John Wayne confusion …
Michele Bachmann, well known for her epic misspeaks, has done it again on the very day that she officially announced her candidacy for the presidency .
While speaking to a FOX reporter in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, the Minnesota congresswoman gave a heartfelt response when asked what people should know about her: “Well what I want them to know is that, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa… that’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.”
Unfortunately, it was serial rapist and murderer John Wayne Gacy who lived in Waterloo. Over a six-year span from 1972-1978, he killed 33 young men and boys before being arrested. He received the death penalty and died by lethal injection at age 52 in 1994.
The legendary actor John Wayne was an Iowa boy for sure, but he was born and raised in Winterset, 150 miles from Bachmann’s beloved Waterloo. Oops!
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