>> we bin keeping them honest with congresswoman michele bachmann. also tonight, president obama on a three-day swing through midwest states. these campaign stops or a presidential bus tour? the white house says it's a listening tour to hear from americans about the economy. republicans say it's pure politics, not policy. but taxpayers are still footing part of the bill. so is he commander in chief or campaigner in chief? real politics ahead. >> all i can tell you is i'm not judging. >> your words should stand for themselves. >> i'm running for the president of the united states. >> so she says she is not judging anyone which as you will

see in a moment is not true. mainly she is not answering questions about our views on sexual orientation which is strange because the congresswoman has never been shy on the issue before. as a senator she sponsored an amendment to the constitution banning same-sex marriage and spark out sharply against homosexuality and using the adjective gay in connection with saim same sex orientation. that's how outspoken she was. >> it is part of satan, i think to say this is gay. it is anything but gay. if you are involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle it is bondage. it is personal bondage, personal despair and enslavement. >> claiming that gays and lesbians are living in personal bondage, despair and enslavement sounds like personal judgment, certainly not a fact. and she refers to the lifestyle by one which one can assume it is a choice. in the same speech, she went on to describe same sex attraction as a disorder, a mental illness.

>> we need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with a real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders. >> apparently miss bachmann believes it is a lifestyle choice and a sexual identity disorder. the american psychiatric association does not consider it a disorder or mental illness. miss bachmann is entitled to her opinion and an opinion that many people in the country share. but what is interesting she is no longer willing to share it publicly. for weeks she's been deflecting questions about her past statements by calling the question irrelevant or frivolous. this is the response given when asked about it. >> i'm running for the president of the united states. i'm not running to be anyone's judge. i'm more than happy to stand for questions on running for presidency of the united states. all of these kind of questions really aren't about what people are concerned about right now.

i'm running to be the president of the united states. i'm not running to be any person's judge. i'm running for the presidency of the united states. i'm here today to talk about job creation. >> she's running for president, which is possibly the reason why she is not answer the question about her past statements. when asked about the statements by concord monitor t congresswoman bachmann said i'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. i'm not involved in fringe or side issues. i'm involved in serious issues. but they weren't serious enough to advocate for 5d zero kating to change her state's constitution. joining us is the tea party organizer and editor of big journalism.com and cornell belcher. folk necessary media don't like when candidates dodge questions. does it have any repercussions on the campaign trail. >> it does. i'm shocked by this coming from

congresswoman bachmann. it's the one thing that voters dislike more than a candidate who doesn't agree with them on issues is a candidate that will flip flop or change on the issue when it is inconvenient for them to do so. they fundamentally cannot trust that candidate. if you can't trust a candidate, i don't care what your position is on education, health care, you know, gas, lesbians, if they can't trust you they will not give you the benefit of the doubt. and the other point about this, as a woman candidate there are stereotypes she has to deal with that male candidates don't. minorities have to deal with it as well. this is problematic if you look like you are ducking or dodging the issue or not certain about the issue it feeds to the stereotype that is harmful to women candidates. >> why do you think she is ducking the question or do you think she is ducking it? >> i don't necessarily agree she's ducking the question. i think she's answered it over

and over again. and my assumption is if she is now running for the presidency maybe she feels that this question isn't relevant at a time when we are dealing with 9.2% unemployment and it's all about the economy right now. i really think it could be just easy for her to say, just look, on this issue, with the exception of don't ask, don't tell, i feel the same way as president obama. i feel the same way about this -- >> that's not true, though. >> you mentioned don't ask don't tell but president obama is not defending the defense of marriage act which she is. obama hasn't called it satanic or saying people have a disorder. >> i'm talking about the issue of gay marriage. the president said my opinion is evolving. if we are going to talk about statements that michele bachmann has made and statements she made in 2004 i think it is equally fair that we give the same due diligence to the president's own

