Chris Matthews: Michele Bachmann A 'Balloon Head' (VIDEO)

To  be fair, the time to be all over politician­s is before they get into power.  

Regarding Matthews and Bachmann specifical­ly, Matthews was onto Bachmann right before the 2008 election.  Do you remember this?  It wasn't surprising that she won a couple of weeks later after this interview; the effect of interviews like these right before elections can go either way.  But after the elections, if the politician doesn't ratchet back the cray-zee, the voters in their districts see that they really are cray-zee and it's going to be their last term in office. 

Michelle Bachmann's numbers were showing that was going to be her fate.  She wasn't polling well and she wasn't pulling in campaign donations from within her district.  

And then Obama and Rahm Emanuel took off after Rush Llmbaugh and Sarah Pa/in, two people with no job with the Republican Party, and Pa/in not even in elected office.  Obama didn't go after Republican­s in Congress or Republican leaders.  And when the Tea Party surfaced, Obama went mute.  DIsappeare­d from public when teabaggers were taking over members of Congress's townhalls to discuss healthcare reform.  

Money poured in from out of state to Michelle Bachmann, and media figures like Matthews basically said and did nothing.  Oh, periodical­ly they would refer to her, kind of like preaching to the choir, but no concentrat­ed intense focus on where she was getting her money.  And in the absence of push-back, voters only hear the cray-zee candidate who has the advantage of huge money.  

I know it was a shock to many people who don't spend time thinking about politics except around elections to see her win again in 2010.  They were certain from 2008 that she was being waltzed to the door to retirement­.

There really is no "being fair" to American media.  We're in this sorry state because of the failure of the fourth estate.
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