Michele Bachmann Cites 'Obama's Teleprompter' When Asked About Revolutionary War Gaffe (VIDEO)

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) addressed a gaffe that landed her in the headlines several months ago during an appearance on this weekend's edition of "Fox News Sunday."

Back in March, Bachmann told a group of local New Hampshire Republicans, "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord." However, the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in Massachusetts, not the Granite State.

On Sunday morning, Bachmann suggested that the misstep didn't result from a lack of geographic or historical knowledge, but rather her use of a teleprompter while she was speaking.

"After that, I promised I would never again use President Obama's teleprompter," she said. "And I intend to keep that promise."

The AP reported at the time Bachmann made the comments in question:

Though Bachmann probably wasn't the first to confuse Concord, N.H., with Concord, Mass., her mistake was striking given her roots in the tea party movement, which takes its name from the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor by angry American colonists in December 1773, 16 months before the Battle of Lexington Green.

"I made a mistake; I should've said Massachusetts rather than New Hampshire," Bachmann said amid scrutiny on the heels of making the remarks. "We all know that there's a double standard in the media."

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Comments

[edwarddr1604]

03:36 PM on 05/16/2011

quit while you think you're ahead. As a Republican, I need someone who is not doing politics as usual. Quit thinking about getting votes, work on the issues at hand that need fixing....otherwise quit and join Cains....

[William Caldwell]

01:17 AM on 05/06/2011

Hmm, who might I vote for? A woman who made a mistake on where a battle was fought, or a man who thinks there are 57 states. How about someone who can get unemployment under 8%?

Not that it matters here, since even though there are all sorts of moderators all my posts end up still pending. Censorship on the left?

[asher808]

12:44 PM on 05/12/2011

Unlikely; I'm reading your snarky post right now! ;)

[RRundbaken]

10:18 PM on 06/08/2011

Come back in 16 months when unemployment is heading towards 8%. Just like Reagan (and Obama is more like reagan then any of these GOP loons) he got re-elected if with unemployment above 7% because the numbers were trending down. Under bush they trended up, under Obama they will be trending down. 1 million jobs gained in the last 6 months. How disingenuous you "conservatives" are, screaming that Obama hasn't cleaned up fast enough the entire mess the GOP gave him. Where were you all when the GOP stared a war under false pretenses, waged two wars, enacted two tax cuts for the rich and passed a horrendous Medicare prescription program, all without paying for any of it. Now all of sudden they whine about the deficit and use that to have the elderly, middle class and poor shoulder the burden while their rich benefactors roll in the dough.

[Happy Cat]

06:09 PM on 05/05/2011

Mish, did the President actually loan you his very own teleprompter? You would blame him for a yeast infection.

[Desiree M]

06:08 PM on 05/05/2011

Where do Republicans come up with these uninformed, unqualified candidates? I can't take them seriously when they prove again and angain that they lack governmental and historical knowledge. Bachman is just trying to save face. Shouldn't she have been able to come up with the correct information on her own instead of relying on a teleprompter? Hello! It is one thing if my neighbor, my grandparents, or Joe Schmoe doesn't know the historical facts, but those people aren't running for congress.

[taddles]

05:47 PM on 05/05/2011

Huh, not only is she a clown but she's a laying clown. Her "teleprompter malfunction" occurred at two separate occasions on two separate days.

[Duppy]

05:19 PM on 05/05/2011

Is she paying attention. If she is going to try to run on a national platform, continued attacks on our president will get her no where.

[morefromLA]

05:19 PM on 05/05/2011

"After that, I promised I would never again use President Obama's teleprompter..."

Another factual error, obviously that was Palin's teleprompter.

[roxette]

05:11 PM on 05/05/2011

Michele, it's not the teleprompter mistake. What the teleprompter showed was the speech that your staff had written, in that speech was the misstep. You see, it's who had written the speech that is responsible.

Michele do we have to explain everything to you? I though you were a lawyer.

[ComaDivine]

04:56 PM on 05/05/2011

Maaaaan, she's looking rather haggared.....i guess all this "stuff" she's supposed to know has her up at night studying.....how to get more gov't welfare for her family farm!

[imfedup]

03:38 PM on 05/05/2011

Vile beast.

[LeftLeanWing]

02:39 PM on 05/05/2011

Sad Part is that this She-Hammer needed a Teleprompter to know where Lexington and Concord AREN'T in the First Place....

[spc5]

02:26 PM on 05/05/2011

Pathetic excuse of a human being. She and her Republican brethren have been marginalized even further by recent events.

[Agent672]

02:20 PM on 05/05/2011

so i guess now it is okay to criticize the President's handing of war. GTK

[Paula Brown]

01:39 PM on 05/05/2011

The most troubling thing about the alleged "misspeak" is that is purported to be a prepared speech.

[Lawyer822]

12:49 PM on 05/05/2011

She can say it was the teleprompter but she repeated that comment twice. So I'm guessing that the teleprompter didn't work two times. Really!