OpEd:The Divine Miss M(ichele Bachmann)
By FRANK BRUNI
Published: July 23, 2012 33 Comments
What I find most fascinating about Michele Bachmann and there are many, many more where she came from is that she presents herself as a godly woman, humbly devoted to her Christian faith. Id like to meet that god, and Id like to understand that Christianity
Does it call for smearing people on the basis of flimsy conspiracy theories? Thats what Bachmann just did to Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by essentially suggesting she might be a mole for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Does it endorse scaring young women away from immunizations that could spare them serious illness? Bachmann did that during her memorable presidential campaign, when she blithely drew an unsubstantiated link between a vaccine for the human papillomavirus and mental retardation.
Does it encourage gratuitously divisive condemnations of Barack Obama as anti-American, one of many incendiary phrases in her attacks against him in 2008? And does it compel a war against homosexuality waged with the language and illogic she uses?
She has said that gay men and lesbians are dysfunctional products of abuse and agents of sexual anarchy, and when the singer and songwriter Melissa Etheridge was battling breast cancer years ago, Bachmann helpfully chimed in: This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/opinion/bruni-the-divine-miss-m.html
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)What a horrible person - Bachmann, obviously, not Melissa Etheridge.
I agree with one of the commenters, bob h:
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)What does that tell us?
mac56
(17,569 posts)It tells you a lot about that district.
Google the phrase "Stearns County Syndrome" to learn more.
Jessy169
(602 posts)Stearns Country Syndrome description could be applied to thousands of podunk towns scattered throughout the rural Red states. No surprise why these are epicenters of ignorance, intolerance and Republicanism.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)That's the commandment she keeps breaking.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)And car salesman, insurance salesmen, health care providers, financial planners, US Military, bankers. corporations and just about everything else I can think of that people profit from.
Where there is a dollar to be made a con artist ain't far behind. And it's not frowned upon, it's just good business.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Bachmanns on to something: dangerous fundamentalists have indeed set up camp deep inside the capital. She can find one in her office. She need only look in the mirror.
BACKMANN'S ON TO SOMETHING: DANGEROUS FUNDAMENTALISTS HAVE INDEED SET UP CAMP DEEP INSIDE THE CAPITAL.
SHE CAN FIND ONE IN HER OFFICE. SHE NEED ONLY LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
noel711
(2,185 posts)I hope Bette Midler (the REAL Divine Miss M.. and a progressive)
sues somebody's sorry ass for misappropriating her title.
There is NOTHING Divine about Bachman,
and to conflate the Real Miss M with a homophobic idiot
is a real mistake.
The real tragedy is that Bachmann keeps getting elected,
that part of the electorate in Minnesota believes she
is worthy of her place in congress.
But Divine Miss M? I don't think so.
Atman
(31,464 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)A self serving idiot.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)I have heard several conservatives state that Huma Abedin should not have been allowed to become Hillary Clinton's aide because she is a Muslim. Apparently, these people have not read Article 4 of the U.S. Constitution, which states in part "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
A lot of these people who keep bloviating about their devotion to the Constitution have not bothered to read it.