Video: Bachmann Too Loopy for Beck?
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) goes on the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, and repeats her contention that the government might use census data to round people up and put them in internment camps.
Beck closes his eyes and shakes his head when she says this, and almost immediately cuts her off — but I can’t tell if he was actually taken aback, or if he was coming up on a hard break. It’s not too different from the stuff Beck himself serves up on a regular basis, so I don’t know why he would have objected.
Bachmann: Here’s the other thing that will happen. From history, the United States government between 1942 and 1947 passed the second War Powers Act … they used the US census information to round up the Japanese and put them in the internment camps.
Beck: [closes eyes, shakes head] OK…
Bachmann: Americans were told that they wouldn’t have their information used against them … they did.
Beck: OK, uh, thank you very much.
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