Are you guys watching this shit on 60 minutes.

[JVS]

Boehner is weird as fuck

[reformist2]

1. I know! Why are so many "conservatives" nowadays blubbering idiots?

First Glenn Beck now Boehner?? My God it's embarrassing.

[Poboy]

2. Don't cry, Orangeman.

[Iris]

47. wait...he was CRYING on 60 minutes?

[JVS]

54. Oh yeah. They even asked him about it and he started crying.

[bullwinkle428]

57. It wasn't just dabbing a tear from the corner of his eye - it was full-scale,

"Cowardly Lion" from the Wizard of Oz blubbering, complete with all of the ridiculous facial contortions!

[monmouth]

3. And Stahl just luvs him, he's so "authentic."....n/t

[Hannah Bell]

16. didn't the media eviscerate dukakis for tears? i guess crying is ok if it's just a congressman.

or the tears are phoney.

[booksenkatz]

22. Pat Schroeder is owed an apology for sure. NT

[booksenkatz]

23. And Edmund Muskie. NT

[Hannah Bell]

28. oh, that's right, it was muskie.

[qazplm]

30. preconceived perceptions

republicans are tough, democrats are weak, those are ingrained, lock solid into our psyche.

So Boehner crying is anything but weak, while a democrat doing something similar is weak.

[Tesha]

36. Anything is okay if you're Republican. (NT)

[tblue37]

55. No, that was Muskie. nt

[barbtries]

78. not about the house

more about the party.

[gmoney]

93. And to think "the Scream" basically ruined Howard Dean's run

The media couldn't get over the Howard Dean "scream" and I really think that's what sank his campaign... of course, it didn't matter that he was trying to be heard over a shouting cheering crowd (that you couldn't hear through his isolated directional microphone) or that he'd been campaigning and speaking for months, so it's only natural for his voice to crack.

No, they made it out to be that he was some sort of maniac, too dangerous to be president.

Yeah, with Muskie's crying, the Nixon camp managed to spin it into some full-fledged mental illness. The same with Eagleton.

Shouldn't Boehner's constant weeping and frequent drunk appearances somehow count against him? No, they make him seem "more genuine."

Give me a giant fucking break.

Everything sticks to the left, nothing sticks to the right. And the right claims there's a liberal bias in the media.

[hedgehog]

34. I thought she rather disliked him - but then I was listening to tone and watching body language.

He out and out said that whatever he says while campaigning is merely nonsense designed to get votes, that what he really stands for is something else entirely. Too bad Stahl didn't pursue him on that!

[monmouth]

40. There was a pre-show of sorts and a female reporter really wanted

to know how she felt about his crying. That was when she made the statement about really, really, liking him and she felt he was authentic. I didn't see the actual interview but my guess would be he sort of shocked her and she was put off by it. Her statement was a "clean up" for airing...

[a kennedy]

4. yes, and I came here to DU to say what a piece of SH**!!!

Oh my gawd...... :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad: :puke: :mad:

[MadBadger]

5. He cant go into a school without crying?

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!

[JVS]

11. That's just cover. It's probably some kind of DUI probation condition.

[bullwinkle428]

6. Phony blubbery asshole.

[SharonRB]

7. Yes, and I feel like throwing uo

If he cares so much about those school children, he needs to rethink his agenda.

[malaise]

8. He's batshit crazy

I think he was always envious of people with money.

[Skittles]

9. he is a sick man

makes him a perfect repuke

[asdjrocky]

10. No, I live in California. nt

[chelsea0011]

12. What a night for 60 Minutes. Jerry Jones on tonight, also.

I think I will puke.

[Goldstein1984]

13. Inbreeding in our ruling class was bound to show its effects eventually

[bullwinkle428]

14. 7 years to finish college? Even Palin didn't take THAT long!

:rofl:

[mistertrickster]

88. We're getting kicked out?! Seven years of college down the drain. Bluto Blutarsky. nt

[gmoney]

94. That's Senator Blutarsky to you, fella.

And he'd be a helluva lot better than Boehner... probably more sober, too.

