Rhubarb?
Remember the "Bachmann in the Bushes" flap from last April? Where along-range photo allegedly showed Senator Bachmann "spying" on a gay rights rally in plain view of the crowd, with a big sergeant-at-arms type standing next to her?
Over at Kool Aid Report, there might - possibly - be new wrinkle to the story. "The Head of Alfredo Garcia" posts an email, purportedly from a reader and witness to the event:
I remember that day. I was downtown taking care of some business at the Department of Revenue building. I was walking past the Capitol, noticed a rally, and saw Senator Bachmann sitting on the curb. I know the Senator, I've seen her at events around Stillwater before. She's my mother's Senator. She looked like she was sitting and messing with her shoes. But ther'es no way she could have been spying, since she faced away from the rally. She looked like her feet were bothering her. I know that feeling!
In the last day I've read some of the coverage of this incident in some of the other "blogs" (Dump Bachmann, Eleventh Street, New Patriot, Kool-Aid, Shot In The Dark) and I'm astounded that anyone would look at the photo and at the scene I saw and call it "spying through the bushes" or whatever. I wonder if any of them were there, or saw what I saw, and remained silent about it? It makes no sense to me. It seems wrong.
I have no idea what's right - the whole story from the anti-Bachmann crowd seems too stupid to be real, and Bachmann just isn't that dumb. On the other hand, the email is very sparsely attributed.
Which, on balance, is good enough for me. I don't live in the Sixth District, so it's irrelevant to me, but if I did it'd be a tough choice - I like all of the GOP candidates, for one reason or another. But if you can judge a candidate by the self-righteous viciousness of her opponents, Michele Bachmann must be a great stateswoman indeed (It's worth noting that the only person I've banned from this blog in nearly two years came over here from the "Dump Bachmann" blog.)
I'm going to just sit back and watch the fur fly.
Posted by Mitch at
August 11, 2005 06:15 PM
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I don’t get the Rhubarb reference. Could you please explain for me and some of your other readers who might be a little slow on that uptake?
BTW, you may want to check out this from Chris Muir at “Day by Day”:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
Posted by: Thorley Winston at August 11, 2005 04:02 PMOdd. There's a staff person Angela Starks, who works for Bachmann. I cover this curious story on Dump Bachmann.
It's good you were skeptical about this "sparsely attributed" email.
Thanks for the material, Mitch.
Were you taken in by the Internal Squabble at KAR, or were you in on the practical joke on Dump Bachmann when you posted your take on the squabble? It doesn't matter to me. It was a good joke, and I've always thought KAR was good at practical jokes.
I wouldn't look at KAR for serious political information though.
Posted by: Eva Young at August 11, 2005 06:34 PMYour trackbacks are down, Mitch, intentional, or just a pain in the keester server?
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2005/08/fake-news-about-bachmann-at-koolaid.html
Posted by: Eva Young at August 11, 2005 06:35 PMLike I commented over at DB: For me, Mitch, a 'great stateswoman' doesn't compare myself and my partner to Satan.
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2005/06/effect-of-gay-marriage-on-education.html
I laugh at the photos. They're funny. What's not funny is Bachmann and her supporters continued marginalization of GLBT people in a state where I've personally felt safe to go about my business. Now things are changing and I place the blame directly at Bachmann and her perhaps misguided, but definitely harmful invective toward GLBT people.
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