[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.

[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.

[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.

[Mr. Peabody]

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

[bigred08]

She is really not bright. What a stupid gaffe. She’s portraying herself as the “hometown girl” but thinks John Wayne grew up there. As a “native” that’s something she should know.

[nuconvert]

Gee, what’s worse.....getting the wrong place of birth for John Wayne, or this...

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2011/06/25/coverage-of-obamas-medal-of-honor-mess.php

[NoLibZone]

The Palnization of Bachmann has begun.

The left hates women.

They adore Huma and Hillary because they submit to their philandering husbands.

[Meet the New Boss]

The media claiming that Gacy was from Waterloo is like claiming that John McCain was “from” Vietnam or that Barack Obama was “from” Boston.

Gacy only lived there for two or three years in the 60s. He was actually from Chicago.

The media have to come up with an inaccuracy (that Gacy was “from” Waterloo) in order to claim to trap Bachmann in a gaffe.

[Matchett-PI]

Media pretty excited over Bachmann’s John Wayne gaffe in Iowa
hot air ^ | 6/27/11 | Allahpundit

Posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 7:59:22 PM by Nachum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740769/posts

Watch below courtesy of a YouTube account titled, no joke, “BachmannLovesGacy.”The gaffe: She claimed in an interview with Fox News that she shares the spirit of another famous Waterloo, Iowa, resident, John Wayne.

But John Wayne never lived in Waterloo; John Wayne Gacy did, which means this is either (a) another sloppy factual error a la her claiming that Lexington and Concord are located in New Hampshire or (b) some sort of Freudian slip that proves she secretly identifies with lunatics or something. (Bachmann loves Gacy!)

Her critics will insist they’re sticking to the first narrative but their read on Bachmann has always been that she’s evil and/or nuts. See, e.g., Matt Taibbi’s long profile of Bachmann in Rolling Stone this month asserting that she’s “grandiose crazy, late-stage Kim Jong-Il crazy” or Colbert King recently dismissing her as “Barbie with fangs.”

It’s embarrassing that she wouldn’t know that the Duke lived in Winterset, Iowa, not Waterloo, given that she’s been selling herself over the past few days as a proud Hawkeye, but no one will care in a day.

Without the Gacy angle, though, to nudge along the “she’s nuts” storyline, you probably wouldn’t have heard of this; it would have been dismissed as her mixing up two town names that begin with “W” and that would have been it.

In fact, it’s even lamer than that. It turns out there is a Waterloo connection for John Wayne:

Bachmann’s campaign pointed out to ABC News today that actor John Wayne’s parents did live in Waterloo, although the actor himself did not.

And a little internet research proves that point correct.

According to the book “Duke: We’re Glad We Knew You” by Herb Fagen, Clyde and Molly Morrison – actor John Wayne’s parents – lived in Waterloo early in their marriage – but they moved to Winterset before the birth of son Marion Mitchell Morrison (he changed his name to John Wayne professionally).

Says Dave Weigel, “I’m not from a small town, but I’m from a pretty anonymous place (Wilmington, Delaware), and I know that when you’ve got a tenuous local connection to a celebrity, you flaunt it.”

Someone probably once told her that John Wayne’s parents met in Waterloo and either she wrongly assumed he’d been born there or else she’s fumbling a talking point about John Wayne’s family being from Waterloo. But this is simply too stupid a story to devote any further thought to, so let’s move on.

A horse-race question for you, then, on the day of her big announcement. Is she actually performing better in Iowa than she might like right now? Trailing Romney by a single point after her big splash at the debate is a sensational debut, especially since he won’t be competing hard in the state.

Her net favorable rating is the highest in the field at +53; by comparison, Rick Perry is at +35 and Palin is at +21. If her “Hawkeye pride” campaign catches fire there and she starts to build a big lead over the next few weeks with the Ames straw poll looming in August, why wouldn’t the rest of the field simply concede the state to her and move on to New Hampshire and South Carolina?

Rick Perry’s reportedly already hedging his bets in Iowa, and even T-Paw could conceivably bail out early and spin Bachmann’s big win as simple favoritism for the hometown girl. That would diminish the momentum she’ll get from winning the caucuses; it’ll also sharpen the establishment’s focus on South Carolina as the place to stop Bachmann, which will help Pawlenty insofar as he stands a better chance there on paper than Romney does.

That in turn might convince big donors to line up for T-Paw before New Hampshire to give him a strong showing there before the race heads to the south. She wants to (and has to) win Iowa, no doubt, but I’m not sure she wants an early walkover.

[wildbill]

These kinds of gaffes stem from bad staff work. A politician trusts the staff to do ‘due diligence’ on all the little factoids they give them to regurgitate during the campaign to reassure the locals that they are really knowledgeable about their area and problems.

All pols make these mistakes. Some get picked up by the oppositiona and/or the media and ballyhooed as big deals.

The way to avoid them is fire staff and get better.

[Free Vulcan]

This guy takes douchebaggery to a high art form.