Michele Bachmann Watch, 8/2/08: MB inspires a theatrical production

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from the DumpMicheleBachmann blog:



John Ervin Writes About Why Bachmann Inspired His Play "Catfight!"


Excerpt from the Rake web site:



As luck would have it, during the 2006 mid-term election, I discovered a far more spoof-worthy public figure. Though not a member of the Administration, she is such a panting admirer of the Chief Executive that she surely must regret never having served with him. Or, as the most famous news clip of her and the President shows, under him. As people who've read my columns for The Rake know, I have been endlessly entertained by 6th District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, ever since first learning about her during her run for U.S. House in ‘06. Though she is an attractive woman who looks far younger than her 52 years, this obsession is not sexual (I think Jason Lewis, KTLK 's pathetic answer to Rush Limbaugh, has the hog's share of those feelings). It, instead, derives from how shamelessly Mrs. Bachmann embodies every stereotype of the culturally illiterate, socially paranoid, antigay Christian conservative - the type who has been the bane of this country's existence since Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell joined hands to ________ America.

Which leads to the political musical comedy that I will be launching after all these years. That production, "Catfight!", part of this year's edition of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, does not, in the end, involve most of the story elements I had originally envisioned. In fact, it doesn't even concern any actual figures from real political life, including the object of Jason Lewis' darkest fantasies. However, one of the main characters happens to be an evangelical Republican who's devoted her adult life to all the favorite hobbyhorses of the God squad: most importantly, the fictitious gay menace that threatens to destroy marriage and turn our children into leather-clad, pool-cue wielding Cruising extras.

This woman, Mindy Bishop, played Vagina Monologues veteran Kristen Strissel, also happens to be making her first run for Congress in the same part of the Minnesota tundra Michele currently melts or freezes hearts in. In another nod to real life - though it would be that of another prominent Republican now thankfully put to pasture - she is followed at every campaign stop by a pair of documentary filmmakers who work for her very liberal opponent, Stephanie Leary. Hoping to catch her in the type of "macaca" moment that made George Allen history, these brave young souls still manage to post embarrassing clips of Mindy on Leary's website.

......more at: http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2008/07/john-ervin-writes-about-why-bachmann.html

[Faygo Kid]

1. How do you parody Michele Bachmann?

How do you parody a parody?

She, Jean Schmidt, and Heather Wilson: The Great Triumvirate of stupid, venal, hack Congresswomen.