Posted on 06/26/2011 11:42:41 AM PDT by AmericaTalks
On his program Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked his guest, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann if she was a flake.
Bachmann seemed perturbed by the question, and rightly so, and then proceeded to answer the question with coherence, grace and dignity. She responded by saying "well, I think that would be insulting, to say something like that, because I'm a serious person". Bachmann pointed out that she has been married 33 years, is a lawyer, has a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law, worked in the U.S. federal tax court, has five children, raised 23 foster children and opened a charter school for at-risk youth.
"I've also been a state senator and a member of the United States Congress for five years. I've been very active in our business. As a job creator, I understand job creation. But also I've been leading actively the movement in Washington, D.C., with those who are affiliated with fiscal reform," Bachmann said.
Wallace's question was an ugly example of shoddy journalism, the kind of "gotcha" question reserved for Republicans, and especially Republican women, in what can only be described as a double standard set by the mainstream media that gives liberals a pass.
Wallace asked the question because in some circles Bachmann is perceived as gaffe prone. To be fair, she has made a few mistakes, but has come a long way since the "anti-American" comment in November of 2008.
But where was the media when Barack Obama, while campaigning for president in 2008, said he had visited "57" states, referred to a "bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor", declared that Memorial Day honors "an unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today"?
Yes, political candidates do make embarrassing remarks on the campaign trail, but once elected, every speech, every move will be without flaw, because should something go awry, the media will be all over it, such as when Obama picked the name of a dead hero as a live Medal of Honor winner, referring to a military medic as a "corpseman", and botching a toast to Queen Elizabeth II, right?
Maybe not.
Wallace did offer one of those back-handed apologies on the Fox News website, the kind where one says "if anyone was offended, I'm sorry".
That's not good enough. This was a hit job on Bachmann, one for which she should be insulted. But journalists should also be insulted, as should every American. There is no place in the news media for this kind of attack.
And although we have come to expect this sort of thing from the talk hosts at MSNBC, or the writers at the Huffington Post, one would expect better from a Sunday morning news and analysis program, especially one on Fox.
Shame on you, Chris Wallace. That question was flaky journalism.
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I'm going to guess, as a 10-year FR member, that you know that at times messages get posted twice, or even three times, for no reason.
Congrats on not addressing the substance of my post(s), though. Judging by your "detective" skills that you exhibited in this thread, I'm not going to expect you to admit that you were wrong, and you looked foolish (even flaky>) in being wrong.
As a ten year FR member, I try to respect other people’s opinions. It’s hard sometimes but if I didn’t I would be an unhappy person. It’s certainly not how Christ wants me to be.
Also, I would not presume to call an LLM a “post-doctorate” degree. Yes, in the lawyers’ infinite wisdom they did decide to call their first level degree a JD but no one I know would ever claim that an LLM in tax law was a “post-doctorate” degree.
The substance of your post was addressed in the conversation above. There are some who are all in for Bachman and can’t have a civil discussion. Name calling an baseless analogies are their tools.
For myself, she’s not my candidate. I haven’t found one yet. My list only includes those who I can evaluate as leaders and congressmen and congresswomen don’t fall in that category. I know exactly what she thinks about others’ decisions. I have no idea how she would handle the situation where she has too little information to make a decision yet still has to decide.
... but no one I know would ever claim that an LLM in tax law was a “post-doctorate” degree.To repeat, you clearly do not get out much. I polled the dozen LLM's that work in my building. They all agree, you are wrong.
Quite literally, Bachman’s LLM is a “post-doctorate” degree, since she completed that degree after getting her doctorate.
What’s your field of study? I have an MBA from the University of Oregon, and a B.S. from Montana State University.
"Looking at wiki" pretty much shows me all I need to know about you, FRiend. Your needless attacks on Michelle Bachman should be noted by all of FreeRepublic.
“To repeat, you clearly do not get out much. I polled the dozen LLM’s that work in my building. They all agree, you are wrong.”
I don’t get out much not with lawyers at least. Thank God. But if you say they refer to an LLM as a “post-doctorate” degree, I’ll take your word for it.
I try not to take these people too seriously.
I try not to take these people too seriously.
When someone is in front of a camera and mike being watched by people in the hundreds of thousands to millions, their actions being written about in papers and the net, and read by millions, as he carries water for the leftist totalitarians, I take it very seriously.
For his intent is ultimitely serious, doing the bidding of the global elites.
At the expense of the other 95%. History tells us that creatures of leftist governments kill in horrific numbers.
Anything that increases their power is evil.
I was referring to the Freeper
I see you haven’t wiped it off yet.......
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