(CNN)-Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann stepped all over Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes while stumping Tuesday, when she mistakenly wished "The King" a "Happy Birthday."
August 16 actually marks the 34th anniversary of Presley's death.
"Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today," Bachmann greeted event attendees at a "Join Team Bachmann" rally in Spartanburg, SC.
"We played you a little bit of Promised Land when we pulled up. You can't do better than Elvis Presley and we thought we would celebrate his birthday as we get started celebrating taking our country back to work."
But Presley's birthday is in January, so the tea party darling's well wishes are eight months too late.
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Awwwww - she probably just ate some bad food at her family reunion......................what? Oh, never mind. Maybe she was thinking about the Paul Revere thingy her twin said (you know, ringing bells and shooting musket while riding a horse to warn the British..................what? Oh, never mind. Maybe she just doesn't have enough brain cells to get anything correct. THERE. That must be it.
That's our Shelly for you. Always truthful. Always acurate. And, yes: never shy about letting the facts get in her way ... Promise Land or no.
Well, there you go again, Michelle...
She is really and trully just plain stupid, isn't she? We do have to give her credit that she didn't have him being born in Iowa!
This is not your tyoical history but she was certainly alive when Elvis died!
This woman's lack of thinking is beyond belief! She has no idea where the shot heard around the world was, and she doesn't know a birthday from a death? Glad she wasn't in Mississippi when she made this flub! I could accept her lack of knowledge if she did not have peoples lives at risk but to think she could even run for President is not acceptable. Her consituents must be so proud to know that this woman has no idea of our country's history, how we became a Democratic Republic, etc. I feel for them, I pray for them, what a shame!
At least she knows her children's birthdays, more than one high ranking politican can claim.
Glad to see that CNN is covering the major issues of our time! Egads, who the heck cares?!! We're dyin' out here and you give us this Gerry Springer trash?!!
I thought Promised Land was a Chuck Berry song.
Now she has that Newsweek cover look again.
go figure this not the only thing she gets wrong!
It's not the photographs that give her the crazy eyes...it's the crazy.
Are her assistants and advisors secretly undermining her ... how hard is it check facts via google?
Michele unlike Palin, Michele is a likeable person. The more I hear her speak then more I recognize that she indeed is a smart, capable women and the when speaks about social conservative values and her religion, she is sincere ... unlike Perry, so I respect her ... but thankfully she she has no chance of even being the GOP VP nominee.
Too bad she is often wrong on the simple facts, on economics in general, and has no clue of what this nation really needs right now.
Too bad she is not able to separate her religious views from her politics and that as President, I have no doubt she would be compelled by her sincere religious convictions to impose her particular interpretation of the Bible on all Americans.
What really scares me is how stupid the people are who support her, thus allowing her to be in the run for President of the US.
It's OK. She said it whilke she was visiting Obamas 59th state.
Would it be too much if racisits get to know other racisits facts like Elvis' birthday before you open your mouth? Who cares if she got it wrong, Elvis should have died on his day of birth, fat pig!
She looks crazy. She should go home and stop making a fool out of herself.
Come on Michelle, if you keep screwing up like this you ain't going to be around long enough to get my vote. You got to hang on till Super Tuesday. Please don't leave us with scary Parry as a candidate, my shoe heel has more brains than that clown.
I don't care in the least if a candidate messes up Elvis' birthday, where John Wayne was born, or even where the first shots of the Revolutionary war were fired (okay-that last one is a bit iffy, but still). What I DO care about is when a candidate continuously messes up such facts, and not during "gotcha" questions, but in pre-prepared statements. This suggests to me that neither she nor her staff care to take the time to research relatively easy facts....I mean all three of these can be done in a 2 minute Wikapedia or google search. If she doesn't care to research such basic things, how can I trust that she will research anything of importance? Anything that, if elected, could directly effect all of our lives? This type of regular disregard of the facts, which also follows many of her political statements, and her continuous failure to even care to start fact-checking more (instead blaming it on the media looking for something to pick on her about), even more than anything else, really makes me question her intelligence and abilities. I mean we are not talking about a 1 time misstatement or an accidental slip or even a "gotcha" question (should such things exist), we are talking about continual errors of basic facts that can easily be researched and which she supposedly has prepared in advance. How can I trust her to care about the facts when they really matter?
She is pompous. And when it comes his birthday, she will say let us remember his death. Quite entertaining!
What do you expect? Rarely does she get Bachmann get her facts right.
If she or her staff cannot do something that is so basic correctly, like performing a simple Google search, how could she possibly make the gutwrenching difficult decisions a President has to make?
Not only does she look crazy, she IS crazy.
I'd forgive her if this wasn't the first time she's messed up something like birth and death dates, John Waynes, Concords, etc. She's got serious mental shortcomings. I do hope she wins the primary, it will be pure comedy gold to see her during a debate hide behind the "I'm running for the presidency of the United States" duck and cover line whenever one of the moderators questions gets too hot for her brain.
What a quack? When will she even learn?
That's just a little amusing. Nothing more.
And this is a person who is running for President????? Here's a reminder, Michelle . . . . . The next Presidential Election will be held in the year, 2012! Write that down in your journal, O.K.???
I wonder if Michele Bachmann thinks Elvis Presley was one of the country's Founding Fathers?
And some are thinking about giving her the nuclear 'launch codes'???
Dumber than a brick.
Can you imagine her as Commander in Chief?
Geez...that is one spooky looking mug. How is it that both Bachmann AND Palin have a tendancy of always looking creepy. They both get these wild eyed shots that make them look an invisible hand is choking them and squeezing everything into the eye sockets.
If this election were held on looks alone which essentially it is, these two lose by a landslide
Why would anyone listen to this nutcase? Keep opening that big mouth Michelle confirming what intelligent people already know.
Flubs, and Flubs the nation too....
Yup. That disqualifies here for being President. I wonder if she knows that there are 57 states.
Wow, Michele Bachmann quoting facts that aren't true??? Never saw that coming...
I don't really care about her getting an old musician's birthday mixed up, but getting her American History wrong as a serious candidate is terrifying.
Can't wait until she mixes up North and South Korea! Whoo, good times.
"But Presley's birthday is in January, so the tea party darling's well wishes are eight months too late."
Cut her some slack. She's 4 months early. When other presidential candidates are wishing happy birthday to Elvis in January, she'll be able to say that she saw that coming 4 months ago.
She's such a loose screw. She'll need two social secretaries to tell her when to get up in the morning.
Make all the fun you want of Bachmann – some of her handlers put this in her ear – and she did as they instructed. Also – you don't hear about Obama saying the USA is made up of 57 states, do you - Thanks to the liberal left media protecting THEIR darling. Bachmann may not know the difference in Elvis birthday and day of death (who cares) – but you can bet she does know how many states are in the USA (now that IS important), unlike ignorant Obama.
This board is a real dummy. Even the average person know that Elvis died in August. His birthday is in January.
What a freakin' idiot. Between her and Palin, I'm not sure which one opens their mouth more often without thinking about what they are about to say. Somehow I don't think Elvis would be a fan of Bachmann. Maybe she meant Elvis Costello.
She reminds me of Obama. All sparkly, with no substance.
Look, I don't like the lady and think she would be an awful President. But seriously this is news? I'd love to see the attack ads stating that she's unqualified because she didn't know Elvis's birthday.
Too funny!
I laughed a full minute when I read this. Just the funniest thing! This is who the Tea Party wants me to support? And Republicans wonder why we think they are idiots.
Maybe she doesn't know when Elvis was born, but she sure knows that the U.S. has 50 states. Our president thought we had 57 states. Now who looks more ridiculous?
she and parry were born with their brains between their legs, it is so obvious!!!!
jail for the secessionist parry.................
She is one dumb broad.
So!!!!!! Is this news? Come on CNN you can do better.
"It's a Bachmann life."
It's tough being right all of the time. In fact, it is even tougher to be so right that no one can even prove you wrong. (That is a pun on a famous quote in physics about theories that can be neither proven nor disproven.) If you cannot disprove it then it must be true. Wrong!
