6 Insanely Stupid Right-Wing Moments this Week: Michele Bachmann Goes Out with a Bang

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1. Michele Bachmann has a very cuckoo Christmas wish.

Michele Bachmann has just one big wish for Christmas this year: Mr. President, please bomb Iran. That’s what the outgoing Minnesota Rep. told President Obama at the White House holiday party on Monday.

2. Fox News has a clear winner in the contest for dumbest reaction to the CIA torture report.

Fox News really outdid itself this week to trivialize the shocking brutalities exposed in the CIA torture report. Sean Hannity acknowledged that being waterboarded 183 times probably “wasn’t pleasant.” But Eric Bolling wondered what all the whining was about. “Three were waterboarded. Five rectal rehydrations,” he allowed. “But zero died. Zero dismembered. Zero jumped to their death.” Yeah, c’mon guys, let’s not be so hard on ourselves. It’s not like we have a collection of hacked off body parts!

3. Geraldo Rivera has new slogan for black protesters: It’s all our fault.

Geraldo Rivera has a very bizarre propensity for getting hung up on clothing when unarmed black men get killed by armed white men. First there was his off-kilter rant about hoodies being the source of the problem when Trayvon Martin was shot. This week, he expressed his displeasure with LeBron James’ ‘I Can’t Breathe’ tee-shirt, which the NBA superstar wore to express his solidarity with Eric Garner and those protesting his homicide. Geraldo Rivera thought LeBron should wear a tee-shirt that said, “Be a father to your son.”

4. Princeton mom: Getting raped at college while drunk is a wonderful opportunity to learn.

Author Susan Patton, a.k.a., Princeton Mom has as great deal to say to young women about how they should comport themselves in college and how they need get busy hunting for husbands RIGHT NOW! But if you do get raped in college, gals, Patton suggests that you chalk it up “to a learning experience.”