Back Angle of Michele Bachmann getting Mic-Checked by Occupy Charleston

[TheLamentingNerd]

This is what gives me hope for the country and our citizens.

[Zapppo]

These ppl are retarded, not organized, reading from sheets of paper instead of having it memorized. Didn't hear a word of their message. Need a new tactic if u guys want anyone to even be able to hear you. I never can hear their message, ever. bc they are stupidly repeating each other like drone zombies, half the tards are looking at their papers not saying anything & desperately trying to catch up. pathetic & ineffective, but hey, if it makes you feel better, spin your wheels.

[TheLamentingNerd]

@Zapppo At least they're doing something to get their voices heard.

[julioabruno2254]

RON PAUL OWNS THEM ALL!!!

[KingFrankieD]

at least obama was cool about it 

[ssundar4]

STUPID Bachmann

[Loltochapel]

Look at the narrow-minded testosterone charged redneck in red shirt. What is a matter cant' stand to listen to a point of view that does not represent bigotry or a corporate agenda?! I swear the Tea Party attracts the most mentally vulnerable idiots at out there who are uncapable of critical thinking.

[sB3tda47]

Hypocrites denying Michele Bachmann freedom of speech. They are not the 99%, they are the half of 1% denying freedom of speech with their so called mic checks.

[jessiesisavat]

obama 2012!!!!!!



[cymonebreathe]

Did you see how promptly Bachman got off that podium? hate that lady.

[cymonebreathe]

It's hard in the south, i swear. Never moving to SC.

[Nilguiri]

Good video. Nice to see somebody point the camera in the right direction for a change.

[escodman]

im so proud to be part of the 99%..it brings tears to my eyes when i see Democracy playout..

[similik101]

um, that redneck in the red was about to hurt these poor liberals. :( Glad the cops got there first.

[nolaeast]

Great job. 

[moeantaki]

Greetings fro Tahrir square in Egypt.We love and admire you please keep doing what you are doing and we will do what we have to and hopefully they will wake up.

[otvoreniUM]

Big suport to 99% from SERBIA :D i love u ALL

[dfinkie]

Nice cop mustache



[chromacopy1701]

LMAO. Yep, it's 'go time' for the dumbfuck in the red shirt.

[RavensKrag]

Congrats on preforming a truly headless demonstration.

[julioabruno2254]

lol she ran out like a little bitch

[janses08]

Hmm a bunch of old white people there....... and they say that the tea party type are "diverse groups" LMFAO!!!!!

[parentheticalstain]

dude in red shirt is ready to fucking go

[plaxicoshak]

Disrespectful fucks! This is not the way to prove a point. The only thing you prove is your complete stupidity. Your movement is becoming a total embarrassment for your people. You are not the 99%! Most Americans, I would venture to say, 99% are growing tired of your stupid, spoild child like bullshit!. Obviously you punk ass pukes never had discipline when you were young and your parents should be spanked for raising such ass whole kids! Fuck off dumbasses!

[Boevis]

@plaxicoshak Please, go graze in some other pasture, sheep.

[xadam2dudex]

stupid idiots that think Bachmann is a viable candidate.. these people deserve to be used and abused by these corrupt republicans.. those cops think that the guy in the slacks is the leader so they are going after him...scumbag tea baggers did a lot worse than this at the town meetings but that was ok because that was REAL americans not these "socialist" commies wanting to be mean to rich people..it boggles the mind to think these righties are too stupid to know they are being used by the elite

[parentheticalstain]

@xadam2dudex wow. you are a moron who doesn't understand the idea of a protest.

[xadam2dudex]

@parentheticalstain u must be the moron because u don't but I do know and have been in protest ..I doubt if u ever have ...these people are doing a good job of taking the protest to the source of the problem the corrupt repulican establishment...the idiots in the crowd that support Bachmann I bet disrupted the dems summer town meetings but that is ok because it's them doing it

[parentheticalstain]

@xadam2dudex shit dude, sorry, we are on the same side. that comment was meant for plaxicoshak . i agree that bachmann is a piece of shit

[Truth77Absolute]

I think Bachman supporters that stood up and started to scream "sit down" should not have doen that. That is called reacting. You just did the same thing your adversary did to you. You made the situation worse. It is best to be patient and let them waste their energy. Then if it continues and does not stop just let the police arrest them. Then continue about your buisness.

