Michele Bachmann Tells Jay Leno She’s ‘Convicted’ in Her Views

Watching this idiot on the Tonite Show was one of the cringe worthy experiences ever. Completely out of touch with reality and clueless. Even Leno was funny in comparison. It would be great to have Letterman take a crack at her.

Mrs. Bauchman may have her convictions, but we are living in an age now where our logic and our ability to accept reality should be on the front burner. The reason she is so adamant about her disaproval of the vaccine to prevent STD is nothing more than the very thought of assuming a young girl would engage in sex before marriage (til death do them part), is too uncomfortable for her to ponder. Sorta like the rants about drug testing our young kids in school. We seem to forget that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Especially when addiction and STD’s are very difficult to cure and these activities can leave life altering residuals. It is the “sin” implication that bothers her. Well, I think it is a sin to worry more about protecting image than our kids.

For the LIFE of me I do not understand how on earth she ever got elected here. The I found out there is a MEGA church in her wealthy ultra conservative christian voting base. She certainly does NOT represent the majority of Minnesotans. Most of us know she is crazy as the state LOON. But her war chest of election cash grows with each whacky comment. She won’t win, but I find it amusing to hear just HOW INSANE some people are. If she were a man saying these things I think people would shy away, but she appeals to the pearl wearing jr. league groups. The ones that don’t think for themselves but wait to hear what hubby wants the little gal to do. The kind of woman I would never support or be like. Carve that in stone. Bachmann, whacky whacky crazy on a national tour LOL and well LOL the tea party excess.

“The daily press is evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up will those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.” Soren Kierkegaard 1853-55….did he foresee the Tea Baggers?

Mrs. Bachmann made such a point of interrupting Jay Leno to describe herself as, “Convicted, I’m convicted”. Obviously she meant to say, “convictive”, which is probably a new word that one of her handlers told her to say in an attempt to make her sound slightly intelligent. It’s just incredible that there is a large group of people out there who believe that Mrs. Bachmann is presidential material. She almost makes Sarah Palin look halfway intelligent, but only halfway.

That’s too bad she’s so “convicted” since we will NEVER pray away the Gay; have less than $2.00 gas; or learn that the Revolutionary war started in New Hampshire! Hope SHE’S not planning on educating our “future” children to these views.

While I can agree with her that forcing vaccinations by executive order is iffy, she didn’t seem to be interested in having the government get people vaccinated even if there was some kind of wild outbreak like small pox, as Jay quickly mentioned.

Her conservative Christian “family values” crap was the hardest part to watch, and I was surprised and glad Leno really pushed the issues as far as he did. “Pray away the gray?” Is that really her best joke to dodge the question? She really had no good response to what her clinic does besides saying it finds help for people if the clinic’s therapists can’t help. Her gay marriage response and the clinic response were just so muddled, I don’t think she even has a prepared statement to clarify her position. And don’t forget her dodging the Afghanistan question by just praising our soldiers. She has no positions about anything now, so I don’t know how we’re supposed to trust her with any larger decisions in the future if she were to become president. Maybe it’s because we’re still early in the election cycle, but she did not have any real responses to any questions unless it was about either the economy or budget. She doesn’t get the presidency is a bigger job than just fixing the economy and making budgets. How she got this far in her political career is truly mystifying.

Bachmann creates more questions than answers. Convicted? Convicted of what? She convicted herself? She knows her crime? We don’t? Is she desperate to tell us a sinister secret? A Freudian slip perhaps? Posted by: newz4i | September 17, 2011, 10:29 am 10:29 am
————————————————————–Maybe she meant “Convincing?”

