Tea Party history 101: Bachmann returns

I’m having clam chowder for dinner, so while it’s cooling, I’m wandering around various Web sites.

I saw this from yesterday’s Boston Herald:

Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann yesterday made her Granite State debut with historical and geographic missteps.

“You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord,” she said at an event organized by the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, according to Politico.com. “And you put a marker in the ground and paid with the blood of your ancestors.”

Where do I begin? Nevermind, the Herald has it covered:

Too bad for Bachmann, the “shot heard ’round the world” was fired in Massachusetts.

A little more detail here from Wikipedia:

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.

Oh, and since she likes to bring it up all the time, the founding fathers were involved in their founding gig then.

Chowderhead.

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