religious believes and the churches he's gone to. if we want to put it all on the line, let's put it all on the line. this is the same thing that george bush had to deal with when he was running for president. he was asked by the media whether or not he felt that nonchristians were going to hell. i think a lot of questions that circulate around the issue of religion and when it comes to social conservatives are ways for people to perhaps show these candidates are somehow not as valid as other candidates who don't have as strong religious believes during the campaign. >> so, cornell, dana is especially saying this is in some ways the media trying to show her to be a fringe candidate. >> well, i think her statement, so to speak, speak for themselves. i think what is interesting is -- i think this is fundamentally a good thing. when you i look at how the american public is shifting on their viewpoint about gay and lesbian marriage and gays and lesbian necessary military, you have to see candidates move in.

as michele bachmann becomes less of a fringe candidate and i think she is a front runner. she is trying to main stream herself and frankly you are looking at where the public is taking the american people on this. the american people moved on, particularly the younger crowd of voters, leverage 4% of our new vote out there and it was young voters and they don't understand the gay and lesbian issue as an issue. to win those voters she has to move from where she has been. >> i want to talk about rick perry. he entered the race over the weekend. how do you see him? how strong of a candidate is he? >> i think he is a very strong candidate and i think he fills a vacuum that's been created by -- you have mitt romney, which grassroots voters absolutely reject him. he has a moderate record, an inconsistent record and he can say he is business friendly, but his record speaks otherwise when he was the governor of massachusetts. then you have michele bachmann

who's very conservative. she has a history of voting against a lot of big ticket, big government item during her time in the house of representatives and rick perry is in the middle of both candidates. i think he has the potential to appeal to grassroots and at the same time attracting independents and more moderates. i think he's a huge threat initially to mitt romney and that's why we are seeing him going off the bat and trading barbs, but at the same time, perry may want to ignore bachmann's candidacy as a way to push her to the outside and make it appear as though it is him and romney. it is an interesting triangle. >> cornell, who do you think the white house would be most concerned about. >> i don't think i could have tackled that more effectively than dana just did. we will look at this and say either of these candidates are so in the pocket with the tea party and if you are looking at

how the tea party's ratings have dropped the last couple of months, especially with independent voters. if you like what the tea party is doing in congress, wait until they have a governing partner in the white house and they will have that with either perry or michele bachmann and the way mitt romney is running, even with mitt romney. >> appreciate you being on. let us know what you think on facebook and follow me on twitter. a busy night so far. up next, president obama just wrapped up a town hall meeting in iowa. part of a three-day swing through iowa, minnesota and illinois. republicans call it tax funder campaigning. is it? we will talk about it coming up. and later the tragedy at the indiana state fair. the video is unbelievable. we will see what happened as it happened. the latest on investigators are trying to figure out how to prevent anything like this from happening again. so many lives lost. you may have seen the video. an 11-year-old boy's amazing

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i want to talk now about president obama's swing through the midwest. a bus tour. the question is it an official visit or campaign trip? politics or policy? the president arriving earlier this evening in iowa for a town hall meeting at a local barn. he was in minnesota earlier today. all that two days after the political universe was focused on the iowa straw polls and a candidate from minnesota. coincidence? probably not. the barn done up in red, white and blue bunting, dressed up like the side of a campaign rally. what the president said here and in minnesota, you could argue it was harder to pin down there. was this moment that certainly sounded like a campaign call to action. >> i am enlisting you in this fight. if you're making your voices heard, if you're letting people know that enough is enough, it is time to move forward.

>> the president also promised to put forward a detailed jobs plan next month. and here he is distancing himself from congress and any partisanship. >> there is no shortage of ideas to put people to work right now. what is needed is action on the part of congress, a willingness to put the partisan games aside and say we're going to do what is right for the country, not what we think is going to score some political points for the next election. >> so is bad-mouthing politics actually campaign politics in disguise? gop candidate mitt romney weighed in today. listen. >> the president has set about a bus tour today, going to swing states. and frankly, i think the american people would rather see him in washington working on getting this economy going again. he seems to be more intent on trying to save his job than to try and create jobs for the american people. i saw this morning that his approval ratings are at an all-time low for him that is not because he is not campaigning. it's because he is not leading.

