It's all the GOP really have at this point.

Who, exactly, are these ads and commentary aimed at? I don't think there are a lot of people that, after seeing the 'Pussy Galore' video, will slap their foreheads and say "Oh, now I get it."

Vilifying House Speaker Pelosi will not answer the questions most of us want asked and answered:

Who authorized and then executed torture in our name? Why would we tolerate totalitarian tactics used to extract falsehoods? Are Iraq and Gitmo the results of a manipulative effort or shear incompetence? How did we allow ourselves to stray from our core values? WTF did the Bush/Cheney administration do to our country?

Congressional investigations and a good old fashion DoJ criminal investigation are screaming to be taken up - sooner will put us on the road to healing far better than any more delay! -Kevo

Yes the new Republican ad is tasteless (surprise! ;- ), but more importantly: the whole "case" against Pelosi is such a logical fraud.

1. If T is wrong then the people who did it etc. are worse and more important than someone who didn't squeal. If not, then not talking about it is pretty irrelevant. Either way, ReRushlicans come out worse.

2. The hypocrisy: They ask why didn't she talk about T revelations, but if Nancy had spoken out, Righties would be griping that she exposed techniques, violated confidentiality, gave enemies propaganda material etc. It's a fundamental logical principle, you can't criticize opposite choices especially two opposite alternatives.

3. It wouldn't likely have been obvious to her whether technique X was illegal or not - she's not a legal expert on international law, and many Righties claim waterboarding isn't torture or it's at least debatable. Well then, it wouldn't be prudent to expose something from a confidential briefing that only might be illegal. It's the job of committees like the ones Democrats want to creat now to study what happened and if anyone violated laws etc, not of a Minority Speaker (most times) to unload what's going on right in the middle of tough fights.

4. The issue isn't just whether 'boarding is legal, but whether there are further abuse issues involved - were interrogators really just trying to get vital info, or were they pressing wretches for unreal connections between Saddam and Al-Q. because Cheney/Rummy presumed there must be? The latter could be a crime even if the technique didn't have to be per se.

5. It's still quite debatable how accurate Pelosi's take on her CIA briefings are, but she's got some support for her views. Plenty of Repubs picked on the CIA and its agents (think Valerie Plame). In any case, Pelosi has the benefit of doubt until anyone shows we should not believe her. Meanwhile, we should be asking the ranking Republicans what they heard too.

I could go on, but that gives you a taste of how utterly fraudulent this Wurlitzer-driven rag against Nancy Pelosi is. It's crap, and the SCLM are being jackasses for fronting it at all.

tyrannogenius

Steve, I think you mean that it "says far more about her OPPONENTS than it does about the Speaker."

I truly wish misogyny was restricted to the right.

Let's also note the pathological hatred of this woman and women in general displayed by these men.

"It's a quality the right is lacking"

Right-wing nutters don't give a flying f*ck about decency, any more than they care about hypocrisy. To them, decency is the same thing as being cowardly and effeminate; "real" men are vicious, violent, and revel in running roughshod over anyone they think is in their way. They believe that being morally opposed to torture means you're a "pussy." That's why arguing about whether waterboarding is torture or not with them is fruitless; they WANT to inflict pain and suffering on the helpless. It validates them in a way that being civilized never will, because they're all sociopaths.

It all began when the women were given the right to vote. According to one well-known Republican, Ann Coulter: "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine . . ."

In other words, its all women's fault that we have a Democratic president. So what's the Republican party to do? Answer: Castigate any Democrat, especially women in power - remember Hillary? Now its Nancy's turn.

Of course the real reason for the castigation is that Republican men can't stand the fact that a woman has power over them. Especially a Democratic woman. After all, everyone knows that men are supposed to be the true rulers of the world. Right??

Honor Blackman as the Speaker? Well, Gert Frobe could play a superb Cheney. Goldfinger and Dick; Two Evil Men. Ah, Cheney aboard with Bond and Cheney shoots the window out...........

Neal Boortz - a Southern Rush Limbaugh wannabe. Hey Neal - you certainly ain't no Southern gentleman.

I blame the media for continually covering this garbage as news! Why are they turning it all into personalities instead of issues? Because that has worked for the last 8 years and more. Distract the American public with sex and sensationalism, also fear. Works every time.

The right's "base" has always been those who seethe with anger that they have not been "recognized" - they just know that if the world wasn't organized against them, they'd be the ones on top. Thus, since they are powerless in their own lives - other than petty tryannies over spouses, children, and others perceived as being "lower" or those who can be abused without facing consequences - all the acts of cowards, which is what they are. Poor pathetic losers who cannot face the fact of their loserness.

these guys simply do not know when to stop, do they?

the next thing you know they're going to try putting a whoopee cushion on her chair seat.

anybody heard about palin issuing a press statement condemning these attacks on pelosi?

when i think about this pelosi nonsense, i can't help but also remembering the right's prejean hysteria.

where is the right's vaunted desire for civil discourse hiding?

oh, that's right, it doesn't exist.

Who, exactly, are these ads and commentary aimed at? I don't think there are a lot of people that, after seeing the 'Pussy Galore' video, will slap their foreheads and say "Oh, now I get it."
Posted by: MattF on May 23, 2009 at 10:21 AM

people like my uncle who giggle as they forward crap like this via email.

This is the same immature mindset that governed the country for eight years. The brains that produced and distributed this video are stuck in an adolescent stage of development. There is no sense of responsibility.

Like I said, this is the mindset that governed for eight years. What did we get? A run-down, broken military, a run-down broken economy, run-down broken infrastructure, etc.

Let them have fun sharing their masterpieces via e-mail. With the e-mail, we are seeing the republican party also become run-down and broken. It couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of people.

Okay, two can play at this silly game. "Fat, balding, heart patient, Chickenhawk Dick Cheney spoke before a crowd of fawning, asslicking...."

There's a junior high level contest going on with this bunch of man-boobs with microphones. The first one to make Nancy cry will become the new leader of Wingnutistan.

Somehow, someway, they've got to bring the "conversation" down to their level. They've got to get Nancy to lash out and break down in tears. Escalating the taunts and slurs among themselves makes them feel tough.

Speaker Pelosi may be demoralized by the utter lack of maturity and common sense that her detractors display, but she ain't going to cry for them. Thus their wigged out insanity will get even wiggier and more demented.

And that is when their violent talk kicks in as well. The bottom of the barrel has been reached and the only thing left to do is start shooting or secede. And, of course, they were driven to it. They didn't want to blow out the bottom of the barrel but they were forced to by the liberals unwillingness to capitulate to their idiocy or to crater in their face of their ridiculous insults.

Pussies galore. The lot of them.

Of course they are going to attack her looks. It's the bread-and-butter of the far right--a woman's value is solely in how she appeals to them. Therefore, Hillary is a frigid bitch. Nancy Pelosi is an old hag and a bitch. Sarah Palin is intelligent and righteous and gives starbursts.

Men like Limbaugh, Lowry, and, apparently, the last, dying embers of the GOP think women exist to please them. The fact that someone like Nancy Pelosi doesn't give a flying fuck about making them feel comfortable with her pisses them off (and scares them, to boot).

Look at their female talking heads on FOX. All have that Stepford wife no-brain, glassy-eyed, faux sexy thing going on.

At least the ad shouldn't offend one-armed midgets. Well, at least not male misogynistic one-armed midgets, anyway.

In that regard, it's "off the hook" in it's appeal to minorities.

Am I the only one who finds "pussy" to be among the LEAST vulgar terms used for that particular bit of the female anatomy?

Please, let's get back to bashing Dick Cheney.

So, Republicans... you don't realize that more than half of the electorate is women and you might alienate a lot of them (including some who'd otherwise be on your side) with such blatant misogyny? And what about men who actually like women? Think this is gonna get you their vote? How about children who love and admire their mothers, who are future voters? You really think your party can make a comeback with this strategy? Someone is going to have to invent a whole new word for stupid...

Well, it worked before. Remember Speaker Tom Foley (not to be confused with Mark Foley, although I'm sure Republicans were eager to encourage the confusion)? Lee Atwater et. al. ran Foley out of office (and therefore also out of the Speakership) by impugning his masculinity. People who argue that a man wouldn't be subjected to the same deameaning treatment as Pelosi are mistaken. Crude, sexual and sexist insults and innuendoes are their stock in trade, and (to stay with the James Bond theme) "nobody does it better" than Rush "Baron Harkonnen" Limbaugh, whether he's jeering at a woman in politics as ugly, trying to hurt her by calling her daughter ugly, or claiming that any male to the left of Genghis Khan wants him and his listeners to "bend over and grab our ankles."

By the way, it's all very much out of the Nazi playbook.

"It's a quality the right is lacking, and this recent pathetic display against Pelosi says far more about them than it does about the Speaker."

It also says something interesting, I think, about Republican women. Remember, it was a woman who asked McCain how he was going to "defeat the bitch."

Democratic women, on the other hand, were so strongly on "the bitch's" side that there was big talk of PUMAs.

I think Republican women are mainly Stepford wives with battered wife syndrome on top of THAT.

"According to one well-known Republican, Ann Coulter: "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine . . ."

Of course there's nothing stopping her from taking away her OWN right to vote. As I remember, she seemed to be doing that already by voting in a place she didn't live, right?

Coulter to the feds: "Stop me before I vote again." Now THERE's a voter fraud investigation I could get behind.

Good lord are Republicans stupid! Pussy Galore isn't a villain. She's the leader of a gang of cat burglars who is unknowingly tricked into participating in Auric Goldfinger's devious plan to destroy the US' gold supply at Fort Knox. Once Bond enlightens her, she flips sides and helps him.

Even if looks were a legitimate point to discuss... I'd rather have Pelosi, looking her age (even if it means haggish), than be all botoxed and tanned-from-a-bottle, like that fake-Boner guy. And, certainly, Rush Limpo-Butter-Ball doesn't look very appetising, either.

Hey GOP, your misogyny is showing! Your hatred of women in power is palpable, and those women who call themselves Republicans must be a sad lot indeed.

"I truly wish misogyny was restricted to the right."

I truly wish you had some sense of perspective, dumbass.

one of the under-discussed demographic angles to obama's victory was the way he cleaned up with suburban working woman, especially working mothers....that's how he, even with the terrible numbers he got in the south, won the 'burbs by two points......there was a sizable flip from women who voted bush in 04....the gop insults that demo at their peril.....

at the moment, there is a ten point gap between women who identify as democrats and those who identify as republicans.....this can't be helping...

Well, I can't explain the dichotomy between Pussy Galore and hag...

However, if Ms. Pelosi is a hag, then Dennis Miller is an anal wart, and Limbaugh is a blathering gas bag and pedophile (oops, what do you call a fat old fart who copulates with under-aged goats)?

Boy they're showing their age! Goldfinger! Maybe it's a cult classic, but not a movie most people under 65 think of when James Bond is mentioned. Of course it's seriously tacky, in bad taste, hateful, vicious, unacceptable and all that. But it's the RNC. And oh, I forgot, she's a woman. What a charming bunch they are. If I had the phone numbers of all of their mothers I'd call and ask them what the heck they were thinking raising such a bunch of low-lifes.

I'll just bet Nancy and her hubby are laughing their butts off at this video. Really, is this the BEST the GOP can do?

So, they're comparing Pelosi to a stunning, accomplished, heroic woman who ends up victorious, killing the bad guy and in bed with James Bond?
...well, I'm sure she's absolutely inconsolable about that.

Pussy is one of "the most vulgar terms for a part of the female anatomy?"

Not even close.

Boy they're showing their age! Goldfinger! Maybe it's a cult classic, but not a movie most people under 65 think of when James Bond is mentioned.

Similar to their fascination with Ronald Reagan. They live in the past. Goldfinger was a new movie 45 years ago.

