Newt Comes To The Defense Of Bachmann And Others

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[IndieSnob]

Gee what a surprise. Blaming everything on political correctness and liberalism.

Article isn't worth the bandwidth it's posted on.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Teh Vettebigot hates Muslims almost as much as he hates America.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

This article is for sober people, so take a fucking hike.

Teh article is just an excuse for you to bash libruls, without you having to take personal responsibility for it if things blow up in your face (as often happens).

"oh noe, I nevar said I agree with it, I just posted teh article!"

 

[KingOrfeo]

This article is for sober people, so take a fucking hike.

Not if Newt Gingrich wrote it, it ain't.

 

[IndieSnob]

This article is for sober people, so take a fucking hike.

I am sober. Hence why I pointed out the article was full of shit.

But hey, if you want to pin the blame on so called political correctness when it isn't even close to the problem that has created terrorism, then go on thinking that.

I guess it's too much to ask for you to actually be anywhere close to knowledgeable about what the exact problems are. Instead of independent research and your own thinking, you read the c&p's, see that it's written by a right wing hack, post it and then have a little circle jerk with your other stupid brethren on the board.

I'll pleasantly await your reply of stupidity so I can laugh at your uneducated ass again.

 

[busybody..]

hey VETTE

what did you expect?


the US HATERS are out in force

DEATH TO AMERICA

 

[about_average]

So is Michelle Bachmann going to be investigated since she has closer ties to Muslim terrorists than Huma Abedin does?

 

[phrodeau]

Michele Bachmann is on the House Intelligence Committee. So why should Newt be worried about "getting the wrong analysis, advice and policy proposals"?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Teh article is just an excuse for you to bash libruls, without you having to take personal responsibility for it if things blow up in your face (as often happens).

"oh noe, I nevar said I agree with it, I just posted teh article!"

this

also

"WHERE'S YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR???"

 

[KingOrfeo]

The recent assault on the National Security Five . . . Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) as well as Republican Reps. Trent Franks of Arizona, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Tom Rooney of Florida and Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia . . .

Whatever those are, they ain't "the National Security Five."

 

[doctor_insanus]

So is Michelle Bachmann going to be investigated since she has closer ties to Muslim terrorists than Huma Abedin does?

Not as long as the "Party of Personal Responsibility" is in charge of things.

Is Michelle Bachmann an Agent of the Muslim Brotherhood?

 

[KingOrfeo]

And once again, vetteman is part of the problem.

Right-Wing Grassroots Rises to Defend Michele Bachmann Over Abedin

Jul 27, 2012 4:30 PM EDT

Prominent Republicans from McCain to Boehner criticized the congresswoman for attacking Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Now Bachmann’s supporters are stepping up to defend her—a sign of her considerable GOP clout.

It’s best not to get too excited about occasional outbreaks of decency in the Republican Party, because they tend to be short-lived.

Last week, it seemed for a moment that Michele Bachmann had finally gone too far. After she and four other congressmen demanded that the government investigate State Department Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, a widely respected aide to Hillary Clinton, for ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, prominent Republicans stepped forward to denounce her. “These attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit,” John McCain said in an impassioned speech on the Senate floor. Noting Abedin’s “sterling character,” House Speaker John Boehner said, “I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous.” Ed Rollins, Bachmann’s former campaign manager, unloaded in a column on FoxNews.com: “Having worked for Congressman Bachmann’s campaign for president, I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level.”

This all looked like a sign that even in today’s GOP, there is such a thing as too crazy. “How Michele Bachmann finally jumped the shark,” said a headline on The Washington Post’s The Fix blog.

Reports of Bachmann’s irrelevance, though, were premature. As it turns out, there’s still a big constituency for her conspiracy theories in conservative circles. That’s probably why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor came to Bachmann’s defense on Friday morning. Asked by Charlie Rose whether she was “out of line,” he simply said, “I think that her concern was about the security of the country.” Who could fault her for that?

Cantor’s words demonstrated the power of the conservative backlash against Bachmann’s critics. She may be a joke in the Beltway, but she remains immensely popular with the right-wing grassroots. Having collected $14.8 million in donations this cycle, she’s the second-biggest fundraiser in the House, behind only Boehner. She speaks for an important chunk of the Republican Party, and the Tea Party, the Christian right, and conservative talk radio are all rallying around her.

“John McCain needs to sit down and shut up,” said Judson Phillips, head of Tea Party Nation, in an email blast headlined “Michele Bachmann and the battle for the truth.” The Family Research Council lauded her for asking the “tough questions,” saying, “Like us, she believes the business of national security shouldn’t be driven by political correctness. It requires careful scrutiny, vigorous debate, and fearless leadership—three things on which Rep. Bachmann will not compromise.” Sean Hannity called Bachmann and her four congressional colleagues “modern day Paul Reveres.” Christian radio host Steve Deace tweeted, “Grassroots patriots: want to know who’s at least somewhat on your side? Look at their response to Michele Bachmann controversy. Litmus Test.”

On Tuesday, Bachmann was even defended by one of Mitt Romney’s most prominent foreign policy advisers, hyper-hawk John Bolton. “What is wrong with raising the question? Why isn’t even asking whether we’re living up to our standards a legitimate level of congressional oversight?” he asked on Frank Gaffney’s radio show. (Gaffney, a former Bachmann adviser, is a longtime font of conspiracy theories about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration.)

