The Psychometer: Who's Gone Too Far This Week?

With the news constantly dominated by delusional and/or insane personalities, we felt it would be helpful to let our readers know whose craziness really matters. Behold: The Psychometer.

From least crazy to off-the-charts nuts:

Kim Kardashian added "pop singer" to her lengthy resume by releasing her first single this week.

With hosts that fell flat and zero surprises this year, the Academy Awards should do some soul-searching.

Mike Huckabee thinks President Obama "grew up in Kenya," and he's currently one of the top GOP frontrunners for president in 2012. Great job, Republicans!

Texas Governor Rick Perry called Juárez "the most dangerous city in America." Which might be true, if Juárez weren't in Mexico.

Fashion designer John Galliano was fired by Christian Dior after Galliano was arrested for assault and caught on tape praising Hitler.

The Westboro Baptist Church may have been affirmed the right to protest soldiers' funerals, but they're consistently losing their battle with not being nutjobs.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker continues his crusade for nakedly political union busting in the face of massive protests, and now he's trying to blame his state's economic woes on public employees.

What else can be said? Charlie Sheen took an overdose of Charlie Sheen last week, and the world will never be the same.

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi escalated violence against his people in the name of his supporters, which currently consists of Moammar Gaddafi.

Comments

[asmir]

08:28 AM on 03/12/2011

The should have the entire Republican Party-Tea Puppets-all of Fix News-Pat (is it still the 20th century) Buchanan

[AlaskanWannaB]

01:14 AM on 03/07/2011

I know they said "This Week," but where is the Beckster on this psychometer?

[okakura]

11:10 PM on 03/06/2011

Gaddafi: "Why is Palin not on this list?!"

[AlaskanWannaB]

01:14 AM on 03/07/2011

and Palin, too....

[4Blu]

09:54 PM on 03/06/2011

We need one of these every week.

[zatonoichi]

09:05 PM on 03/06/2011

The entire Republican party has been redlining for years now.

[formerroadie]

02:43 PM on 03/06/2011

I would move Perry far to the more "psycho" on that meter.

[Independent66]

10:44 AM on 03/06/2011

I think the definition of psycho has different meanings for different people. My personal list just overlaps on 1 name. Gadaffe. I'll provide 1 name for your thoughtful readers. Barney Frank is right next to Gadaffe. He has hurt more Americans than any single Senator and now staunchly denies every public word he uttered in that effort. You can see it for yourself on YouTube!

[wendilee1956]

05:20 PM on 03/06/2011

Huuuh! Barney Frank? Whaaa? How do you stick him next to Gadaffy? Because he's gay? Because he's liberal? Because he cares about his constituents? What-ever.

[balickistan]

07:00 PM on 03/06/2011

plus he's a representative, not a senator. enjoy your 3 cent post.

[Independent66]

09:16 PM on 03/06/2011

Barney Frank before he was Chair of the House Finance Committee fought any attempt to impose regulations and oversight to Fannie and Freddie(F/F). Read or listen to his speeches on YouTube before 2008 when he became Chair in 2008. Pushed F/F to reduce their requirements so more people could own a home. These were the same people that lost their homes because they could not afford them. Then he continued to back F/F as chair to keep it going until the great crash. He hurt tens of million Americans who lost their homes and caused irreparable harm to this country. He helped write the Dodd/Frank Law and it never addressed F/F. We still dump tax money into F/F and Frank is still pushing them to guarantee low down payment loans. I figure he has hurt 20m families, perhaps 50m total people lose their homes and any cash they invested in the home. These people have a credit problem for 7 years or so.
Gadaffy is only worse because he kills his own people. Frank caused misery for 50 million people and he is still pushing his agenda.
I don't care about his being gay or liberal. He has caused a lot of pain for roughly 50 million Americans. He continues to lie to Americans via his speeches, etc. He denies any responsibility for what he did. If it were up to me, he would be in jail for his actions. I call it Treason.

[Hardyman1966]

03:19 PM on 03/05/2011

Kardashian makes me long for the days when all we had to tolerate was Paris Hilton.

[biffbaff]

02:09 PM on 03/06/2011

Sad to say but Paris was a heck of an entertainer compared to Kim K. Who else can come up with the chicken of the sea, buffalo wings or Wallmarts (sic) - where they sell walls. That's hot!

Where are you Paris, reclaim you crown of airheadedness.

[wendilee1956]

05:18 PM on 03/06/2011

Ummm, I can't believe I even care about this, but I think you're mixing up Paris Hilton with Jessica Simpson and her stupid reality show. Same diff, though.

[Sym Clo]

11:58 AM on 03/05/2011

the Oscars were hilarious! I dont know what you're talking about!

[indjoe]

03:19 AM on 03/05/2011

NO ONE IS MORE NUTS THAN BECK

[CrazyThisIs]

01:49 AM on 03/06/2011

The week is pretty crazy when Beck doesn't even register on the Psycho-Meter. Not even an honorable mention.

[AlaskanWannaB]

01:19 AM on 03/07/2011

Ditto!!!!

[Jimmy Anacker]

01:06 AM on 03/05/2011

Who ever made this graphic sort of put its categories in a silly order. It should go Could Use a Hug to Approaching Insanity to Delusional but Harmless to Should Probably Seek Help to Batshit Insane.

[shrinktalkingheads]

09:29 PM on 03/04/2011

The United States of America.

Dysfunctional. Out of touch. Narcissistic. Living on its laurels.

[Mz Takes Maid]

10:12 PM on 03/05/2011

Well said. And more graciously than I would've been inclined to articulate.

[Mark Morrow]

03:04 PM on 03/04/2011

Michelle Bachmann - Off the meter.

[TonyZahn]

01:28 PM on 03/04/2011

Leave poor old Charlie Sheen alone, believe me he knows exactly what he is doing.

[NanaPokuWare]

01:10 PM on 03/04/2011

Where's Glenn Beck ?
Off meter ?

[TonyZahn]

01:31 PM on 03/04/2011

Probably at home suckin his thumb and halucinating that he really is a newsman.Sorry excuse for a human .