Ethics

Bachmann and Beck Hallucinate Together

By Ed Brayton

Michelle Bachmann continued her legacy of lunacy on the Glenn Beck show recently. Matthew Yglesias has the transcript of her ridiculous ruminations about a global currency.

BACHMANN: Let me tell you, there's something that's happening this week in Congress that could be the eventual unravelling for our freedom, and it's this. I had asked the Treasury Secretary and Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Chair, if they would categorically denounce-

BECK: I know.

BACHMANN: -taking the United States off of the dollar and putting us on an international global currency. Because as you know, Russia, China, Brazil, India, South Africa, many national have lined up now and called for an international currency, a One World currency. And they want to get off the dollar as the reserve currency.

BECK: Most people don't understand what that means.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).