Michele Bachmann thought the battles of Lexington and Concord were located in New Hampshire instead of Massachusetts. She said this twice. Prepared remarks.
And when she was called on her doofery, she released this statement:
So I misplaced the battles Concord and Lexington by saying they were in New Hampshire. It was my mistake, Massachusetts is where they happened. New Hampshire is where they are still proud of it!
And by the way... That will be the last time I borrow President Obama's tele-promoter!
Professional and dignified, eh? Presidential!
This is so indicative of the projection and petulance on display by the tea party Republicans. They can't simply apologize for a gaffe, they have to project their own stupidity onto one of the smartest chief executives ever to hold that title. In fact, I'd love to see Bachmann or Palin or any of these hooples challenge the president to a head-to-head round of common knowledge questions. Hell, the president could be the smartest man on Earth -- he could have solved the mysteries of the universe and defeated that computer on Jeopardy, while simultaneously defeating that other chess-playing computer -- blindfolded -- and these idiots would still be accusing him of somehow being a marble-mouthed ignoramus. Remarkable.