GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) gave a visceral and passionate rebuke to the sex abuse scandal engulfing Penn State, acknowledging having violent feelings about the former assistant coach accused of abusing young boys in a locker room.
"This is so horrific — on the level of a parent, I think about my children, if that was my child, and I think my automatic reaction, even though I'm a small woman, I'd want to find that guy and beat him to a pulp," Bachmann said on NBC's Meet the Press.
But Bachmann said Americans should not look toward Congress or the federal government to address this type of situation, calling it a state issue.
"The media gets beaten up a lot, but I think this is exactly where the media is needed more than ever, is to shed light on this situation. That's the best thing that can be done," she said.