>> well, the republican party is running a campaign ad slamming the trip. watch. >> the road ahead darkens, and as he drives into the horizon, angry skies greet us. this man is barack obama. welcome to his taxpayer-funded dead-end tour. >> that's the gop's view. this is the president's fifth trip in three days or more. taxpayers do pay for presidential trips. but political parties and campaign organizations reimburse the government for the political portions of the agenda for overt campaigning and fundraising. it's a old tradition for presidents in both parties and a tradition as well for the outparty to complain about it. as for the polling, president obama's approval rating is at 39%, the first time below 40% in the poll. with us is john king and david gergen. what exactly does this mean that they pay for the political portion? how do you decide what the political portion of a trip like this is?

>> welcome to washington. if he had a fundraising, that's a political portion of the trip. if he went to a democratic party headquarters, that would be the political portion of the trip. when you're the president of the united states and you say i need your help, join the fight, the white house would make the argument he means when he pushes a jobs bill. he means when he is arguing about the next round of deficit reduction. look, he is campaigning with a lower case "c" in the eyes of the law. the republicans will complain about this. and if it was back in the bush administration, it would be the democrats complaining about this. if it was the clinton administration, it would be the republicans complaining about it. it happens all the time. it is a fine line. the white house will make the argument he is arguing about policy. he is not criticizing anybody by name. he didn't say the republican congress even. he said the congress. all presidents do this. but watch where the president goes, anderson, as president when the taxpayers are paying for it. and guess what? they're key electoral states. that's the way it is. >> no coincidence. last week you said you thought the president should cancel this bus tour, that that would have been the right move for him. why?

and why do you think he didn't? >> well, he clearly has politics on his mind. one has a sense that the campaign really officially launched this weekend. we moved offspring training and gotten the official campaign with the ames poll and the president coming out and answering his critics, slamming back and clearly campaigning. john is right. and other presidents have done this. there was a brookings study just a few years ago listing the times that both george w. bush and bill clinton went on tours like this. and charged it off to the government as official. so it is done all the time. but it's an opening for the republicans now. on the larger point, though, i must tell you, anderson, i hope that we haven't sort of switched off the lights on the concern about the economy because, you know, the truth is the economy is getting worse. i've just been in europe, back in europe this weekend. and there is a deepening concern there about lost jobs being lost here in the future. that they may move into a double-dip. and i do think the american

people would prefer to see the president at work trying to create jobs back in washington right now before he goes on a well-deserved vacation. >> we did hear some strong words from the president about republicans today, john. i want to play that for our viewers. oh, we don't have that. do you think, john, you know, romney said that the president's more interested in saving his own job than creating jobs for americans. that's not really fair. an incumbent does have to campaign at some point. >> of course he does. and as david noted, the republicans are out there. iowa is a textbook example. george w. bush carried iowa after al gore carried iowa, then barack obama carried iowa. it is a small state. it doesn't matter much in electoral college politics unless you're in a 50-50 presidential election. then little states like iowa, new mexico, and nevada become a huge deal. iowa is a huge deal. the president's support among white voters, especially in rural america has dropped. these town halls today he is having outside, a lot of

liberals are standing up and saying why didn't you fight for single-pair health care? -- single payer health care? remember, in a close election, politics is about the margins. if he down among whites, down among independents, that's why his rating is at a historic low, a few liberals stay home, then you're talking about a very dicey dynamic for a president who already knows he is in a very steep domestic ditch because heading into the reelection campaign. look, governor romney is going to say what governor romney says. the president is fighting for his job every single day. and everything he does as president from this point forward is for better or worse political. that's just the nature of the beast. >> and david, we heard some strong words from the president about republicans. i do want to play the sound we didn't have. >> we just went through this debacle with the debt ceiling. an entirely self-inflicted wound. it wasn't something that was necessary. we had put forward a plan that would have stabilized our debt

