MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says her televised comments that Barack Obama may have anti-American views were "completely misconstrued."
Bachmann's Friday appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" created controversy when she said she was "very concerned" the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee, a U.S. senator from Illinois, "may have anti-American views." But Monday she told a Minnesota television station, "I did not suggest the word 'anti-American,'" the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis reported.