Bob Schieffer interviewed Rep. Michele Bachmann on Face The Nation yesterday and actually tried to pin her down on her many and numerous outright lies, as PolitiFact recently examined in some detail.
And as usual, she did her usual blob-of-mercury routine:
SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics say you have been very fast and loose with the truth. You know, the po-- PolitiFact, which is a website that won a Pulitzer, did an analysis of twenty-three statements that you made recently. Of these twenty-three, only one they said was completely true. Seven they call pants on fire kind of falsehoods. Four were barely true and two were half truths. How do you answer that criticism? Because here’s one of them, you know, you said on the record there had been only one offshore oil drilling permit during the Obama administration and, in fact at that time they had been two hundred and seventy. How do you explain that?
BACHMANN: Well, you know, I think that what is clear more than anything is the fact that President Obama does -- has not been issuing the permits, that he should have been issuing on offshore drilling that’s--
SCHIEFFER: Well, it’s more than three hundred now.
BACHMANN: Well --
SCHIEFFER: At-- at that time there had been two hundred and something. And you said there had been only one.
BACHMANN: But as far as drilling goes, we hadn’t been drilling what we need to-- that’s why we just this week--
SCHIEFFER (overlapping): But that’s different, isn’t it?
BACHMANN: Well, that’s why this week it’s-- it’s ironic and sad that the President released all of the oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve because the President doesn’t have an energy policy.
SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Do you think that was a good move?
BACHMANN: He has a politically correct environmental policy.
SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Was that a good thing?
BACHMANN: It was a very bad move. It put-- it has made the United States more vulnerable. There’s only a limited amount of oil that we have in the Strategic Oil Reserve. It’s there for emergencies. We do not-- the emergency that we have is the fact that -- the fact that-- the President of the United States has failed to give the American people an energy policy. Here’s the good news that a lot of Americans don’t even realize. We are the number one energy resource rich nation in the world according to the Congressional Research Service. But the President of the United States has unfortunately put American energy resources off limits.
SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Did--
BACHMANN: We need to open those up so we can bring down the price of gasoline at the pump. The President has it exactly wrong when it comes to energy.
SCHIEFFER Just quickly though, the-- the original question I asked you is all of these statements that you have made that have later proven to be sort of true or-- or totally false in some cases, what is your answer when people say that to you? Do you feel you have misled people?
BACHMANN: No, I haven’t misled people at all. I think the question would be asked of President Obama. When you told the American people that if we borrow a trillion dollars from other countries and spend it on a stimulus that we won’t have unemployment go above eight percent and today as we are sitting here, it’s 9.1 percent and the economy is tanking. That is what’s serious. That’s a very serious statement that the President made. Did he mislead the American people? Not only did he mislead the American people, he’s caused our economy to go down to--
SCHIEFFER (overlapping): All right.
BACHMANN: --depths that we haven’t seen. That’s what’s serious.
SCHIEFFER: Again, I have to say congresswoman, I asked you a question and you-- you, to my knowledge I don’t believe you answered it, but I want to thank you.
Indeed, Bachmann simply would not answer any of Schieffer's points about her mounting record of falsehoods, trying instead to "pivot" the interview and make it about Obama's supposed misleading statements. It's like trying to talk to a trained robot, programmed never to admit to anything like lying -- so of course, it lies in order to do so.
The flake question got the bigger headlines. Even here.
Soon, of course, the Chris Wallace question will move from being saluted by liberals and denounced by conservatives to having been a conspiracy by the MSM from liberals. This is because her answer is already being used by conservatives to prove she is as good as Palin was from August to early September of 2008.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
Don't know if you noticed it, ricky, but the more important stories from the Sunday talking heads shows usually pop up here on Mondays, usually after 9am Pacific Time. Can you guess why? I bet you can.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
and take breaks?
This tripe is what's so infuriating. The guests blatantly lie or prevaricate in full view of the host and everybody, but they still get thanked for being there. He should have said, "Well, Ms. Bachmann, since you didn't answer simple, direct questions, you will not be asked to appear on our show any more. Have a good life."
Like any annoying person, if you ignore them, they stop being important. Would anybody give a ratspatootie about Palin - or Bachmann for that matter - if they weren't on the teeveeola every g-dd-mned day?
Bob Schieffer cares more about his job and getting Bochmann back again, than he cares about journalism and doing something for his country.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
If you don't like the question you're asked, then answer the question you would have preferred being asked.
I think they teach that stratagem in today's poly-sci classes...
