Michele Bachmann runs away from CNN

[swag]

Source: CNN

CNN tried to catch up with Rep. Michele Bachmann at the State Fair. But reporter Gary Tuchman figured out that these days, the congresswoman rarely talks to anyone other than known allies.

The cable news network's cameras were allowed to watch as she practically ran through through the fairgrounds, hustled by handlers to appointments with radio stations in right field.

And KTLK yakker Jason Lewis was given face time to praise her for creating her own media bubble, in which she never has to face questions that challenge her votes, speeches and campaign tactics.

"I think she has her own way of doing things, which is very much out of the Karl Rove playbook," Bachmann's Democratic challenger, Tarryl Clark, told Tuchman as they strolled through the fairgrounds. "I've never seen her do anything else."



Read more: http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/09/michele_bachman_129.php

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Nice clip at link.

[ensho]

1. she probably confers with Rove every day

Rove's a busy bee

[MineralMan]

2. I think she believes that she's the next Karl Rove.

Crazy-eyes Bachmann is delusional like that.

[global1]

3. If The Dems Can Just Make A Campaign Ad Of Repugs, Tea Partiers & Other RW Crazies .......

that are running away from legitimate reporters/journalists to avoid having to answer the tough questions - I think the American people will get a good idea as to what they would do for them once they were in office.

I just can't fathom the Bachman's, Fiorina's, Brewer's, Whitman's, Paul's, etc - getting elected and having to deal with them - yet alone having the likes of a Boehner and McConnell as majority leaders.

What implications would having the Repugs take either the House or Senate or both have on future Supreme Court nominees?

This is what we would have to face if we don't get out and vote in Nov and defeat these crazies.

I know that I couldn't stand the 8 years of BushCo - and if that's what you want going forward again after Nov. that's what you will get if you sit this election out or if you continue to bad mouth the Dems and Obama and inhibit others from going out and voting.

We have less than two months left to turn this around. If you are a Dem or a Progressive - and if you've been pissed off by what has happened these last 18 months or so - swallow some of your pride - instead of sitting this election out - support the Dems and Obama - give them a fighting chance to make good on the campaign promises. Rome wasn't built in a day and this country can't be put back in such a short time - after the shambles BushCo and the Repugs left it.

If you don't want to be looking at the Orange Man - Boner - sitting behind Obama at a State of the Union speech - get out and stop it in November.

[groundloop]

6. Well said !!!! The thought of seeing Orange Man behind the President is sickening

I damn sure know that 8 years of Bush was all I want of republicon rule. We all need to fight like hell for our favorite progressive candidates in the primary, and then fight like hell for the Democratic candidate in November whether or not they were our first choice.

[wordpix]

14. orange is better than ash-gray from all the hot (cigarette) smoke he blows

at least in his opinion. Without the tanning salon, Boner would be a gray-faced sight to behold :scared:

[barbtries]

8. well put.

that's gonna make the whole difference: if thinking people get out and VOTE, no way can the wingnuts regain power. it should not be such a big IF!!

[creon]

11. apathy

Most people do not vote. Turnout for this election may be 35%. Only about 60% bother to vote in presidential elections. People, basically, do not know or care about politics or government.

[barbtries]

30. i know, sadly -

but why are lefties apparently so much more apathetic than wingnuts?? i have to fight it myself, but dammit it's important now! to even think about going back to the republicans in charge of anything makes me cringe and want to emigrate.

[wisteria]

4. I hope they continue to hound her about all her lies. n/t

[qb]

5. Maybe she thought they were lesbians.

:scared:

[struggle4progress]

27. Michelle a-hidin in the bushes is an enduring classic

[tomm2thumbs]

7. * video on youtube as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbLv6mOVU8

can't embed, but that guy at the end is worth watching (4:22) -

'.... she is crazy - could anybody believe the crap that comes out of her mouth?!'



*answer is yes, the rest of the uneducated crazies who hate our country do

[barbtries]

10. lol

that guy was great. and CNN actually ran it, which is even better.

[BeHereNow]

23. Okay, she is officially nuts.

Loved the guy at the end of the video though.
Calling it as he sees it!

BHN

[Joanne98]

9. Coward!

[paparush]

12. Freedumb! Freedumb! Freedumb!

I finally settled on a name for the Tea Bagger / Neocon condition. "Freedumb"

[HughBeaumont]

13. Yep. Just like her pretend lover did. . .

. . .



Loaded crowds. Plant reporters. Softball questions. FRAUD.

[DAMANgoldberg]

15. I was thinking of a...

less sexier version of Katherine Harris. BTW, KTLK talker Jason Lewis imparted his 'wisdom' on two separate occasions here for the local heritage Repub talker WBT 1110/99.3.

[lutefisk]

16. Republicans: tough talk, but scaredy cats when out of the bubble

They always have to be protected by their handlers- so frail and vulnerable. Bush, Cheney, Palin, Angle, Bachmann, and on and on. Why aren't there more frightened, unintelligent Democrats?

[myrna minx]

17. K&R n/t

[tanyev]

18. She should make appearances in one of these.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. "the congresswoman rarely talks to anyone other than known allies"

Are you kidding me? The Conservative(s) (s)Nooze Network featuring ilk like Blitzer, Rollins, and Christie, aren't "allies"? They are only one step away from being another Faux Snooze. :banghead:

[Tx4obama]

20. Lots of republican female politicians are all playing the 'run from reporters' game

Sharron Angle (NV) and Jan Brewer (AZ) are pros ;)

[Hardrada]

22. This should be an Olympic event

along with Talking Point Hurling!

[IndianaGreen]

21. All of these rightwing women are always running away from the press

What are they afraid of?

:eyes:

[alp227]

24. The media's too liberal for them that's why. n/t

[pacalo]

25. The best part came at the end when a guy shouted at her: "You are one CRAZY lady!"

:rofl:

[Major Hogwash]

26. Nothing loonier than Bachmann on this whole flat earth -- just go ask her!!

And then God made the world, like a giant pancake .. he squished two pieces of dirt together between his hands, spit between them to make the oceans, and viola, there we have it -- God made the whole world in just 6 days.

Which later we sang about in church ---

"God's got the whole world, in his hands, he's got the whole wide world, in his hands, he's got the whole world, in his hands, so let's pray he doesn't start clapping again.
He's got you and me lil' brother, in his hands, he's got you and me lil' brother, in his hands, he's got you and me lil' brother, in his hands, I guess he left mom and big sis on the floor.
He used a little pat of butter, in his hands, he used a little pat of butter, in his hands, he used a little pat of butter, in his hands, cause then later he'll wipe it off on his pants."

Butter?

Parkay.

[catgirl]

28. K & R

[BeHereNow]

29. Bachmann: Poster Child for Mandatory Sterilzation.

We really can't afford her brand of crazy to multiply
and populate this world.

BHN

[CatholicEdHead]

31. SOP for Bachmann

You never hear her speak out about her district (MN6). It is only about her and her now opportunist anti-tax premise (she never said a word about it as a state senator, it was all anti-gay marriage during that time). She was highlighted by Twin Cities TV newscasts a few weeks ago with a type of whistlestop bus tour for her reelection campaign. She wants everything highly controlled.

Do what you can to try to get her DFL opponent elected Tarryl Clark. Clark actually will focus on the congressional district.