PolitiFact: Bachmann’s claims ‘false’ more often than any other politician

By David Edwards
Friday, January 21, 2011 12:54 EST
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Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann isn’t letting her lack of credibility get in the way of her presidential ambitions.

Only a day before the congresswoman’s Friday visit to Iowa, the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact noted that she had made false statements more often than any public official.

“We have checked her 13 times, and seven of her claims to be false and six have been found to be ridiculously false,” PolitiFact editor Bill Adair told Minnesota Public Radio.

He added that no other politician had been fact checked as often as Bachmann without saying something that was found to be true.

“I don’t know anyone else that we have checked, more than a couple times, that has never earned anything above a false,” Adair said. “She is unusual in that regard that she has never gotten a rating higher than false.”

When PolitiFact last checked the congresswoman, they gave her a “Pants on fire” rating for claiming President Barack Obama wanted to give a “massive” tax hike to businesses with $250,000 in gross sales.

“We first fact-checked similar claims during the 2008 election, when Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, worried he’d get a tax increase under Obama’s plan if he bought a company that took in around $250,000 a year,” PolitiFact noted.

“It wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now,” the fact checkers said.

PolitiFact’s trove of Bachmann fibs just scratches the surface. Minnesota Public Radio found at least four false statements during their most recent nine-minute interview with her.

Frequent visits to Iowa are considered to be necessary for presidential candidates, and Bachmann has indicated she may enter the 2012 race.

Following the mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in the hospital, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) called out Bachmann for her use of gun rhetoric.

“I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back,” Bachmann had said during an interview with WWTC 1280 AM in 2009.

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David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.
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  • DesertSun59

    “Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let’s now stop being so damned respectful!”

    –Richard Dawkins

    One of her primary methods for the deliberate and willful spread of disinformation is her disingenuous use of religion to convey her message. She is dangerous. But worse are her constituents who continue to vote her into Congress. THEY are the ones that are the MOST dangerous. She can’t exist unless she has votes.

  • Anonymous

    Wow! I get to be the first to comment and say the obvious. That woman is an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    “Fib” sounds like such a cute word. “Mislead” so pallid, almost like nudging the truth of course. Bachmann is an inveterate LIAR. she lies, lies, lies, lies, liss, etc. She is rotten to her core. Can we, at long last, call a liar what she is? A LIAR!

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  • http://www.tommyjonestheband.com RantingTommy

    if you can convince a man of absurdities (magic man in the sky, divine rights, virgin births, etc)

    you can convince him to commit atrocities (murdering doctors, shooting congresspeople, etc)

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately, non-thinking people vote for idiots. She is smart in an evil, sinister way.

  • Anonymous

    Why does Iowa count?

  • Ed Dominguez

    She will claim that she has the reports that are only she and her staff has access too. Top secret her eyes only more security clearance than the Pres.

  • http://twitter.com/Michael_Gaston Michael Gaston

    Is it just me? Are her pupils dilated?

  • Anonymous

    They also regularly go back and forth between brown and blue.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s a good lie o meter drinking game.

    You pick a card from two piles. One pile made of Republican politicians, the other pile is made up of Right wing television, radio and editorialist celebrities.

    You pick a card and it says, “Minnesota Public Radio found at least four false statements during their most recent nine-minute interview with her.” That means you have to drink 4 shots within nine minutes.

    The cards range from one lie up to a lot of lies.

    You’ll have to provide buckets for your guests to puke in because they may have to read the lies printed on the card.

    The game gets worse. There is a special deck made up of Republican appointed judges. You might end up picking one of those cards.

    The rules are simple one of the players is appointed a CEO he gets to make up the rules. That’s how you might end up picking from the judge deck and you’ll need more than a bucket to puke in.

  • Anonymous

    when will her doctor tell her that she needs medicine to make her brain function properly?

    michelle is not healthy at all!

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t they just say she lies – a lot?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think that she’s an idiot. I think that she’s tapped into an ugly vein of intolerance that is just immune to reason and has learned that s long as she feeds the beast, she gets re-elected. I’d say she’s best described as an amoral opportunist.

  • Anonymous

    Another stupid republican, just that simple, and we thought Palin was dumb.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    As insane as Michelle Bachmann is, she would make a far, far better president than Barack Obama. For instance, I doubt she would hand our economy over to the people who destroyed. it. You have to be dumber than Bachmann to do something like that. And I’m sure she would be more likely to investigate war crimes committed by her predecessor. Pretty much any lunatic would be an improvement over Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Better be sure of your facts. I’m sure that when Sarah Palin hears about this, she will say something about the biased libbrul press, and that she can beat Bachmann hands down with her lips sewn shut.

  • Anonymous

    Stop being redundant.

  • Anonymous

    Stop being redundant.

  • Where goeth sanity?

    Nor are those who vote for her.

  • Where goeth sanity?

    Nor are those who vote for her.

  • Anonymous

    Yes. If you are an out of touch idiot. Dunning-Kruger is common among people such as yourself. Put those who caused the mess back into the WH? She would not be a better president. That is the insanity within you speaking. Or are you just stupid?

  • Anonymous

    Yes. If you are an out of touch idiot. Dunning-Kruger is common among people such as yourself. Put those who caused the mess back into the WH? She would not be a better president. That is the insanity within you speaking. Or are you just stupid?

  • http://twitter.com/JeffHolton Jeffrey Holton

    Ah, but if you can convince a man of absurdities while he’s hungry, you might be able to get him to get you a snack while he’s up.

  • http://twitter.com/JeffHolton Jeffrey Holton

    Ah, but if you can convince a man of absurdities while he’s hungry, you might be able to get him to get you a snack while he’s up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I’m intelligent. I explained to you why Michelle Bachmann would be a far better president than Barack Obama. You, on the other hand, support Obama simply because you’re a stupid person and that’s what stupid people do. You have no valid arguments. You just repeat what other simpletons tell you to repeat. Do you understand?

    And, by the way, Barack Obama is far more aligned with the people who “caused the mess” than is Michelle Bachmann. What you said is as far from reality as one can get. That’s where your handlers want you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I’m intelligent. I explained to you why Michelle Bachmann would be a far better president than Barack Obama. You, on the other hand, support Obama simply because you’re a stupid person and that’s what stupid people do. You have no valid arguments. You just repeat what other simpletons tell you to repeat. Do you understand?

    And, by the way, Barack Obama is far more aligned with the people who “caused the mess” than is Michelle Bachmann. What you said is as far from reality as one can get. That’s where your handlers want you.

  • Ratzo

    If it talks like a Troll, smells like a Troll and walks like a Troll; it ain’t a rose.

  • Ratzo

    If it talks like a Troll, smells like a Troll and walks like a Troll; it ain’t a rose.

  • Anonymous

    I often wonder about the demographic of her constituents…..i picture them to be extremely caucasian, super-duper wealthy and perhaps elderly….its the only sane thing to think of those who keeps voting her unstable ass back into office. They are simply as looney as she is!

  • Anonymous

    I often wonder about the demographic of her constituents…..i picture them to be extremely caucasian, super-duper wealthy and perhaps elderly….its the only sane thing to think of those who keeps voting her unstable ass back into office. They are simply as looney as she is!

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone sane even listen to what this bat shit crazy woman has to say? I guess those who put herein office are just as fucking crazy.

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone sane even listen to what this bat shit crazy woman has to say? I guess those who put herein office are just as fucking crazy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    The Fascist morons who support Barack Obama see all truth tellers as trolls. It’s what you’ve been trained to do.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    The Fascist morons who support Barack Obama see all truth tellers as trolls. It’s what you’ve been trained to do.