Step 1: Lie your ass off.
Step 2: Hope media doesn't call you on it (if yes, go to step 3, if no, repeat step 1)
Step 3: Change the subject and just talk about what you want to talk about.
Step 4: Whine about liberals in the media gunning for you.
Step 5: Repeat step 1
see, nixon
Maybe instead of crediting her for being a pioneer, she was more of a synergizer. She combined Dan Quayle's anti-intellectual flare with W's doofey charm with Nixon's contempt for the free press. Apparently, Palin wasn't crazy enough so Bachmann is taking things to new heights (or lows).
Dont count her out yet,
She has some very rich very powerful friends....here, let me show you:http://www.bondbuyer.com/issues/117_136/-291522-1.html
yes..."Alaska's Palin Pushes Gas Pipeline"
by Rich Saskal
The Bond Buyer
she's got some powerful friends right there.
President Bachmann . . .
Does the GOP really think it is possible? I hear villagers and pundits singing her praises but really, does the GOP really think she is electable or is it a kind of left handed insult to run a complete kook against Obama?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
trademark of the cunning, deliberate and manipulative liar.
It's not that she's uninformed. She knows what the truth is yet she utters, again and again, premeditated and carefully crafted lies.
Her campaign slogan should be,"She's a liar, but at least she's a good liar."
she is a politician
I hope you keep working on confronting these pathological liars. You're still kind of weak, but it's better than most of the M$M who just kneel and
suckcooperate. You need to be really strong and have more facts at your fingertips.Guees this was more of
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/face-n...
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
No Bob, you don't want to thank her. Tell her to F* off next time so she never comes back ever again.
At least Schieffer tried to get this psychopath to admit that she lied. Everytime I see this crazy loon with her phony fucking smile I want to throw a brick at my television. Anyone but me ever notice that she never, ever blinks? Is that the sign of a sociopath or what?
it's because everytime backmann blinks
an angel wets its pants.......
and keeps coming straight at you
regardless how many direct hits she takes
amazing person!!
more dangerous than Charles Manson
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
We should all encourage Schieffer and any other mainstream media people who show a bit of courage and uprightness. They're rightfully afraid of their corporate masters, but if they get some reinforcement from the public, it might help.
"she never, ever blinks.."
Anybody ever check to see if there is an on/off switch on the back of this political Stepford Wife?
Creepy.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
bachmann is and always will be "C"
she is total teabagger stupid......
It's okay, you can say "conservative" here.
Oil Reserve. He could of at least corrected her on that misstatement. And it's obvious that he was allowed to go after her so the Corps must not want Bachman to get the Repub nomination. If the Corps were happy with her he would have deferred even more to her. The media just sucks and is controlled. We need another medium.
good points.
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7s6yklp80Q
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Did she say Obama released ALL of the strategic oil reserve? My understanding was 60 million barrels were released from the roughly 727 million barrel inventory.
Her way makes it sound like the release put the U.S. at risk whereas 90% of the reserve remains.
Turk Meister
Not much of the total you stated.
Is bachman smarter than the media. It is sad that the media can be pushed around by these politicians by allowing them to repeat the same talking points over and over again.
Stop playing nice with this candidate Chris Wallace apologizing for asking a reasonable question, and now shifter only getting talking points.
one has to have been accosted by a friend or relative attempting to sell you Amway products. This dispicable grifter sure has the patter and obtuseness to the truth to be Diamond Club member.
Having been sold a crappy Amway product many years ago, your grifter analogy is perfect!
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
the wacko religious beliefs that are de facto requirements to enter the Church of Amway.
This is an example of the Republican's "best and brightest"...of their most "trustworthy" Tea Party candidate...of the caliber of "integrity" that dumbed-down Republicans find appealing...of what it means to care more about "winning" than honesty and truth.
Michelle Bachmann is a bottom feeding blood sucking leech on the belly of the body politic and today's deviant breed of intellectually and morally defective Republicans are even more misanthropic than she is. God save America from the ignorance, stupidity and irresponsibility of today's Republicans! They are enabling the rich and powerful to subjugate and or destroy working/middle class Americans, which will lead to the chaotic demise of the American economy.
"but I want to thank you. . ."
WTF
Ya know, I can see a scenario where the ignorance of this country puts this incompetent twit in the White House.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
.. just like GW .. not going to alter course regardless ..
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
all over again.
....think about how much funnier she would be than bush?
