The story started when extreme right-wing bloggers misinterpreted a dubious story in an Italian newspaper. Then Glenn Beck an Andrew Breitbart jumped on the bandwagon, insuring beyond beyond doubt that it could not be accurate. Given that level of lunacy, only one person could be expected to join in at that point, the Queen of InsaniTEA herself, Michele Bachmann.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Monday that it would be "foolish" to normalize trade with Cuba because Hezbollah could soon have "missile sites" there.
"Why would you normalize trade with a country that sponsors terror?" the candidate asked a crowd of supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "There is reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you are 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don’t want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. "
Bachmann was most likely basing her fear on an unsubstantiated report from the Italian publican Corriere della Sera, which was picked up by numerous conservative websites earlier this month…
…Even if that report were true, it makes absolutely no mention of "missile sites."… [emphasis added]
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Warning!: The following is eight plus minutes of Michele Bachmann video. This blogger takes no responsibility for damage to your computer from projectile vomit. Have barf bags handy.
Bachmann said that during the Reagan administration the US was the number one creditor nation in the world, but now under Obama, we are the number one debtor nation. With this lie, she implied that the debt we are facing is Obama’s fault. However, what she is not admitting is that the US was the number one creditor nation at the beginning of Reagan’s presidency, before Ronnie had an opportunity to change that. Let’s not forget where that debt actually came from.
Any time InsaniTEA peaks, you can count on Keith Olbermann to have some fun with it. Here he is on Countdown with comedienne Maysoon Zayid.
Good night, Keith.
17 Responses to “Bachmann crazy over Cuba!”
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She’s desperate. She started turkeying out in the Republican Presidential race as soon as Perry got in, and now that Perry too is turkeying out, Republicans are dreaming of Christie instead of flocking back to her. She’s got to do something to re-capture attention, and being who she is, that means doubling down on the nutty.
I’d expect a flurry of new trial balloons from her soon, possibly involving black helicopters, space aliens, and Obama as the Antichrist.
FORTUNATELY, the Batshit Crazies only flutter around their own stink…the rest of us move further away for a breath of fresh air! Keep those stories coming MicheLe (one ‘L’)! Like the USA doesn’t have troops/CIA in Cuba already!
Sure. Cuba is where Gitmo is.
The entire tea bag crew is batshit crazy!!!
Yep!
She gives women a bad name.
She gives humans a bad name.
what’s scary is she represents some “batcrap” constituents from her home state, is it possible that some people are also as intelligent as she is? How refreshing to think that presidential candidates are so geographically versed! Palin can see Russia from her porch and I can see the London Bridge from my Manhattan terrace! If Michelle does become president we’d have a wonderful first lady!!
I think Bill would have been a better first lady, after the hot and cold running interns were installed.
First Lady Marcus would want more closet space…………
Is he in the closet? 😉
Republicans love their credit cards. They just don’t like paying the balance.
Well said, Jerry.
I doubt Hellebola would travel 8000 miles to Cuba to launch missles. Much easier to to do it off a boat in international waters, if they even have that capability, which I doubt very highly. Jebus that woman is as dumber than a 1st grader.
If what they have used in Lebanon and Palestine are any clue, the best they have is SCUD-I. They could threaten the Keys.
WOW! Has the USDA certified her yet? What a bird brain!!!!! The way she stumbled over the name ‘Hezbollah’, I’m amazed that she even knows what it is. And the crap about not normalising trade with communist Cuba . . . earth to Bachmann, the US trades with mainland China, a communist country that has one of the worst human rights records in the world! You know that snack food with all the different cereals and nuts in it — nuts ‘n bolts — I think her grasp of the world is like that. It is utterly astounding that she has any supporters, and the ones that were at that gathering, from Iowa I think, are dumber than a sack of hammers if they buy what she is selling. My last word here, if she is voted in, there will never be another woman in the Oval Office. She will have done to American women what the Saudi king his doing to the women of Saudi Arabia.
Oh TomCat, loved your consumer warning label on the Bachmann video!
Too true, Lynn.
Thanks!