  • Anonymous

    well, i had to look it up:

    Minnesota 6th Congressional District Demographics:

    Ethnicity Breakdown:

    95.6% White,
    1% Black,
    1.4% Asian,
    1.3% Hispanic,
    0.4% Native American,
    0.4% other

    These stats are based on 2010 midterm elections:

    District Demographics

    Race and ethnicity-Minn 6th
    White 92.0%
    Black 1.7%
    Hispanic 1.8%
    Asian 2.6%
    Native America 0.4%

    Income District-Minn 6th
    Median income $70,506
    Poverty rate 3.9%
    Below $25,000 10.2%
    $25,000-$50,000 19.7%
    $50,000-$100,000 39.9%
    $100,000-$200,000 23.7%
    $200,000 or more 4.1%

    Education District Minn 6th
    High school graduate 93.4%
    Bachelor’s degree or higher 28.7%

    Age District-Minn 6th
    Under 18 26.5%
    65 and older 8.4%

    Source: Census Bureau

  • Anonymous

    well, i had to look it up:

    Minnesota 6th Congressional District Demographics:

    Ethnicity Breakdown:

    95.6% White,
    1% Black,
    1.4% Asian,
    1.3% Hispanic,
    0.4% Native American,
    0.4% other

    These stats are based on 2010 midterm elections:

    District Demographics

    Race and ethnicity-Minn 6th
    White 92.0%
    Black 1.7%
    Hispanic 1.8%
    Asian 2.6%
    Native America 0.4%

    Income District-Minn 6th
    Median income $70,506
    Poverty rate 3.9%
    Below $25,000 10.2%
    $25,000-$50,000 19.7%
    $50,000-$100,000 39.9%
    $100,000-$200,000 23.7%
    $200,000 or more 4.1%

    Education District Minn 6th
    High school graduate 93.4%
    Bachelor’s degree or higher 28.7%

    Age District-Minn 6th
    Under 18 26.5%
    65 and older 8.4%

    Source: Census Bureau

  • Phil E. Drifter

    If you were intelligent, you’d understand why, as this story highlights, Bachmann misleads the public more than any other candidate.

    Why am I even bothering to tell you? You’re obviously criminally stupid.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    If you were intelligent, you’d understand why, as this story highlights, Bachmann misleads the public more than any other candidate.

    Why am I even bothering to tell you? You’re obviously criminally stupid.

  • Ratzo

    I smell a bit of projection. We gave up more freedoms under W. Bush than any president, since Lincoln. Those freedoms are still gone, besides his socialization of the Financial segment’s losses and his unfinished grudge wars and Cuban island prison system. Where were you when he was borrowing money from the Chinese to fund his follies? Where were you when Americans were labeled enemies of the State? I’ll bet you were cheering along with every regretful decision.

    Say Fascist 3 times daily in the mirror, take two aspirins and go about your day.

  • Ratzo

    I smell a bit of projection. We gave up more freedoms under W. Bush than any president, since Lincoln. Those freedoms are still gone, besides his socialization of the Financial segment’s losses and his unfinished grudge wars and Cuban island prison system. Where were you when he was borrowing money from the Chinese to fund his follies? Where were you when Americans were labeled enemies of the State? I’ll bet you were cheering along with every regretful decision.

    Say Fascist 3 times daily in the mirror, take two aspirins and go about your day.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

  • Phil E. Drifter

    “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I haven’t disagreed with the story in any way. You’re too stupid to understand that.

    When I call you stupid, I don’t do it as an insult. I call you stupid because I think it’s important to let stupid people know they’re stupid. Stupid people have been running this country for ten years now because intelligent people have been too polite to tell you you’re stupid. That has to change now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I haven’t disagreed with the story in any way. You’re too stupid to understand that.

    When I call you stupid, I don’t do it as an insult. I call you stupid because I think it’s important to let stupid people know they’re stupid. Stupid people have been running this country for ten years now because intelligent people have been too polite to tell you you’re stupid. That has to change now.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the cons have no vaild arguments. That is the reason they lie. They play of fear and run elections on emotional, “social” issues. They have nothing to contribute. Free your mind and your ass will follow.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the cons have no vaild arguments. That is the reason they lie. They play of fear and run elections on emotional, “social” issues. They have nothing to contribute. Free your mind and your ass will follow.

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  • Anonymous

    Disinformation is a good tactic when you offer nothing substantial. I read a book for a class in college (The History of Soviet Military Power). The book is called “Dezinformatzia” I think. You simply throw the lie out there and let stupid people believe it. Just ignore those who do not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Flatt/764419858 Alan Flatt

    take a nap moron

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Wrong. Barack Obama supporters are the ones who surrendered our freedoms. In particular, you, missive, destroyed everything that once made us great.

    To this very day, in this very thread, you support the fascist asshole who abandoned all rule of law, who codified torture, wars of lies, domestic spying, et cetera. You’re just too damn stupid to know what you’re doing. I ask that you, as a stupid person, no longer participate in the political process. It’s time to get the stupid people out of politics. You are nothing but fascist tools.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3QIJ4LGZX6PZOJSD57QIC3NRAA Straw

    Hey, it’s how O’Bumbler got elected.

    “I’m going to bring change you can believe in”
    Stupid People reply, “Can we believe that? YES WE CAN!!!”

    Good call, Jarhead.

  • Anonymous

    And who is it that destroyed our economy?The info that i get would say it was Wall St. and the repuo.

    Msgt Moore/1T2900

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Only stupid people think Barack Obama is something other than a “con.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Yes, it was Barack Obama’s Wall Street friends who destroyed our economy. The ones who are now running the White House. More proof that Michelle Bachmann would be a far, far better president than Barack Obama. Well put.

  • WaStConcerned

    …the right listens, no matter the insanity….

  • Anonymous

    When “Q’Bumblor” was taking about change,he was talking about Chimpy-W.

  • WaStConcerned

    “I doubt she would hand our economy over to the people who destroyed. it. ”

    You have got to be kidding – she want to hand the entire government (or what is left after she gets through gutting it…..) over to the corporations and the bankers…..

    Government has it’s purpose and we HAVE to pay for those services – they are not free. Taxes need to be accurate and we cannot continue to shift costs to states and states to local governments….there needs to be cohesive standards shared by all in this country. We are NOT a conglomoration of mini-countries, we ARE states in a UNION.

    The march to destroy government is a function of the corporate domination and NOT to the benefit of our people. Business has NOT been creating jobs no matter how many breaks they have (including so many deductions they virtually pay NO tax) – they have been offshoring money as well as jobs and funnelling it to the shareholders and management.

    If you want to continue to give your money to the corporations, have at it…..I prefer that my accurate tax dollars go to governing the people.

  • Ratzo

    You might want to see a Doctor, for that froth around your mouth. It could be a problem. I’m done with you. I doubt you understand a political process, just spewing names isn’t the only part of it. You offer nothing concrete by push back. That in of itself gets nothing done. We’re not on a school yard and I doubt you’re a child.

  • Anonymous

    Like “W” was????????????? Is that the lunatic you were refering too????????????
    Obama has created more jobs in two years than Wacko-W did in eight years.

  • http://twitter.com/jerseyblueboy Karim Walker

    Figures that she would get this dubious award, but almost any Republican would have been appropriate too.

  • Anonymous

    What planet do you live on???????????

  • Anonymous

    you wrote ” I’m intelligent” Than show it.You best look into the mirrow when you want to see someone “stupid”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I’ve offered nothing but concrete evidence. You’re simply too stupid to understand that. I get it.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/5OQFBZ26C3VQ5ONGZGDBDY4BUU Mark A

    Your original assumption that Bachmann would be less corporate than Obama is completely false. She desperately clings to all right-wing rhetoric, much more so than Obama. Obama might seem worse, because he talked about ending right-wing policies before implementing them.

  • LiberalTexasDemocrat

    It’s sad and depressing to know that even after it’s demonstrated time after time she speaks in a deliberate way to alter reality to fit her agenda that, obviously, the voters in her district share the same willingness to overlook truth to further that agenda. It speaks volumes with regard to her supporters.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Wait a minute. How can Michelle Bachmann hand the entire government over to the corporations and bankers when Barack Obama has already done that?

