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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDamn Pelosi just called out Wolf Blitzer
She said Im sick of you and your colleagues being apologists for the Republicans.
PhilosopherKing
(317 posts)specifically?
IcyPeas
(21,948 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)PunkinPi
(4,882 posts)Link to tweet
"I don't know why you're always an apologist, and many of your colleagues, apologists for the Republican position."
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dear gawd
PunkinPi
(4,882 posts)No, Wolf was talking about other democrats who are urging for a deal now (Ro Khanna, Andrew Yang, etc.) instead of discussing the meaningful differences between the Dem bill and the GOP bill. Nancy was trying to draw the distinction between the two bills and how the GOP bill doesn't help the people, but helps the rich and Wolf kept following up with "what about getting the deal "relentlessly.
He was being an ass. He was basically blaming her for not getting the deal done.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)but likely the last bill we'll see. Can't go cheap
Demsrule86
(68,800 posts)inaugurated. The choice is between something and nothing...not a small bill or a bigger bigger bill. There are months between now and January 21st. As member of the unemployed, I would like to see something done. I agree about the media always covering for the GOP.
LizBeth
(9,953 posts)version and finally heard where some of the differences are. If you have not herd the long version you should give it a listen. One in particular Pelosi is fighting for is child care credit for all those that are having an increase because schools are closed. I am sure they want Pelosi to help them too and earned income credit though I don't understand what that will do honestly, while they have a greater amount going to the rich. They certainly should not be getting it. In the longer version Pelosi is also saying this is for retro and it was suppose to be longer but because it went from 3.4T to 2.2T it will have to be a shorter time. Which is fine if Biden wins and we take both houses. I would prefer the shorter time.
But those are two examples of what they want Pelosi to take out of her bill. I never heard how much an increase into unemployment though, so that might be a point too. The thing is, we are not hearing what Pelosi is fighting for and we really need to hear it.
I too am unemployed and going to start on my meager savings soon, so I hear you.
Demsrule86
(68,800 posts)It will be that much harder for Biden. We also will not make it to January. But I would say it no matterif that was not true...so many people getting evicted.forclosed on and going hungry. What good is school money when you are thrown out of your house and you kids are hungry? Priorities people. I say get what you can and get the rest in January.
LizBeth
(9,953 posts)not messing with the cash I have because I might need it to keep a roof over my head.
cstanleytech
(26,357 posts)and the Republicans would be one that helps businesses with the pants on fire lie of it helping the average person eventually.
LizBeth
(9,953 posts)Fla Dem
(23,882 posts)LizBeth
(9,953 posts)Pelosi was very angry, but I was glad to finally hear a little m0ore what she is battling and the issue and whether she feels like something would be put together. She really needs to clearly spell out the differences. Maybe she has but I have been paying attention and have not heard it. This is the first time I have heard this much info.
I was impressed with Pelosi though, she is awesome.
calimary
(81,598 posts)for court-packing?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!
W. T. F. ??? How come they have yet to broach that question with republi-CONS whove BEEN packing the courts since trump took office????????
iluvtennis
(19,908 posts)Joe will/will not do is a hypothetical.
so tired of this shit.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,682 posts)It just accelerated under Cheetolini's rule. With the two stolen elections within the last 20 years they've cheated the Dem's out of at least 5 Supreme Court picks, not to mention god knows how many federal court picks. I don't want to hear one fucking word from these fascists or their enablers in media about court stacking. Their hypocrisy and whining makes me want to puke.
Mike Niendorff
(3,463 posts)Republican court-packing has been going on for 20+ years.
What we're seeing now is just the end-game.
MDN
LymphocyteLover
(5,663 posts)faux scandal. Fuck them to hell.
usaf-vet
(6,236 posts)Stop allowing the GOP to say Biden will stack the courts. That is their bullshit talking point.
calimary
(81,598 posts)If indeed the fight is to be dirty, let's be all in, from our side, too, 'eh?
If that's how the game is played, let's make sure the playing field is level. And that's the only way to make it so.
Bev54
(10,090 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,663 posts)LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)Cha
(298,037 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,387 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)She also just said he doesnt know what hes talking about regarding the stimulus bill.
bigtree
(86,016 posts)Wolf Blitzer grilling Pelosi on why she won't take $1.8T deal. Reads Ro Khanna tweet..
Pelosi: "I dont know why youre always an apologist and many of your colleagues are apologists for the Republican position-- Ro Khanna, thats nice. That isnt what were going to do."
Ohiogal
(32,185 posts)BKDem
(1,733 posts)Fuck you, Wolf.
Talking to a Trump is like pissing up a rope, only more disgusting.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)This is moving dangerously close to mansplaining territory.
