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On ‘Hannity’, Bachmann Now Accepts Wallace‘s ’Flake’ Apology

On Sunday, Fox News’s Chris Wallace asked Michele Bachmann what has since been characterized as an inappropriate question: is she a flake? Wallace quickly realized what he had done, and taped an apology that appeared online. Monday, a reporter asked Bachmann if she accepted that apology. In short, she didn’t, and explained why the question was insulting. But that all changed last night.

During an interview with Sean Hannity, Bachmann said that she received a personal phone call from Wallace “at supper time” (the first time she had heard from him “directly”) and he apologized. According to her, she was “happy” to accept it and she considers the issue over:

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  • BlisterPeanuts
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:44am

    A personal phone call is the only kind of apology that can be accepted. Wallace’s initial video apology was not really an apology; merely admitting he made a mistake to stop the damage to his reputation. Even in that initial video apology, he is rude and disrespectful insinuating that others call her that not himself. As others have already commented, there is a subtle underlying bigger problem in that strong confident conservative women are viewed as ‘flakes’… it is sexist. My bigger problem is with people like Mark Davis or Hugh Hewitt who think Bachmann should just automatically and quickly accept any non-apology. No, the attitude on display by Chris Wallace is partly what is wrong with American politics and it ought to be examined… they are sounding like drive-by media. If these attitudes are not examined in depth, these people will succeed doing to Bachmann what they have done to Palin. Chris Wallace certainly showed very little principle or integrity with that ‘question’.

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  • Teaple
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:23am

    Why did he waste airtime with this idiotic question? He didn’t even ask about her foreign policy or other important issues. So dumb!

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  • actuary
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:19am

    Chris got it wrong. The charge is that she was FLAKING, not flaky! He meant to ask her what she was doing about her FLAKING problem. Has she like gone to her hairdresser to explore possible solutions to her FLAKING problem? Has she like tried different shampoos? Has she like chatted with her girl friends about it? What does her husband think about her FLAKING problem? Is she like totally embarrassed about her FLAKING? How can she like possibly solve the budget deficit when she has this FLAKING problem?

    In other words “Don’t you know conservative women are too stupid to be seen in public? Why don’t you get the hell out Washington and go back and cook dinner or something?”

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:08am

    Bachman now accepts apology is the headline for this story. Well, hmm.. The Blaze is starting to look a lot like the ones they claim to oppose. Bachman never turned down an apology. Bachman did not receive an apology until she received the call during that supper she spoke about. Don’t be a hate monger here at The Blaze like the rest! Do your homework or at least pay attention.

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  • SpiderPig
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:04am

    I don’t think Wallance meant to attack her, but wanted her to address the fact that she is viewed by the MSM as a flake. He was wanting to nip it in the bud right away, except it just came out wrong.

    Now it’s time for Bachmann to rise up and kick some progressive arses.

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:00am

    Dear hate mongers, she never turned down the apology from the start. Do your homework Blaze. You have disappointed me on this story that you have helped blow way out of proportion.

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  • Darla_K
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:56am

    Michele better get use to these kind of comments or questions. Unfortunately there is alot of cruel people out there. I think Chris was asking her the question, getting her ready for all the people who will be attacking her. I don’t think he in any way meant that she was a flake.

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  • ronmorgen
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:42am

    It’s not about Republican vs. Democrat or man vs. woman. We are voting to turn the country around and save it. If we allow progressives to erode the constitution any more, we are lost forever. This election needs to be a referendum on the constitution as the founders intended or we go over the cliff.

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:41am

    First mistake!!!! Never say sorry and never offer sorry!!!! Michelle Tick,Tock, Tick, Tock play hard very hard or you will just be attacked over and over!!!!!

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  • sobeit
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:39am

    I think she handled the question well and Chris just made her look even better. He was caught with his tail between his legs on this one.

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  • BobEd
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:27am

    Quote from HANGINON::

    “Conservative women are treated so unfairly that they deserve a huge apology from the nation as a whole. The best way to apologize is by making one President.”

    I get your point…but look how apologizing to blacks worked out for us?

    An apology alone is not a good reason for electing a president, even a conservative female one.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:43am

      Are you talking about the RNC job we “gave” Michael Steele to show that we Republicans ‘love blacks’ more than the DemaTards love their “Obama?”

      Or are you talking about how we “selected” Sarah as VP candidate to prove that we Republicans ‘love women’ more that the DemoRats loved their “Hillary?”

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:25pm

      Monicne / Encinom / whatevertheheck

      YOU…….A REPUBLICAN? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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  • Argenot
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:18am

    It appears that Chris Wallace is becoming more and more the establishment republican or just a Liberal plant.