[GCar35]

GOOD JOB CHARLESTON!!!



[paul1mdrn]

So sad to see the old folks who actually think they're fighting for the same country they once knew.

[pcreator]

Michele Bachmann 2012!

[SacredWord]

6-camera angle version:

watch?v=DC8RkVOUOxA

Nice to see another Zionist tool pwned.

[rancosteel]

RONPAUL 2012.

[CrashPadder]

she's more of disgrace than Palin

[xxOccupyxx]

Her handful of Teabaggers were mad, bro. lolol

[JanusChristIsRisen]

Mainstream Media made this gathering look like she had A LOT more fans than this. Hardly anyone in the crowd is under the age of 50 and the crowd totals about that many people.

[fastronaut]

Occupy everywhere.

[gigitrix]

Great work.

[livelifealwaystoo]

The "leader" gets taken off and another steps up and continues.

[MrKneller]

It's unbelievably terrifying that ANYONE could get behind someone as clueless an intellectually bankrupt as Bachman. I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I'm a person, and we should all vote as such.

[1953mel]

WTG Charleston!!! OWS

[fabulousmanner]

i think my favorite part of this video is when the policemen just gives up holding the guy, and lets him go

[CuriousGeorgeMonkey9]

@fabulousmanner For a minute, I thought the police officer was gonna arrest Bachmann! If only.

[jesse1779]

tea baggers ha ha they were too ignorant to realize they were calling themselves something dirty sorry now your stuck with it  theres just no excuse to support Bachmann if you do you just cant be taken seriously

[Antisthenez]

Christians are ow in intelligence and censoring bullies , if it were 100 years ago they would kill us all

[RSwordIAAA]

fuck bachmann, and everyone who supports that anti freedom cunt ... this is fucking america.

[schedulefreak]

This needs to happen every time someone who claims to stand for Americans in Congress yet repeatedly fights for forcing working people into poverty tries to give a speech. Anywhere. That is how the working people in this country will win.

People talk about "having a discussion", but the discussion is being had on blogs and in newspapers. A public speech is neither the time nor the place for a discussion. It is the place for a show of strength. It is the place for powerful symbolic action.

[shannonxcannon]

The best part was, "HAVE A PLEASANT DAY!"

[bus19driver]

@spydrplus So when these tea people go around wearing clothing with teabags stapled to it what should we be calling them? You're the one who said that when someone didn't agree with Jesse1779 they were called an idiot and now you are calling LiberaLib ignorant!

I do have a question for you, do you think corporations are people?

[bus19driver]

@spydrplus You continue to say that the Occcupy group failed to get their point across but I think they got their point across perfectly! As LiberaLib said the teabaggers on the right are the ones who seemed to have made protests of this kind the way to be heard! Be obnoxiously loud and it doesn't matter if you say anything relevant at this time! The minority teabagger group did it this way and now every republican candidate bends over backwards to please them!

[SoggyTomato]

A REAL leader would have asked for quiet while the protesters excercised their constitutional rights, then had the COURAGE to respond to them. Oh, and check out what a pack of redneck fatties Bachman's supporters are. LOL!

[CuriousGeorgeMonkey9]

@SoggyTomato I bet these people still believe that the Iraq War was for democracy!

[Truth77Absolute]

@SoggyTomato , You know what. I agree with you. I do not usually agree with liberals. If I were Bachman I would have let them have their 1 minute speech. Listened to them. Then I would have asked the group after they finished " Why did you guys have to stand up and ask questions the way you did? why could you have not just take the mic and asked questions individually in a respectful way? " I would have outlasted the protesters. But she just walked away.

[RavensKrag]

@SoggyTomato Disagree strongly with your use of ad hominem, but I do agree that it seems odd that she would simply leave. If she had nothing to hide, why could she not respond to them?

[mamabritts]

@SoggyTomato Ron Paul handled it with class and grace...... and was applauded in the end.... 

[planetlockdown]

Time for Minnesota voters to fumigate their state of Teabagger Terrorists funded by the Koch Brothers and Pillsbury crime family as well as Fed Reserve puppets. Arizona just snuffed out Russell Pearce in a recall election. The OCCUPY movement must put their political numbers to voting out Michele Bachmann and her criminal corp agenda against working poor citizens. Same with Herman Cain out. Michele wants genocide on the impoverished, even Christians.

