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“According to Bachmann’s latest campaign finance filings, her campaign spent nearly $4,700 on hair and makeup in the weeks after she entered the presidential race on June 13.” [Mother Jones]

ABC’s Brian Ross, curious about Michele Bachmann’s self-medication regimen, thought he would engage her in a little chat at a campaign rally. Hilarity ensued:

Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white SUV waiting to carry Bachmann away, two Bachmann men pounced on him, grabbing and pushing him multiple times with what looked to me like unusual force. In fact, I have never seen a reporter treated so roughly at a campaign event, especially not a presidential one. Ross was finally able to break away and lob his question at Bachmann one more time, but she continued to ignore him.

Afterward, I asked Ross — a hard-nosed pro who nevertheless seemed slightly shaken — whether he had ever been treated so roughly. “A few times,” he told me. “Mostly by Mafia people.”

This of course puts Marcus in a new light. We’re thinking of casting him as Junior.

Reporter Accosted After Bachmann Comments on Migraines [Time]

Someone, Palin? Perry? (feel free to speculate) has planted a story about Michele B at The Daily Caller that would raise serious doubts regarding her capacity to compete for the Republican nomination. Strangely, it’s not the crazy but something else; something we here at Stinque had never heard of before: migraines.

It seems la cagna pazzo pazzo suffers from migraines in a big way and for the first time I find myself actually feeling some sort of weird, creepy, somewhat shamefaced, pity/sympathy for the creature — because I would truly not wish that on anyone. Having become, for the first time, human to me — or something approaching it — I find it hard to gloat. If there’s one thing that musical theatre teaches us it is this: When you get right down to it, we’re all on pink contracts.

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[via ThinkProgress]

While Michele Bachmann’s Wacky Family Business is familiar to anyone who follows politics, it hasn’t been part of the Lamestream Narrative. Until now.

ABC’s World News Tonight:

A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be “re-oriented.”

NBC’s Today Show:

NBC’s Michael Isikoff reports that undercover video taken from Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling center reveals that her therapists are using prayer and Bible scriptures to help cure people of homosexual tendencies.

Welcome to the Show, Michele. Your bigoted teabagger fans won’t care, but the rest of America just caught their first glimpse of what you’re really about.

“‘They want to see two girls come together and have a mud wrestling fight, and I am not going to give that to them,’ Bachmann told a voter Wednesday who asked about her relationship with the former Alaska governor.” [CNN]