Bachmann won't take Fox host's apology (Faux News)

Politico ^ | 6/27/2011 | By MAGGIE HABERMAN

[tobyhill]

Via POLITICO's Jennifer Epstein, Michele Bachmann isn't accepting an apology from Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace for asking her yesterday, "Are you a flake?" Continue Reading

ABC News' Jon Karl, who's been getting face-time with Bachmann in Waterloo in advance of her formal campaign announcement, played a clip of the web video in which Wallace said, "I messed up. I'm sorry."

When Karl asked if she accepts the apology, Bachmann brushed aside the question this way: "I think that it's insulting to insinuate that a candidate for president is less than serious."

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh, sometimes the lefty in Chris just jumps out. Its not the first time. I think Michelle Bachmann handled it beautiully and I’m glad she’s not letting him off the hook so easy.

[Bigtigermike]

Bachmann shouldn’t milk this any longer after Chris apologized, it was a classless thing for Chris to say but He apologize and now she should just forgive and drop it because reporters will continue to bring it up if whether or not she she accepts his apology

[Tex-Con-Man]

Did Wallace, or anybody on Faux, ever question anything about Obama? ...looking at his background and asking serious questions.

The answer is, only one: Glenn Beck.

Hannity was non-stop on Obama's background. I would give him more credit than Beck.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Then you are a funny kind of Christian.

[dps.inspect]

A Christian does not have to take BS for the sake of it... she’s running for P. and she has a constituency... you insult me personally, and ask to be forgiven, I’ll forgive... you insult those I love and are responsible for, I’ll knock your fricking teeth out... savvy!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Wallace asked if she was a flake.

You turn that into an insult of those you love and are responsible for and add a personal threat.

Are you a flake?

[Girlene]

A Christian would accept the apology. This makes Bachmann look worse than Wallace. Bad mistake.

Where does it say in the article that she did not accept the apology? From the article:

........"When Karl asked if she accepts the apology, Bachmann brushed aside the question this way: "I think that it's insulting to insinuate that a candidate for president is less than serious.""..........

She brushed aside the question....she did not make a big deal of it....she actually said the same thing live during the interview, yesterday. When Wallace asked her what she would say to others calling her a flake, she essentially said that would be insulting. When he again asked her if she thought it would be a good thing for a candidate to not say "flaky things", her response was essentially, well, of course.

It would probably be a good thing to also not say racially charged things, curse like a drunken sailor on live TV, you get the drift.

[C. Edmund Wright]

you were wrong about Christie (and it was a union teacher hack, not a reporter who asked him the question) and you’re wrong about Bachmann.

[ziravan]

It was a stupid question. Wallace probably regretted it immediately. And. He apologized for it. That’s a rare thing in itself and indicative of just how out of line the question was.

For the unwashed that didn’t see - only heard the soundbite - the apology was a potentially huge win: it could have shown that she can take an unfair punch and hold her ground.

Instead, her refusal to accept the apology shows that she’s thin-skinned. The failure to be gracious in the face of an apology is, well, ungracious.

[C. Edmund Wright]

“.....Then you are a funny kind of Christian.....”

That is highly insulting - but that’s ok. What is not OK is that I logically explained that it is faux Christianity to accept an apology that is not yours to accept. All you’ve offered is self righteous platitudes and condemned the actions of the offended and given the offender a pass.

[Tax-chick]

I agree with C. Edmund. A Christian is required to forgive an offense, but not to accept an insincere apology. “I forgive you for being what you are,” would have been a nice sentiment, if she felt it was necessary. Personally, I’m not “offended” by people who can’t help being a-holes, any more than I’m offended by my teenagers’ being ... teenage. (”Why won’t you drop everything and wash the clothes I wore yesterday so I can wear them again today? I hate you!”)

And a good answer to “Are you a flake?” would have been, “Shoot, honey, not compared to you! Compared to you, I’m Abraham Lincoln!” (translate into Yank-speak for Rep. Bachmann’s use ;-).

Conservatives need to go on the attack with the media, by which I mean, naming them as tools of the Democrat party and not allowing them to play as if they’re anything else.

[andy58-in-nh]

I did not see the interview, so I cannot comment on the manner in which the question was asked or answered. However, I cannot imagine a reporter ever asking the same question of any Democrat, anywhere, no matter how demonstrably goofy that person has proven himself to be (think: Dennis Kucinich or Jerry Brown).

[Berlin_Freeper]

Wallace ASKED if Bachmann is a flake.

He did not even call her a flake.

You turned that into something it is not (i.e. an insult to others).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Chris thought he was proving to Jon-Jon Stewart that he was fair-and-balanced, but he only proved that he's a flake.

[P-Marlowe]

I think you missed the irony of Bachmann's remarks. On the first day of her candidacy she sent Ed Rollins out to accuse Sarah Palin of not being a serous candidate and implying that Sarah Palin was stupid.

Now Bachmann refuses to accept Wallace's apology because she claims it is insulting to suggest that she was not a serious candidate.

It is time we faced facts. Bachmann is not ready for prime time. She is not going to be the nominee.

She should have been gracious. Her excuse for not being gracious may have just sunk her candidacy.

[ScottinVA]

This is a distraction that needn’t be. Wallace was addressing the assumptions other networks and the libs have about her, NOT insinuating it about her directly. I like Michele Bachmann greatly, but it’s an error on her part not to accept the apology and move on.

[Chandalier]

I didn’t mind the question, people have been saying this about Bachmann for a while and it opened the door for her to give a really great response. I don’t think conservatives should whine when our candidtes face difficult interviews. It gives them the opportunity to show what they are made of. Bachmann weathered that interview quite well.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Sometimes it is difficult to forgive. I have forgiven many that I know in a million years would never be sorry.

Wallace apologized publicly for ASKING if Bachmann is a flake.

MY GOODNESS if you can’t forgive a person for THAT what can you forgive?!

[C. Edmund Wright]

“....Wallace ASKED if Bachmann is a flake. He did not even call her a flake....”

With due respect, if you don’t understand that in the media world, that’s the same thing, then I am afraid you are somewhat naive about this world.

[ScottinVA]

Did Wallace, or anybody on Faux, ever question anything about Obama?

Yes. They have, several times. And did you not see Brett Baier's interview with Obama that clearly had Obama rattled?