Brian Ross, ABC News Reporter, Accosted After Michele Bachmann Comments On Migraines

Time:

It's not easy to get to Michele Bachmann. Her appearance at a rally on Tuesday in Aiken, South Carolina, attended by perhaps 150 people, featured three uniformed police officers and two body guards in plain clothes. One those guards spent much of the day preventing reporters from getting too close to the candidate. As she greeted fans and signed autographs after her speech, he planted himself directly in front of another man filming her chit-chat with a hand-held video camera. (At another event on Tuesday I had seen the same man making hand gestures to another Bachmann staffer when I came near with a pen and pad.)

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Comments

[cobraxus]

09:51 AM on 07/20/2011

and yet these are the same Tea Party patriots who always compare the democrats to nazis.

[CountLeo]

08:24 AM on 07/20/2011

Did I miss the article? I was expecting something a bit more meaty with such an inflammatory headline. "Hand gestures?" Wow. Great morning entertainment from the Huff!

[Steve Davis 1]

07:25 PM on 07/19/2011

Migraines may explain the revolving door of Congressional staffers, difficult to deal with pain and not be annoyed by staff questions.

[morganplains]

07:15 PM on 07/19/2011

A glimpse into a Bachmann White House.

[p-junkie]

07:10 PM on 07/19/2011

Sounds like we have a Sharon Angle copy cat....'Just ask me the questions I want to answer.'

[pphhrogg]

07:03 PM on 07/19/2011

Bachmann doesn't seem to know that she will NOT be allowed to ignore these questions IF she gets the nomination. Oh, and her bodyguard roughing up a reporter? That will cost her the election.

My mother had migraines, too. Whenever she resorted to her Rx medication, she HAD to lie down for at least a couple of hours.....more often the rest of the day. I would NOT want any President to be having those kinds of headaches on any kind of regular basis and then take Rx medication (often narcotics)....while being only a heartbeat away from that BIG RED BUTTON.

[sailor422]

07:02 PM on 07/19/2011

Don't worry about the headaches Michelle. It's just a thought trying to make it's way our of your brain. I know, I know, a strange experience for you.

[sfwomanvoter]

06:35 PM on 07/19/2011

She is starting to look a lot more like the thin-skinned Sarah Palin, who tries to hide from most of the press.

[Keyop]

06:14 PM on 07/19/2011

I guess that was censored too. Am I in Saudi Arabia?

[surlyguvna]

06:06 PM on 07/19/2011

Wow, bet she's glad she has free government issued insurance.

[DawnK]

05:46 PM on 07/19/2011

"My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief."

That sentence reads funny. It seems like she is saying that her ineffectiveness will not hinder her ability to serve as president. She admits she is ineffective.

[YOKEL13]

06:45 PM on 07/19/2011

Yeah, I read their (the candidates') statements carefully. That sentence is inarticulate at best. Of course, if it was "crafted" by an aid, that raises other questions. You can pretty much identify fuzzy thinking (or hedging) when people become verbose. What she meant, presumably, is "My ability to function effectively is not affected by migraines." She's got to throw some other junk into the sentence in an attempt to preclude follow-up questions. Appalling.

[RC81]

07:05 PM on 07/19/2011

sarah palin word salad 101.

[nopilikia]

05:37 PM on 07/19/2011

If the migraines can debilitate her for hours or days that places her ability to preform the duties of the office she seeks in serious question.

[Barnie1326]

05:28 PM on 07/19/2011

So much for the "titanium spine."

[baldguy]

05:18 PM on 07/19/2011

I get migraines just listening to her. If I don't hit the mute button within 5 seconds, I'm a goner....

[onehenry]

05:16 PM on 07/19/2011

Come on HP. It should not take 30 minutes to post a comment. How about getting moderators who can read a little faster.