Michele Bachmann's hurricane comments were only a joke, she says | World news | The Guardian Oops! Claiming she was only joking was just plain stupid. If you are going to say something, stand by it. Abner
That was a mistake on her part. It would have been better for her either to stand by her dumb comment or to simply to say she was wrong, than to try to slither out of it by saying it was a joke.