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Marcus Bachmann Shoves CNN Anchor Don Lemon

After giving a speech (and being heckled) at the Iowa State Fair, Michele and Marcus Bachmann and their security shoved the press, notably, CNN anchor Don Lemon as he was trying to interview the candidate, CNN reports:

Donlemon After talking for about three minutes, Bachmann waded into the crowd filled with adoring supporters. Moments later, as she tried to exit the area back to a waiting drive cart, Bachmann found herself in the middle of a mob of people: among them many supporters and members of the press including this reporter and CNN anchor Don Lemon.

Lemon says he was shoved by two Bachmann staffers, and by Marcus:

“She came out, after speaking for just a couple minutes,” Lemon said. “There were other reporters and cameras there. And I asked her very respectful questions: ‘How do you think you did in the debate last night?’ and ‘How do you think you’re going to end up in the Ames Straw Poll?’ And her two campaign aides started elbowing me.”

Lemon continued: “I told them, asked them not to elbow me. And then her husband Marcus started doing the same thing. And then he elbowed me into the cart.

And I said, ‘You just pushed me into the cart.’ And he goes, ‘No, you did it yourself.’
“It was just, I don’t know, why they would choose to do that. We weren’t asking any ‘gotcha’ questions,” Lemon added.

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  1. She probably didn't want Marcus hitting on Don Lemon!

    Posted by: Jim | Aug 13, 2011 12:38:19 AM


  2. Since when are "gotcha" questions beneath the dignity of the press? Isn't that the point of investigative journalism- to find out why people believe and act as they do (esp. when it's contrary to the public good)?

    Posted by: Rodney Wollam | Aug 13, 2011 12:40:22 AM


  3. America WAKE UP! Where is Harold Stassen when we need him? I believe he was from Minnesota too. The bad 1950 "D" movies are back, but they are not movies. Please, I lived through the Eisenhower,Nixon,Reagan and the Bush's Presidencies... But this batch of Right Wing,Christian Zealots scare me. Fight back now while we can. Did you see the big crowd
    in the background... like I said It's Scary!

    Posted by: Jerry Pritikin aka The Bleacher Preacher | Aug 13, 2011 2:07:43 AM


  4. Am in agreement with one of the earlier "posters." I can't see a thing here.

    Likewise, I'm not impressed by Michele or Marcus, but if Don Lemon is going to stand his ground, have some ground.

    Posted by: GEG | Aug 13, 2011 2:23:07 AM


  5. Both of the Bachmanns are vile people.

    Posted by: Joseph Singer | Aug 13, 2011 2:56:02 AM


  6. Dear handsome Don, the questions simple to you are very difficult for Bachmanns, they don't have the knowledge and they have too much to hide.

    Posted by: Matt26 | Aug 13, 2011 3:26:14 AM


  7. This is fun, but only because anyone with three cents worth of brains knows that Michele has less than a zero chance of winning the Republican nomination.

    Lemon will make hay out of this, as will anyone even remotely connected to the Dems. And I'm looking forward to the anti-gay melt-down.

    Look for more fun ahead!

    Posted by: Paul in Honolulu | Aug 13, 2011 4:13:57 AM


  8. Watching that video, and I am no fan of Michele Bachmann and despise the ground she walks on, but I have to say, the press and everyone else pushes their way in to get to 'whoever' (politician, celebrity, etc.). The press is becoming as bad as the paps. Looks to me as a lot of pushing was going in both directions. If it was a clean passageway and Lemon, et al was pushed, that would be a different story, but watching that video, it looked like a mob scene.

    Posted by: CB | Aug 13, 2011 5:37:20 AM


  9. People don't go to Iowa in August. Those must all be locals, mainly farmers, on support money from tax payers, like the Bachmanns.

    I can just see the bumper stickers now: Better a Bach-mann than a black man.

    Posted by: Fair Question | Aug 13, 2011 6:55:29 AM


  10. Bachmanns are the face of absolute hate and evil in our nation.

    Posted by: Kevin Thor | Aug 13, 2011 7:07:35 AM


  11. http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2011/08/12/shove-comes-to-push/

    Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Aug 13, 2011 8:45:01 AM


  12. Typical response from bullies and these right wing antigay folks - "you did it." They didn't push Don Lemon, they didn't beat up the gay kids, they didn't take away marriage rights from gay people in Maine and California, they aren't the mean ones. They are always the martyrs, even when they are the ones pushing, and beating, and killing and lying. Don has more class in his little finger than Michelle and Marcus and their pushy followers have in their whole entourage.

