Yes, you can see Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she raises her right hand swearing that there will be no “earmarks” in the stimulus package.
Readers. Was this 40 second CNN video interview of Nancy Pelosi by Wolfe Blitzer doctored by extreme right wing terrorist?
As a colleague questioned me today. Why didn’t a challenge of this interview appear on mainstream network news?
Why? Are you kidding! Our liberal left wing “mainstream media” owns the airwaves. They will be exempt from any future Fairness Doctrine policy.
Shame on us for not monitoring the left wing “talking heads” where we could have seen and exposed this interview months ago.
one of the most far left persons we can ever have had as a speaker , this lady is a total disater . hey lets start inpeachment hearings .. she said the other day that the tax rally was astroturf . aka fake grass . and she wants to have a olive branch . yeah full of grease .. hopefully the elections coming up we can get rid of this ultra far , far left san francisco liberal .
Silence (from the left)is golden.
Hey, want can they say. She raised her hand for the world to see and hear. It’s tough trying to engage in damage control on this TV appearance.
in a strict technical sense, i believe there were no “earmarks” in the bill. the word refers to some parliamentary thingamajig, so i think that’s how they get away with this. pork, though…
technically. No “earmarks”?
Having visited Mann’s Chinese theater in Hollywood they do have numerous hand prints of VIP entertainer’s in the cement walkway entrance. Are we looking for pigs ears next?
This is easy. Pork is spelled P-O-R-K
More PHONEY OUTRAGE from the right. You’re all a little late to this “party” to have ANY credibility.
FACT ALERT:
Earmarks went from 4,000 a year in 1994 when REPUBLICANS took control of congress to 15,000 in 2005.
anonster. I wondered where you were today.
There is a major difference between this post and your feeble attempt to divert the video message.
Did George Bush 43 raise his right hand and say that there would not be any earmarks on his watch?
Being non-partisan. Did Speakers Tip O’Neill, Tom Foley, Dennis Hastert or Newt Gingrich ever raise their right hand on CNN or make any other public display to make the same stupid pledge as Nancy Pelosi. We deserve better.
She is an embarrassment for both major parties.
It may be semantics Larry, but she is telling the truth. Nancy Pelosi also has a better RECORD on earmarks than her republican predecessors.
The only embarrassment should be yours, for blatant hypocrisy. Where are all your posts on earmarks when Bush and the republicans were in charge? Or is it her “dishonesty” that has your shorts in a twist? Bush was always yapping about earmarks, while stuffing his budget with them, is that “dishonest”?
anonster.
“There you go again.” A lame attempt to change the subject. This post is about a 40 second clip of Nancy Pelosi which you cannot bury so you change presidents.
Tell you what. I will gladly respond to you and debate earmarks if we can also change the man living in the White House. That seems fair to me.
Larry, exactly WHERE did I change the subject? Nancy Pelosi DID NOT LIE. Furthermore she has a Better record on earmarks than her Republican predecessors, cutting the cost of earmarks by about 50%.
I know, I know, WAAHHH, facts about an actual subject; earmarks, when ALL you wanted to do was SLIME Nancy Pelosi.
anonster.
Are you so blinded by rage that you are not watching the video which is the only issue at hand?
Nancy Pelosi does not comment about any of her predecessors to Wolfe Blitzer who was very careful in making sure that she knew his question and what she was saying. Yet you insist on introducing prior adminstrations into the debate as you cannot defend her raising her right hand and lying to America. “Damage control” of that magnitude is well above your pay grade.
Did you bother to watch the video? It only takes 40 seconds to hear her repeat that there will be “no earmarks” in the recovery package.
This is one statement that no democrat can defend.
Thank you Wolfe Blitzer for making sure she knew what she was guaranteeing to CNN viewers, all of whom were deceived. I wonder how Mr. Blitzer feels about that interview where he was blitzed now that the stimulus bill has been approved.
I know that any spending that is not aimed at killing people offends right-wingers like yourself, but this WAS a STIMULUS package, designed to SPEND money in this country. You may call it “pork”, I just hope it can create enough jobs to help keep this country afloat.
larry anmonster is a far left ,move on , code pink . bush lied people die . pelosi supporter . every time they are caught with a fact . they always bring up bush .
Finally, Anonster admits to the “earmarks” or “pork” that Nancy emphatically stated, more than once in the 40 second clip, was not included in the “package.”
I rest my case!