Protesters "Mic Check" Bachmann in Charleston, SC

[Are_grits_groceries]

ABOARD THE USS YORKTOWN -- What was billed as a major foreign policy speech by Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign ground to a halt during several tense minutes today when a group of protesters abruptly took the stage aboard a decommissioned aircraft carrier near Charleston.

What appeared to be an Occupy Wall Street group read from a printed manifesto charging that Bachmann "parade as a grassroots candidate" while receiving support from a controversial conservative super PAC group, Americans for Prosperity.
Police led Bachmann -- visibly distressed -- off the stage until the protesters marched from the berth of the ship, chanting "we are the 99-percent," a phrase popularized by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Bachmann took the podium again and asked, "Don't you love the First Amendment?"

A man accompanying the protesters who identified himself as a media liaison for the group would not comment to NBC at the event but said that the protest "speaks for itself," adding that it was "intense."

The group later sent a press release to NBC saying "we took advantage of the moment to address the system and the people within it as to the unjust role of corporate money in politics."
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More info and a video clip here:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/10/8739200-occupy-wall-street-protesters-interrupt-bachmann-speech#.Trw2ZaKB6ic.mailto

There are some sparks of hope in SC yet despite all its stupidity at times.

"Mic Check" has become a great protest tool! I love it!!

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. The best the kool-aid drinkers could come up with is "USA"...

...which is exactly what Bachmann is harming! As if "USA" isn't about free speech...

:crazy:

[Tunkamerica]

2. It seems like this isn't the first time one of these chuckleheads

has used the sarcastic: "Don't you love the First Amendment?" \

So droll.