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By Noel Sheppard | June 24, 2011 | 19:44

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Colby King on Friday disgracefully called Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann "Barbie with fangs."

His fellow "Inside Washington" panelist Charles Krauthammer - obviously annoyed by this sexist display - replied, "It’s good to see how civil and non-ad hominem we are here in the Huntsman spirit" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

COLBY KING, WASHINGTON POST: Well, what he’s, [Jon Huntsman] can’t out anti-Obama with the other Republican field. They have that. He’s got Gingrich there, he’s got Michele Bachmann, they’re going to do the number on Obama. So he has to distinguish himself.

But, when you get right down to it, he, and, and, and, and Mitt Romney are the, are the two Ken dolls in the, in the, in the Republican race. You got Michele Bachmann who is Barbie with fangs.

[Laughter]

I mean, it’s, the, the, the field itself is just sort of a, like a caricature. There’s no substance.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It’s good to see how civil and non-ad hominem we are here in the Huntsman spirit as I understand it.

KING: I love them all.

How thoroughly disgraceful.

King should be ashamed of himself and be asked to immediately apologize for making such a statement about a sitting member of Congress.

When is this sexist bashing of conservative female political officials by America's press going to stop?

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"Barbie with fangs"... I

Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 7:52pm.

"Barbie with fangs"...

I like it!

I'll vote for her.

Better than "America-hating, Kenyan Marxist".

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Palin and Bachmann*

Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 7:59pm.

It is obvious that the media not only dispise conservative women but they cannot tolerate strong and independent women. These attacks continue to prove how "intolerant" the lying hypocrits really are. They cheerlead for the first black President but refuse to even consider the possibility of the first Woman President.

For all you misogynists out there, here is my take on your bigotry.  Why shouldnt we elect a woman as president?  It takes a woman to clean up after a man has made a big mess!

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Oh, please, cajun, don't go

Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:04pm.

Oh, please, cajun, don't go there!

That was Pelosi's line!!

They only hate conservative women.  As far as they're concerned, powerful liberal women are just wonderful.  Look at how they gushed over Pelosi when she became speaker....the woman of steel in Armani suits....now there's a woman with fangs, if you ask me.  But they thought that was fine for her!

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their words MB*

Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:32pm.

I was being sarcastic using their logic to make my point. Yes, Pelosi's line. Next time I'll remember the /sarc   But I also remember how quickly the liberal media dumped Hillary to support Obama. If a gay progressive GW believer were to run, I think  the media would dump Obama in a blink of an eye.

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Thanks for clarifying, cajun!

Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:21am.

My sarcasm detector must have dozed off!

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I like it!

Submitted by tinydancer on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 3:47am.

Yes, whatever they may call Bachman, or anyone else for that matter, it's better than "America-hating, Kenyan Marxist". I'll vote Obama out no matter what, no matter who.

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When??

Submitted by Joe W. on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:22pm.

"When is this sexist bashing of conservative female political officials by America's press going to stop?"

About the same time Barack Obama produces a valid birth certificate. In other words.....it won't.

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If a liberal journalist can win a pulitzer prize and make a

Submitted by djwolf12 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:37pm.

comment like "barbie with fangs", then it is true. Material in The Washington Compost is nothing but 2nd grade humor.

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets". - Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver (1976).
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To borrow a meme

Submitted by ctophfranko on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:38pm.

OH AND HE SEXIST!!!

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I'm sure Tim Pawlenty and

Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:38pm.

I'm sure Tim Pawlenty and Herman Cain are upset that they aren't viewed as "Ken dolls". But I thought that the media asserted that Huntsman and Romney were the grown ups and the serious candidates? So the leftists view the alleged "serious" candidates as unserious "Ken dolls"? And the "serious" democrat candidate for Pres, Obama, proposed a budget that didn't get a single vote in the Senate. That's rich.

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Liberals: We want a BLACK

Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:44pm.

Liberals: We want a BLACK President.
OK, here's Herman Cain.
Liberals: NO! Not THAT black president! He's a racist! Give us a WOMAN President!
OK, here's Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin.
Liberals: NO! Not women enough! Not the right KIND of woman! We want a minority President!
OK, here's Marco Rubio.
Liberals: NO! He's racist! And not the right KIND of minority!

Etc., etc.

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Excellent post

Submitted by gmaniac1 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:49pm.

and very true!

This is the way they treat SC justices as well like Clarence Thomas and nominee Miguel Estrada.

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I hope Michele Bachmann does have fangs

Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:19pm.

...big, long sharp ones, too, because most of the rest of the current crop of repubs in Congress, and particularly those in the House, are pretty much toothless, gutless, and damn near useless.

And they demonstrated that yet again today.

-Dave

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves - Edward R. Murrow
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I would say something about hypocricy

Submitted by ctophfranko on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:54pm.

But, to be fair what liberal woman would any non-blind guy compare to Barbie?

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Where is NOW?

Submitted by octavioj on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 8:56pm.

How is this not a misogynistic comment? How is this not demeaning of women?

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That's easy...

Submitted by C-townGiant on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:07pm.

When it comes to conservative women, NOW is, has been, and always will be NOWhere.

http://baseballwithasideofpolitics.blogspot.com/
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NOW, that was clever! :)

Submitted by Chris Norman on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 12:14am.

NOW, that was clever! :)

Let's make the 2012 campaign: "The War on Error"
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Why not ask

Submitted by ctophfranko on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:11pm.

Where the NAACP is when Herman Cain is attacked as someone who doesn't like to read. These groups no longer represent the "minorities" they were designed to help. They are elements of the Democrat party nowadays. Even if said party no represents re-enslavement and the murder of unborn children.

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The NAACP

Submitted by dreamsincolor on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:50am.