    I truly don’t understand how people like you are so easily made fools of. Don’t you care about anything?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Yes, I know, you’ve been trained to think a higher unemployment rate is a good thing. Stupid people buy into that one all the time. Nobody cares.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    The one where truth rules.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    First of all, it’s impossible to be more corporate than Barack Obama. No human being in the history of the world has been more successful at corporatism (fascism) than Barack Obama.

    What Barack Obama has done is what Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler always dreamed of doing. He made the government and the corporation the same thing. The financial sector now runs the White House. Literally. Obama’s White House is Fascism’s Utopia, complete with the torture and imperialism.

    To assume that little Michelle Bachmann would somehow be more corporate than Barack Obama is to ignore the entire history of the world. Why would you do such a thing?

  • WaStConcerned

    ….look at your definitions – Fascism is a right wing theory, not left (proven and defined). …..and unfortunately, if you fact check all your little sound bites, you find that your are in the LIE category without equal. You have been thoroghly trained by the back room powers that have been repeating lies for 30+ years and as the old saying goes, repeat a lie enough and half the people will believe you. This “government takeover” plan was germinated by the oil kings decades ago to set up the governing powers to let them have free reign by the biggest money producing industry over the economics of this country. I’ve seen it happen since the mid 60′s. I’ve watched Reagan destroy the economy with false assumptions on government and taxes and injecting religion into government in violation of the constitution. We have essentially become, due to republican policies, that which the founding fathers were attempting to avoid – a country without representation of the people, but with domination by the corporation (the founding fathers rejected domination by the “ruling” class without representation). The enemy is different because the enemy we face now has gained power in the entire world, not just here. The corporate elite rule….and the republicans have encouraged that, supported that, facilitated that. From the events this week, it would seem that Obama is following in that path – enabling corporate rule. Even our supreme court is tainted with those premises (corporate personhood, unlimited purchase of our lawmakers….)

    Unless WE THE PEOPLE consolidate in the belief that we are all PATRIOTS, that we all wish that people rather than corporations should be the recipients of the government “largese”, that the economic policies are NOT benefiting the people but the corporations, that we believe in “sensible” government rather than NO government, that we should defend ourselves but not attack others due to perceived threats, that we should NOT be responsible for corporations surviving – but that THEY should be responsible to the workers that they hire, and I could go on and on.

    Your assertion as to “American Exceptionism” is flawed also – that began declining in the 80′s also. Those attrocities you accuse Obama of were instituted long before he was even on the scene. Get your facts straight for a change. YOU are the fascist: •fascism – a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

    Your views, your postings, your beliefs in the drivel you spout are FASCIST.

    If you recall, Obama has been actually quite silent on most legislation and the battles in the congress – except to voice the disgust we all feel at the obstructionism of legislation that takes power away from corporations. However, it seems the corporations have gotten to his administration – I don’t believe any leader has much chance in holding the corporations at bay. It is up to US, the people to unite (rather than staying diometrically opposed and sniping at each other as the corporations want….”divided they fall”….) and change the system of campaign financing to get corporations OUT of the election process in order to get lawmakers in place that are not influenced by them. Until that happens, we have NO chance of passing legislation for the actual benefits of the people.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A2RRY2XGMD6IJFR2HYYVOAAW4E Rick Guinan

    you really should bother pointing out if stupid people are being stupid, they won’t listen and can’t understand they are wrong. . .for example, Mitch you are being really stupid! You should reread all you are saying and investigate it through multiple sources rather than spewing what you hear or what your gut tells you. An intelligent man will try to prove his “facts” to be wrong to understand why the opposition doesn’t understand. . .now tell me if that works, 10 to 1 you call me stupid.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, his name is Obama. I expect that from a RW nutjob. He was elected (not appointed) because people were sick of the same old repuke shit. I am sure he knows now how difficult it is to fight the corporate agenda. Try posting something of value. I know how difficult it is for cons with the intellect of three year-olds, but try.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Wow. You’re stupid beyond words.

    You see, I’m a left winger, not a right winger. Barack Obama is a corporatist, not a liberal. That’s why I hate him.

    You, on the other hand, are defending corporatism. Defending fascism. Defending Obama.

    But like so many stupid people, you’re too stupid to know what you’re doing.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Of course you’re stupid. You accuse me of not knowing my facts when I’m very much in command of the facts. You’ve offered nothing to suggest otherwise. And you have no facts of any sort to offer. This is precisely what you’ve been trained to do.

    All I ask of stupid people is that they either drop out of the political process or take the time to think for themselves.

  • WaStConcerned

    You have no response based in fact and only reply with insults of stupidity. Bachmann has been fact checked into oblivion and has been proven to perpetrate the MOST lies of any politician.

    If you believe YOU are not just “repeat(ing) what other simpletons tell you to repeat.”…..you are truly blindfolded……. “Do you understand?” You have been indoctrinated by the “tea party” created by the back room wizards to stir up the republican base and “radicalize” the “left” (what the “left” is, I am not sure as I don’t ever see anyone advocating out and out socialism nor communism….). Go research the sponsors of your tea party groups…..go behind the talking points.

    You rage against Obama and the left and anyone who believes in freedom for people, not corporations. You need to be raging against the actual powers that pushed, caused and facilitated this mess we are in – the corporate domination of this country. All the leaders we have elected fall prey to them and are powerless against them – if they go against what the corporations want, they get no money and are not re-elected to what is the stepping stone to wealth.

    Stop ranting against the dems – we are patriots too and want the best for this country. The best will not be realized by corporate domination – they are tuning us into slaves. I’m not talking about your neighborhood or other small businesses, but about the global behemoths and the US based internationals that are accomplishing this – from banking to oil to manufacturers, we have no control over what they are doing to us. We, as a united nation, must throw off the chains of corporate domination just as we did in the declaration of independence from the ruling elite in England. It starts with total campaign finance reform to get them OUT of the election process.

    Please don’t let the corporations continue to lead you down the path of their enrichment to the detriment of your own……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Stupid person. I’m a leftist. That’s why I hate Barack Obama. That’s why I hate the racist Tea Party. That’s why I hate Michelle Bachmann.

    But the fact remains that Michelle Bachmann would be a far, far better president than Barack Obama.

    The fact also remains that stupid people like you can be tricked into supporting hardcore facsim while thinking you’re doing precisely the opposite.

  • WaStConcerned

    If you are a “left-winger”, your comments come straight out of the right wing agenda.

    Obama, like most presidents AND lawmakers, are indeed corporatists – and if you actually read and comprehend what I am saying, I am NOT defending corporatism, fascism nor Obama.

    Throwing insults accomplishes nothing. Stupid seems to be your crowning word and unless your IQ is over 150 and have had years of watching these politics in action, I’d be careful about accusing someone else of stupidity with regard to politics.

    You need to step back and analyze the situation based on facts. The reason Obama is defended is that he has been the “best hope” of throwing off the corporate shackles – however, that has NOT happened. People will continue to hope that he can do something – that the dems are not as compromised as the republicans – that the people come first….. Unfortunately, a pipe dream until we reform elections to get corporate money out and lawmakers unfettered by lobbyists. Until we have a true democracy and not corporatocrisy, we will continue to have the “set up” debate on policies that don’t benefit the people.

    You represent your definition of “stupid”.

  • http://twitter.com/RadicalCaveman Michael Lubin

    But this actually shows Bachmann is telling the truth! After all, LESS THAN HALF of her statements are ridiculously false! ;)

  • Anonymous

    Unless the Republicans are constantly confronted with their “lies and distortions”…they will continue their toxic pattern. This chronic use of lies has been extremely effective…and the media does little to question them. There MUST be some mechanism to address when a politician LIES!

    A Democracy can not work when elected officials distort facts via the media …or even within the Halls of the U.S. Congress.

  • WaStConcerned

    …..the “truth” only known by you?

  • Anonymous

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
    -Joseph Goebbels

  • WaStConcerned

    Cite your sources for your “concrete” evidence…..