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  • Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:16am

    I’d like to call Hannity a flake on live TV, but I won’t apologize for it afterwards.

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    • Ken
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:52am

      I SERIOUSLY think you should post on some other site…or better yet, go live in some other country!
      You’re about as un-American as they come!!!

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    • Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:08am

      Request Denied.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:29am

      Fully Vetted Union-Member Sean Hannity is an Entertainer, he is just riling up some ratings. Fellow Union member Glenn hates Sean, that’s just the way they roll. Jealousy and Infighting, and Glenn leaves Fox.

      There is a rumor that Hannity is going to take an offer to start his own Cable channel when his Fox contract expires in 2015. It will be sponsored by Soros, and Sean will become a Liberal for $120 Million.

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    • IAMMADDOG
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:22pm

      Maybe we’ll just get the supreme court to force you to move to another country. After all it is the liberal way.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:16am

    All I’ve heard on the local news for the last 24 hours is about her claiming John Wayne came form her home town yesterday. Come on Michelle, when you know what’s being said about you out there, can’t you or your people take the time to get it right before you feed the media more fodder to chew you up with?

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:24am

      The best response is to ignore the press. Real conservatives understand what she INTENDED is more important than the real truth. She is just painting pictures with her words for all to enjoy.

      These harmless fake facts are just meant to motivate people to act in the correct way, just as Christ would use a parable.

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  • kasper512
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:14am

    Ms Bachmann has everythiing that is needed to be Chef and has class also, something that has not in the wh sence Ragen

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:24am

      If I decide to open a restaurant, I’ll need a good chef. I’ll keep that in mind.

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    • rikyt74
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:47am

      What will you call this fine eatery “Bozo’s Spelling Bee” Serving slim balls and insults on things that don’t matter!!

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    • mcgrawactor1
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:49pm

      ‘Chef’ is the French word for Chief…specifically, as I am sure it was intended, “Commander in Chief”. Don’t parse words when we have much bigger issues to contend with these days.

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  • PatriotLady
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:10am

    We are all human and make mistakes, but I have to say that I’m disappointed that Chris Wallace would even go there – that wasn’t even a question – it was a low level attack on the scale of the other lamestream media outlets and way beneath his usual level of professionalism. Glad he apologized to her personally.

    Michelle Bachmann is a gracious person and I am interested in what she has to say. I don’t frankly care what the Washington elites are trying to say about someone who is a threat to them. Of course they don’t like her. So – how about some real questions now… Budget, debt, job creation, foreign policy, protection of the constitution???

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  • HanginOn
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:10am

    Conservative women are treated so unfairly that they deserve a huge apology from the nation as a whole. The best way to apologize is by making one President.

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  • catndahat
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:09am

    She handled it correctly. Firstly, this media better understand that if they want to cover a candidate they need to be respectful. There is no reason Michelle Bachmann should have to put up with the persecution Sarah Palin did, just to run as a candidate. Out the gate, she let the media know, she won’t put up with it.

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:08am

    Wallace knew what he was doing. he wanted to put that out there that she is a flake. wallace is a lib and he will do his part. others on fox news will also. shep smith, carl camron, come to mind.

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  • Southernguy
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:55am

    Give em’ hell, Michele!! lol

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  • Seagal45
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:54am

    That is such crap, Beck has been hinting for a year his intention of getting out of there, IF you bothered to listen to him. The question itself is an insult; let’s see them ask the ball busting libbers if they are flakes. Makes me sick that conservative women are the only ones subject to such things. She took the high road but it would have been hard to say anything other than up yours for the stupid remark.

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  • warner
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:52am

    It was the classy and right thing to do! It shows that she is above this type of garbage and is serious about the country and gettingturned around. Also, and most importantly…as a believer it was the Christian and biblical way to handle it. It shows character…something most people in this country don’t have!

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:18am

      Most People in this Country do have Character
      most Politicians and Media Hosts DO NOT !!!

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  • psst
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:45am

    The apology was a flake apology w/o a doubt.
    She should have said told him to stick it.blah blah balh, ya know where.
    Fox have been moving steadily leftwards the last few years.
    Wallace ,Shep,Jeraldo,Williams and babbling billO, a closet Soetoro guy.
    They may end up losing some of that 50%+ market niche
    I tune in to Babbling to hear him tell he is the smartest guy in the World (in his own mind)
    When Williams subs for him I tune Fox out,during that segment, like last night
    Beck may make light of his leaving. But he was pushed out by Fox.
    I’m surprised that Hannity have not been Becked. Yet.

