Fear and Self-loathing in Ames
Posted: August 13, 2011 Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign | Tags: closet case, CNN, Don Lemon, Marcus Bachmann, Marcus Bachmann pushes Don Lemon, mean 30 Comments
Don Lemon, the CNN weekend anchor, is probably one of the best, most professional anchors on cable news. He recently came out on TV during a segment on child sexual assault and has since written a book called “Transparent”. It’s pretty brave to discuss your experiences as the victim of child sexual abuse and even braver to come out as a gay man when you’re a major media figure and a black man. I’ve always been partial to him because of his connections to Louisiana. He’s from Port Allen. You only have to watch his newscasts to realize exactly how nice the award-winning news anchor can be to the people he interviews. He’s one of the most empathetic interviewers I’ve ever watched. He’s definitely become a great role model for young blacks and gay men. So, I just read this headline and find the behavior of pray-the-gay-away-therapy-pushing, mail-order-degree-bearing, closet-case Marcus Bachmann beyond offense. Only some one filled with a lot of self-hate could be mean to Don Lemon.
CNN anchor Don Lemon reports that members of the campaign team for Rep. Michele Bachmann including her husband Marcus Bachmann shoved him after an event for the candidate in Des Moines on Friday.
According to CNN, Lemon and another reporter from the network were among a ring of press and supporters that surrounded Bachmann after she spoke briefly at the Iowa State Fair and tried to make her way to a drive cart to exit.
“As both CNN staffers tried to question Bachmann, Lemon said he was pushed by two members of Bachmann’s staff,” reports CNN. “Lemon also said that Marcus Bachmann, the congresswoman’s husband, pushed him.”
As the clip below indicates, the openly gay anchor tried to ask Bachmann respectful questions about her debate performance on Thursday and her expectations for the Ames Straw Poll that takes place today.
Lemon said afterward, “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.’”
I really think that Bachmann’s self loathing and fear of his sexuality came glaring through in this act of meanness.
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I was just about to post this link in the comments on the morning thread.
Don Lemon Marcus Bachmann | Pushed Into Golf Cart | Video | Mediaite
For some reason, on my internet the Mediaite site videos load and play a lot faster than other sites…
I think you are on to something, I have seen Bachmann’s “people” get rough with reporters before, but this time it was Marcus himself.
Nothing says classy like being a bully, does it?
Now the question is, is that a fried twinkie? and if so…is it a chocolate or vanilla?
(my pathetic attempt at a joke…)
I think it’s a fried twinkie eating a corn dog.
Ha, you made me laugh so hard at that BB…
ROFLMAO!!!
BB, that one really got me! I’ve seen a lot of funny stuff today, but that’s the winner.
No doubt BB
The straw poll results will be posted here:
Iowa Caucuses
“God” must be willing this to happen to Don Lemon since Michele and Marcus are have such a close relationship to him.
See, this is exactly the things I have been ranting and railing about with all these “find Christians”. The hypocrisy is dripping faster than those Iowa snowcones in the heat.
“Warriors” like Marcus and the rest of those phonies are playing by their own rules and how dare anyone pose a question to any candidate running for office they choose not to answer. Didn’t Sharron Angle do the same thing to a reporter in Nevada?
Pushing and shoving their theocratic agenda down the throats of the public does not just stop with words. An elbow in the ribs works just as well.
Morons!
I don’t know much about Rick Perry; I know he’s far, far right and I just learned by looking at a picture of him that he apparently bites his fingernails – a bit of stress?
It probably is pretty stressful to be a closeted gay man pretending to be a fundy and hate gays.
Why Rick Perry Won’t Win | Mother Jones
There is a bit of info here…personally I like the “He’s too Texan” explanation…
Top 10 Things Rick Perry Doesn’t Want You To Know About Him http://t.co/ApZt39H
Unfortunately, those are all reasons why a lot of Republicans and Reagan Dems will like Perry. And yes, Kevin Drum is an elitist. He doesn’t get it. He thought Obama was all that, didn’t he?
When I posted that link I was going to say that Drum of course…is so biased, but deleted it.
I had a feeling Bachmann was going to win that poll.
I understand that one of her bouncers announced they couldn’t come to here Trais Tritt sing unless they’d voted.
James Moore, author of “Bush’s Brain,” says Perry will win.
He looks quite a bit like Reagan, and that too might well appeal to many people. Not sure why, but people in the U.S. sort of adore Reagan.
I think I speak for a lot of the world when I say what comes from Texas should stay in Texas.
Indeed, Dak, no disagreement there.
(Lyndon Johnson did some good.)
You know, the more you look at him, the more he looks like the Brawny Man Brand on the Paper Towels………………
Maybe someone can post the Brawny Man and compare his looks.
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If around 17k voters voted in straw poll, second-biggest ever. Also, points twd Bachmann win
Iowa proves itself irrelevant again.
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by joshtpm
Saddest quote ever fr Bachmann supporter: “I just wish she were a man!” Thinks man should run country but loves MB. Voted for man at poll.
politico POLITICO
Bachmann got 4823 votes out of almost 17000. Ron Paul came in a close second with 4671. Tim Pawlenty took third with 2293.
TheFix The Fix
Full vote totals: Santorum 1657, Cain 1456, Perry 718, Romney 567, Gingrich 385, Huntsman 69, McCotter 35
I don’t have a TV so this was the first time I’ve seen Don Lemon in the film clip. Amazing behavior from camp Michelle!!
How to explain that vote for Michelle?? Perhaps her supporters managed the get out the vote better than the others?
Isn’t it sickening that the Prez political season is here again? But then this just seems like an extension of the last season — because 0bowman hasn’t stopped his campaign.
GW bush — poor choice — low practical intelligence — sets low bar.
The dem/dims found the next low bar candidate. Again candidate 0bowma lacks empathy.
Now present day — the Republicans have a wide choice of the worst of the worst. When Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the least worse/evil of the group — my guess is that the S&P will do another downgrade.
Never mind — this is merely a bad dream. We will wake up soon.
Seems like Obama has been campaigning most of his life. That is about all he is experienced at. While looking up links for tomorrow, I found this:
Michele Bachmann wins Iowa Republican test | Reuters
Here is what one voter said:
What platform? To make the rich even richer and make poverty a crime?
Shallow sees what shallow wants to see.
There’s a link to a Tavis Smiley interview with Don Lemon that you may like to watch in the post. He really is just a nice guy. You should see how excited he is to meet Tavis Smiley. The link’s at the words Louisiana connections.
He’s from around Baton Rouge then…………I’ve always looked at him as being a very nice man, who cares about people. He’s not a wise ass like some of them mf.