Michelle Bachmann Belief Verification

Factual Questions
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Okay, this thread could have gone in just about any forum, but I chose GQ because I want a factual response. I know, I know, it’s a thread about Michelle Bachmann, but please try to confine yourselves to answering the question.

Someone today told me that Michelle Bachmann believes that planes can’t fly over water without witchcraft. He assured me he wasn’t joking. I was so taken aback by this, and not having heard or read it before, I Googled it at my first opportunity. I received over 100 hits, but each site simply stated it as a factoid with no attribution, no cite, no link to an actual quote of Bachmann saying it.

I even searched the SDMB for it, but I got bupkis.

My questions are: (a) did Bachmann actually say this, and (b) can you point me to a verifiable story, article, or quote?

Thanks guys.

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I’ve gone through three pages of Google results, and I’m inclined to believe it was a joke (at least I’m pretty sure it’s a joke) made up by a columnist at HuffPo in this video slideshow and just kind of took off as a minor meme.

AFAICT that slideshow is the origin of the “factoid”. As you said, none of the sites repeating it has provided any cite.

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I have to agree. All I can find are unverified claims.

If she had actually said something like this and it could be verified the media would have been all over it like Sara Palin on a newspaper - you know all of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of her all these years…

4

Ah, Okay. I thought as much.

Believe me when I say I was hoping it was true; I needed a good laugh today, but it seemed too good to be, even for ol’ Crazy eyes.

Thanks guys. I appreciate your efforts.

5

Makes sense to me. Since a fluid like water can’t resist shear, it would act like a treadmill of sorts.

6

Bachman is crazy like a fox. She has done quite well for herself pandering to idiots.

7

Same thing happened with Dan Quayle and his supposed Latin America quote. He never actually said it. It was a joke somebody made up about him.

8

Coulter maybe, but Bachman is crazy like batshit.

9

Never trust a story that fits *exactly *what you want to believe about a public figure.

10

That sounds more like a Christine (“I’m not a witch”) O’Donnell kind of statement. Maybe she said something like that. I sometimes get all those crazy political chicks with the crazy eyes mixed up, myself.

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Wait a minute. I always thought witches couldn’t fly over water without planes.

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That’s moving water, such as a river or stream. I don’t know if ocean currents work the same way.

But at least we know that witches float.

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I recall Christine O’Donnell said that she dabbled in witchcraft back in college, but I don’t recall if any of the circumstances were revealed. Does anybody know what attracted her to witchcraft (I am asking for facts not some snarky responses) or how long she dabbled in it or why she stopped?

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I thought it was hoverboards that can’t fly over water. Unless you have power, of course.

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Since the question in the OP has been answered, and the thread has degenerated into political commentary and jokes, I’m closing this. Further commentary can be taken to a more appropriate forum.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator