Bachmann Blasts CBS For Manipulating Debate, Has Proof

[teapartysamurai]

Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s campaign is expressing outrage over an internal CBS memo that they said is proof the network mistreated the Minnesota congresswoman during Saturday night’s CBS News/National Journal Debate.

The email was accidentally sent to the Bachmann campaign by CBS News. The campaign decided to release the email to show what they believe was a planned effort to limit questions to Bachmann.




Bachmann’s campaign manager blasted CBS for what he called “concrete evidence confirming what every conservative already knows.”

“The liberal mainstream media elites are manipulating the Republican debates by purposely suppressing our conservative message and limiting Michele’s questions,” said campaign manager Keith Nahigian. “We need to show the liberal media elite that we won’t stand for this outrageous manipulation. Help us fight this affront by sharing this with your friends.”

A CBS spokesperson released a statement to Fox News stating: “It was a candid exchange about the reality of the circumstances — Bachmann remains at 4% in the polls.”

Congressman Ron Paul’s team was also upset with the lack of air time during the CBS debate.

“CBS’s treatment of Congressman Paul is disgraceful, especially given that tonight’s debate centered on foreign policy and national security,” wrote Gary Howard, Paul’s national campaign chairman. “Congressman Paul was only allocated 90 seconds of speaking in one televised hour.”

“CBS News, in their arrogance, may think they can choose the next president,” Howard said. “Fortunately, the people of Iowa, New Hampshire and across America get to vote and not the media elites.”

Bachmann Blasts CBS For Manipulating Debate, Has Proof - Michele Bachmann - Fox Nation

The liberal media is, ONCE AGAIN, trying to pick our candidate for us.

We can either let them saddle us with another McCain or we can get wise to this crap.

 

[Two Thumbs]

TPS

Bachmann is dead. They just haven't had the funeral.

W/o Palin rah rahing her, she couldn't keep it together and melted under the big spotlight.

Sorry, she has a limit future on the big stage. She can try again another time.

 

[JoeB131]

Well, if this is a valid e-mail, it shows that the news people are choosing which candidates to talk about.

Of course, they are manipulating the process. They always do.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Well, if this is a valid e-mail, it shows that the news people are choosing which candidates to talk about.

Of course, they are manipulating the process. They always do.

This is nothing new. You'd have to be very young to think the debates aren't rigged to ignore the unfamous and keep the camera on who they want to be famous.

 

[JoeB131]

Well, if this is a valid e-mail, it shows that the news people are choosing which candidates to talk about.

Of course, they are manipulating the process. They always do.

This is nothing new. You'd have to be very young to think the debates aren't rigged to ignore the unfamous and keep the camera on who they want to be famous.

Unfortunately, the GOP nomination is starting to look more like American Idol right now.

 

[007]

The fact that some candidates get more time than others in these debates is already well known. Just watch one, you'll see.

Now there's proof. Not surprising.

These candidates should be insisting, in contract, that every person on the stage be given equal time. Since they don't, what beef do they have? They agreed to be on without doing that so take what you get and STFU.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Well, if this is a valid e-mail, it shows that the news people are choosing which candidates to talk about.

Of course, they are manipulating the process. They always do.

This is nothing new. You'd have to be very young to think the debates aren't rigged to ignore the unfamous and keep the camera on who they want to be famous.

Unfortunately, the GOP nomination is starting to look more like American Idol right now.

pfft

That's how we ended up with the good looking black guy over the shrew of a woman.

 

[JoeB131]

The fact that some candidates get more time than others in these debates is already well known. Just watch one, you'll see.

Now there's proof. Not surprising.

These candidates should be insisting, in contract, that every person on the stage be given equal time. Since they don't, what beef do they have? They agreed to be on without doing that so take what you get and STFU.

At least she gets to be on the stage.

Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson are both ex-governors. They aren't even invited to the debates.

 

[teapartysamurai]

TPS

Bachmann is dead. They just haven't had the funeral.

W/o Palin rah rahing her, she couldn't keep it together and melted under the big spotlight.

Sorry, she has a limit future on the big stage. She can try again another time.

Liberals decide who's dead, before we have had single vote?

 

[uscitizen]

The liberal media trying to pick the republican candidate?

Heck! Fox is doing most of the picking of the republican candidate.

 

[uscitizen]

TPS

Bachmann is dead. They just haven't had the funeral.

W/o Palin rah rahing her, she couldn't keep it together and melted under the big spotlight.

Sorry, she has a limit future on the big stage. She can try again another time.

