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Michele Bachmann fakes her own family's history
City pages Blog ^ | 04/04/2011 | Nick Pinto

Posted on 04/06/2011 5:48:19 AM PDT by unseen1

There are some cultures in which telling self-serving lies about your own ancestors would be so shameful as to be inconceivable. Michele Bachmann's culture is apparently not one of these.

Bachmann, who's flirting with a presidential run, was in the early-primary state of Iowa last week for the Rediscover God in America conference. Bachmann was born in Iowa, as she told the crowd. But she couldn't leave it at just being an ordinary Iowan:

"I'm actually even more than just an Iowan," she told her audience. "I'm a seventh-generation Iowan. Our family goes back to the 1850s, to the first pioneers that came to Iowa from Sognfjord, Norway."

And from there, Bachmann was off and running, spinning an American story about her ancestors, Melchior and Martha Munson, who braved a 13-week ocean passage to Quebec and from there trekked overland to carve a homestead out of the wilderness of Iowa, felling trees and building a better life for themselves on the frontier.

Unfortunately, the story doesn't hold water, as researcher Chris Rodda ably points out at OpEdNews.

"I was watching her speech, and it was when she said that she was a seventh-generation Iowan that I knew something was wrong," Rodda tells City Pages. "She's in her fifties--there's no way there could be seven generations between her and ancestors in the 1850s."

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Another lying pol.
1 posted on 04/06/2011 5:48:23 AM PDT by unseen1
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To: unseen1

Another concern troll, with little to say!


2 posted on 04/06/2011 5:52:02 AM PDT by WVKayaker ("When Sarah Palin speaks, people listen!" - EF Hutton)
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To: unseen1

Hey, Ms. Rodda, how about doing some genealogical research on the current occupant of the White House.


3 posted on 04/06/2011 5:52:16 AM PDT by surrey
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To: unseen1

Why doesn’t this Chris Rodda research Obama family history, where he was born, and what grades he got in school.

Politicians like bachman need to be very careful what they say because liberal turds are lying in wait to catch them in any mistake.

The same liberal turds who ignore the Alledged President.


4 posted on 04/06/2011 5:52:48 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: WVKayaker

The truth hurts I know.


5 posted on 04/06/2011 5:53:41 AM PDT by unseen1
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To: unseen1
​So Rodda, who has a background in genealogical research, decided to do a little digging. Without too much trouble, she found that Bachmann is actually a fourth-generation American,
Wow, I sure won't vote for her based of that "whopper."
BTW, If Rodda is so feckin' good at genealogical research, why hasn't she come up with the Zero's birth certificate?
6 posted on 04/06/2011 5:53:45 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: surrey
Hey, Ms. Rodda, how about doing some genealogical research on the current occupant of the White House.

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No kidding.

7 posted on 04/06/2011 5:53:52 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: unseen1

So, maybe she’s a fourth generation Iowan or a fifth generation Iowan, not a seventh.

To the gibbet with her, you say! A LIAR, ohmygawd, you say.

I say, get a freaking life.


8 posted on 04/06/2011 5:55:24 AM PDT by John Valentine
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Bachmann's immigrant ancestors didn't make a pilgrimage straight to the promised land of Iowa. From Quebec, they went to Wisconsin. That's where the 1860 census found them. From there, they moved to the Dakota Territory. Bachmann claims that her people "kept going, and they persevered" through floods and crippling winters. Well, kind of. After enduring those trials in the unforgiving Dakota Territory, they actually turned tail and retreated to the relative ease and safety of...Iowa. "Okay," Bachmann apologists may be saying at this point, "but history is hard and stuff! Maybe this was just an honest mistake." Not a chance, Rodda says. "The only historical sources where she could have found some of the details of her story--like the 13-week ocean passage--also clearly show that her family went to Wisconsin, not Iowa," Rodda says. "She couldn't have known those things without knowing that the whole premise of her speech was a lie." You can read the whole of Rodda's excellent historical fact-checking here. And here's video of Bachmann telling her imaginary American tale:

9 posted on 04/06/2011 5:56:33 AM PDT by unseen1
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To: unseen1

Unless I’m counting wrong, 7 generations from 1850 would be the 1990s, so yea, she may be a little off because of her age but that’s isn’t a big ‘off’. It is more of an illustrative statement than a mathematical analysis.


10 posted on 04/06/2011 5:56:44 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: unseen1

Ms Bachmann needs to tighten up her campaign quickly. A couple of weeks ago it was the Concord gaffe, then there was a leak from “someone close to her”, reports of high turnover in her closest staff and now today she was caught embellishing her families ties to Iowa. I have never heard her debate, but have found her interviews to be rambling as she stumbles to find words. Maybe the small stage in Minnesota suits her better than the bright lights of a presidential campaign.
Getting ready to replace her at #2 with Herman Cain...


11 posted on 04/06/2011 5:56:49 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I am declaring 2011 to be the year of ME!)
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To: unseen1

Another moron who takes what ever garbage is fed them by the Trash media and believes it. 7 Generation is 140 years. 1850 to 2011 is more then 7 Generations. Perhaps instead of buying every lie feed them by the Junk Meida, “Conservatives” might want to do a little thinking for a change


12 posted on 04/06/2011 5:57:08 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: John Valentine

Note to Ms. Bachmann. Repeat the following: “Sorry, I misspoke. It was in fact 4th generation, my bad.”


13 posted on 04/06/2011 5:57:26 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The MSM is the greatest threat to America.)
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To: unseen1

How many times is this non-news going to be posted; you would think this is some sort of political catastrophe. IT AIN’T!


14 posted on 04/06/2011 5:57:30 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification)
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To: John Valentine

Hey,

Didn’t we just go through 2 years of a POTUS making up his family history?


15 posted on 04/06/2011 5:57:39 AM PDT by unseen1
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To: WVKayaker

It is amazing that some lefty troll can find all this information about Michelle’s lineage going back 150 years and not one of those snot nosed lefties even cares about whether the current occupier of the white hut, is a natural born American citizen.


16 posted on 04/06/2011 5:57:43 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: unseen1

All of what I know of my family history is handed down.

How much is accurate and how much is inaccurate? I have no way of knowing.

Maybe she was just repeating what she was told by her family.

But you can call her a liar if you want. Maybe she is, maybe she isn’t.


17 posted on 04/06/2011 5:57:50 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (The "11th Commandment" applies to Republicans, not RINOs.)
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To: unseen1

Posting hit pieces from radical left publications?


18 posted on 04/06/2011 5:58:06 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Why wait......


19 posted on 04/06/2011 5:59:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: unseen1

4th generation? So that means she’s a natural born citizen right?

Go back 4 generations - two parents, 4 grand parents, 8 great grand parents, 16 great great grand parents.

Did the researcher investigate all 16 people?


20 posted on 04/06/2011 5:59:06 AM PDT by DManA
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