# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/621 "2012-08-01T16:50:19Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Closer than what? She already jumped through all kinds of security-check hoops to get her job. > > Regarding Egypt, see [post #588](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/egypt/120723/michelle-bachmann-huma-abedin-muslim-brotherhood-responds) and [story linked therein.](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/egypt/120723/michelle-bachmann-huma-abedin-muslim-brotherhood-responds) > > There’s also the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood itself is not nearly as scary as you seem to think it is; perhaps you are thinking of [Al-Nour.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nour_Party) The two are not on speaking terms. Not being privy to how she was vetted, it’s impossible to define “closer”. How about _another_ look, paying particular attention to her immediate family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. In case you’re unaware, there’s been a big change in Egypt and the MB has gained more prominence and power. Why, in light of the changes in Egypt, is taking another look so booga-booga-booga cary? That makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/622 "2012-08-01T16:53:13Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Only if, by “involvement”, you mean “a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy in the Muslim Brotherhood.” Nope. Mother, father, brother. Hardly a “guy who knew a guy who knew a guy”. I ask you, given the changes in Egypt, why is taking another look at her a bad idea. Hell, for all we know, this was being done without Bachman’s request. I _hope_ it was, as it seems a logical and prudent course of action. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/623 "2012-08-01T17:17:02Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Post #553. Try reading. You should try it sometime, given your retarded OP in the New Black Panther Party thread. Do you have the balls to return and defend your asinine claims? ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/624 "2012-08-01T17:28:44Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > You should try it sometime, given your retarded OP in the New Black Panther Party thread. > > Do you have the balls to return and defend your asinine claims? Meh. It’s a pit thread. I wanted to vent. I vented. While I might have put an overly positive spin on things, it is a slap in the face to all those who defended Holder and his clowns with a "there’s nothing to look at here. It’s a right -wing fabricated conspiracy. Now, how about you commenting on with this thread. What’s the matter, reasonableness got your tongue and just won’t let you spout your usual nonsense? Actually, that’s a good sign. Embrace it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/625 "2012-08-01T17:32:21Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Thanks. Still not seeing her accuse anyone of anything. :rolleyes: No, no, of course not. She’s [Just Asking Questions.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/JAQing_off) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/626 "2012-08-01T17:35:03Z")
Yeah, you vented while offering a distorted and dishonest interpretation of the truth. No rule against it. And it’s par for the course. I just wondered whether you had the class to come back and admit your dishonesty. I guess not. I’ll leave you to carry on defending Bachmann now. It’s a task that’s perfectly appropriate for someone of your integrity. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/627 "2012-08-01T17:58:34Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Thanks. Still not seeing her accuse anyone of anything. Michelle Bachmann is despicable for engaging in these types of McCarthyesque politics and you a despicable for defending her. I would feel the same for somebody on the other side of the aisle. You, sir, are a hyper partisan piece of shit and you should be ashamed of yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/628 "2012-08-01T18:00:29Z")
Here’s the hint: If you’re demanding that someone be investigated, you’re not asking questions, you’re making accusations. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/629 "2012-08-01T18:26:01Z")
[QUOTE=magellan01] Thanks. Still not seeing her accuse anyone of anything. [/QUOTE] > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > :rolleyes: **No, no, of course not.** She’s [Just Asking Questions.](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/JAQing_off) (emphasis mine) Excellent. So, anyone who claims that Bachman made accusations against Huma Adebin is either simply wrong or lying. We agree. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/630 "2012-08-01T18:27:19Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Yeah, you vented while offering a distorted and dishonest interpretation of the truth. No rule against it. And it’s par for the course. I just wondered whether you had the class to come back and admit your dishonesty. I guess not. > > I’ll leave you to carry on defending Bachmann now. It’s a task that’s perfectly appropriate for someone of your integrity. What’s wrong with defending her? Oh, I forgot, you have no opinion in _this_ thread. The one you’re posting in. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/631 "2012-08-01T18:30:09Z")
> [@L. G. Butts](#): > > Michelle Bachmann is despicable for engaging in these types of McCarthyesque politics and you a despicable for defending her. I would feel the same for somebody on the other side of the aisle. You, sir, are a hyper partisan piece of shit and you should be ashamed of yourself. Can you describe what she did that was so wrong without “McCarthyesque”? I think you’d agree that it’s a bit lazy. And if her conduct is SO bad, it should be rather easy to explain what was so bad about it. Or does your point rest on being able to use a load ad hominem? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/632 "2012-08-01T18:32:21Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > What’s wrong with defending her? Oh, I forgot, you have no opinion in _this_ thread. The one you’re posting in. This thread is 13 pages long, dipshit. I’ve made a few comments about Bachmann over the course of the thread. I haven’t weighed in on the particular issue of her accusations about the Muslim Brotherhood (and they _are_ accusations) because everyone else is doing just fine pointing out your stupidity. There’s a difference between not weighing in on a particular argument, on the one hand, and starting a thread specifically to raise an issue, on the other. You did the latter in the NBPP case, what you wrote was a load of shit and a distortion of the truth, and you don’t have the integrity even to return to the conversation that _you_ started. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/633 "2012-08-01T18:33:43Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Here’s the hint: If you’re demanding that someone be investigated, you’re not asking questions, you’re making accusations. I, and BrainGlutton, disagree with you. That aside, you claimed for a while in this thread that you had this amazing question that you were oh-so-cusious about. A question so monumental that no one had (or could?) answer it. I thought I did, but you said I didn’t, so I asked you to clarify what this question—which must be quite amazing, it seems—actually was. Now, if it turns out that I did already answer it, and shown your position to be ridiculous, surely you’d admit that. Right? ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/634 "2012-08-01T18:37:18Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > This thread is 13 pages long, dipshit. I’ve made a few comments about Bachmann over the course of the thread. I haven’t weighed in on the particular issue of her accusations about the Muslim Brotherhood (and they _are_ accusations) because everyone else is doing just fine pointing out your stupidity. My apologies for not finding your input particularly memorable. But surely you can see the confusion of you posting here commenting on a thread that is not this one. I mean, there is that other thread to post in. You know, when commenting about that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/635 "2012-08-01T18:49:39Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > That aside, you claimed for a while in this thread that you had this amazing question that you were oh-so-cusious about. A question so monumental that no one had (or could?) answer it. I thought I did, but you said I didn’t, so I asked you to clarify what this question—which must be quite amazing, it seems—actually was. That wasn’t this thread, you stupid fuckbag. I asked; Are you angry because you’re being forced to buy something you already have and want to keep? Or angry because you’re being forced to buy something you don’t want. You didn’t answer the question, which I asked TWICE, and then you play this disingenuous idea claiming I never asked a question yet claimed I was asking one, and kept asking me to tell you just what I was asking. Well it was posted twice, douchebag moron, try fucking reading for comprehension. On my part, this is the last response you will ever see to anything you post. you have proven that you’re on the level of a parrot with a severe brain injury, or a dementia patient whose had a large chunk of their brain removed due to cancer. You’re stupid, lazy, intellectually dishonest and obviously incapable of intelligent and rational discourse. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/636 "2012-08-01T18:53:20Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I mean, there is that other thread to post in. You know, when commenting about that thread. Pay attention, moron. I _have_ posted in that thread. I came here to note that, while you were happy to accuse people in this thread of not reading things properly, you yourself had started a new thread in which your whole OP was based on a poor reading of a biased source. I came here simply to wonder whether you were ever going to return to that thread to acknowledge your idiocy, or whether you were happy to take a dump and then run away when your shit was pointed out. I guess i have the answer, though, and i won’t hijack this thread any further with discussions of your ongoing mendacity. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/637 "2012-08-01T20:24:27Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > (emphasis mine) > > Excellent. So, anyone who claims that Bachman made accusations against Huma Adebin is either simply wrong or lying. We agree. No, we do not. [Read for comprehension this time,](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/JAQing_off) you dishonest, disengenuous asshole. > [@Chimera](#): > > Here’s the hint: If you’re demanding that someone be investigated, you’re not asking questions, you’re making accusations. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/638 "2012-08-01T20:34:46Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > That wasn’t this thread, you stupid fuckbag. > > I asked; > > Are you angry because you’re being forced to buy something you already have and want to keep? Or angry because you’re being forced to buy something you don’t want. > > You didn’t answer the question, which I asked TWICE, and then you play this disingenuous idea claiming I never asked a question yet claimed I was asking one, and kept asking me to tell you just what I was asking. Well it was posted twice, douchebag moron, try fucking reading for comprehension. > > On my part, this is the last response you will ever see to anything you post. you have proven that you’re on the level of a parrot with a severe brain injury, or a dementia patient whose had a large chunk of their brain removed due to cancer. You’re stupid, lazy, intellectually dishonest and obviously incapable of intelligent and rational discourse. Whoops. My mistake. Sorry for crushing the illusion that I was infallible and making such a dumb mistake. Now, while you may have asked it twice in that thread, you did als state, prior to asking the question in that thread: (emphasis mine) > [@](#): > > **I keep asking people** who hate Obamacare this question; > > Are you mad because you’re being forced to buy something you don’t want? > Or mad because you’re being forced to buy something you already have? and… > [@](#): > > To date no one has answered the question. Instead they ignore it and keep raging. So, you certainly painted a picture that you had been asking this question many times before. But, as you pointed out, this is the incorrect thread. I look forward to you joining me here. Unless, of course, you think you’ve found yourself an out and no longer have to support the ridiculous claims you made. (actually, that’s probably your wisest course of action.) [Go to Post 176, here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15337722&posted=1#post15337722) ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/639 "2012-08-01T20:41:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > No, we do not. [Read for comprehension this time,](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/JAQing_off) you dishonest, disengenuous asshole. You seem to be confused with yourself. Either someone is making an accusation or not. You _admitted_ that there was no actual accusation in Bachman’s letter. You had to, to, of course, because none exists. But now, you don’t like claiming that she didn’t make an accusation, so you fabricate a way to claim she mad an accusation without actually having made one. :rolleyes: It seems that you’re the one with problems in the honesty department. You don’t like reality so you claim something else as reality. Briliant! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/640 "2012-08-01T20:52:39Z")
Yeah, yeah, yeah. “When did you stop beating your wife?” Sound familiar? No accusation there either, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=33)