It's almost amusing to watch old, fat, ugly guys like Limbaugh, Boortz and Savage carry on constantly about Nancy Pelosi's looks. Kind of sad that this bunch of old Viagra-fueled clowns are making fun of the way anyone looks. Old, stupid, fat and mean is no way to go through life, guys.

Sheridan said: It all began when the women were given the right to vote. According to one well-known Republican, Ann Coulter: "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine . . ."

I strongly support taking away Ann Coulter's right to vote!

/sarcasm

Seems pretty consistent with the folks who formed an anti-Hillary group called Citizens United Not Timid.

Whither your article on Obama supporters' misogynistic attacks on Hillary (Iron My Shirt, Bros Before Hoes, his speechwriter groping a Hillary cutout's breasts and on and on) and on Sarah Palin?

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Misogyny, unfortunately, is not just a GOP thing and that was proven in 2008.

This is an American problem, not a partisan problem. I don't know why women fall for it, and they should vote ALL the bums out.

get a life...you villify Miss California for being honest about her feelings on gay marriage but you defend Nancy the liar Pelosi because she is a woman scorned..whay hypocracy

Whatever! Obama's Attorney General tells us we're cowards, his strategist calls 22 year old Miss Calif. a dog, Obama laughs his head off when a tacky comedian wishes death on his opponents, and on, and on. This administration, and their complete control over the media, can try to hide how classless THEY BOTH are, but even my 3rd grader has enough class to know better than to frame people with cheap "Pussy Galore" tricks.

This isn't a sexist thing. We all use the strongest language to deride all thse shite politicians. Pelosi=bitch Bush=Hitler etc. etc. to act like this is a GOP only classless attack is ignoring pretty much all the attacks leveled at all of our equally crappy politicians. They are all garbage throw them all out.

Give us a break!
Somewhere in the dark recesses of memory, I hold dim recollections of MONTHS of vile and abusive language and assaults on Sarah Palin.
Not by a few radio talk show hosts, but by the New York Times, major television and cable networks, late night comedians, significant bloggers, etc.
All to the cheers of the left.
Couric even won the Cronkite award and Fey got a Peabody.
Helen Thomas thanked Couric for "saving America."
This is STILL continuing, not only against Palin, but her family, including her teenage daughter.

Have you no shame?

I hold dim recollections of MONTHS of vile and abusive language and assaults on Sarah Palin.

Could it be because she continually lied and suggested that the current President of the United States spent his time "palling around with terrorists"? Which fomented such enmity towards Obama that the Secret Service had to have a talk with her because he was receiving death threats?

Could it be because even when she was CAMPAIGNING she tried to turn Americans against one another, going to rural areas and calling them "the real America"?

Could it be that she pretended that Alaska didn't take Federal money, when it in fact is one of the largest recipients of Federal aid, and that she lied about her role in the Bridge to Nowhere?

Could it be because she was running for Vice President of the United States and yet lacked even the most basic knowledge of policy? And when given fluff interviews with all the time in the world to prepare she still blew it? And then blamed the interviewer? To the dismay of her own staff and John McCain's campaign managers, who admitted after the campaign that she was self-involved and unprepared for office?

The list goes on, but you get the drift. She is an inveterate liar who was completely out of her depth and knew it, so she resorted to inflammatory rhetoric to make people afraid for their lives to vote for her. Hilariously, when she campaigned without McCain she often even failed to mention him, so interested in 2012 was she.

Clinton, Bush, Kerry, Kennedy, Cheney, Biden, Obama -- they all get parodied on SNL. Palin was treated no differently.

To Kevo: Who authorized torture? The Bush Administration, with the assent of Congress and the silence endorsement of the Ameican polity. It is no secret. Take the mask off.

Have you ever commented about what the left call ed Sarah Palin and how they treated her?

In fairness, if it is wrong to malign Pelosi, isn;t it wrong to do so to Palin?

Have you ever commented about what the left call ed Sarah Palin and how they treated her?

Yes, examining her record and qualifications for office were just an awful for the left to do. What has the campaigning process come to?

Noting that she was picked because she was beautiful, right wing, and had virtually no baggage -- terrible.

Obama treating her respectfully and saying publicly that her family was off limits -- just unforgivable.

Until Sarah Palin's followers understand that she was simply judged on her glaring lack of knowledge and poor judgment they will be stuck thinking she was some sort of victim.

What scares Republicans is that one of their senators Bond Kit Bond has a thing for that hussy, er grandma.

Gotta keep that secret of course. Wouldn't want the rabble to get roused.

I agree that attacks on Speaker Pelosi should be on the issues and not her gender, appearance, or voice. This should be true of ALL political discourse in this country. However, I see "crockadile tears" from all the Libs here. You-all went after Sarah Palin far worse than Pelosi is now being attacked. A few of you spoke out on the misogyny then, but not most of you.
We should all work to raise the level of our national discourse and restore civility to our nation.

Really, you all cheered when an underage girl on Daily KOS got verbally gang raped in public because of who her mom was!

Bristol Palin, a worthy target of attack. She got in a Democrats way. Treat her like a bitch at a dogfight.

Any woman can be attacked to benefit Democratic men, even teenage girls. You love it. Love it.

You sexist pigs all cheered an unwed mother being savaged.

Now you're upset about this?

Good.

Wow. Listen to all the faux outrage. Then wind it back a few months to the "stupid c*nt" & "moose-farking bitch" lines you guys were throwing down ad nauseum about Palin.
Pelosi's a lying hack. Obama's even sick of her.
I'm guessing the video's reference is to democrats robbing the U.S. of its financial stability by tripling the national debt over the next 8 years versus (S&P's about to downgrade U.S. Treasuries) ala Goldfinger's Ft. Knox plot.

Then wind it back a few months to the "stupid c*nt" & "moose-farking bitch" lines you guys were throwing down ad nauseum about Palin.

Really? Please point to the commercials where this was said, I missed them. Or was it a NYT article? Huffington Post? Daily Show? Here at Washington Monthly?

I didn't think so.

I think you are confusing it with the story that came out in which it was revealed that the paragon of virtue John McCain had called his wife that word in front of friends a few times. I understand it's hard to get such things straight when you're hyperventilating all the time over imagined slights.

Well, interesting how they want to claim a misogynistic hate, but Coulter was thrown in there also.

So either it's misogynistic or it isn't. The fact that while they wish to call someone a name, Coulter in the group refutes the position the author wishes to take.

The fact is, there is no excuse for Pelosi.

NO ONE was defending her while she was thrashing with her own idiocy.

The blue dogs don't support her, the freshmen don't support her, Panetta sent her a b*tchslap in a letter from the CIA. . . .

Lets face it. She ran away after making herself look like a complete moron.

And while the author would like to decry those who critisize her?

Pelosi, who has pushed so much verbal sewage out of her mouth, eventually was going to have it come back to her.

You can't push that much black hateful sewage out of your mouth and NOT have it come back.

Call it karma, kizmet, whatever. What goes around comes around. In spades.

And Pelosi brought it on herself.

Castigate others all you want. Pelosi brought it on herself.

And for good reason.

Hypocrisy anyone:

Really, you leftists are beyond belief. Just go back and research the vile things said about Condi Rice, Sarah Palin, Ms California, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan- you hate anyone who is not an anti-American socialist (redundant).Yet you object when "your ox is gored" - Hypocrisy anyone???

The traditional Republican party is dead, slain, not by the Democrats but by the Fascist's that took over the GOP. Just read-"The 12 Year Reich" by Richard Grunberger and articles about the "Big Lie" and "Nazi Propaganda." It is you. the American citizen, who must become aware of these soft Nazi's, and it must be you that puts them into the dustbin of history. It is your duty!

Bullies are always surprised when they get push-back.
Pelosi is featured in a spoof of a James Bond movie because she attacked the intelligence services of the US and they're surprised and offended??? Horrors!

