Megyn Kelly Grills Defecting Bachmann Chair Over Ron Paul Bribery Claim

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by Frances Martel | 2:42 pm, December 29th, 2011

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Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson may have become one of the most important characters in the Iowa Republican primary saga literally overnight with his somewhat surprising appearance at a Rep. Ron Paul rally last night, endorsing that candidate while still serving as the State Campaign Co-Chair of Michele Bachmann for President. He had more than a few questions to answer today to Megyn Kelly, who asked him several difficult questions about his move, including whether he was paid to make the switch.

“You know how to cause a controversy, don’t you, sir?” Kelly told him by way of introduction, to which she received a sheepish “that was not my intention.” Kelly explained the situation– in which Sen. Sorenson, while still the Iowa Bachmann campaign co-chair, gave a speech endorsing Rep. Paul last night– and noted that “people are apoplectic now and calling you disloyal. What say you?” Sorenson alleged that she “got the facts a little wrong there” and began to explain that he had a long history with the Ron Paul team from his history in Iowa politics.

Kelly didn’t have any patience for this explanation, cutting him off because “frankly, our viewers don’t really care about your election battle,” so Sorenson cut his explanation short, concluding that “I had to make a tough choice and it was difficult,” but he had to be loyal. This was understandably something of a confusing statement given what he did last night, so Kelly pressed him to answer why he switched

Sorenson responded that he had considered supporting Rep. Bachmann and had called the Rep. Paul camp when she made her announcement as a candidate to see where Rep. Paul was in the deliberation decision, and was told that he was still unsure as to whether he would run or not. With that in mind, Sorenson went over to the Rep. Bachmann camp, and only after he did so did Rep. Paul announce his candidacy. “He came to my aid when I was in two tough battles,” he noted, and he needed to reciprocate.

Then Kelly turned to the bribery allegations– that Rep. Bachmann said he personally told her he was paid to “jump ship.” “I think it’s unfortunate they’re choosing those types of tactics,” he responded, adding that he never “had that conversation with Michele Bachmann” and that he was “absolutely not” offered “a nickel” for defecting. When asked directly whether he was saying that Rep. Bachmann had told an “explicit lie,” he answered in the affirmative.

Ball is in your court, Bachmann camp.

The segment via Fox News below:

2012 elections, fox news, Kent Sorenson, Megyn Kelly, Michele Bachmann, Republicans, Ron Paul

Anonymous

Let me guess… she is outraged.
http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

Michelle Bachmann would be dangerous as President because she’d lead us into more wars.

She’d also apparently lie, stomp and scream anytime someone crossed her.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L4AJFQCTOKER7FCFYNEG2UIOKM Buck Kennedy

Consider this the first stone in a land slide.

RON PAUL 2012. FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN OUR TIME.
http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

Who cares. Neither one has a chance in hell of being President or even the nominee.
Anonymous

Everybody at Fox News is taking Ron Paul’s success personally. They’re too stupid to realize what they’re doing.
Anonymous

did anyone else notice the subtlety on the giant black Bachmann campaign suburban that kept driving right behind the guy during the interview… classic!
Anonymous

This Tubbo will never be important in his life. His support gained Bachmann no voters, and it will gain Paul none. Bachmann will be out after Iowa, and Paul will continue to lose until the suckers’ money is all gone.

RON PAUL 2012. F&CK THE JEWS.
Charles Ulysses Feney

Ron Paul will be a Great President!
http://twitter.com/TKJaros Kurt Jaros

How can Bachmann claim she was getting momentum and votes, and getting those votes from Paul as Paul’s numbers went up? Typical politician.
Brad Thurston

“What say you?” Megyn Kelly sure is sounding alot like the old tard O’Rielly. I wish I could see the anti paul room over at fox.
Charles Ulysses Feney

Ron Paul will be a Great President!
Anonymous

Megyn Kelly Grills Defecting Bachmann Chair. Serously????
Anonymous

LOL
Outrage on the Fox! Buckle up :)
Anonymous

Fox News REFUSES to let Paul win since he goes against everything the establishment GOP/Teabaggers believe in.
Anonymous

RON PAUL 2012. 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
Anonymous

I expected Michele Bachmann to stick her head out of the window and wave-or throw a water balloon.
Henry Wood

I thought Fox viewers regarded bribery as a sacrament.
Anonymous

“frankly, our viewers don’t really care about your election battle,”

Ouch. There’s probably a more polite and professional way she could have stated that.
Anonymous

Of course he was paid off! He told Rep. Bachmann as much, and if her own people say any different it’s because it was a personal conversation they weren’t privy to.

