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http://gawker.com/5217020/mpls-rep-accuses-michele-bachmann-of-psycho-talkPsychos
Mpls Rep. Accuses Michele Bachmann of "Psycho Talk"
.... Back in 2006, six American Muslim imams were thrown off a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoneix because they were Muslim, and that scared everyone. They were all detained and questioned for hours, because, you know, scary Muslims! The Imams were in Minneapolis for a conference. The first Muslim US Congressman ever, Keith Ellison of Minneapolis, spoke at that conference.
So Michele Bachmann, in an interview with some radio station this week, insinuated that Keith Ellison, her fellow member of the Minnesota congressional delegation, was basically a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer, because the Imams (who, in her telling, are guilty of something by virtue of being a bunch of Muslims on a plane) were in Minneapolis for Ellison's election victory party. That is a lie. They were not.
Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, replied Thursday that Bachmann was engaged in "psycho talk."
And here is the response, from Bachmann's crack staff:
Dave Dziock, a spokesman for Bachmann, said today, "whether the six imams were here for a victory party or a conference where he was a featured speaker, it doesn't change the premise of her comments."
Now it could be argued that Dave's statement makes no sense. But let us give him the benefit of the doubt and acknowledge that, yes, whether the imams were in Minneapolis to celebrate Keith Ellison's victory or simply to go to a conference that Ellison happened to be speaking at doesn't really change the premise of Bachmann's comments, because the premise is offensive and moronic regardless.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04182009/gossip/pagesix/mommy_track_165043.htmMOMMY TRACK
SARAH Palin's campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace -- who was blamed for the GOP veep hopeful's notorious $150,000 clothes-shopping orgy -- is through with politics. "My professional life will never involve working on a campaign again," she tells next month's Marie Claire. Instead, Wallace, 37, says she's pursuing her "life's ambition" with her high-powered Republican lawyer hubby, Mark Wallace, of starting a family -- with the help of in vitro fertilization treatments. She's also penning a chick-lit novel about three women at the top of their careers, including the first woman president.
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