Much Ado About Michele
By FRANK BRUNI
NYT
MICHELE BACHMANN is the gift that never stops giving.
One week she’s confusing the Iowa birthplaces of John Wayne and John Wayne Gacy, two men separated by a bit more than two syllables. The next she’s signing a conservative pledge that contains language extolling the family values of slavery. Her library evidently differs from most. It stocks “Uncle Tom’s Little House on the Prairie.”
If she’s not confronting accusations that a church she supported is anti-Catholic, she’s navigating charges that her husband, a counselor, practices a brand of homosexual-to-heterosexual therapy known as “pray away the gay.” I once tried to pray away the gay. But sometimes a houseguest just won’t leave.
The most recent go-round with Bachmann concerned migraines, and what a go-round it has been. The revelation that she battles them led to a second round of stories about whether focusing on that was sexist and then a third round about whether her aides had been too rough with a headache-inquisitive television reporter who pursued her through a parking lot. In ways she means to and ways she doesn’t, Bachmann doesn’t merely occupy the spotlight. She sets up house there, stuffs it with velour sectionals and lays out a lavish buffet, so that legions of comers are comfy and well fed.
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NYT
MICHELE BACHMANN is the gift that never stops giving.
One week she’s confusing the Iowa birthplaces of John Wayne and John Wayne Gacy, two men separated by a bit more than two syllables. The next she’s signing a conservative pledge that contains language extolling the family values of slavery. Her library evidently differs from most. It stocks “Uncle Tom’s Little House on the Prairie.”
If she’s not confronting accusations that a church she supported is anti-Catholic, she’s navigating charges that her husband, a counselor, practices a brand of homosexual-to-heterosexual therapy known as “pray away the gay.” I once tried to pray away the gay. But sometimes a houseguest just won’t leave.
The most recent go-round with Bachmann concerned migraines, and what a go-round it has been. The revelation that she battles them led to a second round of stories about whether focusing on that was sexist and then a third round about whether her aides had been too rough with a headache-inquisitive television reporter who pursued her through a parking lot. In ways she means to and ways she doesn’t, Bachmann doesn’t merely occupy the spotlight. She sets up house there, stuffs it with velour sectionals and lays out a lavish buffet, so that legions of comers are comfy and well fed.
(More here.)
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