Bill Clinton for a write in?
Shouldn't she be doing some due diligence before she opens her mouth!! Think what crap she will speaking if, never will be, she was the prez!!
Yet another flub for princess "Crazy eyes". I wonder if this cite will be condemned for the latest wild eyed photo?
January 8, dear. BTW Michele, who is buried in Grant's Tomb?
Is Bitchmann still trying to fool people she's electable? I will never forget her statement about black children being better off in a slave household. She's a nasty smelling, mean, ignorant bigot who will NEVER be anything other than a has been. Thank God for that.
I was there and if a "news" person was there and that's the "news" they came away with after a great speech from a real patriot then that's a sad commentary on what an American News Network thinks is important in this country. Nice Newsweek journalistic picture too, I took better pictures with my phone. Way to lead us to idiocracy CNN.
She's an idiot, a bigot and a fraud.
I don't recall any that the Team Obama media have endlessly repeated these woppers: Obama's reference to the "57 States I've visited"; to the "Austrian language"; and to "the President of Canada." Obama also asserted that a Kansas tornado had killed 10,000 people when only 12 had died. All politicians make verbal slip ups, but only those of conservatives are "gleefully" pointed out.
Can this woman be any stupider?
oops!! Well, birth n death seem to go hand in hand with the GOP... they want everybody born, and then specific people made dead...
LOL!!!! These Repugnance____Teabaggers are just so sad that it funny. Obama 2012. I mean where do these joke of a people come from. Come on America are we for real!!!!!!and the crazy thing is that this lady came out first this weekend on the Typified diode. Make you wonder about the folks that's playing this ...My Lord help us...lol!!!!
How dare you publish that photo! She looks completely insane! Oh, wait ... there really isn't any other kind, in her case ... never mind. What a hottie! (I would have commented on the substance of her statement, if I could.)
Stupid gets re-defined everyday...
and they say she is a contender...........amazing.
Is anyone really surprised?
Wow, she really is up on her history...........
Peace
Has anyone who supports her ever bothered to actually look at a picture of her? One look at her eyes and you know she is totally nuts!
i still cant figure out who i would like to go away more... this idiot or Palin... honestly i would love to see both of them on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader.. and the loser has to disappear and the winner gets a vacation to Juarez Mexico...
Good Lord this woman is dumber than dirt...
Are we shocked by this? NOPE. She has proven to me that she is not interested in facts. How can you be President of the United States if you made decisions based on gut instead of information?
Time for her to go away.
Poor Michele. She just can't catch a break...flubbing the consitution, flubbing the location of historical events, etc.. But this is much worse. Those Tea Partiers, I'm sure, are Elvis fans. This is sacrilegious!
I love the CNN policy of finding the WORST picture they possibly can for their stories on conservative Republican women. As if nobody would notice. Sheeesh CNN - grow up!
Bigots should not be President.
Doesn't this woman have anybody working for her who can fact check? It was all over the news today that this is the 34th anniversary of Elvis's death. If she is planning to ride into a southern town where everyone loved Elvis and make a comment, couldn't she have googled it first or have a staff member do it? If her staff is so inept at helping her, who in the world would she appoint as cabinet members if elected, which I seriously doubt. Maybe kindergartners who are of course, Evangelical Christians.
This woman always look crazy in her pictures. She needs to niss the blue contacts.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann stepped all over Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes while stumping Tuesday, when she mistakenly wished "The King" a "Happy Birthday."
I do not know why Tim-P dropped out his soon. Just like he pointed out she do not know everything.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann stepped all over Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes while stumping Tuesday, when she mistakenly wished "The King" a "Happy Birthday."
August 16 actually marks the 34th anniversary of Presley's death.
Did she know which one of the 57 states he was born in?
now you know she is not an elvis fan.
AWW, give her SOME credit; she got the Elvis part right.
I thought she was only acting Deaf or Dumb. But, with the last Meet the Press interview and today's episode, she confirmed that she IS "DEAF and DUMB".
I say she is correct. Isn't today the anniversay of Elvis beginning his new life in Heaven?
the woman didn't flub, look at those eyes, they tell the story, anybody nowadays with fifty cents can hold office
Getting her facts or history right is not Bachmann's strong point.
....it just keeps getting better and better. And people actually think this nitwit is presidential material??? She has already at least doubled the verbal flubs Obama has provided and she's only been around a year at most.
She probably knows about as much about politics as she does about Elvis. Dingbat !!
Like I keep telling everyone, she is the perfect Republican. All talk, no clue as to how to fix problems, just say No to everything, and facts are irrelevant. What a doofus, I hope she wins the nomination so we can finally wash our hands of the GOTea Party. What a joke.
LIfe, death what`s the difference, ehh Michele?
Fruedian slip? Like most "pro-life" Republicans, she seems to care little about the quality of Life for people once born and is probably a staunch defender of the "Dealth Penalty" executions.
But shhh, she doesn`t want to talk about her "big government, right-wing social engineering plans for the theocracy she wants to implement.
This picture speaks volumns. This is truely the look of a person who's gone completely stark staring nuts.
There is something seriously wrong with this woman.
It doesn't matter what photo Bachmann takes – she always looks certifiable! She doesn't think about anything that comes out of her mouth. She just blurts it out! Bachmann is a classic lunatic.
At least she admits she is on a campaign tour and is using campaign money rather than taxpayer money, unlike that corrupt, inept, competent, union toady that is our president until January 2013.
Just think how well she would be able to deal with a National Security briefing paper if she can't even get her campaign briefing notes correct.
What kind of photograph is this. Is this another attempt to make her look like crazy? Was this photograph doctored or is she really like this? Scary!
I would have loved to see the audiences reaction when she did that. Doesn't know history, doesn't know geography, doesn't know general trivia. Yup, she'd make a great President.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Give it up to the next President of the States America Unitied!
Is that what happens on birthdays? Oh geez, I've gotta get some things in order...
A couple mishaps is one thing. But it happens with her very frequently. She needs to be near perfect and she is way to far from it.
It's not a mistake!!!! It's the day Elvis went to see Jesus so it is his spiritual birthday. Don't you media guys know anything?
OK, now... Don't be cruel.
No one ever accused her of being up on cultural history. Given her religious background, the only thing she probably knows about The King is his two Grammy awards were for Gospel music, not Rock or Rockabilly.
She's pure gold- if you're a comedian!
Sounds like her plan for America- Kill it off and then say Happy Birthday!
Better for one to think you are a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
At least she is consistent with being factually wrong. And please spare the Obama 57 state thing. If you listen to all of what he said and how he said it you knew he meant 50. However, I doubt those haters have bothered to listen to what he says.
This photo is another great "stepford candidate" shot!!!
What a scary photo. Matches the thoughts on this woman being POTUS.
I saw her on all 4 Sunday shows this week after she won the Ames Poll. She had the same, tired BS talking points on all 4 shows. No substance, just dodge and evade questions.
Mrs. Bachmann, being President involves more than just cutting spending. Wake up and realize that, dummy.
OK – I'm not saying that I expect someone running for President to know that. But, if you're going to blare the music from your bus and open your speech with that little tidbit, don't you think you ought to check your facts? That's the problem with the Tea-publicans; they just make things up as they go along and call it the facts.
Ahh good ole Elvis oughta being turning in his grave. This proves even more that facts dont mean Shiggidy to this Hostage negotiator. I mean really Michelle, if i may call you that...seems to me to be a tax evader. She taughts having some 20 foster kids at one time or another. If i do my calculations the states pays for the care if these kids. Re-inbursted by the very goverment thats to big spends to much and is broken. So on the concervative side you have 10 depends your tax burden falls to zero in most cases. 20 means we owe you. So at any given time she and hubby where recieving 5k to 10k for the kids, and thats right folks no a penny in taxes.
Welcome back Sarah!!!!
