United States House of Representatives member and 2012 presidential hopeful as a member of the completely rational Tea Party, Michele Bachmann brings us criticism of anything related to President Barack Obama, fear-mongering statements on same-sex marriage, interesting views on fixing the country and much more in the most controversial Michele Bachmann quotes.
Rivaling Sarah Palin's ridiculous quotes as another outspoken female politician, Bachmann also provides laughs and entertainment in her creative versions of United States history and comparisons to movie stars, erm, serial killers. Seriously, even Palin could not make this stuff up!
Take this into consideration, If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps... I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps.""
Explaining her refusal to complete the U.S. Census, Michele Bachmann brought another episode of her fear-mongering show to the public with warnings about what could happen should Americans complete the Census, as stipulated by the U.S. Constitution. {sarcasm} Clearly every other time since the 1940s that the country has conducted a census it has led to Americans being captured by the Japanese and being placed in internment camps. {end sarcasm}
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
If one reads between the lines on this Michele Bachmann quote, one may come to the conclusion that what she's calling an interesting coincidence is actually an accusation that swine flu is some conspiracy by the Democrats. In reality, that other outbreak of swine flu came in 1976 when Republican Gerald Ford was president.
"Carbon dioxide, Mr. speaker, is a natural byproduct of nature. Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth... Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful, but there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."
Enlightening the U.S. Congress on her feelings on global warming, Bachmann explained that carbon dioxide is both natural and absolutely harmless. In reality, carbon dioxide, also called the silent killer, is very much harmful and can (and does) easily cause numerous deaths each day.
"What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord."
This misinformed Michele Bachmann quote came in March 2011 during her speech to the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. In reality, the Battles of Lexington and Concord took place in the state of Massachusetts, not New Hampshire.
"We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves."
In the same speech in which Bachmann criticized head of Medicare and Medicaid Donald Berwick by stating that Berwick makes "Jack Kevorkian look like Mary Poppins," Bachmann didn't hold back when suggesting that President Barack Obama was reinstating slavery in the United States. Bachmann was speaking to the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Colorado, in July 2010, a speech that "The Ed Show" called "psycho talk."
"Our K-12 public school system, of which ninety per cent of all youth are in the public school system, they will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality.
Speaking to the radio program "Prophetic Views Behind The News" in 2004, Bachmann speculated what may happen should a ban on same-sex marriage fail to pass. An act of fear-mongering at its best, Bachmann warns viewers about how homosexually would be preached to children should the ban fail to pass. In reality, the ban had no mention of children, education or promoting homosexuality to youth whatsoever.
"The news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would, I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out are they are pro-America or anti-America... I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large... Absolutely, I'm very concerned that (Barack Obama) may have anti-American views... I never questioned Barack Obama’s patriotism."
Making a splash talking on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" in 2008, Michele Bachmann gave us a handful of quotes suggesting that President Barack Obama is either anti-American or is being controlled by those with anti-American agendas. When pressed further about this conspiracy theory, Bachmann was oblivious to how her comments came off, rejecting any concept that she was questioning the patriotism of President Obama. Apparently perception (or delusion) can be a tricky thing.
"Well I think we know that just within a day or so, the president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day. He's taking 2,000 people with him. He'll be renting out over 870 rooms in India. And these are 5-star hotel rooms at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. This is the kind of over-the-top spending."
Citing an unreliable article out of India, Bachmann made this claim and many others in a 2010 interview with Anderson Cooper of CNN just before President Barack Obama was set to travel to the country. In reality, these numbers, as well as allegations that 34 Navy warships would be accompanying the president, were rebutted as "wildly inflated" and "comical" according to the White House and a Pentagon spokesman. Though the numbers sounded good for Bachmann's push for a smaller government, they were highly exaggerated, including the fact that the hotel in question has only around 600 rooms, not the over 870 Bachmann quoted.
"Well if you look at one of our Founding Fathers, John Quincy Adams, that’s absolutely true. He was a very young boy when he was with his father serving essentially as his father’s secretary. He tirelessly worked throughout his life to make sure that we did in fact one day eradicate slavery... Well, John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy but he was actively involved."