  • WaStConcerned

    Cite your sources of your “facts”……

  • Anonymous

    Back to prisonplanet with your nonsensical assertions. Thanks, however, for not using the term ‘sheeple’.

  • WaStConcerned

    ……forbidden in our new “civililty” instructions?

  • Anonymous

    I suppose that applies to those that twisted (lied about) the real economic implications of Obmacare too?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    You can source Barack Obama’s Cabinet members pretty much anywhere. Same with Goldman Sachs CEOs past and present. Give it a go.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Yeah, show me where my comments come out of any right-wing agenda.

    Let’s just stop there and ask you why you were compelled to lie. Why do you find it necessary to lie when defining yourself?

  • http://www.conservativesforamerica.com/conservative-news/bachmann-walking-the-caucus-walk-but-mum-on-the-talk-top-gops-say-desmoinesregister-com-blog Bachmann walking the caucus walk, but mum on the talk, top GOPs say – DesMoinesRegister.com (blog) | Conservatives for America

    [...] PressBACHMANN VISIT: Minnesota Congresswoman and possible presidential candidate …WHO-TVPolitiFact: Bachmann's claims 'false' more often than any other politicianRaw Storyall 179 news [...]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    If you’re going to recite the stupid things you’ve been told to recite, you should at least try to find an appropriate context. Otherwise you just come across as a particularly stupid stupid person.

  • Anonymous

    Could be. I’m not sure I like a system where it’s more important to be civil than honest.

  • Anonymous

    The higher unemployment rate is a result of GOP policies. The unemployment rate stopped climbing, and new jobless claims dropped off, around the time Obama’s economic policies went into effect. The stimulus created or save millions of jobs, and the cash for clunkers program was the most successful economic stimulus program in history. It Hawk is right, more jobs have been created under Obama in two years than under Bush in 8 years. The Bush years were terrible for the economic growth even before the crash.

  • WaStConcerned

    Where did I “lie”?

    Your attacks on Obama are copies of the attacks the republicans make and encourage dems and moderates to actually vote republican and worsen the situation. The situation is NOT good and there is no reason to elect republicans who make it worse. Voice your opinions to the White House and condemn those who advocate the policies you object to – all of the republicans and most of the dem lawmakers who are prey to the corporate money. We cannot depend on any lawmaker to further true democratic principles when they are run by corporate money. We cannot dismantle the government without changing campaign finance laws and getting the funding out of the hands of corporations – we should NOT wish to dismantle the government without installing a true government BY THE PEOPLE.

    Why are you not raging against republican rule? Why are you not on the blogs for Fox and other red enclaves? Why are you preaching to the choir? You stir up anger and insults and don’t realize that the “stupidity” is coming from you? You are attacking the wrong audience.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Mostly Barack Obama. He’s still looking forward. And Goldman Sachs is still running the executive.

  • Anonymous

    Looks to me like Ms Bachmann has at least one presidential qualification.

  • Tom

    Hey thanks for taking the time to research that. Those stats are just plain scary. I was picturing a district of poor people with very limited education. All I can say is WTF?

  • Anonymous

    Well the economy is improving, so they must be doing something right, To say that any Republican would be better than any Democrat about not handing control of government to corporate interests is pretty silly. What are you smoking?

  • WaStConcerned

    I’m with you! We should always call out liars, lies and misinformation – citing sources. I don’t think “civility” lends itself to truth necessarily.

    We SHOULD stop the violent suggestions (shoot them in the head, take them out/down, hunt them down and destroy them, etc. etc. etc.) and threats – but exposing lies and ulterior motives is necessary (and not violent)

  • Anonymous

    Fascists support Obama? What color is the sky on your planet? Do you call up “down”?

  • Anonymous

    You’re a left winger and think Bachmann would be better than Obama? I don’t believe you.

    Obama is and has always been a moderate pragmatist. If you hate him for that, it’s your own problem.

  • Anonymous

    Yup, what you said there.

  • Anonymous

    Missive destroyed EVERYTHING that once made us great??? Wow. Impressive.

    The fascist asshole was Bush, or maybe Cheney. Not Obama.

    Why do you resort to name calling in your defense of liar Bachmann?

  • Tom

    Unfortunately there are a lot of people in politics that are seriously detached from reality. Everything is just a debate with no rules to them. If you can win an argument with false facts, or fool people into voting against their best interests, those are good things. They don’t seem to realize there is a reality out there that that cant be fooled, lied to, or bargained with, and it ALWAYS wins in the end.

  • Anonymous

    You need to look up “concrete evidence”. You won’t see anything about name-calling.

  • WaStConcerned

    that’s rather vague and a nonanswer…..no cited “sources” such as quotes of statements, actual references to legislation, prior news articles, something with substance other than your assumptions.

    Your statements are conjecture based on something none of us can identify (of course, we are all too stupid to ascertain your truth….) – blaming actions of Bush & Co. on Obama but not objecting to Bush’s administration, etc.

    So much for your “concrete” evidence. For all your hatred of Obama, one might think you were a closet racist…….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I stopped reading when you said the cash for clunkers program was the most successful economic stimulus program in history.

  • Anonymous

    “I’ve offered nothing but concrete evidence.”

    You call the words “fascist asshole” concrete evidence?

    You must be one of those people who got through college without learning the difference between fact and opinion, huh!

    Just another reason the right’s lies are resonating with some younger people!

    http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/18/106949/study-many-college-students-not.html#ixzz1BWzPw9to

  • Anonymous

    Obama is a moderate pragmatist and one of the most progressive presidents in the last half century.

  • Anonymous

    Wow. You’re turning into pure comedy before my eyes!

  • Anonymous

    Unless this is irony–you’re a right winger!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I didn’t say any Republican would be better than any Democrat. The reason you lie is because you’ve been taught to lie. You literally don’t know how to do anything else.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Of course Fascists support Obama. What’s wrong with you?

  • WaStConcerned

    You contradict yourself so much it’s laughable.

    You are the one, by raging against all your “targets” that are supporting fascism – rule by republican corporatist stooges that don’t even purport to be on the side of the people. The dems are only slightly less corporatized but the babble put out is supposedly for the good of the people.

    Revolt against corporate money in politics and change the system.

  • Anonymous

    WTF, is what I say when I hear Michelle Bachmann speak….

    Just heard her say she’s going to “Iowa” where all the voters are”…..WTFITBTABOUT?!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Yes, to stupid people, I’m a right winger because I attack corporatism. But to intelligent people, I’m just stating facts.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    There’s nothing moderate about Barack Obama. He’s a fascist, imperialist, murderous asshole.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Show me where Republicans are arguing that Obama should turn back the Bush agenda instead of building on it. You truly don’t know when you’re lying do you? You’ve been so horribly brainwashed that you can’t tell black from white.

    This is what Barack Obama has done to stupid people. He is making fascist morons of all of you.

  • WaStConcerned

    We ALL know the administration is filled with corporate “yes” men, corporate “leaders” and “corporate” money. That is a fact. No one disputes it, and dems certainly don’t agree with it.

    What about your other “facts”………..about Bachmann being a “good” president?…..huh? You really think that she won’t decimate government (exactly what the corporations want?) and why (cited previous actions to the contrary – quotes if you will….). She is a tea party, NO government advocate….total states rights where states can enact any wing-nut policy they want (right or left). Why is she seeking office when she doesn’t even believe in the concept of government? Want her church to govern?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    No, before Obama, Democrats ALWAYS stood against things like torture, domestic spying, and corporatist wars of imperialism. Now people like you defend it, like you’re doing right now.

    Republicans have always been corporatists. Nothing has changed with them. You, BigBadBingo, are what has changed. You support Obama. You now support fascism.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    The truth that is undeniable.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    No, it’s just that you’ve been systematically trained to deny the things we all know. You’re a good German.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    You’ve simply been trained to deny truth. It’s easy to get stupid people to do that. You too are a good German.