In related news, I just got off the phone with President Ahmadinejad. This was a personal conversation between the two of us, so no one else is in a position to speak on it. I got him to back off on the nukes and threats to close The Straits of Hormuz in return for a Bobby Brown’s Greatest hits CD. The international community can stand down now. You’re welcome.
Anonymous

Are you off your medicine again? You better get back on them soon or those men in the white suits will be knocking on your door, again. Remember them?
http://www.facebook.com/gav.lafreniere Gav Lafreniere

Dear Michele Bachmann: Welcome to the world of free market capitalism.
Anonymous

Fox News really don’t like Ron Paul and are doing their best to muddy the waters around him.

It isn’t going to change to much, since his campaign and his supporters are very independent minded anyway…

…Poor old Michele Bachmann this has got to be a very public humiliation, with bad timing!
Anonymous

Sorry having a tough time getting outraged or happy over a guy I never heard of until today & will never hear of again in 2 days. I also wonder if anyone is really even paying attention to any of this X-mas & New Years week? I know people reading this site are but I highly doubt the rest of the country is.
Al Falfa

Aw, mush !
Anonymous

Bachmann will be out next week and Paul will be back to irrelevant as soon as NH rolls around.
Anonymous

So you are suggesting Fox News has something to do with this? Talk about leftist paranoia…
Anonymous

Speculate much and confuse them with facts? Might want to do something about that..hurts your credibility!!
Anonymous

Doesn’t matter…..ABO is the motto of 2012!!
Anonymous

This dude looks and sounds enough to be a separated at birth twin brother of fellow back-stabber Steve Schmidt, former McCain campaign chairman who sold his soul and integrity to MSNBC.
The Real Royal Emperor

Yes, and the Pope is a Catholic. Some things never change.
12voltman1

Oh I see Mr why are you guys sooooooo partisan?, chimes in. Why are you sticking up for Michelle Bachman?. She’s not your candidate now is she? You’re just taking sides again!
The Real Royal Emperor

I doubt FOX “News” was directly involved in this, but you have to admit that there is an all-out, full-court press at FOX “News” to neuter Paul.
12voltman1

Don’t take this the wronng way dude but……….. .YOU ARE DELUSIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
12voltman1

Don’t feed the trolls!! Dude!
12voltman1

Left paranoia? Dude, I have to hook you up with spypalinexposedclickhere listed above. You two together would be a hoot!
12voltman1

Belated Merry Christmas. Please have a happy New Year!
May 2012 be a hell of a lot better than 2011!!!!!!!
12voltman1

I agree. Image that!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNMVQZCXFQTDIGILG354Q727YY Roma Victor

She’d probably rather unload a clip from her automatic rifle.
12voltman1

No. I been saying this for months, CC!
ABR>Anyone But Romney!
It will be Romney vs Obama . Which one will you hold your nose to vote for?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNMVQZCXFQTDIGILG354Q727YY Roma Victor

Whew! Thanks for the reminder.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DNMVQZCXFQTDIGILG354Q727YY Roma Victor

Nice. I couldn’t quite place him, but you’re absolutely right. Pass the popcorn!
12voltman1

I thought the bear was Catholic?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Liz-McKenzie/100001703816375 Liz McKenzie

Any GOP President would lead us into more wars. Can anyone sing bomb,bomb,bomb, bomb Iran?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Liz-McKenzie/100001703816375 Liz McKenzie

We all are entitled to our fantasies. Is yours with Paul also s..ex..ual???
Anonymous

‘So you are suggesting Fox News has something to do with this?’

Most of the language from the Network suggests otherwise…

Leftist paranoia?

You would be better placed to ask Dick Morris who described Ron Paul as ‘The Most Liberal, Radical Left-Wing Person To Run For President In The Last 50 Years’ about paranoia!!!
Anonymous

I guess FOX had already filled its quota of right wing barely literate losers they could subsidize with make work
http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

No wonder why Ron Paul supporters often linked with anti-semitism
with that quote, from a supporter who needs enemy ? .

