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Pelosi Tells America to Shut Up on Ground Zero Mosque
US News and World Report ^ | August 19, 2010 | Chris Battle

Posted on 08/19/2010 1:03:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Nancy Pelosi had some choice words for the American public yesterday: Shut up.

If you’ve got an opinion about the N.Y. mosque controversy, better keep it to yourself or you could end up under investigation in the House Star Chamber. Pelosi says she wants to know how opposition to the mosque is being “ginned up.” She wants to know who’s funding this anger. She wants to know what the hell is wrong with the 61 percent of Americans who evidently disagree with her views. (Her disingenuous view being that this is a “zoning issue” only and all the national controversy is much ado about politics.) Ah, if only she could threaten to take away a prized committee from the average Joe out there, the independent bastards, then things would run so much more smoothly.

Don’t get her wrong. Speaker of the House J. Edgar Hoover is perfectly willing to look into the finances and god knows what else of those who are behind the mosque, too. She has gone berserk with prosecutorial tics.

In a statement issued by her staff “clarifying” her first statement, the speaker wants us to know she was simply calling for an openness of debate. Transparency is the word of the day, according to her staff. Another one might be intimidation.

Pelosi’s efforts to walk back her provocative call for an investigation were about as clumsy as the president’s I-voted-for-it-before-I-voted-against-it statement about the mosque--one day he was for it, until he met an immediate political backlash, and the next day he was against it.

Pelosi--safe in her politically surreal balloon that is San Francisco--is not nearly so malleable as President Obama. She’d still like to gavel somebody in a courtroom and get to the bottom of this “concerted effort to make this a political issue by some.” For the sake of fairness, she’ll gavel everybody. Quick, somebody find the FBI’s old cointelpro files. We can toss Joe the Plumber’s file in there alongside Martin Luther King’s and John Lennon’s.

Pelosi’s comments are appallingly reminiscent of her views during the heated town halls of the healthcare debate. The ones that gave birth to a movement fully formed, angry that its government would force a liberal version of healthcare reform down its throat despite all national polls showing the public’s opposition.

This was not legitimate protest, Pelosi and the White House claimed at the time. It was, they asserted, a concerted effort to make this (healthcare) a political issue by some. Sound familiar? It wasn’t that the public could possibly have been upset with the healthcare bill; it had to be a case of evil genius Republican operators “ginning up” false controversy.

One wonders when Nancy Pelosi last had to run a real campaign for reelection. Having managed some myself, I remember simply trying to gin up a good crowd for a fish fry or watermelon festival. Couple hundred people turning out for a member of Congress was excellent. A couple thousand? You take note of that--something way beyond a political machine is at work here.

This, however, is Pelosi’s way: You’re either with us, un-American, or a Republican-manufactured mob.

Evidently, Pelosi’s nightmare mob reared its ugly manufactured head again. Unfortunately for her--and more so for vulnerable Democrats on the campaign trail--the “mob” is, once again, the American people--sometimes known as voters. The ignorant, malleable clods.

As for me, now that I have dared speak about that which shall not be named, I plan to watch my back. Pelosi’s people could be anywhere. Keep your blinds closed and your voice down.


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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Keep talking, Nancy. You look like an idiot, and a dangerous one.


41 posted on 08/19/2010 1:26:37 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: truthandlife

Oh, how I wish this were October and not August ! (Better yet, October of 2012, which cannot get here too soon.)


42 posted on 08/19/2010 1:26:43 PM PDT by kaylar (It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pelosi has evidenced the fact that she has absolutely no respect for the U.S. Constitution. As such, she has violated her oath of office and should be tossed out of Congress for failing to uphold our laws. She is an abomination with an arrogant “entitlement” demeanor who is not suitable to be a dog catcher. That would be an insult to the canine community!


43 posted on 08/19/2010 1:27:13 PM PDT by Ranger Warrior
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow! Miz Pelosi really oversteppi boundaries therepower! Now if she would just shutup!


44 posted on 08/19/2010 1:27:27 PM PDT by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

45 posted on 08/19/2010 1:28:28 PM PDT by Godzilla ( 3-7-77)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d pay to see her “gin up” a House of Un-American Activities for her to use to investigate people. Oh, that’d be the end the democrat party for a generation.


46 posted on 08/19/2010 1:29:11 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FUNP


47 posted on 08/19/2010 1:30:41 PM PDT by crosshairs (Celebrate diversity. Own a variety of firearms.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hate filled vitriol-laced comment removed by TSgt to save the Admin Moderator the trouble.
48 posted on 08/19/2010 1:31:09 PM PDT by TSgt (And the war came.)
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To: Lazamataz

look at the author’s bio at the link. He ain’t one of them.


49 posted on 08/19/2010 1:33:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Back down?




They didn't...

Never Forget!

50 posted on 08/19/2010 1:34:45 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Track my IP address, Nazi Pelosi. Go crawl under a rock and never come back out.


51 posted on 08/19/2010 1:35:59 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmm, last August we got wee-weed up, this August we’re getting ginned up!


52 posted on 08/19/2010 1:36:08 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course she, and the bulk of liberal elitists, actually believe that this is a “manufactured” controversy.

Considering that manufacturing controversy or outrage to sway public opinion in a desired direction is how the left operates, it is no wonder that she has this mindset.


53 posted on 08/19/2010 1:38:12 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Time for a face lift. I think the lower lip pinned to the forehead would make her look years younger!


54 posted on 08/19/2010 1:39:23 PM PDT by albie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

I’ve been out of touch on this one. What were Pelosi’s exact words, and when? Does anyone have a link?


55 posted on 08/19/2010 1:40:28 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The building catty-corner to the Ground Zero mosque site, Fiterman Hall, has been torn down after having been irreparably damaged in the 911 attacks. That makes the Ground Zero mosque site ADJACENT to Ground Zero.


56 posted on 08/19/2010 1:42:25 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve

Massive Protest at Ground Zero on Sunday - August 22, 2010 - 10:30 am

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2573046/posts


57 posted on 08/19/2010 1:43:40 PM PDT by Caribou ( www.ktok.com Red State Radio free streaming. RIP Mark Shannon)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t WAIT to watch that B***h lose that damned gavel in November. I can’t wait to see her vacate that office. I HATE what that cretin has brought into this country with her vile socialism. I wish all her Karma on her.


58 posted on 08/19/2010 1:44:23 PM PDT by Danae (Anal nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do che'l de'nmha.)
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To: All
Ginned up hmmmm We've been seeing lots of Freudian slips of the tongue by these people. So if she says ginned up. Does that mean she, herself is ginned up?Chug a lug, hic, glug. Sure would explain a lot. Wouldn't it? And yes I know that's not what the term is supposed to mean, just the first thing that popped into my head - given her weird frequent, nonsensical, statements.
59 posted on 08/19/2010 1:45:35 PM PDT by sanjoaquinvalley (Longtime Lady Lurker)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

60 posted on 08/19/2010 1:45:50 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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