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Are the Media Building Up Bachmann to Bring Down Romney? [Video]
5 Comments | Printer Friendly Tags: Cal Thomas, Chris Matthews, media bias, Michele Bachmann, S.E. Cupp
In an interview at the RightOnline conference last weekend conservative author and commentator S.E. Cupp said that the recent praise heaped upon Michele Bachmann by the liberal media is part of a plan to make her public enemy number one.
Cupp said that she found it worrisome that the media is now realizing how great Bachmann is because it means that “any praise, any legitimacy that the liberal media is giving to Bachmann or anyone else just means that she is about to become public enemy number one.for them ” and that she is going to become a “huge target” and that they are really going to lambaste her.
I said as much last week in a blog post on how Chris Matthews had gone from asking her if she was “hyponitzed” and calling her a ‘balloon head” to saying that she was great after the last Republican presidential debate.
This supposed change of heart hasn’t gone totally unnoticed by other conservatives.
On Fox News Watch This past Saturday conservative columnist Cal Thomas reinforced that view:
“The Left likes to build up people in order to tear them down. One of my favorite lines on this was that ’she exceeded expectations.’ Well, who set the expectations? The media did. . . . Chris Matthews praises her, which is sort of like getting a civil rights affirmation from David Duke.”
Matthews can’t seem to stop fawning over Bachmann even telling fellow liberal Bill Maher that “She’s my hero” and that she’s “going all the way” in reference to her presidential run.
The latest example is that last night on Hardball Matthews told his guests that he thought that Bachmann would knock Romney off while devoting much of his program to comparing Republican front-runner Mitt Romney to an Emperor Who Has No Clothes.
Can it be any more obvious that Matthews is now doing his level best to eliminate Obama’s toughest potential opponent in Romney and replace him with Bachmann who he believes if nominated will be much easier for the president to defeat next year?
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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5 Comments for Are the Media Building Up Bachmann to Bring Down Romney? [Video]
Who needs Chris Matthews when we have Ted?
CTR,I totally agree. I’m already sick of hearing the huntsman moderate crap. Huntsman is another globalist. He believes in global warming etc. He is to the left of both Mclame and Newt. I truly believe Bachmann wants to restore our Constitution and limit this discusting ,overgrown federal government. Bachmann is a staunch pro-life conservative. As long as this nation is CHOOSING to murder innnocent unborn children,God will not bless this land with prosperity. Instead, we will be cursed with Obamanation, subversive communism and collectivist damnation. At least we have Clint helping us stay informed. The likes of Olbermann,Anderson Cooper etc. are nothing , but useful idiots and political operatives! You ,Ted need to go live with the Chicoms or better yet, get on a float to Cuba.
Huntsman was a moderate but not really bad Governor here in Utah. Besides buying into global baloney, one of his worst mistakes was allowing Utah County to opt for MTBE gas additive. The Second Amendment was safe while he was here. That being said, he’s not my first choice because he, like Orrin Hatch, is too polite to his adversaries. Could the media be trying to “promote” him into a fat target position? You betcha, they already pulled that trick off with McCain.
Romney has some real problems: The interesting thing is the media is not mentioning his gun control activities. I suspect their “bait and switch” trick would be to wait until he is nominated and then praise him for his stance on curbing “dangerous weapons”. The intention would be to drive down Republican turn-out and shift the whole ticket. That happened in California in 1986 when the Orange County voters stayed home over moderate Republican Senate Candidate Ed Zchau causing several other state-wide ballot issues to flip, killing Tort Reform efforts for over a decade.
Too early to worry. The Republicans are in the happy position of having no shortage of qualified candidates, a far better situation than 2008.
If Romney is the best the Republicans can do, this country deserves to lose to Obama a second time. Sadly, it will mean the complete and utter annihilation of this country, but I think that we are already so deep into the sewer that it will be impossible to ever resurrect this nation back to its former greatness.
Romney is a liberal Republican by original thought and deed; Huntsman is clearly a moderate Republican … who doesn’t mind working with and/or working for those of the other party. And BOTH are F-A-R removed from the kind of wingnuts (like Palin and Bachmann) the current crop of far-right-wing Republican rabblerousers want in office.