Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson issued an apology of sort for his decision to play the 1985 Fishbone song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” as GOP presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann walked across the stage on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” Monday night.
“The performance was a tongue-in-cheek and spur of moment decision. The show was not aware of it and I feel bad if her feelings were hurt. That was not my intention,” the drummer for the house band said in a statement. (Debatable, of course, since before the show aired, he tweeted, “aight late night walkon song devotees: you love it when we snark: this next one takes the cake. ask around cause i aint tweeting title.”)
Host Jimmy Fallon took to Twitter the following night to apologize for the intro, writing “I’m honored that @michelebachmann was on our show yesterday and I’m so sorry about the intro mess. I really hope she comes back.”
Michele Bachmann said Wednesday that she accepts Jimmy Fallon’s apology for the insulting song that was played during her Monday night appearance on his show, but that NBC’s failure to make a similar one is proof of the political bias and sexism of “the Hollywood entertainment elite.”
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