” a foreign reporter also alleged to politico this week that an aide threatened to break his arm — an allegation the bachmann campaign denied .
text size - + reset allen on bachmann appearance on the presidential trail : a staffer ’s physical confrontation with a reporter .
the campaign event is blaring elvis presley music .
perhaps mistaking griffin recalled the time she met bachmann 's staffers pulled out a video camera to capture their interaction for her website .
another is a reference to her intent to make barack obama a one - term president .
but the number and intensity of incidents is unusual , particularly in iowa , where reporters and the public are accustomed to almost unlimited access as an early state presidential ritual .
first , griffin says she asked the congresswoman if she 'd support an effort to repeal the law that banned homosexuals from the military .
she asked -- on tape .
in another incident that did not make the air , a camera captured fox news correspondent steve brown telling a bodyguard in iowa , “ do not put your hands on me .