Michele Bachmann's Greatest Hits

With Michele Bachmann ending her presidential campaign, we'd like to take a moment to thank her for all the laughs. She will be missed by comedians everywhere.

Here's a look back at her most memorable gaffes:

"Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too" —Michele Bachmann, getting her John Waynes mixed up during an interview after launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, where she grew up. The beloved movie star John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer.

"Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today." —Michele Bachmann, while campaigning for president in South Carolina on what was actually the anniversary of Elvis's death

"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly — men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country." —Michele Bachmann, botching American history while speaking at an Iowan's for Tax Relief event in January 2011. The Founding Fathers did not work to end slavery, and John Quincy Adams was not one of the Founding Fathers.

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Michele Bachmann Jokes

"Lenscrafters is upset with Tea Partier Michele Bachmann because she called Planned Parenthood 'the Lenscrafters of abortion.' Lenscrafters released a statement today calling her 'the Costco of crazy.'" —Conan O'Brien

"After the debate where the HPV issue came up, Michele Bachmann said she had a discussion with a woman who came to her and said that her daughter had taken the vaccine and had become mentally retarded. And Michele Bachmann said, 'Mom?''' —Bill Maher

"Michele Bachmann is out, but I don't think her husband is." —David Letterman

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Newsweek's Crazy Michele Bachmann Cover Photo

Newsweek's controversial cover photo of a crazy-eyed Michele Bachmann is drawing both criticism and laughs.

Here are some of the funniest reactions to Bachmann's Newsweek photo:

"Glazed and Confused" -The Daily Show

"The Girl Next Door (Assuming You Live Next to an Insane Asylum)" -from Funny Or Die's alternate Bachmann Newsweek covers

"The Newsweek cover makes Bachmann look insane. So what's the controversy, exactly?" -BorowitzReport on Twitter

"Newsweek called Michele Bachmann 'The Queen of Rage,' much to the dismay of her husband, who thinks of himself as the queen of the family." -TheIndecider on Twitter

"Michele Bachmann uses those eyes to keep Marcus's homosexual demons at bay. Calling them 'crazy eyes' will destroy marriage." JC_Christian on Twitter

"Honestly, I think the greater technical feat would be Newsweek shooting a photo of Michele Bachmann NOT looking crazy." -ApocalypseHow on Twitter

"Is that the Michele Bachmann Newsweek cover or a painting that follows Scooby Doo with it's eyes?" TheIndecider on Twitter

"She is also apparently 'full of rage' in this photo according to the caption, which strangely is probably the only emotion we would not attribute to Michele in this photo. Our first thought was more like, 'brain dead.'" -Wonkette

"The most shocking thing about Michele Bachmann's Newsweek cover is that Newsweek is still a magazine." -TheIndecider on Twitter

Jon Stewart, interestingly enough, came to Bachmann's defense, saying it was "clearly not an accidentally sh*tty picture of Michele Bachmann" and that Newsweek went out of its way to make her look bad.

Stewart said Bachmann's wide-eyed expression looked like "the exact moment she sees the Amazing Robalto turn his hat into a dove," and added, "There is one thing that you can't say about Michele Bachmann: That's she's not photogenic."

But Newsweek just released the outtakes from its Bachmann photo shoot, and it appears that crazy may be her natural state.

What do you think, was the photo unfair, or was it a fitting portrait of the Queen of Crazy?

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