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alp227

(32,015 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:24 PM Mar 2013

Bachmann: "I didn’t get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates"

As Ed Brayton reports:

Michele Bachmann did an hour long interview with Marvin Olasky on the campus of Patrick Henry College and said lots of predictably crazy and ignorant things, but perhaps the single most amusing thing she said was that she was very proud of having not gotten anything wrong at all during the presidential debates:

If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn’t get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates. I didn’t get anything wrong and that’s a huge arena.

Wow. Seriously, that is about as deluded as one can possibly be without thinking that they’re Jesus or Abraham Lincoln. Remember, this is the person who said, immediately after one debate, that vaccinations caused mental retardation. And who claimed that 59,000 people came into the United States in 2011 from Yemen and Syria (in fact, that was the total for all countries other than Mexico).

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And who cited a study about abortion from Focus on the Family that does not exist (the organization had to put out a statement saying that they did not have any such studies and, in fact, did not do such studies at all).

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Bachmann: "I didn’t get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates" (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2013 OP

Her logic is impeccable. bluedigger Mar 2013 #1

And if you did, one of your misguided groupies would just edit Wikipedia Brother Buzz Mar 2013 #2

bluedigger

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1. Her logic is impeccable.

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Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:31 PM

Mar 2013

Brother Buzz

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2. And if you did, one of your misguided groupies would just edit Wikipedia

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Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:36 PM

Mar 2013

Michele Bachmann Groupies Rush To Edit Her History Errors Into Wikipedia

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson
December 2, 2012

BUT THE BIBLE SAYS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WAS A FOUNDING FATHER 1:25 pm June 29, 2011

Somewhere along the way, Internet nerd chat room Wikipedia became the keeper of Official American History, meaning that American History is now apparently just whatever Americans with Internet access and free time want it to be. Now that Michele Bachmann has mauled a few historical facts like any good Tea Party Patriot mauls the spelling on a protest sign, some of her faithful groupies have been trying to change Wikipedia pages to make the birthplace of movie actor John Wayne into a place where serial killer John Wayne Gacy once lived and to change John Quincy Adams to a “founding father.” See how easy it has become prove to everybody wrong now? We still remember the olden days when right-wing fanatics were forced to write whole strenuous textbooks about things like why dinosaurs are not real and how heaven starts right after Pluto.

Probably her followers do not want Michele’s feelings hurt if she goes to fact-check herself on Wikipedia, but then again, see what we just wrote there? There is no point to this, other than to be laughed at. Or possibly Bachmann supporters just wanted to prove that THEY TOO can change American history in the only way they are smart enough to do, which is retroactively, just like Sarah Palin’s drone army tried to “fix” the Paul Revere page.

Bachmann, who officially launched her campaign yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, told a Fox News reporter that she was proud to be in the town where John Wayne was from, because she embodies his ideals. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that the actor John Wayne was not from Waterloo, but serial killer John Wayne Gacy was.

Shortly after the gaffe, the Wikipedia page for actor John Wayne was altered to change his birthplace from Winterset, Iowa to Waterloo, apparently as an effort to cover for the misguided politician.

Another edit came after she declared Tuesday morning that the nation’s sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was a “founding father,” even though he was just a child when his father, the nation’s second president, signed the Declaration of Independence.

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http://wonkette.com/448539/michele-bachmann-groupies-rush-to-edit-her-history-errors-into-wikipedia

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