She is so out of touch on anything that comes out of her mouth...........She makes me sick as well
It's the migraines. Or could be an early onset of the dementia.
Who cares the person is dead and I wouldn't know his birthday from his death day.
Can we see some news that's worth reporting this is another reason we can't get great people to run for office all the BS that has nothing to do with the job she is seeking.
Get a life people balance the budget, term limits, no voting yourself a raise, and no retirement benfits that you don't put anything into it.
I guess she meant Elvis dying and being reborn in Heaven.
I can't stand this woman as much as I can't stand Palin, but this is hardly a news item, even for the ticker.
Bachman and Palin are the same....all mouth..no truth but distortion and lies
Now she alienated Elvis's fans. The only group that's gonna vote for her are the teabaggers
Well,
Slow news day? Ok, maybe tomorrow things will pick up. YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG. CRYING ALL THE TIME.
Surprised ???? Hell, we all know she`s really a blond.
This naughty little girl is getting jack squat this year.
YAWN!!! Why is this tiresome hag still around?
So now if Ms Bachmann says she is going to lead us to a "new beginning", will it really mean "the end"?
can anybody imagine the entertainment this gal could prode the world from the white house?
Big Deal.
and.....who cares.
And The Democrats don't make any mistakes.....right? Here is a dandy from our current VP. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time, interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 22, 2008
I know...it's the presidents fault that her facts are incorrect...yeah yeah that's it...after all if there is one thing she and her gop friends know how to do best and often, it's blame the president for everything! It's been raining here hard for three days now, the sun came up for a short time last night and now it looks like the rain is returning...guess the president is doing his rain dance in washington again...yeah yeah that's it!
Yes, this IS a news item. When someone running for the most important job in the world gets up in front of a crowd of people and can't even get a simple fact like that correct shows a total lack of intelligence. And by the way, if Obama had committed the same gaffe what would the Tea-Baggers (who SHOULD be tea-bagged) have said?
At least she doesn't have to be on TV to prove she is not smarter than a fifth grader. She does it just by opening her mouth time and time again. And to think there are people who want her finger on the launch button
This has always been the norm for Michelle Bachmann and her pal, making up stuff. It's their only way of sort of passing for coherent.
Typical Bachmann. Down is up, night is day, right is left, and dead is alive. Please put her out to pasture with Sarah.....
Someone PLEASE get her a teleprompter!
Just like the tea party, knows so little!
This just go to show you just how dumb Michele Bachmann Really Is. This Is NOT the First time she say something that was wrong. The only good thing she good at Is Complain about someone else and LIE. She keep saying she could run this country better, well will all the dept she and her husband own. She can't even manage there own dept ,so how Is she going to do a better JOB running this Country. And American People don't need the Tea Party telling her what to do, Because If that happen we are all screw.
Does anyone, anyone outside of the Tea-Party, really think Bachmann will survive the primary season let alone be the GOP nominee, seriously?!?!?
It's amazing how many of you are quick to jump and cut her throat on this......so she mixed up some historical singers birthday and day of death...how many of you knew his death was on the 16th??? Not many of you....well not before this anyway.
If you want to talk about things that matter, how about attacking Obama's belief in 59 states? How about Biden's constant gaff's......they NEVER end....that guy is so far ahead of anyone else its not even funny.....but then you are scared about a POTENTIAL president not knowing some dead entertainers birthday???
Get a clue.
Promised Land is a Chuck Berry song, but then Bachman is never one to let facts get in the way of senseless rhetoric.
Obama said there was 57 states with 1 left to visit. How quickly we forget.
I think elvis is a great representation of Michelle Bacmann's ideals. He was pretty, white and loud, popular with the ignorant and uneducated, and had 800 ideas but nothing original.
Last I saw the Backmann bus.. it was playing Promised Land. A Chuck Berry song written in 1964, and performed by 6 other artists before Pressley decided to take credit for it, many consider it one of Pressley's best.
democrats all over the u.s. should be lobbying for this woman. if she gets the gop nomination you can basically skip the election and tell obama he's got four more years. what a dolt. On a side note, I think she meant to wish america a happy birthday....or wait would that be wrong too?!?!?! i think her stupid is contagious
Can't wait for the Katie Couric interview!!!!
I'm convinced that Bachmann and Palin received their education from the same place – the University of Ignorance! This blunder would not have happened if her campaign manager had gotten the facts straight before falling off the Bachmann mobile (bus). I'm sure we will see this relived on SNL!
The GOP race gets more scarey by the day. Could you see she and Sarah Palin running the show? Now, there's nut bar Rick Perry who blames Katrina on an act of God, wanted to secede from the US and calls Beranke a traitor.Heaven help you!
Ok she's OUT Not that she had a chance anyways
the scary part is that she's smarter than rick perry.
No doubt she graduated from the Palin school of knowledge with a magna come lordy
I'm looking at her eyes, and thinking, "Apple juice. Apple juice flood." Alright. You had to see the movie.
Geez, that's almost as bad as saying there are 57 states
God she's dumb. It's frankly amazing that anybody would want this dingbat to be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. No thanks.
The woman has "IDIOT" written all over her face.
woww and this is supposed to run our country republicans mabye you should search for another candidate the people you have running are stupid
Michele is totally representative of the tea party intelligence.
Maybe Michelle just shouldn't speak.
Uh, I could careless about her flub of Elvis death, what the media needs to focus on is her flubs about everything else!!!
She and Sarah would make a great team. I'd love to be in a room with them just overhearing the conversation they have with each other. It would be so freakin entertaining. Idiot!
You know, if she were to get the GOP nomination, the late night comics would have a field day! Bachman's utter stupidity going head-to-head with a very intelligent Obama in a debate? Not only would Obama wipe the floor with her, she'd be the laughing stock of the GOP! Even more than Palin is!
It could be a comedy that's even funnier than Ghostbusters.
God I hope she wins the nomination...
You cant even get angry it this woman any more, most of us are looking at her like doctor would look at the crazy person" "with understanding", the problem that we have is YOU CANT HELP HER. And those people that pushing her forward are CRUEL, CRUEL "people".
How is this possibly newsworthy?
Between Rep. Bachmann and Gov. Palin it seems like the entire left wing of this country has turned into a bunch of mysogynistic slobs. Get over yourselves. Will the 25 million people looking for work in this country really care if someone mixed up a few dates concerning a singer who's been dead for over 30 years?
Michelle, do what Elvis just did...leave the building!!
The hypocrisy is that back in the best years of Elvis' career, her religious views would never have allowed her to acknowledge his talent or his place in rock and roll history. More likely, she would condemn him for his evil influence. IMHO.
Evidently, Michelle must verify her facts; much like Michael Scott, at Wikipedia.
So she flubbed Elvis' birthday. Obama visited all 57 States and said he would visit the President of Canada. (they don't have a President) Far more serious mistakes and a flub over some fat guy's birthday.
Not out of touch are we Ms. Bachmann. Even the dead knows it was the anniversary of Elvis's death.
Sounds like a female version of old W
She is a bigger buffoon than Sarah. Sarah looks more intelligent now!
I think the important thing to take from this is she's just trying to say what she thinks people want to hear and is fake. Sarah Palin is another. It would be so refreshing to see a politician be who they really are instead of pretending to be everything everyone else wants them to be. She's a pathetic liar and there's no way I'd trust her to run our country if she can't even put together a campaign team capable of the most basic of research, let alone researching how to solve complex problems with the country.
LOL, man its like she and Pallin have no ability to check facts.
Really? This?
I remember several flubs of Bush, that were headline for weeks.
But when: Obama says hes been to 58 states has 4 more to go, hardly anything......
Obama saying unemployment wouldn't go over 8% if we pass the stimulus (Don't we wish).......
Obama saying illegal aleiens wouldn't be covered under Obama care, now we find out that is not true at all........
Obama signs the West Minster Abbey guest book THIS YEAR as "2008", and as an American I get laughed during my England vacation this summer because of: the date signing 3 years off, and several other diplomatic Gaffs (toast etc)Obama made Obama made during HIS England trip.
