Pelosi goes after James Rosen, gets toasted

Speaker Nancy "Dancing Dentures" Pelosi (D-CA) called journalist James Rosen of Sinclair Broadcast Group "Mr. Republican talking points" Thursday after he asked her a whistleblower question at a press conference.

"And so I wonder if you could explain to the American people why the legal rights of the whistleblower should prevail in this political setting over those of President Trump, who should ordinarily enjoy a right to confront his accuser," Rosen asked Pelosi.

Pelosi's feathers were ruffled.

"Well, let me just say this," Pelosi responded, her acrimonious smile betraying her anger as she pointed at Rosen. "I'll say to you, Mr. Republican Talking Points, what I said to the president of the United States: When you talk about the whistleblower, you're coming into my wheelhouse."

She then bragged, while unwittingly revealing her age:

 "I have more experience in intelligence than anybody in the Congress, anybody that's ever served, 25 years on the committee as top Democrat, ex officio, as Speaker and leader. I was there when we wrote the whistleblower laws. The whistleblower is there to speak truth to power and have protection for doing that. And any, any retribution or harm coming to a whistleblower undermines our ability to hear truth about power. So, I will defend the rights of the whistleblower vehemently, vehemently."

When Rosen pushed back, Pelosi said Trump can make his case to before those overseeing impeachment proceedings, adding that "the president is not above the law, the president will be held accountable, and nobody should have the right to endanger whistleblowers, and that is the system that I will defend, and the American people understand that."

The President also has a right to face his accuser, because his accuser also is not above the law, and legally, has no right to anonymity as Democrats would have us believe.

So how did Rosen, a journalist who was spied on by the Obama administration, react? By reporting how Pelosi grew "testy" to his question, which happens to be perfectly reasonable, adding that the Speaker "attacked" him and resorted to "personal disparagement" to his question.

Perhaps she wasn't ready for a question from the press who wasn't a leftist shill for the DNC.

Twitter was abuzz with responses to Pelosi's angst. One person tweeted:

"Knee-jerk reaction Alinsky RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Another posted:

"I watched as it happened today and had to pick my jaw up off the floor. She was way out of line. There was nothing at all wrong with your question or how you asked."

And another:

"She not used to having real journalist ask her questions."

If you noticed, Pelosi never answered Rosen's question.


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