Bachmann: I made a mistake; media shows bias in reporting it

[sabra]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) - Three days after her widely-reported gaffe, Rep. Michele Bachmann explained it by essentially saying: I made a mistake, but the media's reporting of it proves bias.

Bachmann made the comments on Tuesday during an interview on the conservative Laura Ingraham radio show.

On Saturday at an engagement in Manchester, Bachmann said of New Hampshire, "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord."

The battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 were fought in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire.



Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/15/bachmann-i-made-a-mistake-media-shows-bias-in-reporting-it/

[Fumesucker]

1. Why would she talk about Massachusetts when she is *in* New Hampshire?

Look up "venal ditz" in Wikipedia and you'll find her picture.

[cordelia]

7. May I use "venal ditz"?

I love it.

[Fumesucker]

13. Be my guest..

:hi:

[Charleston Chew]

2. Michele Bachmann Is Bat$h!t Crazy

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Michele Bachmann's totally insane Tea Party response to Barack Obama's State of the Union definitely outshined Paul Ryan's official Republican rebut.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x548198
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[Ian David]

3. She made the same mistake again after she'd already been corrected. n/t

[Marthe48]

31. that's because she's a slack-jawed idiot

nt

[hlthe2b]

4. Now, now... We need to cut Bachman some slack...

She was locked in an airplane bathroom for hours AFTER FAA cut off the oxygen. :evilgrin:

[Blue Owl]

5. Oh nothing is ever HER fault of course.

The evil liberals are to blame.

:eyes:

[Champion Jack]

6. Yeah, she made the same mistake 2 days in a row

She is truly dumber than a turnip

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. The media reporting she couldn't find her butt cheeks with two hands and a flashlight

would be bias. (albeit probably true)

Personal responsibility seems a bit lacking here, but that's nothing new with either Bachmann or her ilk.

[L. Coyote]

9. ROFLMAO. "I made a mistake by reading what my ignorant staff wrtites for me."

"But, I stand by my decision to hire my ignoramus crew because they are far off to the right of everyone else." :rofl: "They will be returning to Liberty University for summer school."

[RoccoR5955]

10. The only mistake Bachmann made was

being born. I wonder if her mother had any LIVE children.

[mainer]

11. A red-faced admission: I made a similar mistake

I was slated to give a speech in Concord. I must have spaced out when I made the arrangements because I drove to Concord, NH. Found out only when I got there that I was supposed to be in Concord, Massachusetts. Luckily I had just enough time to make it to the right Concord for the speech. I've since spoken to several people who've also done it.

[cui bono]

14. But that's different than being a loudmouthed elected official who wants to hold hearings

to determine who in congress is anti-American and then not knowing your own country's revolutionary history. And to have a staff who doesn't know either. She also said that the founding fathers got rid of slavery. Guess she got that one from her idol and mentor Sarah Palin.

[oldhippydude]

17. i came

i saw i concord

[No Elephants]

20. LOL!

[Roy Rolling]

27. LOL

I'll bet she drives a 2011 Lexington SUV.

[Thor_MN]

38. Venerat. Vidit. Vacuum.

She came. She saw. She sucked.

[No Elephants]

18. That was purely bad geography, not bad Amer. Hist. Do you know in which state Plymouth Rock is?

Did your staff help you prepare?

Was the trip your national debut in your run for POTUS?

I'm guessing your experience was not really similar, even though it may seem so on the surface.

However, if you are from Maine, as your nom indicates, maybe you should have been aware of the existence of both Concord, MA and Concord, NH and therefore should probably have been alert enough to question which state your engagement was in. So, maybe I wouldn't vote for you for POTUS, either. (j/k)

[Roy Rolling]

29. what state?

If it is up to the Republicans, the national landmark will be in a state of disrepair.

[No Elephants]

33. Dupe

[No Elephants]

34. It is literally a rock in the water in Plymouth, Mass. Last time I saw it, had "1620"

painted on it in white. If that's faded, it wouldn't be so bad, IMO. Thought it was a bit hokey.

However, our infrastructure does leave a lot to be desired. Since our legislature has been about 96% Democrats for a while, I would be dishonest to blame Republicans for much.

And our last few state speakers of the house, all Dem, seem to have a tendeny for helping themselves to money. However, our Republian Governors did give a few tax refunds, ala Dummya. And, while Gov. Deval Patrick, a Clinton Dem, has given no tax refunds, he's a multi-millionaire bank type and his private business career raised a few questions, no Bernie Sanders by any means. So, it's a very mixed bag.

Best I an tell, it's politicians versus people here, more than Dems vs. Pubs.