and our deficits for years to come. but because the politics in which some folks in congress, not the folks who are here, but some in congress would rather see their opponents lose than america win -- >> david, do you anticipate seeing president obama -- i mean do you think he is kind of honing his campaign talk at this point, starting to toughen up? >> absolutely, anderson. he is moving from conciliation with republicans to confrontation. look, he is getting slugged regularly from republicans, and he doesn't want to become a punching bag. so naturally enough, he is going to slug back. the question i think becomes, as both sides go at each other, are they going to make it even more difficult to reach some sort of agreement on the debt here in the next few weeks if the atmosphere in washington becomes as partisan as the campaign

trail is right now, that's going to make it a lot more difficult. and can he get an agreement on jobs? it's not clear to me, and i'd be curious about john's view on this, because it's not clear to me that if we go at each other this way whether that's really going to help poison or make even more strained the relationship between the parties. >> john, what do you think? >> i think david is exactly right. is there a grand bargain on jobs? a huge package on jobs? probably not. because of the polarized environment. you get a more moderate deal like we just had on the debt ceiling where republicans agree to extend the payroll tax? that is a more or less republican idea. the republicans agree to extend unemployment insurance if the democrats find other ways to pay for it. you get things like that. will the president get a huge infrastructure bank? doubtful in this environment because the republicans will say that is stimulus, and stimulus has become a dirty word in our politics. >> john, david, appreciate it. thank you very much. quick programing note. wolf blitzer has an interview lined up with president obama tomorrow. you can see it tomorrow night on "the situation room" at 5:00 p.m. right here on cnn.

just ahead tonight, this. [ screams ] >> unbelievable. the collapse of the concert stage at the indiana state fair over the weekend. five people killed. the storm slammed into the fairgrounds. could more have been done to prevent the tragedy? we'll take a look at the investigation. also, parents believe it's okay to beat the children when the children are disobedient because the bible, according to them tells them it's okay. sometimes the beatings are so severe they lead to murder. a 360 investigation ahead. ♪

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up close tonight, the horrible and deadly scene at the indiana state fair. concert stage collapsed saturday night as a powerful storm packing severe winds swept the fairgrounds. the video so disturbing. it's incredible. take a look. it happened so quickly, the scaffold holding up the sound and lighting equipment buckled, crashed to the stage. the tarp on top of the scaffold was ripped to pieces. five people were killed, dozens more were injured among the crowd gathered to hear a concert by the group sugarland. indiana's governor called the

incident a freakish accident. but already family and the victim friends of victims are asking questions. and demanding answers. could it have been prevented? susan candiotti looks at how it unfolded. >> reporter: saturday night, 8:49 p.m. 12,000 cheering fans are waiting for the band sugarland to start their concert. and then moments later, sheer terror. >> just the wind blew, and the whole stands just went tumbling down, just like -- just like you would see a domino effect. >> reporter: the stage is toppled by winds estimated at 60 to 70 miles per hour. from this angle, you can see it collapse like a house of cards, right on top of dozens of people. >> in the blink of an eye, it was just down. and there were people underneath it, trying to get out, and little kids. >> reporter: concertgoers flee for their lives with some fans

and stagehands still trapped beneath the mangled metal and twisted wreckage. and then something remarkable happens. people began to surge toward the crumbled grandstand, trying to help, lifting the debris to free those who are trapped. chairs are used as makeshift stretchers to carry out the victims. >> there was a lot of civilians that were emts, nurses, doctors. everybody pitched in and we were trying to work toward the people trapped in that stage. >> reporter: five people are killed and at least 40 people injured in the collapse. >> we're coping the way hoosiers always do, by putting our arms around those who have been hurt, by moving quickly to repair damage. >> reporter: fair officials had plenty of warning that a dangerous storm was heading their way. in fact, they called the national weather service four times for updates prior to the collapse. at 6:00 p.m. local time, a severe thunderstorm watch is issued for all of central indiana.

at 7:00 p.m., the national weather service tells fair staff to expect heavy rain, lightning, hail, and strong winds. they contacted fair officials again at 8:09 p.m. the thunderstorm watch is upgraded to a severe thunderstorm warning at 8:39 p.m. at 8:45, fair officials take to the stage to tell concertgoers about the severe weather a mere four minutes before the collapse. and even then they don't cancel the concert, nor do they order people to leave. >> they just came on the stage and said look up at the sky. the sky is getting dark, rain is coming. but we're thinking we can get the concert in. >> reporter: state fair officials say the weather warnings they had predicted the storm wouldn't hit for another half hour. the governor defended their intentions. >> i know the people who run this operation. they think safety all the time. and i know that their hearts are broken. >> reporter: indiana state fair

spokesman andy klotz tells cnn officials made a decision to evacuate a few minutes after the 8:45 announcement and were on their way to the stage when the storm hit. it was too late. ♪ i once was >> reporter: monday morning, a public memorial service was held for those who had died. ♪ but now am found >> reporter: while the survivors are left trying to make sense of this horrible tragedy. susan candiotti, cnn, indianapolis. >> so sad. so amazing to see people, rushing to try to help those who were wounded. we're following a number of other stories. isha has a news bulletin. >> the worst day of deadly violence in iraq. officials said 20 attacks on police and civilian targets killed at least 75 people and wound more than 250. in libya, moammar gadhafi once again called on his supporters to fight the rebels who appear to be making gains. but then there may be another high-level defection from

gadhafi's embattled government. an egyptian newspaper reported that libya's interior minister and his family arrived in cairo today. also in egypt, former president hosni mubarak was taken to a court hearing on a hospital gurney. he is charged with corruption and ordering the killings of protesters who rose up against his regime. his trial resumes in early september. a judge ruled that cameras will not be allowed in the courtroom. wall street kicked off a new trading week by posting solid gains. the dow rose 214 points on news that google has agreed to buy motorola mobility for more than $12 million. and authorities are calling it a carefully planned heist. a small pen and ink drawing by rembrandt was stolen over the weekend from an exhibit at a luxury hotel in california. the artwork is valued at more than $250,000. >> wow. >> now, do you know the other great artist whose works are a popular target for thieves?

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crime and punishment tonight. a report about parents who beat their child to death in the name of god. they believe the bible requires them, your ares them to spank their kids with items like belts and rods in order to train them to be well-behaved. happy kids. these parents appear to be following the teachings of a christian parenting book called

"to train up a child", a book that is growing in popularity around the world. gary tuchman has the first of our special two-part report. >> reporter: the small town of paradise, california, where these children lived with their parents in a fundamentalist christian home. for the nine children, life in paradise was anything but. we cover up eight of their faces because they are the survivors. survivors of a violent form of discipline practiced by their parents, kevin and elizabeth schatz. the one case not covered is the face of their 7-year-old adopted daughter lydia. she was killed by her parents. mike ramsey is the district attorney of butte county in northern california. >> we've heard of, you know, the phrase "death by a thousand lashes." that's basically what this was. >> reporter: this is where the family used to live. the children's sandbox is still here. so is their slide, and their tree house. but the surviving children are now in foster homes, and the

parents are in prison. >> violated section 273-a. >> reporter: they pleaded guilty to killing lydia, and seriously injuring her 11-year-old sister zariah, who almost died. authorities say kevin and elizabeth beat their children regularly because they believe god wanted them to. the district attorney says they believed. >> spare the rod and spoil the child and if you can train your horse and dog, you can train your children. >> reporter: 7-year-old lydia suffered terribly, supposedly in the name of god. but authorities say this was torture and murder. by parents who were supposed to love and cherish their child. inside this house, they found important evidence. the so-called biblical rods that the schatz had inside. what they were 15-inch-long plumbing supply tubes used to beat the children. and also important, a book was found inside, a book that appeared to light the fuse to the deadly brutality. the book is called "to train up a child." its author is this man on the

tractor, michael pearl, and his wife, debi. they consider themselves observant christians who run an organization called no greater joy ministries from their tennessee farm. >> well, i'm a preacher, minister of the gospel. >> reporter: their book and others they have written stacked in a warehouse on their farm, all of them guided they say by the teachings in the bible. >> and it says if you spare the rod, you hate your child. but if you love him, you chasten him timely. >> reporter: a rod could be anything from a tree switch to a spatula. in the book they describe the rod as a magic wand. god would not have commanded parents to use the rod if it were not good for the child. the pearls say parents should stay in control and not act in extreme. but they also declare any spanking to effectively reinforce instruction must cause pain. let's say a 7-year-old slugs his sister. >> he would get -- a 7-year-old

would get a 10 or 15 licks. and it would be a formal thing. in other words, you maintain your patient air. you explain to him what he has done is violent, and that that's not acceptable in society, and it's not acceptable in our home. then i would take him somewhere like into his bedroom and i would tell him i'm going to give him 15 licks. >> reporter: with what? >> probably a belt on a kid that big, a boy. i would probably use a belt. it would be handy. i might use a wooden spoon or a piece of like plumbing supply line, a quarter inch in diameter, flexible enough to roll up. >> reporter: why not just use your hand instead of all these materials? >> look right here. does that hurt? >> reporter: it doesn't feel good. >> look what it's doing to your whole body. you don't use your hand on somebody. that's a karate chop. >> reporter: so you're telling me when you use this material, it can't cause permanent pain? >> my children never had marks left on them.

>> reporter: but look at the body of zariah, the child seriously wounded by parents. these are just some of her wounds. other wounds and bruises on her body and on the body of her sister lydia who died are far too graphic for us to show. lydia was so severely beaten she died of a condition usually associated with earthquakes and bombings. what do you think influenced the schatzes to beat, terrorize and torment the children? >> the book by mr. pearl. there is no doubt about that. [ siren ] >> reporter: lydia was beaten for seven continuous hours, interrupted by short prayer breaks on the day she died. the sound of the police siren was recorded by a paradise police officer racing to the house. when he arrived he tried to save lydia with cpr with both the parents present. >> she has swallowed a lot of involvement.

-- involvement vomit vomit. >> she was really tired, her vision was blurry. >> come on, baby. >> reporter: and listen later in the day to the seriously injured zariah. >> where do you get spanked? >> on my bottom and on my back last night too, underneath my feet. >> underneath your feet? zariah, i would like to take you to the hospital, okay? >> i probably need to bring a pot because i might throw up again. >> reporter: at the sentencing hearing, 11-year-old zariah, who is still recovering from her seriously injuries had the courage to address her parents in open court about her deceased sister. she said "why did you adopt her? to kill her?" it's a heartbreaking story. kevin pleaded guilty to murder and torture and will be in jail for at least 22 years. and elizabeth for at least 12. do you think if the schatzes did not real the pearls' book, there is a good chance that lydia would still be alive? >> i think she would be. >> we reviewed the case to find out what would happen to see if there was going to be any blame pointed at us.

so we looked into it. >> i know tomorrow in part 2 you're going to address the question what liability the authors may or may not have. do they feel badly at all about this child's death, or do they feel in any way their writing had an impact? >> reporter: the pearls say they do feel badly, anderson, about the death of lydia. but they do not accept any blame. they say this family in california lost control. but the problem with that statement is they are best-selling authors. they have sold tens of thousands of copies of this book in more than 20 languages. and there are bound to be people who lose control. >> how are the eight surviving kids doing? >> reporter: very difficult time. first of all, they were all beaten regularly. secondly, they saw their sister lydia killed. and now they're in foster care. but they're all in different foster homes. they're not together anymore. but we're assured by the prosecutors that they're in loving, peaceful homes. >> that's hard to believe.

