Bachmann confuses John Wayne with John Wayne Gacy. -- "That's the kind of spirit that I have too"

[jefferson_dem]

:rofl: ...a rather delicious gaffe indeed!

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsLfL9vMaUY&feature=player_embedded

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.

Mrs. Bachmann grew up in Waterloo, and used the town as the backdrop for her campaign announcement, where she told Fox News: "Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too." (Someone has already posted the clip to YouTube under the name BachmannLovesGacy)

John Wayne, the movie legend, is in fact from Iowa and the John Wayne birthplace is a celebrated landmark — only it's in Winterset, which is a nearly three hour drive away from Waterloo.

Gacy, though, had his first taste of the criminal life in Waterloo, where he lived for a short time, and where he had his first criminal conviction for an attempted homosexual assault, which landed him in prison for 18 months.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2011/jun/27/the-wrong-john-wayne/

[lamp_shade]

1. Flakey indeed.

[eleny]

2. Lol!!! Way to go, twink!

[rurallib]

3. time for a denial like Newt did

"If anybody quotes me, then they are lying!"
Down go the polls! Down go the polls!

[villager]

4. so suddenly she's honest about the true implications of GOP policy!?

:shrug:

[DJ13]

5. !!!

[justiceischeap]

6. I love the irony that Gacy's first criminal conviction was for attempted homosexual assault

When Bachmann assault the LGBT*.* community on an almost daily basis. Kindred spirits indeed.

edited: spelling

[jberryhill]

7. Winning

[livetohike]

8. Pathetic. Can't wait for the "liberal media" scrutiny n/t

[NJCher]

9. Matt Taibbi's point

This was MT's point in his recent Rolling Stone article about her. She gets things mixed up.

Imagine the consequences if she were president: kind of like bush. Just got the wrong target (Iraq).

Of no consequence, really. It's only bringing down a once-powerful nation and its middle class.


Cher

[cui bono]

12. Also gives you an idea of the quality of people she would appoint.

I mean someone must have given her this info, an aide/staff member...

[sad sally]

21. More Bachman, what?

Bachmann On Her Career As Tax Attorney.

“I am a tax attorney. I have to warn you, this is not a pretty sight. You have a tax attorney who’s also a politician. So if there’s anyone who needs sanctification, it is me.” — Senator Michele Bachmann, EdWatch conference, October 10-11, 2003 (This is a self-deprecating joke by Bachmann which an audience of Evangelical Christians would understand. The most common use of the term “sanctification” within Christian theology is in reference to the change brought about by God in a believer, begun at the point of salvation or justification and continuing throughout the life of the believer. Bachmann’s joke lies in the notion that tax attorneys and politicians are so suspect that they would need sanctification more than people in other professions.)

“I’m a federal tax lawyer, that’s what I do for a living. And I litigate tax cases in the Federal Tax Court here in St. Paul, criminal cases, civil cases, that’s what I do…” — Senator Michele Bachmann, Tom Barnard Morning Show, KQRS, broadcast May 12, 2005. (Note the date of this statement.)

From 1988 to 1993, Bachmann was a U.S. Treasury Department attorney in the US Federal Tax Court located in St. Paul. According to Bachmann, she represented the Internal Revenue Service "in hundreds of cases" (both civil and criminal) prosecuting people who underpaid or failed to pay their taxes. She left her government position to become a full-time mother. ...

[woo me with science]

10. ...

:wow:

[robertpaulsen]

11. Looks like the Bachmannians have gotten to Wayne's wiki entry.

Just like Palin's pals did with Paul Revere:


Early life

Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Waterloo, Iowa.<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne

That should be Winterset, according to the biography section of http://www.johnwayne.com/

[robertpaulsen]

14. Looks like they changed it back. n/t

[boppers]

24. ...and it's now semi-protected.

Only established editors can alter it now.

[center rising]

13. She'll blame Obama for her stupidity.

[Raine1967]

15. Even if she got the correct John Wayne....

is she aware that he was an ACTOR? He played characters. This is an epic fail.

[tanyev]

16. Hey, she left out Napoleon!

He showed a lot of spirit at Waterloo, too.



:rofl:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. Freudian slip, perhaps?

:shrug:

[RBInMaine]

18. GO BACHMAN ! GO BACHMAN ! (Keep selling crazy and win that TeaPuke nomination !!!)

[Duke Newcombe]

19. And she's right..f.

...she does in fact have that "killer instinct". Just listen to her and her "death-panel" and death of our Lib-ur-teez rants.

The woman is a one-person death cult, there.

[golfguru]

20. Was she reading a teleprompter during that gaffe?

If not, she should use teleprompter for every speech.
Otherwise gaffe every week.

[Mimosa]

22. PHONY Bachmann. Fans of John Wayne know where he came from

I doubt Bachmann is even familiar with John Wayne's films. She seems seriously culturally impaired. *gag*

However John Wayne Gacy was indeed a Republican!

[butterfly77]

25. John Wayne the actor...

was anything fantastic,that is what was/is Bush and the republiCONS problems they thought they were playing the characters in John Wayne movies..

[donheld]

23. Maybe we should elect her Queen of Fools.