Journalism Saves The Day
By Mitch Berg
The City Pages got out there are did that gumshoe journalism that they’re famous for, in noting that this photo…
…attributing a quote to Michele Bachmann, which has been sweeping Facebook for the past week, is in fact a hoax.
Just one problem: She didn’t say it, and a version of this fake quote has been circulating since 2011
Whew. Of course, some version or another of that quote has been around for decades – P.J. O’Rourke noted something like it in Holidays in Hell, twenty years ago, if I recall correctly. If you tell a liberal a conservative Christian supports snake-handling, they’ll believe it without question.
But this is good! Actual fact-checking!
I’ll urge the City Pages to start working on this one:
Or maybe this:
It’s good that we have highly-trained info-ninjas, watching society’s ramparts.
February 7th, 2014 at 8:07 am
I see the latest City Pages has large paranoid rant about how bad the Chamber of Commerce is. They are really into conspiracy stories.
February 7th, 2014 at 8:11 am
Went to the link and read the comments. The lefties are saying fake but accurate. They want it to be true so bad.
February 7th, 2014 at 8:22 am
Fake but accurate.
Sheesh.
Dear City Pages commenters: Michele Bachmann has a JD and an LLD. She is smarter than you are. That is all.
February 7th, 2014 at 8:38 am
I read the comments too and the lack of reading comprehension skills is appalling when you consider that many of the commenters likely have college degrees.
February 7th, 2014 at 8:41 am
Huh, I never realized that the Buddha worked blue.
February 7th, 2014 at 9:55 am
Smarter than me, for sure – her LLM is in Tax, from William and Mary. Post-post-graduate degree, in a horribly complex subject, from a major law school, they don’t hand those out like Kleenex.
Of course, George Bush has a Harvard MBA which they don’t give away free (especially to Yalies) and he never gets credit for that, either. To a Liberal, you’re only as smart as you agree with me.
February 7th, 2014 at 10:20 am
“So maybe Shrub was a fighter pilot. But not in combat! Coward!”
February 7th, 2014 at 11:53 am
If you repeat a lie often enough…
February 7th, 2014 at 6:59 pm
That’s OK, it’s Michelle Bachmann. Anything goes.
Even a cease-fire in the war on women so the vulgar Questlove, leader of the house band, the Roots, could play an even more vulgar song as her introduction as a guest on Jimmy Fallon’s show. The verses of that song included the words, “Lyin’ A** bi**ch,” “slut”, and other derogatory misogynistic phrases. They muffled the lyrics though, and almost got in trouble. That and a non-apology was enough penitence. Will Fallon’s career overcome the stigma?
All in good fun. Think they’ll pull the prank on Hillary next?
February 8th, 2014 at 6:37 am
That law degree didn’t appear to help Ms. Bachmann make the appropriate decisions with regard to Iowa campaign laws.
February 8th, 2014 at 9:45 am
Leaving aside the fact that the investigation hasn’t shown Bachmann knew the law was being broken? She’s a tax lawyer.
Even campaign finance lawyers screw up campaign finance law – because the laws are designed to be screwed up.
February 8th, 2014 at 9:49 pm
Our president, a ‘constitutional scholar’, is frequently slapped down by the Fed courts because his policies are . . . unconstitutional.
February 9th, 2014 at 5:45 am
“Our president, a ‘constitutional scholar’, is frequently slapped down by the Fed courts because his policies are . . . unconstitutional.”
This doesn’t get near the attention it deserves.
This is no way to run a civilization.
We are doomed.
February 9th, 2014 at 5:51 am
“George Bush has a Harvard MBA…”
Odds are it made him dumber. I’m serious.
He had a signing ceremony with ACRON for some “ownership society” policy that contributed to the housing crisis. Then there is the completely unfunded 9 trillion Medicare Part D program.
He teed up Afghanistan and the Middle East perfectly for Iran and the Islamists.
February 9th, 2014 at 6:23 am
What I don’t get is, Bachmann had to very publicly quit a controversial creationist church and Avidor had her completely busted saying nutty stuff behind closed doors to a church group.
There was no way in hell she could be president. What was the point? All she did was hurt herself and the Right.
February 9th, 2014 at 12:08 pm
It reminds me of a comment by one of the live bloggers during a GOP debate that Ms. Bachmann is more certain of everything than the blogger is of anything.
February 9th, 2014 at 4:47 pm
People state that last – being free of public uncertainty over one’s beliefs – as if it’s a bad thing.
They did the same thing with Reagan. Of course, being blubberingly uncertain about things and leadership don’t really go together.
February 9th, 2014 at 7:28 pm
That cuts both ways, you can be certain and be wrong. ;^)
February 10th, 2014 at 10:59 am
Emery, you’re certainly right. And a case in point.