Michele Bachmann’s handlers get rough with reporter - “He was certainly shoved around and pushed”

[jefferson_dem]

Michele Bachmann’s handlers get rough with reporter
By Greg Sargent

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.

“He was certainly shoved around and pushed,” Schneider says. “It’s unfortunate when physicality is involved. He was just doing his job.”

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[ShockediSay]

1. What do you expect from these Right Wing Neo-Fascists?

[Fearless]

2. +1

[nykym]

3. Take note

this is how they will govern!

[tanyev]

4. Wow. I might have to watch ABC news tonight.

[beac]

7. I predict that video is gonna give Michele one HELL of a headache!

:rofl:

[The Magistrate]

5. Has Mr. Ross Filed Charges, Sir? A Crime Was Committed

[mascarax]

6. She's used to "Puff Piece" treatment by the local MN media

She ignores and flees...they let her.
She does nothing to legislate or represent her constituents...they let her.

I figured the national media interest might be interesting.

Just hope they don't let her off. She'll no doubt be sending the fundraising email right after his report, if it airs ("I was nearly assaulted by Obama's left wing liberal media today...can you spare $50, $100, $250 or MORE to continue to stand up for YOU?").

[sharp_stick]

8. They roughed up Brian Ross?

I'm just going to add that to the list of incredibly stupid shit carried out by the Bachmann political team. It's not like Ross is a nobody stringer from some local paper. He could make the future decidedly unpleasant for the walking vacant stare that is Michelle Bachmann. I hope he does.

I'm starting to think her entire Presidential run is just a piece of performance art. She's got to know that she doesn't have a shot in hell.

[MedicalAdmin]

9. It's not about winning.

It's about fundraising.

She's adding family members and other sycophants to the payroll as fast as the dollars are rolling in.

[MadMaddie]

10. The Repugs will get more desperate to evade the MSM

Now that Murdoch empire is under siege...I have a feeling that the rest of the MSM is going to start acting like they should have instead of competing against Faux