Last Sunday Morning, on Esme Murphy’s WCCO show, MN GOP Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb said:
“Congresswoman Bachmann, Governor Palin, are just the gold standard right now inside our party.” (WCCO.com)
The amazing thing about that statement, by Brodkorb, is he said it in a segment immediately preceeded by a Pat Kessler “Reality Check”. And in Kessler’s “Reality Check” – on Bachmann’s outrageous fabrications concerning the economy – Kessler found Bachmann’s claims, and I quote: “That’s factually WRONG and “This is FALSE” and “This starts with a kernel of truth, but is OUT OF CONTEXT” and “This is NOT TRUE.”.
“WRONG”, “FALSE”, “OUT OF CONTEXT”, and “NOT TRUE” – all from just one appearance from Bachmann on March 28th’s “Face The Nation”. Essentially, Kessler all but called Bachmann a liar.
Now, that “Reality Check”, by Pat Kessler, was actually aired twice – once on March 30th, as a result of the above mentioned “Face The Nation” appearance, and again last Sunday, just before Brodkorb’s appearance on Esme Murphy’s Show.
So, gentle readers, wouldn’t you expect that someone spewing stuff debunked – twice – might just drop that cr@ppola from their repertoire?
For GOPers, NOT A CHANCE. Yesterday, at her Fool’s Gold Express stop on The Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive Tour at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Bachmann repeated that debunked cr@ppola, once again.
Shameless – completely shameless. And the Fools gathered by the GOP to watch their Standards, ate it up.
But that shamelessness really isn’t surprising, coming from Bachmann – a Finalist in Politifact.com’s “2009 Lie Of The Year” contest. Indeed, Politifact.com recently checked another Bachmann Statement, one that Kessler checked, too, and found Bachmann’s statement, on the Truth-O-Meter, to register as false.
That makes Bachmann ZERO for NINE on claims checked by Politifact.com.
What IS surprising, is 3rd CD GOP Incumbent Erik Paulsen, R=BoughtAndPaidFor, hitching his wagon to the GOP Fool’s Gold Express. Conventional Wisdom suggests he should be running as far away and as fast as he can from Bachmann and Palin – that Fool’s Gold Express may play in Minnesota’s nutjob 6th Congressional District, but I highly doubt it will in the 3rd.
For a good recap, with plenty of pictures, of yesterday’s Fool’s Gold Express Stop on The Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive Tour, link here.
(cross posted from MnProgressiveProject; comments welcome there)
Here’s how Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive starts her “poor, poor, pitiful me!” email:
Dear Friend:
Last month, I appeared on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News Channel. I was talking about the Democrats’ latest scheme to pick the taxpayer’s pocket to pay for a $1.5-billion slush fund for ACORN.Before getting into the meat of this terrible new anti-taxpayer proposal, Sean Hannity said that he considers me “the second most hated Republican woman,” second only to Governor Sarah Palin.
Political Muse has the story; go there for the rest of the “poor, poor pitiful me!” sobfest – it’s worth your while.
In the meantime, remember – there’s a reason people pick on Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive – let’s look!
(h/t to CrooksAndLiars.com)
(update – Andy Birkey at MinnesotaIndependent.com has some fisk…)
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
