Previously Michele Bachmann was accused of shoving ABC news reporter Brian Ross. He talks about it here.
Now another member of the press says he was manhandled by the candidate's husband Marcus, CNN's Don Lemon.
From CNN:
As both CNN staffers tried to question Bachmann, Lemon said he was pushed by two members of Bachmann’s staff. Lemon also said that Marcus Bachmann, the congresswoman’s husband, pushed him.
“She came out, after speaking for just a couple minutes,” Lemon said. “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.’
“It was just, I don’t know, why they would choose to do that. We weren’t asking any ‘gotcha’ questions,” Lemon added.
Seems candidate Bachmann is a quick study on talking points, discarding the fringe rhetoric that has been her stock in trade for mainstream talking points. Her press handling skills remain not ready for primetime though. Pure tea party thuggery.
Thanks to Scarce for pointing me to video: