Michele Bachmann has a familiar target of blame for her own campaign trail gaffes: President Barack Obama. 
 
 Asked about a March gaffe she made in New Hampshire, in which she said the city of Concord is located in the Granite State and not Massachusetts, Bachmann didn't lament her unfamiliarity with a map but rather her reliance on a teleprompter that night. 
 
 "After that I promised I never again will use President Barack Obama's teleprompter, and I intend to keep it that way," Bachmann said on "Fox News Sunday." 

 Bachmann claims NATO killed 30,000 civilians in Libya 
 
 By David Edwards 
 
 Sunday, May 1, 2011 11:40 EDT 
 
 Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) got her facts confused Sunday while objecting to President Barack Obama’s decision to participate in the military action against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. 
 
 The Minnesota congresswoman told Fox News’ Chris Wallace that NATO airstrikes had killed up to 30,000 civilians in the country. 
 
 “People should be outraged at the foolishness of the president’s decision,” she said. “He said he wanted to go in for humanitarian purposes and overnight we are hearing that potentially 10 to 30,000 people could have been killed in the strike. Those are some of the reports.” 
 
 “The NATO strikes killed 10,000 to 30,000 people?” an incredulous Wallace asked. 
 
 “A report that came out last night from the Tripoli ambassador said that potentially there could be 10,000 to 30,000,” Bachmann insisted. 
 
 “You mean the Libyans?” Wallace pressed. 
 
 “Yes,” Bachmann replied. 
 
 “You think Muammar Gaddafi is a reliable person?” Wallace wondered. 
 
 “I don’t think anyone thinks that. President Obama, his doctrine was to enter in Libya for humanitarian purposes. The point of what I’m saying is that we are see many, many lives lost. Including innocent civilians’ lives. What will be the ultimate objective and gain? I don’t see it. I think it was a foolish decision to have gotten involved,” Bachmann said. 
 
 In fact, the tea party-backed lawmaker seemed to be referring to a statement made by U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz last week. 
 
 Cretz had said that U.S. officials believed that 10,000 to 30,000 had been killed by fighting between Gaddafi forces and the rebels, not NATO airstrikes. 
 
 To his credit, Wallace corrected Bachmann in a later segment. 
 
 “I just want to clear up, because we looked into what Michele Bachmann had been saying. She quoted the U.S. ambassador to Libya saying 30,000 people had been killed in the NATO strike so far. In fact, what Ambassador Gene Cretz said is that he estimated that 30,000 people had been killed by all sides in the entire conflict. That includes the rebels and the Gaddafi forces. So big difference,” he said. 
 
 Watch this video from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast May 1, 2011. 
 
 
 

– Michele Bachmann got a little mixed up today, claiming on Fox News Sunday that NATO airstrikes have killed as many as 30,000 civilians in Libya. She was railing against the “foolishness” of President Obama’s decision to get involved in Libya at the time, The Raw Story reports. Obama “said he wanted to go in for humanitarian purposes and overnight we are hearing that potentially 10 to 30,000 people could have been killed in the strike,” she said. Chris Wallace quickly questioned her numbers, but Bachmann stood her ground, citing “the Tripoli ambassador.” “You mean the Libyans? You think Moammar Gadhafi is a reliable person?” he responded. “I don't think anyone thinks that,” she said. “The point of what I'm saying is that we are seeing many, many lives lost. Including innocent civilians' lives.” Wallace later corrected her, explaining that she was apparently referring to a statement by the US Ambassador to Libya that put the total number killed in Libya at 10,000 to 30,000, which includes those killed by fighting between the rebels and Gadhafi’s forces. Perhaps Bachmann’s confusion can be attributed to this little tidbit: Politico notes that she once again tried to explain her March gaffe (read about it here) today: “After that I promised I never again will use President Barack Obama's teleprompter, and I intend to keep it that way.”