Probably more dangerous than bush too but its obvious the country as a whole just doesn't get it so why not elect her? If she can't do more harm than our current crop of dopes then it doesn't matter. If she does do more harm than the current crop of dopes, well, we get what we voted for and if the country suffers, we'll all complain but would the country learn anything or sink further into the idiocracy?
yep, fed up with bachmann, romney, perry, boehner, gingrich, pelosi, obama, all of them.
We need jobs, they aren't working to create them.
Businesses are sitting on a trillion in profit and they're not creating jobs.
We have a revenue problem and they're not solving it.
We have infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.
Let's cut more taxes for the wealthy, right now, right on!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
think David Icke might just be right about the shape shifting reptiles.
Can't the Chinese just buy us outright. I want to live in a country with a rising standard of living and intelligent leadership.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Why would you ever let truth get in the way? The secret to U.S. politics is opinion first and then reshape the facts to fit the opinion. If you're really good at it, the money will flow your way and you will get the job. The primaries are like casting tryouts. Our foreign policy is the same system....go to war and then justify it. Support a dictator and convince people they are a good guy. So Bachmann has what it takes so far....just better not send out a picture of a camel toe on twitter or down she goes!
bys1955
To repeat myself, Bachman is the perfect person to represent the GOP in 2012. She epitomizes everything about that party, i.e., she possesses a black heart, twisted spirit, and forked tongue.
....
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Yes, when she visits one of the districts that neighbors her jerrymandered district, she can see Canada, donchaknow!
She's visited other states, even outside the Midwest
Interviewer: *asks question*
Bachmann: Well, you see, Bob, the real question is -
Interviewer: Please answer the question.
Bachmann: It's not as simple as -
Interviewer: Yes it is. It's a simple question. Please answer it.
Bachmann: Bob, it's well known that President Obama -
Interviewer: Is there a reason you're not answering the question?
Rinse, repeat. Until she ANSWERS IT.
These interviewers never seem willing to really put these people's feet to the fire. They ask an awkward question but then they let the Repub rattle on and on. Fucking MAKE them answer. Really show them up for the lying snakes they are.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Did she get paid by the state to take care of all those foster kids? And how screwed up are they now after living in her house?
Turk Meister
who hung up on Mike Haridopolos when he wouldn't answer the question about voting for the Ryan plan. "Cut her mike!" and then a closeup on MB's frozen stare.
Janek
Wish I would have remembered that.
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While the actions of certain Democrats are unforgiveable, the depth and breath of the on-going and unending evils of today's Republicans are FAR, FAR MORE DESTRUCTIVE to America and Americans.
Democrats don't WANT or take actions that RESULT IN the unregulated pollution of the air, oceans, lakes and waterways of our planet. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take action that RESULT in uneducated dumbed-down voters. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take actions that RESULT in CORPORATIONS not paying their fair share of TAXES. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take actions that RESULT in CORPORATIONS being too big to fail. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take actions that RESULT in CORPORATE MONOPOLIES. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take actions that RESULT in the DESTRUCTION and OUTSOURCING of American jobs. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take actions that RESULT in the SUFFERING and DEATHS of Americans who can't afford health insurance. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take actions that RESULT in non-wealthy senior citizens becoming homeless, being unable to buy medications and or dying younger than they would if medical assistance and treatments were readily available to them. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT to take actions that RESULT in the understaffing of government offices, courts and regulation, oversight and enforcement agencies. Republicans DO!
Democrats don't WANT the vast majority of Americans to suffer at the expense of the relatively few RICH and ELITE. Republicans DO!
Republicans are evil bastard corporate tools.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
did you steal money out of the register?
steve was late yesterday.
fine, but did you steal money?
sally sucks at her job.
ok, but we're asking if you took the money?
broccoli gives me gas.
well ok never mind, back to work.
Yes, she is batshit crazy and yes, she is a pathological liar who believes her own fantasies. But more importantly, she is an unapologetic theocrat. She is exactly the kind of person Sinclair Lewis warned us about when he described how fascism would come to America.
There are millions of people in this country who will turn out in favor of putting a theocrat like her in charge. We treat her like a joke at our peril.
How does this sound?
Michelle Bachmann, your 'Commander and Chief'................has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
...........and you thought GWB was an embarrassment!
Isn't this a GREAT country? Only in America..........
He should have stopped at "how do you answer to that"
Instead he asked another question and let let off the hook! Idiot Bob! Don't do that again!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
he gave her enough rope to hang herself on TV. And she did that very clearly.
