It Seems Bachman is More Ignorant than Palin!

Rep. Michele Bachmann

First, she knew nothing about the men in the iconic photo of the Marines planting the flag on Iwo Jima, then she didn’t know in which state the Revolutionary War started. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is a veritable fountain of historical misinformation.

Clutching a tea bag in Concord, New Hampshire, Rep. Bachmann told a group of students “You’re in the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord..” Both towns are in Massachusetts, about 30 miles south of Concord, New Hampshire. It really is impossible for a shot to be fired in both town simultaneously, but why quibble? The Tea Party, whose Congressional Caucus Bachmann founded, takes its name from the Boston Tea Party, when a group of revolutionaries badly dressed as Native Americans boarded a cargo ship and dumped the tea in the harbor to protest the high taxes on tea, which were levied to help offset the costs incurred by the British government in fighting the French and Indian War on American soil. Hopefully, Mrs. Bachmann knows where Boston is, though she very definitely does not know that the men and women who fought our Revolution were beyond liberal – they were outright radicals. It’s a distinction that is lost on conservatives who claim they are the moral descendants of our founding fathers. About the only thing the conservatives have in common with the revolutionaries is a reluctance to pay for wars.

 by L. S. Carbonell       http://lezgetreal.com/

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