Hey Michele, Do You Pray to Jesus with Those Lying Lips?
USA Today’s Susan Page is a straight-shooter, one of those reporters who generally puts the lie to Republican dogma that the establishment media is in the bag for Democrats and liberals. But in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball” yesterday, her review of the launch of Michele Bachmann’s presidential bid suggests that Page has been inside the Beltway too long:
SUSAN PAGE: She’s had a great launch. You know, she’s better known now. She’s had — she did an almost flawless performance at the first big debate. She had a very nice announcement. A few hiccups in the interviews she did afterwards but she has become the leading alternative to Mitt Romney and the representative of the tea party.
What’s telling here is that Page mentions the “hiccups,” the gaffes Bachmann has made (see below), but ignores the fact that she has been caught lying over the past few days about the fact that she is a major recipient of American taxpayers’ largess.
For example, as Susan Page surely must have known when she praised Bachmann’s campaign roll-out yesterday, Bachmann lied with impunity (of course) on the Republican Party propaganda show, “Fox News Sunday,” when she was asked about thousands of dollars in income from socialist sources she listed on her financial disclosure forms:
