Bachmann finally jumped it, as we knew she would!
When I called Rep. Michele Bachmann unethical for her repeated uses of erroneous information in her speeches—announcing that the Battle of Concord occurred in New Hampshire, declaring the Founders spent their lives fighting slavery (and later justifying this whopper by saying that Founding Father’s Son John Quincy Adams qualified as a Founding Father himself), the Bachmanites were furious. “Anyone can make a mistake!” they argued.
Not these kinds of mistakes. As I wrote in July:
“…Her claim that the Founding Fathers “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States”—has signature significance. Bachmann literally doesn’t care about facts. She is a pure ideologue, and her belief in her ideology is stronger than truth, stronger than logic, stronger than history. Since facts are the tools of persuasion, Bachmann trims, distorts or invents them to suit her message. She doesn’t check facts very carefully because she doesn’t care very much whether her facts are correct, confident that her supporters don’t care either. So far and sadly, she has been right about this.
“…Bachmann’s manufactured and genetically-altered facts aren’t like Obama’s half-truths, which, thanks to confirmation bias, he probably believes himself. They are the equivalent of brain-washing, or the pods from “Invasion of the Body-Snatchers,” designed to create allies for her fact-free ideology without the benefit of fair analysis….
“Bachmann’s use of false facts is not just stupid, but also sinister. She would make the public more misinformed than it already is in order for them to find her ideology more palatable, though her ideology is not built on facts…
This is the kind of America extremists like Bachmann want to create, a culture in which belief, moral strictures and lock-step ideology dictate what we regard as truth and facts, and where facts that are inconvenient will be altered to make sure that the “right” view cannot be challenged. Acquiring the power to so transform the culture requires a pliant public that is passionate, gullible, and misinformed, and making it so is what Bachmann’s cynical use of faux history is designed to accomplish. That she has generated followers who believe that enshrining a complete fabrication in the historical record is justified should be warning enough of the kind of values her candidacy reinforces.
Well, as I knew and hopes she would, Bachmann finally demonstrated the tangible danger of her irresponsible contempt for facts, and showed what a disaster she would be in a job where more people took her seriously. After the last GOP candidates debate, when she attacked Gov. Perry’s executive order to make HPV vaccinations mandatory for young girls in Texas, Bachmann told Fox News:
“The problem is, is it comes with some very significant consequences. There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine. There are very dangerous consequences.”
If the woman, assuming there really was one, had told Bachmann that her son had gotten hairy palms from masturbating, that her daughter had gotten warts from touching a toad or that wishing on a star had won her the lottery, the information would have been no less inappropriate for Bachmann to relay on TV. They would be preferable, in fact, to what she did say, because at least those completely baseless and superstitious assertions won’t get anyone killed. Irrational fear of vaccines kills children every year, and there is precisely no evidence, facts, rumors or suspicions that the HPV vaccine causes “mental retardation” of any kind. Bachmann just blurted it out, like she blurts out everything, proving that she is not only irresponsible, but also untrustworthy, reckless, and either dishonest, gullible, or dumb as Pet Rock.
Now do you get it, Bachmann fans?
Ethics Alarms 
Right on.
….but wouldn’t she make the perfect candidate for Area 51 buffs? I mean, how better to get government secrets than to make a president out of a blabber mouth?
HPV, not HBV. Otherwise, right on point. Though the facts that her attacks were cheered and that pretty much all comentators believe Perry’s sane position (I don’t believe I wrote that) is going to hurt him scare me even more than Bachmann’s idiocy.
Fixed that B. I am having awful keyboard problems and may stop posting until they are fixed.
Ironically, my comment box is right next to a pic of Jenny McCarthy in the background collage.
There’s really nothing to say about this Jack. We’ve already known for years that Michele Bachmann will take a statement from one person and pass it off as gospel. See, that one person really represents 50,000 people, so she can extrapolate that 83.546% of the population has suffered at its hands, which explains why so many people are against her; they’re all mentally retarded from vaccinations.
Hey John – I agree with a large % of this particular post – but now look at it from a perspective of our whole 9-11 “Truther” debate we had 3-6 months ago.. Ignoring facts, disregard for science and statistics and the changing of history are all things we as people have had to deal with since ancient times… Bachmann and the whole Tea Party Texas “Change the Schoolbooks to fit an ideology” mentality are now just blatantly flaunting this capability because, well, they can – AND the MSM encourages it.
