STFU Michele Bachmann

whiporwill:

Bob Schieffer (CBS) called out Bachmann for her lies on “Face The Nation.” She responds by blaming Obama. 

SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics say you have been very fast and loose with the truth. You know, the po— PolitiFact, which is a website that won a Pulitzer, did an analysis of twenty-three statements that you made recently. Of these twenty-three, only one they said was completely true. Seven they call pants on fire kind of falsehoods. Four were barely true and two were half truths. How do you answer that criticism? Because here’s one of them, you know, you said on the record there had been only one offshore oil drilling permit during the Obama administration and, in fact at that time they had been two hundred and seventy. How do you explain that?

BACHMANN: Well, you know, I think that what is clear more than anything is the fact that President Obama does — has not been issuing the permits, that he should have been issuing on offshore drilling that’s—

SCHIEFFER: Well, it’s more than three hundred now.

BACHMANN: Well —

SCHIEFFER: At— at that time there had been two hundred and something. And you said there had been only one.

BACHMANN: But as far as drilling goes, we hadn’t been drilling what we need to— that’s why we just this week—

SCHIEFFER (overlapping): But that’s different, isn’t it?

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