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Exceptionalism in display... (SARCASM)
Frankly, even with the lack of respect I have for Bachman, this was still below my expectations.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/exceptional-idiots.html
Here's your exceptionalism, on full display in living color, in a foreign country:
Tea party-backed Representatives Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday held a press conference in Egypt to thank the country’s military for overthrowing the elected government, and at one point even seemed to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood had been behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
My God. That is so bad that if I were in Egypt I'd be compelled to apologize to every Egyptian I saw on the street for the stunning, over-the-top condescension of these morons.
Jon Stewart handled this the only way possible: