As I mentioned in my post this morning, there was a reason that Rep. Michele Bachmann was looking off at an odd angle during her Tea Party State of the Union response: she was speaking to the camera that was streaming her talk on the Tea Party Express website, rather than the media-pool camera. Oddly, though, the website itself as of this morning was embedding a YouTube video from PBS, with the odd pool-camera angle. (Sidebar: What’s the Tea Party position on funding public broadcasting again?)

Curious to find out how the TPE viewers saw Bachmann, as opposed to the rest of America, I scoured video sites looking for the source video. I was finally able to find a single website carrying a capture of the original. (It doesn’t allow embedding; if I find a copy that does, I’ll add it here.)

Now, you could still think that choosing to look the Tea Party straight on, while the rest of the country saw an eccentric-looking speech was a failure of optics and messaging. But it’s just possible that—intentional or accidental—it was genius.