Michele Bachmann: 'I Didn't Get Anything Wrong' During Presidential Debates

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Bachmann's claim that she had an impeccable factual record in debates seems especially impressive, considering that the GOP managed to schedule 13 events between the beginning of the contest and Bachmann's exit from the race in early January 2012. Perhaps it's not surprising then that there is a long list of statements Bachmann made during debates showing she actually got a number of things "wrong."

Most memorably, during a debate in September of 2011, Bachmann attempted to deny charges that she'd called the HPV vaccine hazardous. Earlier that month, however, she'd stood up on a different debate stage and called it a "potentially dangerous drug."

"To have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat-out wrong. That should never be done. That's a violation of the liberty interests," Bachmann said. "Little girls who have a negative reaction to this potentially dangerous drug don't get a mulligan. They don't get a do-over."

While Bachmann made many more mistakes throughout debates -- and even more outside of them -- she's done her best to gloss over that part of her record.

During an interview in November 2011, the congresswoman claimed she hadn't "made a gaffe." In the wake of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's notorious "oops" stumble, Bachmann may have gotten away with that claim, if not for the attention she had drawn for appearing to confuse Libya as separate from the continent of Africa.

In other words, she’s a liar.

 

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By Nick Wing

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) gave an interview this week at Patrick Henry College, an Evangelical Christian institution in Virginia, in which she proudly claimed that she'd had a flawless record of accuracy throughout the 2012 GOP presidential debate cycle.

“I was very proud of the fact that I didn’t get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates," she said, according to Salon. "I didn’t get anything wrong, and that’s a huge arena."

Bachmann went on to explain the difficulty of achieving such perceived perfection.

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OMG, she's crazier than I imagined.

 

[Luissa]

Why do you care? Why would Salon care? None of you would ever vote for her, but like Palin, the left's obsession with female Republicans is down right disturbing.

Kind of like the rights obsession with The First Ladies ass? Or the fact she presented at the Oscar?
Yeah, that isn't disturbing at all.

Already on record that I don't give two cents about Michelle Obama, I didn't watch the Oscars, so I'm unaware of that incident, but again, not an issue for me. After Michelle the right really doesn't go after female democrats.

Palin, Bachmann, and list goes on with the lefts hatred for them. The VP's in this election cycle didn't stir up the hatred that Palin did and still does.

Add to it the hatred for the blacks like Cain and West, the Dems seem obsessed with color, race and sex.

Doesn't really go after females? Lol
What about Hilary, the women from Georgetown? Nancy Pelosi?
Or how about the fact right wingers think that right wing women are better looking and post pictures in regards to this? Do you want me to go on?

Bachmann is a loon and a politician, she signed up for the attention when she became the face of the tea party. Lakota didn't post anything negative about her in regards to her being a women. Do you think liberals have a problem with men if they post a thread about Cantor etc?
You are disrespecting Bachmann more by giving her special treatment than any liberal. She is a loon but I doubt she wants special treatment because she is a woman.