{"id":25170,"date":"2011-06-27T16:55:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25170"},"modified":"2011-06-27T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T21:08:35","slug":"fact-checking-bachmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25170","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checking Bachmann"},"content":{"rendered":"

So f*n what? Think Progress<\/a> and Politico<\/a> believe they have the goods on Michelle Bachmann because she mistook Waterloo. Iowa as the birthplace of John Wayne, when it’s the birthplace of John Wayne Gacy, the mass murderer;<\/p>\n

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has a thing for John Wayne. In an interview yesterday with Newsmax, she said she wants to live in \u201cJohn Wayne\u2019s America.\u201d And in the Iowa town of Waterloo today, where she announced her presidential candidacy, Bachmann told Fox News, \u201cJohn Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That\u2019s the kind of spirit that I have, too.\u201d But unfortunately for historically challenged Bachmann, as the Washington Times<\/a> points out, the John Wayne born in Waterloo is John Wayne Gacy, the notorious serial killer who murdered 33 teenage boys and young men, not the iconic Western actor. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Big damn deal, for Pete’s sake. John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa<\/a> – three hours away from Waterloo. So what difference does it make? It’s Iowa, for cryin’ outloud. Not knowing the difference between Winterset and Waterloo doesn’t matter – what matters is that she knows the difference between John Wayne’s and John Wayne Gacy’s Americas.<\/p>\n

Notice that the Think Progress article doesn’t mention where John Wayne was actually born…probably because they don’t know, or they didn’t want their readers to know that Bachmann was only an inch or so on the map off.<\/p>\n

I’m no Bachmann fan, but I’m getting sick of this one-way nit-picking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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