Please note this is from an advocacy group, acting on reports they had received. Here are more links, some with outside references within the articles.
My question is, did she tell the truth about the crying woman who told her this? If so, then she's vindicated on just about everything (IMHO). If not...
IMO repeating an anecdotal account as fact is a sign of poor judgment, no matter how well-meaning the person who told her the story.
And if Michelle is lying, she's a real jerk.
I use to like Bachmann, but there is an impulsiveness and/or intensity about her that concerns me re: her judgment. There is something about her that reminds me of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction (I think it's the eyes).