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    Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!

    Life Outside NYC Turns Man Homicidal

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/19/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    "a tax-funded tea party."

    Make that a Socialist Tax-funded Tea Party.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    I love that yesterday the Guardian wrote about her as part of the "Fresh New Young Republican Firebrands" along with...

    Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin.

    I KNOW! I laughed and laughed.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    Rules - of law, of the Constitution, or of this space/time continuum - are that other party's problem.
    Repubs are too mavericky for such things.
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    Image of katastic katastic
    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    I salute the brave voters of Minnesota, who fight against the stigma of mental illness by electing Michele Bachmann to power again and again. I salute you, you batshit fuckers!
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    Image of RedLineRage RedLineRage
    11/18/09

    @katastic: NO! It's just her district, I swear! The Twin Cities are awesome! Also, let's keep in mind that the state kept Wellstone around as long as it could. He was awesome, and is sorely missed.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    11/18/09

    @katastic: I'm holding out hope that her district will be eliminated in the 2010 census. It could happen if she keeps telling her constituents not to participate in the ce....
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/19/09

    @sarrible: We could tell them it's time for the rapture, and get them all onto a big bus
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    Image of Jes St.Lawrence Jes St.Lawrence
    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    I guess it beats paying two bits to stand in line to look at the Frog Boy or whatever.
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    Image of Poop Cooper Poop Cooper
    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    Ah, World Net Daily. My problem with you is threefold:

    1) World Net Daily. I understand what these three words mean individually, but when combined I'm fairly certain it means nothing. I can combine random words that too. Life Science Global. Coffee Hipster Code. Ham Partridge Fauna.

    2) You guys think that you're the press. That okay, it's cute. I have delusions of grandeur too. (For instance, I often wonder what song I would've wowed Hill Valley High with instead of "Johnny B. Goode" had I been in Marty McFly's shoes at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.) But the fact that you suffer from the misconception that the press is the one that calls press conferences is, like, a third grader's sort of confusion. I half-expect to see the headline next week, "World Net Daily announces press conference for President Barrack Obama. Obama tentatively scheduled to attend."

    3) On your own site, you report on the event as though you had no involvement! Which is crazy, since you know that other people are going to cover it and say otherwise. How could you not know people were going to cover it? You called the press there.

    Of course, I could be overlooking your genius here. Only you could pull off something that is simultaneously both a press conference and not a press conference at the same time. Next you'll trick God into creating a boulder he cannot lift.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    Conserva-bimbos all have the same crazy eyes, cakey makeup, and weird stewardess wardrobe. It's like they cloned Kathleen Harris and distributed her through the upper Midwest.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    11/18/09

    @BettyCrocker: as long as it brings in the page views they will keep with the formula. Maybe some innovators will come along. This country needs a good looking male "family values"-style politician with a big dong and small brain who fucked around a lot in undergrad.

    Or perhaps a sexy robot who feels ways about "the death tax?"
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11/18/09

    @shostakobitch: We already have Ryan Reynolds!
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    Image of ParahSalin ParahSalin
    11/18/09

    @shostakobitch: Paging Mitt Romney, paging Mitt Romney.

    I loved when he was asked last year what his boys were doing for the war effort, and he claimed his 7 boys (or however many his Mormon loins spawned) were right here at home getting MBAs so they could fight the terrorists. They love America so much they're willing to get high paying jobs in the finance industry. I can't help but think 2012 will be an interesting republican primary hopefully with a Romney vs the Thrilla from Wasilla cagefight.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/19/09

    @ParahSalin: And they also served America by working on his campaign, IIRC
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    Can we please just throw Palin and Bachmann into the Thunderdome?
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    11/18/09

    @DennyCrane: With Carrie Prejean to officiate?
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    Image of johnny_carsick johnny_carsick
    11/18/09

    In reply to Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!
    Jesus H. Christ, do that woman's facial expressions make my skin crawl.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    11/18/09

    @johnny_carsick: That happens when the skin is stretched over the lizard frame.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    10/13/09

    In reply to Life Outside NYC Turns Man Homicidal
    The outlier states are full of psychos.

