change history once. He can do it again.”
Nahigian says the audio dates to the 2008 Republican National Convention, in St. Paul. Bachmann, running for re-election in her nearby district, invited Gingrich to speak at a fundraiser for her campaign.
“Congresswoman Bachman has not endorsed Speaker Gingrich, nor any other candidate for the Presidency,” the letter from Bachmann's lawyer reads. “Your station must fulfill its responsibility to operate in the public interest and cease airing [Winning our Future’s] radio advertisement immediately.”
The Bachmann campaign ground to a halt a little more than a week ago. Nahigian, back from a brief vacation, calls this brewing fight “small little stuff,” though “ironic."
“The words that came out of her mouth [at the 2008 event] were written by his staff, of how to introduce him,” Nahigian says, of Gingrich. “They’re not even her own thoughts.”
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Quick!
Someone call Michele a WHAAAAbulance!
Newt was kind enough to assist he campaign when she needed it & this is how she shows her gratitude?
With 'friends' like her, who needs enemies! lol
Feisty---Michele is protecting the value of her endorsement--she has a lot of campaign debts to pay off I'm sure so she needs to get the most she can for it. Can't have people thinking she endorsed Newt.
Newt said Virginia is for lovers, put me on the ballot.
If she has any debt, it must not be much. Her getting out was to prevent going into "significant" debt. I've also read she may not run again for her seat in the house.
Protect the value of her endorsement? LMAO!! Perhaps she should have thought about that before she opened her trap and spoke over the last several years? The best thing for Newty is for her to endorse Willard.
I would imagine there are a quite a few people in her district and state who are happy for that news, DB!
Patriotic American,
I love lovers!
Newt & Bachmann should be facing a federal corruption investigation ??????????
.........................."Phine, I second that" !!!
Bachmann's Campaign? I thought Ms. Whaaaaa had "Suspended" her Campaign. Go back to the Cauldron and stir some more brew Cruella
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Nurse "Marcus" will give her a "Harris FLUSH" to clear her thinking !
Who is upset at whom?
Perhaps she is thinking of the future and looking to run as VP?
You Posters are Pathetic!
Where is the Article that Precious Obama is going to combine certain Government departments...which will dump aprox. 1,000 Government JOBS to save money and get some Brownie Points !
Too funny....since HE has created 139,000 Gov't jobs since 2009...another CAMPAIGN ploy!
WOW......1,000 jobs?
P.S.............Feisty obviously has NO life! Sad!
The fact that *anyone* is this country would spend good money to broadcast to the public that they had been endorsed by Michelle Bachman is the real story. What would posses you to admit, let alone squander campaign funds on that? Are we sure that one of Newt's opponents didn't pay for this?
If candidates have to use so much diatribe and deceit to merely run for the office, just what do you think they are going to do in order to hold and operate that office. Ron Paul is running on a campaign of trust and honesty, not two faced, turn coat slander and insults. Obama is running on a campaign primarily based on how Republicans have gridlocked our legislative processes, operated in strict partisan, "PARTY of NO" mentality and using deceit to push legislature protecting and to enrich the already rich and powerful over the middle class and working class. That is also likened to Ron Paul in that there is honesty to it, and the American public agrees. What is left of the Republican constituents is merely a confused mob of voters that are lost as who to cast a vote for, with dwindling choices, ridiculous candidates, untrustworthy opponents, and arguments in the debates that show nothing other than deceitful natures attacking other deceitful candidates. Newt is in it for the money, Perry has proven he will liquidate your country in order to come out of it with a profit, and Romney is a good choice? Ron Paul is the only one sitting with common sense diplomacy, yet the republican populace can't see it for the blind diatribe they have practiced like a religion since the campaigns started, locking themselves into their slander slinging and biased opinions rather than following wisdom and intelligence.
This will probably go down in the books as one of the Ship of Fools campaigns, and when Obama gets the votes and enters into a second term, that ship of fools will undoubtedly scream protest as to rigged elections and false ballots.
America has fast become a joke, the lowered credit rating gives that proof, and it's Americans that have been lazy and self centered likened to spoiled and cry baby children, too interested in their own plights and future to worry about our nation as a whole.
