Discussion for article #225765
I’m no fan of batshit bachmann, but this article and heading grossly distort what she actually said.
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Bachmann is right. Suggesting, as a United States Representative, that immigrant children are treated this way by any hospital in the country is sick.
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Click bait. Click bait. Rolly polly click bait. Click bait. Click bait. Eat it up, yum!
Josh hit a new low with this one. Never has an outgoing Congressperson been given this much coverage.
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yeah… maybe they could be used to prove her ridiculous assertion that vaccination for cervical cancer makes kids retarded…
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Hey TPM, no need to exaggerate what comes out of this woman’s mouth. Just give her a couple of days.
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The issues leading to Justina’s Law have absolutely nothing to do with immigration. That is what makes Bachmann so batshit crazy – only a batshit could make such a connection.
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I must agree, yes, the title is a complete distortion of what she was trying to say. Note to self. Read TPM with the same suspcious eye applied to the likes of Drudge.
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…unless one of the children self-declares as gay. Then Michele will have no trouble with them being placed in Marcus’ “Pray Away The Gay” conversion therapy
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Took the words right out of my mouth. I was about to pass this along to compadres until I read it. She actually says exactly the opposite of the headline.
Sheesh.
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Yes, let’s take our medical ethics advice from a woman who went on national tevee and dispensed deadly inaccuracies about HPV vaccine to millions of teenaged girls and their parents based on something a stranger told her in a rope line.
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So here you could have this institution getting millions of dollars from our government to do medical experimentation and a kid can't even say 'no.'
From what I’m reading here she’s saying it could, at least, happen. She’s not saying it should happen, of course, although that’s one way to read the headline. But the first interpretation does reflect what she said, and that alone is a pretty remarkable claim to make. She does have a history of saying things that are literally delusional, things based purely on a very strange imagination with no basis in reality at all. So IMHO the headline, which does say “suggest” and “could”, isn’t really misleading. And I do think it says something about some of the voters in this country that they’ll elect someone this nuts.
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Bachmann is once again stupidly parading accusations without evidence. It’s shameful, shameful, shameful.
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I read it 3x and can’t figure out what the story is about. Some child in foster care got different diagnoses at 2 different hospitals. Why is that the subject of a federal law? What does that have to do with medical experimentation? Doctors and hospitals sometimes disagree and some cases are very difficult to diagnose. So what? And what does any of that have to do with the Honduran refugees?
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It’s not exaggeration to say Bachmann is trying to link Justina’s Law to this Immigration Crisis. She did precisely that.
The only exaggeration by Josh/TPM is that this is a noteworthy amount of crazy, when it’s probably the 274th most crazy thing a GOPer will say in the next 8 hours. It’s probably the 8th most crazy thing Bachmann will say in the next 3 hours.
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That psychotic freak is the #1 reason why the Constitution needs a Recall amendment!
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Anyone complaining about a misleading headline?
In this day and age?
Is wasting keystrokes.
Anyone defending Bachmann for uttering something that’s
marginally in the same zip code as ‘sane’-- or at the least-- not effin’ crazy?
Should think twice.
Rep Bachmann has been at the fore bellowing so many incredibly idiotic concepts.
And this banshee was in position to be the ® nominee for POTUS for a brief time.
If you have a need to be in high dudgeon?
We-- yes, you and I-- will be footing the bill for free lifetime healthcare and a pension for this idiot.
That should piss you off more than clickbait.
jw1
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Sadly, TPM does appear to have succumbed to Tabloidization Syndrome, which disease is a major cause of my having ditched Huffington Post long ago.
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Wonder if she’s trying to go nova on her way out the door.
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