you have marcus bachmann in reparative therapy.michelle obama's comments in 2008 about being proud of her country seems like childs play, compared to other political spouses. >> how much more shopping at target do we expect to see? the challenging is she's no longer that, you know, relatively simple mother of two who she was in the last presidential campaign. she's first lady of the united states of america. >> sure. >> how do you humanize her? >> like i said, i think michelle obama really connects with the american voter and i think there's a sort of -- there's a pre-existing mystery. there's a sort of not lust but a real intrigue around the first lady which is why she can command $10,000 for a photo op. the first lady holds the keys to the president's mind and heart. i think because of that and the fact she has not endured the same scrutiny any candidate did, there's a desire to know more about her. based on how michelle obama comported here's, she's well placed for the next four years. >> she was the best spouse of a candidate i

here it is, mystery marcus bachmann, the husband of the presidential candidate, speaking for himself, an offensive term many believed when he was talking about how to address gay teens. let's listen. >> what do you say when your teenager says she's gay? >> there's that curiosity. it is as if we have to understand barbarians need to be educated. they need to be disciplined and just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn't mean that we're supposed to go down that road. we have a responsibility as parents and as authority figures not to encourage such thoughts and feelings. >> well wi, i guess, first of a john, and then i want to go to michelle, to use the word "barbari "barbarians" to describe gay people. >> i think that's horrific. i think that whole concept he's talked about there is an amazing denial of human experience. and i think the first thing we need to do is to listen and validate to what people experience. and i remember in my own life, that was very important to be validated. i think to invalidate a person's feelings and say, oh, really, you don't feel that, is an amazi

ok i mr santorum would you rather have sex with chaz bono or marcus bachmann. but what is the anatomy on chaz bono. i think about may still be up for for debate but. we have to we have to go here so mr cain would you rather have sex with one of the women that you sexually assaulted in the one nine hundred ninety s. or one of your future victims that you have yet to sexually assault future victims know that car gas used are you can it's i have to wrap it up that's all the time we have tonight thank you for joining us and thank you at home for watching this northwest republican presidential debate. our welcome back everybody we're going to do a little bit of our post-debate coverage right now try to wrap up all of the loose ends we thank you all for watching on t.v. all of you for participating online looks like we had a lot of viewers today for this special place in politics republican debate that we have this evening now let's take a look at what some of you had to say we took a few online polls and first of all i wanted to know who won the debate we decided to

>> marcus bachmann wrote an open letter to conservatives describing his wife, michele, as rock solid. yeah. probably not helping was that he then wrote, as rock solid as taylor lautner's yummy abs. >> if it's friday the late night comedians get "the last word." have the last word online at lastword@msnbc.com. follow my tweets tthd@lawrence. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this week. one story list week almost made it into the best new thing in the world today but got cut at the last minute because something better came along. a story about an arkansas high school marching band turning up at the house of one of their player's grandmothers because grandmother was too ill to go to the game. i still love that story. go, rogers heritage high school. what roger heritage high school of arkansas pushed out of the best new thing in the world segment that day, what got cut from the marching band segment, is what mediaite highlighted as when horrible people unite. when the president of iran spoke at the united nations last week the main news he made, of course, is that everybody walked

>> marcus bachmann wrote an open letter to conservatives describing his wife, michele, as rock solid.lping was that he then wrote, as rock solid as taylor lautner's yummy abs. >> if it's friday the late night comedians get "the last word."

bachmann's entire campaign team has quit, saying it was rude, unprofessional and dishonest and at times cruel. that's what they said. one person even used the term bitchy. they were talking about her husband, marcus her. nothing to do with her. >> time now for your political ticker with tim farley, host of "morning briefing" on sirius podus. >> politics is a cruel business, is it not? >> i don't know who would be crazy enough to run for president although i can name some of them right now, right? >> yes. >> let's talk about those crazy people who want to serve their country running for president. several reason presidential candidates are stumping today, not one, not herman cain. michele bachmann is in iowa, newt gingrich in south carolina. herman cain is attending a tea party event in alabama. >> didn't that the strike you as odd? i was looking at the schedule and said it makes sense to be in iowa. it's the first primary spot, a caucus state. new hampshire will be a very big, important event. you see newt gingrich is in south carolina. herman cain in alabama. what up? he's going there and then he's going to a football game tomorrow in alabama. now i understand alabama's a wonderful state and bir