The non-lazy participants out here in the form of The Tea Party, and the OWS movement, whether they have faults or not, have one thing over everyone else who complains and whines, they are definitely not lazy! You get what you vote for, you get what you deserve, you get what you work diligently towards, and this is what you get. Your version of America to offer your descendants.
Hi Patty, where you been?
Hey, did you see all the articles on how President Obama wants to consolidate certain government agencies and eliminate some jobs through attrition and retirements?
..check it out...
Hi "Mickey"................how the he!! are ya? I've missed you!
Funny how Obama is trying to "downsize" to supposedly save money and 1,000 jobs will be lost , when 139,000 Government jobs have been created in the past 3 yrs. by the Big O?
OBVIOUS Political B.S...........
YET...the Dems are slamming Romney for doing EXACTLY the same thing in Private industry...downsize to try and save a Company!!!!!
P.S....Mickey...why have you made your profile completely unable to post or contact you? :-(
Patty and Mickey, isn't that what Republicans are speaking about...smaller government and less government workers. Your complaining because, well, maybe you won't have the bigger government to complain about the President.
You make me laugh. Thanks. I needed to.
"Slightlyold"
How sad for you..............Mickey is a diehard Dem and I am an Independent.....BUT, we get alone and really enjoy our posts!
YOU are part of the American ANGRY problem! Just can't get along and be Nice?????
Whoa.........are you one of the OCCUPY nutties?
Who convinced that flake that she had a snow flakes chance in hell to win the GOP nomination yet alone the Presidency. Please tell me Michelle, I will go smak them for you.
You have to laugh at the irony of the Citizens United ruling playing 'em all out, at each other, and as total wackoid lunatics ...
LOL
She said it in public... They should be able to use it. Sorry Michele, that's how politics works. Better be careful what you say because it can (and usually will) come back to bite you in the butt!
I've missed you too, Patty...you can contact me through the "contact this author" link on my profile.
Actually, those jobs will be "lost" through attrition and retirements, and the positions will go unfilled. I guess it's a matter of semantics?
Please point me to an article, ANY article, that quantifies your claim that Obama created 139,000 new government jobs. The only things I can find are moonbat comments on blogs.
But I did find this:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/11/paul-krugman/paul-krugman-says-government-jobs-have-fallen-half/
Glad to see you back, dollface...
If I was in the race I would pay Bachmann not to endorse me!
lmao here, No one voted for this babbling Batty Bachmann, what makes her think the people are going to start to listen to this dimwit now.
Just go away atty Bachmann, you re a loser, accept it and move the hell away to anther planet if you can. If not another planet, then someone please lock this nut in a padded cell away from the public. Her mental disease is contagious. Just look at the thousands of sheeple that support this bigoted and ignorant woman.
And take the cazy Nikki Haley, governor of the state I live in, with her. Right to the wacky factory.
Bachmann is probably withholding her endorsement until someone makes an offer - like helping her pay off debt or offering the # 2 spot on the ticket. Remember, this was one more thing she was called to do. She isn't likely to give up her delusions until everything has been decided without including her.
She has hardly been in the House for the last 2 years.....and why should she run she can make a lot more on the book tour/speaking circuit and as a hater for Faux News as per her twin Palin. How are these people getting elected to anything above the PTA I have no idea. Dealer a new deck (of voters) please these are shot.
@djdrew201. Well said.
Bachmann will do a lot better on her next book tour if she 1) colors ALL the pages this time and 2) learns how to stay inside the lines better.
Let's hope not. There are more than enough idiots in Congress as it is.
Part of it goes with the credo of voting out anyone with experience over the past 15 years. Is that how you pick doctors? Auto mechanics? Bus drivers?
I love it when thoughtless little baggers like Patty come on here calling other posters "pathetic" and "nutties" when she can't even figure out what the topic of the conversation is. She may as well have come on here posting about neat little daisies and chirpy little birdies in her little la-la land.
“The words that came out of her mouth [at the 2008 event] were written by his staff, of how to introduce him,” Nahigian says, of Gingrich. “They’re not even her own thoughts.”
This was the most telling line in the entire article and why people like Bachmann and "patty in Virginia Beach" are so creepy. Without even a thought about whether or not it is the truth or even relevant, they just mechanically barf out the propaganda they are fed. They wave their little flags without realizing that such obvious brainwashing is the antithesis of a free society.
