Bachmann: ‘I’m not going to fear Keith Olbermann’

At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor "most of the American people" paid attention to.

"Quite honestly I don't even know anything about MSNBC," said Bachmann. "It's not a network that I watch, and most of the American people agree with that assessment. They aren't watching it either. And that's why Fox's ratings - I mean, it's like, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC combined. I think Fox even exceeded one of the major networks last week. They're on the ascendency."

Bachmann praised conservative bloggers for getting out the truth past the filters of the old media. "I didn't fear my own editorial boards in Minneapolis-St. Paul when I lived there," she said. "I'm certainly not going to fear the likes of Keith Olbermann."

Video, shot by the Washington Independent's Lazar Backovic, after the jump: