Some may argue that a list of the Top 10 dumbest things said in 2011 should consist of the top 10 dumbest things uttered by Michele Bachmann.
A year-long roundup by the folks at PolitiFact — a report card on each of the presidential candidates -– shows that the Minnesota congresswoman leads the pack in receiving “False” and “Pants on Fire” ratings from the web site. Of the 53 Bachmann claims that were rated by Politifact, 59 percent have earned a False or, worse, a Pants on Fire – the label given for blatant disregard for the truth.
Of course, the funniest moment in all this ongoing ignorance came when Bachmann at the Dec. 15 presidential debate claimed, in response to a Newt Gingrich challenge of her “facts,” that “PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said (at the previous debate) was true.”
That claim, however, was not true. Politifact gave her a Pants on Fire at the previous debate for a claim that the Massachusetts health care plan was “socialized medicine.”
To top it all off, Politifact then gave her another Pants on Fire for her claim that the fact-checking group said all of her statements were true.
