Bachmann Attends GOP Conference Where Obama Impersonator Tells Anti-Gay Jokes

Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Texas Governor Rick Perry, and Herman Cain all attended this weekend’s Republican Leadership Conference, where a President Obama impersonator told anti-gay and racist “jokes,” and showed an un-blurred photo from the Anthony Weiner Weinergate scandal.

READ: Michele Bachmann’s Top Ten Anti-Gay Quotes

Here’s a partial list of the more offensive comments, compiled by The Washington Post:

• On Black History Month: “Michelle celebrates the full month. I celebrate half.”

• “My mother loved a black man,” but “she was not a Kardashian.”

• A picture was shown of Obama and the first lady when he took office. The impersonator then showed a picture of what the Obamas will look like when the president leaves office, and it was the characters of Fred Sanford and his sister-in-law, Ethel, from the show “Sanford and Son.”

• Of Tim Pawlenty’s decision not to criticize Mitt Romney at Monday’s debate: “[CNN’s] John King served him up a ball softer than Barney Frank’s backside.” (Frank is a gay member of Congress from Massachusetts.)

• Of Newt Gingrich’s approval ratings: Dropping “faster than Anthony Weiner’s pants in an AOL chat room.”

The Post also mentions that, “The jokes came after speakers including Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal made pleas for Republicans to be civil in their criticism of Obama. The two men spoke on the topic Friday.”

“Eventually, RLC President and CEO Charlie Davis made the decision to pull him offstage, and a man came onstage to physcially escort Brown off.

“I pulled him off the stage,” Davis acknowledged afterward. “I just thought he had gone too far. He was funny the first 10 or 15 minutes, but it was inappropriate, it was getting ridiculous.”

Think Progress adds, “Doug Heye, the RNC’s communication director in 2010 tweeted: “Wonder why many minorities have problems with GOP? Hiring Obama impersonator to tell ‘black jokes’ at SRLC, for starters,” and states that, “RLC President Charlie Davis said that the Obama impersonator was ‘funny the first 10 or 15 minutes.’ That’s when the racial jokes were told.”

When the impersonator, Reggie Brown, mentioned Michele Bachmann, the audience cheered, and some stood and clapped. When Brown was gently pulled from the stage, many in the the audience gave him a standing ovation.

Michele Bachman at a different function on Saturday joined presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty by being the third openly anti-​gay Republican to be “glittered” by activists protesting anti-​gay rhetoric.

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