Liberals decide who's dead, before we have had single vote?

Bachman is still running?

 

[007]

The fact that some candidates get more time than others in these debates is already well known. Just watch one, you'll see.

Now there's proof. Not surprising.

These candidates should be insisting, in contract, that every person on the stage be given equal time. Since they don't, what beef do they have? They agreed to be on without doing that so take what you get and STFU.

At least she gets to be on the stage.

Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson are both ex-governors. They aren't even invited to the debates.

Just more examples of how these debates are manipulated. If the debaters want to be treated differently, then it's up to them to do something about it. Lay out the format, list who's invited, and make the media hosting the event sign it into contract, or no debate for them.

 

[JoeB131]

TPS

Bachmann is dead. They just haven't had the funeral.

W/o Palin rah rahing her, she couldn't keep it together and melted under the big spotlight.

Sorry, she has a limit future on the big stage. She can try again another time.

Liberals decide who's dead, before we have had single vote?

Well, pretty much.

They all have been saying that "Romney's the one" even though he's never topped 30% in a poll.

And we will probably end up nominating him, even though he's a liberal.

That's the problem when you have to genuflect before their altar.

 

[uscitizen]

And which network does most of the people who will be voting in the republican primary watch?
So which network has the most impact on who becomes THE candidate?

 

[JoeB131]

And which network does[sic] most of the people who will be voting in the republican primary watch?
So which network has the most impact on who becomes THE candidate?

I think you are missing the point.

They are holding these on ALL the networks, not just Fox. and when you hold your debate on a liberal network, which would be all the other ones, you are playing the game by their rules.

So you get Ron Paul being asked if we should let them die or Rick Perry being asked about why he executes people, and that's treated as perfectly normal when it isn't really even something Republican voters care about.

 

[teapartysamurai]

This is nothing new. You'd have to be very young to think the debates aren't rigged to ignore the unfamous and keep the camera on who they want to be famous.

Unfortunately, the GOP nomination is starting to look more like American Idol right now.

pfft

That's how we ended up with the good looking black guy over the shrew of a woman.

I didn't know Nancy Pelosi was running!

 

[teapartysamurai]

The liberal media trying to pick the republican candidate?

Heck! Fox is doing most of the picking of the republican candidate.

Every debate is on Fox??????

 

[teapartysamurai]

TPS

Bachmann is dead. They just haven't had the funeral.

W/o Palin rah rahing her, she couldn't keep it together and melted under the big spotlight.

Sorry, she has a limit future on the big stage. She can try again another time.

Liberals decide who's dead, before we have had single vote?

Well, pretty much.

They all have been saying that "Romney's the one" even though he's never topped 30% in a poll.

And we will probably end up nominating him, even though he's a liberal.

That's the problem when you have to genuflect before their altar.

Well see what the voters say.

I just think the biggest problem is, the primaries start off with the most liberal of states and don't get to the red states until the the primaries are almost over.

That's the problem with the system we have now.

 

[1ManRev]

Liberals decide who's dead, before we have had single vote?

Well, pretty much.

They all have been saying that "Romney's the one" even though he's never topped 30% in a poll.

And we will probably end up nominating him, even though he's a liberal.

That's the problem when you have to genuflect before their altar.

Well see what the voters say.

I just think the biggest problem is, the primaries start off with the most liberal of states and don't get to the red states until the the primaries are almost over.

That's the problem with the system we have now.

I think the biggest problem with our primaries is... that we even have them. Why should Republicans in New Hampshire have a stronger voice as to who gets the party's nomination compared to Republicans in New York? Better yet, why can each party only have one candidate running?

 

[JoeB131]

Well, pretty much.

They all have been saying that "Romney's the one" even though he's never topped 30% in a poll.

And we will probably end up nominating him, even though he's a liberal.

That's the problem when you have to genuflect before their altar.

Well see what the voters say.

I just think the biggest problem is, the primaries start off with the most liberal of states and don't get to the red states until the the primaries are almost over.

That's the problem with the system we have now.

I think the biggest problem with our primaries is... that we even have them. Why should Republicans in New Hampshire have a stronger voice as to who gets the party's nomination compared to Republicans in New York? Better yet, why can each party only have one candidate running?

I think the purpose of the early primaries is to weed out the weak candidates to we can get to the stronger ones later. But the way it ends up working is that they stick you with one or two candidates you don't want.

By the time it rolls around to IL, even on Super Tuesday, we are going to be down to Romney and whoever the "not Romney" turns out to be.