Bachmann deflects HPV controversy on Leno show

Minnesota Republican on the defensive

September 17, 2011 at 4:50AM

Piling on after a bad week for Michele Bachmann, Tonight Show host Jay Leno waxed skeptical Friday night about the Minnesota Republican's claim of a tearful woman she said told her that her daughter had become mentally retarded from the HPV vaccine.

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