Listen to Boehner, Pelosi, other politicians read mean tweets about themselves

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published 26 March 2015

In the latest “watch as people read terrible things someone who may or may not be real said about them on the internet” video, elected officials do their best to show that they are too cool to care about any of the mean comments being tweeted their way. In this edition — created for the 2015 Radio & Television Correspondent Association Dinner — we find out that despite looking like "an angry Oompa Loompa," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has absolutely no idea what a gobstopper is; people who hate House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) think she's actually a senator; and someone is confusing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with Doc Brown. Watch the video below. —Catherine Garcia

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.