The Psychometer: Who Went Too Far Last Week?

Our Psychometer scientists pulled an all-nighter and found us the week's most confounding, WTF-inducing headlines out there. Do you agree with their findings? Hover over each picture to see an explanation, and let us know what you think in the comments.

Comments

[Albert Jenkin]

03:26 PM on 02/15/2012

So help me, Psychometer is one of the best reasons for plugging in to HufPo.

[Erin Starr]

09:17 PM on 02/24/2012

I totally agree with you on that

[toti]

06:47 PM on 02/13/2012

I don't think Hannity's delusion is harmless.

[O K Ali]

05:09 PM on 02/13/2012

Pizza Hut isn't that insane, considering that they only offered ten deals and got more than 800 serious inquires. Hannity, on the other hand, likes it on the right of the dial. On his show today, he was bemoaning that soldiers don't have a ticker tape parade, even though we have many men and women sitting in foxholes and dodging bullets at this minute.

[troyrobertdavid]

04:22 PM on 02/13/2012

Hannity and Pizza Hut should be switched.

[mzrecycle]

04:20 PM on 02/13/2012

I'm wishing for the good ole days... The days when Newt or Mitt was the focus of so many articles on TV and in print. Between what they said and the comments of others on HuffPo, I was always laughing. They are both funnier than Santorum, who is more pathetic than funny. A lot of good belly laughs are a big part of my health routine.

[Chazz280V]

03:46 PM on 02/13/2012

What Pizza Hut did was indeed crazy, but I wouldn't have rated them that high. I think they should switch places with Наnnіtу. He should have the Ваtѕһіt Іnѕаnе rating.

[jaslyn]

02:19 PM on 02/13/2012

If people weren't so frightened of their own shadows, Hannity would have no audience.

[Robert Weissman]

01:02 PM on 02/13/2012

adding to the long list of people that Mr. Santorum has offended we add Female member of the Armed Forces (people that put there life on the line every day) and I ask why would anyone vote for this wack job as president?

[theiFyoU]

02:12 PM on 02/13/2012

If he isn't insulting to most women, I'd be surprised.

[jaslyn]

02:18 PM on 02/13/2012

it sounds to me if the men can't handle the women being in harm's way, maybe the MEN should be the ones that shouldn't be there.

[winniecm]

11:59 PM on 02/13/2012

Good point!

[BadgersBite]

12:38 PM on 02/13/2012

Cal Thomas was the inspiration for twin beds...

[theiFyoU]

02:17 PM on 02/13/2012

In different houses.................................................

[theiFyoU]

02:20 PM on 02/13/2012

With at least a one state buffer zone...........................

[jsgaetano]

11:47 AM on 02/13/2012

Hannity's insanities rank up there with the rest of his Birther pals.

[kareemachan]

01:34 PM on 02/13/2012

I'm still waiting for him to make good on his claims that he could be waterboarded no problem. And it's for charity, seanie-baby. Why haven't you done it yet? Gallus gallus domesticus, maybe?

[stepper]

11:27 AM on 02/13/2012

Hannity is a delusional liar and has a following of millions. He and his partners in crime have convinced about half this country that giving people access to affordable medical care is a plot to control them, and it is the height of compassion to take welfare away from the poor. They are now working a new narrative: that the country is much worse now than three years ago.

Hannity's goal is clear: put the Republicans back in charge so they can save the economy by lowering taxes and ending restrictive regulations - the exact same economic plan that got us into this mess. And thanks to the success of his propaganda, combined with dismissive flippancy from the left, he might just succeed.

If you rate Hannity as harmless, you deserve your own spot on the psychometer.

[PWM]

12:52 PM on 02/13/2012

I remember Reagan and his antihealthcare crusade. He was running around telling people that universal healthcare was how communists took over nations - of course he could not identify a single nation taken over this way.

[stepper]

02:41 PM on 02/13/2012

Actually that was the Medicare debate in the 1960's. Despite his moronic ramblings of a socialist dictatorship that never came to pass, Reagan won two landslide presidential elections a few years later. Liberals made the mistake of dismissing him as a harmless fanatic. And we keep making that mistake.

[TeraWatt60]

10:26 AM on 02/13/2012

Except for Pizza Hut catering to people with more money than taste/intelligence the rest is totally symptomatic of  Teapublican/Conservatives inability to filter their inner comedian...they have all become a very sad joke that no satire can even approach

[Kibblet]

10:19 AM on 02/13/2012

The pizza one isn't the worst. It's silly, I wouldn't do it, but harmless. The rest? They make sense.

[Vballboy60]

03:14 AM on 02/13/2012

But I can get a comment posted quickly and without scrutiny or moderation delays in the comedy section.....still trying to figure HuffPo out.

Again...wish my larger policy comments could go into the group dialogue but alas......some switch is currently pulled in my disfavor.

Off to the Washington Post this morning.....

[ChristineSilliman]

02:06 AM on 02/13/2012

Only 10 proposal packages available from Pizza Hut? Wonder how many are left.

[Vballboy60]

03:14 AM on 02/13/2012

Too funny