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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:50 PM Oct 2016

Michele Bachmann Suggests Damning Video Came From Clinton: ‘These Things Are Coordinated’

Former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann spoke with CNN earlier today and suggested that the video tape leaked to the Washington Post Friday is likely tied, somehow, to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Bachmann alleged that “the Clinton campaign had to change the conversation,” and that ahead of Sunday night’s highly-anticipated debate between Donald Trump and Clinton in St. Louis, Clinton relied on Trump having negative headlines in order to drag him down.

“This is how she wanted to do it,” Bachmann said, despite the fact that CNN’s own original reporting into the matter determined that the Clinton campaign knew nothing of the leaked audio before its release.

“These things are coordinated to manipulate the media. That’s exactly what happened,” she continued, noting that Hillary Clinton herself would otherwise be fighting back against troubling headlines on her own.

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/michele-bachmann-suggests-damning-video-came-from-clinton-these-things-are-coordinated/

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Michele Bachmann Suggests Damning Video Came From Clinton: ‘These Things Are Coordinated’ (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
Does anybody really believe that Ms Bachmann could recognize a pattern... Wounded Bear Oct 2016 #1
Joy shut her down on that shit. DURHAM D Oct 2016 #2
Who gives a shit where it came from? ibegurpard Oct 2016 #3
Michelle Bachmann Should Have Known Better Vogon_Glory Oct 2016 #4
It doesn't really matter where the video came from. SeattleVet Oct 2016 #5
What a coincidence! NanceGreggs Oct 2016 #6
What if it did? TexasBushwhacker Oct 2016 #7
Funny there is a far "left" liberal website saying the same thing. Agschmid Oct 2016 #8
I do not give Hillary that much credit. quaker bill Oct 2016 #9
If she did. Lochloosa Oct 2016 #10
OK wyldwolf Oct 2016 #11
Who the fuck cares where it came from? He still fucking said that disgusting shit. n/t tammywammy Oct 2016 #12
I'm pretty sure it did come from the Clinton campaign calguy Oct 2016 #13

Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)
1. Does anybody really believe that Ms Bachmann could recognize a pattern...
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:54 PM
Oct 2016

more complicated than floorplan of a chicken coop?

Seems unlikely.

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
2. Joy shut her down on that shit.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 06:56 PM
Oct 2016

Everyone needs to take a master class from her staring with Ari Melber who interviewed Boris the Russian Speed Liar and let him run on and on and at the end Ari simply said "Yes..." iows Ari agreed with Boris as he rattled off all of his Clinton lies.

I have decided he is one of the reporters on the left that Chris Hayes talks about who is sexist.

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
4. Michelle Bachmann Should Have Known Better
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:03 PM
Oct 2016

Michelle Bachmann should have known better than to say something that patently ridiculous. Democrats have learned through bitter experience during the Clinton years that every tiny misstep, every tiny boo-boo will be dragged out into the limelight and politicized, along with the big stuff. And the Donald has left behind a big archive of sexual vulgarity and multiple pawed women able to step up and testify. And Donnie's actions went well beyond the little stuff.

Michelle and her buddies set up the rules, now their candidate has to live by them.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 "For God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."

Maybe Michelle should read her Bible more often.

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
5. It doesn't really matter where the video came from.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:03 PM
Oct 2016

What matters is the words that came from his foul mouth.

Would she trust tRump alone with any of her daughters?

NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
6. What a coincidence!
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:12 PM
Oct 2016

The folks at JPR are saying the same thing.

It's amazing how often the True Progressives (TM) at JPR and the RWers say exactly the same things.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,190 posts)
7. What if it did?
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:16 PM
Oct 2016

She didn't put the words in his mouth! It doesn't seem to bother them that all the leaked e-mails are with the help of the RUSSIANS.

quaker bill

(8,224 posts)
9. I do not give Hillary that much credit.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:33 PM
Oct 2016

Actually it is sharp modern campaign strategy to deploy potent bits of oppo research at the moments where greatest advantage can be gained. Politics are not played "fair", they are played with the gloves off for all the marbles.

Hillary did not treat Bernie "fair". She stacked the deck with 400 super delegates before the first vote was cast. You do not win playing "fair".

I do not think Hillary's folks did this or even had to. They do not seem to possess the true killer instinct. Don the Con irritated the media with his birther bit a few weeks back and since then it has been game on. If you cannot tell, a number of media organizations seem to now be competing for the title "Took Trump Down". This is his problem, instead of counting on Hillary to go in for the kill, he now just has reporters gunning for a Pulitzer at his expense. There is risk in this sort of thing for a candidate so they might be cautious, there is little risk for a reporter as long as they check their facts, and the potential for large rewards are out there, just turn over the right rock.

calguy

(5,309 posts)
13. I'm pretty sure it did come from the Clinton campaign
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 07:41 PM
Oct 2016

And I think it was a brilliant move. The pinpoint timing as Assange was dumping potentially damaging information right before the second debate. They shut that shit down before it was even released.
Hillary is a bad ass opponent who knows how to street fight with the best of them.
She's showing Trump how much of an amateur he really is.
No telling what else she has in store for for the next few weeks.

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