Bachmann’s campaign manager says CBS employee suppressed conservative message

Dickerson obviously thinks he has so much power that he can play “god” in all this. We have a sovereign God over all the universe. All will be made right in the end.

Yes and ALL Americans should be equally offended by Michele’s pathetic attempt to run. She’s perfect at what she does already. She speaks for an extraordinarily convervative and under-educated constituency in Minnesota–as a South Minneapolis native, I’m very familiar with who she represents. Those folks up there don’t stray far from their sheltered nook, north of the Twin Cities. They believe the Bible is the literal word of God, and that it should influence legislation and policy. They’re entitled to that, so Ms. Bachmann is perfect to represent them.

But the idea that this women could represent all Americans is laughable. Unfortunately outside of those far-north Minneapolis suburbs, the world is a lot more complicated. If Ms. Bachmann’s constituency ever ventured outside of their comfort-zone (and no, a mission trip does not count), they’d understand that.

America is a vast network of people with different backgrounds, different religions, different languages, and a variety of skills to offer, and yes, America has hard-working, civic-minded homosexuals too. (Homosexuals are a portion of our extended community, who, if either Michele or her husband bothered to check with the American Psychiatric Association, are not suffering from a psychological disease that requires treatment, in fact the APA, for many years now, has insisted that trying to treat homosexuality as a “curable” or “treatable” condition does irreparable emotional harm.)

America needs a leader who will recognize each of its citizens shapes, sizes and flavors—a leader who can use all the sharp minds, and able hands available in all 50 states (including immigrants—frankly, in my experience, immigrants, documented or not, are harder-working then many people whose family has been here for many generations—immigrants are ready to bust their tail, while many Americans sit on their couches, enabling their own obesity, discouraged that they don’t have the newest iPod or smartphone).

America needs a leader who wants to unite everyone that is proud to be here, not niche politician who seeks to legislate her own idea of morality.

(And let’s get real. Jews don’t like Ms. Bachmann any more than gays, blacks, or Californians do. So she can back-off her misguided support of Israel—if anything, her support is a liability.)

Bachmann and her people are the only ones who think they are still in a race. CBS and others are about numbers. If her poll numbers were higher there would be no issue. Right now she is flailing and trying to garner some attention, but as she has done all along, instead of sending a message of what she can do, it’s still all about what’s being done to her.

The same thing could be said for Ron Paul who received 89 seconds of air time for a 90 minute debate. Of course CBS dropped TV coverage after 60 minutes and the viewer was required to watch the remaining 30 minutes on their website (a feed I was unable to find). Amazing (but not) how blatantly obvious CBS was trying to control the show by picking their favorites and ignoring the others. I tell my wife that I wish I could go back to the days of ignorance is bliss, but once one starts to see how life is directed by the ruling elite and the media they own, then each day reveals more lies and suppressed truth. On top of the bias, the platform sucked. Lets ask a very serious, multiple level, complex question and give our top 3 favorites 30 seconds each to give an answer. All the candidates could and did provide were sound bytes. That debate was a huge steamy pile of bulls__t and CBS should be ashamed.

Poor thing… what goes around comes around

I think michelle is HOT! When she stands there on stage smiling, she is definitely HOT! Until of course she opens her mouth! OMG! Its like little adolf when she speaks! Please Michelle, go take some classes to learn to speak with a warm tone instead of that VITRIOLIC, condensending, there is no other way but mine, tone. There are many ways to accomplish a task Michelle. While you have a point-of-view, your view is not the only view. You speak in terms of “absolutes”, which will hopefully “NEVER” work in America. Our country is the great country it is BECAUSE of our ability to bend and be the great melting pot it is and always has been. We are a nation of immigrants seeking prosperity from a free-enterprise system. All any Americans want is a chance to work for OUR piece of the pie. Unfortunately, due to unfair taxation favoring the wealthiest corporations and individuals, the system has become unworkable. This has happened before throughout our nations histroy. Adjustments will be made. I find it very disappointing that the “Borrow and Spend” republicans, still chant to continue to “Borrow and Spend”. I guess since “NEWT” is on the stage,the man that started this economic policy 30 years ago, its only fitting all of you continue to condone this counter-intuitive and wrong economic strategy…”YOU CANT BORROW YOUR WAY TO PROSPERITY”!

[...] Now Bachmann’s campaign manager is accusing CBS employee of suppressing conservative message. [...]

“An email from a CBS producer who predicted that Bachmann would not receive many questions from moderators Scott Pelley and Major Garrett.”
The email is not a “supposed smoking gun” It proves that CBS intended their anti-Bachmann bias to do what they in fact did: ask Bachmann fewer (60%) questions than asked of Romney and Gingrich.
When you predict what in fact you do, then it shows intent, in this case intent of bias.
A recent SmartPolitics analysis found that former Massachusetts governor and front-runner for the nomination Mitt Romney has spoken for over 73 minutes in the last 5 debates, more than any other candidate. Texas Governor Rick Perry came in second in terms of speaking time at 54 minutes, followed by Bachmann at 4

Michelle, let’s face it: CBS was doing you a huge favor by limiting the amount of time you had to put your small-minded idiocy on national display. Be happy. At least you had a chance to explain that waterboarding is a Christian virtue and that China is a model of capitalist democracy.

It’s because of her low numbers in the polls? Have they seen the ratings for the “CBS Evening News”? Imagine if Dan Blather, Katie Couric or Scott Pelley would’ve been suppressed at a media event because of their low numbers. CBS would’ve had a fit.

You people are missing the point. This is not about Michele Bachmann. This is about the mainstream media not playing fair.

“An email from a CBS producer who predicted that Bachmann would not receive many questions from moderators Scott Pelley and Major Garrett.”
The email is not a “supposed smoking gun” It proves that CBS intended their anti-Bachmann bias to do what they in fact did: ask Bachmann fewer (60%) questions than asked of Romney and Gingrich.
When you predict what in fact you do, then it proves intent, in this case intent of bias, typical of the Team Obama media jackals like Scott Pelley.

@Wayne, what exactly is “playing fair” when it comes to these debates? Should every single person who declares him/herself a candidate, no matter how nuts (remember the vampire running for president?) get an equal amount of airtime? Where do we draw the line? I don’t think it’s that unfair for the media to exclude some coverage of candidates who can’t even scrap together double digits in polling. It’s they were completely kicked out of the debate. But then, I don’t expect the “news” to be unbiased documentary. No one should. If we want to do research on candidates, we would be better informed by utilizing the internet instead of their canned responses on TV. There isn’t some kind of “liberal” media conspiracy. Actually, most mainstream media organizations are owned by billionaires, so individually there are more news outlets with a “conservative” bent (why the hell would a news outlet act against the financial interests of its owner?). But no, there isn’t a “conservative” conspiracy either, at least not one that spans multiple organizations. In any case, if you think one outlet or another is less biased than another, or that there is any news outlet that doesn’t put its own spin on everything, well, you’re not seeing the big picture.