How do they defend SNL's skits about the Palin family and incest?
How about the Daily Kos photo spread of Jenna Bush's wedding juxtaposed with blood-and-guts shots from Iraq? What would the Left say if someone posted pix of the darling Obama daughters side-by-side with those of dead children in their father's bombing raids in Pakistan?
Obama fell all over himself apologizing for his random joke about the Special Olympics on Leno. Yet when Chris Rock and others called Bush a "retard"... crickets... and laughter...
Ludicrous posted a vile video hoping that McCain would be in a wheelchair and Obama called him"talented" but never asked that the popular video be pulled down fromYou Tube.
That's just the "legitimate" media.

Oh, and since the Left established that it's A-OK to call the President of the US a Chimp, can we call Obama a Chimp? The screaming would be heard from Sea to Shining Sea.

Obama and the Democrats participate, openly laugh at this stuff, and encourage it. When Daily Kos, a prime purveyor, held its annual meeting during the presidential campaign, every candidate and major Democrat paid homage by attending and speaking.

Feigned offense by the Democrats is rank hypocrisy.

Sarah Palin was judged because of her glaring lack of knowledge, huh? Okay, so what's your excuse for the far left's vile disgusting sexist attacks on Hillary? I know you'll come up with something, so let's hear it.

The truth is that the far left is bunch of hypocrites who vowed to denigrate anyone who stood in the way of their Messiah. Whether that was Hillary Clinton, John McCain, or Sarah Palin didn't matter.

The nice thing is that in the process they revealed themselves to be bigots, sexists, and rationalizing hypocrites. Now we know that all their talk about tolerance is bunch of bull. And if you don't believe me, just ask Obama's Secretary of State.

Pussy Galore indeed! Hmpphh!

In the end, Pussy Galore turned out to be one of the good guys - actually helping with the ruse necessary to find the nuclear weapon.

Nancy Pelosi would root for the other side, and explain that we deserved to be nuked because we had been bad.

Scares you to think that she's third in line after Obama and (shudder) Biden, doesn't it?

Is waterboarding torture? It seems like we are parsing the words excessively these days, anything from what the meaning of "is" is to what is torture.

I think waterboarding is torture. The intent is to use fear to extort information from someone who is relatively helpless in your custody. I think anyone who says it isn't torture is being , at best, disengenuous.

On the other hand, I think anyone who says that they would NOT torture someone they knew to be guilty (in fact, had bragged about their guilt) in the murder of nearly three thousand people to extract information from them that would save thousands of others from a similar fate is far more immoral than the one who would torture those individuals and certainly far less rational.

My American values were never about allowing terrorists to kill the innocent so that I could feel good about my moral superiority over these people. My American values place the lives of those innocents above the "civil rights" of those who have declared war against us. Anything else would be irrational.

Oh, so now the Pot is calling the Kettle "black"?? Poor defenseless Nancy, the paragon of political restraint and governmental stewardship, is being challenged! Well, go for it; she gives women a bad name, no matter what movie character she is compared with. there have been wise and good woman in history, who have contributed worthwhile ideas and comments. Nancy Pelosi is not one of them. Sadly, she is a parody on women of power. And, I agree, she is only a Joe Biden away from the White House. That is the most frightenng part of her whole fiasco.

GOP misogynists?
Remember your attacks on Sarah Palin and her family. I guess that's OK if you Commies say so.
Everything is wonderful now that Obama is in the White House.
One day you'll grow up, or wake up and realize what a liar he is and how much he's hurting the nation.

It's just about in line with the slurs the Democrats used against Bush & Cheney - I don't see what all of the outrage is all about

Why do Dems never look in the mirror? Sarah Palin, anyone?

Where was this indignation when Sarah Palin was getting this treatment from the self-proclaimed sensitive feminists? Oh! that's right. Liberals are exempt from their own rules because of their alleged good intentions

Oh my. The self-righteous indignation is breathtaking.

Has anyone called her a war criminal yet? Or Hitler? Or a monkey? Or retarded? Or accused her of destroying the Constitution? Or conspiring to produce an attack on America with mass casualties? Or of making war for oil?

And all those attacks on Sarah Palin were completely professionally oriented...right?

Shut up, please.