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All Black Willies are not the same, Nancy: Pelosi mixes up her sports legends
Biz Pac Review ^ | 5/8/21 | Vivek Saxena

Posted on 05/09/2021 8:49:49 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

It’s almost as if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat who constantly accuses her Republican colleagues of being racially insensitive (or just outright bigots), thinks all black Willies are the same …

In a stunning, though telling, mistake on Friday, the speaker posted a birthday tweet to black MLB legend Willie Mays but included with it a picture of herself with another black MLB legend, Willie McCovey, who died three years ago.

Look at at a snapshot of the now-deleted tweet below:

Her office eventually deleted the tweet, replaced it with one containing a photo of the speaker with Mays and issued a statement blaming a staffer for the error.

“A staffer inadvertently selected the wrong photo for the tweet. The photo we wanted to use was of the Speaker and Willie Mays at Willie McCovey’s August 2018 wedding. The quickly deleted photo was the wrong photo from the right wedding. We apologize for the error,” the officer said to Los Angeles radio station KCBS.

As of Saturday morning, Fox News was the only national outlet that had picked up the story. Conversely, when Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican, made a similar mistake (or one of his staffers did) last year by posting a photo of him with Rep. Elijah Cummings instead of the then-late Rep. John Lewis, all hell broke loose.

“[He] was criticized harshly. Pelosi did not receive anywhere near as much blowback,” as reported by the speaker’s hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.

What’s the difference? Likely the fact that one of them is a Republican, and the other is a Democrat.

This isn’t to say that Pelosi isn’t facing backlash, but rather that the backlash she’s facing is coming purely from everyday Americans and not blue checkmark elites.

Unlike Rubio, this isn’t Pelosi’s first time making this sort of mistake. Despite croaking loudly about the ordeal faced by deceased Minneapolis criminal suspect George Floyd, a black man who died while being apprehended by the authorities, she couldn’t even get his name right when she spoke about him last June.

During a press briefing at the time, she spoke of a conversations she’d had with Floyd’s brother about an ostensible police reform bill that had been proposed by her colleagues.

“He said to me, ‘Madam Speaker, do you think that I can tell George’s daughter his name will be always remembered because you’ll name the bill for him,'” she recalled.

“And I said, ‘Well I’ll recommend that to the Judiciary Committee and to the Congressional Black Caucus, who’ve shaped the bill, but I only will do that if you tell me that this legislation is worthy of George Kirby’s name. And he said it is,'” she added.

Who is George Kirby?

This, too, barely received any attention from blue checkmark elites, despite how it so starkly contrasted with her constant pandering to the black community.

It’s the same phenomenon seen with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who, during the 2016 presidential election, told a black radio show host that she keeps hot sauce in her purse — yet who’s notorious for having labeled young black men “superpredators” during her husband’s presidency in the 1990s.

And it’s certainly the same phenomenon seen with President Joe Biden, who incessantly virtue-signals about “black and brown” people but whose policies — from trying to limit the purchase of guns (which are desperately needed in poverty-stricken communities to protect from criminals) to destroying jobs through needless regulations — seem to always hurt them instead.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: didyousearch; nauseatingnancy; realracists; williemays
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To: Vigilanteman

Yes, it was the Vic Wertz blast. The fact that it was the Polo Grounds gave him scope to show his greatness. Jack Bradley Jr. is probably the best fielding outfielder I have ever seen, but he does not approach Willie Mays in offensive output. Bradley and Mookie in the outfield were a special treat to watch.


21 posted on 05/09/2021 9:40:09 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Impala64ssa

Her staff seems to be serially mentally incompetent. Are they the same age as Mrs. Pelosi and age related dementia is setting in also?


22 posted on 05/09/2021 9:45:41 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Impala64ssa

Her staff is more likely to know billy Mays selling oxiclean and kaboom on television while watching the golden girls.


23 posted on 05/09/2021 9:50:47 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Impala64ssa

To Nancy all black people look the same


24 posted on 05/09/2021 9:51:06 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Liaison
Her staff is more likely to know billy Mays selling oxiclean and kaboom on television while watching the golden girls.

The staffers are in their twenties.

Golden Girls viewers probably know what Willie Mays looks like.

25 posted on 05/09/2021 9:52:34 AM PDT by x
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To: Reily
"Well that has multiple meanings!"

I've heard the term "willie" used to refer to a part of the male anatomy.
26 posted on 05/09/2021 9:52:41 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Impala64ssa
Well at least it wasn't a pic of Willie Mays Hayes

"I hit like Mays, and I run like Hayes."

27 posted on 05/09/2021 9:54:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s just savage the way that elected Republicans have gone after her on this. I hope they don’t overplay their hand! Sarcasm.


28 posted on 05/09/2021 9:56:14 AM PDT by cdcdawg (You can point out the Left's hypocrisy without accepting their moral premises. )
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To: yoe
You kneel for one God only!

Football players on the sidelines have always knelt when they didn't feel like standing. They'd always stand for the national anthem. Colin Kaepernick stole teammate Aldon Smith's girlfriend - a leftist of Mideastern descent - and after being indoctrinated into leftist cant, he decided to stay kneeling while the anthem was played. It was several games before anyone even noticed.

Now we have all sorts of idiots kneeling as part of leftist performance art, including the withered and overweight specimens in the photo, all of whom undoubtedly required help to get back up.
29 posted on 05/09/2021 10:00:54 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Granted, Bradley Jr. and Betts are probably two of the better defensive outfields on the same team. But Mays was in a class all by himself. It wasn't just the way he played centerfield and batted, but he could run as well.

League leader in stolen bases for four consecutive years (1956-59) plus he was a team player who could bunt, hit & run and do everything necessary to help his team win.

Few Hall of Famers complete with Willie Mays in the team player category. Maybe Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio, but it is an awfully short list.

30 posted on 05/09/2021 10:06:26 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

To quote someone else on this threaad “ Its tru....it’s tru !....”


31 posted on 05/09/2021 10:07:16 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Jim W N

Clinton checked in with, “What about my willie? He deserves praise, and will turn 75 soon.”


32 posted on 05/09/2021 10:11:05 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“...and after being indoctrinated...”

I believe he was vaginated, then followed along mindlessly.


33 posted on 05/09/2021 10:14:35 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Rebelbase

“It was an honest mistake. All black ball players look the same to Pelosi.”

Well to Nan their willies certainly do!


34 posted on 05/09/2021 10:24:52 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Impala64ssa
See the source image
35 posted on 05/09/2021 11:02:27 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Impala64ssa

The hypocrisy of the Left knows no limits. Where is the Saturday Night Live skit mocking Nanzi Pelosi?


36 posted on 05/09/2021 11:54:08 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To which she and other leftists will alibi : “But it’s ok, as we still “care more” about Willie and his people, than those Racist/Bigoted/Imperialist/Greedy Kapitalist Running Dog Republicans EVER WILL! “.........no matter how much EVIDENCE to the contrary.........


37 posted on 05/10/2021 10:50:22 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: mjp

Around 1980 George Kirby narrated an excellent documentary, Amos n Andy, Anatomy of a Controversy. He described the history of the show and how wildly popular it was on radio and TV. In it Jesse Jackson surprisingly said he saw nothing wrong with those shows, it reminded him of some of the people he grew up around in Chicago, also, Amos n Andy opened doors for other Black entertainers, Nat King Cole, Sidney Potier, etc. And it crossed racial lines. Jackie Gleason in one of his last TV appearances said Amos n Andy gave him the inspiration for the Honeymooners


38 posted on 05/10/2021 11:45:59 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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