Glenn Beck: All politicians are untrustworthy. Next up: Lyin' Michelle Bachmann!
At the opening of his show last night, Glenn Beck started ranting about how the Mark Sanford case proved you just can't trust any politicians -- not one of them.
Then, later on the show, Beck invited wingnut Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., to come on and talk about why you shouldn't fill out your Census forms -- essentially repeating what she had said earlier on Fox.
Namely, that the Census was an overly intrusive act by Big Brother to pry into Americans' private lives, etc. etc., as she waved a long, detailed survey she claimed she had an advance copy of. She again charged that Census data was used to round up Japanese Americans during World War II.
Beck, of course, ate it up, and urged his audience to join Bachmann in her crusade.
Except, of course, that everything Bachmann said was untrustworthy: wildly inaccurate, grossly distorted, and downright mendacious -- not to mention completely nutty.
Ali Frick at Think Progress has the details:
