Michele Bachmann misuses a Katy Perry song on the campaign trail
By Jessica GentileJune 22nd, 2011, 9:15 amComments (41)
"Firework," Katy Perry's ode to tolerance, acceptance, and pyrotechnic undergarments, is probably not a song you'd associate with Michele Bachmann. But over the weekend Bachmann entered the RightOnline conference in Minneapolis to the tune, probably mistaking it for a patriotic jam much the way Reagan did with "Born in the USA." Ironically, she was glitter-bombed by an supposed LGBT activist later that day.
I guess she didn't see the music video, which features gay guys (gasp) making out. Or know the song was dedicated to the It Gets Better campaign. With this particular crop of conservative presidential candidates, there are sure to be lots of similar campaign gaffes well into 2012. The next thing you know, Rick Santorum will be parading around to "Born This Way."
Comments ( 41 )
Bachmann is a really nice woman. I think she can take the GOP nomination and put out a good contest.
She's awesome. If she becomes president, we'll never have to cower away from pesky lesbians in public toilets. Ever!
I don't get it. Is that some reference to the music video?
See the story here: https://jezebel.com/5812099/the-time-michele-bachmann-thought-shed-been-k...
I read the article and it sounds pretty fucked up for people you don't know follow to the bathroom when you have to shit or piss. That sounds weird to me. As to her other comments, that's her opinion and it doesn't mean the end of the world to hold them. I still think she's a really nice lady and she is going to give everyone a run for their money. You wait and see.
I love my candidates to be dumber than a bag of hammers.
^ Cheap move stealing someones initials to try and make your point. Speaks to your character. Slimy and rude. Michelle Bachmann is smarter and kinder than you'll ever be and has done more good for this country in an hour than you'll do in a life time. Kind of makes you feel like a loser, doesn't it?
he/she is called a jock sniffer by other people. ignore him - the rest of us do.
I just thought I'd say it again: Michelle Bachmann is the best the nicest, smartest, kindest person EVER. Everyone else is a underachieving, unpatriotic loser!
^ She was born in this country.
loltrolling?
Glad you believe that anyone who speaks, no, believes anything that conflicts with what you believe is unpatriotic. 1st amendment be damned to hell like the homosexual it is.
^ I'm not apart of the "blame America first" crowd. If that offends you on some level... tough.
œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπ“‘« I can get easily offended when people don't notice my fancy typing skillz.
I agree, she's great. I was getting tired of masturbating anyway. And I like that I can be sure she's not a witch.
I need more batshit crazy. Bachman/Palin ticket please...
But if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood, which is why witches burn.
She turned me into Newt! But I got better.
It wasn't Michelle Bachmann that had the whole witch thing, it was Christine O'Donnell. Is everyone's memory that bad?
I guess so. You have to expect that from people who are too concerned with other things... like entitlements.
Bachmann and Palin are both ignorant as posts. The difference is that Palin is a cynical opportunist while Bachmann is genuinely batshit nuts. Look at her eyes. She has the Crazy Eyes thing going, sort of like Charles Manson.
um, derp?
Let me guess. Katy Perry will get wind of it and demand they stop using the song. Team Bachmann will issue a "oops sorry" and they'll use another song without authorization.
Where's the RIAA now? I guess they'd only get involved if someone uploaded the event to youtube and you could actually hear the whole song.
RIAA is run by Republicans.
If I were Katy Perry, which sometimes I am, I would let them keep using the song because it is hilariously ironic.
oh that Bachmann
Could anyone on this post imagine what the country would look like if the people like Bachman get into the White House? My gosh America WAKE up. So if we do what she plans, government cuts all it's services. You're out of a job my friend. You won't have Medicare, Social Security, and you will retire in a cardboard box! Their invisible hand of John Adams, means you starve until a rich guy gives you a handout. If any of those Republicans get in and tear down America like they did with President Bush, there will be a tremendous exit of smart Americans heading north to Canada. May God Help Us All. Please God give these Republicans the wisdom to make better choices.
Just leave already.
Excuse me, I like to talk to myself.
@king: Go back to Fox.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/matt-taibbi-...
Even with the super cynical understone Matt Tabbi weave's into this article, her history speaks for itself. The broad is nuttier than squirrel shit.
I ALWAYS vote Republican, because I'm way too F*cking stupid to realize that absolutely everything they do is related to trying to concentrate all of this country's wealth into the hands of a very few of their top corporate campaign contributors!
I always vote Democratic because I want to be controlled and for my tax money to go to welfare recipients who don't deserve it. I also like to blame America first and I'm gay.
yup those are both hyperbolic
"The broad is nuttier than squirrel shit". Funniest analogy I've read in years. lololol
It's about time we get a woman into high office. The fact that she is a constitutional conservative makes me even happier.
I'd be happy with a smart woman who isn't a religious nutcase instead.
Good vote female!
Give me the right candidate and I will. The religious Christian fundamentalism of Bachman is the antithesis of a "Constitutional Conservative".
No cmopilnats on this end, simply a good piece.
The song's meaning can be many things, I guess generation MTV doesn't realize that.
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