Bachmann looks to emulate serial killer

washingtonmonthly ^ | 6/27/11 | Steve Benen

[American Dream 246]

Rep. Michele Bachmann, the unhinged Republican presidential candidate, desperately wants the public to believe she’s a “serious person,” and not at all a “flake.” She could start by avoiding mistakes like these.

Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo’s own John Wayne.

The only problem, as one eagle-eyed reader notes: Waterloo’s John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer.

Yep, here’s the video.

The right-wing congresswoman told Fox News, “[W]hat I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.”

John Wayne is from Iowa, but not Waterloo. Bachmann is apparently confusing John Wayne and John Wayne Gacy. The former was a movie star; the latter killed 33 people.

In September 2009, railing against health care reform, Bachmann told Republican activists, “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists,” because “something is way crazy out there.”

If Bachmann has “the spirit” of a serial killer, that quote seems to make more sense than it did at the time.

[Glenn]

I'm starting to get a little pissed off here.

[driftdiver]

wow thats important,

some people need to get a life

[American Dream 246]

Seems to me Rollins is doing a great job! Concord, MA with Concord, NH. Sarah is so right to wait and watch. Too funny.

[American Dream 246]

As important as all the crap they did to Sarah since 3 years. Just be fair, huh?

[pfflier]

..the unhinged Republican presidential candidate..

Do you think this is a hint about what would follow?

[EGPWS]

She could start by avoiding mistakes like these.

1) Giving up conviction for what is right because of fear of media lies and the pressure some feel because of it.

She hasn't.

Now be a good little news twister and move along sh!thead.

[Pharmboy]

John Wayne's parents lived in Waterloo, IA before he was born and moved to another town in IA where he was actually born. BFD. They're becoming unhinged...and scared. I love it.

[preacher]

The MSM never mentions these gaffes:

http://obamasgaffes.blogspot.com/

[Pearls Before Swine]

The article starts “Rep. Michele Bachmann, the unhinged Republican presidential candidate...”

No bias here!

[Aevery_Freeman]

As a man, I had hoped we boys had out grown this petty little abusing that we did to girls back in the playground.

I told my wife that adult men could accept competition from a female with grace and equality. Well, stick a fork in me!

[Wolfstar]

Wow! The author isn’t reaching much. *rolls eyes*

I like Bachmann. Kind of ambitious and audacious for a member of the House to run for president, but she has a lot to contribute to the dialogue of the race. I’m glad she’s in it.

[cripplecreek]

We men have.

[American Dream 246]

I am sorry all but I used to like her but attacking Sarah (letting Rollins do it is same for me) after what Sarah did for her to win her re-election was a bridge too far for me. Plus, she, like a lot of others, did not budge when the whole country was accusing Sarah of being a murderer after Tucson? Is that the character you want for your president? I was the first one to be surprised but that’s who Bachmann is and more I know her more I sure don’t like what I am seeing.

[RegulatorCountry]

That doesn’t make him “from” there. It makes Bachmann sound disingenuous, trying to claim knowlege of some hometown hero who is in fact claimed by Winterset, Iowa. The house is a landmark and there are signs all over town. She just looked like an interloper to people from Waterloo, and angered people from Winterset.

It may not sound important to you as an outsider, but in trying to go back to her “roots” for her announcement, and then undermining it with a false statement and an embarassing one, is going to hurt her in that state.

The good people of Winterset are quite proud of being the birthplace and original hometown of John Wayne. They’ve got a museum, events, all sorts of things. Check it out:

http://www.johnwaynebirthplace.org

[rabidralph]

I’ve been wondering about that for the past three years. Why are men finding it so hard to behave as gentlemen? But it’s no different from all the griping that goes on when a woman finds herself in combat.

[kcvl]

Steve Benen

This is what punk ass so called journalist consider so called news. Never mind the stupid bastard in the White house who can't recite his name without a TelePrompTer!

Pardon me while I puke.(p> He is a frequent guest on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and an occasional contributor to the New York Daily News.

He was an intern in Bill Clinton's White House Office of Speechwriting. In 1996, he was the communications director for an unsuccessful Democratic congressional campaign in Pennsylvania. From 1997 to 2002, Benen worked in the communications department at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

[kcvl]

Bill Clinton’s former intern:

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[Mr. Peabody]

They are unhinged.
They have been driven mad by the failure of their messiah.

[American Dream 246]

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