Maddow Digs Deep for Trifecta of Deceit Against Bachmann
How can you tell that Rachel Maddow considers GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann a mortal threat to the Obama presidency? Because the MSNBC propagandist can't bear to let her viewers see or hear what Bachmann has to say. Instead, Maddow acts as censorious middleman, twisting Bachmann's remarks beyond recognition to all but Maddow's fellow denizens of the fringe left. Here's an example of Maddow doing this on her show July 7, trotting out three hoary falsehoods about Bachmann in the span of a minute (video clip after page break) — Polling second behind Mitt Romney in the latest Iowa and New Hampshire and national polls is this person, Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who frankly, I have to say it and I don't mean it as an insult, I mean it as a true observation. Ms. Bachmann has frankly been a fringe figure in Congress for years now. Her career has been the kind where nobody batted an eye when she proposed amending the United States Constitution to stop our country from adopting the yen as our currency instead of the dollar because she thought that was a threat. Michele Bachmann has tried to argue that the census — the census! — is unconstitutional. Want to see where the census is in the Constitution? It's right there. They didn't have highlighters then, but if they had, that's the part. Michele Bachmann is the kind of member of Congress who warns us about secret concentration camps being set up by the government. Michele Bachmann has been, frankly, the most telegenic member of the Louie Gohmert-Steve King-Phil Gingrey late-night AM radio conspiracy theory fringe of the Republican Party in Congress. Notice how when Maddow makes these claims, she doesn't quote Bachmann or provide any clips of Bachmann making them. The reason is simple — if Maddow does this, her own claims fall apart. The closest Maddow comes to attribution is in the first of her three assertions, of Bachmann's alleged fear of the United States adopting the yen as its currency. To bolster this claim, Maddow showed a March 2009 press release from Bachmann's website, titled “Bachmann Demands Truth: Will Obama Administration Abandon Dollar for a Multi-National Currency?”. Here are its first two paragraphs; the full statement can be read here — In response to suggestions by China, Russia, and other countries around the world calling on the International Monetary Fund to explore a multi-national currency, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (MN-6) has introduced a resolution that would bar the dollar from being replaced by any foreign currency. “Yesterday, during a Financial Services Committee hearing, I asked Secretary Geithner if he would denounce efforts to move towards a global currency and he answered unequivocally that he would,” said Bachmann. “And President Obama gave the nation the same assurances. But just a day later, Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table. The American people deserve to know.” Bachmann wasn't concerned with the dollar being replaced by the yen, as Maddow suggests. Bachmann wants to prevent the dollar from being replaced by a
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