Last Tuesday, October 6, 2009, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told bloggers at an event in Washington: “Quite honestly I don’t even know anything about MSNBC. It’s not a network that I watch …”

To refresh Rep. Bachmann’s memory, MSNBC is the cable network on which she dishonored her office on October 17, 2008, when she called for McCarthy-like witch hunts to find out which members of Congress are “pro-America or anti-America.”

Here’s the video:

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Bachmann: ‘I’m Not Going to Fear Keith Olbermann’

By David Weigel
The Washington Independent
October 6, 2009

At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle [sic] Bachmann (R-Minn.) dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor “most of the American people paid attention to.

“Quite honestly I don’t even know anything about MSNBC,” said Bachmann. “It’s not a network that I watch, and most of the American people agree with that assessment. They aren’t watching it either. And that’s why Fox’s ratings — I mean, its like, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC combined. I think Fox even exceeded one of the major networks last week. They’re on the ascendency.”

Bachmann praised conservative bloggers for getting out the truth past the filters of the old media. “I didn’t fear my own editorial boards in Minneapolis-St. Paul when I lived there, she said. “I’m certainly not going to fear the likes of Keith Olbermann.”

Video by Lazar Backovic of the Washington Independent:

Bachmann: “I Don’t Even Know Anything About MSNBC”

By Eric Kleefeld
Talking Points Memo
October 6, 2009

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has a bold declaration for her enemies at MSNBC: She doesn’t even know a thing about you.

“Quite honestly I don’t even know anything about MSNBC,” Bachmann told conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation, the Washington Independent reports. “It’s not a network that I watch, and most of the American people agree with that assessment. They aren’t watching it either. And that’s why Fox’s ratings — I mean, it’s like, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC combined. I think Fox even exceeded one of the major networks last week. They’re on the ascendency.”

Michele Bachmann doesn’t know anything about MSNBC? That’s odd, since that’s the channel where she went on an infamous McCarthyist rant a year ago against Barack Obama and the Democrats — even going so far as to attack Obama for his association with his wife — which caused tons of donations to come in for her opponent and nearly cost her the election.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: One Year Ago — October 12, 2008

A convoy of cars and trucks as Christians flee Mosul on Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, a day after the 10th killing of an Iraqi Christian in the city since the beginning of the month. (Photo credit: Emad Matti / AP)

After the Primary Election: Day 33

One year ago today, on the 33rd day after losing my 2008 primary challenge against U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesotas 6th Congressional District, in line with my focus on national security, I reported on a spate of attacks against Christians in Mosul, Iraq, forcing hundreds of families to flee for their lives.