Posted on 07/19/2011 6:54:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This morning, the Daily Caller published a story I was inclined to leave to others: Michele Bachmann suffers from severe migraines.
But now the Bachmann camp has suddenly invited a whole lot more scrutiny to the story. At an event today, ABC News reporter Brian Ross tried to ask her about her condition, and according to another reporter on the scene, Time’s Michael Crowley, Bachmann’s handlers got pretty rough and aggressive with Ross:
"Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white SUV waiting to carry Bachmann away, two Bachmann men pounced on him, grabbing and pushing him multiple times with what looked to me like unusual force. In fact, I have never seen a reporter treated so roughly at a campaign event, especially not a presidential one. Ross was finally able to break away and lob his question at Bachmann one more time, but she ignored him again. Afterward, I asked Ross — a hard-nosed pro who nevertheless seemed slightly shaken — whether he’d ever been treated so roughly. “A few times,” he told me. “Mostly by mafia people.”
Jeffrey Schneider, a senior vice president for ABC news, reiterated the charge in an interview with me just now.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It was a stupid question he was trying to ask. If he’s worried about someone’s “head” he should ask obama about that scar. Or he could ask obama if he’s putting second hand smoke in the oval office.
He’s a pro-violence prevaricator.
I’d say he should be beaten to death with a steel pipe, but I’d probably be lying.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Greg+Sargent+
They are preparing the tu quoque in advance of the Black Panthers / Brownshirts preparing to physically intimidate anyone who questions Teh One.
Bonus Tin-Foil Hat prediction: Look OUT if Obama attempts to have a bodyguard of Holder's People supplant the Secret Service.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Next time, just shot the bastard and fill out the paperwork.
Well said; very well said!
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Bingo.
You are saying Bachmann is just not man enough to fight reporters?
Jerks like this Ross guy fail to understand anything about professional journalism.
For every pointed question these nasty freaks throw at Bachmann and other Conservatives, they throw 2 softballs to Obama and the rest of his slimy cohorts. Just tune into any "news" channel, and see it happen.
There is nothing even remotely "professional" about losers like this Ross person.
Consider the source.
a good point. i would love to see a good stiff arm in his face...
If he is still alive, then the treatment was not rough
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Then what you are saying is that it was Okay for Coakley’s goon to beat down a reporter who was following her and trying to get an answer to a question.
So this was okay????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7LEdOp2Nk&playnext=1&list=PL6CCC423BFCBB8CD5
Coakley was done with the reporters. They followed her. The Reporter got roughed up. Read the reports of what happened.
So what people here are unbelievably saying is that once the candidate turns away from the reporters..they are not allowed to ask any more questions and if they attempt to do so they deserve a beat down.
The Press, when they are willing to do their job, is suppose to aggressively ask questions. It’s been that way for decades
Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Zn5WqTUuw
“Let him finish or I’ll deck you”
In another video you see him saying “You’re not even a reporter” Another reporter tells him to go away.
Okay or not okay. Should that reporter have been decked? Should he have been blocked . Should he have turned away and given up?? Who is allowed to ask questions and who isn’t.
Over and over and over I see people on this site question why reporters don’t aggressively question Democratic operatives. That is a perfectly legitimate question. They should. Some do as seen by the Coakley video.
But then I guess it was okay to rough up that reporter in the Coakley incident, eh??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqlX6XNCP4c
Watch this version of the video of the Rahm incident carefully. Levine asks a question. Rahm doesn’t answer. The other reporters try to block him and try shoving him out of the way.
Surely you don’t believe that Rahm Emanual should be able to.. himself ..or have others block him off from reporters once they have asked a question. According to you...Rahm didn’t answer so Levine should have walked off.
Freepers when a Democratic candidate is involved in a reporter incident”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2606780/posts
Just one thread of many on the Coakley incident
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2427776/posts
This is why candidates should carry a firearm.
Think a stalker/pie thrower/glitterer/overly aggressive media hack would dare rush a person if they knew they might get shot?
What does physically attacking a person with a pie or with glitter have to do with a reporter, conservative or liberal, doggedly asking a question that a politician, conservative or liberal, is running away from?
As far conservative reporters doggedly going after liberals and liberal reporters doggedly going after conservatives and really good journalists doggedly going after both without favoritism, the answer is:
Yes, they will contunue to do so. It's a free country, a good reporter is supposed to doggedly go after a story (look how much we complain when reporters do not go after liberals) and reporters have been covering actual wars and getting killed since before Ernie Pyle.
Remember when liberal Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC) assaulted a student just for asking questions the Congressman did not like on a public side walk?
Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk
Remember how Free Republic called for the Congressman's head and the Congressman eventually had to eat crow since the student had every right to be asking questions on a public sidewalk?
N.C. Congressman Apologizes for Physical Confrontation With Man in Washington
At the time, how would it have sounded if the people at Democratic Underground were saying that the liberal Congressman should have produced a gun because a Left-Wing politician must NEVER be asked a question he does not like by the peasants?
Well, to the voters that are not Bachmann fans (the vast majority so far) the actions of the Bachmann camp and your suggestion sound just as bad.
When you are a Presidential candidate, aggressive questions from the news media are simply part of the heat in the Presidential kitchen.
Successful candidates meet the challage head on, win the verbal exchange and are admired by voters.
Weak candidates run away from the questions and are judged by the majority of voters as not ready for prime time.
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