Michele Bachmann may pride herself on being one of the most conservative members of Congress, but she’s known to be fairly liberal in her interpretation of the facts.
Her latest round of whoppers came during a speech she gave at CPAC this past weekend. She waxed on about wasteful government spending, especially the $1.4 billion a year she said goes to “perks and excess” for the president.
The outlandish claims inspired Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler to refute her not once, but twice. She earned the infamous maximum rating of “Four Pinocchios” both times, and even inspired Kessler to write, “There really aren’t enough Pinocchios for such misleading use of statistics in a major speech.”
When pressed on some of those CPAC speech facts by CNN reporter Dana Bash this week, Bachmann literally ran from the truth. Asked about the factual inaccuracies, she responded, “The big point of my speech was about Benghazi. This was an absolute disaster.”
Read more at MSNBC.com.
Her latest round of whoppers came during a speech she gave at CPAC this past weekend. She waxed on about wasteful government spending, especially the $1.4 billion a year she said goes to “perks and excess” for the president.
The outlandish claims inspired Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler to refute her not once, but twice. She earned the infamous maximum rating of “Four Pinocchios” both times, and even inspired Kessler to write, “There really aren’t enough Pinocchios for such misleading use of statistics in a major speech.”
When pressed on some of those CPAC speech facts by CNN reporter Dana Bash this week, Bachmann literally ran from the truth. Asked about the factual inaccuracies, she responded, “The big point of my speech was about Benghazi. This was an absolute disaster.”
Read more at MSNBC.com.
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