--- title: John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi Read Mean Tweets About Themselves description: Tans were discussed canonical: https://time.com/3759729/john-boehner-nancy-pelosi-mean-tweets/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-26T14:48:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T14:24:40.000Z og:title: Watch John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi Read Mean Tweets About Themselves og:description: Tans were discussed og:url: https://time.com/3759729/john-boehner-nancy-pelosi-mean-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi Read Mean Tweets About Themselves twitter:description: Tans were discussed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi Read Mean Tweets About Themselves > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:24 PM UTCPublished: Mar 26, 2015 2:48 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Updated: Dec 13, 2023 2:24 PM UTCPublished: Mar 26, 2015 2:48 PM UTC Members of Congress including House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi came together to read mean tweets about themselves on video to promote Wednesday’s [2015 Radio & Television Correspondents Association Dinner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FunSMzOyKT8). Spoiler alert: Fake tans were discussed. “Um… @NancyPelosi looks like a tub of orange sherbert right now on CSPAN,” Pelosi read one, before ad-libbing: “Was I standing too close to John Boehner?”  The video then cuts to Boehner reading a tweet stating that he “Looks like an angry Oompa Loopa. I presume he bribes his constituents with promises of chocolate and Gobstoppers.”  The twitterverse can be so cruel. Luckily [Boehner was able to keep it together:](http://www.politico.com/gallery/2012/07/11-times-john-boehner-cried/000266-003390.html) > [](https://twitter.com/SpeakerBoehner/status/581099413923315712) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3759729/john-boehner-nancy-pelosi-mean-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3759729/john-boehner-nancy-pelosi-mean-tweets/"},"headline":"Watch John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi Read Mean Tweets About Themselves","datePublished":"2015-03-26T14:48:15.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T14:24:40.000Z","description":"Tans were discussed","url":"https://time.com/3759729/john-boehner-nancy-pelosi-mean-tweets/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","viral","John Boehner","Boehner","nancy pelosi"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3759729/john-boehner-nancy-pelosi-mean-tweets/","name":"Watch John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi Read Mean Tweets About Themselves"}}]}] ```