# The Congresswoman with the crazy eyes, part II, crazy in the head **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420 "2011-05-01T23:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/201 "2011-08-09T16:34:11Z")
> [@flickster](#): > > Why is it every time I see this thread topic, I think it’s referring to > > [This](http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/pelosi_1.jpg) Exactly! And I guarantee you’ll never see a photo like that on the cover of Newsweek. Plus the headline “_The Queen of Rage_”, yet the word rage doesn’t appear anywhere in the accompanying profile. Media bias, folks. It’s finally coming out from under its rock and preening for all to see. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/202 "2011-08-09T16:38:34Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > On this subject, I would like to add that she has straight up said that women should be submissive to their husbands. She also said that her husband told her to study tax law and that was the only reason she did so. If her career decisions are also to be viewed from the light of submission to her husband, than his opinions matter a great deal. His opinions would actually matter more than hers. Therefore her gay husband would be president without getting elected. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/203 "2011-08-09T16:38:49Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > To be fair, those are pretty crazy eyes Pelosi’s got in that picture. Luckily, Bachmann’s crazy eyes are the cherry on top of a sinfully delicious moron sundae. Pelosi just looks bugeyed in some photos. But if it makes conservatives feel better about Bachmann’s ineptitude to slag on a totally unrelated woman, then more power to them? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/204 "2011-08-09T16:39:17Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#): > > Good news is, if she get elected President we will have two first ladies. _applause_ ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/205 "2011-08-09T16:41:30Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Exactly! > > And I guarantee you’ll never see a photo like that on the cover of Newsweek. > > Plus the headline “_The Queen of Rage_”, yet the word rage doesn’t appear anywhere in the accompanying profile. > > Media bias, folks. It’s finally coming out from under its rock and preening for all to see. Not about just her pictures, > **[The Ultimate Collection Of Bad Michele Bachmann Quotes](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mjs538/the-ultimate-collection-of-stupid-michele-bachmann)** > > 31 of Michele Bachmann's greatest hits. Enjoy. Match this crazy with any other pol and we can begin too talk. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/206 "2011-08-09T17:22:20Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Exactly!..Media bias, folks. It’s finally coming out from under its rock and preening for all to see. So, then, may we take it as a given that, in your opinion, Ms Bachmann is a perfectly reasonable person, with informed views and a firm grasp of history? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/207 "2011-08-09T17:46:39Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > And I guarantee you’ll never see a photo like that on the cover of Newsweek. Presumably because Pelosi actually understands how to look into a camera. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/208 "2011-08-09T17:57:37Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > _applause_ I bet if he doesn’t get to be the one to decorate the Oval Office he’ll just die! He’ll fall down and cry himself to death on the Presidential Seal and you just see if he doesn’t! -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/209 "2011-08-09T17:58:10Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > So, then, may we take it as a given that, in your opinion, Ms Bachmann is a perfectly reasonable person, with informed views and a firm grasp of history? Apple? Meet orange! Whatever she thinks or says is irrelevant in the context of that photo and the headline that accompanies it. That cover is a smear job through and through. One would think that if Bachmann was all that out there, _Newsweek_ and its ilk would have only to report that. But no, they opt for the dishonest cheap shot, based undoubtedly upon the knowledge that more people will see their cover than will actually read their increasingly crap magazine, and thus get across what they want people to think without having to actually, you know, report on it. > [@Bosstone](#): > > Presumably because Pelosi actually understands how to look into a camera. 😃 😃 😃 Do you guys wanna wise him up, or shall I? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/210 "2011-08-09T18:06:39Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > 😃 😃 😃 > > Do you guys wanna wise him up, or shall I? [Sorry, you were saying?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker_Nancy_Pelosi.jpg) Okay, I’ll be fair. I just thought to look up Bachmann’s Wikipedia photo. [She’s looking at the camera.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bachmann2011.jpg) So I retract the snark as anything more than hyperbole. She still looks fucking scary, though. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/211 "2011-08-09T18:07:42Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Her comments were fairly stupid IMHO because it’s best to avoid comparing any aspect of anything to the Holocaust (lest idiots like many of those who have already posted to this thread get their panties in a twist). > > But the actual point she was making has some merit IMHO. All she was saying is that we are at a time in history when people may later look back and ask “why didn’t you do anything to stop it?” actually people are going to look back at the debt ceiling debacle and the roll the Tea Party played in it and say ‘why didn’t we do anything to stop those half brained, ultraconservative morons?’ ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/212 "2011-08-09T18:11:02Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > [Sorry, you were saying?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker_Nancy_Pelosi.jpg) > > Okay, I’ll be fair. I just thought to look up Bachmann’s Wikipedia photo. [She’s looking at the camera.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bachmann2011.jpg) So I retract the snark as anything more than hyperbole. > > She still looks fucking scary, though. point for Bosstone. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/213 "2011-08-09T18:19:26Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Exactly! > > And I guarantee you’ll never see a photo like that on the cover of Newsweek. > > Plus the headline “_The Queen of Rage_”, yet the word rage doesn’t appear anywhere in the accompanying profile. > > Media bias, folks. It’s finally coming out from under its rock and preening for all to see. The photo is just how she looks. They didn’t doctor it. it’s not _Newsweek’s_ fault her eyes look like that. What are they supposed to do, shop them out? The “rage” in the title refers to the teabaggers. She’s the queen of the teabaggers. Do the teabaggers not like to characterize themselves as angry? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/214 "2011-08-09T18:29:44Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The photo is just how she looks. They didn’t doctor it. it’s not _Newsweek’s_ fault her eyes look like that. What are they supposed to do, shop them out? It’s _Newsweek’s_ fault that it deliberately chose a photo designed to make her look crazy. Have you seen the photo of Pelosi that’s getting bounced around here? I’ll guarantee you’ll never see it on the cover of _Newsweek_ or the _NYT_ or any other leftie rag. > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The “rage” in the title refers to the teabaggers. She’s the queen of the teabaggers. Do the teabaggers not like to characterize themselves as angry? The Tea Partiers don’t like the way things are going in this country and some of them are angry. But in no way would I call them the party of rage. That’s not only silly but a prime example of media bias all on its own. There was a hell of a lot more rage aimed at GWB in 2004 than there is coming from the Tea Party now, and yet somehow I don’t recall a single cover story touting the Dems as the party of “rage”. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/215 "2011-08-09T18:43:32Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > It’s Newsweek’s fault that it deliberately chose a photo designed to make her look crazy. Have you seen the photo of Pelosi that’s getting bounced around here? I’ll guarantee you’ll never see it on the cover of Newsweek or the NYT or any other leftie rag. I wonder why Newsweek never put a bad picture of Pelosi on its cover… hmm… oh yeah, because she has never been on the cover at all. Surely she’s been on the cover of Time then… hmm… nope, but Bachmann has (with the other GOP contenders). Odd that such biased news organizations would ignore the first woman Speaker ever but put John Boehner on their covers… ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/216 "2011-08-09T18:48:27Z")
That’s just covering for their inherent bias, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/217 "2011-08-09T19:01:40Z")
If you thought Bachmann looks creepy on their mag cover, [look at their web page pic](http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek.html). ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/218 "2011-08-09T19:02:22Z")
Sorry, guys. There’s just no way to put a positive spin on this. It’s a deliberate hatchet job and anyone being honest with themselves will see it for what it is. P.S. - Here’s a similar _Newsweek_ hatchet job on [Palin](http://www.rightcelebrity.com/wp-content/photos/Sarah_Palin_Newsweek.jpg), complete with negative headline also. _Newsweek_ needs to up its game, it’s becoming predictable. P.P.S. - I do have to say it’s rather amusing watching all the leftie outlets panicking in the aftermath of Bachmann’s impressive debate appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/219 "2011-08-09T19:04:11Z")
The fact she is on the cover at all is a fucking disgrace. This woman is an idiot, crazy eyes, rage, what-the-fuck ever. Now she is going around saying the S&P downgrade was Because they raised the debt ceiling. I mean that is the absolute opposite of true and correct. it is logic that exists in a parallel universe where dogs marry cats and being grown-up amounts to not fucking paying your debts.She is a dangerous fucking loon who is catering to the fucking dangerous loons in the Tea Party and I think they didn’t make her look assholish enough on the cover. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/220 "2011-08-09T19:10:39Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > It’s _Newsweek’s_ fault that it deliberately chose a photo designed to make her look crazy. Have you seen the photo of Pelosi that’s getting bounced around here? I’ll guarantee you’ll never see it on the cover of _Newsweek_ or the _NYT_ or any other leftie rag. > > The Tea Partiers don’t like the way things are going in this country and some of them are angry. But in no way would I call them the party of rage. That’s not only silly but a prime example of media bias all on its own. There was a hell of a lot more rage aimed at GWB in 2004 than there is coming from the Tea Party now, and yet somehow I don’t recall a single cover story touting the Dems as the party of “rage”. so all the Tea Partiers posting death threats against atheists on FOX news’ facebook pages is just a leftie propaganda ploy too? That is what really pisses me off about conservative christians. The lying hypocrites are CINO (Christian In Name Only. thank you Joe McCarthy.) Any time anything comes along they don’t agree with it becomes unamerican, unchristian and socialist. Not that any of them actually understand what any of those words mean, because if they did…they probably wouldn’t be conservatives anymore, and they REALLY wouldn’t be Tea Partiers. Face it, if you read the red letters (i.e. the teachings of Christ) in the bible, it becomes readily apparent that the liberals in this country are the real ‘Christians’ (regardless of actual sectarian denomination,) and the conservatives are the real atheists. Somehow the inherent greed which is spewed forth from the Tea Party just doesn’t sit well with ANYTHING attributed to Christ in the Bible. If you want to really fuck up a tea partier, give them a bible and challenge them to defend their views using only the red letters in the bible. It can’t be done. The minute they bring up anything from the old Testament or from the Epistles or Revelations, bust them for not being Christians. Call them Jews or Paulists. Then point out that their professed dogmatic beliefs are those of St. Augustine of Hippo, not Christ (,seriously, read City of God and then tell me I’m wrong.) Then ask them which they are: Christian or Tea Party. It will really wreck their day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=12)