picture-26As we reported yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann has been saying that Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade plan for global warming will cost households $3,100 each year in energy costs. Only trouble is, the author of the MIT study she’s citing said last month she’s flat wrong. Now MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is calling out the Minnesota Republican for floating the falsehood in an op-ed in yesterday’s Star Tribune. Says Maddow, “Well, now the Star Tribune will have to run a correction. Very embarrassing.”

I wonder if they will.

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