Conservatives Never Learn

In the file “Conservatives Never Learn” comes this from the recent appearance of Michele Bachmann on the Jimmy Fallon late-nite tee-vee show.

The house band for Fallon is the Roots and they’ve made a name for themselves by playing snarky walk-on songs for the guests. For example, when Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt walked on, the Roots played Beck’s “Loser.”

(If you don’t have a clue who Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are, then it means you have a life or don’t watch “The Soup.”)

Anyway, Bachmann gets introduced and the band plays Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch.”

Now, you can argue that this was impolite as hell or that if that’s really how you feel about your “guest” why book them on the show.

But the lesson is simple: If you’re conservative, expect this kind of treatment. But I guarandamtee you that if something similar happened to, say, the president’s wife, or Nancy Pelosi, the outrage would be heard coast-to-coast.

P.S. -- NBC subsequently apologized for the song selection. Good for NBC. It was the right thing to do.