Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Michele Bachmann says media aims to pick GOP candidate rendering voters superfluous

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11/14/11, "Bachmann: Media, Not Voters, Picking Winners," US News, Washington Whispers, Paul Bedard

"Michele Bachmann just weighed in "Debategate," telling Whispers that the media is trying to pick the Republican presidential winner,
  • cutting voters out of the process.

"There's always a suspicion of maybe a bias and I guess this just confirmed it," she said of a CBS memo before Saturday's debate, which suggested that the Minnesota Republican congresswoman would be ignored during the foreign policy chatfest.

The memo, she said, "demonstrates that the media wants to choose who our nominee will be and who the next president of the United States will be." [See a slide show of who's in and out for the GOP in 2012.]...

"If the media decides based on current polling how much time the candidates get [in debates]. They are trying to determine that ultimate outcome and influence it," she said. The solution, she added, is giving candidates equal time to answer questions. [Vote now: Who is your pick for the 2012 GOP nomination?]

And, she said, she won't protest or boycott CBS. "Oh, no, no," she said. "The media will do what they're going to do.""


via Drudge

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