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What’s She Looking at? Media Fixates on Bachmann’s Eyes During SOTU Response

It’s the question that is dominating talk of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) Tea Party response speech to the State of the Union: Who, or what, was she staring at? And why?

As many of you may have noticed, Bachmann’s response was only carried by one network on Tuesday, CNN. It was also supposed to be broadcast live on the Tea Party Express website via a separate camera, but technical difficulties prevented that from happening. That’s important because most of the country, then, saw Bachmann only as broadcast by CNN. And here’s what they saw:

For many, that meant Bachmann‘s message didn’t connect with the American people because she never made eye contact with them. Tuesday night and Wednesday morning were dominated by “cameragate”:

Politico:

Rep. Michele Bachmann may fall into that media-savvy cadre of politicians who, as the saying goes, has never met a camera she didn’t like, but Tuesday night many Americans got the impression she was talking into the wrong camera. … [T]o those who were watching on CNN, the only news network that made the decision to air the speech live, she appeared to be looking off-screen to the left.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow mocked Bachmann’s gaze:

So did Obama‘s senior adviser David Axelrod while appearing with Lawrence O’Donnell:

The incident drove Keith Olbermann absolutely crazy. He tweeted about it 10 times last night (eight of his tweets are below, with the earliest ones at the bottom):

Whats She Looking at? Media Fixates on Bachmanns Eyes During SOTU ResponseWhats She Looking at? Media Fixates on Bachmanns Eyes During SOTU Response

Yahoo! News noted the awkward telecast with the headline, “Bachmann’s response marred by technical problems.” But before anyone delves into an anti-Bachmann CNN conspiracy theory, Yahoo! points out that the pool camera was actually operated by Fox News.

So what happened? As is obvious, Bachmann was looking into the wrong camera. There were actually two cameras filming the response, the pool camera operated by Fox and broadcast by CNN, and another camera that was supposed to broadcast the speech on the Tea Party Express website. Bachmann chose the wrong one. And since the web stream never worked, the only footage of the speech that exists is of Bachmann seemingly staring off into space.

CNN political director Sam Feist had this to say via Twitter after the incident:

Whats She Looking at? Media Fixates on Bachmanns Eyes During SOTU ResponseIn light of all this, Mediate raises (via Eric Deggans) the most obvious point: We can probably expect to see a spoof of this on “Saturday Night Live” soon.

(For anyone actually interested in the tenets of Bachmann’s speech, you can read it here.)

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  • MarkBL
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:38am

    Ugh, Mr. Maddow gives me the shivers.

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  • TheHonestAmerican
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:37am

    The Tea Party needs to get their head out of their arse and start raising money, at least a half billion, that will get the GOP’s attention and give the Tea Party a real chip at the table. If you continue putting airheads like Bachman and Palin out front or you try to do a third party, we‘ll be stuck with 4 more years of Obama and we’ll all be Communists. DC politics is the most deadly game there is and it will take real money to accomplish what you want to do. Mark my words.

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    • Soldier4Christ
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 12:56am

      WTP, Equal Housing was a good idea ….. right ???? Allowing people to attempt to purchase houses that they could not afford and thereafter default is probably the main cause of our economy being weakened. Yet no one talks about it and everyone who opposed Equal Housing is labeled a “racist.” Keep chucking stones at those who come up with good ideas and are brave enough to oppose the ones that seem sweet on the outside but a pure venom on the inside.

      Just because certain laws seem noble in theory does not make them practicable. That is the problem with people on the left, they judge something as first glance without examining it thoroughly enough to get a real impression of what it actually is.

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  • jpjc
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:36am

    Bahman’s presentation was the only event of the evening that showed the frightening fiscal trend this nation is currently on. America needs to see more numbers, financial projections and less BS !

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  • Iowa_man
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:35am

    The libs will do or say anything to distract from the message. Go ahead and strike her down with your comments. She will only benefit from it and become more powerful. It was not the method of delivery that mattered, it was the substance.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:50am

      “The libs will do or say anything to distract from the message. ”

      That’s pretty much the entire thing to take from this. They can’t attack the message without their own agendas being exposed, so they go for the nonsensical stuff.

      It has to get boring being so mad at the world all the time, and constantly trying to find ways to belittle and mock people. I truly do hope that these Leftist types get their heart filled with something other than hate some day and experience life as the wonder and joy that it can be.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 7:31am

      “It has to get boring being so mad at the world all the time, and constantly trying to find ways to belittle and mock people.” Seems to NEVER get old from the right at theblaze :) (Maybe paranoia and fear spice it up?)

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  • Horizon3
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:35am

    Why do the slop mongers in the MSM have to devolve into this kind of tripe?
    Bachmann WAS looking into the TP Express cameras not the MSM Pool.
    She is a smart lady and she “Danced with the ones that brought her” as they like to say.
    And yes even though the TP Express server was overloaded, those that hooked in early enough got to see it from the correct camera angle, and except for the stuttering caused by too little bandwith it was excellent.

    Typical of MSM they take potshots at Bachmann instead of correcting their own crap cameramen for setting up in a bad spot.

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  • GadsdenGurl
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:34am

    So she looked into the wrong camera, BIG FREAKIN’ DEAL!

    Typical of these progressives to corrupt the message… and take focus off the FACTS that Bachmann was pointing out. What goofballs.

    Boxer needs to step down if she’s been there through 5 different presidents…

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  • BubbaCoop
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:34am

    Foxnews.com had the live feed
    I thought it looked like she put on more makeup before her speech (compared to the shot of her in the House chamber)

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    • neverending
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:59am

      Me too and it made her look like she had two big black eyes and ruined her natural beauty.

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  • BQI
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:33am

    I just love how the Left is fixated on our beautiful, smart, strong conservative women. A day does not pass without them trying to paint these women in some kind of negative light.

    BQI just published a story on Sarah Palin that we think sums up why the Left are so driven to harm these women. We must continue to stand with Michelle, Sarah and others for they are taking it to the Left.

    http://www.blackquillandink.com Black Conservative Blog

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  • txblaze
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:32am

    I think the teleprompter was place too far away from the camera or something. Seems like someone would have checked that out before her rebuttal – but I do not know the inner workings of bringing politics to tv.
    I agree with oriondma05, this is just something else for the left to criticize. They never heard what she said because they were too busy coming up with mocking tweets and comments.

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  • sweetlaraine
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:30am

    Let the left keep laughing…they mock all of us, and we will sweep them out of power with the next election. I would not vote for a democrat for dog catcher. The democrat party has no future.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:24am

      I hope you have some way to deal with your coming disappointment in 2012, you’re little TP experiment is going down in flames.

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    • republitarian
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:29am

      @ Simplemind, You wish! It’s not an experiment, it’s a movement. It’s not going away and there is nothing, nothing you can do to stop it.

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    • abseas
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:48am

      Simplemind . . . The only thing that can stop this train is to somehow make voting illegal!

      2012 = POOF!!!, for the dems. ;)

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  • rappini
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:28am

    Representative Bachmann just told it like it was I think most people call it the truth.

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    • WhiteTeaParty
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:28am

      Are you referring to Michelle ( Subsidy Queen ) Bachmann?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:00am

      Tu quoque

      A logical fallacy. And the one that the Left seems intent on continuing despite its transparency and ease of defeat by people like me.

      Please do try at least to commit some more sophisticated fallacies. Thanks.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:08pm

      @Ghost: cheers for interjecting some logic onto this forum. I hope that your vigilance for pointing out logical fallacies extends to all of the logical fallacies committed by “blazers” that so regularly permeate this board. Logic isn’t selective of ideology, afterall.

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    • bikerr
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:28pm

      Yes Whiteteaparty, try to keep up!

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:28am

    Michele Bachmann was obviously looking where she was told to look – this was not her fault, but leave it to obama’s state-run media to use this as a reason to dismiss her message. Don’t like “where” she is looking? – then just listen to the audio and you will hear someone who understand the problems that this nation is facing under our current failed “president”. Paul Ryan‘s and Michele Bachmann’s rebuttals were very good and actually both of them connected with Americans and the true state of our union in a way our failed “president” never will.

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  • Pyx
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:27am

    NEWSFLASH: MSNBC and David Axelrod are demonstrate they are unable to deal with the substance of Michele Bachmann’s SOTU response.

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  • NC1
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:26am

    That just goes to show how irrelevant CNN is, they can’t even get people to look into their cameras much less watch their shows.

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    • jtbaptist
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:19am

      That’s it! HAHAHA!!!!

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:22am

      I think it symbolically reveals the incompetence of the Tea Party Express – nearly every kid today knows how to stream a video, it’s not that hard.

