Regardless, it was an error by a campaign staffer, probably the speech writer. It wasn’t a mistake Bachmann made. The only mistake she made was not excluding the line from the speech to begin with because who really cares if John Wayne is from her hometome?? Doesn’t mean somehow she’s inherited whatever virtues one ascribes to John Wayne. That being said—this was sloppy staff work. Bachmann can’t be blamed for that. I’d fire the person responsible though for screwing up her big day.
I really wasn’t even commenting upon what she said, but rather I was blaming the media for (possibly) being even sloppier than one of Bachmann’s campaign people.