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

Maybe the summer heat has been affecting our collective minds, because there seems to be quite a bit of crazy in the air this week. After taking a couple weeks off, our Psychometer scientists have submitted their latest findings. Hover over the pictures to find out why those selected made it on the meter this week.

Comments

[fried52]

12:53 AM on 08/16/2011

West scares me, but so does Jeremy Irons now

[Progressivehoosier]

07:14 PM on 08/15/2011

Keep in mind that Fox was sued for knowingly running false stories. The fox defense was that it was not illegal to do so. They won the case.

Case closed on fair and balanced...

[LJohns1216]

08:08 PM on 08/15/2011

Well that was not WHY they were sued, but the Judge did fine it is not illegal to present false News.

Canada Banned Fox from the country.

"Murdoch......Aoos -Trail - inn for C R O O K "

[mowprincess]

05:11 PM on 08/15/2011

Fox News really.. I heard the rest of these stories. I cannot believe that.. actually I can, but how can they get away with it. Do you have to pay to be a member, so it is a private club?? Sexist and racist.

[Ayla McIntosh]

01:16 PM on 08/15/2011

0 to psycho in 4 seconds

[dmsdzinr]

01:02 PM on 08/15/2011

Looks about SPOT ON to me!

[Sixtracks]

12:33 PM on 08/15/2011

Nice display of family values, Arnold.

[Timothy Knight]

06:18 PM on 08/16/2011

Actually I hear his wife bought him that shirt a bit ago. Still stupid to wear it.

[rich3324]

10:23 AM on 08/15/2011

If corporatio­ns are people, do they no longer have limited liability?

[LJohns1216]

08:10 PM on 08/15/2011

Mitt,
Enjoy dinner with Mr. and Mrs Corporation.

Wait.....

How can that happen?

[peegan]

10:55 PM on 08/14/2011

I'm still trying to figure out West's statement about Atlanta. What's going on here I don't know about, and why was I not invited?

[Daniel Hicks]

11:47 PM on 08/14/2011

I'm not sure, but I certainly know here in Atlanta we have one of the largest and most prominent gay communities in the South. Rep. West has no excuse for demeaning a minority group, and then feigning ignorance about why they might take offense to that.

[peegan]

12:29 AM on 08/15/2011

All joking aside, I am trying to figure out his statement beyond "I have this prejudice and I will try to explain it away by pretending I have a unique perspective from growing up in long lost city of Atlanta." Here is all I can come up with. You also have a very large and prominent AA community, and with it AA churches, which have not been historically very gay friendly. Combine that with some hostilities over gentrification issues, and you might have less then worldly idea that you have some unique perspective.Personally, I don't think his perspective is at all unique, but just another example of the TP attitude that "my world is changing, and I don't like it."

[Victoria-nola]

12:13 AM on 08/15/2011

teehee!

[lateralus1983]

09:50 PM on 08/14/2011

Jeremy Irons is awesome.

[regulargal]

07:02 PM on 08/14/2011

From the 1970 movie, A Man Named Horse, "I AM NOT AN ANIMAL....I AM A CORPORATION!"

See, it just doesn't work, Romney.

[bi-poplar]

06:56 PM on 08/15/2011

I thought that was from Elephant Man-which would actually work better for a Republican

[troyrobertdavid]

03:01 PM on 08/16/2011

It was definately in Elephant Man, never saw A Man Named Horse so I couldn't say about that one.

[lucerot]

05:23 PM on 08/14/2011

I think Romney's response to the heckling was sharp and poised. But let's get real, it's not going to resonate with the American people. During a time when corporate profits are at RECORD HIGHS, while middle-class America is suffering 9% unemployment, is indefensible to voters. Liberal pundits need to hammer this home again and again and again.

