{"id":194141,"date":"2008-10-22T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/22\/bachmann-turnoff-overdrive\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T01:23:00","slug":"bachmann-turnoff-overdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/22\/bachmann-turnoff-overdrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann-Turnoff Overdrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">no<\/span> apologies for the pun.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, I call out all the Liberal Blogosphere&#8230;.This one was pretty obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Michele Bachmann, the lady who started her political career <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michele_Bachmann\">keeping the Disney Movie <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Alladin<\/span> out of town<\/a>, &#8220;feeling that it endorsed magic\/witchcraft and promoted paganism&#8221; is still experiencing blow-back from her outrageous and un-American outburst on Chris Matthews&#8217; show, where she accused most of the country of being &#8220;anti-American&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It now appears that her primary opponent, Aubrey Immelman, <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/13743\/bachmanns-anti-american-remarks-prompt-write-in-candidacy-of-gops-immelman\">will run a write-in campaign against her<\/a>, because, as he states, &#8220;We cannot tolerate this festering brand of neo-McCarthyism in our midst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good for him, and bad for her.  She has now generated something north of $700K in donations for Elwyn Tinklenberg, her Democratic Opponent, who has a real chance of pulling this out now, particularly now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/22\/gop-pulling-its-ads-from_n_136941.html\">National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) has stopped funding their ads for her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bummer of a birth mark, Miche.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I know that it&#8217;s not nice to make fun of someone&#8217;s name, but his name <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">still<\/span> sounds like a character from Garrison Keillor&#8217;s fictional Lake Wobegone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make no apologies for the pun. What&#8217;s more, I call out all the Liberal Blogosphere&#8230;.This one was pretty obvious. Well, Michele Bachmann, the lady who started her political career keeping the Disney Movie Alladin out of town, &#8220;feeling that it endorsed magic\/witchcraft and promoted paganism&#8221; is still experiencing blow-back from her outrageous and un-American &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000,1019,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections","category-schadenfreude","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}