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  • IntegrityFirst
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:25am

    Liberals attack the person, not the message. That‘s all they have to go on because they can’t debate and win against the truth and facts.

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:46am

      not true, the blaze is only reporting this. there were plenty of critiques on her message.

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  • OkiePatriot
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:25am

    So what, big deal…she was supposed to be giving her speech to the Tea Party Express camera which she was. Its not her fault she wasnt told of the tech. diff. they were having. Just another attempt by those in power to try and undermind the Tea Party but boys and girls it aint gonna happen! We are here to stay and we want our country back so get onboard or get the hell out of the way!!!

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    • Nathaniel Horn
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:22am

      I’m your huckleberry. ******** are the yesterdays’ nightmare. They just don’t know it yet…

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    • davecoolworld
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 1:09am

      We are gonna need a bigger boat for all the people on our side.

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  • entropy
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:24am

    Yeah, it was definitely a low-life, CNN commi stunt. It really shows how petty and childish they are. Are you suprised?

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    • tompaineknowsthescore
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:33am

      FOX was in control of the camera the damn article says this. fox however didnt broadcast it i wonder why

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    • leahasevedo
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:14am

      fox did play it on live stream

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    • ANoniMoose
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:05pm

      Greta played the whole of Ms. Bachmann’s response on her show. Guess no one stayed up that late.

      Thought Glenn should’ve checked that as he works at Fox. :-)

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  • Pyx
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:23am

    The TELEPROMPTER with the text of the speech by Michele Bachmann was set off to the side of the camera. To follow the speech Congressman Bachmann wrote, she was forced to look to the side. The placement of the TELEPROMPTER was quite purposeful.

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  • Gail
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:23am

    I think she did a great job! Everyone on TV has looked at the wrong camera before…..her message was great so they had to find something to complain about. The people complaining about the camera rather than the message are the same people that would be more interested in re-arranging the chairs on the deck of the titanic instead of focusing on how to survive……it’s time we start focusing on how our country is to survive!

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  • GnomeChomsky
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:20am

    humor and mocking aside, it was distracting and a lot of her message was lost(probably a good thing) on people trying to figure out what in the world she was looking

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    • randy
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:32am

      If that was distracting to you. then shiny things must really interrupt your days.
      CNN moved the teleprompter further from the camera then need be. On purpose?
      Possibly.

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:44am

      Randy learn how to read, the camera was operated by Fox News

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:45am

      Doubtful gnome. It may have distracted those types who are ADHD or who cannot focus on content and message, but to those to whom it mattered she could have come on dressed in a chicken outfit for all it would have made a difference.

      Lots of us out here have learned to examine the message and ignore the propagandization and manipulations that have sucked in Leftists (and some rightists) for decades.

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    • nobama2012yeswecan
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:31pm

      The Congresswoman is not a polished politician,and you all think that is a bad thing.She is smart, thoughtful and has shown that she is at least trying to follow our Constitution.Who in the White House even gives a crap about it.Oh and by the way,,,She is HOT and I believe that is the Liberal’s problem!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:13pm

      GHOST, (”…to those to whom it mattered she could have come on dressed in a chicken outfit for all it would have made a difference…”) certainly says it all.

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  • oriondma05
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:18am

    Didn’t get to watch it since it was only on CNN..

    Regardless of where she was looking, her message was going to be ignored or butchered by the left. This just gives them something else to criticize besides the actual content.

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  • vigilantpatriot
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:16am

    It doesn’t matter where she was looking, did she speak the truth! Absolutely!

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:49am

      vigilantpatriot, my thoughts exactly. It’s all about content.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:01am

      What camera was Keith looking into last night?

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    • JD Carp
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:25am

      Olbermann should be out looking for a job instead of collecting unemployment and wasting time on Twitter.

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  • jackboydspeaksout
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:16am

    That’s all liberals care about! She was looking at the wrong camera? It’s all about how it looks with them, not about what’s being said. They love Obama because he looks good and they can ignore what he says and does. How about this, why don’t they comment on what she said like a good reporter would do.

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    • WhiteTeaParty
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:21am

      If the reporter and the majority of the country know that Michelle Bachmann is an idiot why bother with any questions??????

      I’m all for having Michelle Bachman speak for the Tea Party. She’s great.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:48am

      @WTP

      You’re not the majority of the country friend. I’m sorry, but you’re simply not. You work solely on Confirmation Bias and are deluding yourself with a throng of phantom support. Fact is most people align more closely with common sense and anti-socialist sympathies than they do for your side.

