Loved How The Speaker Put Kelly O'Donnell In Her Place

[Me.]

when challenged, she basically told Kelly O that she, Kelly O, was buying traitor trump's message.

Which Kelly O often does in her reporting. Explaining him and giving him the edge.

[StarfishSaver]

1. Wasn't that a thing of beauty?

So tired of them using his lies as the premise for questions they make the Democrats answer, as if his premise is valid.

Nancy wasn't having it.

[Me.]

2. Second Only To The Kelly Anne Bit

and what is it with them both being name Kelly...

[Nuggets]

51. Yes it was beautiful! nt

[hlthe2b]

3. Yes.. I posted on this earlier. Kelly O'Donnell is the ultimate "go along to get along" WH sycophant

Her "shouldn't you modify your message so as not to trigger the President" spiel had me ready to throttle her.

[Me.]

4. It Must've Been A Really Big Ouch For Her

because she referenced it on Andrea Mitchell's show

[hlthe2b]

5. What did she say? Was she defensive?

[Me.]

11. I'd Say Very Careful In Her Reporting

[.99center]

6. Seriously, this is our shitty press in a nutshell.

Link to tweet

[Me.]

12. Brilliant Find

But then, O’Donnell asked Pelosi if she would be willing to “not use phrases like cover-up, or to not, perhaps, provoke him, would you be open to that?”

“Well, you have bought into his excuse,” Pelosi said. “That was not a reason that he did that yesterday. That was an excuse for him to do that.”

“And with all due respect your question,” Pelosi continued, over protestations from O’Donnell, “I do not intend to not to honor my oath of office, nor do my colleagues in the House of Representatives, to honor our oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution, which has a system of checks and balances, a separation of power in it, and again, it’s a question of the American people understanding that what he is doing is an assault on the Constitution of the United States.”

“We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” Pelosi said. “I hope he can too.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/speaker-pelosi-scolds-reporter-for-asking-if-shell-stop-saying-cover-up-you-have-bought-into-his-excuse/

[CatWoman]

20. go Nancy

GO!!!!

[iluvtennis]

26. Woohoo, go Nancy

[Cha]

62. Thank You for that, Me..

Nancy is dead on!

Kelly O and the press in general..

[Me.]

64. She's A Prize All Right

I was really surprised so many don't like KO, I thought I was the only one or 2.

[Cha]

65. We're on Team Nancy!

Link to tweet

[Me.]

66. Hoa Nancy

[Cha]

67. Absolutely!

[gratuitous]

21. Nancy Smash!

Pelosi starts her answer, and it's clearly not going in the direction that O'Donnell wants it to go so she tries to interrupt, but Pelosi keeps going and gets the entirety of her answer out. Watch and learn, other Democrats.

I also liked how Pelosi described the House's duty, and invoked the American people and their expectations. Very well done, Speaker Pelosi.

[kag]

38. completely agree

I see this done so rarely by Dems. It needs to happen waaaaaaayyyyyy more often!

[2naSalit]

58. Interestingly...

I have noticed that I hear this statement far more often with this Congress than I can recall in I don't know how long.

[Takket]

23. Well said...

There is a meme out there appropriate to this day and age. It says something along the lines of: if the president says that it is raining your job isn’t to report that as fact, it is to report he said it but then look out the fucking window and tell us what it is actually doing outside.

[Grasswire2]

30. "our shitty press"????!!!!

Steam is coming from my ears.

Second press bashing I've seen on DU today.

Knock it off.

Criticize a reporter if you must, but a blanket castigation of the press in general is ignorant and dangerous, IMO.

[John Fante]

36. Sorry, with few exceptions, our press is astonishingly shitty.

Not only were they Trump's best friend during the 2016 election, throwing him softball questions (remember Matt Lauer) and lowering the bar for his braindead ass on every occasion, now they expect our elected leaders to walk on eggshells for him too.

Trump accuses Democrats of advocating infanticide and the NYTs calls it an "inaccurate refrain". Not gaslighting, not blatant and dangerous lying, no. An inaccurate refrain. Pathetic.

