Michele Bachmann Blissfully Unaware of Video Recording Technology

Remember when Congresswoman Michele Bachmann invoked Joe McCarthy's ghost and suggested Barack Obama was anti-American? Sure you do. It was all over the blogs (including ours) and newspapers and TV. And since she was speaking on MSNBC at the time, her comments were of course recorded and are available for review.

But that isn't stopping Bachmann from denying she ever said it. On Hannity & Colmes the other night Bachmann flashed her winning smile and inexplicably claimed that the whole thing was "an urban legend."

COLMES: Well, of course you're going to - let me ask you very quickly. You've said you were concerned during the campaign that Obama had anti-American views. You said the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look at the views of the people in Congress and find out if they're pro or anti America.

BACHMANN: Actually, that's not what I said at all.

COLMES: Well, I'm just - I'm reading your exact quote.

BACHMANN: Actually that's not [what] I said. It's an urban legend that was created. That isn't what I said at all.

Just when you think politicians can't get any more contemptible...



And because I'm happy to have an excuse to promote American punk legends Minutemen, here's their short-but-sweet semi-classic, "Joe McCarthy's Ghost" from 1984: