The New Yorker is out with a 3000+ word profile of Michele Bachmann ahead of the Iowa debate and the Ames Straw Poll. Amid the fluid narrative, author Ryan Lizza ominously highlights her Christian philosophy mixed with tea party ideals and her history of gaffes in campaign.
Here are some of the other “nuggets” revealed by the piece:
5) White iPhone:
Note to CNN’s John King, Bachman is an iPhone girl. The piece highlights the candidate reclining in her seat, watching Fox New’s Sunday’s Chris Wallace apologizing to her for calling her a “flake.” “It was pretty weak, I gotta say,” she announced.
4) The Barbie Jet:
Bachmann has dubbed her campaign plane the Barbie Jet, after the pink Barbie toy vacation jet.
3) Drudge Report:
Like many political candidates, Bachmann keeps tabs on the Drudge Report. She was bummed when Drudge highlighted her John Wayne gaffe in Iowa, but figures that it’s just because Drudge is friends with Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades.
2) Marcus ‘Silver Fox’ Bachmann looks like Buddy Garrity from Friday Night Lights
Dubbed the Silver Fox by Newsweek, a reporter pulled up an image of Buddy Garrity, from the TV show “Friday Night Lights.” “He does look like me,” Marcus said.
1) One of Bachmann’s 23 foster children breaks her silence:
“I owe the Bachmanns everything.” says an unnamed woman from Colorado, “They offered me the structure I needed and taught me how to figure out goals. They really encouraged me to figure out who I was rather than who I was becoming. I turned my life around one hundred and eighty degrees.”