  • WaStConcerned

    I deny your definition of “truth” – it exists only in your fractured mind…..

  • WaStConcerned

    Listen….watch my lips…..

    All politicians are corrupt – bought and paid for by corporate money – republicans are the worst and opening advocating corporate domination and dems are only a second place winner in that race. No one in any power position is pushing turning back the republican agenda – and WE, THE PEOPLE OBJECT. We know this, we object to this AND YOU ARE NOT HEARING IT. Obama has NOT made morons out of anyone, the corporations have. Obama has been perceived as the best hope of getting out from under this and dems will not give up that hope. To give up is to surrender to the republican agenda completely. What other solution do you have?

    CHANGE CAMPAIGN FINANCE TO CONTRIBUTIONS BY REGISTERED VOTERS ONLY AND GET CORPORATIONS OUT OF OUR ELECTIONS and out of both parties. CLEAR ENOUGH FOR YOU?

  • WaStConcerned

    “This is what Barack Obama has done to stupid people. He is making fascist morons of all of you. ”

    …..he’s obviously made a babbling id10t out of you…….

    None of the dems I know are “fascist” and advocate rule by corporate interests and a dictator……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I haven’t contradicted myself at all. It’s just that you’ve been brainwashed into thinking that Barack Obama somehow represents all Demorats. He doesn’t. He’s a fascist monster who has done everything he could to build on the Bush agenda.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I didn’t say Bachmann would be a “good” president. That’s a quote you made up because the truth does not serve you.

  • WaStConcerned

    What “things” do we all “know”?

    You certainly do not know the definition of “fascism”…….that you throw out so ardently.

    By your statements and actions, the facts are:

    You incite by inference, not facts

    You issue insults and labels without truth

    You have no accurate knowledge of history

    You claim to be a left-winger when spouting right wing theories

    You contradict yourself time after time

    You are probably a republican or corporate troll sent to “stir things up”……

    Good job!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    You advocate rule by corporate interests and a dictator. You’re doing it right now. Obama is the quintessential corporatist and he has declared that he has a right to murder you at will. You support that. You are a fascist moron.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Of course she does, so does President Obama……

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    You’ve been trained to do that.

  • Anonymous

    There has to be 150,000 NEW jobs created monthly to maintain employment and account for all the new people entering the job market. Clinton accomplished this and more. Bush didn’t meet this requirement once. Unemployment problems boiled over as bush was leaving office. His adm. ran out of creative ideas to hide the true stats on joblessness in the country. Bush didn’t leave office he ran from office leaving all of the problems he created unsolved so people would be more likely to blame Obama. When are the republicans going to admit their boy george was a complete failure and all of us are paying for it………….well all but george.

  • WaStConcerned

    You are sick and dangerous – I hope to all God that you don’t own a gun….

  • Anonymous

    Mitch ole boy, have you been asleep for the past 12 years? You seem to forget about 8 FREAKIN LOOOOOOOOOOONG YEARS OF BUSH ADM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember the deregulation of everything? The back room deals with Pharma, Mining CEO’s, Energy CEO’s etc.? Amazing how the republicans just skip right over those years

  • WaStConcerned

    In the words of Barton “YOU LIE”

  • Anonymous

    I can tell you do not know what your talking about. You better watch out! Michele has warned us about those FEMA retraining camps that Obama is going to send us to!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    When I said that I offered nothing but concrete evidence, I wasn’t saying that I haven’t made any judgments. I was saying that my conclusions are based on nothing but fact, not on politics.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    We all know that Barack Obama is a corporatist. We all know that Barack Obama is pro-torture. We all know that Barack Obama is pro-imperialism. We all know that Barack Obama has given himself the power to spy on citizens and even murder us if he wishes. We all know that Barack Obama runs a secret government, more secrative than any other in the history of our nation.

    We all know these things, but fascist morons have been systematically trained to deny them.

    You lie and lie and lie again. Then, when your lies are exposed, you lie some more.

    I have not contradicted myself in any way. You’ve just been trained to say that.

  • Anonymous

    You must feel that way about bush than also? Or are you just a racist? You would rather have an insane ignoramus like bachmann, than a black man in the white house? Good thing! No matter what you say, and as much as you hate to admit, it you are a raging right wing republican racists! YOU are the problem!

  • Anonymous

    You like Michelle Bachman!!!! Dah!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    What have I ever lied about, fascist moron?

  • Anonymous

    Good go back to it!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I haven’t forgotten about that the Bush years at all. In fact, I’m pissed that Barack Obama has built on them.

    You’ve been systematically trained to argue the opposite of reality. Why don’t you try to think for yourself?

  • Anonymous

    To think that Ms. Bachmann would be better than Obama shows, among other things, how little you know about what it takes to be a President.

    Ms. Bachmann has the intelligence, foresight, bargaining skills, verbal skills and vision of a 7 yr old. If that.

    Yes, Obama has been a major disappointment, and WAY more of a righty than he let on, however, He’s FAR from the miserable presidents we’ve seen in the recent past. Bush was the worst president in US history and he’s a towering intellect compared to Michelle Bachmann. Reagan was an alzheimers sufferer, a CRAP president, did nothing well except be in front of cameras and act personably and HE was light years better than Bachmann could EVER be.

    I was going to make this short, but I am unable to properly express the extremity of my dismay that you have ANY ANY ANY respect for her for ANYTHING, so I find myself continuing to blather on…. I’ll stop now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    So, you’re saying that the people who destroyed our economy are not running the Obama White House?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Of course I feel that way about Bush. I don’t have different standards based on race, party, et cetera — as you just admitted you do.

    I love it when stupid people are so amazingly stupid as to make my point for me.

  • Anonymous

    This is part of the problem, Mitch.

    Blinders. You’re wearing blinders.

    Listen to Glenn Beck much?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I don’t like Michelle Bachmann at all. You, on the other hand like Barack Obama, the most successful fascist in the history of the world.

  • Anonymous

    Pot.

    Kettle.

    Black.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I’m perceived as a danger to the fascist morons who support Barack Obama because truth is always perceived as a danger to fascist morons.

  • Anonymous

    Now the real truth! “little Michelle Bachmann” He has a crush on little michelle! Listen dufus, smart people don’t vote for presidents based on looks. It also isn’t wise to vote for someone because you would like to have a beer with them! We did stupid with george, it didn’t work. We don’t want to make that mistake again!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Is there a dictionary for stupid people that include entries for phrases like that?

  • Anonymous

    LOLOLOLOL

    This man uses words the meaning of which he’s clueless about.

    I think it’s time to hit the dictionary, Mitch. And not Conservipedia.

  • Anonymous

    OH no, I used to live in her district. They also have the highest foreclosure rate in the state. So by all means vote her in again!!!

  • Anonymous

    No way you’re a liberal and a fan of Michelle Bachmann.

    For one thing, liberals respect education. Ms. Bachmann is, technically speaking, a numbskull.

    But she THINKS she’s smart. So, there y’are, then.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    To suggest that George W. Bush was NOT a better president than Barack Obama is insane.

    Under Bush, only Republicans supported wars of lies, imperialism, corporatism, belligerent secrecy, et cetera. Now both Republicans and Democrats like yourself support these things. That literally makes Obama twice as bad as Bush.

    Literally anybody on the planet would make a better president than Barack Obama. The proof is in.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I must say, if it wasn’t for ol’ Mitch, there, this page would be pretty boring…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Glenn Beck is a long-time supporter of all of the Barack Obama policies I’m attacking here.

    In other words, you’ve just projected your issues on me and you’re too stupid to realize you did so.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I don’t think you understand that phrase. Try to stick with language you understand.

  • bob915

    WaSt, you might as well forget it friend……he is too stupid to realize that yelling at clouds bears no result. Picking Bachmann as a educated, concerned, truthful, fairminded, moderate, listening candidate for POTUS (as opposed to Repubs ala the John Dean school of thought) is like saying Satan would be a better ruler of the world ’cause he knows the sinners would repeat their behavior……lost cause

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    What if you were actually to look it up before making a fool of yourself again?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Wow, talk about running out of things to say.

