# 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:** 6
**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:** [June 28, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/101 "2011-06-28T03:13:52Z")
I think we better take a look at the crawlspace under Bachmann’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/102 "2011-06-28T05:38:52Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yes, yes I do. [Here you go, then.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0asg6fBs9I&feature=player_detailpage#t=283s) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/103 "2011-06-28T06:10:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You don’t want to know what he did to evil mimes. Whack them with an olive loaf? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/104 "2011-06-28T19:38:19Z")
And now JQ Adams is apparently a Founding Father. Similar to Palin and her bell-ringing Paul Revere spin, her supporters are jumping to her defense. Right now, it appears his main founding role was a private secretary to the rebels minister to Russia in the early 1780s (he was in Europe with his dad, an _actual_ Founding Father. It sounds like maybe dad wanted him out from under foot (“Dad, can I borrow the carriage?”) and shipped him off to Russia. I mean, impressive for a teen, but hardly “founder” stuff. Oh, and it came up as she attempted to defend [her statement that the FFs worked tirelessly to abolish slavery](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=606893). JQ is her go-to guy for abolition. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/105 "2011-06-28T21:17:10Z")
Mildly off topic (well, not entirely), but did anyone catch Kathy Griffin’s latest stand up, _Gurrl Down_? > [@](#): > > I asked her if she was naturally a bigot or if that’s just the way she legislates Apparently, Crazy Eyes’ response was, “That’s a good question, I’ll have to think about that!” [Youtube of Kathy telling the story at a rally.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruqp-B-HhwM) And [here’s a Hulu clip](http://www.hulu.com/watch/247448/kathy-griffin-confronting-michele-bachmann) of the very end of her bit on it. Honestly, I was laughing hysterically while watching the whole thing- definitely try to catch it on Bravo. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/106 "2011-06-28T21:23:00Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > And now JQ Adams is apparently a Founding Father. Similar to Palin and her bell-ringing Paul Revere spin, her supporters are jumping to her defense. > > Right now, it appears his main founding role was a private secretary to the rebels minister to Russia in the early 1780s (he was in Europe with his dad, an _actual_ Founding Father. It sounds like maybe dad wanted him out from under foot (“Dad, can I borrow the carriage?”) and shipped him off to Russia. > > I mean, impressive for a teen, but hardly “founder” stuff. > > Oh, and it came up as she attempted to defend [her statement that the FFs worked tirelessly to abolish slavery](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=606893). JQ is her go-to guy for abolition. No worries. If you get history wrong just re-write history to match your version: > [@](#): > > GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann is now getting the Sarah Palin treatment on Wikipedia. In light of Bachmann’s latest historical hiccup, people are trying to edit John Quincy Adam’s Wikipedia page to reflect her recent gaffe. One edit, for example, changes his description from “John Adams was the sixth President of the United States” to “John Adams, a founding father, was the sixth President of the United States.” > > SOURCE: [http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/28/256227/john-q-adams-wiki-editing/](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/28/256227/john-q-adams-wiki-editing/) You’d think by now she’d have figured out she is a dumbshit and should keep her mouth shut when it comes to uttering anything resembling a fact. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/107 "2011-06-28T21:34:35Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > If you get history wrong just re-write history to match your version This has got to be the greatest revision today: [ > [@wiki editor with sense of humor](#): > > John Quincy Adams was born to John Adams and his wife[6] Abigail Adams in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts. _ **But even as an embryo, John Quincy Adams could feel pain and was a Founding Father.** _ ]([John Quincy Adams - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Quincy_Adams&oldid=436688460)) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/108 "2011-06-28T21:52:17Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I suspect it was more along the lines of you’d have been missed immediately if you’d disappeared while on break. Missed then fired. No appearance required. However, the rule of thumb was that, if you fell asleep, you still had a job until you woke up, and got paid accordingly. The baggage room upstairs was closed for a few hours every night so the midnight shift supervisor used to climb up the conveyor belt until he was out of sight and nap. One night he overslept. They turned on the conveyor and his arm got messed up in the works. But nobody saw him sleeping so he wasn’t fired. Years later the Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine did a page on him as one of the people who keep Chicago running overnight. His useless arm was because of an “industrial accident.” Which it was, but the accident wouldn’t have happened if he found a different place to nap. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/109 "2011-06-29T01:32:11Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > [http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/27/255058/michele-bachmann-john-wayne/](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/27/255058/michele-bachmann-john-wayne/) > > From our good friends at _ThinkProgress_: > > Apparently, Ms Bachmann was trying to send a shout out to John Wayne fans by pointing out that he was born where she was, Waterloo, Iowa. Problem: John Wayne, the movie star, was not born there. John Wayne Gacy, evil clown and child killer, was. > > Oopsy-daisy! Shelly’s comment wasn’t made to be a factual statement. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/110 "2011-06-29T01:37:34Z")
[Has this been posted yet?](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012/) > [@](#): > > **Bachmann’s husband got $137,000 in Medicaid fund** > > While Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the “welfare rolls,” the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News. > > \ > > She’s giving hypocrisy a bad name," ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/111 "2011-06-29T01:41:08Z")
Maybe she was talking about John _Quincy_ Wayne. Starred in \*The Sands of Iwo Jima \*when he was eight. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/112 "2011-06-29T01:45:51Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Maybe she was talking about John _Quincy_ Wayne. Starred in \*The Sands of Iwo Jima \*when he was eight. John Quincy, wasn’t he a [founding father](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/28/256227/john-q-adams-wiki-editing/)? Maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/113 "2011-06-29T01:57:16Z")
Maybe not actually, technically a “Founding Father” but certainly a seminal influence. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/114 "2011-06-29T02:57:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Maybe not actually, technically a “Founding Father” but certainly a seminal influence. Or, at least, semenally influenced by a Founding Father. Close enough. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/115 "2011-06-29T18:29:31Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Fact Checking is not high on her list of priorities. Wait, what? You can check a fact? ---
**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:** [June 29, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/116 "2011-06-29T19:02:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Maybe not actually, technically a “Founding Father” but certainly a seminal influence. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/117 "2011-06-29T19:03:15Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Wait, what? You can check a fact? She’s from Minnesota, she thinks checking is something you do with your hips. ---
**Author:** ![Linguini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ab097/32.png) [@Linguini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linguini)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/118 "2011-06-30T00:19:26Z")
maybe you folks could try applying your same standards to Obama and Biden (or any man). It is common knowledge that the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Her quotes might be a bit distorted and exaggerated, but you either get the cameras attention or you die in politics. There is no such thing as bad publicity and while liberals use her gaffs as rallying points it changes nothing. She has more qualifications to be President than Obama. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/119 "2011-06-30T00:26:21Z")
> [@Linguini](#): > > maybe you folks could try applying your same standards to Obama and Biden (or any man). It is common knowledge that the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Her quotes might be a bit distorted and exaggerated, but you either get the cameras attention or you die in politics. There is no such thing as bad publicity and while liberals use her gaffs as rallying points it changes nothing. She has more qualifications to be President than Obama. That’s a pretty good comedy act. When do you start playing clubs? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/120 "2011-06-30T00:51:03Z")
> [@Linguini](#): > > …She has more qualifications to be President than Obama. Well, lets not forget that she has definite advantages. Obama got his law degree from some piddling college named Hefford or Hoovered…whatever. Michelle got hers from the presitigious law school associated with Oral Roberts University. Now, while it is true that there is no actual documented proof that Obama was denied admission to that eliite training, he still refuses to release any such transcripts. So you gotta wonder… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420.md?page=7)