Why should we listen to this clown?…

I have to say I’m encouraged by the comments on this piece. It’s good to see that most people see this deranged nitwit for what she actually is. It’s unfortunate how uninformed and frankly, how stupid, a seemingly increasing portion of the voting public has become. Thanks to Fox and Limbaugh et al. Posted by: gary | September 17, 2011, 11:43 am 11:43 am _________________________
Definately right? Why is that? Well, It’s a well thought out Freudian Maquivelic plan inplemented in a giagantic scale, designed to distract the masses while the “Elite” get down to business, and it is working perfectly. Primary accomplice: The MSM. In Roman times,from Latin, panem et circenses used to be the equivalent of today’s public mass distractors. It’s not an accident, The average American citizen is ignorant, distracted, off focus, worried only about mundane things…ie, Karsdashians, sex scandals, Nascar, NBA, celebrities affairs are followed as if they are part of the family. In fact, no civic virtue or education whatsoever. It has been so planned by “THEM” They own the media, they know our brains work socilogically. In fact: They owns us…we don’t even notice it. Example: Any trashy Holywood movie becomess # 1 every week. “Keep them entertained. Keep distracted” That’s how suddenly WTO was created.
Or NAFTA. Or the attack in country, etc, et, etc,

“I wasn’t speaking as a doctor,” Bachmann said. “I wasn’t speaking as a scientist.”~~~~~Understatement of the friggin’ century._______ “I was just relating what this woman said. She came up and — I wasn’t soliciting that information, she gave it to me.~~~~~~Sure, blame the woman for your own gaffe. Nobody was forcing Ms. Bachmann to repeat what an audience member told her. She thought it was good material and she used it. That was HER choice and HER responsibility, however much she tries to shift the blame. __________ “But the bigger issue in all this was the abuse of executive privilege”~~~~~~I disagree. While abuse of executive privilege certainly is an issue, at least Mr. Perry has publicly admitted what he did was wrong. Ms. Bachmann, however, seems psychologically unable to admit wrongdoing or take responsibility for her actions. She blames others, says it “wasn’t really what I meant” and then tries to distract people by pointing to other people’s mistakes, as if that excused her own bad behavior and questionable moral character. We want a leader willing to take a stand and effectively defend that stand as right, not dodge issue with lame jokes and finger-pointing. Apparently, she’s not “convicted” enough in her religious beliefs and her clinics’ treatments to boldly state that advising people to “pray away the gay” is exactly what her clinics are doing. We want a leader who has personal honesty and integrity on his/her side. We don’t want excuse-making, lying, ignorant people like Ms. Bachmann.

Somebody please toss her to Jon Stewart.

“The average American citizen is ignorant, distracted, off focus, worried only about mundane things…” ~~~~~~~And, of course, most of the people writing these kinds of things believe THEY aren’t the average American citizen, just like 93% of people think they are above-average drivers, and 85% of people think they’re of above average intelligence. Long live the cognitive bias of illusory superiority.

Well, Ms Bachman won’t win any awards for Cancer Prevention. She is so blinded by ambition that she completely forgets to mention that the vaccine PREVENT S CANCER. The sad thing is , she doesn’t even care. Several doctors groups have pointed out how irresponsible and dangerous her rhetoric is about the vaccine. It had an opt-out and it never took place. She needs to get her facts straight.

We don’t need presidents who can not stand up to questions given, if you are against gays, so be it, stand by who you are and not what the nation wants you to become. Pretty bazaar that our candidates must, in this day and age, rely on gays and Latinos to receive the votes to get elected. Sort of makes Americans with family values feel less important in their own country.. I don’t believe in gay marriage, but if you wish to be gay so be it, I don’t believe that Latinos who have received any type of amnesty to stay in this country be able to vote. I don’t believe we can create jobs without a job market to give jobs out. I am sure many will not agree on all my issues, but I am sure there is some who stand behind each one. This is what is tearing our nation apart, because most of this type of talk should be irrelevant in politics. Start standing by what you believe Bachmann, otherwise the media will rip you apart.

It is difficult to imagine someone so unintelligent, uninformed, unattractive, intolerant, stiff, bizarre, hateful, and recklessly irresponsible (not voting for raising the debt ceiling no matter what the consequences to this country and the American people simply to make a point) would ever be elected to the presidency. It is one thing for the Minnesotans in her district to elect her to the House where she can do little harm, but would even those same voters want her to have power on the international stage, executive authority, and access to nuclear weapons. Most Americans would most likely rather have the Iranian Ayahtollas with their fingers on the big red button than Bachmann! Even the dictators of North Korea, Venezuela, and Zambia combined would be more safe and sane with the bomb at their disposal. This woman is a nightmare from which the Republican Party is fighting to awaken. She is almost through, her moment in the spotlight over. That spotlight has exposed enough deeply disturbing and downright terrifying deficits in her reasoning ability and intellectual weaknesses to scare even the biggest Obama haters to secretly vote against her. Not FOR Obama, but AGAINST Bachmann! Bush was no genius but he wasn’t so obviously, completely stupid and downright crazy!

