Keith Olbermann: Michele Bachmann's Newsweek Cover Makes Her Look '150 Percent Insane' (VIDEO)

Keith Olbermann gleefully mocked Michele Bachmann for her expression in the controversial Newsweek cover image of her.

The cover--which shows a photo of Bachmann with a wide-eyed expression and labels her the "Queen of Rage"--has caused a major stir, with everyone from Fox News to the National Organization for Women condemning it.

Newsweek editor Tina Brown defended the cover on Twitter, writing, "Michele Bachmann's intensity is galvanizing voters in Iowa right now and Newsweek's cover captures that."

Bachmann herself declined to comment on the cover, telling an Iowa crowd on Monday that she hadn't seen it.

On his Monday show, Olbermann called the cover "the worst magazine cover since Martin Sheen in 'The Dead Zone'" (a reference that admittedly passed over HuffPost Media's head) and said that it made Bachmann look "150 percent insane." Newsweek, he said, deserved the "photography Pulitzer" for the cover.

Olbermann also had Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker writer with his own Bachmann story out this week, comment on the picture.

He speculated that Bachmann had "rolled the dice" with the cover, perhaps, he said, thinking that "'Sarah Palin was on the cover of Newsweek recently and she looked great. Maybe they'll do the same thing for me.' It didn't turn out that way."

Watch video above.

Comments

[BuckCarson]

11:37 PM on 08/11/2011

This guy digs himself deeper and deeper into obscurity with every breath...

His downfall is an omen for the remainder of the liberal media. Acting like a child is not a good behavior in the face of crisis.

[cityprof]

12:24 AM on 08/16/2011

He's not collecting unemployment. At least give him that. And do you make more than he does? Doing what you do whatever that is?

[BuckCarson]

06:56 AM on 08/16/2011

Given. No. Physicist.

[WorkhelpWorkhelp]

02:15 AM on 08/11/2011

"God sees your roots." Classic !!!

[ErnestineBass]

11:03 PM on 08/10/2011

This is one of those cases where looks AREN'T deceiving.

[Joseph Glackin]

12:40 AM on 08/11/2011

A picture is worth a thousand words

[Booger Lewis]

10:52 PM on 08/10/2011

I didn't even know Keith was still on the air? Where is he, on a local channel in one of those little hick towns that he so loved to mock when he was on MSNBC?

[hoagie76]

02:22 AM on 08/11/2011

i'm from a small town and I never heard him mock any town, just small minds

[jtraveler]

09:39 AM on 08/11/2011

great comeback!!

[Booger Lewis]

10:47 PM on 08/10/2011

Alright! A thread about Keith!!!! I have been waiting for the opportunity to talk about Keith ever since he got canned at MSNBC. Finally...., my big chance! I can't waste it. Hm-m-m-m. Hm-m. Hmm. He really isn't worth the effort, is he. Talking bad about someone as irrelevant as Keith just isn't what I thought it would be. It would kinda be like wasting time talking about Lawrence O'Donnell..., just not worth the effort.

[Joseph Glackin]

12:43 AM on 08/11/2011

Ey, Booger, ad hominem much?
Know what I'm saying?
If not, I'm not surprised.

[hoagie76]

02:23 AM on 08/11/2011

are you jerkin it rt now? jus' curious

[dwwill]

06:42 PM on 08/10/2011

Olbermann was fired because he couldn't keep the interest of sunday night football viewers, yea, thats a group of deep thinkers. Then he gets fired from MSNBC, the bottom of the news stations. I guess this is the best he can do these days.The guy is a hack and I'm surprised I'm even wasting my time commenting on him.

[WorkhelpWorkhelp]

02:18 AM on 08/11/2011

He's GREAT !!

[hoagie76]

02:24 AM on 08/11/2011

limbaugh couldn't handle it for one night...so what's your pt?

[toxico]

04:44 PM on 08/10/2011

It's the same look she has on her face when she's dropping the kids off at the pool.

[wayne the pain]

03:50 PM on 08/10/2011

Olbermannis right! Those eyes tell you that all the wires are not connected!

[sippewissett]

03:25 PM on 08/10/2011

Regardless of Bachmann's supporters and trolls who surge forward to cry foul about the Newsweek cover, let us all remember that BACHMANN POSED FOR THIS PHOTO. It is not a candid and not an out-take. It is an approved studio shot. Hence her bug-eyed stare into her pretend universe is who she is.

[mairs]

02:06 PM on 08/10/2011

I would look that way too if I had been married to a gay man for 33 years. I'm SURE I would.

[WorkhelpWorkhelp]

02:18 AM on 08/11/2011

She's grown closed ya know....

[stuff7321]

03:14 AM on 08/11/2011

Wow, lol.

[Rwstafford]

12:31 PM on 08/10/2011

I don't know who has the smaller circulation....Current Tv or Newsweak....oh well , it's true obviously that misery loves company ...

[headly67]

01:24 PM on 08/10/2011

But your commenting on it.

And TV shows don't have a circulation.

[Billyguitar]

01:41 PM on 08/10/2011

Too bad your comment is not relevant to the story.

[EGarcia01]

12:09 PM on 08/10/2011

I thought the photo on Newsweek was very representative of her. And if you read the current 'New Yorker' article by Ryan Lizza, then you will know why: she IS that wide-eyed and wild-eyed person in the photo. For real.

[Iko13]

12:45 PM on 08/10/2011

That is a great article and yes it does explain that " the Leader commands me" cult look she has going on.

[Whinerbozo]

01:26 PM on 08/10/2011

...everything looks that way when you're looking though a 'purple haze'.

[sidecarman]

11:56 AM on 08/10/2011

she is 150% insane as is any woman who is a gop member. they must have a missing gene.

[rationalthought1]

11:50 AM on 08/10/2011

I use to watch Keith all the time - up to about a year before he left MSNBC. After a while I just got burned out on all the gleeful mocking (and Bachmann is certainly an easy target for that). By the time he left I never watched him anyway so I didn't miss him at all. I came to see him as a blowhard - a blowhard who I agreed with politically, but still a blowhard.

[Cakey4814]

10:09 AM on 08/10/2011

Was that suppose to be funny?

[Whinerbozo]

01:28 PM on 08/10/2011

"...suppose to be...? No, it was!

[mairs]

11:35 AM on 08/10/2011

Losty is lost.

[Whinerbozo]

01:29 PM on 08/10/2011

How do you get lost in the truth? Oh! Wait! This is HP. Sorry.