  • bob915

    YO MITCH…..HEAR THAT??? ITS THE WHUP WHUP OF THE BLACK HELICOPTER COMIN TO GIT YEE…….BETTER GET YOUR SURVIVAL BACKPACK ON THAT GLENN BECK TOLD YOU TO BUY…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I’m not a fan of Michelle Bachmann. I despise her.

    You, on the other hand, are so incredibly stupid that you support Barack Obama, the most successful fascist in the history of the world.

    Again, the stupid people demonstrably project their idiocy on the intelligent people.

  • bob915

    Scroll up if you can get your knuckles off the ground, and look at your response roughly an hour ago…..you said MB would be a better POTUS than Obama. YOU LIE. this reminds me of watching my dogs chase their tails on a warm summer day…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I never picked Bachmann as such. You lied because the truth does not serve you. It’s always easy to prove that liars like yourself are liars because you’re always so amazingly stupid. You don’t know any better because you never learned to think.

  • Anonymous

    mindboggeling this article is truly mindboggeling
    :
    http://minnesotaindependent.com/50472/bachmann-minnesotas-highest-foreclosure-rate

    WTFIWWTPeeps?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    You’re the one talking about helicopters and Glenn Beck, but you’re too stupid to realize it. It’s what stupid people do.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Of course Michelle Bachmann would be a far, far better president than Barack Obama. That doesn’t mean she would be a good president.

    How did you get to be so stupid? Honestly, I can’t imagine going through life being stupid like you. How do you eat? Can you tell what is food and what is furniture?

  • Anonymous

    It just boggles my mind that congress can lie to us with impunity and that it’s not a crime. Of course, in her case, she’s probably stupid enough to believe to believe everything she says, and therefore it’s not a lie.

  • Anonymous

    oh you’re so silly

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    Only if facts are silly.

  • ladygeek

    And, the no-child-left-behind didn’t contribute? That was rhetorical. Education gave people an equal share to opportunity. Now, these kids are being educated to take tests and not learn how to think. Also, I didn’t vote for her or Jesse Ventura. I hope that Al Franken doesn’t get to be “wellstoned” in his term in the Senate and I’m also glad to have the only representative in Congress who is Muslim. He’s a liberal Muslim. Kind of odd, isn’t it?

  • ladygeek

    Because it’s the first state to hold caucases and is usually the show-down for who moves forward and who sees the writing on the wall. Even though it’s not glamorous, it holds a place where it’s the people who participate in caucus meetings, can do some archaic method of selecting a presidential candidate. The biggest fallicy about Iowa is that it doesn’t f*cking count who wins it because it’s pretty common for the frontrunner in popularity generally doesn’t win. And, anyway, Iowa has a small number of electoral votes.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone have any naked photos of her?

  • ladygeek

    She’s also going to do a State of the Union presentation AFTER Paul Ryan gives the Republican response. This is like insane but she’s also very wealthy. That district is totally gerrymandered and it’s so obvious. That district has most of the wealthiest people in the state. I don’t understand why the number of college graduates appears to be so low. I grew up in that area and almost everyone I knew went to college/university but OTOH they also bolted from that area just like me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Flatt/764419858 Alan Flatt

    ur a fucking moron

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Flatt/764419858 Alan Flatt

    nice post but this guy is just a troll not to be read seriously

  • ladygeek

    That was my understanding but if the people who were getting foreclosed upon didn’t vote? Which is what I’m thinking and I’ve also heard stories that those foreclosed properties are being snapped up by many of the wealthier in that district.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alan-Flatt/764419858 Alan Flatt

    methinks Palin is an intellectual compared to Michelle…lol

  • Anonymous

    Politicians should be called out and fined for their lies. After so many lies, they should be dismissed from their position. A government cannot run on lies. People don’t even know what is happening to them. Fox news and all these lying politicians need to be reprimanded harshly and it needs to be on mainstream news so that everyone can hear and understand what the truth is.

  • Anonymous

    At least fewer people are trusting Fox News these days. According to a recent poll, it’s now the most distrusted name in news.

  • Anonymous

    But it isn’t densely populated like mpls/st.paul area. There is a lot of rural areas and new home additions and I believe they are the ones losing their homes. No doubt they move to the cities. I really thought Clark had a good shot at beating her. But she has made a lot of money off the oil companies and even though she is a pain in the ass of the main stream repubs even a bad repub is better than a Dem in their eyes! I really don’t understand her supporters! You would think they would be so completely embarrassed!

  • Anonymous

    Olbermann has been saying that for a while now.

  • Anonymous

    No doubt she is medicated to keep down some of the voices in her head!

  • Anonymous

    Did you know Mb was born in Iowa? I like to tell people that so they don’t blame Mn. for her. Iowa gets to share in some blame too! It’s a small comfort.

  • Anonymous

    What do you expect? She is the Katherine Harris 2.0! We ought to mate her with Louis Gohmert; they are both liars.

  • ladygeek

    Believe me, everyone was hoping that Tarrell Clark would win. I know there are others out there who are not wealthy and if they have a job, they are hanging on just like I am and I’ve been out of work now for 2 years. I was laid off by Target when they shipped my IT job to Target India. And, I think alot of those executives live in that district. If she actually tries to run for the Senate against Amy Klobuchar, it could be tough for Amy. The only advantage that Amy has over Michelle Bachmann is that Amy was actually the Hennepin County Prosecutor and had to handle alot of crap, I’m sure. I don’t think Michelle would know what to do. I don’t know but I would think because Amy has a much stronger education than Bachmann might end up killing Bachmann but I have my doubts – I just don’t trust Bachmann.

  • ladygeek

    I think that the new “civility” instructions are more applicable to the right wingnuts on FOX not to normal people, unless you aren’t normal ;-)

  • Anonymous

    It’s from living in cold minnesota and not having a brain and then getting a brain freeze where there should be one.

  • Anonymous

    THE consummate RePUKKKliCUNT shithead of all time! What a total fartface!

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the feedback ladygeek.

    I was wondering about the age range in her district. The stats states that 26.5% of her constituent population is under the age of 18 and that 8.4% is over the age of 65. So we can all blame the people in the middle of the margin as being extremely confused. What a strange reality!

    BTW, Keith just referred to her address as being the teablog state of the union. :>)

  • Walt

    Please… tell me a president that never lied (or kept the truth) from the public. Comparing Obama to Bachmann is below even your vitriolic anger. You are smarter than that.

  • Phil E. Drifter

    No but I have a bucket of cottage cheese in my fridge.

  • http://twitter.com/strangersound dxo

    You can’t get through to the partisans…I’ve tried that dead end too many times. They keep trying to smear you as some right wing whatever, meanwhile I voted green the last 2 elections and agree with most of what you’ve said. They refuse to see the big picture because they’ve got too much stake in the one their defending. You’re asking people to renounce their entire belief system, which is an attack on one’s psyche.

    But, I contend that Bachmann wouldn’t do anything different than any of the other puppets. She would do exactly what she’s ordered to by the people who funded her election campaign. And she’s a media object, so you know she’s an actor. Just like the new boss with his hypnotic speeches.

    What people really need to understand is that the television puts you in an alpha state, at which point you are open to being hypnotized and brainwashed. Turn the mainstream media off, because they’re wrecking the whole country.

    And all the scapegoating from the figureheads and politicians following the AZ shooting and nobody mentions the real culprit: the media. That’s who gives these jokers a voice in the first place. Why are we even hearing people like this? And both sides of the media partisan spectrum feed and amplify these extremist viewpoints. Divide and conquer. Oldest trick in the book.

