Bachmann: Wear a blouse, you unfrilly lesbian!

Minneapolis – Saint Paul, MN -- The health care debate in the United States has taken an unusual twist today after Minnesota congresswoman Michelle Bachmann announced she would support President Barack Obama's reform initiative if liberal talk show host Rachel Maddow wears a frilly blouse.

Bachmann issued the challenge at a special town hall meeting she called in Minnesota's 6th district in order to get the pulse on a number of hot button issues, as well as to test out a new "walk and wave" technique she recently learned at a posture and poise school.

"I have just had about enough of the left-wing liberal media. You know, sick puppies like Rachel Maddow," Bachmann said in her speech to an enthusiastic crowd of 2,500. "They talk hot air all the time, but what have they got to show for all their yappin'?"

Bachmann said critics of the Republican opposition to the proposed sweeping changes to health care are "too blinded by their left-wing bias and too comfortable in their Armani suits and Hybrids to even bother to try to see the debate from the conservatives' perspective."

"Unlike these liberals, I am willing to put my money where my mouth is," Bachmann stressed. "Rachel Maddow, I dare you to wear a frilly blouse and see it from my perspective. I bet you can't."

As a wager, Bachmann said she would rescind all of her negative opinions and criticisms of health care reform and throw her full support behind President Obama if Maddow complies. Bachmann then assured the crowd that "unfrilly lesbians like Maddow don't have the guts to wear a nice chiffon blouse."

The town hall meeting concluded with Bachmann giving away new autographed 8x10 head shots she had recently taken at a Sears in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

As of presstime, Maddow has not issued an official response to Bachmann's challenge. Calls to her production office are not being answered.