Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., head of the congressional Tea Party Caucus, complained Tuesday she is the victim of a media double standard.
In an interview with conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, Bachmann said reporters have overplayed her misstatements about the American Revolution, Politico reported. During the weekend, Bachmann, in prepared speeches in New Hampshire Friday and Saturday, wrongly called the state the site of the Battle of Lexington and Concord — moving the start of the revolution about 50 miles north from Massachusetts.
“We all know there’s a double standard in the media. As we know all 3,400 members of the mainstream media are part of the Obama press contingent,” she said.
Bachmann made an earlier misstatement about U.S. history when she said the nation’s founders “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.” Many of the founders were slave owners and the Constitution initially counted slaves as “three fifths of all other Persons.”
She said the news media overlooks gaffes committed by President Barack Obama, like a statement during the 2008 campaign that he had visited 57 states or a more recent slip when he said 10,000 people had died in Kansas tornadoes.
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A better headline: "Bachmann says she's smarter than she sounds."
And I suppose she's bound to be.
McPherson, and your comments are just as UGLY as you look!
James one thing for certain is that Bachmann is definitely smarter that you!
Hey, James, are you one of Obongo's hired dummy trolls?
Buggy, you know I comment here more oftern than you do, and that I'm not a fan of Obama's–so I assume you're just trying to get Cougar's attention?
Besides, I can't imagine that Obama cares much about Bachmann (you remember, the subject of this post).
Considering that the founders did work to eliminate slavery is correct. Your understand of the “three fifths of all other Persons.” statement proves you know little about the issue. The 3/5 was a compromise to force slave holders to drop slavery to allow for the freed persons to be counted as a full person. This had nothing to do with slaves being worth on 3/5s of a person. Check your facts before you attempt to insult others.
Give'm hell Ken!! lol
So the media is obsessed with her errors. Did they notice that she does not rely on a Teleprompter for her speech? If she read her speech from a Teleprompter, she could have had every fact straight. Why are Obama and his administrations' blatant lies okay, but a historical goof is a mortal sin if a conservative or Republican does it? By the way, has anyone seen Obama since the Japan meltdown started? Could someone please go to the White House and coax him out from under his desk or drag him off the golf course and let him know that there are some severe problems going on in the world?
"Everybody knows that the best way to save gas is to put air in your tires". Now that was a Nobel Peace Prize kind of statement.
Eye for an eye, gaffe for a gaffe.
Obongo didn't make a gaffe about the 57 states .. he was referring to the "57 States of Islam," a perfectly natural comment .. for a Muslim. He still is unaware that we have 50 states, and he thinks the Mississippi River is in Mississippi. If he is reelected, he will likely demand that our flag be changed to have 57 stars.
It's time for the new game that's sweeping the country – Who Said It?
The rules are simple. I will give you a quote and you have to guess which American politician said it. Your three choices are:
President Barack Obama,
Former Vice President Dan Quayle or
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Here we go! Do Not Cheat !
1) “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
2) “I’ve now been in 57 states I think one left to go.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
3) “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
4) “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about… It it it would cost about the same as what we would spend… It… Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us… (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to… It… It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
5) “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
6) “I bowled a 129. It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
7) “Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice.. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
8) “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
9) “It was … interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing…”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
10) “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”;
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
I’m sorry. This was a trick quiz. All of the correct answers are the same person. Each of these quotes are from President Barack Obama. And now you know why he brings his teleprompter with him everywhere he goes…..even when talking to a 6th grade class!!!
By the way, how many of these quotes and misquotes did you read about or hear from the mainstream media? Do you think they might have given more coverage to these statements had they been made by Dan Quayle or Sarah Palin?
It's impossible to know everything and to remember everything one knows. One thing for sure, however, the lady's heart is in her cause.