Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: On Glenn Beck's radio show today, Michele Bachmann scolded liberal activists for using children to score political points 
  
 “I think it’s shameless to use a little boy and to put that little boy forward to advance an agenda issue." she said to Beck, who shared Bachmann's outrage. 
  
  
  
 Bachmann was the victim of a stunt yesterday as a lesbian mother encouraged her son to denounce Bachmann in front of a camera. 
  
  
  
 "Do you got something you need to say?" asks the parent of the small boy named Elijah. 
  
  
  
 After further coaching, the small boy whispers, "Bachmann, my mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing." 
  
  
  
 Bachmann is understandably shocked in the video as the group scurries away before she can answer. ||||| He told the candidate, “My mom’s gay, but she doesn’t need any fixing” 
  
 How old do you have to be to stump Michele Bachmann? 
  
 Apparently you just have to be eight. 
  
 At a South Carolina book signing, an eight-year old boy named Elijah showed up and nervously went up to Bachmann to defend his mother. 
  
 He told Bachmann, “My mom’s gay, but she doesn’t need any fixing.” 
  
 Bachmann, who initially brought the boy right up to her face because he was speaking too quietly, pulled back and said nothing. 
  
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 Now, why a camera was present is unclear. According to Chicago Now, a woman in line claims that the boy’s mom was going to and then backed out. But no part of this story actually says why it was recorded. 
  
 Even so, for a woman who raised all those foster kids and whose husband "fixes" homosexuals, you'd think she could muster a response. ||||| Michele Bachmann was in South Carolina recently and stopped by a book store to do a signing of her book, Core of Conviction: My Story. While there, she was approached by an 8-year-old boy who shyly shook her hand and spoke quietly. Bachmann was forced to lean in and hear what he said and got quite a shock when she did. The boy was saying “Miss Bachmann, my mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing.” 
  
 The video of this whole situation has, unsurprisingly, gone viral. However, I’ve got some very mixed feelings about it. 
  
 On the one hand, the views of Michele Bachmann and her ridiculous husband are hateful, ignorant, and should disqualify her from any public office. The very notion of her being President while actively engaging in the in the alienation and disparagement of a large portion of this nation, disgraces the very office of Commander in Chief. The Tea Party may want to go back to the time of our founders but, this isn’t the 1700’s, it’s 2011. That kind of filth doesn’t fly any longer. 
  
 On the other hand, it very much looks like this boy is getting pushed into doing something he doesn’t want to do. The images and quotes from this make it seem like a powerful moment, an innocent child forcing a woman to look at her own evil. But that’s not what I’m getting from the actual video. 
  
 This isn’t spontaneous. The camerawoman (the boy’s second mother presumably) is ready to capture it all and apparently looked suspicious enough that we can hear her explaining herself to someone (security?) as the tape begins. The mother on camera has to prompt the boy twice. The second time, he covers his eyes in embarrassment. He doesn’t look like a crusader. He looks like a kid being forced to thank his aunt for an ugly sweater. He looks like a prop. 
  
 Seeing those images, I wanted this video to be something it wasn’t. And, possibly, something it couldn’t have been. For the boy to truly denounce Bachmann’s views, he would have had to really understand them and, fortunately for him, he’s too young for that hate. 
  
 Whether you agree with the the words the boy’s been scripted to say or not, it’s still a script. And whenever you force a child to get in an uncomfortable position and read from a script, it makes me uncomfortable. 
  
 Watch the video below: 
  
 Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com ||||| Michelle Bachman got an ear full from 8 year-old Elijah, just watch: 
  
  
  
 It's kind of hard to hear but apparently Elijah said that his Mom was gay and that she didn't need fixing. The look on Michelle's face is PRICELESS! 
  
 **UPDATE** Here's an update from the person that actually took the video - Jennifer was kind enough to stop by and share the details: 
  
 I was the person that recorded this; the mom uploaded. 
  
 Sexuality is only political because ignorant people have made it so. To some people, it's a political stance-- to his mom, and him, it's a part of his life. He loves his mom and her partner. 
  
 Back to the story-- I was standing in line with Elijah and his mom. His mom was going to say something to her, but she got nervous and told me she wanted to leave. We were about to step out of the line but Elijah cried out, "Nooo!" He grabbed onto her coat and pulled her back in the line, saying he wanted to talk to her. 
  
 When we got up to Michele, he got a little stage fright. His mom just didn't want him to not say it because he was afraid, because she knew he would regret it if he didn't. I used to do ballet as a child, and before performances, I'd want to no do it-- my mom pushed me to perform. Afterwards, I'd run to her and tell her how happy I was. How is this any different? If we were shown a video of a child before a school play, or a recital, being pushed to perform and not give into stage fright, would we get the same reaction? My gut says no. |||||
Output:
The political viral video of the day stars Michele Bachmann and an 8-year-old boy whose mom is gay. He shyly goes up to her at a book signing and says in words hard to make out, "My mommy is gay, but she doesn't need any fixing." It has generated a storm of "Bachmann left speechless" or "Bachmann gets schooled by kid" headlines and blog posts, though Jon Bershad of Mediaite is a little uneasy about that. Bachmann may have shameful anti-gay views, he writes, but the video "very much looks like this boy is getting pushed into doing something he doesn’t want to do." His mother, in fact, has to prompt him twice, and Bachmann treats the boy sweetly. Other reactions: Chicago Now: The woman who actually shot the video (not the mother) defends it: "I used to do ballet as a child, and before performances, I'd want to not do it—my mom pushed me to perform. Afterwards, I'd run to her and tell her how happy I was. How is this any different?" Bachmann herself: "I think that it's shameless to put that little boy, in that situation," she told Glenn Beck, notes the Washington Examiner. The Wrap: "Even so, for a woman who raised all those foster kids and whose husband 'fixes' homosexuals, you'd think she could muster a response," writes Lucas Shaw.