NewsBusters is desperately trying to play down Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s suggestion that all Democrats and liberals are anti-American and called for a “penetrating expose” in the media of what members of Congress are “anti-American.”
Tim Graham wrote that “the media should be investigating [Obama’s] associations with very anti-American voices” and claimed that Bachmann was “ducking [Chris] Matthews’ attempts to have her declare all liberals are anti-American,” even though it’s clear by the transcript he attached to his post that she had suggested exactly that.
Justin McCarthy wrote only that Bachmann “stated that Obama has associated with anti-American individuals,” adding, “Is this a case of labeling one anti-American for a simple disagreement?”
Geoffrey Dickens claimed that “Matthews pushed Bachmann to say Obama and liberal members of Congress were anti-American,” but didn’t note that Bachmann had already suggested as much.
Mark Finkelstein, meanwhile, didn’t address Bachmann’s words but, rather, attacked a Minnesota columnist the “Today” show had on to talk about Bachmann words as “a hyper-partisan Democrat.” Finkelstein then bizarrely claims that when the columnist referedd to Power Line as “the biggest link in a daisy chain of right-wing blogs,” he was making an “indecent” reference, helpfully linking a link to the “vulgar” Urban Dictionary definition of “daisy chain,” conveniently ignoring the fact that there are more common and benign interpretations.
I guess we know what’s on Finkelstein’s mind…