She is a complete and utter moron, and I can’t understand why anyone would even listen to her. She is beyond pathetic! She knows absolutely nothing!

Among other things, Bachmann needs a thesaurus. I have no idea what word she meant to use or if she meant to “convicted” for whatever reason. Right now, everyone is focusing on Bachmann, but Perry is no better.

P.S. “convicted” in the sense she uses it is a RELIGIOUS term. It is not used in that way outside of the evangelical community. Fair warning, folks.

I’m convicted ! Lmao! What a dolt, just like nearly ALL conservatives. She’s a prototypical conservative , stupid as a rock and totally “convicted” she’s right. Idiot .

___”Bachman is a radical nut. She won’t get elected.”

POSTED BY: CHRIS | SEPTEMBER 17, 2011, 8:28 AM 8:28 A___________We should talk about her nomination first.

Many women in the business community find Palin and Bachmann only skilled at marketing their narrow minded focus and taking advantage of people . Go ahead be a pawn in their games.

I have heard the Evangelicals use the term “Convicted” about what they believe. Maybe they got the interpretation from somewhere in the Bible…who knows. We have so many different Christian denominations because the Christians cannot even agree on the interpretation of the Bible . Thank goodness for seperation of Church and State.

the usage and the word are appropriate. Sorry.—————No , you are just wrong I think But if you are so certain that you are right then please do me a favor and correct me ,e.g. please find and post a definition and/or example of that usage of the word “convicted” from the Merriam-Webster dictionary , or any other WIDELY ACCEPTED NON-INTERNET DICTIONARY . Thanks in advance.

Is convicted = guilty? So, she is guilty of her beliefs. She did it for God. She believes in them and would be found guilty of them.

I’m a conservative, and a physician. SHAME on her for commenting on a subject she knows absolutely NOTHING about. And MORE shame on her for not correcting her glaring error. She’s proven herself yet again undeserving of any public office. Nevermind the fact that she has no idea that she “convicted” herself of such an aggregious offense. Moron.

The woman would be dangerous if she had any semblance of a brain.

but seperation of Church and State.——————”Separation” , not “”seperation” . Perhaps you might learn to spell the English language in a correct manner before you begin your career as a holier-than-thou grammatical scholar .

—– And it is a good thing you are not a teacher with that attitude. You could have stopped with just the correction of the spelling correct? But yes, I will take your personal put down. Do you feel superior now? I and several others are just stating that religion does use some words in a different context.

I submitted some facts of life about Michele Bachmann, and critiqued the arrogant physician. Would ABC publish that response? No. The ‘editor’ blanked it out and said I was posting this one post ‘too quickly’ and it disappeared. ABC is laughable…and convincingly convicting yourselves of mismanaging these retorts to your miserable ‘reports’. Your journalism belongs in the trash.

Rightwingers! Just go te Merrian-Webster on line and verify that Bachmann doesn’t really know what she really said. Simple.

why are we even worried about this woman? The GOP will not nominate a woman for at least 20 more years. The only question left is Rick Perry or Mitt Romney, and I will predict right now that most Republicans are still too “weirded out” by the Idea of a Mormon as Pres. So it’s RP unless there’s an Oct. surprise.

Garcia, OR you could pick up the Oxford/English on your desk. What’s that you say? You don’t own one? Maybe you should trust the word of someone who does NOT refer to online or collegiate dictionaries. Who’s going to trust the word of someone who can’t even spell the name of the dictionary they used as a resource? hee hee.

and once again proves that her command of the english language is second only to that of sarah palin. she may be tied with george bush though…

This woman is an idiot. Which doesn’t mean she’s unelectable; the idiot fringe in this country is large and they vote for their kind.

Leno, Stewart and the rest LOVE her because they cannot make this stuff up!! If they did no one would believe these statements were real. She is great for a giggle, NOT president.

She’s dumber than two bricks – and still smarter than her fans.

