We'd imagine these two would have a hard time agreeing on books to burn. Maybe Fifty Shades of Grey?

Barack Obama got a laugh or two at Michele Bachmann's expense Saturday night during his White House correspondents' dinner speech.

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The president began by noting he's not "the strapping young Muslim socialist" he used to be. Later, he discussed his plans to forge closer relationships with Republicans by joining them for activities near and dear to their hearts.

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You'll have a hard time finding a less accountable elected official than Michele Bachmann.

As scandal after scandal after scandal comes to light in connection with Michele Bachmann's ill-fated presidential run, we wondered how Michele would find a way to blame the series of self-created messes on Democrats.

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Apparently she's opting for a slightly different but related tactic this time around -- blaming the media.

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... and the drumbeat of bad news for Bachmann continues...

-- Update at bottom; original post from morning of April 19 --

Yesterday, we told you about how Andy Parrish is prepared to throw his old boss under the bus and corroborate allegations that Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign made unethical payments to Iowa Sen. Ken Sorenson.

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At the time, we told you it was unclear to what extent Bachmann herself knew about the payments. After all, it's possible they could've been arranged by a campaign staffer without her knowledge. But a new report indicates that's not the case.

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Parrish is ready to go on the record about ethics violations allegedly committed during Bachmann's presidential campaign.

:::: UPDATE :::: Michele Bachmann reportedly knew about unethical payments to Iowa senator

Andy Parrish served as Bachmann's congressional chief of staff, then moved on to work in the same role during her ill-fated presidential campaign. He played a significant role in engineering the shining achievement of that campaign -- Bachmann's August 2011 Ames straw poll victory.

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But in a surprising turn of events, Parrish is now prepared to throw his longtime employer under the bus. Next week, he'll reportedly file an affidavit including campaign emails with the Iowa Senate ethics panel and corroborate allegations of unethical conduct during Bachmann's presidential campaign first made by another ex-staffer, Peter Waldron.

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Depending on the results of the preliminary investigation into the latest allegations, Bachmann could face a House Ethics Committee review or worse.

Michele Bachmann's late 2011 tour to promote her autobiography, "Core of Conviction," has apparently landed her in fresh trouble with federal investigators.

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After six weeks of promotional touring and nearly two years on the shelves, Bachmann's autobiography has still only sold 3,000 copies. But her troubles go beyond an inability to sell books.

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Bachmann's nuttier-than-ever questions are proof that serving on the Intelligence Committee doesn't require actual intelligence.

If you had any doubt that ousting Michele Bachmann from the Intelligence Committee should be a no-brainer, check out this video.

FROM LAST WEEK: Jim Graves will run again next year, setting up rematch with Bachmann [UPDATE]

Bachmann, who remains on the committee despite a recent 200,000-person petition drive calling for her ouster, made a fool of herself while attempting to question CIA leaders during a hearing last Thursday.

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It's official: Graves is making another run for Michele Bachmann's job.

Jim Graves will be running for Congress in the Sixth District again next year, his campaign manager, Aaron Wells, announced this morning.

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Graves, founder of AmericInn and of the luxury-focused Graves Hospitality company, lost to Bachmann by a mere 4,207 votes last November. She outspent him more than seven times over.

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Bachmann's logic: If there's a problem, it's undoubtedly Democrats' fault.

Here are the facts: Michele Bachmann is under federal investigation for allegedly violating campaign finance laws during her ill-fated presidential run. The investigation began after Bachmann's former National Field Coordinator, Peter Waldron, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. Waldron is an evangelical conservative who claims to have worked for Republicans spanning the gamut from Ronald Reagan to John McCain.

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Democrats have no involvement anywhere in that paragraph. Yet that isn't stopping Bachmann from blaming them for the ethics investigation.

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Who's up for a road trip down to Florida!?

Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean go way back. For instance, when Bradlee found himself taking heat for an anti-gay prayer he delivered before the Legislature back in 2011, Michele came to his aid with a prayer of her own where she professed support for Bradlee and asked God to transform Minnesota into a "sweet-smelling incense of praise and sacrifice."

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Sure, Dean threw his prayer-pal under the bus a few months later, but in two weeks, Minnesota's most notorious right-wing nutjobs will be back together again.

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Beck's knowledge of Minnesota leaves a thing or twenty to be desired, to put it charitably.

Glenn Beck took a page out of Michele Bachmann's playbook while coming to the beleaguered congresswoman's defense this week. He blamed the ethical mess she finds herself in on those damn Muslims -- in particular, Minnesota's Somali population.

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But Beck's analysis of Bachmann's plight seems to rest on a misunderstanding of Minnesota's demographics. He repeatedly claimed that the State Department settles Somali immigrants "in one of her districts." But Bachmann, of course, represents the exurbs around St. Cloud, not any part of the metro core. So we're not really sure what Beck was talking about, but then again, since when have facts mattered for him anyway? (Though in fairness, a colleague points out that St. Cloud does have a significant Somali population, so if one wants to be charitable they could interpret Beck as referring to that.)

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