Dumbest Presidential Candidate EVER? Michele Bachmann Gets Facts Wrong In Her Own Autobiography

[johnfunk]

Maybe she was homeschooled...

Michele Bachmann’s autobiography has been fact-check by Gawker

• Bachmann says her first run for state senate began organically—she was drafted to run on the spot after speaking up at a nominating convention. “I was just doing my duty as a citizen, speaking out. It was like that wonderful Norman Rockwell painting from the forties, Freedom of Speech, in which an earnest man speaks out at a town meeting, politely but firmly.” (It’s not every day you read people actually openly claiming to be like a heroic character from a Rockwell painting.) The weird thing about that spontaneous Rockwellian moment of democratic action was that she brought pro-Bachmann campaign signs with her and had repeatedly threatened to run for the seat in the lead-up to the convention.

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[tabasco]

1. It is an indictment of our entire society

that such a liar and idiot has been elected to national government.

[unblock]

2. i give her a pass here. the entire point of a political autobiography is to get the facts wrong.

it's a candidate's first foray into the wonderful, wild world of disinformation.


i know, i know. never ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
but these are republicans we're talking about....

[Rincewind]

3. She's not getting the facts

wrong, she's fucking lying. There is a difference.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. She said God told her to run for President

Maybe He made her State Senate campaign signs magically appear and arranged to have her drafted, too, as part of the grand design to get her into the White House.