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riverbendviewgal

(4,253 posts)
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 06:59 PM Jul 2012

CNN has a good story on McCain's refute to Bachmann

I like what Anderson Cooper reported...such a good read and what he reports indicates that Bachmann is acting so much like Sen. Joe Mcarthy

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/18/mccain-refutes-accusations-by-fellow-republicans-about-hillary-clinton-aide/?hpt=hp_t3

We do know Bachmann and her fellow lawmakers repeatedly cites as their source the work of a group called the Center for Security Policy. A pretty serious sounding name. Its Web site is MuslimBrotherhoodinAmerica.com. The man who runs the group is Frank Gaffney who says the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating every aspect of American life in order to impose Sharia law.

Now the Southern Poverty Law Center calls Gaffney, and I quote, 'The anti-Muslim's movement most paranoid propagandist." Before Gaffney was focusing on Huma Abedin, by the way, he was pointing fingers of suspicion at conservative Grover Norquist who's married to a Muslim woman. Those allegations, by the way, were condemned by a number of conservative groups. Gaffney was actually not allowed to go to CPAC one year because of these allegations.

Now we should also point out this is not the first time that Bachmann has relied on questionable sources and leaps of logic. You may remember two years ago right here on this program, Congresswoman Bachmann made some pretty outrageous claims about the cost of a trip President Obama was taking to India, saying that it would cost taxpayers $200 million a day.
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