On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:24 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > No, not the heavily edited mash-up job he did on Jon Stewart 2 shows ago, > but the interview from yesterday when he had the nerve to ask Michele > Bachmann if she was a flake. Bachmann, proving her flakiness, has refused to > accept the apology: > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/27/chris-wallace-apologizes-bachmann_n_885057.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HP%2FPolitics+%28Politics+on+The+Huffington+Post%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher > * > ** > or: http://tinyurl.com/3jqn9hw* >
A story on the Huff Po ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/28/michele-bachmann-john-quincy-adams_n_885868.html) reports that MB did accept Wallace's apology last night in an appearance on Fox News (she had not accepted it while on ABC News, but apparently Fox sent out a memo for everyone to play nice). The story also reports that this morning, on Good Morning America, MB repeated a ridiculous claim I think I have heard her make before, which is that John Quincy Adams was one of the Founding Fathers, which justifies who even more bat-shit crazy claim that the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery. Apparently young George actually called her on it, but she refused to back down, saying that "John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy but he was actively involved." I don't need Poltifact to tell me that JQA was 8 years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed (okay, he turned 9 a few days later) in 1776. And of course, while he did work to end slavery later in life, he did not end slavery, which continued for 15 years after his death. Even more substantially wrong than this however is her often repeated claim that the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly to end slavrey, and that this shows :under our constitution, we have the ability when we recognize that something is wrong to change it. And that’s what we did in our country. We changed it. We no longer have slavery. That’s a good thing. And what our Constitution has done for our nation is to give us the basis of freedom unparalleled in the rest of the world." Of course that is not what happened. Slavery was not changed under the Constitution. As the 19th century progressed it became increasingly and painfully clear that the Constitution was unable to deal with the problems associated with slavery. Slavery was changed through a horrible and costly Civil War that led to the death of about half a million Americans. The Constitution was only changed after that war, to reflect changes that had been effected by violence. All of this, as Lincoln basically acknowledges in his second Inaugural Address, was caused by the limitations of the Founding Fathers, not solved by their virtues. This does not mean that the FF were not great men, they were, they just were not perfect, and are not a basis for the radically extreme form of the claim for American Exceptionalism that Bachmann and her Fox friends keep making. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
