Bachmann: 'Not All Cultures Are Equal'

[TiaCarrera]

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Rep. Michele Bachmann caught the national spotlight recently when she told MSNBC's Chris Mathews that Barack Obama "may have anti-American views."

While Bachmann's statement may have come as a surprise to people outside of her home district in central Minnesota, she has a history of making statements that are inflammatory, controversial and requiring further explanation. Up until now, the most famous of those was her assertion that there was a plan already in place to partition Iraq and give half of it to Iran. She later said her comments had been "misconstrued", but did not elaborate.

One comment that she has never explained was made in a debate she had while running for Congress the first time in November of 2005. Prompted by the rioting that was going on in France at the time, Bachmann said "not all cultures are equal, not all values are equal." and implied heavily that people of the Muslim faith had an inferior culture to that of the United States.

[Mz Pip]

1. Well, she does have a point

Whatever values she has sure do suck.

[NorthCarolina]

2. Yes, she has a point, but if she wears a hat maybe nobody will notice it

eom

[sasquatch]

3. Wow, that is psychotic to say the least

[fryguy]

4. what an amazing racist and xenophobic answer

who are her constituents that this sort of idiot got elected?

and what exactly are the "fruits of leftism"? that's a new one to me......

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

5. Not all cultures are the same.

And, it is clearly evident that not all cognitive abilities are the same.

[Bippity Boo]

6. "France HAD a beautiful culture" "diminished" by immigration

Wait a second, she just got done playing the "French liberal coward freaks" card. Then seconds later it's a "beautiful culture" if only it weren't for immigrants?

[JimWis]

7. Wow - what an arrogant, racist, mean pig.

[Doodler71]

8. Wow, this election cycle has emboldened all the xenophobic

racists who were hiding in the closet and behind their crosses.

[amber_86]

9. What the hell was she talking about

this isn't France. She is comparing France to America or America to France. Or am I missing something and there it is she talking about Muslims again.

[whistle]

17. Bachmann is talking about fascism here in the United States with everyone

...being the same, "from the many we all become one". Did you watch her eyes when she made that statement?

[TiaCarrera]

19. Right, she seems to be a huge fan of Hitler's

[whistle]

10. How about a debate between Noam Chomsky and Michele Backmann

...the real intellectual vs the pseudo-intellectual

[jhrobbins]

15. He would serve her up with a lovely truffle suce and a fragrant muscat

[whistle]

18. Oh indeed he would

[jhrobbins]

20. Hell, I agree with him and I would be afraid to talk to him - he does

not suffer fools. However, I emailed him once and he actually answered back and he was very cordial -so maybe there's hope for me.

[CJCRANE]

11. She appears to know nothing about French history or culture nt

[ExPatLeftist]

12. Of course zey are not all eqval

Ve are ze Master Race!!!

Was this filmed at the Reichstag?

Bachmann Hitler Overdrive

[George_Bonanza]

13. She's right. Her culture's retarded

[Snotcicles]

14. Tweety ought to sink his teeth into this one. nt

[grantcart]

16. American military public information officers working with Aljezzera (sp) have all given

them high marks a couple of them have been hired as reporters after they left the military.

[southern_belle]

21. Ughhhhhhhhhhh!

[litlady]

22. Ugh. Always nice to have a bit of ethnocentrism going on.

Her statements here violate what I learned as a freshman in college (not to judge other culture by the values of your own).

[Joanne98]

23. They hate immigration but they keep voting for big business.. DUH

They just don't get it. Because they're stoopid!