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    • fatjack
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:26am

      If it wasn’t for the hot slims I would have already tuned fox out.

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  • Todd P
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:43am

    She took the high road. Kudos to her!

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    • psst
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:53am

      @ Todd.
      She should have said “he’s lib light like and as crazy as his old man who is lib heavy.
      IOW. kick his arse. America is looking for a kick arse man/woman.
      Someone who will get in the face of leftists like they get in the face of conservatives.
      It’s time to stop being docile and take the high road.
      Marxists works in the mud. Ya gotta git down in the mud w/ them and kick their ya know what on their own turf.

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  • Aaron in Polk County
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:36am

    How generous of her to accept the apology of the groveling media.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:48am

      Obviously she is a bigger woman than he is man – I like Chris Wallace but that was really a half *** effort to apologize. I’m glad he found time in his busy schedule to make a personal call, as he should have, but not asking such a rude question would have eliminated all of this. He should have saved it for the MSM.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:00am

      Michelle OBAchmann and Sarah Palin are CORN FLAKES with too much sugar.

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    • HKS
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:20am

      Maybe it’s just me but, I think I see Fox swinging their attitude to liberal. Maybe it’s just me.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:30am

      Fox is a tool of deception like the other MSM media. Good cop, bad cop is the game they are playing. In the election they will support a good Rhino cop over a Constitutional Conservative.

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    • ThoreauHD
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:31am

      Maybe Wallace can ask the next Presidential candidate if they’re a ******. Are you are ******? Do you smell like a ******? People say you’re a retarded ******. Can you explain why you aren’t a ******?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:42am

      V-MAN, that was so funny you really ought to have your own show. No, seriously, can’t you find something intelligent to say?

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:09am

      What a great woman!!! She will make us a fine President.Very intelligent, and knows how to handle the press.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:14am

      ROTGML-PMS!!!

      The Blazers are actually starting to be suspicious that, “FOX News is turning Left!”

      Ha ha ha The third stage of Paranoia begins when you start eating the children…

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:21am

      She is a SERIOUS person, and she time to time has to use extremely false statements and falsehoods to get her serious points across. She has worked very hard and has a Titanium Spine (seriously) and gives substantive answers to get serious points across.

      Its very tempting to jump on people for saying things that are not truthful, when we should be worrying about turning the country around, and not focusing on just a bunch of facts. These harmless fake facts are just meant to motivate people to act in the correct way, just as Christ would use a parable.

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    • Tree
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:23am

      At least she’s accepting apologies and not giving them! She seems a very first-class sort of woman. Perhaps she just waited for a personal apology and not some taped one aired on the internet.
      Is Fox leaning left? O’Reilly pointed out in books that Fox is fairly balanced with both right and left leaning shows. Unlike most other media which is mostly left-leaning or even all out left.

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    • Truth Wins Every Time
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:29am

      Registered DemocratOn October 11, 2006, The Washington Post revealed that Wallace had been a registered Democrat for more than two decades. Wallace explained his party affiliation in terms of pragmatism, insisting that being a Democrat is the only feasible means of participating in the political process in heavily Democratic Washington, D.C. He maintained he had voted for candidates from both major parties in the past

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    • enemy of the statist
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:03am

      It’s nice to know that someone as busy as her still has “supper-time”! But Wallace again used the word “flake” as an indirect description of Bachman in his alleged apology. That pretty-much makes it an empty apology. I am actually suprised at how insincere Mr. Wallace was in validating his own questioning when TRYING to offer up a PLANNED AND TAPED apology. Did he not attend kindergarten?

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:10am

      GOOD JOB FORGIVING HIM, NOW WE MOVE ON TO THE IMPORTANT THINGS:

      Yesterday was quiet the day, the media was just waiting for her to make a mistake and when they found one they were all over it. My question is who fed her that information because not many people would know off hand a piece of information like that and yet have it be wrong. She needs to get rid of that adviser, in addition to Rollins who attacked Palin.

      Look at this page that a supporter put up for her, ( http://tiny.cc/ha297 ) what else can we do to support her?

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    • JRook
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:20am

      This thing was such a set up from the beginning. Same move has been done for Palin several times. Bachmann is now being managed and her team indicated a need to get past her past gaffs. If you notice her answer was way too quick and way to prepared. It may or may not provide some cover for her ignorant statements of the past, but like Palin or O‘Donnell she can’t help herself and will commit many more. For example confusing John Wayne with a serial killer in a prepared speech regarding her home town. It is this type of preparation and attention to detail we need in elected officials. LOL

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    • fatjack
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:22am

      V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:00am
      Michelle OBAchmann and Sarah Palin are CORN FLAKES with too much sugar.
      —————————————————————————————————————————-
      I love slims with too much sugar.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:08am

      Just as I suggested yesterday, Chris called her at dinner time last night, and offered a personal apology on the telephone. THAT is when she accepted the apology.