    Posted by: john patrick | Aug 13, 2011 10:09:04 AM


  13. @ Derek: I agree with you. That was a mob scene. I think Don Lemon should pick his battles. Those two blonde women kept saying stop pushing and Lemon or whoever he was with shoved the microphone past the blond with women into Michelle's face. If he got pushed he probably deserved it.

    Posted by: Terra | Aug 13, 2011 10:21:50 AM


  14. @Rodney Wollam

    I was thinking that very same thing.

    They only become "gotcha" questions when the candidate is not prepared with an answer, or is caught in an out right lie or fabrication of the truth. It's just another attempt to silence criticism, and to avoid being held accountable for one's words and actions.

    Unfortunately, it works.

    Posted by: mytwocents | Aug 13, 2011 10:30:29 AM


  15. They are just "ugly" people through and through. They would have shoved anyone in this manner, I doubt they even knew Don Lemon is gay nor did that even factor into the equation.

    Posted by: Mark | Aug 13, 2011 11:34:04 AM


  16. Oh they know Don is gay alright. The RUN from gay people. Remember when a couple of lesbians began to ask her questions and she screamed that she was being "kidnapped"?

    Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Aug 13, 2011 11:38:51 AM


  17. I was at a concert with far fewer people last night, and I got shoved quite a few times. It happens in tight spaces.

    Posted by: Matthew | Aug 13, 2011 12:24:03 PM


  18. Alternate Captions:
    1. Marcus Bachmann cannot keep hands off other man.
    2. Marcus Bachmann tries to pray away the gay reporter; when it fails, tries shoving.

    Posted by: WorkersUnite | Aug 13, 2011 12:47:36 PM


  19. Puhleez! That's not "shoving", that's normal campaign scrum. These reporters now are such wimps about this, adding to the "us vs. them" mentality in this country. If you really want to see shoving and punching, let's go back to 19th century campaigns where riots often broke out. Get over yourselves!

    Posted by: Madambomb | Aug 13, 2011 1:12:18 PM


  20. I believe Don Lemon, of course. But the thing that disturbs me most about this story isn't that Missy Marcus is a flailing, out-of-control queeen afraid of her own shadow and wildly pushing the scary little people out of her way, it's that Don Lemon acutally used the phrase "gotcha questions".

    Sarah Palin's handlers coined that phrase for Palin to parrot endlessly on the air as an excuse for why she doesn't know the answer to anything she's asked.

    It is VERY disturbing to hear Don Lemon use it as if it were a thing that actually existed. It is not. Don Lemon, please strike that phrase from your vocabulary. Journalists ask questions their subject don't want asked. At least theoretically, that's exactly what journalists do. Or did once, anyway.

    Posted by: ohplease | Aug 13, 2011 1:58:45 PM


  21. Campaigners risk their lives in the spotlight, so security tends to error on the side of caution, but tact dictates that you coddle the press instead of manhandle them.

    Posted by: anon | Aug 13, 2011 2:22:11 PM


  22. Maybe he thought Don was going to out him. We know he's a closet case (Miss Marcus).

    Posted by: sc341 | Aug 13, 2011 3:17:09 PM


  23. @OHPLEASE: thank you. That needed to be said. This idea that any question a politician finds uncomfortable is a "gotcha" is complete BS designed by politicians to protect themselves from scrutiny. The media MUST resist this trend.

    Posted by: Derek Pearce | Aug 13, 2011 4:40:36 PM


  24. Your welcome, Derek.

    Posted by: Rodney Wollam | Aug 13, 2011 5:55:23 PM


  25. maybe michelle and marcus can get fox news to follow them around and ask questions we wouldn't want michelle to suffer brain freeze .where is katie couric when you really need her? the best picture of the day is marcus chewing a large corn dog.

    Posted by: walter | Aug 14, 2011 1:38:36 AM


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