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and isha is back with a couple other stories. several busy subway stations were closed and reowned this evening amid the threat of growing protests. small group of pro-tessers have been gathering to criticize the transit system after shooting involving the police officers including one last month that killed a 45-year-old man. transit officials are standing by the decision last week to cut off cell phone service saying they were forced to take action to keep people safe and won't rule out doing it again. new york's medical examiner says more tests are needed to determine the cause of death for the florida mega church pastor zachary tims. tims was found unresponsive in a times square hotel room over the weekend. he founded the new destiny christian center in 1996. a spoke person for the medical examiner's office says tests

results could take a few weeks. in aruba, authorities say clothing found during a search for a missing american woman does not belong to 35-year-old robyn gardner. meantime, a judge has found enough evidence to continue holding gardner's traveling companion, a american man in connection with the case. he reported gardner missing on august 2nd. casey anthony's attorneys say they'll appeal a judge's order that she must serve one year of supervised probation on a check fraud conviction starting next week. anthony was acquitted in july of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee. and anderson, an important lesson for 11-year-old twin boys from minnesota. at a charity hockey event, nate smith scored an improbable 89-foot shot that earned him $50,000. >> i didn't know how to shoot and stuff. so i lined it up and yeah. >> your brother just made the shot. >> yeah. >> what did you think right

away? >> i was like no he didn't. and he is like look at the bench and i was shocked. >> the problem is the name on the raffle ticket drawn for the shot is his twin nick who stepped outside. their father said it was more important they fess up and be honest about the mixup. so it is unclear if they will receive the money. back to anderson. unfair coverage of michele bachmann earns a journleist a spot on the ridiculous. anananan] this...is the network. a living, breathing intelligence that's helping drive the future of business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience

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time now for the ridiculist. toby harnden is on the ridiculist because he wrote a article that is full of americana bashing, food writing and perhaps the most unflattering photo of michele bachmann that you can imagine. the headlines of the article is fried food and retail politics of the iowa state fair. and it's about the republican presidential candidates campaigning on the eve of the iowa straw poll. as for the unflattering bachmann photo, this is sort of what it looks like. that's obviously not the actual photo. we had our graphic department make this because toby, who took the photo and wroel wrote the article wanted us to pay him $5,000 to show the photo. this se the gist. it is a terrible photo of michele bachmann with her eyes rolled back in her head and her mouth open wide and about to

bite in to a foot-long corn dog at the iowa state fair. you get the picture. you can agree with her politics or not and dislike her personally or not but the photo is ridiculous and unfair. i don't want to go apocalypse on you but i think it was chosen for the -- >> we see the testicle area. out here the fallis. setting aside the corn dog problem it is an unflattering photograph. it makes that "newsweek" cover look like it was taken at a glamour shots in the mall and professionally retouched by john and thomas noll themselves. they are the ones who invented the photo shop. and somewhere they are high fiving over the preference.

at the end of the article he writes, driving away in a golf cart with her husband marcus beside her, mrs. bachmann stopped to buy a foot long corn dog and chicken and beef sausage in deep fried batter. after applying mustard and allowing mr. bachmann to take the first bite she went at it with gusto. here's how he describes it. a huge spectacle in which cattle pigs and horses are on display as well as politicians and iowans kwoou to for fairground rides and some of the most unhealthy food on the planet. it is that correct grammer. hard to tell? it is not the healthiest food on the planet and not as appetizing as british staples like this, or this, or whatever in god's green

earth this is. seriously you think our food is nasty. that's the pot calling the kettle black and by kettle i mean bacon buddy and i learned about that during our royal wedding coverage. >> it is a depressing sight. it meets my expectation for british cuisine. this is seriously the most depressing meal i have ever seen. i like mcdonald's and things that look like this. but it is not bacon. it is like a hunk of pork. and half of it is fat. >> yea! >> wow. >> i would rather eat nothing but state fair food for the rest of my life than to have one more morsel of bacon buddy reach my digestive track. so quit it with the cheap shots

or else you will be deep fried on the ridiculist.