Wasn’t the camera at a bad angle or something?
There were multiple cameras. Bachmann was filmed speaking into the Tea Party camera, as a Tea Party supporter. CNN filmed it and played it LIVE, as the Tea Party response, but showing Michele speaking away from the CNN camera, making us look like programming hay seeds. Bad logistics.
More likely that they had the red light on the wrong camera. They are not beyond this kind of thing, of course I am paranoid, and believe we only truly have one party anyway.