Michele Bachmann Walks Out On Town Hall Meeting Because Of Protesters

[cal04]

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Michele Bachmann Event Rocked By Occupy Wall Street Protesters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/michele-bachmann-occupy-wall-street-protesters_n_1086607.html?ref=politics

Mount Pleasant Patch relays part of a prepared statement read by the protesters:
http://mountpleasant-sc.patch.com/articles/bachmann-talks-foreign-policy-at-yorktown#video-8403501

"This will only take a minute. We have a message for Mrs. Bachmann. You capitalize on dividing Americans. Claiming people that disagree with you are unpatriotic socialists. And you promote discrimination. This does not help the American People."

another link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw7VmGjg-b4&feature=player_embedded

[and-justice-for-all]

Wonderful...need to do this to all those asshats...nt

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[truth2power]

6. Is she still running?? Sorry. I thought she gave up some time ago. Geez! n/t

[and-justice-for-all]

7. She is'nt going to quite...she is too stupid..nt

[Beavker]

30. She's running alright...

...right out of town hall meetings.

Way to face the music. Reason enough not to elect her.

[rsmith6621]

9. She Really Showed Us She Can Handle Conflict

...With the Deer in the headlights look...again.

[nxylas]

12. Did she run and hide in the bathroom again?

Like that time when one of her lesbian constituents dared to confront her about her stance on gay marriage?

[geardaddy]

31. Nah, she ran and hid behind the bushes.

:)

[nxylas]

32. George and Jeb? n/t

[dodger501]

34. She did both

Hid in the bushes outside the state capitol while a GLBT gathering was going on there.
Hid in a school lavatory after a town hall, 2 women (not lesbians, just 2 women who were there together) asked her a question, Bachmann claims they blocked her in there.

[geardaddy]

38. Yeah, I know she did both.

I was just making a joke based on her running out of the town hall.

[pezDispenser]

1. forced?! had to escort?!

[AsahinaKimi]

2. They make it sound like it was a bad thing...

:shrug:

[Enrique]

3. but what if she was saying something important?

just kidding! ;-)

[Plucketeer]

16. IF she was saying something important

That would've been a newsworthy first!

[Liberalynn]

4. One of the commentators on the MP papers site

and Bachman herself call it "rude" and "blocking her right to free speech." Funny they didn't have a problem with it when the TB's were shouting down Democratic Representatives speeches.

It's apparently only rude when our side does it.

They are just jealous because "Occupy" is growing bigger, larger, and stronger, than they ever hope to be.

[rurallib]

5. 'as ye sow, so shall you reap'

how's that dividing thing working today, Michelle?

[Enthusiast]

26. That's the point.....nt

[Blue Owl]

8. Sarah taught her how to quit

Michele Bachmann, the choka from Anoka

[JDPriestly]

10. I wonder what the crowd looked like that actually stayed to hear her speech?

[liberal N proud]

11. Forced?

What was the shit the Teabaggers did in town halls in 2010?

:nuke:

[dodger501]

35. Exactly

The teabaggers screamed & cursed at the Dem Rep, calling them Liar, etc.
You want to talk about rude?

[ellenfl]

13. kick for later. eom

[Worship Money]

14. Good!

'Bout time our side finally starts to bring the heat on these people.

Kick the shit out of them.

[jerseyjack]

15. She is a horse's ass but I disagree with the strategy of disrupting her or shouting her down.

The idea of free speech is that all ideas will be heard and the commons will determine which will stand.

[tomg]

25. Same here. I absolutely loath her,

But if we criticized it when the tea party did it, the point is still the same. What I am hoping for are more Joe Walsh meltdowns. There he had all the freedom of speech to sound like a maniac, and the woman who challenged him had all the free speech to show she should be the next rep.

[HughBeaumont]

27. "All ideas will be heard"?

Think about how many media appearances Michelle Bachmann has made and is making and what she's doing in those appearances: taking advantage of an unfettered, uninterupted forum to lie her ass off about why the economy is bad ("Itx all Obammy's fawlt, LOLZ"). Now picture it not just being her saying this, but Dick Armey, Grovel Nerdquist, Jim DeMint, any Republican presidential candidate, etc.

Now think about how many unfettered, uninterrupted forums liberal economic ideas get, media or otherwise.

I dunno, are those TeaHadists that police are suppressing and beating in the streets?

Should I somehow feel SORRY for Michele Bachmann because in this one relatively tiny forum, OWS has a brief but louder voice (which, conveniently, you didn't hear on this news report, you just heard "USA USA" chants and she walks off), when she's been on channel after channel lying and promoting Reaganomics??

It'd be nice if the notion of the First Amendment would be fairly applied to all people in this country. It's completely naive to think that it IS in practice, however.

Somehow, I don't think Michele Bachmann will be silenced.

[fascisthunter]

17. good... reality is, most do not like her...

poor deluded fool.

[nineteen50]

18. I don't like this, but for so long we were ignored by the media.

The voice of the unheard is protest.

[Marie Marie]

19. Damn, and I was so looking forward to her educating us on foreign policy.

Who knows what pearls of wisdom were about to flow from her mouth. Bet the late night comedians are pissed.

[pacalo]

20. I love this because the protesters are saying to her what good, sound journalists should be

conveying to her whenever she opens her vile, divisive mouth.

[butterfly77]

21. K&R!

[mascarax]

22. Ron Paul has been in her MN District more than she has this year

She does NOTHING for her constituents. Yes, I know, I know...she won.
But all her "I'm from Iowa! I'm an Iowan!" and town halls everywhere but MN-CD6 makes her vulnerable, IMO.
There's got to be a point where people who reside in the district with the highest foreclosure rate want a change...right? Maybe? (sighs)

[valerief]

23. She's the one married to the gay man, right? That's the only good thing about her. nt

[janet118]

24. The Tea Party gets a taste of its own medicine . . .

from the Donner Party.

[MNmom]

28. Love OWS!!!!!!!!!!

[BlueDemKev]

29. LOL....remember how she acted during the health care debate?

Encouraging right-wingers to disrupt townhall meetings and even said "we must slit our wrists and become blood brothers" in our effort to stop health care reform.

Not so fun when it's done back at you, is it Michelle? And instead of addressing the protesters you walked off the stage. Yeah, you REALLY are ready to listen to the American people when their ideas are different from yours, aren't you?

[Jim_Shorts]

36. She is health insurance company's little ho

Wendell Potter, the ex head of public relations for CIGNA, said that Bachmann was the go-to person in the house, when the health insurance industry wanted something done.

[KansDem]

33. But...but...if these demonstrators can force her to retreat...

How will she hold up as POTUS when the Russians get testy? How will she do in negotiations with the North Koreans when they become difficult? And what if her finger's on the Nuclear Football when Iran thumbs its nose at her?

I got a bad feeling about this...:scared:

[davidthegnome]

37. The woman has no courage

She will freely spew her venom and hate to any who will listen - but should you dare to raise a voice to oppose her, it seems she crumbles. Should this woman ever become President - or even come close to becoming President, I am taking my tin foil hat and moving to Mars.

[russspeakeasy]

39. Ease up folks....she just missed her hypnotizing session.

[VPStoltz]

40. And then turns around today and calls the protesters "ignorant" "disrespectful"

The First Amendment was super duper when all those idiots were disrupting town meetings during the health insurance reforms debate - but now, not so much.

[saras]

41. Why didn't we do this years ago? We could have kept her from ALL public appearances.