First it was high gas prices, now Michelle Bachmann is blaming President Obama for either her inability to read a teleprompter or to program one, it's unclear which. Yes, recently US Representative Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) in trying to explain why she confused Concord, NH with Condord, MA when speaking to a group of students about events of the Revolutionary War wasn't a, "...result from a lack of geographic or historical knowledge, but rather her use of a teleprompter while she was speaking." (
source). She continued, "After that, I promised I would never again use President Obama's teleprompter," she said. No doubt the teleprompter was on loan from the President himself and programmed nefariously by members of the liberally biased media that has a 'double standard' as she's fond of saying.
The reason for bringing this up is not so much to poke fun specifically again at Representative Bachmann's expense, rather to speak to a larger issue today and that is the blame / excuse game being played out by the most right wing of the GOP. Nothing in this world is ever their fault. They cannot make mistakes, and if they do, it's the liberal medias fault either directly or indirectly and especially for reporting on it. Think back to the Sarah Palin / Katie Couric gaffes which some attribute the McCain loss directly to these interviews. It was all Katie Couric's fault that Sarah Palin came across as a complete rube. It's all the teleprompter's fault that Michelle Bachman doesn't even know which state she's in when giving a speech. If these people want to lead a nation as vast and complex as the United States of America it would behoove them to stop blaming others, admit mistakes, and move on. Americans are more respectful of people that just admit mistakes, of which we are all capable of making, and more on rather than manufacturing bogus defenses like trial lawyers trying to protect their obviously guilty clients from murder charges. Why not, Ms. Bachmann, just say, my speechwriter got it wrong, or I got it wrong, honest mistake? Apparently she feels she can score points with her fringe-lunatic base by blaming Obama and carrying on about how she's never using a teleprompter again. It remains to be see if this woman can fly off the cuff for any amount of time. This could really be her political demise.