It will be Jon Huntsman and Romney since they have the business background and executive experience.

It was indeed a VERY awkward interview. Even the Dick Cheney interview a couple weeks ago was far more humorous and light hearted. Bachmann should drop out of the race. Hopefully, she tanks in the earliest primaries and drops out.

There are some who force themselves upon others like an unlikeable aunt at Thanksgiving dinner. You feel sorry for them but they are simply too hard to take. Bachmann is very much like that aunt. If only she didn’t have a mind like an empty room.

whack-o! Major league whacko

Yeah, but Obama thinks that there’s 57 states. Don’t believe it? Just do a websearch on “youtube” “57 states”.

So why is it a news story when Bachmann misuses an English word, but it isn’t news when Obama pretty much botches everything he says when he’s not reading from his teleprompter?

In today’s MSM you print the headline – “Blah! Blah! Blah!” says Bachmann and suddenly the comment threads are filled with comments stating obvious — That Ms Bachmann is unfit to be a dog catcher let alone represent the good people of Minnesota and more terrifyingly US president #45- What Bachmann and her cousin Sarah in Wasilla Alaska have in common is that are good entertainment value and they create good ratings for ABC news and other MSM outlets –
Watching Bachmann and Palin is like watching a stupid TV reality show based on ‘dumber and dumber.’
Bachmann’s slogan for president should read: “Vote for me ignorance is the key to freedom!”

OK, now that the media has thoroughly trashed Bachmann, when will they get around to that egomaniacal greaseball Perry, aka The Airhead Cowboy?

Michelle Bachmann isn’t that much worse than most of the other Republican candidates, they are a very sorry bunch. Almost all them are Creationists. That alone makes them totally unsuitable to be the President of any modern nation, let alone the most technologically advanced nation that has ever existed on this planet. Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Tim Pawlenty, Thaddeus McCotter, and Sarah Palin when she announces, all Creationists. Only Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman reject Creationism. Newt Gingrich seems to believe in both evolution and Creationism simutaneously, quite a trick, and I suspect that even Herman Cain has no idea what Herman Cain believes, I certainly don’t. Four more years for Obama please.

puppyfeet wrote, ““Convicted” IS absolutely the correct word AND she used it in the correct context.”

Not according to every online dictionary I could find. Can you provide proof of your assertion?

meab wrote, “So why is it a news story when Bachmann misuses an English word, but it isn’t news when Obama pretty much botches everything he says when he’s not reading from his teleprompter?”

Could you please provide us with a few examples of Obama ‘botching almost everything he says’ when not using a teleprompter?

Nutscrambler said…meab wrote, “Yeah, but Obama thinks that there’s 57 states.”

LOL! Why is it Republicans ALWAYS fall back on this
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OK! How about pictures of 0′bammy and ma belle holding their LEFT hands over their hearts during the pledge and if THATS not enough, how about military saluting during the flag raising and 0′bammy just standing with his thumb in his mouth and the other thumb in his rear and every few seconds, switching?

“She’s dumber than two bricks – and still smarter than her fans.” – Cassandra

That’s OK, that’s still smarter than dumber than 4 bricks Obama and 5x smarter than dumber than 10 bricks Biden.

Bernard Webb, Yeah. I kind of agree. Ron Paul every now and again has a ‘spell’ also and that is disconcerting.

That anyone truly thinks Michele Bachmann is presidential material is deluded in the most pathetic way. Nearly everything she utters is filled with lies, misunderstandings, misinterpretations, or just plain ignorance. Please do not pretend to know when you clearly do not know. Why is anyone throwing money at her?

HILCOGUY: Thass OK! 0′bammy told the world that he believed there were FIFTY-SEVEN states! Remember that one? Hmmmm… And if you don’t THERE’S MORE! ;o) Heee, hee, hee! ++++++++++++++++++++++ Of COURSE you people remember THAT ONE!! Because it was the ONLY one, yet Bachmann and the rest of Your Republican Genius’ make these dumb statements EVERY DAY and the problem here is that they THINK they are RIGHT!!! Yeah, we remember that one alright. YOU people really ought to be so totally ASHAMED of the low class of candidates that the Republican Party is putting forth but instead you all THINK they’re great!!! So sad you all are.