Unless Wolf is in the negotiations, he needs to stop with the father knows best bullshit.
She is not going to agree to a deal just for a short term gain.
Wolf is also making Trump out to be a reasonable negotiator...again, WTF?
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)He is one of the main reasons I stopped watching CNN. He is absolutely awful and when he speaks, it puts me to sleep.
marble falls
(57,502 posts)PatSeg
(47,750 posts)doesn't play one on TV.
marble falls
(57,502 posts)PatSeg
(47,750 posts)the first Iraq war and he has gotten a whole lot of traction out of that gig. Yeah, maybe its the beard and the glasses.
marble falls
(57,502 posts)PatSeg
(47,750 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)An American Abrahams tank fired several rounds from its turret gun on?
He has been seriously demoted in terms of time on the air. Just sayin'.
PatSeg
(47,750 posts)He can hardly be an asset to the network.
PCIntern
(25,647 posts)You get the uhhhhhh picture.
BKDem
(1,733 posts)He was pushing a point of view, and pushing it hard.
The worst Ive ever seen.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)He more or less told her she doesnt know what shes doing.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)The man is a tiny strutting peacock.
Full of himself, with a my shit doesn't stink attitude.
Avoided the 'little people' like they had the plague.
I stopped watching C(o)NN after that. Been 16 years.
So sorry Ted was forced to sell it.
TheBlackAdder
(28,253 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)We're all sick of it!
Thank you 💙
sheshe2
(84,060 posts)Loud and proud, sister!
Budi
(15,325 posts)Speaker Pelosi just says it.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)She has such a hesitation in her speaking that Im beginning to wonder about her brain taking a vacation.
Not sure why she is still such a star at msnbc.
She along with Chuckie Todd.
Budi
(15,325 posts)😬
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)CTyankee
(63,926 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)He has always slanted that way except in extreme cases where he thought (probably correctly) that he would imperil his job if he got too blatant (I think he studied David Gregory, and is closely watching Mr. "On It," Chuck Todd).
Good for Pelosi for not dancing around the subject any longer. She's right, and it's about time someone said so out loud.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)80 years old, at the peak of her intellectual game, in an extremely powerful elected government position, and has nothing left to lose by calling out every phony, liar, and case of Republican incompetence she is faced with.
So she is now doing it. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)It's a good feeling!
DFW
(54,506 posts)She was a powerhouse (so was her daughter).
On my first trip ever to Europe, when she heard I would be in London at the same time she was, she invited me to lunch. She gave me the name of the hotel she was staying at, and told me what time to come.
So I went to the address she gave me--typical 16 year old in jeans, unkempt, etc. I get there, and there at the entrance are butlers in uniform whose noses point to the sky, figuring I was definitely at the wrong address. Frankly, I thought so, too. But I gave them my great-grandmother's name, and they reluctantly admitted she was a guest there. I only knew her as my great-grandmother, I didn't know she stayed at places like this! Crestfallen, the whatever-he-was brought me to my great-grandmother's table, where we had a delightful lunch of overpriced mediocre food in this incredibly swanky London hotel. I was delighting in all the stares of "what is the likes of HIM doing here?" I think my great grandmother was kind of amused as well. At the time, she was in her late eighties, what did she care?
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Or maybe more like Molly Ivins...
DFW
(54,506 posts)My grandmother, the daughter of the one who invited me to lunch in London, got fired by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as his labor liason in his New York City administration. He complained that she was too close to labor, and not close enough to him. So, she went to work as a New York fundraiser for the progressive Mayor of Minneapolis who was running for the US Senate from Minnesota. His name was Hubert Humphrey, and he had quite a career in front of him.
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)Don't you know they would have made chopped liver out of TrumP?
DFW
(54,506 posts)I know Cecile, and wish she had taken a higher national profile after Planned Parenthood. I never met Ann, sadly. I was a speech she gave, but couldn't stick around to meet her. My loss!
CTyankee
(63,926 posts)I had just retired after a nasty bit of time with a new Ex Dir who was getting rid of all the "dead wood" -- older female staff like me. Cecile was just terrific.
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)Makes me smile.
Mr.Bill
(24,368 posts)she is guaranteed to be elected to another term.
DFW
(54,506 posts)The likelihood of her getting defeated is only measurable if you count fractions.
BainsBane
(53,134 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I've rambled to my TV at times that I wish Wolf would be "retired" by CNN.
jpak
(41,760 posts)Walleye
(31,149 posts)unblock
(52,494 posts)Walleye
(31,149 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,985 posts)... I made lunch and missed it... good, though, to see Wolf! Blitzer! taken to task!
Grasswire2
(13,575 posts)To the extent that it was abusive.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,682 posts)this interview is over. She wasn't having it.
