Summary: Dateline October 17, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on October 17, 2010, Aubrey Immelman noted that the day marked the second anniversary of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s infamous Oct. 17, 2008 appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” with Chris Matthews, which propelled her into the national spotlight when she called for a media investigation reminiscent of McCarthy-era witch hunts to “find out [which members of Congress] are pro-America or anti-America.”