    The mainstream parties are the true extremists. It’s the 3rd party and the independents that have balanced viewpoints. If the TV news told you something, it doesn’t matter what channel it was, it’s a steaming pile of bullshit. :)

  • http://twitter.com/strangersound dxo

    What we see today is fascism straight to the core, in almost every variation of the term. I don’t see how somebody can claim you need a dictionary when it’s obvious corporations rule the country, and the executive branch has been using dictatorial powers for decades. I think the people who need to get a dictionary are the ones throwing stones.

    Perhaps people who support Obama don’t call themselves fascist, but that is indeed what they are supporting.

  • Anonymous

    “disinfo”…..”mis-speaks”…….why can’t the MSM come up with the proper adjective ?

    they’re called LIES…….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KLF5SUA5RDYXG54WWF5SHMVRAI X

    It’s a hard nut to crack.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KLF5SUA5RDYXG54WWF5SHMVRAI X

    It’s a hard nut to crack.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I tend to agree with you, but I think you’re overlooking something very important. Ever since Barack Obama became president, liberals, moderates, and all other sane people have lost their voices

    Even though Obama has continued Bush’s fascist policies and expanded on them logarithmically, people no longer take to the streets. Representatives no longer, as a group, call for an end to war. It’s not cool to speak out against the smiling, smooth-talking despot.

    If Michelle Bachmann were to replace Barack Obama as president, however, real Americans would immediately get their voices back. It would be a new day in American politics.

    That’s why I always say anybody but Obama in 2012. Literally anybody would be better than Obama.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3KIGXAIT4M6ZZFDPV3K4YRRH2U Mitch Camstein

    I tend to agree with you, but I think you’re overlooking something very important. Ever since Barack Obama became president, liberals, moderates, and all other sane people have lost their voices

    Even though Obama has continued Bush’s fascist policies and expanded on them logarithmically, people no longer take to the streets. Representatives no longer, as a group, call for an end to war. It’s not cool to speak out against the smiling, smooth-talking despot.

    If Michelle Bachmann were to replace Barack Obama as president, however, real Americans would immediately get their voices back. It would be a new day in American politics.

    That’s why I always say anybody but Obama in 2012. Literally anybody would be better than Obama.

  • http://twitter.com/MiddleAmericaMS MiddleAmericaMS

    Disinformation is the proper adjective, but lies is also accurate.

  • Anonymous

    Bachman is a pathetic liar. Ya think Republican zombies care?

    http://www.RepublicansAreADisease.com

    As long as she is telling lies they “want” to believe, it’s alright for them. They live in an alternate universe.

  • Anonymous

    That’s why Republicans Are A Disease….

  • Anonymous

    You keepa drinkin’ that Beck kool aid Mitchy… Please get some help before the voices in your head tell you to shoot someone in the face….

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/RepublicConstitution?feature=mhum TruthRegimes
  • http://twitter.com/Carolbaut Carol Dijkhuyzen

    Bachmann is not only dangerous but an extremist liar too…

  • Lodewijk

    So long as the corporate media and NPR report Michelle Bachmann’s (R-Mars) lies as the truth, no amount of factchecking by Politifact, Media Matters or anyone else is going to matter.

    The corporate media validate this vicious liar on a daily basis. They’re the reason she’s even gotten as far as she has. And they’ll be to blame if this nutbag gets any farther than her House seat, too.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Walt.
    Bachmann is a freaky dumb ass bitch, but she doesn’t have the power Obama has.
    Obama could make real changes but he does the exact opposite of what he promised to do.

  • ladygeek

    Well, by now, you should have heard that Keith Olbermann is no longer on MSNBC.

    Since the voting age now, you need to be 18 to be eligible to vote. Voter turnout on the democratic tickets didn’t do very well because alot of people who normally vote, decided to not vote at all. This is not the first time in the US history of elections. Getting people to go to the election polls is a major problem these days. Alot of disabled and elderly people have a hard time getting to the polls to actually vote. When I was disabled, I made sure that I got an absentee ballot because at the trime, I couldn’t walk very far. It’s really got to be a community effort to get the vote out. Of course the corporatists wiho killed ACORN, think that they have the upper hand now. They don’t because most of them are drunk with their millions and billions of dollars so they thnk they control everything. That’s my opinion.

  • Anonymous

    As long as the MSM allows each side to speak their talking points WITHOUT challenge on the spot we will have to suffer the Bachmann’s and Palin’s of the political world!

    The Crier of the Hose and Turtle face got to repeat the job killing lie in association to healthcare reform for 6 months before they finally got around to asking where the proof was. And lo and behold it was just another LIE.

  • http://twitter.com/DJBALL604 DJ BALL

    Lies are the only thing these clowns have left.

  • Walt

    Alright, then I challenge you this: Take a closer look at Pres. Obama as a person like you and not as your savior. Understand the 30+ years of crap dumped on him. The view from the Presidency is a far more complex view than from where we stand. Mostly, understand the opposition and their power and the level they will go to keep their power. The only way to defeat them is through the people… DEMOCRACY… as it has proven before.

  • Anonymous

    President Obama promised change and he did.

  • Anonymous

    “Now both Republicans and Democrats like yourself support these things.”

    What is this “Now” sh*t?

    Both parties have been pushing these policies, with notable exceptions, since 911.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve heard it said that the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the the Democrats will throw the little guy a crumb; sometimes that crumb makes a difference about survival.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    As my savior?, I am not a US citizen, Walt,& I have no respect for politicians, any politician.
    “Understand the 30+ years of crap dumped on him”.
    Are you kidding me?, Obama is a pure product of the American political establishment, he is wealthy and corrupted as George Bush junior. Obama is the continuation of the Bush Cheney policies. I don`t understand how you can defend this guy, he is no better than Bush and his can or worms administration

  • Anonymous

    you are quite full of crap devil

  • Anonymous

    well, yeah, they dis my ease so yeah good way to look at it.

  • Anonymous

    Has anybody noticed that when a Republican claims “what the people want”, or “what the Bible says”, it reflects exactly what the Republican wants himself/herself? It’s uncanny. It’s like we don’t even need to ask the people what they want, or even consult the Bible on “moral” issues…

  • Anonymous

    oh my god, now I get it this guy is high on crack. nothing more to say

  • TheDevilCanDance

    rspencerantiques 10 posts…..

    Lol. Don`t even think about playing with me,Tosser,I`ll give you the mouth fuck of your life :)

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    [...] Bachmann’s Claims ‘False’ More Often Than Any Other Politician. Read more  [...]

  • Anonymous

    These liars understand that there is a certain percent of the population that prefer to hear lies that they agree with than truths that they dont want to hear.

  • Anonymous

    Of course Obama is more alligned and entrenched in the inner circle than Bachman. He is the POTUS, you tool. If Bachman were in his position, you can bet she would be alot worse.

  • Anonymous

    this wench is so transparent, she does the deed for oil, insurance companies and billionaires.
    she’ll spin EVERYTHING to keep her campaign coffers full.

  • Chip

    Everyone knows she’s crazy

  • Anonymous

    If she wasn’t a MILF she would NOT be in TV all the time and she would NOT win her elections. Sorry ladies that us men still acting like 10th grade boys fantasizing about the “cheer leaders” can elevate a lying opportunist like Michele Bachmann to celebrity status.

    I guess some cheer leaders win after all!

  • Anonymous

    yeah, namely her constituents fall into that category. apparently, they don’t care to much about what is happening outside of the gerrymandering district. all they see is this long haired brunette who wants to represent them in the most hideous manner.

    just as stumptownhero stated above, it must be the men who are mesmerized with her hot tatty looks…or maybe she’s giving them something they can’t nor won’t give up….hmmm, wonder what that could be?

  • Anonymous

    yeah, namely her constituents fall into that category. apparently, they don’t care to much about what is happening outside of the gerrymandering district. all they see is this long haired brunette who wants to represent them in the most hideous manner.

    just as stumptownhero stated above, it must be the men who are mesmerized with her hot tatty looks…or maybe she’s giving them something they can’t nor won’t give up….hmmm, wonder what that could be?