[planetlockdown]

Hilarious, Michele's RoboTeabaggers in the wings to defend this Kochsucker Stepford Construct who like all the Republican Party candidates are first to get rid of the USA Constitution and the Bill of Rights in favor of mass packing their prison industries and slave labor firms overseas. Michele disrupted political assemblies with her Teabagger bots in past. No young Republican gang thugs to back Michele, many joined OCCUPY!

[jesse1779]

i just can't see how someone would follow her  she has shown to be so illiterate getting so many basic facts wrong .she cant finish a sentencethat makes sense. you dont see that? thats shocking to most educated people and its even more dangerous because she is an elected official.

[Lupgaroo666]

Next time don't all check your phones or you will be sequestered before you get a chance. Just set to vibrate or have a visual cue sent from one source. Good work Occupy!!! change.org/petitions/the-99-bo­­ycott-black-friday

[Lupgaroo666]

She said she was on the Security Council? Whoops, I guess she didn't see that one coming. Thanks for 9/11. Why is she preaching to a bunch of long haired kids. Have hair cut regs got that slack. Besides usually they have a bunch of GI's in uniform, not civies. Good work Occupy!!! change.org/petitions/the-99-bo­­ycott-black-friday

[Nieuws1]

Why don't they just go ahead and endorse Ron Paul he stands for almost everything they do. No other Candidate come even close... In fact Ron Paul is the only republican candidate that doesn't openly mock the OWM. He doesn't fund his campaign by wall street, he's against the FED, he is against the way the people are being ripped of by inflation, and the financial system. Obama only pays lip service so he can try to co-op the movement and have his own version of the Tea Party.

[JoeyinOC]

Wow! That's at least half of her audience! The other half are just igonorant geriatrics! How pathetic is this candidate!

[schawacker]

Magnificent!  Thought I'd never see a serious challenge to the establishment.

[jesse1779]

your wrong spydrplus the only way this gets heard is if you do something like this people cant be heard any more only corporations can now people are talking about what this was about it dorsnt matter what it looks like to idiots that dont agree wifh this movement they will never change

[spydrplus]

@jesse1779 Do you not see the hypocrisy in your statement? Anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot? You're delusional.

[JoeyinOC]

Damned ignorant old people!

[JoeyinOC]

Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm tickled pink! That witch need to hear the voice of the people!

[mikebrennanus]

Bachmann isn't worth the energy to interupt.

[bus19driver]

AWESOME!!! @BeatleEDs So if I understand you correctly we should let corporations(since corporations are somehow people now) speak before corporations(who have the money to buy elections and will put their puppets in office so they can) take away our right to free speech! I don't think so!

[gregvsn]

MIC CHECK!

We demand an end to legitimized corruption | through a constitutional reversal | of the Citizens United decision.

This will help the American people.

[dromefrog8]

GF Michelle! You won't win ANYTHING!

[TheDaftGang]

all the old farts with half brains are chanting michelle ahhaha.

[nevermore221]

wow this truly inspiring

[BeatleEDs]

You people should be very careful. Let people speak before people start taking your freedom of speech away.

[spydrplus]

@BeatleEDs - oh really? They were purposefully talking over the speaker trying to hijack a speach, what about Bachmann's right to freedom of speech? It goes both ways. You have to consider the rights of the people you don't agree with too, otherwise you're a hypocrite

[LiberaLib]

@spydrplus she didn't seize her right to freedom of speech. she ran. if she wanted, she could have engaged the protesters in a discussion. she has an amplified microphone. instead, she fled. you know why? she doesn't really have anything to say. she couldn't engage the protesters in a discussion on policy because all she has are paid-for talking points. that's not speaking. that's selling your voice to someone else so they can speak through you.

[spydrplus]

@LiberaLib - I'm not going to speak to her talking points, because I don't support her, but there's no way I would have entertained that kind of behavior. You think the first amendment guarantees you the right to force a yelling match on someone? That's ignorant. Besides, these people weren't looking to have a discussion; if they were they wouldn't have used 30 people yelling at the top of their lungs in a setting where a single person could be clearly heard. They were trying to be obnoxious

[shadowlesswalls]

@spydrplus How is that ignorant? It is to show it is the thought of many people that know she is garbage. Besides if one person was to speak they would drown out the voice if they don't like what the person is saying anyway. this way we can be heard and they can no longer drown the silence of truth. Besides they didn't get arrested so apparently it was within our rights. Not sure why you defend tyrants. Political people are known to lie.why act like the are saints? no more bail outs

[spydrplus]

@shadowlesswalls I'm not defending 'tyrants', I'm defending our constitution which you are misrepresenting to push an agenda. The man didnt avoid arrest because he was 'within his right' but because it was easier and cheaper to just escort him out. He technically could have been arrested for violating the peace, but it wasn't an offense worth the time or effort.