Biden telling a "good friend" paralyzed man to "Stand up"?
And people mock Michele B. for that?
Wow, really?
Michelle, if you got it wrong the first time, do it again and again.
remember; if it feels good..!! do it again
Talk about overblown. Of what importance is knowledge of Elvis trivia to being President? Can you inagine what it would be like to have every little flub you make pounced on by the media and the pundits as if it were the stupidist thing said in the history of the universe? Let the first of us who never mispeaks cast the first stone.
And there are people that want her to have her finger on the nuclear button.....
The Elvis thing at least isn't critical, but combine it with all of the other stupid remarks she's made and tell me if you want someone like this in the White House. Oh... sorry, we already have someone like that in the White House.
It did not take long for our east coast media to fall back into the 2008 election. Protecting Pres. Obama at all cost. The major networks are all having fun over this gaffe, while ignoring VP Biden's gaffe about Gabrielle Giffords. If Palin or Bachmann had said what Biden did, it would have made news for a week. As it is,its covered up.
Do we think she can keep straight exactly which button is for the nuclear weapons?
Sadly, we need to do better at making her look wrong for the job if we are ever going to keep her from the Oval Office. Yes it is funny to point at her and laugh because of this...but it hardly proves she is the wrong candidate. They need something better...I do not want to see her, amongst others, take over.
Bachmann flubs Elvis' birthday, and Barry flubs his entire presidency.
Jail House Rock!!! Love me tender love me true. Makes no difference to you. LOL I am a poet and don't know it. Vote for me for President!!!!
If these mistakes were the only issue, I'd vote for her.
also should add...Saturday Night Live must be drooling for their season to start with this political race of clowns!
Dan J states: " Look, I don't like the lady and think she would be an awful President. But seriously this is news? I'd love to see the attack ads stating that she's unqualified because she didn't know Elvis's birthday. "
My response: Hey, she brought up the "birthday", not ME or any of us!! So, she will be criticized as she should.... She is open game...
She's about as presidential as a toy poodle.
Really is this woman some kind of comedian? if so she ain't funny, just stupid.
Yet another brilliant disaster from the woman who wants to be president. She's a nightmare and takes worse pictures than Nancy Pelosi...................smoke and mirrors, doll, just smoke and mirrors (like you political agenda).
Too many migraines...
She will probably come out with a statement today on why she wasn't wrong. She will claim she meant the day Elvis was born into the great Kingdom of heaven. Poor Botchman, once again a victim of "gotcha" journalism and that pesky little thing called the facts.
Bachmann's sanity has left the building!
Dissing The King like that = treason!!!!
It's amazing how a smiley talking head like this won the straw poll in Iowa...doesn't say much for people there either.
You see by wishing somebody a Happy Birthday on the anniversary of their death really speaks of.....respect.
She probably thinks he's still alive.
Here is another from our gaffahlic VP Mr. Biden...."Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." –Joe Biden, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2008. And to think one of the faces of The Democratic party (Biden) is over in China trying to iron out our differences. Geez! I think I'll start building a fallout shelter!
Only thing funnier than her plethora of gaffes and/or lies are the trolls trying to defend her. She's just not an intellectual person.
and now the nitwit tries to spin herself out of this latest gaffe by poking at Obama and the use of teleprompters (like NO republican EVER used one) and claimed "A Bachmann presidency would never involve a teleprompter." Well dummy, we've already seen how clueless you sound when you ad-lib, I can't wait to hear you butcher every fact (just like you do now) when standing in front of an audience not using a teleprompter
I say give the liberals equal time on CNN! "Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." –-Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair, Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 12, 2008.
Everytime this woman opens her mouth her out comes something unbelievable than before! Instead of someone telling her that she has a better chance remaining a Senator from Minnesota than being President she opens her mouth time and time again to prove that she is simply a bafoon trying to hope that her ineptness will get her to the White House? God help us if this woman is ever elected President.
Somebody needs to blow in her ear to give her a refill.
I find it impossible to view this woman as anything close to genuine. Each time I see her speak, it appears as though she presents her positions with the sincere hope of fooling everyone that watches her and then believes that she did fool them...all the time smiling like a stand up performer.
there has been numerous events on the news already of how this lady just like palin twist and changes facts of history and current events. I dont understand how she was so successful in Iowa. i guess it is becoming the dumbing of America. if she cant handle simple down to earth history how could she handle the presidency COMMON PEOPLE SHE IS NOT PRESIDENTIABLE
News flash: Bachmann doesn't know anymore about economics and the Constitution than she knows about Elvis - and neither do most Tea Party loud mouths. It may be humorous when Backmann makes a fool of herself by displaying her ignorance of petty things like Elvis' birthday, but it will be a disaster if this idiot becomes president. As president, her ignorance would have real consequences - as we saw when George Bush became the commander 'n chief.
Juast another example why she and palin could both play the scarecrow in the wizard of Oz, they both sing so well the song "If I only had a brain." And look at the picture for this article and people complained about the Newsweek cover?
I'm live in Memphis- Elvis' death has been an annual event since he died- it amazes me that after all this time people from all over the world ( Iowa too) still come here to pay tribute to him. We actually had Elvis impersonators' from Germany. The woman is an idiot!
I don't fault her for not knowing Elvis' birthday (I sure don't know it), but if she planned on opening up with that "fact," isn't that really easy to look up and verify? It doesn't show stupidity on her part, it shows ignorance and laziness.
The left scorns her because they fear her.
All the Republicans / Tea Party do is talk; constantly yapping while blocking and faulting all efforts and while catering to the few, their strong supporters, and providing nothing but rhetoric to con the majority and manipulate public opinion. In football they call that “trash mouth”, and that is what it is here ... “trash mouth” talking to disguise their neglect, their total focus on their political agenda aimed to only benefit the few, Bush-Cheney style, literally being “puppets” for Special Interests and the influential, powerful and extremely wealthy few, who “pull their strings”. If you think differently, then you have just been intimidated by “trash mouth” talking.
At least she probably knows there aren't 57 states in the US.
And this is the person who thinks she can lead this country. Almost every single time she has a problem getting her facts straight – she is truly a loser!
Ed Rollins put "Elvis" on her talking points for the day. You can't expect her to actually know why. Next week is Paul Revere's birthday. Let's see what she does with that.
The difference between Biden and Bachman is that he has actually done something with his public career.
The more our politicians , and , yes , the candidates try to convince us that they ARE just like us , they more they all just look like the self serving criminals they in fact are behind all the populist garbage they throw out to the public .
The heck with all of them !!!!
Not important
The more our politicians and candidates try to convince us that they are " just like you and me " the more they come off as ignorant , self serving , criminals who have absolutely no concern for " you and me " .
Birth, death; it's a fine distinction. Besides, a lot of Christians (and Hindus, etc.) probably agree with her.
You do realize that all of Michelle's flubs is an elaborate ruse to make Sarah Palin look presidential in comparison
Had to be a submissive message from her hubby! I mean she can't be that stupid, can she?
Maybe she can borrow Hussein's teleprompter.
Let's not forget that Hussein has never made a flub before. There are in fact 57 states (of Islam). LONG LIVE THE KOOL-AIDERS. You are so hilarious.
The really sad part about all of this is the clowns that voted her into office and the clowns that support her to be OUR next president!
It is becoming increasingly obvious that this women has programed respomses and cannot think on her own. Not exactly presidential material. And for idiot neocons out here who claim she would be better than what we've got I say "If she were a democrat you would be all over her" with criticism.
Since she was in Spartanburg, Ms. Bachmann should've paid tribute to Greenville, SC native Esquerita, who was a major influence on Little Richard.
The woman is a dim bulb. Who cares?
I really can't stand Bachmann, but ... why on Earth is this a headline?
Hey You said:
"At least she probably knows there aren't 57 states in the US."
I not so sure about that. As dumb as she is, she probaly think the world is flat!
