Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) loves the spotlight. She spends a tremendous amount of time on cable news pushing her far right agenda. Her DFL opponent, El Tinklenberg, has suggested that she's spent more time on Larry King's show than campaigning in the district with his ad Missing. Given her propensity for embarrassing herself, why would her campaign allow her the opportunity to try and top "The Kiss"?

At her first State of the Union Address, she infamously grabbed on to President Bush, kissing him and refusing to let go. She claimed to have knowledge of a secret plan to divide up Iraq. When Bush visited the I-35W bridge collapse site, she claimed she had to rebuff his advances. She claims to be a "fool for Christ." We don't have to worry about global warming because Jesus saved the Earth already. She blamed the minorities for our nation's financial crisis and earned Worst Person in the World award from Keith Olbermann.

There's a new addition to the treasure trove of embarassments and while it might not top "The Kiss" it may doom her campaign.

"What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or Anti-America? I think the American people would love to see an expose like that."
(DailyKos)

That's right. We need a McCarthyesque Inquisition to find the Anti-Americans in Congress.

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Transcript after the break.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann from Minnesota joins us. Congresswoman, thank you very much for joining us. I want you to look at something from David Letterman last night. It concerned, well, Governor Palin's comments about Barack Obama.

DAVID LETTERMAN: I think that she's the one who says that Barack Obama pals around with the terrorists. Has she in fact said that at rallies and stuff?

JOHN McCAIN: I don't -- yes. And he did.

MATTHEWS: Well, let's take a look now at Congresswoman at the radio taped message that's going in a number of states right now by Republicans and the John McCain campaign it's called a robocall. You just pick up the phone and you hear this recording –

[plays McCain robocall]

MATTHEWS: What do you make of that, Congresswoman, that - that what's called a robocall and what senator McCain said last night on Letterman?

MICHELLE BACHMANN: Well, I think it's fun to have a sense of humor right now, and especially last night. On letterman I thought John McCain was extremely funny. As far as the robocalls go, I think that the Obama campaign is very worried because Americans are just now starting to find out about Bill Ayers and about the questionable connection that Obama has with Bill Ayers. These are legitimate questions and I think the Obama campaign has the right to be worried because they don't want the American people to know about these connections.

MATTHEWS: Well, let me talk to you. What do the connections mean to you? This connection you're talking about between the Democratic candidate for president and his connection back in the '90s with Bill Ayers who was involved with the Weatherman group back in the '60s and early '70s when he was eight years old? What is your concern about that?

BACHMANN: I think it's devastating because this is an unrepentant terrorist who says he wishes he would have bombed more people. Remember, this is a man who bombed the Pentagon and was happy to be bombing Americans as well. This is not a person that the president of the United States would want to be associated with. Had John McCain been associated with Bill Ayers, it would have been a nightly story. It would have been everywhere. But the media's been kind of avoiding this story. And Barack Obama has been avoiding it, too. He actually did start his State Senate campaign in Bill Ayers’s home and Obama worked very closely with him on education matters, very liberal leftist agenda of education matters as well. I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers. He had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.

MATTHEWS: Why is it of concern? What is wrong with it? Tell me what it tells you about Barack Obama. Does it say does it say he's got a character problem? Does it say he has a problem with his patriotism? Just give me a term for it so we can put it in a category. Why do you care enough to bring this up at the end of this campaign? Why is it an important election-eve issue?

BACHMANN: I think it –

MATTHEWS: I mean we've got a lot of problems in this country. Why is this so important that it's being pushed out on telephone calls to all the key states now with two weeks to go?

BACHMANN: It's important because we look at the collection of friends that Barack Obama has had over his life, and usually we associate with people who have similar ideas to us. And it seems that it calls into question what Barack Obama's true beliefs and values and thoughts are. His attitudes, values and beliefs with Jeremiah Wright on his view of the United States, which is negative, Bill Ayers, his negative view of United States. We've seen one friend after another calls into question his judgment but also, what is it that Barack Obama really believes? And we know that he's the most liberal senator in the United States senate. That's just after one year after being there. He's the most liberal. Joe Biden is the third most liberal. You've got Harry Reid who's liberal, Nancy Pelosi who's liberal. You have a troika of the most leftist administration in the history of our country.

MATTHEWS: If you have liberal views, does that mean you have anti-American views? What's the connection? I don't get the connection. What's the connection between liberal and leftist and anti-American? If you're liberal, are you anti-American?

