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(Some Guy) Fail Michele Bachmann goes totally meta, earns her 12th "Pants on Fire" rating by claiming "Politifact said everything I said was true"   (politifact.com) divider line 73
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2011-12-17 07:15:57 PM
...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...
 
2011-12-17 07:31:28 PM
hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

What a great party you have, one that supports the mentally retarded so openly.
 
2011-12-17 07:33:14 PM
hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

To be fair, without her there would be no:

www.memphisflyer.com

/That Cal Ripken, Jr. guy in the corner gets me laughing like a school girl.

//Each. And. Every. Time.

///I just Laughed OL'd again... I never noticed that "foot long" signage in the background before.
 
2011-12-17 07:38:16 PM
The pencil is orange.

It is absolutely orange.

I didn't say the pencil is orange.

The lead part is black. Anyone can see that.

The outside of the pencil might be painted orange, but I never made a claim one way or the other and it doesn't make any of my statements less true.

Why are we discussing the pencil when we should be discussing Obama's job killingness and his love affair with Islamic fundamentalists?

/GOP in a nutshell
/strong emphasis on the "nut" part
 
2011-12-17 07:49:47 PM
Why does this remind me of the outraged chain emails my aunt used to send me? I started replying to her emails with links to Snopes, then the emails adapted and started claiming that Snopes said it was true, so there's no need for you to go and check for yourself.

Of course, when you check, you find out that it's all made up.
 
2011-12-17 07:51:37 PM
Is this the Politifact equivalent of...

s3.amazonaws.com
 
2011-12-17 07:51:42 PM
sheilanagig: Why does this remind me of the outraged chain emails my aunt used to send me? I started replying to her emails with links to Snopes, then the emails adapted and started claiming that Snopes said it was true, so there's no need for you to go and check for yourself.

Of course, when you check, you find out that it's all made up.


that's when you send the link back, highlighting the part about it being checked on Snopes, with the response "SNOPES DISAGREES"
 
2011-12-17 07:52:20 PM
hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

...is on the House Armed Services Committee and presumably has access to highly classified defense information.

Sleep well.
 
2011-12-17 07:52:55 PM
sheilanagig: Why does this remind me of the outraged chain emails my aunt used to send me? I started replying to her emails with links to Snopes, then the emails adapted and started claiming that Snopes said it was true, so there's no need for you to go and check for yourself.

Of course, when you check, you find out that it's all made up.


Get out of my head! ;)

Nowadays, I just delete-delete-delete... There's no fixing stupid. Nothing.
 
2011-12-17 07:53:34 PM
Farking While Farking: hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

...is on the House Armed Services Committee and presumably has access to highly classified defense information.

Sleep well.


Pfft.

It's not like she understands any of it.
 
2011-12-17 07:58:04 PM
Her pants are on fire for the lord.
 
2011-12-17 07:58:33 PM
SilentStrider: that's when you send the link back, highlighting the part about it being checked on Snopes, with the response "SNOPES DISAGREES"

I tried that. I also asked her to stop sending the really over the top religious stuff to me. She was insulted, and I ended up being the one who gave an insincere apology and then shut up about it. I just started directing her emails straight to the trash like the spam it was.
 
2011-12-17 07:58:53 PM
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

To be fair, without her there would be no:

www.memphisflyer.com

///I just Laughed OL'd again... I never noticed that "foot long" signage in the background before.


That weener looks black. Is she blowing the Dude in Chief?
 
2011-12-17 08:00:50 PM
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: Get out of my head! ;)

Nowadays, I just delete-delete-delete... There's no fixing stupid. Nothing.


Is that like the factory setting for elderly aunts with email? I think I complained about all of the bloated "cute" emails with pictures that she kept sending me too.
 
2011-12-17 08:02:44 PM
HotIgneous Intruder: Her pants are on fire for the lord.

no, Marcus is the flaming one
 
2011-12-17 08:06:00 PM
sheilanagig: I tried that. I also asked her to stop sending the really over the top religious stuff to me. She was insulted, and I ended up being the one who gave an insincere apology and then shut up about it. I just started directing her emails straight to the trash like the spam it was.

some people are impossible to reach, apparently.
 
2011-12-17 08:08:13 PM
sheilanagig: Why does this remind me of the outraged chain emails my aunt used to send me? I started replying to her emails with links to Snopes, then the emails adapted and started claiming that Snopes said it was true, so there's no need for you to go and check for yourself.

Of course, when you check, you find out that it's all made up.


No you should up the ante and see what else she will believe. Why stop with islamofascist kenyan usurper? Why not a time traveling white woman raping sorceror islamofascist kenyan usurper?

Go all out and add black helicopters, cults, aliens, reverse vampires and the NWO.
 
2011-12-17 08:08:15 PM
StoneColdAtheist: I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

To be fair, without her there would be no:

www.memphisflyer.com

///I just Laughed OL'd again... I never noticed that "foot long" signage in the background before.

That weener looks black. Is she blowing the Dude in Chief?

Dang it.. I can't find the Bachmann/Barack corn dog photoshop at the moment....

I guess I'll have to settle for this one instead:

i.current.com


This gif (new window) is also pretty funny.... (SFW, just too large a file size)
 
2011-12-17 08:09:52 PM
No matter what you political affiliation, every time this woman opens her mouth she proves that she is bad for America.

www.memphisflyer.com

/Yes. Even there.
 
2011-12-17 08:11:43 PM
Hubiestubert

To be fair, once they got a good look at her, she absolutely cratered in the polls. I'd like to think even Republicans aren't dumb enough to elect Bachmann.

/They do seem dumb enough to elect Gingrich, which isn't much better.
//I never imagined even Ron Paul would be less nuts than half the Republican field.
 
2011-12-17 08:12:52 PM
Dear Michele

Thanks for saying stupid shiat to make Newt look desirable.

Love,

Your GOP puppetmasters.
 
2011-12-17 08:15:50 PM
I'm sure that she just acts the way conservatives think a woman should act. She puts me in mind of a Stepford wife.
 
2011-12-17 08:21:18 PM
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

To be fair, without her there would be no:

[www.memphisflyer.com image 384x288]

/That Cal Ripken, Jr. guy in the corner gets me laughing like a school girl.

//Each. And. Every. Time.

///I just Laughed OL'd again... I never noticed that "foot long" signage in the background before.


I'm still convinced that the part of the sign behind the straw box says "Twinks", for the benefit of her husband.
 
2011-12-17 08:25:06 PM
hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

Yes, but most of those folks have moved on to a rapid succession of other dolts.
 
2011-12-17 08:34:47 PM
Lately politifact has gone a bit downhill, but most of the time they're right. And, well, calling her out on her bullshiat 12 times certainly shows that!
 
2011-12-17 08:35:27 PM
This is what conservatives have been doing for decades.

You're not going to stop buying it now, are you?

When America needs you most, to kick out the Kenyan Muslim Socialist and his crew of commie, you're not going to stop listening to conservatives like they're speaking gospel truth, are you? Don't you love America?
 
2011-12-17 08:38:54 PM
Farking While Farking: hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

...is on the House Armed Services Committee and presumably has access to highly classified defense information.

Sleep well.


Meh, Boehner put her in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the U.S. intelligence community, because it is in charge of investigating the wrong doings of the CIA and FBI, etc... Think about that for a moment. Besides, most of any important business is taken care of while Michele is off down the hall getting the coffee and donuts.
 
2011-12-17 08:42:06 PM
hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

I enjoy pointing out her membership in the House Committee on Intelligence. Ha ha.
 
2011-12-17 08:44:24 PM
The Iconoclast: Farking While Farking: hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

...is on the House Armed Services Committee and presumably has access to highly classified defense information.

Sleep well.

Meh, Boehner put her in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees the U.S. intelligence community, because it is in charge of investigating the wrong doings of the CIA and FBI, etc... Think about that for a moment. Besides, most of any important business is taken care of while Michele is off down the hall getting the coffee and donuts.


She used to be a tax lawyer so I lean towards the willful stupidity for book sales angle.

I hope I'm right.
 
2011-12-17 08:52:04 PM
No mas pantalones
 
2011-12-17 08:53:17 PM
Britney Spears Speculum: Dear Michele

Thanks for saying stupid shiat to make Newt look desirable.

Love,

Your GOP puppetmasters.


This
 
2011-12-17 08:55:31 PM
I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: /I just Laughed OL'd again... I never noticed that "foot long" signage in the background before.

The foot long and part underneath, read quickly, looks like 'foot long dinks'.
 
2011-12-17 08:59:48 PM
buckler: I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: hubiestubert: ...this is who some folks want to see as President...this...this...dolt...this...irresponsible child...

To be fair, without her there would be no:

[www.memphisflyer.com image 384x288]

/That Cal Ripken, Jr. guy in the corner gets me laughing like a school girl.

//Each. And. Every. Time.

///I just Laughed OL'd again... I never noticed that "foot long" signage in the background before.

I'm still convinced that the part of the sign behind the straw box says "Twinks", for the benefit of her husband.


Or perhaps "Dinks"?
 
2011-12-17 09:05:24 PM
jake3988: Lately politifact has gone a bit downhill, but most of the time they're right. And, well, calling her out on her bullshiat 12 times certainly shows that!

They have a small staff and these debates have added to the workload quite a lot.
 
2011-12-17 09:22:22 PM
files.sharenator.com
 
2011-12-17 09:22:28 PM
Bill_Wick's_Friend: The pencil is orange.