Show a Tea Party Rally with less than 100 people, but ignore nationwide protests with thousands protesting a myriad of progressive and liberal causes. Show Palin Bus tours with tens of people, but then show Obama speaking to thousands who come to see him, but then the election result is 60% for the party that bows to the Corporatocrasy, counted on Diebold voting machines and jerrymandered districting. I am no fan of CFR Puppet Obama, but I do believe he has a good heart, unlike the Pagan Bushes or Darth Cheney, who is a walking analogy for the Selfish Black Ops Me-ism that permeates our National Leadership from the Top Down – and this precipitates into our everyday lives.
It don’t feel too good, I say.
I love your stuff, Blake—makes me feel like I’m in a Sixties movie, or Don Siegel’s “Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, or “JKF,” or “Plan Nine From Outer Space.” “They Stole Hitler’s Brain.”
Spare me tyro leaders with “good hearts,” whatever that means. Give me honest and courageous leaders who know how to get things done, with open minds, who don’t play favorites.
It’s good not to be the crazy liberal here.
Define “Crazy Liberal”… as opposed to its opposite, say, the CEO of BP or Xe ( formerly Blackwater ) or G Gorgon Liddy or Reichwing wacko du Jour Pat “Just kill or dispose of my spouse, she has Alzheimer’s disease” Robertson..? I can’t tell if your serious or being sarcastic – but I’ll gladly take “Liberal Crazy” as opposed to the alternative. Thanks.
Show Palin Bus tours with tens of people, but then show Obama speaking to thousands who come to see him, but then the election result is 60% for the party that bows to the Corporatocrasy, counted on Diebold voting machines and jerrymandered districting.
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unlike the Pagan Bushes or Darth Cheney, who is a walking analogy for the Selfish Black Ops Me-ism that permeates our National Leadership from the Top Down
Do you know who killed JFK? My money is on Donald Rumseld or Clarence “Raper” Thomas, but Todd Palin is a possible dark horse candidate.
Video Google JFK II – and watch it all the way through.. kind of primitive production, but chock full of nice, juicy, factual info.
Another Nice series to watch is called “Evidence of Revision” – it’s a 5-parter… but there’s some great info there too – first part of course deals with JFK assassination. Shows how facts reported at the time suddenly were dissapeared and non-mentionable expo facto, kinda like Building 7.
“Kings are killed, Mr Garrison” – it’s not such a stretch that a giant, malignant Black Ops apparatus exists within our own government, especially post WWII. It’s more of a stretch that one Doesn’t exist.. like you are implying that one doesn’t. And yes, Rummy is my favorite Devil to pin the bad karma on, but I forgive him. Because we are all one collective consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. That’s the truth that they want to hide from all of us.
ROFLMAO . Thanks man, your rambling crazy posts and the headsup on JFK II just made my day, I havent seen anything that funny in years.
Hey you’re welcome – we all kneed to lighten up. Here’s another great link for you to contemplate, when you have a spare 56 minutes – “thunderbolts of the Gods” – you’ll ROFLMAO wee wee wee all the way homey homey.
http://bit.ly/ThunderboltsoftheGods
peace – happy Friday
Because we are all one collective consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. That’s the truth that they want to hide from all of us.
I rest my case
I feel so sorry for you.
For being of reality and not thinking that a mysterious “they” is hiding reality from us? That seems very weird.
what’s so weird about it?
Blech, JACK – not John… my brainf*rt.
And I meant for my English to be goofy in the last sentence for effect.
Thanks—I am a real Jack, you know. Me and my Dad. Fake Jacks are unethical.
By that, do you mean John Kennedy, or ALL of them?
Oh, all of them. Absolutely. Frauds, the lot of them.
Blake,
Wow. And I thought the moon landing conspiracy crowd was out there. Perhaps “Darth Cheney,” former Comandant Regan, and Dr. Evil planned everything from their secret star wars base on the moon. What ever will we do when the New World Order takes over? Luckily for me, I’m an Illuminati.
-Neil
PS: There are rules governing proper capitalization, by the way.
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Just the facts,ma’am.
Ha! Now I know how old you are!
With ‘Nick at Nite and with the ’87 remake formerly in rotation on Comedy Central, you’re back where you started.
Oops!!