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  1. In the part toward the end that I watched, Madam Speaker struck me as no different from a cranky old lady telling off a clerk in a department store. San Francisco, man… all the amazing characters that place has spawned onto the national scene of late. I do not understand. Well, at least St. John is still there.

    sharksauce, I can hear it in my mind. I must say, though, that I was genuinely touched by Blitzer’s expression of concern about the people having to visit the food bank there toward the end of the clip.

  2. Why do I get the feeling watching that exchange it was planned? They always have a plan and spontaneous outbursts like that just don’t happen.

  3. Reminds me of this insane episode from Chicago in late May, early June, when an alderman was imploring Mayor Lightfoot to do something about the violence there, specifically in his district.

    The alderman happened to record the ensuing vitriolic exchange, which he recorded much to her outrage, and the audio recording (which is illuminating but not terribly elevating) can be found in the middle of the following link.
    https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/06/10/mayor-lori-lightfoot-lashes-out-at-alderman-for-illegally-recording-call-leaking-profane-argument
    The participation and collusion of the Democratic Party, Democratic mayors and Democratic governors in the destruction of the jurisdictions under their control (and so-called “governance|) is crystal clear and ought to cause the party to implode. Instead, the Democrats, whose presidential candidate is a dementia-addled thug and whose vice-presidential candidate is an unlikeable and ignorant opportunist are confident of victory in November (or at least they’re claiming to be confident). This should make no sense to any sane observer; however, perhaps their confidence is due to their intention to win by employing ballot falsification at uncontrollable, unsupervisable and unquantifiable levels and/or by causing so much chaos and violence that they believe those in charge of the elections will be forced to declare them victorious. They will, of course, have the MSCM staunchly in their corner doing its sordid best to protect them from any harm while spouting the usual demonization of Trump and the GOP non-stop.

    Whatever it is, they have something up their sleeves and they believe that something is an Ace. Or four of ’em.

    As for the MSCM/Leftist Media organization “protection racket”, here’s Lee Smith and John Undercover Huber with some roundups:
    https://twitter.com/leesmithdc
    https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber

  4. Mrs Whatsit:

    I’m all for transcripts, but in this case watching the video adds the added dimension of Pelosi’s affect, which must be seen to be believed.

  5. I think that’s the longest I have ever listened to Pelosi. What a disgusting person she is.

  6. Neo, I did watch a bit of it and saw your point, gritted teeth and all. She is something else.

  7. In all fairness to her lowness, I don’t think she was clenching her teeth, I think her dentures got locked together.

  8. Roofer Dude on October 14, 2020 at 5:07 pm said:
    Why do I get the feeling watching that exchange it was planned? They always have a plan and spontaneous outbursts like that just don’t happen.
    * * *
    J E Dyer is suspicious of the confluence of several about-faces by the Left and their Media allies, although she doesn’t mention thinking that some of it is staged. She recites a long list of odd events, in addition to the ones in the excerpt:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/10/14/whats-up-with-the-about-face-on-covid-19-the-new-york-times-and-the-media-treatment-of-democrats/

    These instances of forceful pushback against Democratic whoppers have not been at all characteristic of the mainstream media news hosts in the last decade.

    Meanwhile, something odd is going on at the New York Times. The sudden enthusiasm for the Trump administration’s pandemic performance, evinced in the article on COVID-19 progress, was one instance. Another was NYT editorialist Bret Stephens coming out with a stinging criticism of the paper’s flagship “1619 Project,” published on 10 October.

    There’s a lot – a whole lot – from Pelosi about the lack of respect she’s getting from Blitzer’s line of questioning. It’s the only word she seems to know. She clearly doesn’t appreciate being treated like, you know, a Republican.

    But Blitzer doesn’t back off. In the context of a decade or more of predictably sycophantic media coverage for Democrats, this is gobsmacking. Something is going on.

    If we saw only one of these patterns emerging, it would be easier to suggest what that something is. The meltdown at NYT is the hardest to account for. The about-face on COVID coverage – suddenly it could all be over really soon – sounds like it has some separate premise behind it, presumably related to whatever’s going on with the WHO. But what is causing NYT to just as suddenly start burbling out little random truth bombs with no apparent editorial governor on them?

    The COVID vector shift, on its own, seems like something being coordinated somewhere. Those are some really big muscle movements – saying lockdowns should end, predicting a quick resolution of the whole pandemic problem – to be mere twitches.

    The equally sudden astringent quality of media personalities with top Democrats this week also looks coordinated. If we were seeing only that pattern, I would have to ask if there was a rolling takedown of senior Democrats starting up. Those senior Democrats have been heavily dependent for a long time on absurdly accommodating media coverage. They’ve lost the ability to function without it. Cause it to turn on them, and they can be humiliated, marginalized, exposed as largely impotent without it.

    It’s not anyone on the Republican side, however, who has the power to cause that effect, even if Republicans wanted to. If the media are turning against the most senior of the legacy, Old Consensus Democrats, they’re doing it at the behest of the new, more radical Democrats, and more specifically, the dark-money backers of the party’s radical element.

    In my judgment, it’s too early to draw conclusions about that. The fact that we’ve seen all these patterns emerge at exactly the same time suggests that they are related. We can postulate a political link between the apparent shift in COVID messaging and the sudden prickliness of MSM outlets this week with Democrats.

    …More to follow on this, no doubt.

  9. Ms. Pelosi is a joke and needs to retire. I have never liked her, even when I was a Dem. She writes resolutions and not laws. She cannot govern. She is so tone deaf and does not understand the common man. I bet it was Pelosi’s idea for all the women senators to sound emotional as they ask the most ignorant and ridiculous questions to Amy Coney Barrett. American’s are not buying this act. This has been a tough year in the USA and no one cares about Nancy Pelosi and her back up singers.
    I just voted in NZ today (I mailed my Expat ballot a month ago to a State that will count it). It was a very calm, enjoyable experience. They give you a paper ballot and an envelope to place into a ballot box. NZ will have a fair election. Nice!

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