Michele Bachmann Debate Blunders (SLIDESHOW)

During an interview with NPR's Morning Edition last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) claimed that she had yet to make an error in any of the GOP presidential debates.

"I'm happy to say I don't think that I've said anything inaccurate in any of the debates," she said. "And I'm extremely grateful for that. It's a high-profile stage and so I'm grateful that I don't think I've made a blunder."

After taking a look back at some of her most questionable debate statements so far, the Washington Post's Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler, begs to differ. "The record clearly shows that Bachmann has said many inaccurate statements during the debates, sometimes repeatedly," writes Kessler.

Here's a look back at some of Bachmann's factual mishaps:

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Comments

[Felix Valera]

11:35 AM on 12/03/2011

Michele is going nowhere I believe she took her policy too to the extreme and most people are not ready to accept a woman that has so many radical ideas and a woman that goes out on TV and every time she speak out she make mistakes and most women do not like the way she portrayed herself like a woman that obey her husband orders and we are living in a different time. Women has right to their opinions like men do, its was long ago that women where used as an object today they have right to dicide what to do with their lifes. I guess she does not understand woman goe more to the voting poll that men do!
I am married for more than a quater century and I do not have to tell my wife what to do, I believe she is smart enough to make her own decision.
ideassoul

[rshrink]

11:34 AM on 12/03/2011

Oh Michele, just give it up already! Go back to the burbs and play gin rummy.

[jessestevenss]

10:49 PM on 12/01/2011

The question the nation has to answer is Rep Michelle Bachmann ready to be president of United States. In my opinion she is not.

[rshrink]

01:40 AM on 12/03/2011

She isn't ready to run a hot dog stand. She isn't capable of understanding anything. She is incompetent. She is a puppet for the oil companies. She is a perfect candidate for the GOP, the gas and oil party.

[heartlander64]

04:32 AM on 12/07/2011

Especially gas,.. don't be around them near an open flame! ;-)

[trixxi2]

02:42 PM on 12/01/2011

No use crying about her now, this is who voters elected. There were probably headshots of candidates on the ballot. Purty always wins. She is no less intelligent or misinformed than the people who put her in office.

[michael7140]

12:56 PM on 12/01/2011

When will we be able to have a "United States Presidential Debate" that is full of:
• Intelligent questions
• Intelligent answers
• Intelligent ideas
• Intelligent plans and policies

And not what seems to be an embarrassing episode of:
• “ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER?”

Where (at this point) morality and character will just be a bonus point and happy surprise!

[mrshep]

10:43 PM on 11/30/2011

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that most of the candidates actually believe some of the lies, exaggerations and misquotes, that they consistently sprout

[Goodthink2012]

10:35 PM on 11/30/2011

I keep wondering how and why this woman has made it this far? Who is supporting her? I realize the Republicans have had a no-brains policy since Dubya was elected, but this is all too much.

[Joni Halvorson]

07:31 PM on 11/30/2011

Her think tank is an aquarium. blub blub blub

[l78lancer]

07:12 PM on 11/30/2011

I truly want to believe that her thinking is not reflective of how conservative "think tanks" operate. More and more, however, they appear to be the same.

[heartlander64]

04:38 AM on 12/07/2011

I wonder how much those "think tank" supporters add
to the price of products to cover that cost.

[RxPhan]

06:28 PM on 11/30/2011

In some ways I envy the Repubs and TB's. Imagine, waking up every day with no memory of what happened to you in the days and weeks previous. Every day would be like a new discovery. You could watch the same program, read the same book, listend to the same songs day after day and they would always seem fresh-as if you'd heard them for the first time.

FU News could run the same story day after day, Rush could rant, Beck could babble, O"Reilly could pontificate, Coulter could curse, F&F could fermangalate (ok, I made that last one up) and it would all seem new-wait, they do that,already.

[Hobsonschoice]

06:05 PM on 11/30/2011

The problem with narcissistic people, as with the extremely rude and extremely stupid, is that they don't KNOW when they're wrong, or rude, or stupid.

[l78lancer]

07:16 PM on 11/30/2011

When you really think about it they are really different facets of the same trait.

[Danish5666]

06:04 PM on 11/30/2011

Michelle Bachmann has her own set of facts. They might change from time to time after usefulness, but that how Conservative "thinks".

[l78lancer]

07:10 PM on 11/30/2011

Even when the facts change they were never wrong, the circumstances were wrong, or the question was, or...

[seanathairTim]

05:50 PM on 11/30/2011

Idiots never think that they are wrong.

[DBG Enterprises]

05:40 PM on 11/30/2011

This woman should not be in congress let alone the President or VP of our nation…this campaign is nothing but one long audition for Faux News. So she will keep this charade up until she must declare she is running for reelection…State law gives her until June 5 to file for re-election, although the Minnesota party endorsement process begins months earlier. In all likelihood that will happen by the end of the second week in January when she loses badly in early voting states.

“I’m an Iowan,” Bachmann has stressed repeatedly in the critical caucus state. She even made Minnesota a punch line in some Iowa speeches, joking this summer in her hometown of Waterloo that as a young girl she fretted a move to “exotic, faraway” Minnesota. “That would put fear in the heart of any Iowan,” she said.”

I would wonder what her constituents feel about the above quote and not representing them 50% of the time since mid-June.

Like Sara Palin she is a fact less phony, looking out, only for her own interests…and will fit right in at Faux News!

[gibraltar]

05:38 PM on 11/30/2011

I think her exact words were." I actually thought I had made a mistake but I found out I was wrong".