      I would still like to see him have her back on at a time of her convenience and to apologize live on-air at that time.

      I firmly believe apologies should be offered just as publicly as the offense occurred.

      i.e., a 1 column inch page 2B ‘apology’ in the NYT for a front-page, above the fold, headline slam, is not appropriate.

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    • SHASTADIANE1
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:11am

      I truly think it was a mis-step on Chris Wallace’s part. He was only saying what he had heard in the hallways of the liberal politicians and media, he just said it poorly. Chris has never seemed to be mean or purposely hurtful. Michelle was correct in accepting his apology, and probably should have done so immediately after he offered it. It would have all gone away much faster. She is NOT a FLAKE, anyone who listens to her knows this, CHRIS knows this. Move on folks, there are lots of serious issues out there. Let Michelle work on giving us solutions to those issues and quit worrying about being called a “flake”. I’d rather be that than a Liberal, like the REAL flake Nancy Pelosi! Now THAT woman is a flake!

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    • Nathaniel Horn
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 12:10pm

      MONICNE, Your love, admiration and fear of Michelle Bachman are telegraphing through. It’s quite the charade… You’re a looking glass. Can only hide from yourself, you know.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 12:24pm

      Fatjack

      They’re flakes without real sugar. They’re dripping with disgusting Aspartame. Nutrasweet.

      Astroturf.

      Whatever you wanna call it, they’re flaky fake people.

      Palin is a progressive posing as a Conservative Christian. She campaigned with NeoCain the Cancerous Progressive even after she QUIT on Alaska and lost her vice presidential bid, don’tcha know.

      Bachmann is a progressive posing as a Conservative Christian. She voted for the unconstitutional Patriot Act extension.

      Disqualified.

      Ron Paul 2012.

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    • HairOfTheDogSob
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 12:49pm

      Wallace SUCKS…COWARDX10…when will the coward tell people my boss made me say that?..

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    • Nathaniel Horn
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 1:13pm

      As SHASTADIANE1 mentioned, Nancy Pelosi is the queen of all flakes and if so, Joe Biden is the King. But Emperor Barack is the master. If he didn’t have the Democrat media to cover for his pathetic gaff prone @ss, the country would see the truth, which is that he is far, far more gaff prone than the ‘supposedly’ dumb George Bush ever was. He’s in fact not even as smart as GW and that’s just the plain truth. That Barry appears smart is just simply sleight of hand illusion. Everything stands on its head in a liberal dominated world. Delusion, lies and insanity is the name of their game.

      I’m still wondering where that mythical 58th state of the Great Pretender’s is? Oh, there it is just up ahead. It’s the state of misery he’s carefully guiding us toward. The only thin solace is that the lefties will fare far worse in that world than we will. They don’t know it yet because they can’t see past their noses but they’ve cut off their noses to spite their own poor, pitiable faces. They’re working feverishly for their own destruction but the irony of it escapes them because while they are clever, they are also dumb as a board. We are preparing. The left still thinks that ice berg we intentionally steered into and struck is breath of fresh air! LoL… Poor, dumb victims of their own ideology. But soon the righting moment will be reached and the world will turn RIGHT side up again. I think it may be a violent event and soon too kids… Hold on to your seats.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 3:23pm

      JRook WROTE:
      “It is this type of preparation and attention to detail we need in elected officials. LOL”

      I assume that your statement also applies to the current occupant of the White House?

      If not, you need to take off your “Rose colored glasses”

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 4:01pm

      Pompus Chris Wallace must have got stomped on pretty bad. He called Michelle personally to apologize in person and she accepted. (She did the right thing.)

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:43pm

      OK Michelle, in the future make sure you have your date with hannity booked before you agree to go on any other show. It might be a little embarrassing if he’s not there to pull you out of the cr@p after you make a fool out of yourself like the last 5 times

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    • RJO
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:51pm

      Another of her many STRENGTHS……..classy lady…….the hard-left FEARS her….that’s why the attacks have been so vicious the past few days….and sadly, it won’t change.

      Hang tough…………….Minnesota/Iowa voice for CONSERVATIVES!!!!

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    • snuss
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:48pm

      When Chris Wallace interviews Barack Hussein Obama with identical disrespect I too will except his apology, until that time Chris Wallace is a male version of Katie Couric aka stealth stooge of the DNC.

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