In an interview before announcing her bid for the Republican presidential nomination in her birthplace of Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann told a Fox News interviewer:
John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too.
Except as the conservative Washington Times reported, John Wayne – the star of movies such as True Grit and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – was born in Winterset, Iowa, more than 100 miles away from Waterloo. The John Wayne of Waterloo was someone entirely different:
Waterloo's John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the homophobic serial killer.
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