Egregious wrong

Before Michele Bachmann reads my most recent post, I must apologize for and correct an egregious wrong. I misspelled her name. While giving her 'L' for her debate politics, I also gave her an extra 'l' in her name. Silly me. I should have known that even though First Lady Michelle Obama, actresses, Michelle Trachtenberg and Michelle Pfeiffer, right-wing columnist, Michelle Malkin and professional lady golfer, Michelle Wie all double up on the 'l's in their first name, the Minnesota representative does not. Ergo, my mistake.  Please forgive me former five-year IRS tax attorney (oh, you didn't know?)...Please!  Please!

While we're on the subject of dumb mistakes (or just dumb), let's review. A researcher recently uncovered a bunch of Miche-l-e doozies. First, the best-known MicheLe (mis)statement:  "The battles of Lexington and Concord were fought in New Hampshire." Sorry, try Massachusetts. Since these were the inaugural skirmishes between Great Britain and the 13 colonies, you would have thought home-schooler whiz, Bachmann would have been in the know. There were a few other towns involved as well, but we're not here to further confuse the confused. 

I really like the one about her declaration that the "Hoot-Smalley Tariff" caused the great depression. On one level it's not too much worse that my extra 'l', but it's technically the Smoot-Hawley legislation. And if you really want to blame it for the depression, have at it. After all Smoot and Hawley shared one thing in common...they were both republicans.

Most people who follow such things are familiar with her statement that the Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States...men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in this country." Er, in case you missed it Michele, JQA not only rested, he checked out permanently long before slavery did. And who can forget founding father, slave-owner and slave lover extraordinaire (even gave the 'Governator' a run for his money), Thomas Jefferson. The only thing he extinguished was the candle in the barn.

And one more factoid for M'lady's edification, the truth about an assertion on a panel that there are "Hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design. Well, the real Nobel Prize winning scientists might have let the 'many' hold the prize for a moment or two, but as far as anyone can figure out, only 2 men who got to permanently hold the prize profess to believe in intelligent design.

Michele has already eclipsed Dan Quayle's extra 'e' on potato gaff by a mile - and she's just getting started.