[mr_lebowski]

52. This ... aside from Rachel, Lawrence, and some late-night and other cable

hosts like Sam Bee and John Oliver ... nearly all of the Corporate Media fairly consistently SUCKS, esp. when it comes to normalizing IQ45's insanity, and their treatment of Democrats.

[stillcool]

54. I hate when tv people...

are lumped in with the face-less, name-less, real-life journalists who provide us with news. The TV people take a journalists work, and report what they want, how they want. It's exasperating when 'the press' is then blamed for the woes of tv-land.

[peggysue2]

39. Nancy Pelosi is on a roll and not about . . .

to take shit from anyone. I admire her calm, respectful tone, the confident manner, beneath which are rows of razor blades. Shark teeth! LOL

Good one on her. Don't mess with Madame Speaker and/or throw around the Trumpster's daily excuses.

'Cause she gonna git ya!

[tblue37]

42. As a second-generation Sicilian-American, I remember hearing all through my childhood about

how the women in my family (and by implication, Italian women generally) were the actual rulers in the family, but that they asserted their rule with an iron hand in a velvet glove.

[Me.]

57. ...

[mountain grammy]

44. I love that she's doing this..

You go, Nancy! Now impeach the mother fucker.

[Laurian]

7. I was so happy that she didn't sidestep or blur her answer to that question.

Why the hell should she have to modify her actions/words to placate the man child. He’s President of the United States, for God’s sake, and should be able to have an adult conversation.

Too many in the national press give him a pass.

[Irishxs]

9. +1000

[Duppers]

45. "Too many in the national press give him a pass."

No truer words! And this must stop.

Thanks, Laurian.

[Hortensis]

8. Back in W's day I had the TV on while I was working

and was sort of listening to a woman talking cheerfully about what "we" in the WH were doing, so friendly and subjective, and with at least one "we," that of course I assumed a staff spokeswoman. When I turned, though, I was surprised to see her standing outside the WH grounds. O'Donnell. I remember that every time I see her, which is only when I don't avoid it.

Like this clip.

[Me.]

13. Never Heard Her Say We

But the message has always been delivered via her reporting

[FakeNoose]

17. She does work inside the White House, that's where the pressers are held

... however she doesn't work FOR the President or the US government. So I do get your meaning.

The media reporters need to be more careful about nuances of seeming to take sides, even when they aren't taking sides. Every national news outlet (newspapers, radio, TV and magazine/journals) have this same balancing act going on. They're trying to hang on to their access by reporting things in a way that pleases Chump. And yet more than anybody they can see how crazy and irrational he is, how it doesn't matter what you do or say, he can take away your credentials in a heartbeat just because he can.

[Hortensis]

24. This was during, I believe, W's first term.

Up to 18 years ago, and very different realities for the press corps then and now.

Back in those days I had seldom seen her and wondered if she was related to Norah O'Donnell, who I saw on daytime MSNBC. I like Norah, and btw she's going to be the new CBS Evening News anchor.

[krkaufman]

43. complicit at best

“They're trying to hang on to their access by reporting things in a way that pleases Chump.”

Then they’re failures as journalists ... and arguably complicit and even part of his operation.

[LiberalFighter]

34. She probably thinks she is better than others.

[Hortensis]

56. Very possibly. KRKaufman is right that people like

this, including Andrea Mitchell whose show she was just on, are at very least complicit in all the evil and traitorous RW doings these days.

I've read that becoming and remaining part of the "in crowds" in DC is very seductive; an ultimate "better" group. People really are effectively selling their souls to belong. One famous WaPo editor said she spent decades watching people change from who they were when they came to...a sort of DC template person. Can't remember her words, would have to read her book again, but there was no admiration in her observations by a long shot.

[dajoki]

10. She is annoying...

she tries so hard to normalize this mess.

[Raven]

14. Typical "guy" question...can't you modify your behavior to

placate this madman? It's always the woman's fault/responsibility, isn't it!

[Me.]

15. You Bring Up Another Point

I also loved how she stated her position...Speaker of the House, 2nd in line to the presidency which is why she is so adept at putting HIM in HIS place.

