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.
I see the latest City Pages has large paranoid rant about how bad the Chamber of Commerce is. They are really into conspiracy stories.
Went to the link and read the comments. The lefties are saying fake but accurate. They want it to be true so bad.
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.
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.
Huh, I never realized that the Buddha worked blue.
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.
“So maybe Shrub was a fighter pilot. But not in combat! Coward!”
If you repeat a lie often enough…
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?
That law degree didn’t appear to help Ms. Bachmann make the appropriate decisions with regard to Iowa campaign laws.
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.
Our president, a ‘constitutional scholar’, is frequently slapped down by the Fed courts because his policies are . . . unconstitutional.
“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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
That cuts both ways, you can be certain and be wrong. ;^)
Emery, you’re certainly right. And a case in point.