Image copyright 2005 by Ken Avidor. Used with permission.
It appears the squabble at the Kool Aid Report was staged. I fell for it and so did Mitch Berg. Or Mitch could have been part of the practical joke on Dump Bachmann and playing along.
I'll have to hand it to the Kool Aid guys, they know how to play a joke.
But now, they claim:
Foot forwarded me this email earlier today, sent to the KAR email address. It's from "Angie" in Burnsville; she asked us to withhold her full name and address:
I saw your piece on the Sixth District and followed some of your links. And I was amused to see a photo of Senator Bachmann supposedly "spying" on a rally at the capitol last spring.
I was there, and if anyone thinks that she was "spying" they are mistaken.
I remember that day. I was downtown taking care of some business at the Department of Revenue building. I was walking past the Capitol, noticed a rally, and saw Senator Bachmann sitting on the curb. I know the Senator, I've seen her at events around Stillwater before. She's my mother's Senator. She looked like she was sitting and messing with her shoes. But ther'es no way she could have been spying, since she faced away from the rally. She looked like her feet were bothering her. I know that feeling!
In the last day I've read some of the coverage of this incident in some of the other "blogs" (Dump Bachmann, Eleventh Street, New Patriot, Kool-Aid, Shot In The Dark) and I'm astounded that anyone would look at the photo and at the scene I saw and call it "spying through the bushes" or whatever. I wonder if any of them were there, or saw what I saw, and remained silent about it? It makes no sense to me. It seems wrong.
Hmmm... I think there's an Angela Starks who who works in Senator Bachmann's office, if I remember correctly. Now if this was Angela Starks, and the email came from Senator Bachmann's Office, a simple Freedom of Information Act Request will resolve this. Bachmann's staff have posted comments on Shot in the Dark on her behalf and mispelled her name in the process. We still don't know whether these comments were reviewed and approved by Michele Bachmann or not.
If that's true, dumb, dumb, dumb work from the Senator. Mitch Berg is picking up on this "story".
I have no idea what's right - the whole story from the anti-Bachmann crowd seems too stupid to be real, and Bachmann just isn't that dumb. On the other hand, the email is very sparsely attributed.
Which, on balance, is good enough for me. I don't live in the Sixth District, so it's irrelevant to me, but if I did it'd be a tough choice - I like all of the GOP candidates, for one reason or another. But if you can judge a candidate by the self-righteous viciousness of her opponents, Michele Bachmann must be a great stateswoman indeed (It's worth noting that the only person I've banned from this blog in nearly two years came over here from the "Dump Bachmann" blog.)
I'm going to just sit back and watch the fur fly.
As Alice would say: Curiouser and Curiouser. . .
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