Michele Bachmann Gets Facts Wrong In Her Own Autobiography

Michele Bachmann’s autobiography has been fact-check by Gawker.

• Bachmann says her first run for state senate began organically—she was drafted to run on the spot after speaking up at a nominating convention. “I was just doing my duty as a citizen, speaking out. It was like that wonderful Norman Rockwell painting from the forties, Freedom of Speech, in which an earnest man speaks out at a town meeting, politely but firmly.” (It’s not every day you read people actually openly claiming to be like a heroic character from a Rockwell painting.) The weird thing about that spontaneous Rockwellian moment of democratic action was that she brought pro-Bachmann campaign signs with her and had repeatedly threatened to run for the seat in the lead-up to the convention.

• Bachmann helped found a public charter school in Stillwater, Minn., with a bunch of Christian activists, but she insists that she “never sought to impose Christianity on our students.” Which is true. She only sought to impose “20 principles of Christian management,” not to mention creationism, on the students. Totatally different things.

• Bachmann calls the Troubled Assets Relief Program is labeled a “$700 billion blank check.” As Murphy puts it, “that’s a logical impossibility.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.