Wingnut Watch: Whew, the Lovable Fuzzball Doesn't Fear Us!

by: sricki

Mon Dec 14, 2009 at 15:33:06 PM EST


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Ramping up teh krazy once again, Minnesota token lunatic Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has provided us with a slew of asinine creative catchphrases to laugh derisively at adopt for personal use. I think most of us would agree that there's no one on the national scene quite like Bachmann. Sarah Palin is probably dumber, but that could be said when comparing her to pretty much any nationally known politician. So beating Palin out on brains (if only someone would actually beat their brains out -- it wouldn't take long) is really not much of an accomplishment on Bachmann's part. But when it comes to pure, unfiltered, unadulterated KRAZY... Bachmann may indeed take the cake.

sricki :: Wingnut Watch: Whew, the Lovable Fuzzball Doesn't Fear Us!
Always chock full of colorful comparisons and catchphrases, her public statements have ranged from the blindingly stupid to the undeniably creepy; from comparing the fight against health care to a "Superbowl of Freedom" to suggesting that we should all get together and "slit our wrists" in some sort of eerie anti-Obama, anti-health care, White supremacist ritual, Minnesota's looniest politician has come up with some real doozies. Remarkably, she not only fails to see her commentary as the fierce, relentless hate- and fear-mongering that it is -- she also sees herself as downright "lovable." In fact, when asked why liberals hate her so, she exclaimed, "I don't know. I'm a lovable little fuzz ball! I have no idea what they would have to fear."

...

Seriously?

First of all, who says that? Even the likes of Hannah Montana and Barney the purple dinosaur have never said anything that insipid. The idea that any politician could win an election and still be called a "lovable little fuzzball" is pretty ludicrous. Fighting one's way into public office pretty much eliminates any possibility of retaining one's cuteness, if one could even have been said to be in possession of such a quality in the first place. But this statement is particularly ridiculous coming from Bachmann, who makes a point of demeaning and condemning her fellow citizens on a regular basis. From denouncing the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil gay agenda...

"It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children. Because our K-12 public school system, of which ninety per cent of all youth are in the public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality."

-- Michele Bachmann, appearing as guest on radio program "Prophetic Views Behind The News", hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

...to suggesting that we hunt down liberal members of Congress...

"What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think the American people would love to see an expose like that."

"I'm very concerned that [Obama] may have anti-American views."

The Minnesota Independent

...Michele The Fuzzball has routinely made vicious utterances targeting American citizens of all stripes. And yet, how can us goshdarned un-American heathen libs really hate Bachmann when she's offered to make out with our backstabbing, socialist, Muslim (and did I mention DARK?!?!) president?

But let me make another note here: No one is "afraid" of Bachmann herself, though some of us truly worry that her hateful rhetoric and scare tactics may incite unbalanced Rightwing nutjobs to violence. ("Unbalanced nutjob"? Redundant much?) The idea that she would honestly think that we fear her personally falls somewhere along the spectrum between amusing and disgusting. Even as she theorizes on our nonexistent gutless fear of her, she assures the world that she doesn't fear us.

"I don't fear the left, and maybe that's part of the loathing that they feel toward me. I'm not afraid to speak out on conservative positions and on issues. We're a deep-blue state, we're a strong liberal, Democrat state."

Talking Points Memo

Here's an interesting development: When Congressional insiders were polled, our fuzzy little friend came out at the top of the list of shameful freakshows the GOP would like to muzzle.

Hotline On Call gives a sneak preview of National Journal's new survey of beltway insiders on "the member they'd like most to shut up, the brightest thinkers and strategists in their parties and much more." Topping the list of GOP voices these insiders would like to "mute" is Minnesota's Rep. Michele Bachmann - but there's a five-way tie. Eleven percent of Republicans polled would also like Fox's Glenn Beck, Iowa Rep. Steve King, Sarah Palin and Georgia Rep. Tom Price to pipe down.

The Minnesota Independent

Gee, I can't imagine why that would be... What's embarrassing about Michele Bachmann? How could she hurt the GOP? Is it because she doesn't think foreign citizens have a right to a fair trial? Or because she accuses Harry Reid of wanting to turn kids into compulsive gamblers? Maybe it's 'cause she has suggested that African Americans routinely commit genocide against their fetuses? Who really knows?

Personally, I kind of hope she keeps talking. No one makes me prouder to be a liberal than Michele "Batshit" Bachmann.

Now please enjoy a video compiling some of the fuzzball's greatest hits:

Christ. The lulz. My sides hurt.
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Wingnut Watch: Whew, the Lovable Fuzzball Doesn't Fear Us! | 33 comments
Oh, teh krazy (2.00 / 4)
it hurts so much.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis

... (2.00 / 4)


Michelle's Top Ten (2.00 / 4)
I don't think Bachmann is stupid. (2.00 / 6)
I think she is unabashedly ignorant on a host of issues. The same goes for Palin. They have embraced ignorance and seem unduly proud of it.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis

Yes, Bachmann is likely more "ignorant" than "stupid." (2.00 / 6)
Palin, on the other hand, I'm pretty convinced is both.

