by Datechguy | August 30th, 2011
Because she is a fanatical Lutheran and Christians are dangerous and have to be stopped:
Some vicious monster ripped off my video and edited it, so that when Bachmann begins by jokingly asking the crowd, “Who likes wet people?” — because everybody was soaked to the bone, including me — instead there is a caption, “Who likes white people?”
And after all, when one rejects Christian rules the whole “Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor thing doesn’t really apply.
But not to worry, it’s not as if the media organs of the left are going to report on a false story:
Ken Layne of Wonkette then spread that smear all around the Internet.
Now normally one might think that if such a video was out there with Bachmann it might have already come out, but since it fit the left’s template concerning both religion and race why waste time with ya know factchecking!
Wonkette still hasn’t bothered to retract because after all, Michelle Bachmann is crazy so we can do this kind of thing.
Bong Bong does a little better showing both videos but suggests in the title and opening the false statement that
Bachmann: Who likes white people?
Crowd: (Cheers)
Bachmann: Yeah! That’s right! I’m Michelle Bachmann and I’m a member of congress and I’m running for the presidency of the United States and I’m here to talk tonight here to tell you about the creator of the universe, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Why lead with the falsehood? Gawker improves on Boing Boing by pointing out the falsehood but finishes with a jab:
Don’t be disappointed. She’ll say her next funny thing soon enough, and soon thereafter we’ll all be dead.
On the left Mediate does the best, identifying Ben Smith as of Politico who first led with the big lie
The post was tweeted by Politico’s Ben Smith, who noted that it was an “out-of-context line (it’s a band name),
You would think an outfit like Politico might bother to factcheck, apparently if you do you would think wrong. You would also think after 9 hours he would retract or correct the tweet. I guess that’s beyond politico too.
Update: Apparently he did tweet the correction, I can’t see how I managed to miss it since I made it a point to go to his twitter timeline to check before writing this, but he tweeted me the links with the proper correction, so it’s my bad on that one.
Meanwhile Stacy McCain asks the question:
Now, who do I sue for copyright infringement, piracy and fraud?
Glenn suggests everyone, if the right is not going to fund your reporting let Ben Smith, Wonkette and all the rest do so. If nothing else you will embarrass them and maybe get a nice settlement.
How will the left react to this correction? very mildly, after all the thing they hate the most about the video is the Christian Testimony:
I’ll give Stacy the last word
What’s strange is that liberals find this type of narrative perfectly acceptable when what is being testified to is some appropriately secular conversion: “Why I became a lesbian feminist” or “When I learned the undenjiable scientific truth of global warming” or “How I discovered that my Republican parents are closet Nazis.” It is only the conversion narrative of Bible-believing Christians that liberals find obnoxiously repellant. And the idea that a Bible-believing Christian might think themselves called to high public office . . .
Well, liberals just can’t handle that — at least when the self-identified Christian is a pro-life conservative Republican. It was OK for John F. Kennedy to be Catholic, it was OK for Jimmy Carter to be a Baptist, and it was OK for Barack Obama to be whatever it is you want to call devotees of what Rev. Jeremiah Wright preaches. But let a conservative Republican speak in public about his or her Christian faith, and liberals immediately start screaming about “theocracy.”
Just a reminder, he wrote that before Rick Perry entered the race.
Update 2: Usually threatening to sue a blogger doesn’t work, but some cases are stronger than others, particularly when one steals and edits a video to present a falsehood:
I was angry so I decided to take Mrs. Bachmann’s line out of context to make her seem more overtly racist in light of her recent signing of that Iowa marriage pledge that said black children were better off under slavery than in Obama’s America. Whether or not I dislike Michele Bachmann, it wasn’t right to deliver a dishonest blow like that.
Note the whole “She’s an evil homophobic racist but two wrongs don’t make a right” meme. Stacy McCain being an actual journalist knows what “absence of malice” means
There are two injured parties, you see. This “On Knees” blogger’s claim that his misleading distortion of Bachmann’s speech was retaliation for her having signed the Iowa marriage pledge is rather interesting in terms of demonstrating malice.
And they are worried about Christian fanatics?
