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I'm skeptical about the contentions made in this piece from Hot Air. Like many others, I liked Michele Bachmann and was very disappointed when she (a) hired Ed Rollins and, (b) remained silent after his gratuitous blast at Sarah Palin, immediately showing his true colors. It's nice that Bachmann ordered Rollins to apologize in private but considering the insult was very public and fed right into the liberal meme on Palin, it required a public apology to be meaningful. If Michele Bachmann couldn't get that from Rollins, he should have been fired. He didn't and he wasn't. I can understand Michele Bachmann not wanting to keep the issue in the news and then, trying to keep her momentum from the CNN debate going without a distraction but I still can't feel comfortable with her after this and continue to believe that the Democrats, knowing that Obama's re-election chances are a lot weaker than they want us to believe, are counting on Bachmann's run keeping Sarah Palin out of the race. If that is actually the case, I hope it fails.

How many people even heard these comments? I only saw them reported on Politico and Daily Caller - two inside the beltway gossip sites. From what I could tell very few conservative blogs reported on it and it didn't get much attention in the larger media either. If it had become a big story then yes a public apology might have been warrented. But an inside the beltway process story that the majority of Americans a)never heard about and b)could probably care less about doesn't require one IMO.