coming up, congresswoman and presidential candidate, michele bachmann, had to bring a note from her doctor today. and andrew brightbart s favorite prankster is in the rewrite.
mainstream media, working in different states with grassroots organizations so that voters know just where republicans stand on the issues. certainly there s a lot of room on the field, the more the merrier in terms of journalists covering this. do you think your group, american bridge, is necessary, especially with so many media outlets that are following campaigns, recording almost all the steps of politicians on the campaigns, do you think that what you re doing is actually fair? do i think it s fair? of course. you know, i m not andrew brightbart. we re not tricking everybody. we re observing, reporting what we see and i think one of the things that we will be able to do, it s not just about the gotcha moment. about republican candidates and the republican candidates seem to do this a lot where they pander to the tea party base during their primary and then run to the center in their general, so it s less about finding that one makaka moment but showing republican candidates o
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and moving forward? she had a great performance in the debate. she impressed a lot of people as a smart person and studied and somebody of substance. now she s trying to galvanize more of a base. she has something of a base with tea party folks, but she s trying to galvanize a larger base. she s working hard. we ll see what she does. it s rough sledding. you have a lot of very, very strong candidates who are better known than michelle bapman is. she has distance to travel. karen, you re very aware of what s happening in the part of the country. there s another gathering today as well. that s right. it s the net roots nation. i ll actually here, and it s the gathering of progressives and progressive bloggers. it s interesting they re a couple blocks away. andrew tries to crash the event yesterday but was asked to leave. he was graciously asked to leave. when michelle bachmann is out there talking about things like medicare, that helps to galvanize democrats,
there are no commemorative team ginger t-shirts on the sidewalks of new york. this became a feeding frenzy, and that s one of the problems for anthony weiner. not only did he deny it, which lengthened the media story, but every day there was someone else, and another tweet pic and another sext message. and the agony of anthony weiner was prolonged. we have gone beyond surreal when the porn star s statement is more dignified than the resigning congressman s statement. yes. but to andrew brightbart s point, his final line in his thing he said today. i think it was the lies that brought him down. he said that i think he could have survived tweeting some of these pictures. but i think it was the lies that brought him down. is that the conventional wisdom? is that the truth? is that what we think this really is? it s certainly a part of it. i think he would would have had more of a fighting chance.