Michele Bachmann receives apology from NBC for song ‘outrage’

So since Michele Bachmann wants to compare herself to the First Lady, should ESPN send Michelle Obama and Jill Biden a letter of apology for the fans that booed them last week at NASCAR? Should NASCAR send them an apology as well? Should any company that advertises with Rush Limbaugh send the First Lady an apology as well? Bachmann cannot invoke the name of 'Michelle Obama' as an equivalent to what happen to her. I agree that it was in poor taste, but enough!!!

Late Wednesday, GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann reportedly received the apology she thought NBC owed her after late-night house band the Roots performed the tune “Lyin’ A-- B----” to introduce her on Monday’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” show.

A Bachmann spokeswoman told the Associated Press late Wednesday that an NBC programming executive sent a personal letter to the Minnesota congresswoman. According to the AP, the letter said that the Roots had been “severely reprimanded.”

Up until then, the Peacock Network’s only strategy appeared to be appointing Fallon as in-house canary, sending him down the political coal-mine shaft to see exactly how toxic the air is.

After word of the band’s selection of the 1985 Fishbone song filtered out to the mainstream media Tuesday, Fallon first tweeted that the Roots’s drummer, Questlove — who’d taken credit for the tune — “is grounded.”

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