      I also cannot help but notice, again, your obsession with Bachmann. For somebody whom you consider so irrelevant and horrible, you sure do a bang up job obsessing about her and throwing out insult after insult towards her.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:13pm

      @Ghost: the same could be said for you, friend. I would wager that confirmation bias and appeals to phantom support are a common occurance on this site. You are right; however, that a majority of people in this country aren’t “leftists.” The implication, tho, that they have more in common with “blazers” is also false. The majority in this country are moderates, not Tea Partiers. Most people in America see some value in arguments throughout the political spectrum.

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:15am

    Unfortunate, but most are savvy enough to understand. It shouldn’t detract from the message

    Silversmith

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    • WhiteTeaParty
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:25am

      There was a message????

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:49am

      CNN said she was talking to the Tea Party camera, not the broadcast pool camera. IF that is true, then her handlers should be fired today. It was broadcast ONE place, and you don’t talk to that camera?
      We’re doomed.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:26pm

      Where she was looking is NOT all that was talked about! That‘s just what theblazers ARE TOLD was all that’s talked about!!

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:30pm

      She was responding to OBAMA. So clearly she was WATCHING THE OTHER HAND!!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Responding to Obama .. she was probably watching her PURSE!

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    • bikerr
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:22pm

      Whiteteaparty.Again you missed the message.Not surprised.Try real hard,it’s there,Never mind you won’t get this message either!

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    • Modern Patriot
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:07pm

      Until we know the truth about the camera I think this is all a little premature, which has been the norm for the MSM, as they are called, for sometime now. I hope they are just waiting a couple of days and then come out and say that the Tea Party Camera was rolling the entire time and she was looking exactly where she was suppose to be looking but the camera output had a problem. Can‘t wait to hear the spin if that’s the case.

      If not I would like to know why she wasn’t redirected by the camera man and or director that were there.

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    • One1
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 1:37am

      @WHITETEAPARTY – Oh… thats right. You can’t hear the truth. Try reading the transcript.

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  • Cuthalu
    Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:14am

    Sounds like a set up to use to demean her.

     
    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:18am

      Is this the best they can come up with as a criticism?

      Seriously?

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:23am

      @ghost
      No, but its the only criticism you will see on the blaze.

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    • PreserveOurFreedoms
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:31am

      OK, I’ll admit it.

      She was looking at me.

      :)

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    • taskmaster78
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:34am

      Hey regardless of what these sore losers say, she still connects with the American people. The left shows their fear of her by focusing on her constantly. They show how juvenile they are by the comments they Tweet.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:39am

      What’s really funny is no one talks about the way Obammy talks… Pingpongpingpongpingpong!

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:39am

      The progressives love to nit pick. I watched the speech and thought it was very good, especially the graphs showing how the Obama Administration has driven the car in the ditch.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:44am

      @GnomeChomsky

      “No, but its the only criticism you will see on the blaze.”

      Why? Can’t people offer criticism?

      This site is predominantly tea party, I doubt seriously you’re going to find many people who disagree with her on any major points. That’s to be expected, unless she said something that was against tea party positions. Why would any group criticize somebody who stated their position accurately?

      I think the “she didn’t look at the camera” critique is indicative of what some people focus on. “Optics” or whatever they’ve renamed psychological manipulation these days. It’s kind of funny, I was talking to my two kids last night about the SOTU address. They asked why I wouldn’t watch it or listen to it. I answered that since at least the days of JFK that image consultants had been manipulating how a politician looks on television in order to create specific states of mind in the viewing audience, and as such, I refuse to watch or listen to them. However, I did inform them that they should and must read the speeches given by these people in order to be informed, which is a duty of being a citizen in a Constitutional Republic.

      Image, “optics”, psychological manipulation, that is the fare of masters for slaves. Not for me.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:52am

      When you are in the wrong, you make fun, call names, it’s all the liberals ever do, it’s all they ever have.

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    • aafriend
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:53am

      She has beautiful eyes, just saying :)

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    • Annette
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:57am

      seems to me she thought she was looking straight into the camera. Her tech people are to blame for that..she usually looks straight at you..why didn’t fox run this response. I’m iritated at that.

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:57am

      @ghost
      What I’m saying is The Blaze is forwarding the false idea that the liberals or the evil msm have no argument of substance and will only “report” on petty stuff like this and not show you any of the real crticisms.