[mistertrickster]

101. oh yeah! Forgot about that. Nice snag! nt.

[reformist2]

15. By the way, this emotional trainwreck is now 3rd in line to be president.

[emulatorloo]

17. Yeah 2010 Voters!

[sabrina 1]

73. Scary. And don't forget, he confused the Declaration of Independence

with the Constitution on the steps of the Capitol Bldg. Read a passage from the 'constitution' very dramatically, pounding fist on podium, probably as instructed. Only problem was, it wasn't the Constitution, it was the Declaration of Independence. There should a test for these idiots running for Congress. They swear to defend and protect the Constitution and they don't even know what it is.

[Justitia]

Yes, & I came here because I can't believe this sap! 'Weeper-In-Chief', it's all about him!

Notice, every time he starts the waterworks, it's for or about himself!

Never the American citizens & what their lives are like - it's all about HIM!

What a fucking self-important, blubbering, asshole.

[Ilsa]

38. You nailed it, I'm afraid: IT'S ALL ABOUT HIM. And screw everyone else. nt

[Kolesar]

87. good catch...eom

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Fuck no.

I'd rather drink Drano.

[BridgeTheGap]

19. Dupe

Dupe

[BridgeTheGap]

20. What would they be saying if Obama cried? I can hear it now: "Imeachment time!"

But really, Boehner is probably crying about what he's doing to the middle, working classes & poor.

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[Quixote1818]

24. Wrong Place. Delete

[bleever]

27. I figured you were joking

and thought it was funny.

[taterguy]

42. I was joking. Riff on a thread from 3 and half years ago . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6575524&mesg_id=6576029

[bleever]

45. Funnier than I thought,

and obviously the OP knew where you were coming from.

:toast:

[Quixote1818]

25. Reminds me of this guy

[mmonk]

81. That's what my wife said.

[galloglas]

26. Who, with adequate credentials, can answer this??

I asked this on a similar thread but want to cast my net wide. I really wanna know.



My own notion is that Boehner's emotional reactions are stemming either from some physical disorder (endocrine, whatever) or from something in the Physician's Desk Reference (the compendium of all psychiatric disorders). Perhaps I am wrong. But something is needed to explain it, I think.

Are there any health care professionals out there who could weigh in with ideas?

[Mz Pip]

29. Maybe he has what Beck has

Vicks rubbed under his eyes.

Boner and Beck are phony pieces of crap. Narcissistic as all get out IMHO.

[Ilsa]

39. I think it's because he's completely self-absorbed. But yes, maybe

He has a hormone dysfunction of some sort, too. We'll know when he comes out with his sad health story, crying the whole way through.

[bleever]

52. "Emotional lability"?

Churchill suffered from it in his later years.

[galloglas]

60. Yep. That is the phrase...

I know "emotional lability" is the phrase I wanted to use, but it would not come to mind. Yet, it is both a medical and psychiatric sign, often noted and factored into diagnoses.

Went to Google with the term and found this.

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/symptoms/emotional_lability/causes.htm

As far as I can tell, 59 reasons to be concerned.

[laughingliberal]

67. It can be a symptom of a variety of disorders. Severe forms are often from damage to the inhibition

center in the brain. We see it often in stroke victims but anything that damages that structure in the brain can cause it.

BTW, I think you were looking for the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual) rather than the PDR which is a book of all the drugs on the market.

[galloglas]

90. Excellent! Good Answer.

Yes, it was the DSM I meant. And when I wrote PDR, it was actually the Merck Manual I was thinking of.


These acronyms confuse my old brain. I mean, WTF, is this a GOP conspiracy? I was asked the other day for names for twins and found myself suggesting FINRA and ERISA.:evilgrin:

Seriously, though, great answer. Since I knew no past history to account for it (except maybe drinking too much?) my best guess was a head shot during an MVA.

Thanks again.