    Pot, meet Kettle. Now get busy and take those coals to Newcastle.
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    Image of dbrauer dbrauer
    10/13/09

    In reply to Life Outside NYC Turns Man Homicidal
    Yup, made my week. And Carr owed me a bear hug.
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    10/13/09

    In reply to Life Outside NYC Turns Man Homicidal
    and i'd kill for my new york times to not felate corporate america on a daily basis. take a number.
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/13/09

    In reply to Life Outside NYC Turns Man Homicidal
    The Midwest is the heartland. New York is the outlier state. Not as much as Hawaii but still.
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    Image of nozer nozer
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: Are you speaking geographically? When NYC has a larger population than all of those empty Western states combined and a population larger than many midwest states, it can't really be considered an outlier (especially when you add in the rest of the state's population).
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: Oh great. Now the Amish have computers.
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: The heartland of what?
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/13/09

    @nozer: Statistically speaking, I think New York is probably an outlier on the following as a percentage of population: hipsters, unemployed people with journalism degrees, "artists" and people who think the world revolves around NY.
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    Image of TheologicalSong TheologicalSong
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: amen. provincial as sh-t around here. this coming from a local. and anyone who talks like that is really not worldly enough to be considered a New Yorker in the proud sense of the word, and is very unlikely to be a native.
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/13/09

    @greengrey: Let's say we stop producing what we produce, say food, and NY stops producing what it produces, Broadway shows, dying magazines, "fashion", hipsters and trust fund kids who think they are special because they live in NY.
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: Because all my food comes from the midwest. A ha! You're smart!
    And yes, NY only produces stereotypes.
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/13/09

    @son of spam: Yes, but they run on LP or compressed air :)
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain:

    Because everyone who lives in the midwest is a farmer, and everyone who lives in New York is in entertainment, publishing, or a hanger-on.

    Your inferiority complex is showing, dork.
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/13/09

    @greengrey: Well, the vast majority of your food sure as hell doesn't come from NY City and most of the New Yorkers I read about on Gawker are fairly stereotypical in one way or another so the generalization isn't much of a stretch. Your snark is poor. Try harder.
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/13/09

    @City_Dater: Your superiority complex is showing, a**hole. My original comment was made tongue in cheek. Your the one taking offense.
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: I can see where you'd be confused about all the media-types, what with this being a media blog. And I say this as someone who lived in Bettendorf for a good chunk of my life: Shhhhh, Iowa.
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    Image of gargamel gargamel
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: but the world does revolve around NY.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/13/09

    @Coralvillain: That's too bad. The thought of a sixteen-hand Standardbred on a treadmill was delightful. For a second.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/13/09

    @gargamel: But Toronto is the centre of the universe, right? That's what we've always been told.
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    Image of labyrinthine IS DOING THIS labyrinthine IS DOING THIS
    10/13/09

    @LatestBy: Fort Dodge/Ottumwa, myself. settle down, pumpkin. :D
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    Image of The Defeatery The Defeatery
    10/13/09

    @labyrinthine IS DOING THIS: Grinnell represent!
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    Image of gargamel gargamel
    10/13/09

    @raincoaster: of course. and texas is the black hole.
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    Image of Coralvillain Coralvillain
    10/14/09

    @LatestBy: I work in Davenport :) We invented the couch here you know.
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    Image of My_Latest_Incarnation My_Latest_Incarnation
    09/04/09

    In reply to Teabaggers Ambush, Listen Politely To Al Franken
    They may be all ginned up with outrage, but these are people who've been conditioned for generations to listen politely to literally anyone talking to them.

    Well, they are next door neighbors to the Canadians. It's bound to have an effect on them.
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    09/14/09

    @My_Latest_Incarnation: Isn't Lake Woebegon there, too?
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    Image of Magister Magister
    09/04/09

    In reply to Teabaggers Ambush, Listen Politely To Al Franken
    Franken & Frank: Insurance Reform Tour - 2009
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