Posted on 03/30/2020 7:51:21 PM PDT by Morgana
On the last Sunday in March a year ago, The Washington Post Magazine published a goopy cover story titled "Pelosi's Moment." On the last Sunday in March this year, The Post published an "Opinion Essay" in the A section that went on for three pages (with eight photographs) celebrating Pelosi as "A troublemaker with a gavel."
Reporter-turned-columnist Karen Tumulty wrote what sounded like a very long, saccharine Hallmark greeting card for Pelosi's 80th birthday.
She has been the target of thousands of Republican campaign ads, though that assault failed spectacularly in 2018, when Democrats swept the midterm elections and regained control of the House. More than a few in Pelosi’s own caucus had their doubts when she announced that she wanted her old job back. There were voices, on both the left and the right of the party, who said Pelosi’s time had passed.
But her second act has been, by some measures, even more impressive than her first. Pelosi’s discipline and maturity, her refusal to be intimidated by Trump’s bluster, have energized the Democratic base and kept a volatile and impulsive president off balance.
A conservative counterpoint rarely emerged, unless it was to make Pelosi look better. Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon was quoted calling her a "total assassin," which led to more praise:
A woman about to enter her ninth decade has become a warrior-heroine to the social-media generation. It seems that her every gesture toward Trump conveys a message of contempt. When he gave his 2019 State of the Union address, she offered stiff-armed, mocking applause. Right after he delivered it this year, she gracelessly ripped up her copy of what she called “a manifesto of mistruths.”
At times, even Pelosi seems taken aback by the frenzy she can trigger. After she got the better of the president during a meeting in late 2018, the Internet was ignited by an image of her striding triumphantly from the White House in a fire-colored coat. It created such a sensation that fashion house Max Mara scrambled to put the design from its 2012 collection back on the market again for $2,990.
Tumulty found the usual expert to sing praise:
"Nancy Pelosi has wielded power more forcefully and effectively than any speaker since Joe Cannon,” says congressional authority Norman J. Ornstein, invoking the name of the iron-fisted Republican who ruled the House in the early 20th century. “Her assets include her public presence, her coolness under pressure, her remarkable negotiating skills and her ability to get to yes."
And just like last March, there was a sick reference to Pelosi's Catholicism:
“We saw our Democratic values as related to our religious values,” Pelosi said. “So it was almost a moral imperative that we would be community oriented. That didn’t mean you had to run for office. It meant you would participate in the manner that you did and help people run for office — for the candidates, the causes, the values of the Democratic Party.”
Those words in bold were proudly displayed at the top of page A24, without Tumulty asking precisely how it is in 2020 that Democratic values are interchangeable with religious values, especially long-standing Catholic teaching on abortion, homosexuality, or religious liberty. That's because The Washington Post is designed to celebrate Democrats and help them to victory.
The Post also featured this line of goop in a video:
No barf alert?
vp candidate ?!?
Pelosi: One of the most disgusting, evil, walking sack of human feces to litter this planet. There are others but she’s easy in the top 3 of worst humans alive today.
Had her and her disgusting daughter never been born; this planet would be a better place.
It’s late I did not think of it Sorry.
Subscribe to the WaPo and NYT if you need Toilet paper
Not sure about Washington, but in her home district, she has literally stirred up a $h!t storm in the streets.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
It’s times like this I miss disposable super market bags.
vp candidate ?!?
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Nancy & Biden as running mates? Jeez...talk about a TOOTHLESS TEAM!
Barfing alone cannot express the vileness of this piece. Ebola alert!
In the ComPost's defense it never does anything except regurgitation DNC talking points or badmouthing other major newspapers.
Partisan Media Shills update.
A VP candidate who wouldn’t qualify under the 25th, before even taking the oath of office to be a VP?
Biden/Pelosi 2020. Who will croak first? PLACE YOUR BETS!
Tell us again that there is no bias in this report. When Pelosi comes to ask for more stimulus money, tell it was in the first package but she gave it away to the ARTS and to illegals..and to the Rockfeller Foundation, and to the salaries of her fellow friends in Congress. A very disgraceful person is Nancy Pelosi....wow... she has worked tirelessly to divide America when she should be taking care of the homeless in her own State of California.
More like a “Looter with a gavel!”
My thoughts exactly.
Now you know why they call the WaPo a rag.
Guess she ran out of Trump lies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkzrwTFv6A
Natzi calls it the “WRAP-UP SMEAR”
DUmocrat politician coordinates the process with their favorite media drones.
1. Lie
2. Send it to media
3. Merchandise the lie.
Haha. Good idea. :D
And there would likely have been millions more babies born alive.
I'm convinced she's possessed by Satan himself.
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