Bachmann History Overdrive 0
Those who do not know history are condemned to make fools of themselves in public.
See the Backmann roundup here.
Meanwhile, in Cloud Cuckoo Land (more at the link) of “the cloud” . . .
Shortly after the gaffe, the Wikipedia page for actor John Wayne was altered to change his birthplace from Winterset, Iowa to Waterloo, apparently as an effort to cover for the misguided politician.
I don’t know where believing that changing a Wikipedia entry somehow changes history falls on the
scale. I think it manages to hit both ends at the same time.
