Pelosi Says Anti-Obama Rhetoric Sounds Familiar [accuses conservatives of having violent intentions]

The Washington Post ^ | 2009-09-18 | Paul Kane

[rabscuttle385]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she worries that the protests of President Obama's health-care legislation may be of a similar nature to anti-gay rhetoric in the late 1970s in San Francisco, which culminated in the assassinations of two of her home town's political leaders.

Pelosi, responding to a question about anti-Obama sentiment, said that partisans on all sides of an issue have the right to voice their opinion. But after pausing, she added: "I have concerns about some of the language that is being used, because I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening, and it created a climate in which violence took place."

Republicans rejected this assertion and accused her of likening protesters to Dan White, a member of the city's board of supervisors who killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay member of that board, and Mayor George Moscone in 1978.

"The speaker is now likening genuine opposition to assassination," said Rep. Pete Sessions (Tex.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "Such insulting rhetoric not only undermines the credibility of her office, but it underscores the desperate attempt by her party to divert attention away from a failing agenda."

[Cindy]

Nancy Pelosi, you are today’s STUCK ON STUPID award winner.

[the invisib1e hand]

It always pays to ask, "why are they trying to make me believe this?"

Now then, have you seen Nancy Pelosi's eyes? Would you cite someone with eyes like that as a reliable authority on anything?

[maggief]

[rabscuttle385]

Now then, have you seen Nancy Pelosi's eyes?

Now I have.

[the invisib1e hand]

this is the one I had in mind.

[rabscuttle385]

She looks deranged.

[the invisib1e hand]

I grabbed that pic from here (not my blog).

[Cringing Negativism Network]

This poster has a different interpretation.

Think about the people Pelosi surrounds herself with. Her base. They’re far-left kooks.

At the moment, those far-left kooks are being set back on issues such as Marxist healthcare and ACORN. When far-left kooks get frustrated - they get violent.

I think Pelosi knows liberals, who are considering striking out against those they see standing in the way of their socialist nirvana, which they’re beginning to see slip out of their hands.

Pelosi’s not talking about violent conservatives.

IMHO she’s talking about her own base. That’s why she seemed so rattled.

[DGHoodini]

You know....from the clips i’ve seen of her talking about this...She never really spelled out who she was talking about. From what I saw, she could just as easily been talking about all the ones on the Left, who for the past few weekas havw been building to a cresendo, their insinuations, all the way up into outright accusations, and labeling Conservatives/protestorss as racists...How all the left Stream media TV and print, all brought up racism and all encouraged their guests and fellow panel members to incite racial tension, and trying to make it appear that the only way that race riots could be avoided id if conservatives back down, and then the Left wouldn’t sic “their” black people” on Republicans by inciting riots.

You know...Black people always believe what the “woonderful” Democrats say..../Sarc

But perhaps there’s footage I haven’t seen...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Actually I’m pretty peaceful, until I get totally fed up with crap!

[dread78645]

Did she mention that Dan White, the assassin of Harvey Milk & Mayor Moscone, was a Democrat?

I didn't think so ...

[South40]

Nancy Peloser is a caricature of a politician and she proves it every time she opens her mouth.

[sourcery]

Let's talk political violence: The Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Animal Liberation Front, the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army, the Klu Klux Klan (a Democrat organization, in case you didn't know,) KGB-operatives such as Lee Harvey Oswald or Israel-hating Palestinians such as Sirhan Sirhan.

Yes, there's been some political violence from the right wing. But far less.

[repubpub]

The questioner was a plant and rehearsed. There is absolutly no way that Pelosi wasn’t aware of the question in advance.

[Gator113]

Poor lady. How long has she been dead?

[agere_contra]

LOL, nice.

[oscars300]

Almost on the money. She is talking about conservatives though. But for exactly the reasons you give. All of her far-left aides, San Fransisco friends, etc. see conservatives as deranged hicks and lunatics, always one step away from launching into a pogrom.

In short, they are in a bubble, taking in nothing but their own groupthink and propaganda.

[Eye of Unk]

I think she has had one too many Botox needles slip too deep in her face and into her brain.

This is Democrats 3rd in line to be available if a disaster were to be struck upon POTUS and the Veep?

Its no wonder the rest of the world laughs at America every day, we have elected total incompetent idiots with a combined IQ still in double digits.

[oscars300]

You forget that in public memory JFK was assassinated by a right-wing conspiracy. And the other Kennedy was probably assassinated by some wingnut as well. Or perhaps just a plain psycho.

He who controls the past...