Bachmann's History Test
Invocations of the Revolutionary era are as common as tricorn hats and Gadsden flags among liberty-loving Tea Partyers, but Minnesota Rep. and GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann got her colonial history a little muddled at a March 12 rally in New Hampshire. "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord," she told the Granite State crowd, going on at length about the first skirmishes of the Revolutionary War that were, in fact, fought in Massachusetts. She didn't realize her error until after the speech, and only compounded the flub later in her speech when she remarked, "I don't think that our public schools are necessarily the place where one fixed set of political beliefs should be imposed on students."