# 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:** 14
**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 10, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/261 "2011-08-10T14:49:41Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Crocodile Dundee/ ‘‘That’s not a hatchet job, _this_ > [http://www.theylookalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/michelle-bachman-fright-night-vampire1.png](http://www.theylookalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/michelle-bachman-fright-night-vampire1.png) > is a hatchet job.’’/CD Which one is Bachmann? ---
**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 10, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/262 "2011-08-10T16:25:07Z")
I think I agree that the picture represents a truly distorted image of Bachmann. It should really show Bachmann carrying a pitchfork, smoke coming out of her ears, dancing a jig on old glory and wiping her ass with a copy of Constitution. That would be far more accurate than a picture of her simply looking at us with crazy eyes. ---
**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 10, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/263 "2011-08-10T16:38:05Z")
Just a reminder that this thread and its predecessor had their titles LONG before this pic appeared. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/264 "2011-08-10T23:02:24Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > She has the eyes of someone whose used to seeing what’s not really there, for example… > > [http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/terrorist-scum/jared-lee-loughner-mugshol.jpg](http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/wp-content/gallery/terrorist-scum/jared-lee-loughner-mugshol.jpg) > > [http://www.pjstar.com/photos\_graphics/x1797083195/Norway-Shooter-jpg/g2e22e20000000000004eb30bc10d0c5e916e8d91fcca6741557bc75eb1.jpg](http://www.pjstar.com/photos_graphics/x1797083195/Norway-Shooter-jpg/g2e22e20000000000004eb30bc10d0c5e916e8d91fcca6741557bc75eb1.jpg) Isn’t it more likely that the similarities in facial structure there are due to common Nordic ancestry? Well, and a certain awkwardness in front of the lens. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/265 "2011-08-10T23:07:43Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > 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. So if we don’t only show female pols in their made-up sex-kitten self-presentation, we’re slanderous villains? As for rage, she’s the self-appointed head of the Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party Caucus in the House. That’s a raging movement after a fashion. ---
**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 11, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/266 "2011-08-11T00:32:34Z")
And she’s married to a raging queen. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/267 "2011-08-11T04:26:08Z")
For what it’s worth, **SA** , the liberal indoctrinator John Stewart [agrees with you](http://www.hulu.com/watch/266922/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-glazed-and-confused#s-p1-sr-i1) that it’s a crappy photo. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/268 "2011-08-11T05:24:47Z")
[This](http://theweek.com/article/index/218112/the-new-yorkers-terrific-michele-bachmann-profile-6-takeaways) should be entertaining. > [@](#): > > Bachmann calls the film series How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer — who was very influential in the 1970s and '80s — “life-altering,” \ [T]he movies “condemn the influence of the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Darwin, secular humanism, and postmodernism” because those movements removed God from the center of life. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/269 "2011-08-11T05:26:34Z")
How could they leave out the French Impressionists? Bible says the love of Monet is the root of all evil. ---
**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 11, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/270 "2011-08-11T05:49:53Z")
Something else that was a by-product of the Enlightenment - the United States of America. Also blowjobs. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/271 "2011-08-11T06:10:45Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Something else that was a by-product of the Enlightenment - the United States of America. Also blowjobs. I have it on good authority that blowjobs were actually invented in the '70s. Ask **Starving Artist** , he knows :). ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/272 "2011-08-11T12:49:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > How could they leave out the French Impressionists? Bible says the love of Monet is the root of all evil. Isn’t it strange. I thought the Renaissance had a whole lot of Christian crap going on. Who knew? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/273 "2011-08-11T15:34:52Z")
Does Bachmann ever talk about not taking her psychotropic drugs? Just asking questions, of course. But it’s weird that she won’t discuss if she’s current on her psychotropic drugs to control the hallucinations. People deserve to know if their potential president has the voices under control. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/274 "2011-08-12T01:21:36Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > For what it’s worth, **SA** , the liberal indoctrinator John Stewart [agrees with you](http://www.hulu.com/watch/266922/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-glazed-and-confused#s-p1-sr-i1) that it’s a crappy photo. He doesn’t just agree, he agrees that it is a deliberately crappy photo. And he does so in fine style. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/275 "2011-08-12T14:07:01Z")
I used to joke that I hoped Michele Bachmann would become the Republican presidential nominee but I find myself losing my nerve. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/276 "2011-08-12T15:05:31Z")
I have met the woman. i have seen that look on her face in person. It is even scarier in real life. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/277 "2011-08-12T15:17:37Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > I have met the woman. i have seen that look on her face in person. It is even scarier in real life. Of course, it would be. In person, there’s a non-zero probability of her actually devouring your face, rather than just the _feeling_ you get seeing a photograph of her that, given the opportunity, she would devour your face. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/278 "2011-08-12T15:30:20Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > [This](http://theweek.com/article/index/218112/the-new-yorkers-terrific-michele-bachmann-profile-6-takeaways) should be entertaining. Anybody serious about learning more about the religious right should pay special attention to Francis Schaeffer because he was very influential. His series of films _How Should We Live Then?_ can be found on Youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/279 "2011-08-12T15:32:05Z")
Anyone see the footage of Bachmann and Pawlenty trying to out-douche each other in the Republican debate? On the one hand, I’m delighted with MN politicians like Franken, Kloubuchar and Ellison. On the other hand, the embarrassment of having T-Paw and Batshit even mention being from MN might outweigh the good. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/280 "2011-08-12T16:50:24Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I used to joke that I hoped Michele Bachmann would become the Republican presidential nominee but I find myself losing my nerve. I plan to vote for her in the Republican primary here in New Hampshire, which is an open primary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=15)