Don't stare in her eyes , she'll turn you to stone .
Bachman should pick Palin as her running mate. That way we can watch a real life remake of the Dumb and Dumber movie. It will be interesting watching the two bubble heads travel the country together.
Knowing Elvis's birthday from the date of his death is not necessary knowledge to run for president. However, checking facts and being accurate and thinking before you talk are! I mean they must of researched the song they palyed...didn't anyone pick up the fact of what day this was???
Someone please make this woman go away.
Who cares. What does that fact have to do with being the president? nothing. Who cares.
incapable of getting facts, crazy eyes possibly sending more troops off to war with maniacal glee written all over her face probably without knowing or caring if another country did any wrong. she is worse then forest gump – stupid is as michelle does. I am ashamed to have her from my home state of minnesota. How stupid can she be to not know that elvis is dead? there are some things people dont forget, 9/11, kennedy assassination, elvis death and challenger explosion. whats next? Happy Birthday JFK – happy birthday Adolf Hitler you great guy you! michelle needs to realise how stupid she is and she is the laughing stock of her party! rest in peace Elvis – you have my permission to haunt her and make her even crazier then she already is!
I guest Gump got it right, "stupid is as Michelle does". I meant "as stupid does".
When did Obama make the 57 states gaffe? Like two years ago? Is that the only thing the right-wingers can point to, when every one of their candidates does something that would have been career-ending a decade ago? Parry accusing the fed chairman of treason? The fed chairman who was appointed by George W. Bush?
Christians listen to Elvis? I didn't think he was their cup of tea.
It's ok. We know she is going to double-down on her mistakes like all good republicans.
It was his birthday because he was born to Jesus when he died. Right republicans?
WOW. The left REALLLLYYYYYYYY does not like strong, independant conservative woman. They attacked Palin beyond belief and now they focus on Bachmann. I mean look at half your comments. It is pathetic and ridicluous.
This woman has 10 times the exeprience as Obama and is highly intelligent. Try looking at her record and resume.
But don't let that get in your way, it's a conservative woman, so paint her is ignorant and stupid.
Truly pathetic is the left. Also very telling how scared they are.
Truth be told, it is not just Obama who is going to get slaughtered in the 2012 elections. The House will stay with the republicans and seats will be gained by TRUE conservatives and the Senate will POSSIBLY turn to the republicans, at the very least it will be much closer to 50-50
*shout your rhetoric...
"The left scorns her because they fear her."
Failure to take a rabid animal seriously generally results in injury.
Harry Truman, on his whistle stop tours, would sometimes say he was in a town other than the one where his train was stopped. Still, he managed to conclude World War II, rid himself of a "do nothing" Republican Congress and get re-elected when the polls said he was going to lose. In a hectic town to town schedule, mispeaking about something or even lots of somethings is almost inevitable. There is no relationship between that inevitable human fraility and being a good President.
Lets face it, both parties stink. We have idiots in both parties. I find it funny to see how many liberals are obsessed with the Tea-party. Last election still stings? Wake me up when there is party which will end the three wars we currently have going. When we stop funneling two billion a year to countries like corrupt Pakistan. What happened to border security? Raising taxes on the rich is fine with me.
Oh, Geez....now the GOP will be requiring its members to sign another pledge...the "I Love Elvis Pledge," and if they don't, they won't have a future with the party.
REALLY!!! Does she not have any advisors. Stupid.....she is an insult to me and every other intelligent women in this country. Pesident??? Dream on sister. Not as long as I live and breath and vote!!!
Words cannot describe how depressing it is to know that Michele Bachmann has any supporters at all. Regardless of the fact that she doesn't know elvis' birthday (i can forgive her for that), everything she says makes me cringe and yet there's people in Iowa right now foaming at the mouth to hear her talk. Sooooo depressing ;[
How disgusting is it that she can't even admit when she made a BLATANT mistake? You can't trust someone who can't admit when they've made such a minor (by comparisson) mistake.
Is there anything she's RIGHT about??
The only thing sadder than Bachmann are the people that support her. I thought it was theoretically impossible for any Repub to be denser than Palin, but Bachmann proves that wrong.
Seriously, she forgot Elvis' birthday, who gives a rip. I am the last person to defend crazy eyes, I loathe her social conservatism and her blatant disregard for facts, but it's Elvis, nothing of any consequential importance, seriously.
She can't get ANYTHING right... does she belong in any office nevermind the white house at all?
Obama has had plenty of idiotic statements.... Anyone remember the medal of honor debacle?? In fact id say that he has made more dumb statements than Bachmann, yet his intelligence is never questioned
When is Bachman right about anything?!?!??! I am sure she will make sure to justify why she wished him a happy birthday – "It is his birthday according to the Chinese Calendar. He was born in the year of the monkey and this is the year of the monkey". Unbelievable!!!!
Oh right and she always insists she is right even though she rarely is too. She is not presidential material with her barely double digit IQ
Sorry, for you foaming-at-the mouthers out there... *politically.
This lady is dumber'n a box of rocks.
She ain't nothing but a hound dog.
Don't have a problem with a strong woman in politics....do have a problem that she doesn't have a clue or just likes to distort basic history geometry annd math. As far as her experience and accomplishments.....what??? A light bulb bill that merely wasted time and how to get subsidies to live on at home.....whoopeee!!!!
OK, I get that the U.S. really wants to focus on "firsts" in the White House. First black, first woman, etc. But, PLEASE, can we have someone who has professional job related experience, proven ability to accomplish a task, and for god's sakes – an accurate knowledge of history. If you're going to be a rock star and "location friendly", spend your bus time between stops reading up. Cutesy only goes so far. At some point a POTUS has to deal with foreign diplomats and they will be offended by lack of information.
Bachmann has one verbal out left. If she doesn't know anything about any state containing the Continental Divide (a generous area), she should save herself the embarrassment of coming over here and botching it.
Oh those darned facts again. Why are encyclopedias so hard! They're all like, books, with pages, and small fonts, without many pictures.
Doesn't this idiot have a fact-checker before she opens her mouth? Allah help us!!!
I'm a conservative and I'll admit that this woman has several screws loose. It's a shame that an intelligent conservative women hasn't entered the race. Condoleeza Rice would be a God send.
Bachmann really needs someone to prep her for when she plans on opening her mouth and actually speaking….and this same person can prep her for photos too. She looks as silly as ODonnell in her famous "Red Dress Open Mouth Crocodile'" photo op.
She’s losing both battles at an alarming rate at the moment.
The gaff may be inconsequential however, it goes to show you how detached she is from even the simplest facts and the lengths she will go to promote her beliefs without any relation to fact.
It's Bachmann for God's sake! She's a typical Tea Party darling-all loud mouth no clue. The dozen flubs she's already had will only multiply as more media is on her. Wait till she has one of her famous migranes during a debate. Can't wait to see that deer-in-headlights look on her. You know Romney, Perry and Ron Paul are going to grill her and she'll have no clue what just happened. Speaking of which what's up with the media trying to make Ron Paul like he doesn't exist or something. I'm no "conspiracy theorist let's-go-back-to-the-gold standard" Ron Paul fan, but seriously the guy whooped up on all the other Republicans in the field and would've probably won the straw poll had Bachmann not given away thousands of tickets away for her barbeque entertainment event (Randy Travis was the highlight for the entertainment). Each of those tickets weren't exactly cheap. Supprisingly (maybe not) if we counted the amount of tickets she gave away and assumed those folks voted for her...they would account for 2/3 of all the folks who voted for her. Ron Paul didn't have to bribe anyone and the media (inlcluding Fox) is talking more about the candidates who quit the race than him. The media says the top three candidates are Bachmann, Perry and Romney. What? Ron beat the living bajesus out of the other two what gives?
I'v bee in this country since the '60s.
I know who Elvis is (who doesn't?), and I know he died (some will dispute that), but could I tel you when? Nope.
Do I care? Nope.
Is Michelle Bat$hit, and none too bright? Yepper.