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    • kreese
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:58am

      SWAMPY is right!

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    • wildjoker5
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:59am

      What camera is Keith Olberman looking into right now?

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    • Decade of Greed
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:01am

      Funny how no one is talking about the actual content of her response. If all the libs can talk about is the awkwardness of the dual camera set-up, THAT’S OKAY! There is good news to be found here folks. And why do we care what Olberman has to say?

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    • leahasevedo
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:06am

      is this all they can say about her is that she loked into the wrong camera. nothing about what she said just about apperance. shows just how shallow some of these news hounds are.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:10am

      GnomeChomsky, please enlighten us; tell us, on what facts was she incorrect?

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    • seeker9
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:13am

      There are “behind the scene” people (directors, producers, etc) who told her what camera to look in. These TV pundits know that. They are just trying to frame Michelle to appear inept. Aren’t progressives just great!

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:17am

      TEXASCOMMONSENSE – Well we could start with her claim that slavery ended with the Founding Fathers.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:18am

      @Gnome

      Ok, I’ll bite. What is the msm/liberal critique of her speech?

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    • LadyLiberty
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:31am

      It was a total set up – it’s so transparent it literally made me gag.

      Her speech was dead on and she nailed it. Oh whoops, I just used some violent terms there – I must be a racist, Violent nutty tea partier. That was the basic message they were trying to pull again on this woman that started with Matthews and his “trance” bullcrap on election night.

      They know they don’t have anything on her so they are going for character assassination.

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:36am

      Let’s be clear about 1 thing: all of us KNOW that Ms. Bachmann is PRO-AMERICA, so any spin that CNN or anyone else puts on her speech, IS MOOT and probably doctored. I watched her last night and wondered why she was not on Fox, but then I digress……she has been the ONLY politician who has spoken out AGAINST PROGRESSIVES AND THEIR AGENDAS since the very beginning of Obama’s FAKE TERM IN IN OFFICE. She calls it the way it really is, tactfully. BRAVO TO MICHELLE BACHMAN. BRAVO! BOO TO CNN AND ANYONE ELSE WHO DID NOT CARRY all HER WORDS. She is a force to be reckoned with. I am hoping she will be a candidate for the 2012 Presidency and KNOCK OBAMA OFF HIS PERVERBIAL ROCKER.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:43am

      I noticed it right away, and it drove me crazy.
      Michelle would have hit a home run with the speech except for this detail.
      I hope this was a technical glitch with the teleprompter before the show, and she read from a monitor next to the camera. She’s a dynamic speaker.
      The left doesn’t need any more ammunition to discredit her, let’s not give it to them.
      Look at the reaction. NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT WHAT SHE SAID, INSTEAD THE MISTAKE,
      TAKES CENTER STAGE..

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:48am

      DISCREDIT THE MESSENGER AND IGNORE THE MESSAGE…It is the tactic of the left. Poor Olberman, no show to rant on so he gets all twitterpated.

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    • Modern Patriot
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:54am

      The purpose was to do this for the Tea Party Express and if I’m not mistaken that is the camera she was looking at, right? Anything to get us to take our eyes off of what is really going on.

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    • maryslittlelamb
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:56am

      Aren’t cameramen, producers, directors, etc., in a union of some kind? Their contract obviously doesn’t provide for any level of competence or quality of output. Is it possible they saw an opportunity to take advantage of that lapse? Worth thinking about.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:03am

      The fact that the left is even commenting on this subject proves they are listening intently, despite where she was looking.

      I had to laugh at Olberman‘s comments that Palin’s comments will be given with her back to the camera………spoken from a guy who gave his tripe for all those years with his butt facing the camera.

      Classic.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:07am

      So people are more interested in where she was looking instead of her message? No wonder Obama can mesermerize the idiots by just looking straight ahead. Like the hypnotist says“look into my eyes”. I am really ashamed at how many gullible, ignorant, fool call themselves American Citizens. I really think they actually believe the gov’t will take care of their every need and protect them from any adversity. Just look at what they do in every emergency, squat down and wait for the gov’t to show up to save them. Reminds me of frightened animals that are incapable of independent thought. But then that is what they have become. The propaganda is working.