BACHMANN: Well, the liberals that are Jeremiah Wright and that are Bill Ayers, they're over the top anti-American, and that's the question that Americans have. Remember it was Michelle Obama who said she's only recently proud of her country. And so these are very anti-American views. That's not the way that most Americans feel about our country. Most Americans, Chris, are wild about America and they're very concerned to have a president who doesn't share those values.

MATTHEWS: Okay let's take a look at Governor Palin because she said something very much like what you just said. Let's hear Governor Palin on the very same topic of the connection between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers and what that tells you about his view of America. Let's hear it.

PALIN: Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

MATTHEWS: So you think that's a fair critique of Barack Obama, that he -- his view of America is -- that America is so imperfect that he pals around with terrorists? You think that's a fair comment?

BACHMANN: It's a fair comment because Barack Obama does have a close association with Bill Ayers. it's one that the American people have a right to have some answers to, and Barack Obama still hasn't come clean on his relationship with Bill Ayers. It's been under the radar and only recently has it been coming out. People need to know.

MATTHEWS: So this is a character issue. You believe that Barack Obama may, you're suspicious because of relationship, may have anti-American views. Otherwise, it's probably irrelevant to this discussion.

BACHMANN: Absolutely. I absolutely –

MATTHEWS: So you think Barack Obama may have anti-American views?

BACHMANN: Absolutely. I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views. That's what the American people are concerned about. That's why they want to know what his answers are. That's why Joe the plumber has figured so highly in had the last few days, because Joe the plumber asked the question that a lot of Americans want to know.

MATTHEWS: Sarah Palin was around today talking about pro-American parts of America, and assuming there's other non-American parts of the country. What parts of America would you say are anti-American? What parts of this country?

BACHMANN: Well, I would say that people who hold anti-American views. I don't think its geography. I think it's people who don't like America, who detest America. And on college campuses, Ward Churchill, another college campus, a Bill Ayers. You find people who hate America and unfortunately some of these people have positions teaching at higher institutions of higher learning. But you'll find them in all walks of life all throughout America.

MATTHEWS: What about people like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the liberals you were mentioning a moment ago. Where would you put them? Would you consider them anti-American as well? Are they Anti-American?

BACHMANN: I would consider them to have far leftist views. I'm not going to say if they're anti-American or pro-American.

MATTHEWS: You were putting them together, you put three words together, liberal, leftist and anti-American. How do they all fit together, those three terms, liberal, leftist, and anti-American?

BACHMANN: Well, that's a good descriptor for Jeremiah Wright, it's a perfect descriptor for Bill Ayers and those are friends and people that Obama has pointed to as his mentors. In his book Barack Obama had pointed to Jeremiah Wright as one of his mentors and also hisfather Pfleger as one of his mentors. Two of the three mentors are father Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright. Now, these are very strange anti-American mentors if people like that were John McCain's mentors, you'd be all over John McCain.

MATTHEWS: Well let me ask you this. This country is roughly divided in the past, over our lifetimes between Republicans and Democrats and liberals and conservatives. Maybe the 30%, or 30-40% of the country is conservative and self-described. People tell you what they are. And 30% or whatever is liberals. Do you think those 30% liberals are anti-American? The 30% of this country that calls themselves liberals, are they anti-American?

BACHMANN: I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American by and large. The people who are radical leftists. That's the real question about Barack Obama. Saul Alineski, one of his teachers you might say out of the Chicago area, Tony Rezko, who was an associate also. these are very concerning figures that are in Barack Obama's past.

MATTHEWS: He's a leftist? I thought he was a business guy. Tony Rezko was some business guy. I didn't know he was a leftist anti-American guy.

BACHMANN: Yeah that's troubling, too. Take a look at these associations add them all up. This is the totality of the package that Barack Obama has been and Sarah Palin says is palling around with. These are his friends, associates. Very troubling.

MATTHEWS: How many Congresspeople, members of Congress, are in that anti-American crowd you describe? How many Congresspeople that you serve with?

BACHMANN: Right now --

MATTHEWS: How many are anti-American in the Congress right now that you serve with?

BACHMANN: You'd have to ask them, Chris. I'm focusing on Barack Obama and the people that he's been associated with and I'm very worried about their anti-American nature.

MATTHEWS: But do you suspect there are a lot of people you serve with -- well, he's the United States senator from Illinois, he's one of the people you suspect as being anti-American. How many people in Congress of the United States do you believe are ant-American? Is he alone or are there others? How many do you suspect of your colleagues of being anti-American.

BACHMANN: What I would say what I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating exposé and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be -- would love to see an expose like that.

MATTHEWS: Okay, thank you very much. U.S. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota.