Nancy Pelosi put on a performance today. Unfortunately, her stretched skin and BOTOX-poisoned face prevented her from expressing emotion. Yes, her voice cracked as she seemed to choke up, but her face was paralyzed. That hurt the believability of her overall presentation.
Transcript
NANCY PELOSI: Well, I think we all have to take responsibility for our actions and our words. The, uh, we are a free country and this balance between freedom and, uh, safety is one that we have to carefully, uh, balance.
Uh, I have concerns about some of the language which, that is being used because I saw... I saw this myself, uh, in the late '70s in San Francisco. This kind of, of, of rhetoric is, was very frightening. And it gave, it created a climate in which we, violence took place and uh, uh... So I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made so, understanding that, that uh, some of the people that, the ears that it is falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statement might assume.
Uh, but again, our country is great because people can say what they think and they believe. Uh, but I also think that they have to take responsibility for any incitement that, uh, they may cause.
From the Washington Post:
In a rare display of public emotion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) choked up Thursday morning recalling the anti-gay rhetoric in the late 1970s in San Francisco, which culminated in the assassinations of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay S.F. Board of Supervisors member, and Mayor George Moscone.
Pelosi, responding to a question about whether anti-government rhetoric posed a threat of domestic violence, said that protesters on all sides had the right to voice their opposition to legislative proposals in a heated fashion. But then Pelosi -- whose weekly press conferences are legendary for their highly scripted nature and her rote recitation of Democratic message points -- paused and took a deep breath as she recounted the tone of some protests in her hometown.
...Pelosi appeared to fight back tears, staring down at the podium.
Pelosi did not say that such an environment had returned thanks to the conservative activists who have been holding rallies in opposition to President Obama's health-care reform proposals, as well as the government takeover of troubled firms in the financial and the auto industries. But she added that protesters on all sides had to "take responsibility" for their words and actions.
Oh, come on.
Pelosi didn't have to say that she was talking about conservative activists. We all know she was.
Give me a break with all this parsing of words!
The fact is Pelosi didn't care when she and her liberal cohorts were saying incendiary things about President Bush and those in his administration. There were no warnings then, no concern about the words being heard by unbalanced people, no tears, no fear for anyone's safety.
What a hypocrite!
Thousands marched on Washington and around the country to protest the Bush administration. They carried signs depicting President Bush as Hitler. Swastikas were everywhere. The President was called a killer. There were bloody, violent images.
Why didn't she get choked up then?
Pelosi is engaged in political posturing at its worst.
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