Such weakness of character would be pitiful if they weren't so transparently arrogant. Instead they are simply beneath contempt.
It's real easy, if the add isn't directly from the campaign - ignore it!
The 1% filled Romney's pockets for the run !!!!!!!!!!!
Fiesty: I think Michele needs a hug. Newtie is a true P.O.S though!
You won't get an argument from me... lol
4 martinis ... I see pink Bachmann bats ... swat, swat, swat ... swat ... gurgle phffftt
What do you see after 5 martinis?
phlying phink phinephancys
I can't tell you but I know it's mine. (credit to John Lennon)
phantastic!!!!
This Super Pac thing is really turning around and biting the conservatives on their collective behinds.
It is a bed they made. Let them sleep in it. I hope Obama has an enormous super-pac waiting to crush them too. Be careful what you wish for....
If you havnt noticed william, pretty much EVERYTHING the conservatives do turns into a total disaster, thats why they have such a massive propaganda machine, to cover their tracks and place the blame on everyone else. These people are professionals, they have had 2000 years of practice feigning persecution while persecuting others.
The Rethugs sat in the State of the Union speech when Obama called out the Supreme Court decision, the Rethugs all having smirks on their faces, Alito shaking his head mouthing the words 'not true' -- they were all like the cat who ate the canary -- all so proud of their Rethug Judges.
Now -- they're all whining. The Party of Rethug Dumbas*es.
I saw the superpac video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-jrbeWbXo
Sop for mr grover, the gop, & the rushbo. Where's the problem they will ask. What about the millions in the company & workers retirement funds being taken. Like at enron. Except workers here were fired.
“They’re not even her own thoughts.” Now that is funny!
...but typical and not surprising John.
GOOD!! Another typical bohner by the shallow, unthinking tea/gop party; just like the debt ceiling deal from August that is leading to mandatory defense cut that they hate, and a dozen other instances where they have jumped before looking and considering the consequences - (think Clinton special prosecutor, Citizens United, "corporations are people," WPA, recess appointments, and on, and on, and on...)
Idiots set these precedents, then when the table is turned yell and scream because it is done to them too. They live for that Republican double standard. Instead, they should look beyond their noses to the future effects of their actions and not treat governing as a game to be won at any costs.
Personally, I hope every one of the tea/gop suffer from their own contentious ploys, and live to regret that they pushed through stuff we told them was wrong to begin with.
Sorry for the rant - just very aggravated and tired of the RWNJ games of one upmanship (like their practice of obstruction, etc.)
Amazing how these politicians say things then claim it was not their thoughts. If you don't mean it don't say it, the words will come back to bite you in the a--, so many of these politicians play fast and loose with words then cry foul when they are quoted. Bachmann proved to everyone how she is not ready for politics and never will be.
The words aren't even her own thoughts? So, Bachmann is just another mindless politician, rught?
Merrill-
Exactly. Why the heck was she saying those things if they weren't her words? What a crock. These people really are puppets.
Merrill-2361993
"So, Bachmann is just another mindless politician, rught?"
After she's voted out of office this year for embarrassing her constituents, she'll just be a mindless ex-politician.
@BigAl LasVegas: I hate to break the news to you, but have you ever met some of Bachmann's constituents .... some of them even scare her - they certainly frighten me. They are an interesting bunch and for some, her activities in the GOP clown parade (nominating process) this season, have only increased their fervor for her.
BTW, nice avatar :)
C'mon Minnesotans, send Bachmann packin'.
Just because you are not voted captain of the team does not mean you should start kicking balls into the opposing teams net. This is America and you are free to do so, but don't expect your team to root you on.
GASP .. a GOP/TP candidate wants to restrict freedom of speech for corporations, now protected by United Citizens thanks fully to a far right-wing SCOTUS, the very folks Bachmann wholly supports. Oops, I forgot, GOP/TP= hypocrisy.
Oh, the irony!
Wonder how much of Michelle's debt the Romney campaign has offered to pay?
