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Is there any hypocrite bigger than Michele Bachmann?
The failed Tea Party U.S. Representative who will not seek another term in Congress amid several federal ethics investigations over her failed presidential bid, posted the rather strange photo to Facebook and Twitter today.
The photo is of Michele Bachmann, her husband, Marcus Bachmann, and (apparently) six of their children, posing as members of Downton Abbey’s Crawley family. The British show is the most popular series ever aired by PBS.
On Facebook and Twitter, Bachmann asks, “Can you tell what our favorite show is?”
What Bachmann neglects to mention is that in 2010, the Tea Party Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota co-sponsored a bill to eliminate federal taxpayer funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which provides millions of dollars in federal funding to PBS, NPR, and local public television stations. About 20 percent of PBS funding comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Shameless.
But if that weren’t enough, yesterday, Bachmann observed President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” by attacking it.
“America has always been a nation where hard work and creativity pay off, where upward mobility was the aspired goal. Yet the War on Poverty has created new generations of Americans who look to the government itself as a parent, while hope of living the American Dream has been smothered in the process.”
“Let’s use the lessons of the past 50 years and start working to reassert the importance of family and the work ethic —not government programs and dependency —as a solution to lift more people out of poverty,†she said.
Can you tell them apart?
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Photo hat tip: Huffington Post