Could not care less about Herman because he never needed them to help replace the bootstraps he has to keep replacing.

I would be PROUD to vote for him.

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Tru Blue?

Submitted by River City on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:05pm.

OT

I guess I never noticed the liberal ads up top before. One Country under Koch Brothers? Puleeeeze. How bout one country under George Soris?

"Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind."  Ayn Rand

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Yet, tracy morgan goes on an apology tour................

Submitted by merly1 on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:17pm.

but nothing is out of bounds when insulting conservative women. It is so very, very odd!

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Sexist Female Conservative

Submitted by NVRAT on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 9:39pm.

The BASHING of conservative Female politicians will only stop when Hillary Clinton runs for office and of course then another two-bit acronym/metaphor will appear from the Left`s Pig Pen and the slobbering slop will start over again. Well, Mr. Colby King a Barbie with FANG`s is exactly what this country needs with a Mama Grizzly to back her up and chew up pigs like you.

NVRAT
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Grizzles love pigs

Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:51am.

Grizzles love pigs

A well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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"There’s no substance"

Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:20pm.

Memo to the moron Colby King: You will find out the "substance" is "Shellacking II"

d(^_^)b
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"

d(^_^)b http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/ “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
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Colbie King Is A Queen!

Submitted by GeneralAl on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 10:30pm.

As far as I'm concerned Colbie King is just a queen without drag for making such a statement as that. Michelle bachman has more class and brains than the other Michelle.

"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!

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Besides "the professionals" ?

Submitted by Indie Dude on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 12:08am.

(Maybe I'm young, but)

I don't have or know one friend, co-worker, or seen a Starbuck hanging avg Joe that spend one moment of their valuable time reading political editorials from a newspaper. I really don't, do you? I know N.B. needs to call these eggheads out, but these columnist are living in a bubble, the general population don't care one ounce what they think or write. ...We really don't.

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→ Here's one, Colby

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 12:39am.

Barack Obama is Don Lemon with a closet.

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Who is this guy?

Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:53am.

I never heard of him. All these liberal idiots seem to be coming out of the woodwork trying to make a name for themselves. I know it will only going to get worse. It won't surpise me when they get the obit writer from the Podunk Times to comment on Bachman if he/she is a liberal.

He does bring up a good comment. Hunstman can't out anit-Obama the others. He can't go after Obama because they are like white on rice.

A well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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I Wonder What He Thinks of Michelle Obama?

Submitted by gruyere cheese on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 8:43am.

Now that is a question I would pose to him when he made this stupid comment. I have said it before, with Liberals you have to challenge their opinion. Once you do, you realize that their ideology has no merit or foundation. They behave like children who when they don't get their way, they resort to name calling and profanity...WOW! I thought Prize Pulitzer recipients were classier, better educated than this.

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Colby

Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:56am.

His coment sounds racist. Isn't white, also, a race? The media said almost the same thing about Palin. That's racial profiling.

                                                                                                                                                                    

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without double standards they would have none at all

Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:35am.

I don't like Obama's Keynesian policies.

You're racist for saying he was born in Kenya!

No, I mean he's a socialist, and maybe even a communist.

Calling him a socialist is code for the n-word.

I'm talking about his financial philosophies. He's a millionaire who lives on arugula salad, but he tells everyone else to clip coupons while he bankrupts their electricity sources.

Oh, a black man can't be rich? It's racist to call him uppity.

Well, he is kind of hoity-toity. He went to Harvard. He was a law professor. I thought liberals were tired of millionaire eggheads controlling Washington when they don't have anything  in common with the little people.

It's racist to call him a law professor.

Are you kidding me?

Look, I know that Barbie doll Michele Bachmann feeds you these lies, and that house n---- Juan Williams lets her get by with it on Fox, and that Caribou Barbie Sarah Palin tells you what to think, and that creepy Mormon Glenn Beck reinforces it, and that coconut Marco Rubio helps them in the Senate, and old Aunt Jemima helped George Bush invade Iraq...... but you know very well you're a racist.

Marxists can't be good scientists? -troglodyte
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I love them all

Submitted by wingnut55 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 4:13pm.

His remark of "I love them all" showed that Krauthammer's remark went right over his head. It would never occur to King that what he said was hateful and sexist. He is just to into the liberal mind set to understand.

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I get it

Submitted by Kat Outta the Bag on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 2:52pm.

The left doesn't like an attractive conservative woman who is also intelligent and strong-willed.  And what if someone on the right called a black liberal "Buckwheat with fangs"...how would they like that?  There'd be an uproar, I'm guessing.

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Typical Democrat

Submitted by Student1776 on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 5:12pm.

When you have neither facts nor logic to buttress your opinion, just call people names. The way of the Democrat. An approach recognized as invalid by thinking people since the time of Aristotle. But Democrats long ago gave up trying to influence thinking people.

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The Feminazi's are the ones with blood dripping off THEIR FANGS

Submitted by Chicagoray40 on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 12:39pm.

These women on the left are to me nothing more than murderers frankly and I at this juncture of my life at 47 know enough about these people to make sure none of them ever enter my orbit anyway nor anywhere.

I don't associate with liberals anymore, won't befriend liberals nor trust anyone as far as I can whizz on anyone of them after the pathetic and sad white guilt they displayed in the last election hiring this criminal Marxist usurper, Black liberation theologian, fake "professor" and downright enemy of middle and upper crust America..

They're mostly terrorist apologists, eugenics apologists, NAMBLA apologists, abortion butcher apologists and can't be trusted around children as far as you can throw them

Anyone who would support their agenda is a co opted ignorant useful idiot tool of communism. Nothing more nothing less and I'm no religious fanatic, I just can tell monsters when I see them, and leftists of today are monsters and a bigger threat to America than Muslim terrorism. Period.

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