Just like she had a wee bit of trouble with names in the John Wayne vs John Wayne Gacy gaffe, Michele Bachmann used Sarah Palin's history books to talk about the Founding Fathers in a June 2011 interview. In addition to confusing Founding Father John Adams with John Quincey Adams, who was a young child during the Founding Fathers days, Bachmann was confident that the Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly to end slavery." In reality, many owned slaves and slavery continued for a long time after the U.S. Constitution was drafted.
"Iran is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And do you know why? It’s because they’ve already decided that they’re going to partition Iraq.
And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called…. the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I’m sorry, I don’t have the official name, but it’s meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There’s already an agreement made.
They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone where they can go ahead and bring about more terrorist attacks in the Middle East region and then to come against the United States because we are their avowed enemy."
Proclaiming that she is not only an expert on the Middle East but also either an insider in terrorist circles or a psychic, Michele Bachmann had the audacity to share secret plans involving dividing the Middle East into regions with the intent to attack America. If it sounds far-fetched that's because it's actually fiction, or as Bachmann later said in a response to the comments, a situation where here words were "misconstrued."
"If we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
In between criticizing President Barack Obama for the rising unemployment rate, Michele Bachmann offered a magical solution to curing unemployment once and for all, eliminating the minimum wage regulations. Bachmann cited the minimum wage law as one of several regulations that inhibit job growth, which basically almost suggests that if president, she would push for its elimination. Someone should ask her how families should be expected to survive on sweatshop wages if she gets her way.
"In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women."
"(Same-sex marriage) is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that."
These two gems came seven years apart, in 2011 and 2004 respectively, but offer Bachmann's conflicting numbers on when gay marriage was a hot topic. The first quote, stating that gay marriage is something that only sprung up in the 1990s, is fiction as recorded instances of same-sex marriage date back to ancient times. The second quote, which can be regarded as an opinion, changes the timeline for when gay marriage was a top issue as well as overlooks other worldly problems such as the United States economy, terrorism and health care.
"What I want them to know is, just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit I have too."
Announcing her official bid for the 2010 presidential race, Bachmann spoke to Fox News from her birthplace of Waterloo, Iowa, and compared herself to another famous person from the area, John Wayne. In reality, John Wayne was not actually from the midwestern city, but instead the city is known for John Wayne Gacy, the "Killer Clown" who raped and murdered over 30 in the 1970s.
chemist Michele Bachmann on Carbon Dioxide at 12/15/2011 3:28 PM
While I understand the point you are trying to make. Carbon Dioxide is not the silent killer. That would be Carbon Monoxide. Our lungs cannot process CO2 and we therefor coff (sp?). CO on the other hand pass through the lungs (chemically similar to O2) and binds hemaglobin and thereby prevents O2 from entering the blood stream.
CamBrunner Michele Bachmann on Gay Marriage at 10/15/2011 10:21 PM
Michele Bachmann and her husband are both very far out. Not good for the U.S. She is running on her own “gay agenda” platform. We are closing schools, laying people off. Families are being foreclosed on and being put out in the streets. And all this Republican running for President and her husband can do is talk about is “praying away the gay”. It is a good money maker for her, but we have bigger things to do, and I am hopping God has too. If you or your church has the gay agenda on your mind, all the time you may need to set down and talk with someone. We need to start looking at what is best for the country. Not our own religion’s views, that blow in the wind.
forest The Most Controversial Michele Bachmann Quotes at 9/20/2011 8:45 PM
Your moniker is mozart hahaha the irony, I really really really wish there was a god. Planet earth is overpop**ated with way too many dumb s**ts like you. Hahaha what a dumb s**t. Please please can some omnipotent being eradicate these simpletons. Pleeaase!
CharlieRedmond The Most Controversial Michele Bachmann Quotes at 9/13/2011 6:44 PM
I have a suggestion, Mozart: instead of just going with whatever sounds good to you, think about doing a little fact-checking for yourself. It'll help you avoid embarrassing yourself in public in the f*ture. Here, I'll help get you started - http://www.factcheck.org/2010/11/ask-factcheck-trip-to-mumbai/
Randolph The Most Controversial Michele Bachmann Quotes at 6/30/2011 3:38 PM
I remember seeing that "members of Congress are anti-American" interview when it was first on TV. Think it was my first exposure to Michele Bachmann. Believe my comment was "Who is this insane person?" at the time.
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No doubt Obama and his puke ugly wife are spending like drunken w***es at our expense!
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