[elehhhhna]

96. nah, you meant PDR. Prescription drug abuse can totally cause that behavior.

[elehhhhna]

97. p.s FASB is a good name for a boy

lol

[lumberjack_jeff]

103. FASB Palin. n/t

[elehhhhna]

95. I like the alternate term at that site -- Emotional Incontinence

[lumberjack_jeff]

102. My bet from the list is Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.

Braaaains!!! More brains!!!!

[tblue37]

56. Booze is a good enough answer. (Occam's razor.) nt

[Erose999]

80. Speaking of razors, somebody better get Bohener some psychological help before his problems manifest

in other ways (i.e. cutting).

[barbtries]

79. okay here are my credentials

i was raised by an alcoholic. further disclosure: i didn't watch 60 minutes. i did watch the election night show. and my take on it is that the man is drunk.

[TeeYiYi]

31. OMG...

He and his wife both use orange fake tan cream... What liars! No wonder he's crying. His lying guilty conscience manifests itself as panic attack fear tears... :/

TYY

[Hepburn]

32. Not on yet on the left coast. However...

...I did not have to watch 60 Minutes to know that Boner is a weird fuck!

:hi:

But...thanks for verifying my opinion!

[LucySky]

33. The crying was disturbing.

I know lots of men who cry, but seeing the soon to be Speaker of the House do it several times on TV does not set well with me.

[Enthusiast]

63. It is clearly FAKE. nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

104. It wasn't fake, it was just weird.

The boy's not okay.

[vssmith]

85. I have never seen Pelosi cry

[WestSeattle2]

35. He's not crying; cigarette smoke got in his eyes.

[fascisthunter]

37. damn... that boy got issues

what a deranged person...

[El Supremo]

41. Not one observation about his drinking problem.

60 Minutes isn't the same anymore.

[Enthusiast]

64. It hasn't been the same for a long while.

Same with the rest of the media.

[Bigmack]

43. You guys who watched him....

Why? You knew he'd make you sick.

Like eating green apples.. for the second time.

You knew it... why did you watch?

[JVS]

44. Who died and made you mom?

;-)

[Bigmack]

58. That's "Muthah" to you! Privilege of age. nt

[taterguy]

46. Because there was nothing else on TV and I didn't feel like reading a book

[JVS]

53. Good call.

Books suck.

[WinkyDink]

51. We like orange?

[pamela]

59. I wanted to see him cry.

I saw a preview with him boohooing.

[HughBeaumont]

48. Yep, that's the great state of SlowHio for you.

Wouldn't surprise me if our brain-surgeon voters send possibly the greatest progressive voice in the Senate next to Bernie Sanders (Sherrod Brown) packing soon. Yeah, he only wrote a book on the myths of "Free Trade" and cares about your rights as a worker. But hey, let's elect a fascist for a governor and Bush's former trade advisor for the Senate! Because since this state's economy sucks ass, what's gonna fix it is . . . putting . . . the people who helped create this mess . . . back in power.

Aces, idiots. Unfuckingbelievable.

[dreamnightwind]

75. There may be a vacancy in the White House soon...

"Wouldn't surprise me if our brain-surgeon voters send possibly the greatest progressive voice in the Senate next to Bernie Sanders (Sherrod Brown) packing soon."

Why not send him to the White House then? He would certainly be an improvement over who's there now.

[HughBeaumont]

83. Brown would be an improvement. He'd also disappoint and it wouldn't be his fault.

The problem; the disease, if you will, that America has is unbridled capitalism, the wealthy that benefit the most from it and the Republicans in both parties that gatekeep it. America has to be willing . . . and I mean REALLLY WILLING to first see that those are huge problems and cure them first before we can make any effort to get great politicians who work for the people in there. We need far more Sherrod Browns in Congress and the Senate also.

Everyone wonders why Bewsh II got everything he wanted . . . could it be because many Democrats are really what used to be called "normal Republicans", and all Republicans are batshit insane, non-caring bastards?

