Michele Bachmann: ‘Overkill’ Reaction To Limbaugh’s Remarks, But ‘Zero Outrage’ When I Was Attacked

Following the media outrage over Rush Limbaugh‘s provocative remarks, Michele Bachmann took to CNN make an argument we’ve heard from some others already: that the media doesn’t express the same disgust when the woman being attacked is conservative. When violent statements were made about her, she said, there was no response.

On a Starting Point segment, Soledad O’Brien brought up Bachmann’s comment to Piers Morgan about the lack of reaction to threats made against her. Bachmann, recounting her “personal experience,” said: “I couldn’t repeat on television what has been said about me. A judge recently ordered Twitter to identify a man who called for me to be not only raped and sodomized but also killed.”

It’s a serious matter, she added, but there “was zero outrage about the statements on the left, absolutely zero.” Highlighting the contrast, Bachmann said it’s just wrong to “see the overkill that’s being done against Rush Limbaugh” when her attacks went unnoticed. She emphatically stated: “To me, it doesn’t matter whether a woman is a Republican or Democrat, or whether she’s liberal or conservative. This sort of violent talk should not be acceptable for anyone.”

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