"What I would say -- what I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look," answered Bachmann. "I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would love to see an expose like that."
"The People."
I guess she meant the people who live in whatever part of the country she considers "pro-American." The people in a vast majority of America, however, apparently didn't "love" Rep. Bachmann's invitation to bigotry at all. In the period immediately following her comments to Chris Matthews, her political rival, the campaign of Elwyn Tinklenberg, was deluged with support and cash totaling nearly $500,000 from American angered at the echo of the McCain/Palin siren of division and hate.
The one thing that the Charles Krauthammer's who've throw themselves in front of the impending McCain/Palin train wreck have mistaken is Americans' ability to tell the difference between those who wage bigoted attacks and those who are defending against them. To the dismay of the ultra far-right wing of the republican party and those who respond to McCain/Palin's narrow, scapegoating appeal, there isn't going to be a gentleman's response to their boorish, cowardly attempt to cast Americans they disagree onto the other side of their ideological battlefield, expecting the rest of us to line up behind them.
In this moment, we have the awesome and swift armor of our democracy in front of us to defend, handily, against the flailing politics of these petty pretenders who would lead us against each other to elevate their hollow selves. And, as demonstrated this week, Americans fully intend to exercise every instigation of democracy at hand to overcome these divisions and obstacles which keep us from prospering and growing together.
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