According to Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine, Michelle Bachmann is a lying, dimwitted religious zealot who "actually looks like the T2 skeleton posing for a passport photo."
"You will want to laugh," he writes, adding, "but don't, because the secret of Bachmann's success is that every time you laugh at her, she gets stronger."
Taibbi's disgust with Bachmann in this hit piece is quite evident - the headline screams "Michele Bachmann's Holy War" - giving one a clear sense that this is a man who hates Bachmann primarily because she is a Christian - and crazy, as well.
The picture that accompanies the article shows Bachmann wielding a bloody sword while decked out in armor - a reference to Joan of Arc.
He even goes so far as to compare her to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il:
In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance. And Bachmann is exactly the right kind of completely batshit crazy. Not medically crazy, not talking-to-herself-on-the-subway crazy, but grandiose crazy, late-stage Kim Jong-Il crazy — crazy in the sense that she's living completely inside her own mind, frenetically pacing the hallways of a vast sand castle she's built in there, unable to meaningfully communicate with the human beings on the other side of the moat, who are all presumed to be enemies.
Is Taibbi auditioning for a spot at MSNBC? With writing like this, he could easily fill in for Chris Matthews.
Taibbi continues:
Bachmann's story, to hear her tell it, is about a suburban homemaker who is chosen by God to become a politician who will restore faith and family values to public life and do battle with secular humanism. But by the time you've finished reviewing her record of lies and embellishments and contradictions, you'll have no idea if she actually believes in her own divine inspiration, or whether it's a big con job. Or maybe both are true — in which case this hard-charging challenger for the GOP nomination is a rare breed of political psychopath, equal parts crazed Divine Wind kamikaze-for-Jesus and calculating, six-faced Machiavellian prevaricator. Whatever she is, she's no joke.
His hate-filled anti-Christian screed goes on for four long, mind-numbing pages and concludes:
It could happen. Michele Bachmann has found the flaw in the American Death Star. She is a television camera's dream, a threat to do or say something insane at any time, the ultimate reality-show protagonist. She has brilliantly piloted a media system that is incapable of averting its eyes from a story, riding that attention to an easy conquest of an overeducated cultural elite from both parties that is far too full of itself to understand the price of its contemptuous laughter. All of those people out there aren't voting for Michele Bachmann. They're voting against us. And to them, it turns out, we suck enough to make anyone a contender.
Billy Hallowell writes at The Blaze:
These mentions are only a small portion of what is contained in the author’s hit piece. While there are certainly valid criticisms worth exploring — criticisms that responsible journalists would be within their bounds to examine — Taibbi’s attacks on Bachmann are slightly offsetting.
Others would simply call it liberal hate from another operative of the Democrat-media complex.
Hallowell writes that Taibbi claimed the article was a "profile" on Bachmann and contends that she's not stupid while speaking to Don Imus on Wednesday:
“The basic thesis is that everybody laughs at her because…she’s hilariously funny…but uh…she’s got a shot. She’s got a real shot..of…of winning the nomination…um…”
Hallowell asks, "is this piece a “profile” or an attempt to hamper her nomination chances?"
Considering that a Bloomberg poll now shows that only 3 in 10 will definitely vote for Obama in 2012, the answer is fairly obvious.
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