[dreamnightwind]

91. I agree

The right leadership, though, can go a long ways to shifting the whole debate, to educating the public as to what direction we should go, to make the case for policies that will actually help. We don't even have that now. Obama lets the whole corporate-center-right point of view completely determine the terms of discussion. Example: in one or two candid moments, he off-handedly acknowledged that single payer health insurance is really the best way to control costs, but he never ever made any educational arguments in its favor, he never helped explain to the American people what real reform would look like.

I can live with disappointment, change won't be easy. I can't live with phony bait-and-switch politicians. Someone like Brown (or Sanders, Franken, Grayson, Feingold, Dean) would at least get the right conversations going, so we could honestly look at our problems. If we don't have the votes to get something done, we would at least have made the case for why we need more and better votes, by making the right arguments, and we would then have a platform from which to try to get the right people elected in the next elections so that we have the votes... What we have now is the public shrugging and saying Dems are no better than Repubs! Sorry I ramble, anyway we SO need a legitimate challenge to this administration.

[lonestarnot]

49. From the sounds of it, I'm glad I'm not.

[spanone]

50. an ego on acid

[alp227]

61. I watch 60 Minutes on Youtube now rather than record it.

DVR is very clogged, got finals this week. I'll most likely not watch this Boehner interview.

However, 60 Minutes recently did a profile of Justice John Paul Stevens. And an Anderson Cooper assignment report on corruption in the Afghan police force.

[Enthusiast]

62. What is weird about

fake crying?

[lpbk2713]

65. 60 Minutes made a special effort to keep him from looking like a schmuck.

But his schmuckiness came shining through just the same.

[Blue_In_AK]

66. Can you imagine the uproar if Nancy Pelosi cried like that?

What a big baby. He cries because his wife says she's proud of him?? What the hell?

Yeah, there's definitely something a little "off" about him.

[elehhhhna]

98. they had a shit when Hil teared up on the campaign trail. memba?

[Blue_In_AK]

100. Yes, I do remember,

and she didn't even begin to break down like Boner does regularly.

[Oilwellian]

68. Mr. Boner has alcohol issues

I suspect his leadership will be quite the spectacle.

[tomm2thumbs]

69. pressure and stress gonna add to that I suspect... it always does

[kimi]

70. I always watch "60 Minutes"

Sometimes I'm amused, sometimes I'm edjimacated, sometimes I'm enraged. Tonight I was just -- WTF??

I am simply not comfortable with a guy who is so psychologically labile, and is 3rd in line for the Presidency. Someone in that position should have a better grasp on his emotions than to be falling apart at the thought that a kid in the 3rd grade may not have then same opportunities that HE had when HE was growing up. I'm sorry, I'm an emotional person myself, I sob when I see SPCA ads with sad puppies and kitties on TV, and the commercials with skinny kids overseas also (and I rush to donate to most of those as well) -- BUT. . . the Speaker of the House, I think, could have a little more self-possession.

[Raine]

71. I would just love to give him a real reason to cry

:spank: :evilgrin:

[AlabamaLibrul]

72. I managed to look past the fact re: incoming Speaker and watched a sad drunk man weep

into his $200 dress shirt bought with tobacco lobbyist money.

Honestly, it was hilarious.

[SpiralHawk]

74. Republiconism in full flower

There's a lot of George AWOL Bush in this guy.

[TexasObserver]

76. Message Discipline. Republicans are the Borg.

[barbtries]

77. was he drunk again?

dude needs an intervention.

[elehhhhna]

99. and then CELEBRITY REHAB

[Angry Dragon]

82. The weeping boner

as he is known throughout the land

[ThatsMyBarack]

84. "Daria" reruns were on last night!

Thanks, LOGO Network! :woohoo:

[Kolesar]

86. So little boys and girls can share the American dream

His message does *not* connect !

[mainer]

89. I"ve worked with stroke patients. Many of them cry for no reason

It's a sign of frontal lobe damage.

[onecent]

92. Who is gonna play him on SNL??? n/t