Posted on 06/27/2011 11:54:18 AM PDT by RummyChick
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. He would move back to Illinois, where his killing spree started, and lasted about six years. In 1980 he was convicted on 33 counts of murder, and was executed in 1994.
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Oh come on, it sings! “Plancenoit.....”
>> If we lose [the next election] the country will be lost, plain and simple.
Nonsense. It’ll simply separate the defeated from those who still give a damn.
We only need 20%.
Stop watching Wuhl on HBO! lol
>> Palin thought North Korea was our ally.
Palin immediately corrected herself in that statement. I heard the interview.
What else you got, boss of people who file things...
Palin said North instead of South, caught her mistake and moved onto the next subject. She at no time thought North Korea was our Ally.
You don't like those two women, that's your choice. Your rantings to support your position sound more like a Daily Kos or DU response, not a Free Republic discussion. IMHO
So NOW Bachmann accepts the apology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyRVxihrtU
After she became known as a Serial Clown Killer lover because she didn’t know John Wayne was not from her home town...
hahahahaha
With the press constantly on their knees worshiping Obama; this is a problem. Obama could utter this stuff all day; and it's not mentioned.
But one screwup by a Republican; especially a conservative one; and it's big news.
Marion Michael is the name I recall hearing years (decades) ago. The ‘offical’ website claims there were three alliterations of the name: Marion Robert, Marion Mitchell, Marion Michael used in various documents over time. They don’t go into detail what documents and when. I can believe this since, being into family genealogy myself, I’ve discovered similar discrepancies within my own family. And more than once.
Shame that libs don’t hold their candidates to the same degree of verification of facts ala 57 states seeing dead people etc.
this is a stupid mistake and gives me second thoughts about her. (Bachmann)
Sheesh. Fifteen-minute wonder. Look at how it brings out all the Romney and Soros shills and trolls.
I wish the higher ups on FR could look into these suspiciously long-term Freepers with early signup dates. Is it possible they have been hijacked?
We do not win this by sniping at GOPers, even those we do not want like Romney--keep the onus on OBAMA.
Good lord. Those two misstatements are your sole basis for pronouncing Palin and Bachmann "too dumb to talk to the press", and are your primary reason for deciding not to support either one?
If that's your criteria for supporting a candidate, you may as well sit out this election, and every one thereafter, because every human misspeaks eventually.
“Sheesh. Fifteen-minute wonder. Look at how it brings out all the Romney and Soros shills and trolls.
I wish the higher ups on FR could look into these suspiciously long-term Freepers with early signup dates. Is it possible they have been hijacked?
We do not win this by sniping at GOPers, even those we do not want like Romney—keep the onus on OBAMA.”
Any long term Freeper knows that the FOUNDER of this site snipes at Romney. Do you want to ban him, too?
But I find it odd that when I go to look at the signup dates of those obvious plants and shills I see "1998" and "2000." No matter who the candidate, there's a line of rhetoric straight from Media Matters.
Bachmann makes an error about John Wayne and now we need to throw her under the bus? Puh-lease. By a guy who pretends to be for Cain? Most people who like Cain also like Bachman. I say the writer supports neither, and is just here to try to lob shots at anyone who starts to rise a little bit.
Hey, maybe he's a Romney supporter shilling for Cain to knockdown Bachman.
Too many threads sound like gangs of sock puppets. We don't even know what the field is going to look like. I've always thought old time FReepers may have left or even passed away, and somehow their accounts and passwords get hijacked to lend credibility to shills and hackers.
Only a complete fool would write off a potential presidential candidate simply because of a single gaffe, ignoring every other word that person has ever uttered or written, in their entire career (not to mention their deeds while in office).
To err is human. In time, even your chosen candidate, Herman Cain, will make a gaffe in public. They all do. When he does, I guess you'll write him off, too.
You just can't bring yourself to acknowledge all of Palin's accomplishments, can you?
It says a lot about you, that you're so dead set against her, that you're unwilling to even glance at her record. You'd probably spontaneously combust from cognitive dissonance, if you did that.
Whatever. Hate on.
That just may be the first sensible thing I have ever heard you say.
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