Also – how does one expect her to get things "straight"? The woman doesn't even realize that her husband is gay. Sheesh!
this is the marvel wonder... someone this dumb is admired by whom?
ROFLMAO! They should have replaced Charlie Sheen with her.
Palin 1.54...err...Bachman is at it again. So when is she going to lash out and blame the liberal media for everything she said herself? LIke Palin, maybe she could start a TV show about Minnisota or something so, just like Palin, we can all realize that she doesn't even really know much about her own state.
What is truly sad is that the people in her Minnesota district continue to vote for her.
It probably doesn't matter to her. She seems to operate under "My mind's made up – don't confuse me with the facts" mentality anyway. What a nut job! I'm glad I do not live in her congressional district!
Ok, it looks like no matter what, at this point the alternatives to President Obama are all dumb and dumber. It should make for an interesting few years for the country.
What's that button for? I don't know press it. No, you press it. Ok I'll press it..........................................................................
While it ultimatley doesn't matter that she has no clue about things like this, does anybody really want someone so willing and able to make an idiot of herself in charge of the country?
When it comes to Dumb this idiot gives Pale-in a run for the money. They are both no brained idiots. They should both go back to Pale-ins Igloo and haide.
Well that did it! Bachmann now qualifies for a pamphlet, called " Bloopers by Bachmann".
9% unemployment and rising. $1.4 trillion deficits and out of control spending and rising. Ad-hoc regulations that have stifled business investment and hiring. The continued collapsing of home values. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security insolvent.
Yet libtards focus on Bachmann not remembering a pop-singers birthday.
Unbelievable.
That's a good one but I still remember in 08 Obama saying he hoped to visit all 57 states and ole Joe asking the wheel chair bound man to stand and take a bow. These politicians never cease to amaze me.
She will somehow blame the media and the liberals for this rather than be humble and admit the mistake.
Is she the only one who thinks she has a chance to win?
Bachmann-can you PRAY the stupidy away?
Oh those poor baggers! While we have countless misstatements coming from their darlings to point at, they only have the "Obama said 57 states" to fall back on. I think that there must be a 57 states fan club and news letter because they seem to come out in droves at any report of a tea bragger screw up.
blame the migraines for her extreme stupidity. As amazing as it is, she is dumber than George W Bush and Sarah Palin.
Tea Bagger Moron!
Don't you get it? If the Tea Party nutcases make up facts then these becopme facts and it is all the fault of the mainstream media if you disagree with thier facts. What is wrong with you people? Same goes for cutting back on govt. spending and giving tax breaks to the rich will create jobs.
Nice to see that all you Media Matters hacks are still alive and kicking. This is your time of the season. Personal attacks for everyone. Can it be more obvious. Good thing that Michelle B. is a strong Conservative woman who, like her friend in Alaska, have the spines to stand their grounds. Hey, I'm still looking for some dirt on Sarah Palin's 32,000 emails. Do you think that BHO, Biden, Pelosi, Trumka, Andy Stern or Reed could stand up to that scrutiny?
Please GOP- please run this retard for president
It's sad that the psycho/ignorant/racist/christian/white right wants to blame an economy that failed under Bush and his 2 wars and tax cuts to his wealthy cronies on the president. Too much Fox News, not enough reading
C'mon, the GOP has adopted the Jon Kyl byline for every public statement: "Not intended to be a factual statement"
And this woman was saying that if we default on our debt there will be no consequences! There is no doubt, she IS psychotic.
Listen to some of the HATE here!!! Again, the mantra from Obama's little trolls is everyone is "stupid." I an not buyiing it this time.
Stop with the stupid comments, stupid! I can say one thing about Bachmann. She works and works and works. No vacation and 1/2 of day of golf.
Who cares if Michelle Bachman didn't Elvis' birthday, most of the reporters who were following Michelle Bachman weren't even born when Elvis died. All the reporters know that Elvis is dead and left the building. This is all politicial pettyness and looking for politicians to screw up. I bet the reporter who wrote this article don't even know who is on Mount Rushmore.
This is all politicial pettyness.
dear teabag: please, please, please make sure this bumbling cheesehead gets elected president. i'm writing my PhD thesis on how dubya was not as dumb as he could have been, and i need all the proof i can get.
I honestly find it hillarious how many people haven't actually ever heard her speak, or have learned ANYTHING about her (or really any other candidate from either side) other than what John Stewart and other late-night sound bite experts propagate. While I haven't made any decision to support her or any other candidate, I at least want to hear what she says about items which are POLITICALLY RELEVANT to know for myself, rather than focusing solely on a flubbed fact about something so politically IRRELEVANT. Elvis's b-day vs anniversary of his death. So inconsequential, yet, its blood in the water for the foaming-at-the-mouth fact-checkers out there.
ERGro, didn't you notice. According to the new Democratic Party of adolescent males, all females are "dumb". Seems to their MO. By the way, if they look beyond their noses Bachmann has gotten alot of things "right"
Meanwhile President Failure was off to vacation in one of our glorious 57 states.
Happy Birthday Elvis! HAHAHAHAHA
Not nearly as bad as the President of our "57 States"!
Is'nt she the front runner in Iowa. Makes me wonder about Iowa and the level of intelligence of the state and its people.
I know who I WONT be voting for.
This is CNN's top story???? Shows the woman is human and not just speaking what she is told, the media tears anyone down that stands for something.
Anyone who does not know when the King of Rock of Roll died does not deserve to be president.
Bachmann wanted to make gratuitous use of Elvis' stardom and blew it. Poor Elvis isn't around to defend himself from people using his name and songs for political gain.
I’m still trying to figure out why we celebrate the day someone (we liked) died. When I heard Elvis was being celebrated, my first thought was that it was his birthday.
Does CNN draw focus to every stupid thing, lie and mistake that comes out of Obama's mouth? Of course not. Enough with trying to make all his opponents look bad. Let go of the kool aide cup CNN.
All this woman has to do is open her mouth. Is this the best the Teapublicans can offer America?
Hey guys obama said 57 states he obviously thinks theres 57 states let's keep putting comments that state that in a feeble attempt to draw comparisons between Obama (who actually seems to use his brain most of the time) and Bachmann (who never seems to use hers)! herp derp herp 57 states herp derp!
I am NOT a Bachmann fan.....AT ALL, but is this really a big deal? She clearly needs to have better fact checking but who really cares if it's Elvis's birthday or death day. Is this really how we gauge the capability of a candidate?
First, she get's his "birthday" wrong, then she try's to backtrack later and says, "Let's all shag now, if that's what you want to do"! And she wants to lead this Nation?! What a J-O-K-E !!
I am frankly dumbfounded that anyone thinks Michelle is a viable candidate for ANY office. She has done nothing of any value in her current job. Anyone with any brains would at least hire a fact checker to help keep dates and facts straight, once they'd made a few goofs. She doesn't even have the brains to do that. She is both arrogant and stupid. And for the clowns that keep referring to Obama's 59 states, like Michelle, you should check your facts. He wasn't referring to the US states. Other countries have states too. Stop listening to Fox and Limbaugh and go get someone to read a book to you.
Does the tea party want someone who does not even know how to use Google search? Or is that too much to expect from a tea party leader?
The poiint all you Fox trolls are missing, is NO ONE asked Botox Bachmann a question, she brought this all upon herself.
Perhaps, she and her handlers should have a quick "prayer service" and ask God for an inventory check, BEFORE she opens that massive pie hole of hers.
This stupid flotsam on the sea of life, hung herself. If you are going to make an opening statement and try and be all folksy and pay tribute to a deceased celebrity, make sure your handlers know what the tribute should be?
If you cannot get the fact straight when YOU start the discussion, can you imagine if someone asked her a tough ol' gotcha' question?