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:09am

      @texas
      Well she went the old “government run health care” well again. Unfortunately the Obama plan is not government run health care. That was just nonsense conjured up by Frank Luntz. Whos job, lets not forget, it is to come up with phrases and words that resonate and get a strong reaction without necessarily being accurate.
      She was misleading when talking about the corporate tax rate saying US corps. pay the highest tax rate in the world. Not true. While the tax rate itself may be high, what the corps actually pay is below average. The U.S. corporate tax burden is smaller than average for developed countries. Corporations in 19 of the member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development paid 16.1 percent of their profits in taxes between 2000 and 2005, on average, while corporations in the United States paid 13.4 percent. Obama himself said last night that he wants the corporate tax rate lowered, to help small business, but with all the loopholes that only benefit big corps closed.
      She repeated the thouroughly debunked 16,500 IRS agents claim. Again, not true. The law requires the IRS mostly to hand out tax credits, not collect penalties. THe claim of 16,500 agents is based on guesswork, false assumptions, and outright misrepresentation
      She also falsely attributed fiscal year 2009′s defecit, which belongs to Bush, to Obama.
      So texascommensense is that enough or shall I continue? because theres plenty more.

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    • Miguelito
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:13am

      You just can not TRUST the Communist News Network!

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    • GnomeChomsky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:16am

      @ghost
      See above post

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    • pajamash
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:23am

      Eight tweets Keith…really?! You REALLY have nothing better to do now that you don’t have a job do you?!

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    • pajamash
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:25am

      Doug Heye did a great job of keeping Rachelle Maddow in check when she was trying to diss Michele Bachmann and the Republican Party on her show.

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    • ltb
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:33am

      The way Liberals attack Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann is like an unpopular grade-schooler calling popular kids, “stupid dummies.” People like Madow and Olberman would probably cry themselves to sleep every night if they weren’t lying awake inventing ways to hate those they envy.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:50am

      Clever Blaze! The Blaze is angry because all of the political commentators are talking about Bachmann’s eyes instead of the content of the speech, so The Blaze responds by talking about here eyes and not the content of her speech….

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    • Mikeyyy
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:50am

      Bachmann is great Eye Candy and is fun to listen to, and is growing in popularity and power, both of which Progressives seem to literally hate to their very core being. Very odd to me, I’ve never able to relate to their apparent utter contempt. Ah well, Go Bachmann!

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    • Tycoff
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:51am

      It’s funny to hear these nimrods (who make a living reading from a prompter) criticize someone..FOR READING A PREPARED TEXT FROM A PROMPTER)! The camera, and the prompter aren’t the same piece of equipment, and if the prompter isn’t right next to the camera, this is what you get. Rachel Madcow, and others will sit there and make their little jokes about where Ms. Bachmann was looking, even though they know how the system works. Another reason why MSNBC and the like have no ratings. They treat thier audience like a bunch of fools.

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    • nobama2012yeswecan
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:56am

      When Axelrod appears that quickly,He knows whats up and misleads the pack.Look people,this is what they do!Now that Olberman is stuck in his Mom’s basement tweeting and blogging and his prototype(little sister) is visually shaken and butt hurt.The Progressives are now in a tailspin.It doesn’t really matter who is out there running for President.We should be proud and grateful that we still have the choice to decide for ourselves who that person should be.Progressives are trying to take that away from us(left and right).So make your jokes,and belittle those that at least are willing to put themselves and their family’s in the cross hairs no matter their political ideologies.You all should thank your lucky stars for the Tea Party whether you like their views or not,because we are now starting to see how we have all been on the sidelines while the two Mainstream Parties played an away game!

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    • Soldier4Christ
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:59am

      I found what she said to be brilliant. It was a great message that was dumbed down so that people who are not very knowledgeable on the subject can understand how the Democrats really suck and my boy George W. Bush really wasn’t that bad. Good Job Congresswoman! God Bless!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:05pm

      You believe what she said?? DO YOU NOT KNOW HISTORY??? John Quincy Adams was NOT a “founding father!” The founding fathers did NOT end slavery! 165k IRS agents DO NOT enforce the ACA (“Obamacare”) ACA is NOT a “government takeover” of health care! And on and on…I give her credit for this, she certainly knows gullibility when she sees it-she knows who to talk to. :)

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:10pm

      GnomeChomsky, how many government bureaucracies did the Obamacare bill create? It is government run by proxy, for now anyway. Obama himself said single payer was his goal.

      Her point about corporate tax rates was they need to be lower, not higher. Fine, get rid of corporate loopholes. A flat tax accomplishes that. Companies will continue to leave the US as long as it cheaper to do business elsewhere. CEOs understand basic arithmetic.

