Credit Where It's Due: CNN Airs Bachmann Speech, MSNBC Freaks

I thought MSNBC hated “heavily edited tapes?”

The GOP wouldn’t choose Michele Bachmann to be its spokesperson because they have no balls, not because Bachmann isn’t a dynamic speaker. This is why you saw women like Palin out in front defending conservative Americans from the MSM attacks post-Arizona and why no Republican congressperson made a peep.

Anyone who has ever seen Bachmann speak in public knows she has the ability to riff succinctly sans prompter. Our President has to have one to talk to school kids.

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Whatever makes the show go on, I guess.

I’m glad that CNN aired Bachmann’s speech.

“No one knows what CNN was thinking in making this journalistic decision tonight to make themselves part of the story.”

CNN aired a conservative voice. I see no problem with this. I see no problem with as many diverse voices as possible, because that’s what discussion is all about.

Maddow is rolling with two faulty presuppositions in this:

1) That the GOP had a problem with Bachmann’s speech.

2) That it was intended for reception as a third party response.

Since when is a television network in the wrong for airing as many voices as possible? Because it’s related to the tea party?

Say what you will about the Tea Party Express. Personally, I think they messed up in the Nevada midterms, and everyone knows that they can’t legitimately claim to be grassroots because it was an operation hatched by Sacremento Republican consultants.

But so what?

Do they have the same goals as grassroots in terms of 2012?

If the answer is yes, then frankly, my dears, who gives a damn? The left holds no such standard or bears any shame (or hides) with their astroturfing. Many of the “grassroots” Soros organizations were started by a bunch of Clintonistas. And all the Soros organizations are essentially corporate socialist groups. It’s not a standard with which the right should allow the left to strangle them. The tactic loses its purpose when the value is taken away, a.k.a. Neutering Alinsky.

I’m left to assume that MSNBC is angry that CNN took a step towards broadening their audience and gave any sort of legitimizing nod to anything with the tea party name.

For those who preach the Fairness Doctrine, how is that a bad thing?