OTW, keep your mouth shut as opposed to opening and remove all doubt!
and people want her to be president? Good lord
Hateful, despicable, hypocrital liberals spewing their venom once again toward a republican woman. It's so predictable and pathetic. Do you all love ELVIS so much that you were offended by the gaffe? No. I didn't think so. Take a look at your own. Biden has had a labotomy, it appears ,and when Pelosi speaks, she makes Palin and Bachhman look like rocket scientists. I won't even start on Barney Frank. He's a comedian, right? And lastly, the President would be totally up the creek without a paddel, if he didn't have his beloved teleprompter.
Details, details, details. Just like the facts the Dittoheads could care less on minor or major issues.
Nobody correct her. Facts give her migraines.
I never, ever thought I'd say this, but this crop of Repub candidates makes little Georgie Bush look smart.
what a complete idiot... first the John Wayne thing now this... anyone who votes fors this woman is just as much of an idiot as she is.
Birth, death, tomaytoe, tomahtoe ...
Okay, so she got Elvis' birthday wrong, atleast we did not have to send in 200,000 US soldiers to correct that mistake. No lives were lost, nobody was laid off, no one had to file for bankruptcy. Get real people, we have much bigger problems than a presidential candidate mistaking Elvis' deathday for his birthday.
Nice to see the King of Rock being honored by the Queen of Stupid even if it wasn't the anniversary of Elvis' birthday. Folks, if this nitwit can't get basic information like this correct, how can she run this country?
Seem I remember BO saying that there were WHAT 57 states in this country. Talk about stupid. How about Joe Biden you can't make his mistakes up. Like calling out a guy to stand up when the guy is paralyzed. That is stupid. Then Bo coulnd't remember is own kids birthday – HELLO! I'm doubtful he can remember his own birthday, birth certificate, place of birth or his college records. This is the pot calling the kettle black. You haters which is seem DEMONcrats are need to get a life.
57 states. LOLing at the Bachmann defender trolls. That's their one tired line. And the other ones that like to talk about teleprompters! Too rich, like none of the GOP use one. Grasping at straws, it's understandable - it's all one can do when trying to defend the indefensible.
Gawd Kim settle down – it's too bad your 'heros' are all idiots....but then the conservative mind really can't understand too much at once.
This LOON has fallen off of the curb and bumped her damn head, again!
OK, anyone can get an entertainer's birthday and date of death wrong. But if I"m going to make a speech heard by millions of potential supporters I'm going to make damn sure of my facts before spewing!! The fact that she didn't check the dates out beforehand shows a disturbing carelessness and even more disturbing cluelessness about her audience's knowledge of the real facts. Other politicians have made gaffs, but this gaffe shows an unbelievably non-presidential lack of judgement.
And since all you are complaining about the "hate" toward moron Michelle, may I point out that over 6,000 folks have passed it to Facebook and that is why it is "trending",
Must be something in the article or comments that a lot of folks find worthy of passing on.
Of course, it could be a "conspiracy" by all the Time employees that passed it on and say "See, this is proof, there is NO becoming picture out there of Manic Michelle", since she does look glass eyed stupid in this pic too!
First she confuses John Wayne with John Wayne Gacy, and now she mixes up a birthday and a date of death. Does she even know how to use "the Google"?
I can just see her as President: "Bomb Afghanistan and send disaster aid to North Dakota. Gotcha..... Oops, I mixed them up!"
"Stop listening to Fox and Limbaugh and go get someone to read a book to you."
Solid advice indeed.
So what? Everyone forgets their *friends'* birthdays. Why should it matter if someone forgets the birthday of some celebrity they never met?
If she were asked what her favorite Elvis song is she would respond "A Hard Days Night". No wait I don't think she knows who the Beatles or if she does she will say that if she is president she will bring the Beatles back together. Bachman/Palin 2012 because God does have a snese of humor.
"Seem I remember BO saying that there were WHAT 57 states in this country. Talk about stupid."
Then-candidate Obama was pretty tired after a long day of campaigning. I think Bachmann made the mistake because she either had a migraine coming on or her brain just can't keep facts straight (John Wayne vs John Wayne Gacy comes to mind).
Promised Land? It's a Chuck Berry song and Elvis never even sang all of the verses. But then I guess they are kinda similar because Elvis always dropped or forgot the middle verses and Bachman continually leaves out simple things like facts and substance. Bachman's a dangerously bad joke who'd be better off calling BR-549 instead of Tidewater 5309.
Sarah Palin Part 2!! IDIOT
Interesting factoids about Bachmann:
- When she was running for Congress in Minnesota, her official bio said she was born in Minnesota; now that she's running for President, her official bio says she was born in Iowa.
- She's a follower of Francis Schaeffer, who produced a series of videos who preached the "inerrancy" of the Bible, the necessity of a Biblical world view and that the Bible is the final authority. (He also believed that the US government is controlling its citizens by putting psychotropic drugs in the water supply).
- She is also a subscriber to the theory of "Dominionism," which believes that Christians, and Christians alone, are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns.
And, as everyone knows, now that she has the national spotlight, she's totally distancing herself from previous, emphatic, anti-gay comments. We all know that she thinks being gay is Satanic, that gay people are "enslaved" and that her husband makes a living in part by trying to "cure" gays of their homosexuality.
Keep these things in mind, folks ...
So let me get this straight... her campaign gave out 6000 tickets (which she purchased at $30/ticket) during the Iowa polling and only 4800 of those who got a free ticket actually voted for her? Wow, color me impressed.
This is the best they can do, so don't mock them. Maybe we'll be out of ideas ourselves one day . . . .
Can't fix stupid or ignorant
I'm just wondering why this is news...CNN is really bending over backward to make anyone but Obama look bad. Epic fail CNN. Please get to the real news, and stop wasting our time with this kind of trash.
1. Before politics, she was a federal tax attorney. Being in the business, you can't be a dolt and be successful. 2. Not every editor is looking for the most flattering picture of someone you know... Editors wield tremendous power in how they get to convey candidates to the nation and world. Grow up and face it.
The second coming of Sarah. How funny, that was the best laugh I"ve had recently. This should be an entertaining campaign. Does she ever do any research? Her foot has to be tasting pretty nasty by now as she's put in in her mouth quite a few times
How she's is supposed to know it. Evil's day of death is not on the bible.
And people would actually vote for someone this stupid? You kmow when you are President – details and facts matter – you can't just make things up or be a total idiot who knows nothing and just wing it.
Bachmann is NOT a leader and never has been. She just is good at criticizing other people and getting NOTHING done herself. Her Congressional accomplishments are ZERO. Her lies are too numerous to count. Her extremism is off the charts. Her hypocrisy is stunning – she lives off government money in every aspect of her life but constant claims to hate our government. Is she just not plain unAmerican, intolerant, and racist and stupid? Republicans really think people are going to vote for a lunatic with not an ounce of common sense or intelligence????
I stand with my President Obama. He is genuine, a good and decent man with real family values, a great leader, calm, thinks before he acts, and knows how to relate to REAL people. He cares about ALL Americans – not just ones Republican deem acceptable – white, male, rich, and arrogant. President Obama has real ideas, solutions, and believes in our country. Republicans want to destroy America, let corporations have everything, take away all PEOPLE programs like SS, Medicare, and food for poor children, education, and technology. Republicans oppose everything President Obama tries to do – even if they were for it the week before. They are so full of hate they cannot accomplish anything. If we remove ALL Republicans on the local, state, and national levels – the obstruction to our recovery will be gone and America will take off with jobs and new innovation and success for our future.
Poor Kim! You really ought to be able to see how crazy this woman is without us telling you. And every speechmaker uses a teleprompter, anyone who tells you different is lying. This difference is being able to put things you wrote yourself on the teleprompter instead of just having a speech written for you by other crazies.
Republicans have never let concepts like "facts" or "truth" stand in their way before, so why should now be any different?
If standing in front of a riled crowd and pitching nonsensical insults like "socialist communist Nazi" at the President to cheers from that crowd convinces people he is actually a "socialist communist Nazi," then Aug 16 is now actually Elvis' birthday.
Then-candidate Obama was pretty tired after a long day of campaigning.