ETA: Still, I love my blue state, esp. and its stands on human rights and its blue judges. And, for all her shortcomings as a Senatorial hopeful, Coakley is a good AG

[mainer]

44. you absolutely don't want me for POTUS.

My problem is I don't have "staff"!

I knew there was a Concord MA, but I was so busy trying to keep up with my speaking schedule that I just assumed it was the Concord that was nearest to me.

[bongbong]

12. She is really crazy

And I don't mean rhetorically crazy. She is REALLY mentally ill. Imagine a grown person hiding while spying on a demonstration.

http://factonista.org/2008/10/19/michele-bachmann-fracked-up-congresswoman/

[valerief]

15. They called her an idiot and should have called her a moron. nt

[Historic NY]

16. Really....what other mistakes have you made?

[Plucketeer]

19. "So I told a mistruth?"

"We're Tea-Baggers! We actually doo that all the time - by design, no less!" :crazy: <-Michele B.

[No Elephants]

21. Whine and cheese-y, Mama Grisly.

[on point]

22. 'Reality has a left wing bias!!' - Thanks Colbert for the pithy summation

[SoapBox]

23. Michele Bachman aka Wile E. Coyote...SUPPPPPER Genius!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeVTzWelns&feature=related

...just keep filling those carrots with nitro, Bachmann!

So sad that she is always the victim. NOT!

LOL

[Solly Mack]

24. She's stupid and the media reported it. No bias there.

[forty6]

25. The "Fair and Balanced" Fixed Noise channel will NEVER report their dear ..

Michele Bachmann made a mistake. They WILL report that the librul media is biased toward Michele and the rest of the Rethuglicans.

[Roy Rolling]

26. yes, there is bias

Bias against idiocy and lack of knowledge of Elementary School history among members of the House of Representatives. The public expects them to be at least half-wits, not dim-wits. Yes, there is bias---we want someone who is not an idiot in Congress. Which brings us to Mark Twain who said:

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself..."

[eyesroll]

28. The national media had a field day with a liberal, Latina Milwaukee County Supervisor

who bungled geography.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/where_is_arizona_dont_ask_pegg.html

The media are biased against bungling.

[Kablooie]

30. Oh yeah, bias. If Obama had said the same thing the media would ignore it? I dun think so.

[No Elephants]

35. He said "57 states" and, contrary to lying Michelle, media did report it.

Clearly, his mistake was a slip of the tongue. As a Hawaiian and, at the time, a member of the U.S. Senate and a Presidential campaigner, he knew very well U.S. has 50 states. Equally clearly, Bachmann's error was no mere slip of the tongue.

Anyway, point is, she is a liar as well as an ignoramus.

[truthisfreedom]

32. bachmann is slowly learning that the truth has a liberal bias.

[Jmaxfie1]

39. +1 n/t

[yellowcanine]

36. Oh boo hoo. Poor little me.....Of Heat and Kitchens, Michele. Grow up.

[Mister Ed]

37. Dear Lord, how she cherishes her imagined victimhood.

Reminds me of a time, back around 2003-2004, when Bachmann was the State Senator from my district. The local small-town paper ran a get-to-know-your-state-legislator sort of piece, and posed the same set of questions to Bachmann and to our State Rep, Rebecca Otto.

They finished up with a lighthearted, softball question: "What kind of car do you drive?".

Otto immediately replied that she drove a Prius; Bachmann paused and said darkly that she didn't dare tell, hinting that she was in personal danger and under attack from her political opponents. When pressed for details, she explained to the interviewer that, well, her brother-in-law's service station had recently been burglarized.

Cripe. Like the burglars knew or cared that the service station belonged to someone related by marriage to our illustrious State Senator from District 52.

Then again, now that I think of it, there is that passage in the Bible that says, "Lo, and the righteous shall be persecuted, and stuff shall be stolen from their in-laws' gas stations..." I don't remember the chapter and verse, but I'm pretty sure it's in there somewhere.

:crazy:

[Jmaxfie1]

40. Well at least she knew we defeated the Germans in the Revolutionary War...

so you got to give her some credit.

[Thor_MN]

41. You just reminded me

that my conservative sibling, who lives in Bachmann's district and probably votes for her, once asked me if we fought the Germans or the Japanese in WWII...

[lunatica]

42. OMG! She admits to making a mistake?!

OMG! Hell is freezing over and pigs are flying!!

[chillspike]

43. A mistake is something you recognize soon after you commit it

But Bachmann repeated the error a second time at another engagement. This was ignorance. Bachmann and her staff would have never known if someone didn't point out their ignorance to them.