Nancy Pelosi supports Howard Dean.

[Eric J in MN]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Part_two_Nancy_Pelosi_says_blogs_help_keep_heat_on_issues_Downing__0609.html

Raw Story: You’d brought up the Howard Dean comment. He said, “They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.” Do you agree with his remarks?

Pelosi: I don’t think his remarks were appropriate, but I think he’s been a great chairman. I don’t know the context he said what he said, but I think he’s been a great chairman.

As I said, I travel the country constantly, and I know the enthusiasm he has engendered among the grassroots in our party. That their voice, their vote and their volunteerism will make a difference, and that they look to him and think he’s a good—people don’t understand what the chair of the Democratic National Committee does; he does things that elected officials don’t do, and sometimes he’s a little more out there on some of his statements.

But again, if I made a litany about all the things they said about me, much less about Democrats in general. They’re very offended when somebody says something about them.

They’re pretty glib when it comes to criticizing Democrats in general and Democrats in particular.

So I wouldn’t make a whole lot of it. But I would say that it is par for the course, ‘let’s focus on that, so people don’t have to focus on the economy, the war, what they’re trying to do to Social Security’—you know the list.

[xultar]

1. So, we are supposed to like Nancy now. But before we hated her

cuz she said that she was a Christian earlier this year.

On edit it was pandering to the apologists or something like that.

[Bark Bark Bark]

2. Saw This BEING SPUN On The MSM Evening News

I was channel surfing and don't remember which network or newscaster, but I know it wasn't FOX, and her lead-in to the Pelosi footage was: "Nancy Pelosi offered a rather half-hearted defense of Dean today..."

It was bad enough when these prompterreaders starting telling me how to feel AFTER a report ("What a heartwarming ending to a sad story! Right, Cindy?")--and when the networks started adding big orchestral scores to their pieces--but it's specifically because of that sort of pissant pre-report "set-up" editorializing that I don't watch MSM newscasts anymore. It's not that much different from what Franken caught O'Rielly pulling today; editing audio to put statements in a wholly different context.