      Who determines whether or not you pay the fine for not buying health insurance? The IRS does. Where would you send said penalties? You send them to the IRS. People are smart enough to see the truth in this, however it is spun. So why can’t some who is capable of paying his own medical bills, even without insurance, exist in America without having to buy a product for a private business? It’s called “redistribution of wealth”. Redistribution of wealth doesn’t make more rich people; redistribution of wealth makes more poor people. Not the American way and America has been great for over 200 years. The number of people coming here for the American Dream is all the proof one needs. The even came here without Obamacare,

      True, most of the fiscal year 2009 was during Bush’s term, but the fiscal year ends October 1. Remember, budget bills start in the House of Representatives, the Democratically controlled House of Representatives that year. To suggest Bush spent anywhere near what Obama has spent is simply dishonest.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:19pm

      SimpleTruths, point taken; if she said that she was wrong. Mr. Lincoln was not a founding father. I’m more concerned with fiscal issues. Arithmetic doesn‘t lie and that’s a simple truth.

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    • KenM
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:19pm

      So its all about her appearence and not about the substance? Says so much about the left and Maddow. My hope is MSNBC will one day fade into the vapor taking Maddow and Co. with it.

      I do have to say though that the dark shadow around Bacchman’s eyes made her rather gouhlish. Someone did a poor job or makeup and lighting…or was it done that way on purpose to make her look dark and sinister?

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:21pm

      AND in regard to the SOTU response, CHECK THE CBO numbers, her assertions, incl. blaming Obama for Bush’s debacles, corporate tax rate numbers, no insurance sales across state lines, all WRONG! LOOK THINGS UP!! just sayin ;)

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    • Lantern
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:21pm

      It;’s clear to me. I know this is a stupid question, but are they that dumb?
      She is looking at the Tea Party camera, not CNN’s.

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    • DVT
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:48pm

      Its called reading a speech it just happens to be on one side and NOT both sides like the POTUS does to create the illusion that he’s looking back and forth at the crowd…in other words…WHO CARES is this ALL YOU HAVE? Sheesh ..LIBS SUCK! move dumbasses! Pfft

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:51pm

      Like Palin, she talks a good talk, but is excruciatingly annoying while doing it.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Give me a D*mn break .. When has OBAMA ever looked into a camera? When he talks it is like he is watching a tennis match .. head to the left up … head to the right down .. and they go after her because the MAIN CAMERA was OUT? OMG .. .get a grip MSM .. how about talking about WHAT SHE SAID!

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:15pm

      GNOMECOMSKY…….your stupid call name says it all you moron, got to your on government sponsored and subsidized website. I’m sure NPR has a forum for your type !!!!

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:20pm

      Typically this is ALL the idiots got out of her presentation! It might have been wise for them to listen to the message, but of coarse the truth doesn’t matter in their little world.

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    • davecoolworld
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:29pm

      To all of her critics….how about her WORDS? The apparent fact that she looked into the wrong camera is all you have?! Aside from the possibility that it could have been planned to make her look stupid, not one of the alleged “news” people said anything about her words.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:53pm

      I know right…I noticed her eyes when she first started speaking …but then I was listening to what she was saying…not where her eyes were…and what she was saying made perfect sense to me…whats next with these guys…the way she does her hair or how about those clothes she wears…seriously cnn…are you a news channel or fashion show critque…

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    • d55may
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:05pm

      If her response to the SOTU speech was scheduled for Tea Party Express HD then she looking into the correct camera, it was the fox camera that filmed her filming her response. Move along there is nothing to discuss here. She did what she was scheduled to do and spoke to the people she was suppose to speak too.

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:07pm

      Go Michelle….keep the donkey’s braying. They are terrified of you and the tea party. Their asses are still hurting from the kicking they got in November. More to come in 2012.

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    • Decade of Greed
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:12pm

      Why is Olberman‘s Twitter profile pic a 70’s era porn actor? Yeah Kieth…you wish.

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    • RN MOM
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:13pm

      Hey Keith- At least she still has a camera fixed on her! Enjoy your early retirement and we look forward to never seeing you on TV again.

