Michele Bachmann: complot de CBS pour la marginaliser!

Moi qui croyais qu'elle y arrivait seule... CBS affirme que le nombre de questions dirigées vers Bachmann est en lien direct avec sa baisse dans les sondages puisque depuis un certain temps déjà elle ne reçoit que 4% de soutien.

"“The SCGOP had no input on how questions were developed or to whom they were addressed,” party Executive Director Matt Moore told TPM. “Congresswoman Bachmann seemed to receive a fair number [of] questions, and had ample opportunities to answer.”

That’s not how Bachmann saw it.

“Clearly, we received an email today, unintentionally, that CBS had an effort not to ask questions,” she said. “That was their effort, I don’t know why.”

“The email was targeted to me,” Bachmann said. “I don’t know if it was targeted to anyone else.”

The email in question came from Dickerson at 2:42 Saturday afternoon. Dickerson, a longtime DC political reporter for Time and then Slate who was just announced as political director for CBS News on Saturday, was emailing with some CBS staff, but appeared to inadvertently include Bachmann spokesperson Alice Stewart on the string. The email string is below.

First came a message from CBS staffer Caroline Horn, sent to Dickerson and others that appear to be CBS News staff, with Stewart CC’d:

John, Sarah, and Mike,
I was just speaking with Alice Stewart, cc’d here, about the Congresswoman or a senior member if her staff joining you for the webshow. She said she would be happy to arrange. Sarah - you want to touch base with her later tonight?

Caroline

Then comes Dickerson’s reply a few minutes later:

Okay let’s keep it loose though since she’s not going to get many questions and she’s nearly off the charts in the hopes that we can get someone else
John Dickerson

To Team Bachmann, that was evidence of something that seemed nefarious. “Clearly, CBS demonstrated there was a pre-planned attempt to limit questions,” Stewart told TPM.

Dickerson said the email was about Bachmann’s objectively low poll numbers, not a bias.

“Bachmann is at 4 percent in the polls and has been for a while,” he told TPM. “Other candidates aren’t. I sent an email based on that.”"

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