Michele Bachmann: Presidential debates made me a ‘virtual Wikipedia’

[appleannie1]

“It was a very good experience because I think that challenges are very good for us,” she said at the Patrick Henry College in Virginia. “I made a decision when I started I wouldn’t whine about the press and I wouldn’t whine about press coverage because I knew that it would be negative. What it did is it forced me to be better and stronger and to think through what I was going to say.”

“If you’re a conservative you can never get anything wrong and I was very proud of the fact that I didn’t get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates,” Bachmann continued. “I didn’t get anything wrong and that’s a huge arena. Other than debating the president for the final debates, this stage doesn’t get any larger. I was privileged to be a part of fifteen presidential debates. It forces a person to be better. You have to be a virtual Wikipedia. We have no idea what the questions are going to be.”



During the Republican presidential primary debates, Bachmann claimed the HPV vaccine could cause mental retardation. She also claimed President Barack Obama had “the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times,” accused former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney of implementing “socialized medicine,” and said the U.S. “will be paying for the entire People’s Liberation Army of China” by 2015.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/26/michele-bachmann-presidential-debates-made-me-a-virtual-wikipedia/

[Kalidurga]

1. Well now isn't that special...

she has a calling in life...shoveling guano. The only problem is no one would know when and if she went insane from it.

[appleannie1]

2. She actually believes the guano she spouts.

[Kalidurga]

7. Yeah that's what makes her bat shit insane rather than...

your regular run of the mill dishonest politician. I don't think she panders for votes. I actually don't think she is capable of that, IRL she is kind of mean to people that call her office.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Michele Bachmann is a Texas sharpshooter when it come to Wikipedia

Michele Bachmann Groupies Rush To Edit Her History Errors Into Wikipedia

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson
December 2, 2012

BUT THE BIBLE SAYS JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WAS A FOUNDING FATHER 1:25 pm June 29, 2011

Somewhere along the way, Internet nerd chat room Wikipedia became the keeper of Official American History, meaning that American History is now apparently just whatever Americans with Internet access and free time want it to be. Now that Michele Bachmann has mauled a few historical facts like any good Tea Party Patriot mauls the spelling on a protest sign, some of her faithful groupies have been trying to change Wikipedia pages to make the birthplace of movie actor John Wayne into a place where serial killer John Wayne Gacy once lived and to change John Quincy Adams to a “founding father.” See how easy it has become prove to everybody wrong now? We still remember the olden days when right-wing fanatics were forced to write whole strenuous textbooks about things like why dinosaurs are not real and how heaven starts right after Pluto.

Probably her followers do not want Michele’s feelings hurt if she goes to fact-check herself on Wikipedia, but then again, see what we just wrote there? There is no point to this, other than to be laughed at. Or possibly Bachmann supporters just wanted to prove that THEY TOO can change American history in the only way they are smart enough to do, which is retroactively, just like Sarah Palin’s drone army tried to “fix” the Paul Revere page.

Bachmann, who officially launched her campaign yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, told a Fox News reporter that she was proud to be in the town where John Wayne was from, because she embodies his ideals. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that the actor John Wayne was not from Waterloo, but serial killer John Wayne Gacy was.

Shortly after the gaffe, the Wikipedia page for actor John Wayne was altered to change his birthplace from Winterset, Iowa to Waterloo, apparently as an effort to cover for the misguided politician.

Another edit came after she declared Tuesday morning that the nation’s sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was a “founding father,” even though he was just a child when his father, the nation’s second president, signed the Declaration of Independence.

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http://wonkette.com/448539/michele-bachmann-groupies-rush-to-edit-her-history-errors-into-wikipedia

[catbyte]

4. I think she misspoke. I'm certain she actually meant Dickipedia.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. More like Wackopedia, and there's nothing virtual about it. nt

[nyquil_man]

6. Headline: Michele Bachmann Got It Right, Says Michele Bachmann nt

[lonestarnot]

8. Does she find herself under batshitcrazy?