Bach-to-Mom has been taking lessons from Yurt...
Question: “Do you stand by your statement that the HPV vaccine is potentially dangerous, and if not, should you be more careful when you’re talking about a public health issue?”
Bach-to-Mom, channeling Yurt:*“Well, first, I didn’t make that claim, nor did I make that statement. Immediately after the debate, a mother came up to me, and she was visibly shaken and heartbroken because of what her daughter had gone through, and so I only related what her story was.”
Bachmann, in trying to spin her way out of a political problem, is simply not telling the truth here.
The transcript of her interview on NBC’s “Today” program shows that Bachmann not only said the vaccine “could potentially be a very dangerous drug,” but she made this statement before she ever mentioned the distraught mother.
Here’s the relevant part of the transcript:
REP. BACHMANN: Well, it’s very clear that crony capitalism could have likely been the cause, because the governor’s former chief of staff was the chief lobbyist for this drug company. This was an issue that could have gone before the legislature. But rather than putting it before hearings and before the legislature, the governor chose, by himself, unilaterally, to sign an executive order and put through the requirement that all innocent little 12-year-old girls or 11-year-old girls in the state of Texas would be forced by the government to take an injection of what could potentially be a very dangerous drug.
MATT LAUER: So do you feel —
REP. BACHMANN: And after the debate last night —
MR. LAUER: Do you feel he placed the health and safety of young girls in the state of Texas behind or below the need for campaign funds?
REP. BACHMANN: Well, I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter. It can have very dangerous side effects. The mother was crying when she came up to me last night. I didn’t know who she was before the debate. This is the very real concern. And people have to draw their own conclusions.
It seems pretty clear she was reinventing history when she gave her answer during last night’s debate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...te-in-orlando/2011/09/22/gIQA1DEdpK_blog.html