"I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold."
[ Parent ]
The problem with BOTH (2.00 / 8)
is that they are proud of their willful ignorance and wear it as a mark of pride. It shows a lack of intellectual curiosity that is dangerous, especially in elected officials.

Proud and willful ignorance is one of my hot buttons. I can accept ignorance. Curiosity is nothing more than the proud declaration of ignorance, and a clarion call that you mean to explore its depths. Stupid I can accept, because we are NOT all created equal in all things. But, to be willfully ignorant, and to be proud of said ignorance, and wear it as a badge of pride, that irks me to no end, because it is a rejection of growth, it is a rejection of progress, and it is an attempt to insulate one's self from the world. It is a line in the sand that says, "I will only go SO far!"  even if the tide is rising, and the safety of the rocks beckons you to higher ground.

[ Parent ]
Exactly. (2.00 / 6)
It shows a lack of intellectual curiosity that is dangerous, especially in elected officials.

What saddens me is that some portion of the electorate seems to celebrate this lack of intellectual curiosity because it makes that official more "average" like them.  I don't want someone like me as president or even a member of Congress.  I want someone soooo much more intellectual, knowledgeable, and able to grasp complicated concepts without a wireless earpiece.

[ Parent ]
"Lack of intellectual curiousity" is the key phrase (2.00 / 6)
I use it all the time describing these two.  They just don't seem at all interested in learning what they don't know.  Maybe it's a matter of being afraid of having existing preconceptions overturned (the hallmark of the ideologue).

I've never understood this worldview.  Endless definitive statements backed up by a steadfast unwillingness to learn new information...  The fact that it doesn't make sense and yet is (apparently) internally supportable is just another objective proof that it is an unreasonable way to think.

"Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity."  James Hilton, Lost Horizon

[ Parent ]
I think this is it in a nutshell. (2.00 / 5)
Maybe it's a matter of being afraid of having existing preconceptions overturned (the hallmark of the ideologue).

I wonder, too, how much their fundamentalism plays in it.  If they actually read the science on anthropology or archeology they'd have to concede the Earth is a whole lot older than they think.  If something so fundamental (pun intended) is disproved that may throw them completely off balance.

[ Parent ]
They both reflect -- or are the products of -- (2.00 / 6)
the anti-intellectualism ideal that has been adopted by the GOP in recent years. I know this wasn't always the case, and I'm either too young or too ignorant myself to know when it began. But it is a rejection of intelligence, curiosity, and general knowledge -- a pattern of portraying those things as elitist, snobby, and un-American. They have tried to frame intelligence as something to be suspicious or wary of rather than something of which to be proud.

Dubya, Bachmann, Palin, Fox News... they are all in the same mold and forged from the same mentality. I'm guessing perhaps this position was adopted in an attempt to convince ignorant people to vote for Republicans -- to make them feel like those who are smarter or better educated or more astute are somehow illegitimate or "unreal" Americans: Not good let's-have-a-brewsky-together main street hardworking salt-of-the-earth common folk, but rather, fundamentally "other" and separate. And therefore unable to understand Everyman and Everywoman; hence, the wrong people to vote for to represent one's interests.

The messed up thing is... to some extent, it has worked.  

"I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold."

[ Parent ]
Someone will certainly correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember (2.00 / 4)
that the intellectual-is-bad thing kind of started, with little success, with Clinton.  I also vaguely remember part of GWB's "appeal" in 2000 was his folksiness.  Ugh.

I think it really came into affect during the 2004 GE when Kerry was painted as a New England intellectual snob.  Somehow Theresa marrying into money was more offensive than the Bushes earning theirs through some manly pursuits.  Of course, W working that farm was much more down to earth than Kerry windsurfing off the coast of libral Massachusetts.

Then you have Obama who is the antithesis of Bush (and McCain) rhetorically.  Somehow a guy who can string two or three words together coherently is too smart (or different) to be president.

[ Parent ]
In part, it's a product of cozying up to the Religious Right (2.00 / 3)
By going after the "elites" who challenge their wanting to put a damper on inserting their religious views into education, they solidly land on the side that wants to retard science. Science is seen as an enemy that wants to kill God, kill their businesses with NEW technologies, kill their businesses by revealing uncomfortable truths about the effects of business as usual, and keeps reminding folks that there are consequences to actions. Facts, seem to have a nasty Liberal bias when you subscribe to such a reductionist world view.

And what is worrisome, is that it is exactly the opposite of where the GOP should be. We used to be boosters for science and technology--and the applications that flowed from government labs went on to spur civilian uses--and now science is seen as an enemy. You couple it with the sudden drive to seem like some Everyman to distance themselves from the elitist image that was associated for so long with the Republican party, and you've got a storm of populist reductionism that strives to be dumber than the rest, and prouder of that fact.

