An editor for the Associated Press said in a panel discussion on Wednesday that during coverage of the Republican primaries, fact-checkers for the organization would have to limit themselves to a “quota” of misstatements by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) during debates.
According to the Washington Post, the AP’s Jim Drinkard confessed that the sheer volume of factually inaccurate assertions, dubious claims and stretchings of the truth threatened to “overload” the stories of the debates.
“We had to have a self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota in some of those debates,” Drinkard told the audience at the National Press Club on Wednesday. Otherwise, Bachmann would have become the story. Of all the Republican candidates who ran, said Drinkard, “Often she was just more prone to statements that just didn’t add up.”
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
And now, just for your entertainment, here are some of Bachmann’s greatest hits:
•The Lion King is gay propaganda.
•She claimed that Huma Abedin, the deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton and wife of disgraced former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner, should be investigated for having terrorist ties. Because obviously someone born in Kalamazoo, Michigan who is married to a Jew must be a Muslim terrorist.
•During a 2006 debate, Bachmann said, “There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.”
•When Melissa Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer, Bachmann suggested she might want to take this as a sign from God to repent from her lesbianism: “This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.”
•This: “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”
•Terri Schiavo “was healthy. She had brain damage — there was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.”
•She recently claimed Barack Obama does not understand what the common man is going through because he is too wealthy, unlike Mitt Romney.
Maybe you think Bachmann is relevant and you were magicly transported back to late 2011?
LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!!!!!......It's just a jump to the left....
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
Maybe you think Bachmann is relevant and you were magicly transported back to late 2011?
LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!!!!!......It's just a jump to the left....
She's still in office, so not to interfere with your selective amnesia, but yeah, she's still relevant. Especially when she spends her days hauling baseless accusations at people, and in general, not doing the job she was hired to do.
She's the very definition of the phrase "wing-nut".
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
And who even cares about bachmann??????? She's an irrelevant piss ant!!
Kinda like Ron Paul.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
An irrelevant piss ant who does her level best to impede anything that might even be seen as progress.
Lol, progress - the 1% regulating the 99% lives. Not to worry Tommy republicans are part of the same 1%, they will regulate your life too. Somebody will always be there to forcefully guide you.
She's still in office, so not to interfere with your selective amnesia, but yeah, she's still relevant. Especially when she spends her days hauling baseless accusations at people, and in general, not doing the job she was hired to do.
She's the very definition of the phrase "wing-nut".
Selective amnesia?
Maybe you might want to read the the topic? I'll give you the TL;DR version (I'll bold the important part)...
Boxy the Robot posts a story on how the AP had to limit thier time fact checking Michele Bachmann during the GOP primary debates last year
So no, while Michele Bachmann is still a Congresswoman, she is irrelevant when it comes to the election of POTUS.
Nice try to spin but RIF
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
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