Ken Berwitz

Nancy Pelosi, yesterday, on John King's CNN show:

Pelosi:  “He’s not going to be President of the United States. That’s not going to happen. Let me just make my prediction and stand by it, it isn’t going to happen.”

 

King:  “Why are you so sure?”

 

Pelosi:  “There is something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him that’s their prerogative. I don‘t even think that’s going to happen.”

Newt Gingrich, this morning, on the Today Show:

"I have no idea what's in Nancy Pelosi's head.  If she knows something, I have a simple challenge: Spit it out”

Nancy Pelosi, through a spokesperson, later today:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office on Wednesday said the minority leader doesn’t have any dirt on Newt Gingrich.

"The 'something' Leader Pelosi knows is that Newt Gingrich will not be President of the United States. She made that clear last night," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement.

 

“Leader Pelosi previously made a reference to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware,” Hammill said.

Let's be very clear about what happened here.  Ms. Pelosi plainly indicated that "there is something I know", which, for sure, would prevent Newt Gingrich from becoming President. 

Not at all surprisingly, her comment was immediately splashed across the media.

Now, a day later, after Ms. Pelosi was directly challenged by Gingrich to "spit it out"?  She folds like a $5 suitcase.  She doesn't even have the guts to deny it in person - instead she trots out one of her acolytes to barf out a mealy-mouthed lie on her behalf.

Now you know why this blog's title refers to her as Nancy Pathetic.

Could she be more pathetic then that?  Could she be more dishonest? 

What if this were, say, Michele Bachmann talking about Barack Obama?  How much of a field day would the media have with it?  How many of them would use it to impugn her intelligence?  Her honesty?  Her character?

Now:  Will tonight's major network's news shows report the Nancy Pathetic episode way they would have reported it about Ms. Bachmann?  Will they even report it at all? 

We'll see.  But I think I already know.  And I think you do too.