[ Parent ]
The whole thing happening in the 21st century as knowledge explodes worldwide is the most disconcerting part. (2.00 / 2)
This is the sci-fi future of my childhood.  We are learning and doing things (even right here, right now) that are beyond the wildest dreams of my childhood.  We know so much more about ourselves, our universe and our past than we did when I started learning (T-Rex did not drag its tail) that its hard to begin to compare.  During this 8-year presidential cycle we will go from 2008 to 2016 - the technological and research equivalent of going from 1908 to 1960 (easily).

It's staggering to imagine that so much of the US wants to drag backwards against the advanced that to a large extent we have been the main driver of.

"Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity."  James Hilton, Lost Horizon

[ Parent ]
Oddly enough, the Brits have seized upon this (2.00 / 3)
in their science fiction. Well, that and George Alec Effinger in his When Gravity Fails series. The fall of American society to the Religious Right IS a bit older--Robert Heinlein wrote about such a turn of events a while back as well--but it keeps surfacing as a regular feature of near future science fiction.

I'm waiting for someone to finally get the balls to put one of these tales to film though. Doubt it will see the light of day once the demographics folks take a piss on the treatment, but it would be nice to see a stark warning beyond A Handmaid's Tale...

[ Parent ]
Palin.. (2.00 / 3)
Is an opportunistic 'grifter.'  Bachman is over the cuckoo's nest.
[ Parent ]
how awesome... (2.00 / 4)
would it be for a press you luck wingnutter gameshow?

"I spend my days and nights pondering the meaning of life, the state of the universe, and the Home Shopping Network." -- Donald Roller Wilson
While I constantly make fun of our batshit crazy congresswoman (2.00 / 4)
from my home state, I am frightened of Bachmann. And I think she is far less intelligent than Sarah Palin.

Bachmann scares me because she is so sincere in her fanatical beliefs, I think she truly believes what she says. Palin may also believe what she says, but she is also so obviously using her unexpected fame for her own personal and financial benefit that it is less concerning to me. She is also so highly exposed that more folks can see and hear her lunacy, and continue to dismiss her as a credible voice on the national stage.

Bachmann is one of those rare (hopefully) true believers who is very, very dangerous. She is dangerous because she is another right wing nutjob;like Limbaugh, Beck, and O'Reilly; that get people killed.


Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~ Ambrose Bierce

You missed (at least) one of her nuttier issues;~J (2.00 / 3)


Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~ Ambrose Bierce

LOL. Oh believe me I know. (2.00 / 1)
This diary doesn't even scratch the surface -- just her most recent nuttiness, mainly. I'm sure Bachmann will make Wingnut Watch many, many times. ; )

"I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold."
[ Parent ]
Here is more!!!! (2.00 / 3)

Sorry, she is one of my favs. In a scary sort of way. Hmmm.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~ Ambrose Bierce

She makes my teeth hurt. (2.00 / 2)


"Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity."  James Hilton, Lost Horizon
[ Parent ]
Hey! (2.00 / 2)
That's the picture of her I used for the bobblehead doll pic.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis

[ Parent ]
Anyone remember her with Pres. Bush? (2.00 / 4)
I didn't know who she was at the time but after one of his addresses to Congress, Bush went down on the floor to shake hands with the congresspeople.  Bachman threw her arms around him and wouldn't let go.  He had to sort of drag her along for a few feet.  At the time I was thinking "Who is that crazy woman?"  Later I recognized her.
She actually kissed him didn't she? n/t (2.00 / 3)


"I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold."
[ Parent ]
Where'd I put that brain bleach...? (2.00 / 3)


"Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity."  James Hilton, Lost Horizon
[ Parent ]
You'll have to get fog to help ya with that. (2.00 / 3)
I'm here to torment people, not help them:

Bwahahaha!

(But I only do it 'cause I love ya, Blasky.)

"I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold."

[ Parent ]
Sorry, I just can't fierce that. (2.00 / 5)
There may have been tongue....

She's got an arm around him, pulling him close.  And it stayed there a long time, fondling and caressing...

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...

"Conway, whom experience had taught that rudeness was by no means a guarantee of good faith, was even less inclined to regard a well-turned phrase as a proof of insincerity."  James Hilton, Lost Horizon

[ Parent ]
At least you didn't fail it! (2.00 / 3)
But what the hell, your post was even worse!

"I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold."
[ Parent ]
Ugh ORDOF. (2.00 / 4)
Open Republican Displays of Affection. Please there are children watching. Or at least those of us with childlike minds...

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~ Ambrose Bierce

[ Parent ]
Right smack on the mouth. (2.00 / 4)
He was going to kiss her cheek but she turned and it was on the mouth.  I've only seen Bush kiss men on the mouth before, never women (not saying it means anything, just an observation).
[ Parent ]
In other news (2.00 / 5)
Orly's case for the reservist who didn't want to deploy is thrown out.

Amazingly, the vaunted legal scholar didn't file her paperwork correctly.

Cook also lost his security clearance as a defense contractor (0.00 / 0)
which meant his lost his regular job, too.  Can't say I feel sorry for him.
[ Parent ]
But, hey, he didn't have to deploy (0.00 / 0)
so there's that...
[ Parent ]
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