Bachmann was just on GMA with Stephanopolous and backed away from the birther craziness.

[Skidmore]

Astounding. He showed her a copy of the President's birth certificate and pointed out that it is authentic documentation and she said, "Well there you are. That settles it" and that this was not the most important issue ahead for the country. I sense the Rs are trying to get the birthers off of the front burner ahead of the election in spite of the Donald. Maybe he's trying to make the rest of the field look sane.

[SpiralHawk]

1. So Bachmann (R) shall henceforth be known as a Birfer-Quitter

Like other notorious RepubliCants, she QUITS when the going gets tough and her lies (Birfer lies in this case) are outed.

"Can't we just move along to some other more-defensible lie, George?"

- Bachmann Underdrive (R - Birfer-Quitter)

[catbyte]

2. LOL help me...

[CatWoman]

11. that had he chuckling too

:rofl:

[madokie]

6. OT

I have a friend who looks like she could be her twin and it freaks me out when I see a picture of either of them, since this thing hit the scene that is

[kickysnana]

8. + ROFL

[liberal N proud]

3. That was after George nearly laughed Trump out of the studio

[vi5]

4. Can I just say thank you?

Thank you for posting something that was on a network, mainstream news or morning show and not the "OMG MORNING JOE SCUM SAID SOMETHING BAD!!! BAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" cable news hysterics.

Yeah, you still get the crazy in those settings, but by and large the crazy is at least slightly dialed back so that you get a sense of what actual people and regular citizens are seeing since they watch those.

I'm not saying that's good or bad in itself since it can be misleading and the regular voters should see the full helping of what kind of crazy is going on with the right.

But I'm tired of people on here acting like Cable News channels and chat fests are the political reality that most people see. It's not. The only people that watch that crap are hardened political junkie types who already have their opinions formed. The average, non political junky gets their information from network shows.

So if people want to truly know "what the enemy is doing or saying" as they claim as their excuse for watching crap like Morning Joe, or Matthews or whatever, then they'd be watching the actual shows that less informed voters are watching.

[madokie]

7. Nail meet hammer

I wish I could rec a reply.

[Armstead]

10. Good point....but that would require watching that crap

I often have the TeeVee Machine on quietly in the background when I work (am a home worker).

Problem is that for the most part, the network morning shows are mostly ads, celebs promoting some junk they are in, cooking and household tips...etc.

It would be above and beyond the call of duty to watch that sludge to glean the tiny bit of real news.that emerges from the flotsam.

The real message of the mainstream media is primarily apathy and distraction. Which is I'd one reason politics is so shallow.

[vi5]

13. Oh don't get me wrong...

We'd all be better off if nobody watched any of it.

But I'm referring to the ridiculous amount of self appointed citizens journalist watch dogs who breathlessly report every single mouth fart expelled on cable news shows. The obscene amount of "HOLY CRAP JOE SCUM SAID THIS!!!!!" or "EFF YOU TWEETY!!!!!!" posts that are on here, as though what any of those people say or do has any influence on anything most voters do. And when any of this is pointed out to these people the response is invariably "WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS DOING OR SAYING!!!!! HOW ELSE CAN WE COUNTERACT THEIR PROPAGANDA!?!?!?!" Which is the point exactly. Nobody that watches that crap is being influenced to change their mind on anything. My point is if someone is going to report on here and post about what is being said in media outlets, the network shows have far more of a broad reaching influence on far greater a segment of low information level undecided and possibly independent voters. If someone really wants to have an idea of what is going to influence those who can be influenced it's more to be found on the network shows than it is cable news shows.

[tanyev]

5. That may hurt her primary chances more than it helps.

Heh.

[zbdent]

9. I'm all for Sarah Palin and Donald Trump running for President ...

at the same time, as independents ...

Expose the Republican party's appeal to the "independents" as bogus ... and they'd almost guarantee a re-election of Obama (despite his happy little concessions to the Repugs ...)

However, it would drive the nutjobs to the polls ... it's too bad that there is no TEA Party party specifically registered ...

[LeftinOH]

12. Doesn't matter- the Repubs are going to keep this ball in play as long as it

gets vocal support from the (vile) base. She may back away from the issue on GMA, but she probably wouldn't hesitate to bring it up on FOX, nor when speaking at at some right wing rally.

[Skidmore]

14. So that's when we call her on it. Bachmann talks out of both sides of her mouth

and play that retraction along with her most current birther lie rant with dates and locations superimposed on the video.