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Yes, yes, it was because he was campaigning sooo hard that he forgot how many states were in the Union. Oh pulleze! How easily people give the messiah the benefit of the doubt and yet jump all over others at any small slip.
Frankly I could give a rats patooty about if the next President knows when Elvis was born or when he died. I DO care if they know the difference between a constitutional law and an unconstitutional mandate. Obama fails that test. Bachmann passes it.
I shudder to think of what would happen the first Thanksgiving after she became President. This Wingnut would probably pardon a serial killer and execute a turkey.
Bachmann bashed stimulus while lobbying for funds.
Her The Independence, Wis., Farm , received nearly $260,000 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2008.
What a two faceed person and a lier. Bachman is Hypocritical and double-dealing; deceitful who would vote for her
Michele Bachmann, a politician for those who find Sarah Palin too cerebral.
Who cares about the Elvis debacle, she voted for America to default and fail and pretended that it would not hurt the country, thats all you need to know to determine she can never be President even though Obama would love to have her as an opponent.
Can't fix stupid or ignorant
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Can't fix arrogant, divisive, incompetent and clueless either. Which is why we need to wait until 2012 to throw Obama out.
How do you debate a medicated religious nut case ?
Her and Rick Perry are two peas in a pod !
It's his anniversary stupid not his birthday Elvis was born on January 8, 1935 look up the fact before you talk it makes you
look stupid. STUPID.
If she is not intelligent enough to hire advisors to give her accurate information, do we really trust her to appoint people who will be in charge of our national security and interests? This is not funny any more, it is truly scary.
I'm a Conservative, but M.B. is just scary crazy to me.....
I didn't think it possible, but she's an even bigger idiot than Dubya or Palin.
Do we need anymore proof – she's made error after error on trival matters. What happens if she has to make a really big decision? Obviously she and the people she surrounds herself with are morons. This isn't another little gaff neither – along with her other little mistakes point up the fact that she's just plain stupid – So Michelle – please get outta here so we can concentrate on how stupid Rick Perry is.
Does she not have people that review her idiot words before they fall out of her mouth?
Hey Michelle Bachmann:
To quote Sylvester the Cat from Looney Tunes:
Stop it ya knucklehead!
It did not take long for our east coast media to fall back into the 2008 election. Protecting Pres. Obama at all cost. The major networks are all having fun over this gaffe, while ignoring VP Biden's gaffe about Gabrielle Giffords. If Palin or Bachmann had said what Biden did, it would have made news for a week. As it is,its covered up.
Oh, Please! The Giffords gaffe hardley makes up for the idiotic gaffs that Bachmann/Paline seem to make everytime they open up their big, stupid mouths. Just accept the fact that Bachmann and Palin are as dumb and ignorant as a bag of onions (sorry onions) and you just love them for it! And it's not just east coast media on this – it's most media markets east, west, north and south. Bachmann's always bragging about her education while sounding like she barely got past eight grade! LOL!
Can you imagine her as President? She'd hit the button to launch nukes thinking she was only tweeting! How can so many people support her? This country is full of idiots!!!
>Obama saying the USA is made up of 57 states
If you cannot see the difference between a fatigued candidate saying "57 states" when he meant "47 states" and someone who simply can't get basic facts straight time and time again, actively avoids the media, and calls every substantial question a "gotcha", then I hope you don't vote...
I am all for ripping this bigoted dingleberry of a candidate a new rear hole, but if you are going to attack he, attack her for flubs that matter: American political hsitory, the American economy...and of course, the freedom of choice of light bulbs. Too bad hers is off so often.
Who is the campaign going to blame for this wild, crazy looking photo of this woman now? Maybe Newsweek was actually on to something! She is as scary as HE double L!!!!!!!
I'm just wondering why this is news...CNN is really bending over backward to make anyone but Obama look bad. Epic fail CNN. Please get to the real news, and stop wasting our time with this kind of trash.
Maybe because Obama's not on every news channel sounding like an imbecille? Why come read the article if you're looking for "real news?" CNN has many news stories; go read them and just avoid these types of articles, otherwise, read the articles and deal with the comments that you know are coming. Why punish yourself? LOL!
Why isn't Sarah Palin your top story today? She usually is.
@Ed – the problem is – if you don't know,fine, but then keep your mouth shut. She has tried to make Elvis a part of her campaign -trying to look 'cool' – with all the music, references, etc, but now she looks like a hypocrite. Do you need someone to draw you a picture?
This boob makes me laugh more than Sarah Palin.
She doesn't believe the facts of WHERE where the President was born, and she doesn't know WHEN the "King" was born. Is Michelle Bachmann actually too STUPID to be a "Birther"?
Typical politician. she tries to show she knows stuff, knowledgeable, but in fact she knows nothing. If she just parrots out what the handlers tell her to say, she probably in better shape
This train hasn't even left the station and already it's coming off the tracks.
Run Forest, Run!
I am embarrased that I'm a registered republican. The religious right has completely taken over the party. I'm changing my party affiliation to independent. Michelle Bachman is an idiot – as are many of the republicans running for president. It's frightening to think that a couple republican candidates believe in Mormonism (which is simply laughable) and the rest seem to take the bible as a book of factual information. I'm out... I'm finished... I'm going independent. You republicans are absolutely out of your minds. If there is this all powerful, all knowing God, then why are idiots like you running for president!?
"Now she has that Newsweek cover look again"
I'd say, she does look like a maniac. Too much submission, perhaps?
It's interesting that some people feel the best defense here is to point out where Obama has messed up. Not the point. We already know his presidency is not working out. He is likely to be a one term with or without her. The trouble is right now, there is no one else who is viable. It's a pathetic field on both sides right now, looking pretty dim. But simply put, if she can't get the small stuff right, she will never get the big stuff right. And if you blame her support team, only worse, cause as a president, that is where the buck needs to stop. What we need to be more worried about with this one is her subversive messages that tie her religion and literal translation of scripture to be her guiding force (and I am a conservative!) We can't afford that – and if she needs to look any further, she can see how 'well' that works in Iran.
The fact that this candidate lacks the ability to do a simple 20 second Google search speaks volumes to how she forms her personal knowledge base – her knowledge is anecdotal. Someone said it, she believed it. She does not fact check herself on something so simple and does not have the awareness that facts are checked by everyone now. Why would we believe she would fact check more serious information like economic or foreign policy in using compiled economic data and intelligence reports? Even if she did, her incessant factual errors indicate that she lacks reading comprehension and memory storage, which would make her a poor decision maker. I wish we as a society would move beyond celebrity politics and concern ourselves strictly with who has the mental and character trait strengths to lead America. Like Palin, this candidate is merely a walking bumper sticker
Why can't these people take 5 seconds and google things like this, so that they don't make these stupid mistakes?
I bet her mouth wants to kill her brain.
Dear Michelle,
You just afford these "gotcha" mistakes. Next time write it down on the palm of your hand.
Your friend and admirer,
Sarah Palin
By the way, the Republican political correction police can whine all they want, but Michelle Bachmann does have the vacant stare of a crazy person.
Bachmann's being a woman has nothing to do with the fact that she is a poor candidate. Just as she should not be scrutinized more than any other candidate based on her sex, she should not be given any free passes based on it either. She is a walking, squawking platitude machine. Much comes out, but very little sinks in. Politics aside, this woman does not have character traits or abilities for being a strong leader. Though, it seems one of the networks would benefit by hiring her as a talk show host.
This is not as dumb as "I can see Rissia from my house".... But it ranks pretty high.
Promised Land IS a Chuck Berry song. But Elvis recorded a pretty good version of it in the early '70s and it even appeared in the movie "Men in Black"
so just to seem cool and that she's "in touch with the "common folk" she tries to make, and completely flubs, a tribute to Elvis. So if she is truly a self respecting God fearing conservative, what the heck is she doing paying tribute to a drug using womanizing alcoholic that has bad taste in nut hugging white rihinestone jumpsuits? I like Elvis, but he ws no saint.