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1/11/2011

The Context of Bachmann’s “Armed and Dangerous” Line

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 10:00 pm



Via SPQR, PowerLine gives the context for Michele Bachmann’s “armed and dangerous” line:

I’m going to have materials for people when they leave. I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax, because we need to fight back.

She was handing out materials. She wanted people to be “armed and dangerous” with the facts.

All you people who kept screaming about that line: aren’t you ashamed of yourselves?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

16 Responses to “The Context of Bachmann’s “Armed and Dangerous” Line”

  1. As pointed out in that piece, there is a reason that Krugman only quoted three words. The NYT has Dowd and Krugman and both intentionally and deceptively misquote people.

    Krugman is simply dishonest scum.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  2. The TRUTH shall set The Left’s deluded, indoctrinated kool-aid drinkers free.

    This, of course, is why they engage in a non-stop effort to spin, obfuscate and otherwise distract (Look, bunnies!) those that support and vote for them.

    Icy Texan (aff374)

  3. Damn, that’s scary!

    daleyrocks (e7bc4f)

  4. Well, Michelle can arm herself with pamphlets if that’s what she prefers, but I like keeping a couple of tactical nukes on hand, in case I need to deal with unruly socilists.

    Dave Surls (a9551c)

  5. Sloshed(?) Surls slurs socilists[sic]!!! 😉

    Icy Texan (aff374)

  6. Surls, you do know that the atomic bomb was developed by communists, don’t you?

    SPQR (26be8b)

  7. Nah, I ain’t sloshed…just missed the “a” key.

    I only drink alcohol in social situations. Never at home.

    Dave Surls (a9551c)

  8. i only drink when i’m thirsty….

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  9. Too funny for words.

    Oplontis (0692b1)

  10. To the “drive-by media” being “armed and dangerous” with the facts is the same as being armed with a gun. So . . . nothing wrong with mis-quoting a political opponent. Their problem today is that there are so many information sources available that their schlick doesn’t work. They crib from each other everything but the truth. When I was a kid in New York City, a joke was “Today in the Daily Worker, next week in the New York Post and, by month’s end, in the New York Times. No real change in over fifty years except that, thanks to the internet, their system is failing.

    Longwalker (996c34)

  11. They crib from each other everything but the truth.

    It was amazing how the term ‘eliminationist’ spread from one paper to half of the coverage, in a matter of hours.

    They have an amazing discipline with the party line. they are associating a peaceful political movement with Nazis and murder, and pretending that’s a call for civility. There is a chance that the incredibly evil tone of the left will lead to violence. Aaron showed that video of democrats calling for Palin’s murder. We can pretend that is something like Palin’s map of target races, but no one, on right or left, really believes that.

    This is taking that ‘play by different rules’ idea way too far.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  12. that the left, the party of deliberately disarmed serfs would contemplate violence against the bed rock of America is darkly amusing.

    they have no idea WTF they are talking about, and no clue what they would be going up against either.

    i have no desire to see anything like that happen but the end result is a predictable as today’s sunrise, which i will be seeing if i don’t hit the rack

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  13. The people and the media have spoken. Whom should we believe, the likes of Beck, Rush, Palin and Patterico or the truthful speech emanating from the Left? What credentials do you wingnuts have? The NY Times, Olbermann, Krugman, Clintons, Obama et al are the voices of reason and high intelligence. Really, think about it. Jimmy Carter, Arafish, Obama, Algore- all Nobel Peace prize winners and Krugman has one for economics. YOU all need to be silenced because your hateful speech propagates violence at every turn. Plus in opposing hope and change and seeking to vilify Obama, you are all racists! PBS,NPR and more need additional public tax funding and morons like Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter, O’Reilly and Patterico need to be gagged in order to prevent further violence against innocents.

    Calypso Louie Farrakhan (798aba)

  14. That’s a parody, right? Please tell me that’s some jokester spinning an artful parody… use more exclamation marks and eleventies next time, jokester.

    Leviticus (5fb812)

  15. I guess intent matters… not to stir it up, but there are times when the text gets willfully mistconstrued… and what then?
    Palin and Bachmann had the text AND their intent misconstrued.
    Text like “blood libel” .. a perfectly reasonable text given the context, gets misconstrued as “unfortunatly anti semtic” when Palin is more pro Israel than Obama by light years… because a hijacking of her intent was allowed by otherwise good folks

    SteveG (cc5dc9)

  16. Yeah, intent matters and the most reasonable interpretation of the words matters.

    The only way you can argue against the latter is by placing scare quotes around the word “reasonable.”

    Here is how it works.

    1. Patterico says interpretations should be reasonable.

    2. Here is an example of a ridiculous interpretation. See? It’s perfectly “reasonable.”

    3. Avoid all questions about whether the interpretation is reasonable (as opposed to “reasonable” in scare quotes).

    Ironically, by placing scare quotes around the word “reasonable” the person making this argument is . . . hijacking my intent!

    Intentionalist nose off. Which is common.

    When Scalia says he doesn’t care about intent, that means he does. Never mind what he says he means. We know better.

    When I say moderate, low-attention voters will be put off by O’Donnell’s picnic on a bloodstained Satanic altar, I mean to insult Tea Partiers. Never mind what I say I mean. We know better.

    Intentionalism provides no protection when the interpreter is cynical and dishonest and willing to twist the words of people they don’t like.

    . . . not to stir things up.

    Patterico (c218bd)


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