Bachmann's bouncers: Unnecessary roughness- hostile encounters w/ media (pushing, shoving, threats)

[jefferson_dem]

Bachmann's bouncers: Unnecessary roughness
By: Ben Smith
August 17, 2011 06:25 PM EDT

One staple of a Michele Bachmann campaign event is blaring Elvis Presley music. Another is a reference to her intent to make Barack Obama a one-term president. Increasingly, there is a third feature of a Bachmann appearance on the presidential trail: a staffer’s physical confrontation with a reporter.

In less than two months since entering the 2012 race, Bachmann’s campaign staff has become embroiled in at least five unusually hostile encounters with the traveling media marked by pushing, shoving and, in one instance, the allegation of a threat of violence to a reporter.

Some of it has unfolded in full public view: Bachmann aides’ tussles with the press have twice turned into news stories, once when veteran ABC News reporter Brian Ross was shoved and pushed by Bachmann staffers in South Carolina and on a second occasion when Bachmann’s husband and two staffers pushed CNN’s Don Lemon into a cart, producing a furious on-air complaint.

In another incident that did not make the air, a camera captured Fox News correspondent Steve Brown telling a bodyguard in Iowa, “Do not put your hands on me. Don’t ever do it again.”

A foreign reporter also alleged to POLITICO this week that an aide threatened to break his arm—an allegation the Bachmann campaign denied.

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WATCH the VIDEO at LINK: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61598.html

[tularetom]

1. Curious that the incident with the Fox reporter did not make the air

Why would they want to keep that quiet, hmmmmm?