This will come as no surprise, but: FactCheck.org just debunked a whole bunch of what Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive recently claimed. Let’s look!
Q – Is ACORN providing workers for the 2010 census?
Did the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) sign on as a “national partner” with the U.S. Census Bureau to sign up over 1 million temporary workers to help with the 2010 census?
A – No. ACORN employees will not be taking the census. The group is one of more than 30,000 “partners” that will help publicize the event.
That’s the short of the most recent debunking Machmann MotorMouth Overdrive. Not that that will stop her from continuing to repeat debunked stuff; after all – she’s a republiCon.
Here’s some of the long, from FactCheck.org’s analysis:
ACORN “will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann in mid-June. “This is very concerning.” Saying she was worried about ACORN’s supposed involvement in gathering census data, the Minnesota Republican announced that she won’t participate in the census beyond answering how many individuals reside in her household, “because,” she maintained, “the Constitution doesn’t require any information beyond that.” Actually, the Constitution, under Article 1, Section 2, simply requires that an “enumeration” be done every 10 years to apportion the members of the House, but that it be done “in such manner” as Congress “shall by law direct.” And Congress has seen fit to require everyone to answer truthfully whatever census questions they are asked, under threat of a $100 penalty for failure to answer and $500 for lying.
And Bachmann is flat wrong about ACORN going door-to-door and gathering data. Being “partners” with the Census Bureau doesn’t entail as close a relationship as one might think.
OK, Bachmann bein’ bein’ psycho-stupid and “flat out wrong” isn’t “news” to most folk reading this. What IS news, is:
Tonight, on AM-950 KTNF radio, Big E and yours truly (the ol’ TwoPutter) are Guest Hosting The Mark Heaney Show.
OK, that’s not “new” – Big E posted that yesterday.
What is “new” is that one of our guests will be Ken Avidor, cover artist for the new comic book “False Witness! – the Michele Bachmann story (vol. 1)” – and we’ll be giving away a signed copy of said comic book to one (maybe even two!) lucky listeners that call in!!!
Not only is this comic book funny, it has the added benefit of bein’ true.
Bill Predergast actually wrote it, but it’s our understanding Bill is out of town and unavailable, so we’ll be discussing this comic with Avidor, who is quite familiar with Little Miss Hiding In The Weeds due to his work over at DumpBachmann.Blogspot.com
So, listen in to AM-950 KTNF radio between 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm for your chance to win this fabulous prize!
Oh – and you can order it online, here.
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
ThinkProgress.org got the recording of Princess SparklePony on The Moonie Times’ radio “show”:
What Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive said, BEFORE she said she was gonna break the law, is worth repeating. Here’s the transcript:
(0:25) I come from Minnesota. We’re still in a recount with our Senate race between Senator Norm Coleman and the challenger, Al Franken. Senator Coleman won the race on Election Day but that was challenged repeatedly over and over with what we feel may be fraudulent votes and very concerned about what goes forward.
“fradulent votes”, eh? That’s what you “think”, Michele?
Why, just the other day (June 1st, to be exact) Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Christopher Dietzen said he saw “no evidence or fraud or misconduct.” And Justice Dietzen said that in court.
That same day, in that same court, another Minnesota Supreme Court Justice asked Norm Coleman’s attorney, Joe Friedberg, very pointedly if their were any instances of fraud. Norm Coleman’s attorney – NORM COLEMAN’S ATTORNEY – answered emphatically “absolutely not” and added that there was no fraud of any kind; election, voter or otherwise.
But, hey – today’s GOP playbook is ignore the debunking and repeat, Repeat, and REPEAT the debunked stuff over and Over and OVER, as Bachmann just did: the “fraudulent vote (debunked) theory.”
In the rightwingworld, Norm “Smokescreen” Coleman “wuz robbed.” That’s their story, and they’re stickin’ to it.
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
