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If only Michele Bachmann had asked me
If only Michele Bachmann had asked me – I could have saved her from untold embarrassment in Iowa.
You see, I have the mug in my kitchen that proves her wrong.
Launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann claimed that the 'True Grit' star John Wayne was from. “That’s the spirit I have,” she said.
Unfortunately for her, John Wayne was born (Marion Morrison) about 150 miles away in Winterset, Iowa. I’ve been to the house and nerdishly bought the mug.
The John Wayne who WAS from Waterloo was John Wayne Gacy, the infamous ‘killer clown’ who murdered 30 young men and hid the bodies in his house.
Leaving aside the embarrassment of mixing up an American icon with a serial killer, it is more grist to the mill of those who say Bachmann plays fast and loose with the facts.
Especially when she made such efforts to talk up her Iowa roots, a useful thing when it is the first state in the nation to pick its candidate for president.
As the LA Times reports, at the weekend, Bachmann was confronted with analysis of two dozen of her recent statements which found only one to be ‘completely true’ and seven to be outright falsehoods.
She told CBS: “I have not misled people.”
Still, a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do, as John Wayne (THE John Wayne) might have said.
Maybe it is us media types who care more about these sorts of things than the voters but surely they are harder to ignore when someone is actually running for the highest office in the land?
Bachmann’s blunder comes after the combined gaffe-fest of Jon/John Huntsman, Mitt ‘$100 bill’ Romney and possible candidate Rick ‘Tweeter’ Perry last week.
Bachmann also appears to have upset the American music legend Tom Petty by using his song ‘American Girl’ at her launch.
It has been reported that Petty hadn’t given permission for its use and would have refused – just as he once did for George W Bush.
Rock on.
http://blogs.news.sky.com/americanpie/Post:02eeb017-1add-4bf9-9b08-a96a3520be20
If only Michele Bachmann had asked me
If only Michele Bachmann had asked me – I could have saved her from untold embarrassment in Iowa.
You see, I have the mug in my kitchen that proves her wrong.
Launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann claimed that the 'True Grit' star John Wayne was from. “That’s the spirit I have,” she said.
Unfortunately for her, John Wayne was born (Marion Morrison) about 150 miles away in Winterset, Iowa. I’ve been to the house and nerdishly bought the mug.
The John Wayne who WAS from Waterloo was John Wayne Gacy, the infamous ‘killer clown’ who murdered 30 young men and hid the bodies in his house.
Leaving aside the embarrassment of mixing up an American icon with a serial killer, it is more grist to the mill of those who say Bachmann plays fast and loose with the facts.
Especially when she made such efforts to talk up her Iowa roots, a useful thing when it is the first state in the nation to pick its candidate for president.
As the LA Times reports, at the weekend, Bachmann was confronted with analysis of two dozen of her recent statements which found only one to be ‘completely true’ and seven to be outright falsehoods.
She told CBS: “I have not misled people.”
Still, a woman's got to do what a woman's got to do, as John Wayne (THE John Wayne) might have said.
Maybe it is us media types who care more about these sorts of things than the voters but surely they are harder to ignore when someone is actually running for the highest office in the land?
Bachmann’s blunder comes after the combined gaffe-fest of Jon/John Huntsman, Mitt ‘$100 bill’ Romney and possible candidate Rick ‘Tweeter’ Perry last week.
Bachmann also appears to have upset the American music legend Tom Petty by using his song ‘American Girl’ at her launch.
It has been reported that Petty hadn’t given permission for its use and would have refused – just as he once did for George W Bush.
Rock on.
http://blogs.news.sky.com/americanpie/Post:02eeb017-1add-4bf9-9b08-a96a3520be20
