On Tuesday, when it was revealed and later admitted by the candidate that she, like many Americans, suffers from migraines, not only was it covered online, but there, at a rally in South Carolina were journalists with followup questions for the possible first female president of the United States.

One of those reporters seeking to talk with the Minnesota congresswoman was Brian Ross of ABC News

“Ross walked to Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. When Ross went to the white SUV waiting to carry Bachmann away, two Bachmann men pounced on him, grabbing and pushing him multiple times with what looked to me like unusual force,” Crowley reported.

“In fact, I have never seen a reporter treated so roughly at a campaign event, especially not a presidential one,” Crowley wrote, adding, “Ross was finally able to break away and lob his question at Bachmann one more time, but she continued to ignore him.”

Later when Crowley asked his fellow journalist if he had ever been treated so roughly, Ross told him it happened a few times “mostly by Mafia people.”

The news spread quickly and soon the headlines began to appear. “Michele Bachmann Beats the Press” wrote New York magazine. “How not to respond to legitimate questions” wrote the Washington Monthly.

And what was the headline on the conservative National Review? “Bachmann Camp Defends Treatment of Reporter.”

Wait. What?

Indeed, apparently Bachmann’s strategy is to blame the messenger, after roughing him up.

ABC says they have video of the fracas. Jeffrey Schneider, a senior vice president for ABC news, told Greg Sargent of the Washington Post that Ross “was certainly shoved around and pushed.”

What you think about it?? Do you think a Reporter doing his job and asking questions and getting shoved and pushed around is ok???