Yes, she was given enough rope to hang herself, i'll give him that much. But when he asked her ' how do you answer to that" she hesitated - she didn't know how to answer that question. She knew exactly how to answer the next question. Scheiffer should have given her time to be speechless, enough time to hang herself.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
A President Bachmann will shine
Because she is tough by design;
Her backbone's titanium
But what's in her cranium
Sends chills down America's spine.
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I told that I don't want to be called "Christian" because it's one thing to accept Jesus it's another to be "Christian" The right wing lunatics have taken over Christianity and replaced it with insanity. I always thought Christianity means to be Christ like. Bachmann and her hoard are nothing close to that.
Christians should share, not hoard.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
I agree with you. I used to think of myself as a Christian. I have no problems with the teachings of Christ. I have problems with the Church who bought the arguments of the right-wing hook line and sinker.
"But, but, but,...Obama...."
from the bat-shit crazy: "...it's ironic and sad, that the President released all of the oil from the strategic oil reserve..." [01:08]
from the wiki: "As of May 31, 2011, the current inventory was 726.5 million barrels..."
he let out 30 million...
not ironic, but truly sad
Bachmann, dumbest idiot in the republican party, well almost, they are all dumb idiots.....
On the contrary, let's make no mistake about that... she is not dumb...
Batshit crazy is not the same as dumb...
Although a fictional character, the most graphic example of batshit crazy and fiercely intelligent might be Hannibal Lecter... and he never blinked, either...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/06/27/a-rar...
i got bricks in my patio smarter than her
Being a paranoid sociopath doesn't necessarily preclude one from getting into post-graduate school at William and Mary... being an imbecile might... which is why it apparently took Ms. Palin 5 stabs at it to get a degree in Communication... which she obviously didn't learn much from.
No, Rep. Bachmann's got some pretty stupid ideas, but she is not a stupid woman.
IQ really only measures the size of the sponge... it's what that sponge has soaked up that matters.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Thank you very much.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
*blush*
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I simply cannot stand this GD'd liar.
This probably has been posted elsewhere, but everyone should read it. As Bill Maher has pointed out, this country elected Bush, Jr. twice. I would be very concerned about Bachmann as well.
Matt Taibbi wrote this article, and it scares the bejesus out of me. I have heard before many of these stories about this nutcase in this article, and this gives a good summary about how Bachmann got to the point she is at now.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/mic...
Talking Head: Did you say Obama only allowed one drilling permit?
Minnesota Moron: Yes.
Talking Head: Has he allowed only one drilling permit?
Minnesota Moron: No.
Talking Head: Hasn't he, in fact, offered hundreds of drilling permits?
Minnesota Moron: Yes.
Talking Head: So, haven't you misled people?
Minnesota Moron: Obama has no energy policy. That's so sad.
Talking Head: Golly, uh, gosheroo, er . . . urm . . . I don't, uh . . . I don't think . . . I mean, at least to my knowledge . . . and I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying . . . it just, well, sort of seems like you're not answering my question.
Minnesota Moron: Yes, I am.
Talking Head: Well, thank you so much for appearing here. We wish you the best of luck in the future with your campaign. Honestly, I really like you. I think you're pretty.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Michelle couldn't even pass the Turing test.
the bumper stickers...
'God Help America'
that my constantly hearing her on mainstream media is leading me to half believe what she spouts.
Thank goodness I still use print media,enabling me to read her nonsense.
Alfie46
Obama did not release ALL the oil from the strategic reserves, just a small
percentage. She lies to Schieffer's face!
Ed-words
She is part of the morons in congress...perhaps she doesn't know what the truth is???
this woman is a nightmare
We need to inform people about things like the Glass (D) Steagell (D) act (1933), especially details, like how it kept us safe from another stock market crash like the one in 1929. This bill repealed by the Gramm (R) Leach (R) Bliley (R) act 1999, the vote to pass this act and by doing so repealing Glass - Steagell, for the most part followed party lines. A few Democrats (Byron Dorgan (D) North Dakota for one), actually had the stones to say the passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley could possibly lead the country to massive public bailouts, just to prevent major devastation and failure of U.S. Banks, WELL,,, SURPRISE, SURPRISE! What I like about being a Democrat is when we're wrong we own it, and Bill Clinton did sign the bill, so we own that, however, many people believe Clinton realized with a majority in both houses, a veto would've probably been moot anyway. So he signed it, hopefully he received something in return (a quarterback and tight-end to be named later, ha ha).
But is it prevaricating or dissimulating?
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