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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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Isn't taking words out of context what politicians do as a matter of course throughout their careers? This is what we get when we elect snakes with forked tongues. Newt is playing old school... he's merely "sampling" the words he needs to make himself look better.
One could only describe Gingrich attacking Romney's Bain background as: "The slut calling the metal black".
Not sure if this appropriate as a outsider looking in but..............Your American elections remind me of the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest! And Jacks character at the very end of the movie really reminds me of G W so I hope that doesn't happen again.
First Bachmann, you are out of the race so STFU. Second, YOU Republicans wanted this crap of corporations putting money into our elections (even foreign money) and you got what you wanted. Next time be more careful of what you ask for fool. This is exactly why Obama must be re-elected because if one of these idiots get in, the country will be lost and why this decision needs to be overturned with a Constitutional amendment telling those in the SCOTUS to follow the law NOT their desires. Another thing that needs to go are lifetime appointments. That needs to end, let the PEOPLE elect the SCOTUS.
Fox trash news is the Tea-ReTards Conservative Value, news for weak minded followers !!!!!!!!!
Not surprising, given her disability or disinterest re: thinking in general. How many times has MB gotten herself into trouble by just repeating whatever somebody else told her?
" “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.”
Gee. Guess that happens frequently with Bachmann.
About those super PAC's..... If we pass a "Clean Government Amendment", we will be discriminating against one class of people (corporations)! I know they look funny, smell funny, and even have a funny language. But, they ARE people, and deserve all the constitutional rights of ANY American citizen (regardless of where they live)! Don't believe me? Ask the highest court in the land! Fool!
She sure sounded like she meant it, when it was convenient for her to sound like she meant it! Typical politico! Find it ironic that she was so busy telling us all what an "outsider" she is!! Suck it up, Michelle, this is the information age...once it's been said in public (whatever selfish reasons you had to say it!!) it's fair game for all!!
“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.”
Which says a lot for integrity, doesn't it. She just said what they wrote for her and doesn't have to take any responsibility for it now. Of course, in her case, I 'm not sure she actually has any of her own thoughts.
Newton, are you trying to make up for the times you were being bullied by the other kids in school?
I see you as loving to "pick" on other people.
On the other hand, you sound smart when you give irrevelant answers.....nevertheless, I'm not voting for you.
Newt twisted truth as speaker and continues.
Bachmann dropped out of the race and everything is in play in this love-fest.
who in their right mind would want this crazy bats endorsement anyway?
did I just say right mind about a republican...sorry my bad...lol
Michele Bachmann is probably praising Gingrich because she wants some of that Tifanys Bling!
I knew she would endorse that Hunk of Manhood sooner or later!
I just heard that John McCain just endorsed President Obama while onstage with Niki Haley and Mitt Romney...
I saw the superpac video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-jrbeWbXo
but now jobs are now coming back from china to this country. Romney & bain should now go to china to send the jobs back this way. But wait. Life is cheap in china. Dissatisfied workers go to the roof & jump.
Those wacky Republicans are so funny!
Wacky Michelle is running for Vice President! Anyone who gets her facts as screwed up as she has should just shut up and go away.
belchmann who, says what?
One of these days Bachwoman will realize that ulitmately she reaps what she sows.
So she claims those words were not even her own thoughts? I was unaware that she even had any original thoughts.
Listening on fox news station is like waiting for paint to dry. And finding any facts that they haven’t flip/spun/slanted is unbelievable hard. Fox news should have a disclaimer that reads: In fairness we’re actives of events, so If you're an activist, say you're an activist, but to pretend you're a news station, to pretend that you're giving a fair and balanced view of things, when in fact you have no credentials to do that and you're only history is to engage in activism, is to engage in politics, is to engage in propaganda, then that's an unfair portrayal of the news to the American people. Mitt Romney if your vulture capitalist say your one, you’re not fooling anyone or the disclaimer will read lies may appear smaller then they accentually are.
Who on earth cares what that crazy bat-$hit has to say? Go home michelle and go get your old man out of the tutu and out of the closet!
I am really very sad that Sarah Palin is not running. What a great entertainer. One of the best stand-up comedians in our lifetimes. Always good for a laugh! And what the Repubs need now more than ever is some comic relief. If Sarah was a "10" then Bachmann would be the butt of the joke. How sad. You Betcha!