It is absolutely orange.

I didn't say the pencil is orange.

The lead part is black. Anyone can see that.

The outside of the pencil might be painted orange, but I never made a claim one way or the other and it doesn't make any of my statements less true.

Why are we discussing the pencil when we should be discussing Obama's job killingness and his love affair with Islamic fundamentalists?

/GOP in a nutshell
/strong emphasis on the "nut" part


GOP in a nutshell is them broadcasting foxnews and talk radio to the american electorate until they admit there are 5 lights.
 
2011-12-17 09:27:41 PM
Lunchlady: She used to be a tax lawyer so I lean towards the willful stupidity for book sales angle.

Your hope is unfounded, she went to Oral Roberts University.
 
2011-12-17 10:10:53 PM
Politifact gave Jon Stewart a pants on fire for playing a clip from History Channel. So fark 'em.
 
2011-12-17 10:18:47 PM
I don't understand what she said that was not true.
 
2011-12-17 10:26:43 PM
Her PolitiFact report card shows 59 percent of her statements rated have earned either a False or Pants on Fire. She has earned five Trues, three Mostly Trues, six Half Trues, seven Mostly Falses, 19 Falses and 11 Pants on Fires.

FTFA.

FIFTY NINE PERCENT?

And people take her seriously? Really?

s3.amazonaws.com
 
2011-12-17 10:33:38 PM
Total number of Obama's statements rated by Politifact: 330
Total rated True/Mostly True: 154 (46.7%)
Total rated False/Pants on Fire: 55 (16.7%)
Total rated Pants on Fire: 4 (1.2%)

Total number of statements rated for the 7 leading GOP contenders: 342
Total rated True/Mostly True: 98 (28.7%)
Total rated False/Pants on Fire: 71 (20.7%)
Total rated Pants on Fire: 39 (11.7%)
 
2011-12-17 10:41:50 PM
s2s2s2: Politifact gave Jon Stewart a pants on fire for playing a clip from History Channel. So fark 'em.

Worse, their "Lie of the year" was the DNC saying "Republicans voted to end Medicare", something that's actually true by any reasonable metric.
 
2011-12-17 10:49:47 PM
Lou Brown: Total number of Obama's statements rated by Politifact: 330
Total rated True/Mostly True: 154 (46.7%)
Total rated False/Pants on Fire: 55 (16.7%)
Total rated Pants on Fire: 4 (1.2%)


What about the other 117 statements?
You're missing 35.4% of the statements

Total number of statements rated for the 7 leading GOP contenders: 342
Total rated True/Mostly True: 98 (28.7%)
Total rated False/Pants on Fire: 71 (20.7%)
Total rated Pants on Fire: 39 (11.7%)


What about the other 134 statements?
You're missing 38.9% of the statements
 
2011-12-17 11:26:12 PM
She really believes that. She is truly mentally defective.
 
2011-12-17 11:43:32 PM
I submitted this exact same link with the same joke, and I got turned down the other day. Guess we know who is bribing the admins.
 
2011-12-17 11:43:39 PM
Bucky Katt: She really believes that. She is truly mentally defective.

For once I wish someone would call her on her bs during one of these debates and make her look like the Emily Litella of poltics that she is.
 
2011-12-17 11:45:38 PM
s2s2s2: Politifact gave Jon Stewart a pants on fire for playing a clip from History Channel. So fark 'em.

At least he admitted that he screwed up trusting the authenticity of a claim made by a channel which claims that UFOs are real.
 
2011-12-17 11:45:53 PM
Is Bachmann getting a Pants on Fire for... her record on Pants on Fire's?


*WWWWWHHHHHAAAAAMMMMMMMM*
 
2011-12-17 11:46:26 PM
The Iconoclast: Bucky Katt: She really believes that. She is truly mentally defective.

For once I wish someone would call her on her bs during one of these debates and make her look like the Emily Litella of poltics that she is.

What's all this talk about Soviet jewelry? I mean, they have trinkets and baubles and what not....

That's Jewry, Emily. Soviet Jewry.

Oh. Never mind!
 
2011-12-18 12:06:51 AM
Gunther: s2s2s2: Politifact gave Jon Stewart a pants on fire for playing a clip from History Channel. So fark 'em.

Worse, their "Lie of the year" was the DNC saying "Republicans voted to end Medicare", something that's actually true by any reasonable metric.



Michele?, Is that you? Many Americans feel that the statement is true. I guess it depends on whether you believe "New Coke" is classic Coke.
Republicans voted to end Medicare = Lie of the Year
Republicans voted to end Medicare as we know it. Totally true... by any metric.
/the "Lie of the year" is decided by a vote anyway. Given that most of the "Lies" nominated were made (no surprise) by Republicans, the liberal votes are split and the least innocuous Democratic lie took the day.
 
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