Bachmann won't take Fox host's apology (Faux News)

Politico ^ | 6/27/2011 | By MAGGIE HABERMAN

[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."

[faucetman]

I watched the re-air at 6pm wondering if an apology would be aired or if they would edit the segment. They did neither.

Since I knew what was coming, I watched CW carefully. You could see as he started the area of the interview where he was going to call her “a flake”, he was quite nervous. He hesitated and stalled, as if he were wrestling with the idea of really going ahead with it. Then just blurted it out, “Are you a Flake?”.

It was VERY disrespectful. Thanks to Jon Stewart, CW thought he had to show how tough he was on Republicans. Wallace even said so during the program, pointing out to the viewers how tough he had just been on Republicans (Bachmann), so “there”, Jon Stewart. Sucking up to some comedian?, while insultingly disrespecting a legitimate candidate for president, not to mention, an acting member of Congress. Shame on you Chris. You “small” man. (term “man” used loosely)

[Aevery_Freeman]

I'll back you on that opinion.

The decent party obliges itself to play by a higher standard than the evil party and they catch flack for it.

Are there any questions you could ask Clinton, Rangel, Weiner, Geitner, Frank, Dodd, Obama, etc. if you wished to embarrass them? I dare say that there are but the decent party refrains.

Chris Wallace is so over-rated that it is ridiculous - just sponging off his fathers name.

[Joe 6-pack]

"He said that was the rap on her from OTHER people and he asked her straight out."

OTHER people have told me that you molest puppies, abuse children, and dabble in transvestitism. Do you?

[ScottinVA]

She should have been gracious. Her excuse for not being gracious may have just sunk her candidacy.

It's hard to tell at this point whether it'll sink her candidacy, but her not accepting the apology was a fumble on her part.

[nwrep]

Maybe she IS a flake...

[Berlin_Freeper]

I already know enough about you to file that response in the circular folder.

[org.whodat]

Serious people announce, non serious people are not taken seriously, sort of like a nine year old that wants to be a fireman. So only the thin skinned take that as an insult.

[JPG]

FNC has been doing a number on Sarah Palin for quite awhile. The have said, with certainty, that she is not running (when they really don't know). Karl Rove, BOR, Hayes, Krauthammer, Morris, Hume, Perino, Kristol, et al, have poo-pooed a Palin run for many months now and have been very dismissive of her.

[dps.inspect]

Question... why would you ask such a thing to begin with? Let’s say that “someone” calls you an ass-(o), and it wasn’t well known that the “someone” had demeaned you. Then I, on national TV, asked, “’Someone’ called you an ass-(o)... Well... ARE you an ass-(o)?”

Well, are you?... get the point here?

[discipler]

Oh, Wallace was carrying water for Sarah Palin?
Did Rollins say Palin was a flake? And is Wallace on Palin’s campaign team? I get what you are saying, but you are missing the point that the objective reporter is sounding more like same ole, same ole media.

[Right Wing Assault]

Is someone saying we are less than serious? We resent that!

[Allison_Wonderland]

For future reference:

A milquetoast is a weak, ineffectual or bland person. It is derived from the character Caspar Milquetoast from the 1924 comic strip The Timid Soul.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Let’s agree that is all wrong for Wallace to do.

The Wallace publicly apologizes to you and then another asks you about the apology.

Why not accept it?

Flake, ass, whatever...

Why not take the opportunity to show people you are big enough to accept it?

[Girlene]

LOL, I can't believe all the readers falling for Politico's title: "Bachmann won't take Fox Host's Apology".

Where in the article does it say that Chris Wallace apologized to Bachmann or that Bachmann refused an apology? Here's what Wallace said:

"A lot of you were more than perturbed, you were upset and felt that I had been rude to her. And since in the end it's really all about the answers and not about the questions. I messed up. I'm sorry. I didn?t mean any disrespect."

He's apologizing to his viewers, not Bachmann.

Bachmann brushed aside Jon Karl's question and essentially repeated her response from yesterday. When prompted again she said: "Those are the small issues. I'm focused on the big ones."

Sounds to me like she is not responding to a controversy that Wallace created with his viewers.

[Berlin_Freeper]

*Then Wallace publicly apologizes to you...

[Tax-chick]

You’re treating this as if it were a matter of personal manners or morality. It is not. It is the Propaganda Ministry’s drone feeling for a weakness, with the intent to do political damage, and it should be treated that way by alert observers, and by Rep. Bachmann. How she chooses to respond is simply a question of political calculation, not of her soul.

[sickoflibs]

RE :"I did not see the interview, so I cannot comment on the manner in which the question was asked or answered. However, I cannot imagine a reporter ever asking the same question of any Democrat, anywhere, no matter how demonstrably goofy that person has proven himself to be (think: Dennis Kucinich or Jerry Brown). "

Alternatively Bachmann was on Gregory NBC MTP a few weeks earlier and he didn't ask her questions posed like that :"Are you a flake?" Gregory has been doing a better job than Wallace lately I have pointed out before. Why didnt Wallace ask Bachmann about her ethanol vote instead? That would have been professional.

I think Wallace is having trouble getting guests to interview, he had that comedy central guy on the previous week, who cares what he thinks? Why not interview Cartman from Southpark?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I watched this yesterday. I was taken aback when he asked the question. But she did a very good job answering it.

I had the same reaction. It's the same type of thing that Sarah Palin's had to put up with. Wallace wouldn't have asked Pelosi that question. It goes back to discrimination against Republican women and the mocking of them.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Beating your head against a wall - a Berlin Wall — with this guy. He, or she, has already gone to the refuge of the loser: by throwing his/her own personal insults.

[org.whodat]

You definitely have a reading comperhenson problem.