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Republican Minnesota Congressperson Michele Bachmann has a fairly fragile grasp on logic, so it's probably expecting her to have anything even that good when it comes to basic scientific principles such as cause-and-effect. Or maybe she lives in her very own little quantum universe . . .

Whatever, she's attempting now to politicize swine flu -- not the way in which the racists are, by blaming it on Mexican immigrants, but in her own unique fashion. The occurrence of epidemics of swine flu is, in the Bachmannian view, perhaps related to the political persuasion of the US President in office at the time.

Interviewed by the rightist Pajamas Media:

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. . . . And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

You can watch the full video of the interview (18 excruciating twaddle-packed minutes) at
Pajamas Media, or you can find the salient moments -- and relevant slice of transcript -- at Talking Points Memo.

The latter points out a historical factoid which it gleaned in turn from the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages: the swine flu outbreak of the 1970s occurred, to be more precise, in 1976 . . . when the US President was a Republican, Gerald Ford.

Oops.

They laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein, they . . .


Date: 2009-04-29 04:26 pm (UTC)
ext_13461: Foxes Frolicing (Default)
From: [identity profile] al-zorra.livejournal.com
Well, here at least, the flu was brought to the U.S. by U.S. citizens, well off, presumably, students from a private Catholic prep school, who all went to Mexico for spring break.

Feh.

As if virii go, Ooooooh, a dem prez, now we can spread havoc and howling.

Better that we have better oversight and regulation and treatment of meat animals.

Everywhere.

Date: 2009-04-30 03:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

All of which is evident . . . but not to Bachmann. The mind truly boggles. I mean, presumably she had an education . . .

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