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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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michele michele your endorsement is just like you useless but i would like to take you out to dinner and then have wild sex miss botox
minnesotans are busy bracing for bachmans undivided attention
Newt's revenge: Gingrich's super-pac ad is on youtube. I don't see how Romney can survive it. In fact, after watching the ad, I wonder how Romney can even look himself in the mirror, or whether he has a heart, or if it's shriveled and blackened and useless. There's something wrong with that man's humanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-jrbeWbXo
Fascists should not talk ill of other fascists even if they borrow phoney, scripted accolades without permission.
This ignoramous of a woman is not worth the time to properly insult! (Pray away the stupidity)?
I love how conervatives started all this superpac stuff and now they watch it eat themselves.
Well for sure our country is in a big mess.
Michel Bachmann's former campaign manager is going to hire a lawyer ? Did she or did she not make thesse statements ? if so , whats the problem ? No individual with the slightest bit on common sense listed to her rediculous rants any way. Ms Bachmann and Sarah Palin have much in common , neither should have been elected to any office in the first place.
“Congresswoman Bachman (sic) has not endorsed Speaker Gingrich, nor any other candidate for the Presidency,”..............
Who cares? Bachmann is nothing but an American supporter of an American form of Talibanism. She should move to a Muslim governed country where she can experience the religious dominance she so strongly desires. She'll then be able to enjoy all the rights and privileges granted by a religious based government. I'm certain that she'll be much happier while among her cohorts.
Methinks another christian woman from nowhere is angling to get on a republican ticket as VP.
Dear Ms. Bachman (and campaign aids) Kindly look up the word "irrelevant" in the dictionary to see if your pictures are still there.
give it a rest!
What kind of screwed up state is it when anyone would play an ad featuring Bachmann and have it be positive...
hey newt....why dont you give that half a million credit line at tiffanys to michelle....she is WAY better looking than your current HO!!!!....and maybe she or her husband would give you a great ORAL THANK YOU!!!!
GOP- Greedy Old Pubs
"Bitchy Bachmann" has escaped from the Mental Hospital. Again! Her many doctors are concerned about the many very powerful medications that she is on. During her many group sessions. "Bitchy Bachmann" keeps going on about how the President is not an American Citizen. Again! Like a screaming Witch! She is still going on about how the President hangs around with terrorists. Again! Then she screams with her head in hands describing how the President is a Muslum. Again! "Bitchy Bachmann" pounds her fists against the wall yelling that the President is out to destroy America. Nurses have witnessed "Old Bitchy" scratching, and growling like an angry wolf in her new padded room. Then she growls demanding that anyone who collects Uneployment Insurance is a Socialist. One nurse reported seeing "Bitchy Bachmann" loudly growling growing large white fangs. "Bitchy Bachmann" is in no emotional position to advise anything, to anyone, at anytime. That is fact!
I ALWAYS use the best invention known to mankind: The MUTE button on the remote control.
I don't need to listen to the pure CRAP all candidates put out on their ads.