Michele Bachmann’s bodyguards developing reputation for bullying reporters
“She came out, after speaking for just a couple minutes,” Lemon said on CNN. “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.’”
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The incident comes less than a month after a similar scene at a campaign stop in Aiken, South Carolina, where ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross was “manhandled” by two of Bachmann’s bodyguards.After Bachmann disclosed that she takes prescription medication to control migraine headaches, Ross attempted to ask her if the condition had ever caused the Tea Party hopeful to miss a House vote.
“I was never closer than 10 or 12 feet to her,” Ross later told Bill O’Reilly. “The people around her recognized me and came up and identified themselves as with the staff said they knew who I was. And the blocking was all about me. Other cameraman, other reporters were allowed to get close.”
Bachmann’s security guards then grabbed and pushed Ross, according to Ross and several news accounts.