Someone should ask Romney whether he agrees with Bolton and Cantor and thinks Bachmann’s queries about Abedin are legitimate. Chances are, even if he doesn’t, he won’t say so too loudly.

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Meanwhile, Cheney is throwing them all under the bus.

He would rather have Obama in office than a conservative; he wants his daughter to attend his funeral...




... with her "wife."

 

[JustSkye]

priceless

 

[busybody..]

priceless

please make sure


you always side with

YOUR KILLERS

oh

and change that AV

Its too damn HOT for me to really UNLOAD on you

 

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[KingOrfeo]

You're so much their superior, aren't you Little Corporal?

Whose, those five, and Gingrich, and you? Absolutely, Marine.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Muslim Brotherhood's response: "WTF?!"

CAIRO, Egypt — Michele Bachmann has again ignited a political firestorm in the US, claiming last week that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has “infiltrated the highest levels of US government,” including the White House.

The Muslim Brotherhood's response?

“I haven’t heard these rumors, but they strike me as ridiculous,” said Ahmed Al Nahhas, a long-time Brotherhood activist and leader in Egypt’s second-largest city, Alexandria. “Surely the United States government selects its employees very carefully.”

Bachmann claims that Huma Abedin, a Muslim-American aide to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, is central to the battle to subvert the US “from within.” Bachmann says Abedin, who is now under police protection, is influencing White House policy at the behest of what Bachmann says are her Brotherhood-linked family members.

But in Egypt, the birthplace of the Brotherhood, the organization’s leaders were either perplexed by the accusations or simply hadn’t heard them. Nor had they heard of Huma Abedin.

“The Muslim Brotherhood can’t even penetrate the Egyptian government,” said a Brotherhood leader in Egypt’s Daqheleya province, Ibrahim Ali Iraqi, in response to the accusations his group had infiltrated top US agencies.

Indeed, having assumed the presidency following a year of economic tumult and political upheaval, the Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi is grappling with severe domestic problems — not least of which is his battle with the ruling military for executive power.

“We are in a period of darkness because the country is still governed by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces — and they have a long history of support from the United States,” Iraqi said. “So it’s ridiculous that these accusations are leveled at us.”

But while the US has in fact long financially supported Egypt’s military — a diplomatic bribe, of sorts, to keep the peace with Israel — only recently have US diplomats publicly warmed to the Muslim Brotherhood.

After several false starts for US-Brotherhood relations in Egypt’s pre-revolution era, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met President Morsi in Cairo for the first time on July 14.

The US government does not list the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and the group has not carried out a violent, armed attack in 50 years.

“All we have [with the US] is a relationship of mutual respect and mutual interests that must be maintained,” Al Nahhas said.

Bachmann writes that Abedin, an American of Indian-Pakistani descent, “has three family members — her late father, her mother and her brother — connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations.”

But following her evidence, the links either fail to materialize or are based on ultimately shoddy sources.

Bachmann’s online supporters have taken particular issue with Abedin’s mother, Saleha Abedin, a sociology professor whom they say has been exposed as a member of the global “Muslim Sisterhood,” an organization whose existence is disputed.

The list that supposedly “names” Saleha as a member was posted by the virtually unknown Egypt-based blog, “Al Liwa Al Arabi” (The Arab Brigade), in 2010, with no information on the source or origin of the list.

In the case of Abedin’s father, Syed Z. Abedin, Bachmann points to a paper published by the Brigham Young University Law Review a decade ago. The author says the organization Syed founded — the London-based Institute for Minority Muslim Affairs — received “quiet but active support” from the former secretary-general of the Muslim World League, an international Islamic charity network.

Bachmann's allegations were certainly enough for Egypt’s already overactive rumor mill — and became ammunition for those Egyptians opposed to what they say is US-backed Islamist rule.

Talk of a secret deal between the US and the Brotherhood hit the streets, the television talk shows, and social networking sites — culminating with an anti-Brotherhood and anti-US protest where demonstrators pelted Clinton’s convoy with tomatoes in Alexandria.

“There is a vast swath of this country that is misled by the media,” the Brotherhood’s Iraqi said of rumors of a US-Brotherhood deal. “It just doesn’t make sense to me.”

Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, tweeted that during Clinton’s meeting with Egyptian Coptic Christian leaders in Cairo on July 15, “one participant told Hillary the US admin was infiltrated by Islamists.”

For evidence, Baghat said the participant cited Huma Abedin, who walked into the meeting just two minutes later.

 

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[bra_man69]

Teh article is just an excuse for you to bash libruls, without you having to take personal responsibility for it if things blow up in your face (as often happens).

"oh noe, I nevar said I agree with it, I just posted teh article!"

This makes me laugh one doesn't need a excuse to bash liberals it's just to easy.

 

[KingOrfeo]

You're the dumbest clown here, a doctrinaire liberal driven by ideology and blind to the truth.

The truth is that Huma Abedin has no more to do with the Muslim Brotherhood than you do, and passed all kinds of high-level security checks to get her job. But what can one expect of the kind of flaming asshole idiot who thinks Obama is a Marxist?