Of course! According to Republican double standards, which is the "1%" mindset and behavior, the freedom should not apply to everyone, only to themselves. Identical to "...only the little people pay taxes." and "...Let them eat cake."
gop/tea party is so out of touch with America. Difficult for them to comprehend the meaning of EQUALITY.
this is not worth posting a comment..... it does not matter. All that should matter for Republicans is to start talking about jobs again which they altogether forgot after winning 2010 elections.
They had NO INTENTION to create jobs, they want us to fail.
We've been waiting for jobs bills since Jan/2011. All we got was a credit downgrade and renamed post offices. Wow, what a deal.
Red,
Don't forget reaffirming all those bills that concern abortion! (Boy, the GOP is certainly worried about a woman's uterus!)
Phine .. the right wing fanatics have a kinky fascination with fetuses, uteri, and gay sex acts (all worthy of many a Freudian study). Yet when it come to babies, women, and gay people, they are happy to let them starve and live in poverty.
Red,
Is it me, or do you see a wee bit of hypocrisy in there view? LOL
No comment except that when Michelle uses these tactics then it is OK! Turnabout fair play!! As for Jobs the only thing the Republicans cared about was protecting the tax loopholes for the super rich and getting rid of long established regs to create even more loopholes all the while obstructing any bi-partisan efforts to get the economy back on track.
That's all they can and have done. They have no idea how to create jobs AND keep the economy sluggish to defeat Obama. So they have chosen to let the economy tank and screw people and jobs.
She is so important and well remembered that she got all of two positive replys to this article ... Amazing person !!!!
Is Michele hoping She could be Mittens Secretary of State or something? LOL
“The words that came out of her mouth [at the 2008 event] were written by his staff, of how to introduce him,” Nahigian says, of Gingrich. “They’re not even her own thoughts.”
She thinks????
They certainly have a right to play public videos. As long as there is no claim of actual endorsement, I don't see a problem.
What politician does anyone know who doesn't quote things just a bit out of context. For that matter, which news organization doesn't slant things either?
People aren't putting two and two together. During the same event, I believe, Gingrich talked about how he worked as a consultant with Freddie and Fannie. During the event, Bachmann had no problem with his consulting work, but later -- during the campaign, stabbed him in the back.
Michele, sweetie, the SuperPAC bought the air time so OF COURSE the radio stations are going to run the ad. Get over yourself.
I miss crazy Michelle and what's his name......
You mean The Hermanator?
Ya, thats him the Pizza guy. Extra pepperoni and hold the morals.
....and I do not mean morels as in mushrooms.
Never ceases to amaze when a politician gets all riled up for something they said in public. There was a time when such things might have been deniable ( pre-radio LOL) but now? in these days of the interwebz?
@john-737278 LOL, hey you know even Bachmann's brain-to speech path isn't under her control. The Super Pac programmers are in charge of political candidates these days.
Then why did she say them? Is she like Pinocchio where Gepetto pulls the strings and makes her say whatever he wants her to?
Just goes to show you never know what's going to come out of that woman's mouth - and neither does she.
I heard three of the people in Newts ad about Bain capital have turned out to be really happy with Bain they were promoted under Bain and life was great.Please tell us the truth how much was in that briefcase when the GOP bribe committee showed up on these three door steps.At least these three are doing better in this economy
If the words are not Bachmann's then that makes her a puppet. And to think I believed she was only a wing-nut.
the only political commentary in today's media worth reading is the commentary found on the blogosphere. at least the writers attempt usually to present their view and not that of their interest group, be it republican, democrat or in between. the commentary on the supreme court reflects for its inhabitors a dangerous condition, that the court is but an extension of the plotucrats now in power. with no arms but robes, they may find themselves in some uncomfortable times ahead.
Not her own thoughts indeed. Do we EVER hear ANY republican speak what they actually think?
NO and we never will.
We know this that the democrats have been lying to us don't we.
If this story was about Michele Obama, there would be 1000 hate filled rants by now.
So true!
moveforward
Tis true, there would be 1000 comments. She is not, however, a victim, she is a volunteer, and being the dip@!$%# she is she deserves every one of the thousand.
Emil
The whole freaking thing is so negative and disrespectful.
And these vulgar people are running for President?????????????????????
If you think this is bad, look up the 1964 campaign against Barry Goldwater.