Michele Bachmann: The Media’s Persecuting Me By Quoting My Words

The ever popular media persecution whine
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You may have heard about the latest hilariously stupid gaffe by Michele Bachmann (R-Mars); during a trip to New Hampshire, she waxed nostalgic over the beginning of the Revolutionary War, in Lexington and Concord, New Hampshire.

Only problem is that the war actually started in Lexington and Concord, in Massachusetts. And for extra bonus derpitude, Bachmann repeated it twice.

Who could ever have guessed that her defense would consist of complaining about being the victim of media bias?

Bachmann, the Tea Party darling who’s considering running for president in 2012, acknowledged that she made a mistake when she said (incorrectly) over the weekend that the Revolutionary War started in Concord, N.H., not at Lexington and Concord in nearby Massachusetts, where the revolution actually got under way.

“I made a mistake; I should’ve said Massachusetts rather than New Hampshire,” she said Tuesday. “We all know that there’s a double standard in the media.”

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43 comments
1 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:06:00am

But, but Obama said there were 57 states!

So there!
/

2 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:06:55am

Obama said “Corpse-Man” !1!111!

3 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:07:36am

New Englanders tend to be pretty tetchy about stuff like this.

I wonder if other people will care. It’s kind of the equivalent of going to Kansas and complimenting them on being the birthplace of Abe Lincoln.

4 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:08:13am

I still want to ask her the Tea Pot Dome question.

5 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:09:03am

Actually, old line (ie, now extinct) conservatives would be pleased to see the media taking an interest in historical accuracy.
The rise of the theocrats has changed all that though. After all, you can’t very well write slavery out of the Civil War or attribute Christian motivation to the Founding Fathers if you make historical accuracy a priority.

6 rwdflynavy  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:09:49am

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

7 Varek Raith  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:10:43am

Bachmann’s history teacher.

Youtube Video
8 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:11:47am

re: #6 rwdflynavy

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Germans?

9 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:12:11am

re: #8 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Forget it, he’s rolling.

10 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:12:32am

re: #8 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Germans?

Let him go, he’s on a roll.

11 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:12:32am

Has the media actually been in a feeding frenzy over this? There’s been some teasing on a few blogs.

12 Why I Never!  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:12:42am

haha—- this what Bill O and others always complained about with Media Matters: You’re persecuting me and smearing me by quoting me!

El oh El, forever.

13 Lidane  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:13:15am

re: #7 Varek Raith

Bachmann’s history teacher.

[Video]

I was thinking more along these lines:

FunnyOrDie Video
14 rwdflynavy  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:13:33am

re: #12 iceweasel

haha—- this what Bill O and others always complained about with Media Matters: You’re persecuting me and smearing me by quoting me!

El oh El, forever.

“Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”

15 Lidane  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:14:29am

re: #11 SanFranciscoZionist

Has the media actually been in a feeding frenzy over this? There’s been some teasing on a few blogs.

Not really. But to Bachmann, she’s being ZOMG PERSECUTED because she’s being teased for her idiocy.

16 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:14:45am
“We all know that there’s a double standard in the media.”

FTFHer. Heck with the double standard, she can’t hew to a single standard.

17 Why I Never!  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:15:01am

re: #14 rwdflynavy

“Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”

Youtube Video
18 Lidane  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:15:17am

re: #14 rwdflynavy

“Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”

American History — you can’t explain that!

19 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:15:26am

The fact that anybody thinks the woman is presidential material scares the ever-lovin’ shit out of me. That enough folks think this, to the point that she tops a poll on the subject, makes me wonder if perhaps this is God’s way of frakin’ with us just before the End Days.

20 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:15:43am

There is a difference between a mental slip and a exposing a blatant ignorance of historical facts. If that is seen as a “double standard”, then let it be a double standard.

21 Varek Raith  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:15:59am

re: #18 Lidane

American History — you can’t explain that!

Bread goes in, toast comes out.

BBL, lunch time!

22 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:16:05am

How dare the media notice Michele Bachmann said something stupid, quote her accurately and them act as if what she said actually meant something?!?
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23 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:18:03am

re: #19 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

The fact that anybody thinks the woman is presidential material scares the ever-lovin’ shit out of me. That enough folks think this, to the point that she tops a poll on the subject, makes me wonder if perhaps this is God’s way of frakin’ with us just before the End Days.

My theory is that people who love her really really love her, while more center-right folks who would certainly vote for Romney or Pawlenty, but not for Bachmann, are tepid supporters.

24 BongCrodny  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:19:29am

If I were moving to Canada in 2013 I’d vote for Bachmann in 2012.

You don’t get too many chances to play a practical joke of that magnitude on 300 million people.

25 Targetpractice  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:19:32am

re: #23 SanFranciscoZionist

My theory is that people who love her really really love her, while more center-right folks who would certainly vote for Romney or Pawlenty, but not for Bachmann, are tepid supporters.

That’s my guess as well, that Bachmann and Huckabee are relying more on the energized ideologues amongst the base for the majority of their support, while folks like Romney and Pawlenty are barely palatable to everybody else.

26 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:19:59am

re: #19 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

The fact that anybody thinks the woman is presidential material scares the ever-lovin’ shit out of me. That enough folks think this, to the point that she tops a poll on the subject, makes me wonder if perhaps this is God’s way of frakin’ with us just before the End Days.

This reminds me that throughout most of human history we didn’t choose are leaders based on careful consideration and analysis. We either got leaders through heredity or violence. This whole using your brain to pick the right person for leadership positions is new.

