Rachel Maddow calls out Bachmann error in Strib op-ed
Thursday, April 09, 2009 at 10:09 am
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As 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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Comment posted April 9, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
With the threat of the loony right fading in general, is is now safe to begin viewing loonies like Bachmann as simply humorous curiosities rather than threatening, yet amusing, risks to the public well-being?
Comment posted April 9, 2009 @ 4:22 pm
Bob, no, it is not safe. First, they do win sometimes. People can forget what they’re like, forget their record, or just not hear enough to know what craziness they’re spewing and hear the debunking. Let’s face it: many people who voted Democratic last year aren’t staunch Democrats, but just people who knew things were bad and Republicans had been in charge.
Second, taking “safe” with a more physical than electoral meaning, this didn’t make me feel safe at all: http://minnesotaindependent.com/31356/at-gun-show-conservatives-panic-about-obama
Comment posted April 10, 2009 @ 11:41 am
We absolutely are NOT safe. Not only will trash like this do everything possible, inch by inch, to delay or corrupt reform, but when/if reform is achieved, they will, bit by bit, chip away at it until we are once again exposed to disaster.
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
So is this site, or any other for that matter, do a correction now that the MIT guy admitted that the repubs were right?!
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