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A “Daily Show” segment took a surprise turn into Bachmannia last night.

Long-term substitute host John Oliver was narrating a segment about a rare show of congressional bipartisanship as libertarian Republicans and civil-liberties-oriented Democrats worked together in support of an action that would have limited the recently exposed National Security Agency collection of “metadata” on almost all cell phone calls made by Americans.

(The change would have limited the NSA data collection to Americans who were under suspicion of doing something improper, national security-wise.)

So many House members of both parties were supporting the idea that it was gathering serious momentum until an even bigger bipartisan coalition — including both President Obama and Speaker John Boehner, was hastily stitched together to defeat it.

The surprise turn in the segment (video below) occurs at about the three-minute mark when the list of strange bedfellows in favor of the data collection is revealed to include Minnesota’s own soon-to-be-former Congresswoman Michele B

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