Today, I received an interesting email from Presidential candidate… oops, sorry, House of Representative Incumbent Michele Bachmann.  Apparently, Howard Stern called her the “the worst person in the world,” on his radio show.  Other than the fact that I would have loved to listen in, but I don’t subscribe to satellite radio, I am not sure what she hoped to gain by spreading around this kind of information.  So, naturally, I kept reading the email.

The would-be golden girl of the right wing continued: “To conservatives, this message from Howard Stern, a man whose only contribution to our culture was years of corrupting America's youth on public airwaves, was clear: ‘either abandon your beliefs and agree with me, or be dragged through the mud and demonized on national radio.’ I don't accept this false choice, and I know you don't either.” [Her emphasis, not mine.]

What?  Excuse me? Demonized on national radio?

Michele Bachmann as a sitting member of the MN Senate calls gay people satanic for calling themselves “gay.”

November 6, 2004: “It’s part of Satan I think to say that this is ‘gay.’  It’s anything but gay.”

Michele Bachmann calls exposing children to gay teachers in school “child abuse” because obviously, the only thing the teacher will be talking about is the fact that he is gay.

November 6, 2004: “You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says “Mom! What’s gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today.” The mother says “Well, that’s when a man likes other men, and they don’t like girls.” The boy’s eight. He’s thinking, “Hmm. I don’t like girls. I like boys. Maybe I’m gay.” And you think, “Oh, that’s, that’s way out there. The kid isn’t gonna think that.” Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don’t think that this is intentional, the message that’s being given to these kids? That’s child abuse.”

I could go on, and on, and on with her ridicule and hatred - her demonization -  of homosexuals, including the quote where she claims to “love” us, but these are good for now and they speak directly to her campaign email this afternoon.

“…either abandon your beliefs and agree with me, or be dragged through the mud and demonized on national radio.” 

Those are the words she placed into the head and mouth of Shock Jock Howard Stern, and yet, she is famous for the virulent mud-dragging and demonization of homosexuals ever since she took the national stage. 

But I kept reading.  What could she possibly be after?  She is no longer running for POTUS, so I honestly thought my little subscription to her website and email updates would have been discontinued.  In fact, I suppose they have.  I no longer receive emails from the Bachmann for President campaign.  I receive them from the Bachmann for Congress campaign.  I do not live in Minnesota.  I cannot vote for her.  But that doesn’t matter.  Not when her coffers are at stake.

In the final strains of her email, she begs for money.  She just knows that I support her every move and her every whim, and that “[b]y launching baseless attacks, Howard Stern hopes to disorient our movement from fighting for [the] core values [she stands for].”  She knows I “won't let him, and that's why I'm asking you to help me fight back by making an immediate contribution of $25, $50, $100, or any amount up to the legal limit within the next 24 hours.”

Umm.  Yeah.  Right.  I’ll get right on that, Mrs. Bachmann.