Posted on 09/17/2009 5:32:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
"I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco," she said, a reference to the antigay laws and protests as that city became the flashpoint of the civil rights movement for gays and lesbians. "It created an environment in which violence took place."
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.
Pelosi, a Baltimore native, moved to San Francisco in the late 1960s with her husband, Paul, a native of the city, and she became active in Democratic Party politics. By 1977 -- as Milk was on the verge of winning his Board of Supervisors seat -- Pelosi became the state's Democratic chairman for Northern California.(continued)
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Is she talking about when the Black Panthers prefaced every statement with, “When the revolution comes...”?
Shut up Nancy or I’ll eat my Twinkie.
Maybe Nazi should stop using a derogatory term for homosexuals when she speaks about tea partiers. Unless of course she’s some kind of gay basher herself.
Pelosi is a full blown idiot.
She would be funny to watch if she wasn’t Speaker of the House. Or 3rd in line.
When all else fails.....fearmonger.
Nancy has emotions? I thought all the botox eliminated that? Well, she probably can’t show them though.
Milk and the Mayor were killed by a guy who held personal grudges against them,, he was pissed because he saw them as the people who kept him from getting his job back
had nothing to do with political policies
stupid broad
I thought she was talking about the Manson Family.
The political class has perpetuated itself into a state of absolute corruption as a Governmental Religion.
It seems, when its one of theirs, the status of Martyrdom is awarded; when it’s everyone else, just too bad...
Liberal myth. Milk was not assassinated. He walked out into the hall to investigate the commotion and got himself gunned down. Curiosity killed the cat - nothing more.
I thought the killing of Harvey Milk was a revenge killing because Milk was a back-stabbing piece of exc rement who had screwed Dan White in a back room deal.
Now, maybe Milk’s approach was more concentrated in the “Gay” community, but it certainly was a causitive factor in his own demise.
Wouldn’t you rather that NANCY ate your Twinkie?
But be certain to keep enough of it to use as your defense.
(Ouch)
I don’t know why people would get violent. They are just having every penny they and their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren etc will ever earn STOLEN by runaway government.
as an actress, pelousi, you FAIL...
The guy that killed Milk was a . . . DEMOCRAT. A San Francisco Democrat who was PO’ed that he had not gotten a big enough slice of political spoils.
Lessee — the guy who bit the pinkie off the Tea=party protester was an SEIU thug — a Democrat.
The guys who beat up Gladney at a town hall meeting were SEIU thugs — Democrats.
The New Black Panthers who intimidated voters at a Philadelphia polling place last November were . . . Democrats.
Do we notice a trend here? No wonder San Fran Nan fears political violence. Her party uses it soooo frequently.
And, speaking of milk...
I don't know what in the world she is talking about. San Francisco, to its discredit, has always been fairly welcoming to sodomites and sexual deviants...
What I remember about the Harvy Milk murder is that both Milk and the mayor, Moscone, had somehow maneuvered Supervisor Dan White to resign. He thought about it, can came back and said he didn't want to resign. Moscone said - tough luck - you're out. Dan White stewed. He came back and shot the both of them. And thus, Mrs. Feinstein's career was launched...
Pelosi is inventing stories. Anti-sodomite fervor didn't have anything to do with the Milk and Moscone murders. A pissed off ex-Supervisor who thought he had been dealt with unfairly was the cause.
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