"I hit like Mays, and I run like Hayes."
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.
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.
Her staff seems to be serially mentally incompetent. Are they the same age as Mrs. Pelosi and age related dementia is setting in also?
Her staff is more likely to know billy Mays selling oxiclean and kaboom on television while watching the golden girls.
To Nancy all black people look the same
The staffers are in their twenties.
Golden Girls viewers probably know what Willie Mays looks like.
"I hit like Mays, and I run like Hayes."
It’s just savage the way that elected Republicans have gone after her on this. I hope they don’t overplay their hand! Sarcasm.
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.
To quote someone else on this threaad “ Its tru....it’s tru !....”
Clinton checked in with, “What about my willie? He deserves praise, and will turn 75 soon.”
“...and after being indoctrinated...”
I believe he was vaginated, then followed along mindlessly.
“It was an honest mistake. All black ball players look the same to Pelosi.”
Well to Nan their willies certainly do!
The hypocrisy of the Left knows no limits. Where is the Saturday Night Live skit mocking Nanzi Pelosi?
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.........
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
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