#Selfdestruction
Thomas Mc

So, paying someone more is now “bribery”?!?
Everybody knows Bachmann is cheap, and doesn’t meet paydays.
Thomas Mc

A vote for Paul is a vote for the K.K.K.
Thomas Mc

Yeah, for the Ku Klux Klan!
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Someone should inform Megyn that if she wants to be credible and taken seriously, then before you ask your guest a second question, let him answer the first one you asked!!

Megyn is lucky she had a good plastic surgeon to get that job with Fox News… because it had nothing to do with her intelligence!!
Anonymous

What an MCP you are leedog.
Anonymous

lets see–
ron paul versus John Kerry light?

the cons are going to have to choose a John Kerry clone without the experience and war metals…WHO SUPPORTS AND IMPLEMENTED THE SINGLE MOST HATED PROGRAM OBAMA HAS…

ya–ron paul is light years better than that…
Anonymous

wait till Palin comes out for him…
then you know the cons are looking to 2016…
Anonymous

More like UNBUCKLE AND LET THAT ISH RIDE
Anonymous

Would you care to compare your credentials to hers??
Anonymous

Did she offer to breastfeed him after the interview?
Anonymous

Someone should inform you that on a televised talk show there are strict time limitations.

When a guest refuses to answer a question and chooses to ramble on with nonsense, the host is perfectly justified to interrupt.

If the host interrupts a guest, because guest’s opinion differs from that of the host, the interruption is not justified. Just ask Chris Matthews.

Of course, he hardly ever has any guest on Hardball who is not a fellow water carrier for 0bama.
Anonymous

And you prove that a vote for Obama is a proud vote for unapologetic stupidity.
Anonymous

Fool! You think Obama has been a president of peace? Tell that to the dead Pakistani civilians caught in his ordered drone strikes.
Anonymous

Nah, The pope covered up cases of child molestation from all around the world. That doesn’t sound very Catholic to me. Probably does to you though. Am I right, Mr Good Catholic?
Anonymous

Oh, Tina_Tampon!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

There is no controversy about it. Bachmann’s staffs have turned over 5 times since 2006. She was out of the race after the virus vaccine fiasco. The woman’s a pathelogical liar.
Anonymous

I guess Jesus did not make his payroll. It only took only 30 pieces of silver from the Romans to get Judas to sell him out. Senator Sorenson is a 21st Century Judas Iscariot. Judas had the decency to be ashamed and hang himelf. Sorenson does not yet know it, but he has committed political suicide. Nobody will ever trust him again.
Anonymous

Megyn is hot! However, she fell into the trap of asking Senator Sorenson if he had been promised or received any money? He said no! That is not the way things work in politics. Ron Paul’s cronies are more sphisticated than that. What they did is offer Sorenson the Ron Paul Donors List” and tell him that all of Congressman Paul’s donors will show their gratitude for his betrayal when Senator Sorenson runs for re-election. Senator Sorenson should remember what happened to Brutus when he betrayed Julius Caesar. The People of Rome turned against him, just like the Iowa Republican Party and his constituents will turn against Senator Sorenson! He is finished!
Anonymous

If she did, how can I get on the show?
Anonymous

Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson is the Jesse James of the Republican Party. He did the same thing to Michele Bachmann that Jesse James did to Sandra Bullock. I can just hear him now: “I did not rush into having sex with Michelle “Bombshell”Mcghee and thereby violate my marriage vows and break the heart of America’s sweetheart. No sir! I gave the matter serious thought. For months in preparation for my betrayal, I screwed every woman who came into my West Coast Choppers Shop and then decided who could best satisfy my lust. I did not do it for myself. I did it for God and Country. I received no money from those “Johns” despite the fact that I am a whore!” State Senator Kent Sorenson: The Jesse James, Tiger Woods and John Edwards of the Republican Party, all rolled into one pathetic soon to be “former Senator Sorenson.”
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7RQ3BYT543OCYDUVW4U4NJVM5Y Mary

I had never heard of state Sen. Sorenson before this flap, but I have to say that his credibility in this far exceeds that of Bachmann, who plays the part of the practiced obfuscator (liar) like the role was made for her.