After accidentaly claiming she has the spirit of a serial killer in her yesterday, Michele Bachmann appeared on Good Morning America today and was given yet another opportunity to prove that she really has no idea what she is talking about.
Today, on ABC’s Good Morning America, she defended her “pants on fire” statement that the “Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery” (they didn’t) by insisting that John Quincy Adams was a Founding Father (he wasn’t). After host George Stephanopoulos pointed out that John Quincy Adams — the son of John Adams — did fight against slavery “decades later,” Bachmann stood by her historical interpretation.
Brilliant.
In an attempt to correct Mr. Stephanopoulos and the historical record however, Bachmann supporters made a mad-dash for John Quincy Adam's Wikipedia page to correct the grievous errors found within.
In light of Bachmann’s latest historical hiccup, people are trying to edit John Quincy Adam’s Wikipedia page to reflect her recent gaffe. One edit, for example, changes his description from “John Adams was the sixth President of the United States” to “John Adams, a founding father, was the sixth President of the United States.”
And the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
Remember this from last week?
We don’t even know our own history. There was a report that just came out last week that the worst subject of children in American schools is — not math and science — its history. It’s the worst subject. How can we be a free people. How can we be a people that fight for America if we don’t know who America is or what we’re all about. This is, in my opinion, a conscious effort on the part of the left who has a huge influence on our curriculum, to desensitize America to what American values are so they are more pliable to the new values that they would like to impose on America.
A conscious effort indeed. But not from the Left.