Will you vote for the Republican candidate, whoever it may be?
Posted on 06/27/2011 5:14:17 AM PDT by tobyhill
Via POLITICO's Jennifer Epstein, Michele Bachmann isn't accepting an apology from Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace for asking her yesterday, "Are you a flake?" Continue Reading
ABC News' Jon Karl, who's been getting face-time with Bachmann in Waterloo in advance of her formal campaign announcement, played a clip of the web video in which Wallace said, "I messed up. I'm sorry."
When Karl asked if she accepts the apology, Bachmann brushed aside the question this way: "I think that it's insulting to insinuate that a candidate for president is less than serious."
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Good post bump.
Yeah. In response to that accusation, see 179 and tell me if you think Reagan was a liar.
I'm not trying to go overboard on this particular issue, but I think this is fascinating. Not only do we think our candidates need/deserve to be protected from rudeness....we now believe that all of our good heroes in the past were merely disengenuous showmen prepping zingers in advance.
Will you vote for the Republican candidate, whoever it may be?
Four peas in a pod.
Seriously, do you think that kind of crap gets any traction? This thread is not about Sarah Palin. This thread is about how Bachmann deals with the media.
"Selective Scrutiny" is the best you can muster? And you are exaggerating everything that Rollins, or Bachmann said about the matter. And Rollins was correct, Palin never has really been in this from the start. And Bachmann did not "send" Rollins in to make the observation. That was his doing alone and Bachmann told him to apologize.
yes he did, but she gave him a pass by treating the question seriously and defending herself against the accusation.
Response should have been "that you even ask that question indicates you are allowing your personal beliefs affect your work, which makes you less effective as a reporter"(I'm not angry with you, just disappointed)
Of coues a Brit politician could respond "You might well think that; but I couldn't possibly comment"
I agree with your post. These are times to hit this stuff out of the park, not waiting for supporters or talk radio to defend you. This was a problem with W, he rarely hit this stuff out.
I don’t see a quotation of Reagan in your #179 in which he claims he wasn’t ready in advance. All he said was that he couldn’t believe he was actually getting that question. Doesn’t say one way or another whether he had prepared for it.
He could have meant it like a batter saying, “I couldn’t believe he pitched such an easy one at me with no outs, no strikes and two men on base.”
I don’t think I’m being critical of Reagan (or calling him a showman, that’s your bizarro take on it, not mine) by saying he probably prepared for it.
Two questions:
1. Wouldn’t he have been stupid, at his age, NOT to prepare for that question?
2. Does preparing for questions in advance make you a “showman”? (What a bizarre thing for you to say, esp when counselling Palin and Bachmann to do a better job of preparing for questions!!!)
Whether or not Reagan prepared for the famous Age Question in advance, he was NOT a showman. He was a Great President, a Great American and a Great Communicator (as I’ve said before).
A bad approach, but try telling them that.
your post #148 was great.
Christine O’Donnell was considered a flake even by many here. i liked her.
Wallace served a softball, even if awkwardly worded. he gave her the opportunity, to directly confront the charges of being a flake (which she WILL get, if she is the nominee!).
she should be THANKING Wallace, not rejecting his apology.
(and freudian slip about “serious”, when that’s the same word Rollins used, and didn’t apology for at all ?)
and a tax attorney, knowing her returns are public, denying she got “a penny” when she got $50k last year?
...can’t we conservatives HONESTLY do vetting of our OWN candidates? before we end up with another McCain?
(and seriously, WHAT is wrong with Herman Cain? can someone tell me, why Bachmann is so much better than him?)
Obama said it's a great idea to criticize Bachman all day.
McCain picked the Conservative Palin to even out the ticket so as to appeal to more voters.
Everyone knows this about presidential politics so stop being silly.
Chris Wallace is a buffoon. But he is not running for President. Michelle Bachmann is running for president and her failure to accept the apology of Wallace is a black mark on her candidacy.
Whoever is advising her on her campaign is an idiot.
She is definitely a AAA player who came up to the big leagues before she was ready. You think it's tough on her now? Just wait until she starts to face a quarter of the hardballs that the media has thrown at Palin (who has whiffed on a few herself - but she has shown the ability to learn how to hit them - we'll see if Bachmann can learn those skills as well, but so far it's not encouraging).
And the efforts of the Bachmann camp here at FR to try and change the subject is just as feeble. And even more pathetic.
(How silly, fer sher.....)
To repeat what I said in my #19 post...
I watched this yesterday. I was taken aback when he asked the question. (as was she)
But she did a very good job answering it.
I still haven’t had a chance to listen to the interview, but I will do so. It does sound as though she may not have comported herself particularly well.
You said that Michelle Bachmann is running for president and her failure to accept the apology of Wallace is a black mark on her candidacy.
Nonsense...
Do democrats ever whine about apologies? No, they're ruthless and vicious people who are out there planning how to engineer the most massive fraud in voting history in the next presidential election.
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