BTW, Backmann voted against the bailouts smart guy. I don't support her, I just can't stand prideful ignorance.

[shadowlesswalls]

@spydrplus if you was defending the constitution you would have wanted them to speak. and be done. Instead those other people wanted to deny the voice of the people. It is them you should be going against about the constitution. Why can't people have a voice? Now a days you can't even have a real conversation or debate with candidates. It's always questions they want to hear and never the questions people want to ask. it was a public area where they was invited so it was not illegal night

[spydrplus]

@shadowlesswalls - The constitution doesn't protect this. For one, that was not civil discourse, so the first amendment doesn't apply, second, they were on private land. In the comment that you deleted you said that the other people in the room were rude for not letting them finish...which shows your lack of ability to think logically. Tell me, if I were to stand up in the middle of a movie you were watching and started screaming at the top of my lungs, should I be asked to leave? Same principal

[FrAnKsOnLyWiFe]

@spydrplus a movie doesn't have the chance to be elected into public office a push her religious tyranny on the American people. These people are exercising their right to get their voice heard to make sure that Michelle Bachman doesn't get that chance either. also, theirs no such thing as private property. land is land these streets and towns and public places belong to ALL citizens of the United states. Putting up a fence, or buying a building doesn't mean you've negated the Constitution.

[spydrplus]

@FrAnKsOnLyWiFe I didn't say anything about a movie, but the 14th amendment that protects your right to life, liberty, and property would disagree with your assessment that you have rights to any piece of land you want. Feel free to try to break in to my house and tell me you have a right to be there.

[spydrplus]

I appologize, I didn't realize what post you were responding to, I understand what you mean by movie now. The principal is the same. I don't know what kind of point you were making about a movie not being elected to public office though, unless you're saying that she should be treated differently because of the substance of her speech, but that of course would be a clear violation of the first amendment

[shadowlesswalls]

@spydrplus It's not the same cause it's a public area where people come to ask the candidate questions. Unless you are telling me the candidates want the people silent and just shut up and vote for them.. then i would think u have issues. It wasn't even land. this takes place on a ship. Shows how much you know =P

[spydrplus]

@shadowlesswalls - of course that's not what I'm saying. I'm simply saying that the way these protesters acted was dumb and wasn't meant to be productive. Had they come to ask Bachmann a question they would have waited until her speech was done and the Q&A times started, just like all the other people there were doing. By creating selfish disorder they make it impossible for everyone to get a chance. They were inconsiderate to everyone else in attendance.

And legally, a ship is private land.

[shadowlesswalls]

@spydrplus fair enough.. they should have waited to show how civil they are. I guess they didn't want to wait threw the entire speech lol.. oh well. have a nice day

[spydrplus]

@shadowlesswalls - Well since you say that I think I should probably cut them a break....there aren't many who can sit through an entire Bachmann speech :P

[shadowlesswalls]

@spydrplus hehe. funny.. have a nice day again =)



[LiberaLib]

@spydrplus well, she walked out without trying to engage them, so there's no way to know whether your assertion that "these people weren't looking to have a discussion" is right or wrong, because she didn't try.

[spydrplus]

@LiberaLib Seriously? They cut her off and screamed at the top of their lungs over everyone around them. They obviously weren't looking for a discussion, just like the people who started chanting 'Michelle' at the end weren't trying to have a discussion. These protestors were simply trying to make a point, sadly the only point they made is that they don't know how to protest intelligently. They had the opportunity to ask questions and make their points known by waiting for Q&A, but they failed

[LiberaLib]

@spydrplus they didn't "drown anybody out," since the crowed ended up drowning THEM out. (by chanting "USA, USA," which struck me as predictably cretinous.) i agree it does come off as somewhat irritating behavior, but i love the idea that people like bachmann are having trouble even presenting themselves in public. the right made this bed for themselves by encouraging savage behavior at town halls a couple years ago (remember the woman in the wheelchair). now they get to lie in it.

