Regarding JB's comments on the lack of verification in newspaper reports, as Bob Woodward can attest, there's no better source for getting through that sticky wicket than quoting the dead. Those folks tell no tales, of course. Which makes it exceedingly difficult for the layers of editors, ombudsmen, and blogging skeptics to fact check with due diligence.
Nick Coleman's adds his contribution to the art today. In his latest assault on religious conservatives, we get this factoid from the great beyond:
Bachmann's supporters sometimes literally have thumped Bibles on the heads of secular citizens inside the Capitol. (Such an indignity was visited in 2004 on Sue Rockne, the well-known women's rights activist, who died last year.)
Pending confrontation of her testimony from the gaping abyss, I guess we'll just have to take his word on that.
But to help judge the veracity of the messenger dear readers, note his characterizations of the departed as a "women's rights activist." Other observers with a more objective perspective might have called her instead "a paid lobbyist for abortion clinics."
Or they might have characterized her as this tribute on the MPR web site did:
Sue was a incredibly tough, loud and fearless feminist. We will continue to carry on in her name.
A deceased, loud feminist, paid by abortion clinics to advance their interests as a source on a Michele Bachmann story? Hold the front page! A source so perfect, if she didn't exist, someone would have to invent her.
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