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WATCH: Pelosi's Pathetic Attempt to Spin the Fact That She Didn't Take the Coronavirus Seriously
Townhall.com ^ | April 19, 2020 | Beth Bauman

Posted on 04/19/2020 5:29:21 PM PDT by Kaslin

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hit the cable networks on Sunday, running with two main talking points: the first being the blatant lie that President Donald Trump said the Wuhan coronavirus is a "hoax," the second being that the president didn't take the virus seriously from the get-go.

During a Sunday morning interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, the journalist pressed the speaker on her own actions. Back in February, Pelosi encouraged residents in her San Francisco district to visit Chinatown because "everything is fine."

"If the president underplayed the threat in the early days, Speaker Pelosi, didn't you as well?" Wallace asked.

"No," Pelosi said, smiling. "What we were trying to end the discrimination, the stigma that was going out against the Asian American community. And, in fact, if you look, the records show that our Chinatown has been a model of containing and preventing the virus so I have confidence and our folks there thought it was necessary to offset some of the things that the president and others were saying about Asian Americans and making them a target, a target of violence across the country."

Wallace pressed back, asking the speaker if she was playing into that perception by walking around without a mask, telling people that it's "perfectly safe" to be out in public, that "there wasn't a threat generally."

"No, I was saying that you shouldn't discriminate against Chinese Americans, as some in our administration were doing by the way they were labeling the flu," Pelosi explained.

The speaker said, once again, that if Wallace checked the record he would find San Francisco's Chinatown has been a "model" for containment and prevention.

Pelosi has a lot of nerve to say that she took the Wuhan coronavirus seriously from the get-go. If she did, she wouldn't have encouraged people to visit Chinatown. Even if she wanted to put a stop to so-called "racism," she could have reminded people that Asian Americans are not responsible for this pandemic. The Chinese Communist Party is. People don't have to go attend parades or eat in Chinatown to appreciate their Chinese neighbors. Encouraging tourism wouldn't halt racism, assuming it existed. If anything, it encouraged people to gather in large crowds when this virus is known to be highly contagious. The worst part of this whole thing: Pelosi is smiling and thinks this is a game.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: chinatown; chriswallace; coronavirus; foxnews; nancypelousi; wuhancoronavirus
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1 posted on 04/19/2020 5:29:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The only thing I want to watch is this beotch fly her ass face first into a brick wall a 90 MPH on her broom.


2 posted on 04/19/2020 5:32:50 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Kaslin

And..........she didn’t get it.


3 posted on 04/19/2020 5:35:46 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts....)
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To: Kaslin

Btt


4 posted on 04/19/2020 5:38:54 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Equine1952

Ms. Lube Rack has always been a skank.


5 posted on 04/19/2020 5:40:08 PM PDT by Navin Johnson
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To: Kaslin

She’s a total sociopath. The lies just come out so naturally.


6 posted on 04/19/2020 5:42:47 PM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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To: Kaslin

Should have asked her “ So did you have any impact on ending Chinese discrimination as the Wuhan virus was killing people right and left? We are still waiting for your party to come up with a solution better than Trumps other than complaining you can do it better without having any ideas!”


7 posted on 04/19/2020 5:45:06 PM PDT by Bommer (I am a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: ALASKA

Maybe $13 a pint ice cream works as a vaccine?


8 posted on 04/19/2020 5:47:03 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Kaslin

She brings up an interesting point. Why wasn’t SF’s Chinatown devastated by the virus?


9 posted on 04/19/2020 5:49:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberaln would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

Here is the lie about the racism claim:
“Did we all wake up one morning and suddenly decide to be racist?”

That was some effed up Shiite she said a couple months ago.

I love Chinatown. Been going there since I was born.

However, I stopped large groups and sit down restaurants in January because of the CCP-19 Flu and was going the Chinese New Year Parade on February 8 with a couple people from the office.

Cancelled because I didn’t think it was smart to be in a crowd, particularly, since that crowd would be full of Chinese Nationals who came from who knows where and associated with who knows and been infected.

Nothing racist there.

It’s called self interest and survival

Chinatown will still be there when this CCP-19 flu ends and I’ll go to my favorite place for dim sum...


10 posted on 04/19/2020 5:53:12 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Texas Eagle

It should have been. THey would have had a lot of people from China in and out of there for months.

Just like it should have decimated the homeless

Maybe it did last year and they attributed the deaths to something else because they didnt know about this


11 posted on 04/19/2020 5:56:25 PM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: Kaslin

L8r see video link


12 posted on 04/19/2020 5:59:47 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: Kaslin
Of all the pathetic, responsibility avoiding prevaricating, , blame assigning bullshit this wretched woman has ever come up with this is the absolute lowest! No one was ‘’discriminating against Chinese Americans’’. What Pelosi and fellow Communists like De Blasio were doing was discredit President Trump and attack him yet again. They tried briefly to form a committee to investigate him for not responsding fast enough to the virus but thank God for what ever reason, perhaps God's grace or fear of HIS ALMIGHTY wrath and that of We The People they ditched that idea pretty quickly . When this is all over I suspect they'll try to target trump somehow.
13 posted on 04/19/2020 6:01:45 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: RummyChick

At the same time, how many people listened to her? If visiting Chinatown didn’t pose a threat, why does eating at a Chinese restaurant? Or any restaurant for that matter.


14 posted on 04/19/2020 6:01:57 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberaln would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Kaslin

Nanzi Jezebel Pelosi: Prove you’re not a racist. Put your life at risk.


15 posted on 04/19/2020 6:04:15 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberaln would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: RummyChick

The other thing is we know now that China stopped all travel from Wuhan to the rest of China but allowed travel from Wuhan to the rest of the world resulting in a global outbreak. If we had an actual news outlet they would have asked this vile woman why are you ripping into Trump when China is the one knowingly infected the world and caused this disaster. Instead the rats fall all over themselves to defend them.


16 posted on 04/19/2020 6:10:31 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Kaslin

Ask nancy what she did to prepare after the Public Health Emergency January 31, 2020


17 posted on 04/19/2020 6:13:13 PM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Equine1952

Go suck an ice cream bar, Nancy.


18 posted on 04/19/2020 6:16:15 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Kaslin

Sounds like Wallace gave her a heads up on the question.


19 posted on 04/19/2020 6:24:43 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Kaslin

Anyone ask her ...why did she pull the video of herself ?


20 posted on 04/19/2020 6:26:26 PM PDT by Troublemaker
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