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Gingrich / Bachmann 2012? Mlle. Batshit "Defends Newt Gingrich's Trayvon Martin Comments"
Michele Bachmann Defends Newt Gingrich's Trayvon Martin Comments
Posted: 03/25/2012 10:44 am Updated: 03/25/2012 1:35 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/michele-bachmann-newt-gingrich-trayvon-martin_n_1378038.html
On ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Bachmann, who was also a GOP presidential candidate until she dropped out in January, what she thought of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's comments on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager in Florida.
On Friday, President Barack Obama underscored the fact that the tragedy resonated personally for him, saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Gingrich called those comments "disgraceful," adding, "It's not a question of who that young man looked like." Earlier on ABC's "This Week," Obama Adviser David Plouffe called Gingrich's remarks "reprehensible," saying they showed he was a man who was "clearly in the last throes of his political career."
"Well, I think what Newt Gingrich said is that race shouldn't be a factor," Bachmann said when asked about Gingrich's comments. "All human life is valuable. And it's interesting the second part of David Plouffe's answer, he said the same thing. All human life is valuable. That should be the bottom line."
"I'm a mother, a mother of five biological children, but also a mother of 23 great foster children," she added. "And when you're a mother, of course, when something tragic like this happens, you want to know what the truth is, what's the result. That's why an investigation is so important. We have to get to the truth about what really happened, not imagine what happened, but actually get to the truth."
Posted: 03/25/2012 10:44 am Updated: 03/25/2012 1:35 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/michele-bachmann-newt-gingrich-trayvon-martin_n_1378038.html
On ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Bachmann, who was also a GOP presidential candidate until she dropped out in January, what she thought of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's comments on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager in Florida.
On Friday, President Barack Obama underscored the fact that the tragedy resonated personally for him, saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Gingrich called those comments "disgraceful," adding, "It's not a question of who that young man looked like." Earlier on ABC's "This Week," Obama Adviser David Plouffe called Gingrich's remarks "reprehensible," saying they showed he was a man who was "clearly in the last throes of his political career."
"Well, I think what Newt Gingrich said is that race shouldn't be a factor," Bachmann said when asked about Gingrich's comments. "All human life is valuable. And it's interesting the second part of David Plouffe's answer, he said the same thing. All human life is valuable. That should be the bottom line."
"I'm a mother, a mother of five biological children, but also a mother of 23 great foster children," she added. "And when you're a mother, of course, when something tragic like this happens, you want to know what the truth is, what's the result. That's why an investigation is so important. We have to get to the truth about what really happened, not imagine what happened, but actually get to the truth."