[Dusibello]

12:06 PM on 08/14/2011

Romney's correct. Corporations are people. Some are groups of people led by smaller groups of people gone terribly wrong, but his point, in the strictest sense, is valid and should not be ridiculed for the sake of opposing bad corporate behavior. That said, he and most all other Republicans scare the dickens out of me in my old, liberal age...

[LintLass]

02:56 PM on 08/14/2011

Corporations are not people, they are mechanisms. If they're people, they would have social obligations and be able to be sent to jail.

Just cause a person is involved in a corporation doesn't make that corporation a person.

[Deruist]

05:14 PM on 08/14/2011

So, hanging out in McD's makes me McD's? Hold on while I check my bank account to see if that's true.

[nothingchanges]

11:27 AM on 08/14/2011

I only hope their predictions concerning Fox News prove to be correct.

If not, it may well be that 50 years from now Fox News will be "The official news of the United States of America"..........and the only station available to the American Public.

George Orwell gave us a blueprint in "1984". I wonder how many people have actually read it?

[dil123]

02:41 PM on 08/14/2011

I read it, and all I kept saying is " I can't believe one party read this book and thought it was a good idea for how to run a government."

[woody7]

03:18 PM on 08/15/2011

Newscorp ie "fox" still has issues, why are they not still in the news on the front pages??

[Aspergillus]

09:38 AM on 08/14/2011

I think other candidates up there deserve to be in Romney's place...

[Dave Harrison]

11:21 AM on 08/14/2011

I am not so sure of that. Follow the link, it explains it. The article is a short one.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html

[Victoria-nola]

12:18 AM on 08/15/2011

right on Time magazine.

[lonesometx]

09:27 AM on 08/14/2011

""touching a tar baby," he meant to say "quagmire,"

As far as I know the tar baby is from the Br'er Rabbit stories. And it is the perfect definition of a quagmire.

I was raised in the north in a very small town. I never though of a tar baby as racist. Maybe I'm wrong. Or maybe people can take offense at anything these days.

I need educated on this, so if I'm off base I want to make a change. Please let me know, (in a nice way), because I'm serious about this, not making fun or hating.

[TWeissMA]

09:36 AM on 08/14/2011

The statement by Lamborn found protestors outside of his office, and media stories across the nation. Yet the HP presents this article with stigmatizing terms such as, 'crazy,' and, 'psychometer.' But hey - it's the HP, so it *must* be ok, right?

Guess it is all in the individual's perspective or something. Bashing is in the eyes of the perceiver, apparently.

[Garspies]

11:13 AM on 08/14/2011

AW shucks, this is America. Both of you have a right to be racists. Just carry on and watch your group of friends shrink to nada.
You defend statements like that? You defend each other? Wow, just wow.

[T Ruble]

11:57 AM on 08/14/2011

The term "tarbaby" is most definitely a racist epithet in 2011. I grew up in the South, live in the North, and actually read the stories. It was meant as a demeaning and racist term. It was for the very opposite effect as Twain's use of the most vile word in the English lexicon that people rail against and believe needs changed. Twain used his as a teaching moment to grow as a society of all people equal. Uncle Remus was used to denegrate blacks in this country.

[WHTrout]

11:37 AM on 08/14/2011

I'm not sure whether the original intent of "tar baby" in the Br'er Rabbit stories was racist (one could argue the author was clueless), but over the years, the term certainly has taken on racist connotations through usage. In the south, it has certainly been an undisguised reference to blacks. I grew up in West Virginia some 50 years ago, and I know that's how the term has been used there for decades.

[lonesometx]

12:42 PM on 08/14/2011

Thank you for the education.

I have used the term in relation to projects that never seem to finish or drag on and on. "Boy when we won that project we sure picked up a tar baby."

I've never used the term to describe a person but I think I'll delete it from my vocabulary.

[Victor Trevino]

04:14 PM on 08/15/2011

I agree, I heard this term as a child growing up in the south. Its literary origins were not apparent to children, but the substance used to build roads, with its dark color and awful smell were well known to us. It was a derogatory and racist term.