Bonus: A former staffer helps explain how Bachmann’s dishonest sausage is made. (Key ingredients: Poor reading comprehension skills, loony impulsiveness.)

Thank you, Towleroad.

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  3. Oh yeah … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oEtF8Fdq…
    So nice http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inters…
    I just love those crazy Repu-erm … wait http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiolog…
    http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffstier… No way, a Republican who is debunking the autism link? How dare they! They ALL must hate everyone!

    Stupidity like this knows no political party or alignment, face facts, there are Democrats and liberals who are also this insane.

  4. Anderson rightly questions her impulsiveness.
    Her former Chief of Staff talks of the difficulty corralling her in any basic way, and of her impulsiveness. She sounds “truly Rogue.”
    Those are characteristics I NEVER, EVER want to see in any President.
    I hope she flames out, and soon.

  6. The people who love her love her lies. She’s made a career of lying. Why should it stop her now? If the right wing is opposed to something they tell lies about it. It is standard for them. They have lied about gay people and abortion for decades.

  12. I was going to put this on another thread, but can everyone please stop responding to this KittenKoder creature? He/she/it is just here to hijack threads and spout lies. There is no reason, literally none, to engage this person. On anything. Please stop feeding the trolls. Eventually they will get bored and ruin someone else’s blog. K’ thanks

  13. The discussion by Gergen and her ex-crony was piffle. “She’s impulsive… only reads 80% of an article… gets carried away…” Wait, WTF? No, the important things is– SHE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT FACTS AND TRUTH. That’s what needs to be understood and emphasized. Even our supposed “best minds” get easily distracted and side-tracked by peripheral argumentation. Pathetic.

  17. @12 KittenKoder is not a troll, but someone who’s logic is messed up. I was hoping that she would specifically read the strawman and ad hominem sections, come to the conclusion that she can form a valid argument, and return Monday with some sweet new skills. Maybe I’m naive.

  19. @17 To someone, everyone’s logic is messed up. 😉 I’m just trying to point out, it’s not a lie because she believe this nonsense like so many others have with other conspiracy theories, but since people are unable to understand my logic, I used examples this time. My logic itself is that it’s an education problem, when people like this get followers (like with the autism one) it’s because those people were not educated enough. You can’t stop people from being such idiots though, they will always exist. Yes, I’m still a bit angry about the complete spin on the other article, this one was not a spin so I refrained from joining in until mentioned. There is no “strawman” argument, there is just agreeing that vaccine haters like this are crazy.

  20. @14: You can’t balance a feather against an anvil, you can’t balance Democrats’ lunacy against Republicans’ lunacy, and you don’t call a sewage technician to redecorate your bathroom.
    Actually, you can balance a feather against an anvil, but doing so requires that the fulcrum be off-center. KittenKoder, how far off-center is your fulcrum, given that you insist that the Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans?

  21. @17 I guess you have more faith than I. This person seems like a classic “I have legitimate questions, the premise of all of which just happen to mirror right wing talking points” type. Perhaps I’m wrong – but I doubt it. Anyway, knock yerself out. If Kitten comes around, I’ll buy ya a Krispy Kreme.

  22. @19: Kitten.
    One would assume that as a presidential candidate she would have access to accurate information, and the ability to discern that one random distraught woman claiming her child is now mentally retarded as a result of this vaccine, would not be a reliable source of accurate information.
    So if Bachman isn’t lying, then she is demonstrably too stupid to run the United States and quite possibly too stupid to live.
    I am glad that we are in agreement.

  24. @22 Did I ever, at any point, say she should be president, much less even in politics? No, I agree she’s insane and shouldn’t be a politician, but have we seen a truly sane politician in a while? Nope.

  27. @24: It is statements/questions like this one:

    “but have we seen a truly sane politician in a while? Nope.”

    That have led to the suggestion you are in need of a week end reading the wikidpedia article posted @ 8.

    Please do so.

  29. #12 – I tried using a very similar plea a while back in regards to seattleblues. Didn’t work. People still keep talking to him, and certain threads are now cluttered with his inanity. Please don’t feed the trolls!

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