LisaM
(27,850 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 15, 2020, 06:18 AM - Edit history (1)
He (Yang) had that Chessie cat grin he always has and was blaming Pelosi for not taking a good deal from Trump (or so Yang termed it). I guess Wolf was lapping it up, because today he said something about Yang as if he was credible, and Pelosi scoffed at it. She was great.
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LuckyCharms
(17,472 posts)Bye Wuffie
underpants
(183,019 posts)Wolf :I do
Nancy: We feed our people
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)Shermann
(7,488 posts)Wolf tested her position on the negotiations. and her reply was basically that she is the expert and knows things he doesn't.
I like her but that's really not a good response.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)...as well as his claim she was holding off in order to hurt Trump at the expense of the people. That, plus Wolf repeatedly citing two men neither of whom are in Congress as experts on why she should take this deal. Wolfs theory that any deal is better than none was also enraging, as was his subtext that Trump is acting in good faith.
I dont blame Pelosi for losing her patience. I dont know who shit in Wolfs Wheaties today, but that whole segment was undignified, insulting to the position of Speaker, and patronizing. She may not be at liberty to disclose specifics (hes been around long enough to understand that), and he never really let her talk once he got wound up.
Hes quickly becoming CNNs weakest link. That was truly embarrassing.
Shermann
(7,488 posts)He wasn't really pushing a theory, just asking questions. Nancy didn't reveal her secret information so he can only speculate as to her complete motives.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Give Wolf fucking Blitzer the benefit of the doubt and question Nancys motives?
Blitzer wasnt just asking questions. Are you kidding me? He was insinuating that Nancy was withholding money from the American people for no good reason. He wouldnt talk about how the fucking Republicans gutted any real help to people who need it. What a disrespectful asshole.
But yeah, lets pretend that Nancy was sus.
Shermann
(7,488 posts)Now you are watching a reporter question why Nancy is leaving money on the table.
Wolf asked tough questions to see if her footing was solid. Questioning why she didn't take a different position is not an assertion that she should have. It is testing power.
What questions would you rather she be asked given those optics? Softball questions about her piano playing?
If she can answer those questions on the show, then she should perceive the opportunity as a platform for her messaging.
I don't necessarily disagree with her but grade her handling of the situation as a C.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)fighting to make sure the stimulus helped the neediest.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)He kept mentioning how many Americans need help, and she pointed out that he doesn't even know what the Republicans are proposing or where they want money to go.
BlueNProud
(1,048 posts)Like Hillary, often the only adult in the room.
srose58089
(214 posts)I hope this works as I am new at this. Here Speaker Pelosi responds to Wolf "in sheep's clothing" Blitzer:
Link to tweet
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)ancianita
(36,221 posts)I hope Pelosi walloped him good and hard.
barbtries
(28,821 posts)it's so far past time for them to acknowledge how abnormal and dangerous it is right now in this country!
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)The American People and his viewers having real facts, then maybe CNN should shit-can his ass.
Maybe he thinks the election is already lost for Republicans and he needs to get back to perfecting his snipes at and attacks on Democratic politicians... So Republicans post tRUMP will come back sucking up to him and supplying him with talking points to push like in the good old days.
JHB
(37,166 posts)...likely bigger than his.
niyad
(113,932 posts)Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)"The Narrative is all! The Narrative is everything! All hail the Narrative! Let both sides be bad in its holy name!"
yaesu
(8,020 posts)aggiesal
(8,957 posts):micdrop:
Damn, we need an emoji for micdrop.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,512 posts)Obama stimulus, are you kidding me??
Joinfortmill
(14,511 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)He, and his family, are set for life. Think about it.
George II
(67,782 posts)They are all using the same segment, taking turns tweeting it and retweeting it. I've seen it about 6-7 times already.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,682 posts)StTimofEdenRoc
(445 posts)we need a stacked bar chart to show what is in the bills
McKim
(2,412 posts)Good for her!!!! I am sick of them being treated like both sides are equal and of equal value. Both siderism normalized the outrageous, illegal and cruel things they have done! Wolf does respresent certain interests in this country that maybe like Trump.
tormadjax
(164 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,817 posts)betsuni
(25,801 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,458 posts)Cha
(298,037 posts)Murdering, Fascists.. get a Grip with your Horse Race, wolf & colleagues.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)He was totally out of line, she did great. When are the bulk of them ever going to Stop pretending all is normal and start talking about the fact that we have a lunatic fascist installed as a FAKE prez who they helped put there? And now over 200,000 dead as a result... This is why I have blocked out most if the news now. If my family didn't watch it I hardly ever would. I cant stand listening to this bs and madness anymore.
napi21
(45,806 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)She should boycott CNN and Wolf Blitzer for a few weeks or even longer.