Showing posts with label DHS Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DHS Report. Show all posts
6:30 PM | Posted in ,
Michele Bachmann is OUTRAGED, OUTRAGED!

this is a statement of President Obama during last year's election campaign that got remarkably little attention in the media, but he suggested the creation of a Federal police force comparable to the size of the military. And he made that statement, I believe, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And so the question that we need to ask is, why would you need such an organization? [Emphasis Mine]

In fact, she is so outraged by the recent DHS Report about right wing extremism that words escape her and she is forced to steal the words of others in order to effectively express this outrage.

Beyond the obvious plagiarism is the weird little fact that Bachmann is using a highly selective paraphrasing of a Barack Obama speech from last year. This selective quote has conspiracy theorists on the right all in an uproar. The reality, however, is that the speech given by Obama was about the expansion of public service in general. So, what happens when you use more than the selective quote alongside the rant of Bachmann? You get someone who looks a lot crazy...

[It's a long video but I recommend sticking around to the end as Bachmann connects this speech to the increased gun sales across the country!]



Did you get that? Due to the proposed expansion of public service, people are stocking up on their guns and ammunition. Who knew that volunteerism was so scary to some people...
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2:49 PM | Posted in ,
In her most recent rant about the Department of Homeland Security Report on Right Wing Extremism, Michele Bachmann made this statement:

this is a statement of President Obama during last year's election campaign that got remarkably little attention in the media, but he suggested the creation of a Federal police force comparable to the size of the military. And he made that statement, I believe, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And so the question that we need to ask is, why would you need such an organization? [Emphasis Mine]

While this statement is crazy enough as a stand alone misinterpretation of what President Obama actually said, it also appears that it is almost a word for word reading from this article:

All this activity takes on a more sinister aspect against the background of one of the statements of Barack Obama during last year’s election campaign that got remarkably little attention in the media. He suggested the creation of a federal police force, comparable in size to the military.

Why such an organization? [Emphasis Mine]


You gotta love a little plagiarism... (Video Forthcoming)
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11:49 PM | Posted in ,
Michele Bachmann took to the floor of the House of Representatives this week to display her special brand of righteous INDIGNATION over a report released from the Department of Homeland Security highlighting the threat of right wing extremism. While the document does not contain either the word 'conservative' or the word 'republican', Bachmann and other conservatives have taken this as an all out assault on their ideology. Let us forget for a moment that this report was commissioned by the Bush Administration and that a similar report on left wing extremism was released in January of this year. Apparently, for the right, the difference between extremists on the right and the mainstream is so negligible that they could just as well be one and the same.

Several pieces of this speech have been picked up throughout the blogosphere but it was one short piece at the beginning which caught my ears. In this segment, Bachmann speculates about the meaning of right wing extremists:



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Michele, are you really admitting to us that Osama bin Laden, Mexican gangs, and Gitmo detainees represent your ideological brethren and that this report could describe either one of you interchangeably? If you look at a report and can read in both yourself AND the likes of Osama bin Laden, then YES you ARE a right wing extremist...
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