Pelosi suggests that town hall protesters carry "swastikas and symbols like that"
Last night on Fox News, Sean Hannity asked former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to comment on the Democrats’ campaign to demonize protesters who oppose President Obama’s health care reforms.
Hannity ran the now-familiar video clip of present day Speaker Nancy Pelosi, claiming that some protesters were “carrying swastikas”. (So far no evidence has emerged to substantiate Pelosi’s charge; presumably if photographic evidence existed, it would have been featured on the front page of the New York Times.)
Speaking of the Times, Gingrich observed that liberals’ fury against these lawful demonstrations of dissent reflected their growing realization that the “world [is] no longer defined by the New York Times, but by Fox News and talk radio and Twitter.”
Gingrich added that in the “swastika” video clip, “there was an edge” to Pelosi that was “strange.”
No doubt, to many of the ordinary American citizens whom Pelosi is slandering, her own career does seem “strange.” Certainly, her San Francisco district has a reputation as a hotbed of “edgy” radical lunacy.
For example, Pelosi describes herself as an “ardent practicing Catholic,” even though she has repeatedly voted against legislation to ban partial-birth abortion.
Some argued that the longtime lawmaker’s 2008 trip to Damascus (a “state sponsor of terror) was itself a violation of the law under the Logan Act.
Most recently, Pelosi seemed confused about whether or not she’d ever been briefed on the use of the interrogation technique of “waterboarding” on suspected terrorists. Pelosi had repeatedly condemned waterboarding as “torture” and insisted that she had always opposed it. But:
then it was learned, in May 2009, that the CIA, as early as September 2002, actually had briefed Pelosi about its use of waterboarding. This revelation, in light of the fact that Pelosi had never raised any objection to the practice when she was told about it, made her appear to be a hypocrite who was now intent on punishing her political foes for having supported a tactic to which she herself had quietly assented for several years.
Kathy. I tried to link here from your site and could not do it. A site called “bit.ly” kept coming up. I could not find a way to contact you on your site thus this comment. It had a link on it to get here but I did not use it as I am very suspicious of anything I did not initiate.
Bob Devine.
I encountered to same problem, and chose to ‘proceed at my own risk’.
Pelosi’s ‘Hedy Fry’ moment was worth the danger faced…
Kathy from your site this is blocked by some group known as Bit.y. Just figured you ought to know.
In a saner world where insane peoplke did not get public office. Pelosi would be in a home for the demented. I guess she not onlt doesent read legislative bills, but the Constitution as well.
Caligula like I expect her to try to get her pet dog named as a Congressmen.
This Women even makes Hedy Fry look normal. Now that is an acomplishment!
JMO
Good article.
The link is definitely screwy. To get around it, go to newsrealblog.com and click on the article in the sidebar on the right to get to a linkable URL.
Googling “swastika town hall” easily found swastikas carried by town hall protesters:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/07/pelosi-swastikas/
Yeah, but they’re anti-swastika signs.
Nancy Pelosi is out of touch with America, she could care less about us. She’s an idiot that she never hold office. I certainly hope she gets voted out. Far as I am concerned she’s an ASSHOLE. This is the nicest I could think of to say about her. I can’t believe her husband is proud of her. I have a suggestion for him, get a real women, Nancy is a has been.
Technically, Pelosi is correct. Of course, the problem is that she’s implying that they’re carrying swastikas because they’re neo-nazis. The fails to make clear they’re carrying swastikas (with red lines through them) as a symbol of anti-fascism.
And where was Pelosi’s outrage when the Left spent five years comparing Bush to Hitler/nazis? There was all KINDS of nazi symbology from the Left.
Pelosi’s hypocrisy is staggering.
Anymore, anyone with an opposing veiwpoint is labelled, yet legislators pass laws protecting themselves while fleecing us all and practically laughing at the rest of us.
This woman should retire and be thankful that she still has most of perk money she got for bowing to special interest groups while taxpayers suffered. When is enough; enough?
She is a clown and so is this entire administration. I have been let down by my country. I am still amazed by the amount of people who voted for this president and still won’t admit it was a GIANT mistake.
Pelosi is an idiot and should never hold a position in any government. I feel sorry for Mr. Pelosi to be married to someone like her.