27 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:23:39am

re: #26 moderatelyradicalliberal

This reminds me that throughout most of human history we didn’t choose are leaders based on careful consideration and analysis. We either got leaders through heredity or violence. This whole using your brain to pick the right person for leadership positions is new.

There was an “electorate” even back then, but the franchise was severely limited - just the upper echelons of the landed gentry, and of those the ones with some blood ties to the royal family.

28 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:24:23am

re: #26 moderatelyradicalliberal

This reminds me that throughout most of human history we didn’t choose are leaders based on careful consideration and analysis. We either got leaders through heredity or violence. This whole using your brain to pick the right person for leadership positions is new.

Huh. Reminds me of a friend whose parents kept freaking out about who she was dating, not dating, might marry, how old she was getting—I finally pointed out to her that she was, in fact, probably the first woman in her family in 6,000-some years of recorded Chinese history to choose a husband for herself, rather than getting one assigned by her father, and they simply didn’t know what to expect, or how to help.

29 Lidane  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:24:43am

re: #24 BongCrodny

If I were moving to Canada in 2013 I’d vote for Bachmann in 2012.

You don’t get too many chances to play a practical joke of that magnitude on 300 million almost 7 billion people.

Electing her POTUS would be a sick, sick joke, not just on the United States, but on the entire world. She’d have access to the nuke codes. Think about that.

30 Fozzie Bear  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:30:03am

re: #29 Lidane

Electing her POTUS would be a sick, sick joke, not just on the United States, but on the entire world. She’d have access to the nuke codes. Think about that.

If Bachmann won the presidency, I would leave the country immediately, without hesitation. Not as some kind of liberal political protest, but rather because it would spell the end of our republic. That woman is too crazy NOT to do something so monumentally stupid it would get millions killed.

31 garhighway  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:30:37am

re: #19 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

The fact that anybody thinks the woman is presidential material scares the ever-lovin’ shit out of me.

It’s not clear that anyone does (outside of the voices in her head).

32 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:31:15am

re: #28 SanFranciscoZionist

Huh. Reminds me of a friend whose parents kept freaking out about who she was dating, not dating, might marry, how old she was getting—I finally pointed out to her that she was, in fact, probably the first woman in her family in 6,000-some years of recorded Chinese history to choose a husband for herself, rather than getting one assigned by her father, and they simply didn’t know what to expect, or how to help.

Now that is mind boggling. This freedom thing, no wonder we don’t always know what to do with it, it’s just so damn new and all.

33 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:33:13am

re: #30 Fozzie Bear

If Bachmann won the presidency, I would leave the country immediately, without hesitation. Not as some kind of liberal political protest, but rather because it would spell the end of our republic. That woman is too crazy NOT to do something so monumentally stupid it would get millions killed.

Yeah, I have an aunt in Belize that I would have to go see. Although she would have access to the nuke codes and nobody would be safe from that anywhere.

34 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:33:51am

re: #30 Fozzie Bear

If Bachmann won the presidency, I would leave the country immediately, without hesitation. Not as some kind of liberal political protest, but rather because it would spell the end of our republic. That woman is too crazy NOT to do something so monumentally stupid it would get millions killed.

I would have to stay and try to see it through. Not because I’m that noble, but because I wouldn’t be able to show my face anywhere else in the world once we’d done that.

35 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:40:18am

re: #34 SanFranciscoZionist

I would have to stay and try to see it through. Not because I’m that noble, but because I wouldn’t be able to show my face anywhere else in the world once we’d done that.

Well at least you could move to Israel. I chose Belize because they speak English and have a large black population so maybe I could pass.

36 b_sharp  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:40:53am

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel

But, but Obama said there were 57 states!

So there!
/

But he was referring to the number of states of Derptatude.

According to the ancient Philosophy of Heinz, there is indeed 57 states of derptatude.

37 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:42:32am

re: #19 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

The fact that anybody thinks the woman is presidential material scares the ever-lovin’ shit out of me. That enough folks think this, to the point that she tops a poll on the subject, makes me wonder if perhaps this is God’s way of frakin’ with us just before the End Days.

Which brings me to this.

Youtube Video
38 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:45:36am

re: #29 Lidane

Electing her POTUS would be a sick, sick joke, not just on the United States, but on the entire world. She’d have access to the nuke codes. Think about that.

I’m in a video mood so this is what I see if Bachmann becomes President.

Youtube Video
39 What, me worry?  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:57:31am
Who could ever have guessed that her defense would consist of complaining about being the victim of media bias?

She’s taking a page from the Book of Palin. When you get in hot water, shoot the messenger.

Please let this woman run for president! PLEASE! LOL

40 Jaerik  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 11:57:41am

I hope she runs I hope she runs I hope she runs I hope she runs…

41 labman57  Tue, Mar 15, 2011 9:20:47pm

Bachmann should have quit while she was ahead — acknowledge the error and move on.
But no, she had to then resume her role as Supreme Leader of the National TFH Society and play the maligned martyr-wanabee, declaring that the entire MSM is part of a master conspiracy to denigrate her.

Michele, you manage to do that quite satisfactorily with no outside help whatsoever.

42 boxhead  Wed, Mar 16, 2011 1:02:01am

Being educated is a good thing…. That is like saying water is wet, fire is hot, and tasty BBQ is yummy.

43 martinsmithy  Wed, Mar 16, 2011 12:26:48pm

Being a sexist pig, I’d love to see a Palin-Bachmann (or Bachmann-Palin) GOP ticket in 2012. They’re both very good looking as far as older women go.

I wouldn’t vote for them in a million years. But then, I won’t vote for any GOP ticket at this point, so if there are going to be any GOP candidates, it might as well be them!


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