Nightly News   |  August 16, 2011

All shook up

While campaigning on Tuesday in South Carolina, Michele Bachmann got a little shook up when she gave a shout-out to Elvis Presley, whose songs she often uses at her events. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> then there is this note from the campaign trail, and perhaps confirmation that campaigning is exhausting for the candidate and the advance staff. today happens to be the 34th anniversary of the death of elvis presley . michele bachmann is a big fan . she was in south carolina today and chose to mark the wrong elvis milestone.

>> get started, let's all say happy birthday to elvis presley today. happy birthday . we played you a little bit of "promise land" when we pulled up. you can't do better than elvis presley and we thought we would celebrate his birthday and we get started celebrating take our country back tour.

>> michele bachmann later corrected herself