Bachmann Watch - Iranian Embassy Edition

Dec 1st, 2011

Despite the fact that we have embassy in Tehran, much less formal relations of any kind in over 3 decades, candidate Bachmann has declared that she will close said embassy. So there...

Her team is doing its best to spin this as an incidence of misreporting, stipulating that Rep. Bachmann was speaking in a "hypothetical" way. The problem with that is we now have the exact quote. While discussin England's decision to pull out its diplomatic team following recent student violence dirtected at their embassy, Bachmann said, "That’s exactly what I would do [if I were president]. We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there."

Coverage of this very amazing gaffe is HERE, HERE and HERE.

Note to the GOP... Jon Huntsman is a very intelligent man and actually knows some stuff. Just sayin'.