Bachmann mixes up movie star and serial killer

Michele Bachmann has gotten some flak for past factual errors -- including a gaffe she made on just her second day on the campaign trail.

The Minnesota congresswoman, who was born in Waterloo, Iowa, proudly touted to Fox News this June that she and the actor John Wayne shared a hometown in Waterloo. In fact, John Wayne was born elsewhere in Iowa; it was the serial killer John Wayne Gacy who was born in Iowa.

Bachmann brushed off the incident as a simple misstatement, acknowledging that she, like everyone, is fallible: "People can make mistakes and I wish I could be perfect every time I say something, but I can't."

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