  • Anonymous

    So do you want to learn more about Bachmann?

    Here’s a brief summary: Michelle was given a J.D degree from the former Oral Roberts University (ORU), now known as Regent University (RU)…and she and her husband Marcus owns and operates a “Christian Counseling Clinic”….and get this, she use to torture women who entered abortion clinics and was a former attorney for IRS…to learn more about this character, click on link posted below:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann

  • Anonymous

    So do you want to learn more about Bachmann?

    Here’s a brief summary: Michelle was given a J.D degree from the former Oral Roberts University (ORU), now known as Regent University (RU)…and she and her husband Marcus owns and operates a “Christian Counseling Clinic”….and get this, she use to torture women who entered abortion clinics and was a former attorney for IRS…to learn more about this character, click on link posted below:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann

  • Obi-jonKenobi

    Great photo accompanying the article. What a wild and crazy bitch.

    Sadly, the community that supports this crazed wing-nut will not be fazed by any kind of research – even if by a credible group. The reich-wing echo chamber will discount it as just another example of their persecution by the “Lamestream” media and circle the wagons even tighter. They’ve created a parallel universe and they’re quite content with their own faith-based reality.

  • Obi-jonKenobi

    Great photo accompanying the article. What a wild and crazy bitch.

    Sadly, the community that supports this crazed wing-nut will not be fazed by any kind of research – even if by a credible group. The reich-wing echo chamber will discount it as just another example of their persecution by the “Lamestream” media and circle the wagons even tighter. They’ve created a parallel universe and they’re quite content with their own faith-based reality.

  • Obi-jonKenobi

    Great photo accompanying the article. What a wild and crazy bitch.

    Sadly, the community that supports this crazed wing-nut will not be fazed by any kind of research – even if by a credible group. The reich-wing echo chamber will discount it as just another example of their persecution by the “Lamestream” media and circle the wagons even tighter. They’ve created a parallel universe and they’re quite content with their own faith-based reality.

  • http://twitter.com/btmfdrsheaven rebecca meritt

    G-d’s Own Party seems to want all their women cloned so they’re interchangeable,saves them money when the wardrobe gets handed down to the next hired date.

  • http://twitter.com/btmfdrsheaven rebecca meritt

    G-d’s Own Party seems to want all their women cloned so they’re interchangeable,saves them money when the wardrobe gets handed down to the next hired date.

  • http://twitter.com/btmfdrsheaven rebecca meritt

    G-d’s Own Party seems to want all their women cloned so they’re interchangeable,saves them money when the wardrobe gets handed down to the next hired date.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    I dont think we needed PolitiFact to tell us this. I swear this woman is joined at the hip with Sean Hannity who cant move his lips without lying

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KXMM5MVAYZHUSPNY3W7Y57F2QI Laszlo

    A rising star in today’s GOP needs to be able to lie, lie big, lie outrageously,

    She’s go-nna make it after all!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KXMM5MVAYZHUSPNY3W7Y57F2QI Laszlo

    A rising star in today’s GOP needs to be able to lie, lie big, lie outrageously,

    She’s go-nna make it after all!

  • piltdown

    FOX “news” was built on that idea.

  • piltdown

    FOX “news” was built on that idea.

  • piltdown

    Yeah, he changed from a progressive while campaigning to a Reagan Republican after he took office.

    Change we can NOT believe in.

  • piltdown

    Yeah, he changed from a progressive while campaigning to a Reagan Republican after he took office.

    Change we can NOT believe in.

  • http://afishinthesand.com/michele-bachmanns-tea-party-agenda-will-disrupt-the-gop-the-daily-beast/ Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Agenda Will Disrupt the GOP (The Daily Beast) | World News

    [...] however, does not. A recent analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning watchdog site PolitiFact shows that of the 13 times she’s been fact-checked, “seven of her claims [have been found] to [...]

  • http://www.gibizz.com/news/?p=17367 Gibizz News » Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Agenda Will Disrupt the GOP (The Daily Beast)

    [...] however, does not. A recent analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning watchdog site PolitiFact shows that of the 13 times she’s been fact-checked, “seven of her claims [have been found] to [...]

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/ZZaOWcN8gvC8DsjOswXSY_hVSOKtQg--#65e22 ltcmikesr

    That statistics is only true because the other liers are not public officials but people still believe them – oh, yeah, they are “commentators, entertainers,” or former officials who quit when found out.

  • http://donkeypunchingteabaggers.com/?p=2079 Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Agenda Will Disrupt the GOP

    [...] however, does not. A recent analysis by the Pulitzer-prizewinning watchdog site PolitiFact shows that of the 13 times she’s been fact-checked, “seven of her claims [have been found] to [...]

  • Anonymous

    She can’t be lying, she loves Jesus and unborn babies.

  • Anonymous

    What more can you expect from an Oral Roberts University graduate? She only knows how to chart a straight road into a crooked road….that is what she is good at..

  • Anonymous

    Crazy bitch. Move to Alaska. Sorry Alaska.

  • Anonymous

    Crazy bitch. Move to Alaska. Sorry Alaska.

  • Anonymous

    Holier than thou. They often claim that God speaks directly to them.

  • Anonymous

    Holier than thou. They often claim that God speaks directly to them.

  • http://daily20.info/claims/2011/01/23/your-wife-doesnt-understand-you-because-you-are-too-close-study-suggests/ Your wife doesn’t understand you because you are too close, study suggests | Claims Story

    [...] PolitiFact: Bachmann’s claims ‘false’ more often than any other politician [...]

  • http://www.news-r.us/michele-bachmanns-tea-party-agenda-will-disrupt-the-gop-the-daily-beast/ Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Agenda Will Disrupt the GOP (The Daily Beast) | News

    [...] however, does not. A recent analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning watchdog site PolitiFact shows that of the 13 times she’s been fact-checked, “seven of her claims [have been found] to [...]

  • http://www.3xw.org/michele-bachmanns-tea-party-agenda-will-disrupt-the-gop-the-daily-beast/ Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Agenda Will Disrupt the GOP (The Daily Beast) | Web Resources

    [...] however, does not. A new research by a Pulitzer Prize-winning watchdog site PolitiFact shows that of a 13 times she’s been fact-checked, “seven of her claims [have been found] to [...]

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FWJ2XFBBTLV3HKZ6LY5YHV6PWE TrDem55

    Jets Jets Jets Jets Jets Jets Jets
    an oh yes, Republicans are all LIARS
    how do we know
    their lips are moving

  • http://mikk2.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/the-fine-art-of-batshittery/ The Fine Art of Batshittery | HYSTERICAL RAISINS

    [...] however, does not. A recent analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning watchdog site PolitiFact shows that of the 13 times she’s been fact-checked, “seven of her claims [have been found] to [...]

  • Anonymous

    you must be from her district,,stearns county minnesota is well known for their inbreeding.

  • Anonymous

    you must be from her district,,stearns county minnesota is well known for their inbreeding.

  • Anonymous

    you must be from her district,,stearns county minnesota is well known for their inbreeding.

  • Anonymous

    you must be from her district,,stearns county minnesota is well known for their inbreeding.

  • Anonymous

    stearns county syndrome…

  • http://morallowground.com/2011/01/26/in-her-latest-screwup-michele-bachmann-claims-founding-fathers-worked-tirelessly-to-end-slavery/ In her Latest Screwup, Michele Bachmann Claims Founding Fathers “Worked Tirelessly” to End Slavery | Moral Low Ground

    [...] Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN), named the least credible American politician by the non-partisan, Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact, has once again shown [...]

  • Anonymous

    looks like she has a bright future in Radio….

  • http://rturpin.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/political-idiocies/ Political idiocies « Rturpin's Blog

    [...] rifle was confiscated at Gatwick Airport. Given the subject line, there has to be an obligatory link about Michele Bachmann. from → Uncategorized ← Walking, strength, caffeine [...]