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    • watchmany2k
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:37pm

      Who cares what camera, it’s history folks, the Tea Party and our view has a place and a voice !
      Her work in getting the Constitution read at the start of the session is another historical FACT.
      She tweaks their insanity, and all they have is personal attacks.
      THEY are history.
      VOTE 2012 VOTE
      We got a great batch of smart, strong, upstanding, squeaky-clean conservative women.
      What do they have ? LOL

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    • umcanes
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:47pm

      Hey TexasCommonSense, thanks for your reply to GnomeChomsky – you saved me the detailed post. Apparently, to GnomeChomsky and the like, *more* and *massive* government intervention in health care means that health care is *not* government run. And good point about American CEOs: apparently, to GnomeChomsky and the like, American corporations are so profit-greedy that they establish businesses overseas where it’s more expensive to do so(?). And yes: the phrase “the policies of the last 8 years” was used so often by Obama that you would figure that, at least by accident, just once, he would have let slip: “the last two years of which my party controlled both houses of Congress”.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:05pm

      umcanes, happy to do it and glad it was appreciated. My soap box has been getting one heck of workout today.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:18pm

      For those of us who listen to “content and substance”…she gave a great speech!

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    • mill
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 4:47pm

      totally disgusting that something so petty is blow up so big.
      How about judging someone by the things they accomplish in life? So what if the camera was wrong..someone should have stepped in, instead I think it was deliberate.
      Where the #e!! is FOX in response? Of course if they respond like O’Reilley would.it will be some wimpy little reply.
      I

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    • Modern Patriot
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:01pm

      @GNOMECHOMSKY
      I don’t know if @texas wants more but I do. You post an awful lot of words with nothing to back it up. It’s called spin. Let’s just take your first point about Healthcare. How can any “sane” person think that when the Federal Government tries to “MANDATE” the purchase of healthcare that it’s not government run healthcare? And how can any “sane” person say it’s not government run healthcare when an appointed government official (HHS Secretary), gets to set up panels and agencies of un-elected officials to decide what will and will not be allowed in healthcare plans? It doesn‘t matter how it’s delivered. These two points alone make it government run healthcare.

      So you go on, an on, an on all you want but we all know it’s a load of crap. And Have a Nice Day!!!!!!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:12pm

      MODERN PATRIOT, the answer to the first part is that the mandate is to buy from a PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANY (not a “gov’t-run” company) and the second is a myth as you describe it (as if “panels” come between you and your doctor)

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    • VegasGuy
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:37pm

      The pic of David Axelrod makes him look like My Favorite Martian after a night of binge drinking.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:49pm

      Modern Patriot, there were far more government agencies setup besides HHS. Read the 2,000+ pages and you’ll find them. Apparently our representative government can not.

      I never said the mandate did make it government-run, but it is certainly not constitutional. Read the entire thread; I was debating the IRS’ role. Forcing someone to buy something just because they breathe air is wrong; taxing them when they exhale something plants use to make food is equally as wrong. That’s over-simplified, but you get the point.

      Do you disagree that Obama wants single-payer? This is a step in that direction because he knows he can’t get in all at once. He has said it in his own words.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:01pm

      Focusing on ‘context’ would have doomed the “critique” to obscurity. Idiot socialists love redirection. It’s like watching a magic show at the same time.

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:09pm

      The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
      George Bernard Shaw

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    • One1
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 1:13am

      It was done on purpose. She forced all the networks who would not carry her SOTU response by giving them something to rag on. It worked. She ended up on all the MSM sites. And her message was on point. She played them like a tune.

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    • bread and circuses
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 6:35am

      Bachmann probably knew that the network camera was only broadcasting on CNN and she chose to look to the right where about 4-5 production people were standing…….that’s more than the viewership of CNN.
      BTW: chomsky is a hufPOS troll, just ignore IT

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    • bread and circuses
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 6:50am

      A suggestion to the BLAZE: provide us with a sort option to show last post first. This would probably eliminate all of the unrelated replies to the first post, just a thought.

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    • Peabodyhere
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 12:36pm

      As I was watching Obama say his speech the other night, I said to my spouse, ” Do you ever notice how Obama always swings his head left and right, but NEVER looks straight ahead? “” Teleprompters are always on either side, never in the middle, so he never looks at the camera when he speaks.“ ”He looks like a puppet, walks like a puppet and speaks like a puppet.”

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    • GRuss
      Posted on January 27, 2011 at 11:56pm

      The camera she was looking at was supposed to broadcast to CNN and the Tea Party Website.. I wouldn’t doubt that CNN intentionally caused the situation.

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