Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Bachmann crazier than ever and not even trying to make sense

Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Helps Promote Her Former Nanny’s Health Care Protest

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This morning, the pair reunited on-air as Carlson teed up a couple of softball questions, allowing her former nanny to talk at length about her upcoming corporate-sponsored health care protest this Thursday on Capitol Hill.

During the Fox infomercial “interview,” Bachmann employed her usual colorful, over-the-top commentary to decry health reform. The health care vote is the “Super Bowl of freedom,” she said, and voters must mobilize to defeat the Democrats’ “crown jewel of socialism.”
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Bachmann urged “real freedom-loving Americans come here to Washington” on Thursday, and “look at the whites of their eyes of their members of Congress and say, ‘don’t you remember? I told you don’t take away my health care.’”

As Rachel Maddow observed last night, this is the “rhetoric of revolutionary violence.” “The ‘whites of your eyes’ reference is that you’re supposed to wait and see the whites of someone’s eyes before you shoot at them,” Maddow noted. “That’s where we get that phrase from — from when to shoot at people.”


(Think Progress)
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Wait a minute, so the point of this anti-health-care-reform protest is to tell Congress "I told you don't take away my health care"?! Huh?
Protesting against expanding health coverage for all Americans is now somehow equivalent to taking it away? Wha...?
Seriously - are they even trying to make sense any more?
Also, nice touch of violent rhetoric - where would the repugs be without that these days?