Here are some of the funniest reactions to Bachmann's Newsweek photo:
"Glazed and Confused" -The Daily Show
"The Girl Next Door (Assuming You Live Next to an Insane Asylum)" -from Funny Or Die's alternate Bachmann Newsweek covers
"Newsweek is taking heat for calling Michele Bachmann 'The Queen of Rage.' Michele says, 'There's only one raging queen in our household, and it's not me.'" -Conan O'Brien
"Newsweek used a photo to make Michele Bachmann appear crazy. That's what her words are for." -Jon Stewart
"The Newsweek cover makes Bachmann look insane. So what's the controversy, exactly?" -BorowitzReport on Twitter
"Newsweek called Michele Bachmann 'The Queen of Rage,' much to the dismay of her husband, who thinks of himself as the queen of the family." -TheIndecider on Twitter
"Michele Bachmann uses those eyes to keep Marcus's homosexual demons at bay. Calling them 'crazy eyes' will destroy marriage." JC_Christian on Twitter
"Honestly, I think the greater technical feat would be Newsweek shooting a photo of Michele Bachmann NOT looking crazy." -ApocalypseHow on Twitter
"Is that the Michele Bachmann Newsweek cover or a painting that follows Scooby Doo with it's eyes?" TheIndecider on Twitter
"The most shocking thing about Michele Bachmann's Newsweek cover is that Newsweek is still a magazine." -TheIndecider on Twitter
Jon Stewart, interestingly enough, came to Bachmann's defense, saying it was "clearly not an accidentally sh*tty picture of Michele Bachmann" and that Newsweek went out of its way to make her look bad.
Stewart said Bachmann's wide-eyed expression looked like "the exact moment she sees the Amazing Robalto turn his hat into a dove," and added, "There is one thing that you can't say about Michele Bachmann: That's she's not photogenic."
But Newsweek just released the outtakes from its Bachmann photo shoot, and it appears that crazy may be her natural state.
What do you think, was the photo unfair, or was it a fitting portrait of the Queen of Crazy?
See Also:
• Craziest Michele Bachmann Quotes
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• When Photo Ops Go Horribly Awry
Comments
That is one scary looking photo. Almost as scary as Michele Bachmann actually becoming president.
She is crazy, no discussion needed.
Why is it even controversial? It portrayed her as she is. Bat. Sh*t. Crazy!
Someone on another site wisely pointed out the word “eek” behind her head. Perfect!
I’ve read some of what Michelle has spoken, and rage isn’t the only thing she’s full of.
The shot is clearly her having an orgasm ignited by the flash of a camera and she thought the lord had come to call her home.
Much like angel lust.
And on that thought, since homosexuality is so damnable, when was the last time Marcus ate Michelle out?
Tina Brown of Newsweek has always been a reliable Team Obama mouthpiece. Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post shows that Newsweek was not only sexist but mostly doing the dirty work of the left media against a conservative woman.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/with-bachmann-newsweeks-bias-uncovered/2011/03/29/gIQAAFMv6I_blog.html
The overweening contempt for ordinary American voters dripping from the Team Obama media mouthpieces at Newsweek is patently obvious in their grotesque smear of Congresswoman Bachmann: “The elderly, the unemployed, the exasperated, and even a few disillusioned Democrats crowd her rallies and cheer her not-going-to-take-it-anymore shtick, even as they recognize some of its inherent contradictions.” Into Newsweek’s Demented Left echo chamber, no light from the real American political world of fly-over country penetrates. This is the Newsweek that stated in 1980 that “Fringe candidate Ronald Reagan has no chance of getting a elected.” This is the Newsweek that has lost 56% of its circulation over the last 10 years.
“Bachmann planned to vote against the debt-ceiling compromise that would ensure the arrival of her Social Security check and the military benefits owed to her sons and nephews.”
This last statement is an outright fabrication by Newsweek. The Wall St. Journal proved that Social Security payments of $50 billion/month could have been paid 100% out of the SS Trust fund with no net cash drawdown from the Treasury. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576458294273264416.html?KEYWORDS=social+security+trust+fund
The fact that any one on “either side” takes any of this circus seriously is the real laugh! The real joke is on us… do you seriously think that U.S. politics in any current form (yes, sorry tea party, that includes you) are going to save or fix anything? Ha! So I wouldn’t get my panties in a bunch over some stupid photo on a magazine cover…
I thought of the Hypno-Toad on Futurama when I saw this Newsweek cover of Michele Bachmann. RRRRrrrrrRRRrrrRRRRrrrrrrr…”all hail the Hypno-Toad !!!!”
Cheap shot by Newsweek. No wonder nobody reads it any more. Now, nobody will even look at the pictures, either.