[spydrplus]

@LiberaLib - Lol they didn't drown her out? You couldn't hear anything until others started screaming at the top of their lungs too. The volume pinged out the microphone on the camera. You aren't even making intelligent arguments now...you're blinded by bias. And trying to condone the action by saying another group of radicals did the same thing is equally ignorant. I said it was stupid at the town halls and I say it now. btw, Tea Party and OWS are more similar than they are different.

[LiberaLib]

@spydrplus i've heard that before, that the tea party and OWS are similar, but i don't buy it. they're responding to the same crisis, but across the board the solutions they propose -- in terms of gov't regulation, their approach to the markets, etc. -- they're basically opposites.

i can't say i'm big on one side being civil when the other refuses to be. if the teabaggers want to yell, it behooves the other side to yell back. otherwise, we get steamrolled. sad, but it's just ...

[LiberaLib]

@LiberaLib ... the level discourse has stooped to these days. it's just lucky no one got violent. take a long look at that guy in the marine corps shirt; you can just see he was dying to wring somebody's neck.

[spydrplus]

@LiberaLib - you're simply showing your ignorance when you refer to them as 'teabaggers' inciting visuals of a sexual act to discredit them. OWS is in no way being steamrolled by the majority of news outlets. Fox, of course, but that's because they need something to fight against to stay relevant. And I thought OWS hasn't put out any proposed solutions because it's not organized? Are you saying this is a liberal movement? Insert foot in mouth.

[LiberaLib]

@spydrplus i call them "teabaggers" because i don't like them and that's a term that they don't care for. if the term elicits (not "incites") a visual of a sexual act for you, that's your watch.

OWS is mostly a liberal movement, but it has a pretty significant libertarian component. paulers and preppers go to OWS protests. your calls for moderation at events like this is well-intentioned, but that train's pulled out. these rightists don't listen to reason, frankly. too radicalized.

[BeatleEDs]

@spydrplus - Sorry, that was my point. I was trying to hold back a bit. These protestors better be careful. We will not just sit here while they interrupt our society.

[spydrplus]

@BeatleEDs Ah, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. My fault. What these guys and gals in the clip don't understand is that their message is completely lost when they do stupid stuff like this. And they wonder why they're looked at as nothing but a bunch of spoiled college kids.

[terenceokane]

this is amazing... needs to happen more

[CauseThereforeEffect]

Pwnt.

GOP= Government in Our Pockets

signed- Corporate America

[LydiaTremont]

We finally have a democratic movement in the United States and look at how the politicians and police treat the people.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[spydrplus]

@LydiaTremont - Re-read the constitution kid, it doesn't give them a right to do this. They are on private property trying to pick a fight during a speech. This is like me coming in to your bedroom at night yelling at you...it's not protected under the constitution. If it was on your own land the government wouldn't be able to touch you....that's what the bill of rights protects.

[LydiaTremont]

@spydrplus You can stand up for this unjust anti-american action all you want. We have a right to Free Speech and it's being violated by the tyrants in this video.

[BlueRoseTorn]

beautiful

[MrIanHulstein]

I wish they would have just let the people speak without all that yelling. Shame, its an important message and nobody got to hear it properly =\

But still, well done guys!

[terenceokane]

@MrIanHulstein they have to yell, no one would ever give an average person the chance to make a serious statement at something like this

[MrIanHulstein]

Lulz at the old people trying to defend Bachman.... that's what happens when you don't make use of the internet && you buy into bullshit the media feeds you without stepping back, looking at multiple angles and learning to think critically.

People are always going to try and tell you what to think, but in the end that decision is yours.

Just do us a favour and make sure that decision isn't made out of ignorance..

Peace and love my friends.

[spydrplus]

@MrIanHulstein - ignorance like saying anyone who doesn't defend the stupidity of these actions is automatically part of the media brainwased masses? These guys were idiots looking for publicity, otherwise they would have done this in a more intelligent way.

[CuriousGeorgeMonkey9]

@MrIanHulstein Bachmann's army of right-wing wackos can't even come up with a catchy mantra. Just listen to them yelling "sit down" to drown out the protesters.

[xXxXNanuXxXx]

Yell USA to drown out the voices of other Americans...

[unreal672003]

brainwashing begins at a very early age.. history lessons in school.. nothing but biased views, twisted truth, lies.. to get their side of the story hardwired into your brain..

Washington is a bigger? threat to the American people than Iran.