Jimmy Fallon Apologizes to Michelle Bachmann; She Demands More from NBC

I'm sure that when The Roots, who play as Jimmy Fallon's house band on his late night show, played the opening of the song "Lyin' Ass Bitch" as GOP candidate Michelle Bachmann took the stage, they weren't trying to make any kind of sexist remark. But that's how Bachmann took it, and now she wants an apology.

Bachmann has already gotten as much from Fallon himself, who went on Twitter and wrote, "I’m honored that @michelebachmann was on our show yesterday and I’m so sorry about the intro mess."

Bachmann has accepted Fallon's apology, but has demanded that NBC apologize for the misstep.

"If that had been Michelle Obama, who’d come out on the stage, and if that song had been played for Michelle Obama, I have no doubt that NBC would have apologized to her and likely they would have fired the drummer, or at least suspended him," said Bachmann.

"None of that happened from NBC," she continued. "And this is clearly a form of bias on the part of the Hollywood entertainment elite, but it’s also, I think, sexism as well."

Roots bandleader Questlove, for his part, hasn't made any kind of apology. You have to wonder if he still would have gone through with it, had he known that it would be so widely reported. Right before he and the rest of the band played the song on the show, he tweeted his followers to "ask around cause i aint tweeting title."

Thus far, NBC hasn't made a public apology, but The New York Times reports that the network sent Bachmann a personal letter of apology.