Bachmann pwnd by 8 year old 'activist'

Antiquehunter

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Theres a little video clip of an 8 year old kid whispering to Michele Bachmann 'My mommy is gay but she doesn't need fixing' and MB looking a bit like a deer stuck in the headlights.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/michele-bachmann-vs-8-old-192125455.html

Now - I don't care for MB at all. She's a jerk, and she also doesn't stand a chance at being relevant in this election, so why she's wasting time & money trolloping about is beyond me.

But I'm also not inspired by the mom, who clearly is using her son as a pawn in her own battle. As empathic I am about gay rights, I don't think its appropriate to set your 8 year old son up to confront a politician, when you just HAPPEN to be filming the encounter, to make a political video for posting on You Tube. Its rather self-serving, and I don't think many 8 year olds appreciate becoming an overnight media sensation.

Meh to the whole situation.

-AH.
 
She's bringing him up to be a political activist. This is good.

The fact that it makes Ms Guano of 2011 look lame is even better.
 
leftysergeant said:
She's bringing him up to be a political activist. This is good.

The fact that it makes Ms Guano of 2011 look lame is even better.
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Gimme a break...He is not being raised as a 'political activist', he is being used as tool by his mother so that she can push a political issue (an agenda which I fully support by the way).

I doubt this 8 year old understands the issue at all. Did he come up with this opinion on his own? Did he think up what he would say to Mrs. Bachmann? Not bloodly likely.


I really dislike Bachmann.
I really dislike suggestions that homosexuals need to be (or can be) 'fixed'.
But, I also really dislike people using kids in this way.

Beyond just being ethically questionable, using a kid this way is not a pragmatic move (IMHO). It only turns people off and makes them less sympathetic to this woman's position.


Finally, calling people silly names (Ms Guano) only makes people take you less seriously.
 
Barber Shop said:
Finally, calling people silly names (Ms Guano) only makes people take you less seriously.
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Meh. She is batcrap crazy and does not really deserve any respect. I'm tired of people excpecting me to respect useless twits like her who do so much harm to innocent people with whose lifestyle she disaggrees. Until those bozos grow a spine and take their nads back from Grover, I have no use for any of them, nor are they of any use to the country as a whole.
 
leftysergeant said:
Meh. She is batcrap crazy and does not really deserve any respect. I'm tired of people excpecting me to respect useless twits like her who do so much harm to innocent people with whose lifestyle she disaggrees. QUOTE]

Who said you had to respect her? I also have zero respect for Bachmann but a) do not feel the need to use lame and immature name-calling and b) can still find this mother's actions stupid.

Not respecting Bachmann and abstaining from stupid name-calling are not mutually exclusive.

Supporting gay rights and opposing stupid moves like this are not mutually exclusive.

I am not asking you to respect Bachmann. I am asking you to respect yourself.
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I have to say that I agree with the people who are uncomfortable with involving your kids in a video like this. It's one thing to catch your kid saying something profound, it's another to make them say something prerehearsed because it's interesting to watch a kid talk like an adult. Remember that freakish kid a few years ago who spoke at CPAC?



So all you demonstrate is that you successfully brainwashed your kid into repeating your talking points verbatum. And in Johnathan Krohn's case, his parents just insured he wouldn't get laid until he was 37.

OT: But for an example of an actual, from the heart speech from a kid, try this one.

 
I think Bachmann came across very positively in this. She controlled her natural urge to bite the child's head off and feast upon it, she didn't lose control of the illusion that hides her insectoid form, and she didn't even spray the nearby crowd with clouds of venom. All in all, by resisting what must have been a powerful instinct to slaughter her way out of a difficult moment in alien beserker fury (again) Bachmann demonstrated a surprising amount of restraint. Perhaps this is an encouraging sign that the blood-drinking space insectoids from the Galaxy of Terror can actually function in Earth society at least as well as the average mass-murderer, psychopath, or Scientologist.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I think Bachmann came across very positively in this. She controlled her natural urge to bite the child's head off and feast upon it, she didn't lose control of the illusion that hides her insectoid form, and she didn't even spray the nearby crowd with clouds of venom. All in all, by resisting what must have been a powerful instinct to slaughter her way out of a difficult moment in alien beserker fury (again) Bachmann demonstrated a surprising amount of restraint. Perhaps this is an encouraging sign that the blood-drinking space insectoids from the Galaxy of Terror can actually function in Earth society at least as well as the average mass-murderer, psychopath, or Scientologist.
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I swear, for just a moment though, you could see her exoskeleton.
 
I actually thought she did pretty well with the kid. I hate to defend that whackadoodle, but she wasn't pwned (this time).
 
Unabogie said:
I actually thought she did pretty well with the kid. I hate to defend that whackadoodle, but she wasn't pwned (this time).
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Well I have yet to decide if her reaction was:

a) 'WTF? I'm speechless / cat's got my tongue / herp-derp'

b) 'Aha. I see your game, evil lesbian mommy. However I'm not going to react / bite'

c) 'Does this outfit make my ass look big?'

I'm not necessarily ready to give her credit for option B, as I am unconvinced she has that level of processing capacity. However I would hold it out there that it is conceivable.
 
What the hell is wrong with using your kids for something like this? The little spawn need to earn their keep. People push their kids into all kinds of directions; sports, acting, beauty pageants, grades, gold mines in Mali, etc. What is wrong with grooming the next John Stewart or Bill O'Reilly or Borat?

The kid should have finished with "Please don't adopt me. I'll rather have a mommy who doesn't like dick, than a mommy who doesn't know dick."
 
Antiquehunter said:
Well I have yet to decide if her reaction was:

a) 'WTF? I'm speechless / cat's got my tongue / herp-derp'

b) 'Aha. I see your game, evil lesbian mommy. However I'm not going to react / bite'

c) 'Does this outfit make my ass look big?'

I'm not necessarily ready to give her credit for option B, as I am unconvinced she has that level of processing capacity. However I would hold it out there that it is conceivable.
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Even if she was floored by what the kid said, prior to that she was being pretty sweet with him. Sheesh, stop making me defend her! Ow! It hurts!
 
Unabogie said:
Even if she was floored by what the kid said, prior to that she was being pretty sweet with him. Sheesh, stop making me defend her! Ow! It hurts!
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She's pretending to be a politician. She's supposed to kiss babies. To say she was doing a good job by being nice to a small child, is like complimenting Jerry Sandusky for bringing the soap on a rope to the showers.

You see my point.
 
Antiquehunter said:
Well I have yet to decide if her reaction was:

a) 'WTF? I'm speechless / cat's got my tongue / herp-derp'

b) 'Aha. I see your game, evil lesbian mommy. However I'm not going to react / bite'

c) 'Does this outfit make my ass look big?'

I'm not necessarily ready to give her credit for option B, as I am unconvinced she has that level of processing capacity. However I would hold it out there that it is conceivable.
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Five quid on A, which would be the standard reaction to being informed of parents' sexual preference by a six-year old. More so if it's in public.
 
Antiquehunter said:
Well I have yet to decide if her reaction was:

a) 'WTF? I'm speechless / cat's got my tongue / herp-derp'

b) 'Aha. I see your game, evil lesbian mommy. However I'm not going to react / bite'

c) 'Does this outfit make my ass look big?'

I'm not necessarily ready to give her credit for option B, as I am unconvinced she has that level of processing capacity. However I would hold it out there that it is conceivable.
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Why not criticize bachman for using the kids as props in a photo op?
 
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