[lostnfound]

16. Maybe if you were nicer to your husband he wouldn't beat you...

Good point.

[Raven]

18. Absolutely! You said it better!

[mcar]

25. That's what struck me, Raven

"If you don't anger him, he won't hit you."

[machoneman]

19. Kelly hasn't been spanked that hard since Mom caught her with her hand in the cookie jar!

Nice move Nancy! She's smokin' hot this week, for sure!!!!

[tikka]

22. The last part about walking and chewing gum had to burn nt

[dchill]

27. O"Donnell uses a finishing sander...

on all her Trump admin stories. It's reprehensible and unjustifiable. Turd polisher or journalist - you decide.

[Mike Nelson]

28. Nice to see Kelly O'Donnell...

… ask a challenging question! Now, let's see some directed at Trump.

[Staph]

29. It just dawned on me....

Since Sarah Sanders isn't holding press briefings in the White House anymore, the press need something to cover, words and pictures to fill up that enormous 24-hour cycle. They have discovered that Nancy Pelosi's morning briefing gives them just what they need.

I don't remember ever seeing a Speaker's press conference covered live and in detail before this month. Pelosi is filling the gap, giving the press what they need and getting the Democratic point of view out there every day.

She is playing 11-dimensional chess!

[kag]

41. Hadn't thought of that...

But you're right. Dumpf and Sanders think they're so smart by "punishing" the press corp by not having briefings. Then our Speaker slips right in and fills the void. Smart.

I can think of a lot of voids she can fill. If the orange menace doesn't want to run the country, Madam Speaker will, and she'll be infinitely better at it.

[DeminPennswoods]

55. That is an excellent observation

kudos!

[H2O Man]

31. Recommended.

And not just because I find Kelly O to be obnoxious ....but because Speaker Pelosi really nailed it. She is demonstrating true leadership at this point, where it is most needed.

[Me.]

47. ...

[LiberalFighter]

32. I really do not like Kelly O'Donnell. She is a pompous jerk.

[Srkdqltr]

33. Isn't she Kelly Ann Conway??

Is there a Kelly O??

[Me.]

48. Two Different Odious Personalities

[H2O Man]

59. Never seen

in the same room together. Just saying ......

[Me.]

60. Point!

[BlueIdaho]

35. Kelly O'Donnell used to be a legit reporter

Then she drank the conservative Kool Aid and that was that.

[SCVDem]

37. Does anyone miss Leni?

I do not need more bullshit in my life!

[tblue37]

40. Speaker vs. Tweaker/Squeaker. nt

[sandensea]

46. When she was at MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell was always quick to say: "No relation"

Now I know why. It was his way of telling his audience that Kelly wasn't really on the square.

[Me.]

49. Sorry To Say

she's still at MSNBC

[sandensea]

50. Is that right? Hadn't noticed her.

I mostly watch in the evenings. She used to be a frequent contributor during the Chris-Rachel-Lawrence prime time; hardly at all lately.

They must've gotten tired of her - or the audience did.

Not as bad as Dana "Bush" Bash (at CNN) though. I swear, every time the Midland Idiot showed up for his pressers, the woman almost had a spontaneous you-know-what.

[Me.]

53. I Don't See Her At Night Either

[coeur_de_lion]

61. She also refuses to let KellyAnne bring her down to her level

She just flat refuses to engage.

[link:https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/pelosi-ignores-kellyanne-conway-attempt-to-start-a-feud|

>>>snip
Wednesday’s dustup between Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi, in which Trump stormed out of a meeting after Pelosi claimed he was executing a “cover-up,” was poised to be the political slap-fight of the week. That is, until Kellyanne Conway wormed her way into the fray. On Wednesday, the presidential adviser asked Pelosi if she wanted to respond to Trump’s post-meeting speech in the Rose Garden. To which Pelosi said, a source in the room told CNBC: “I don’t talk to staff. I talk directly to the president.”

Pelosi’s chief of staff later clarified that the speaker said: “I’m responding to the president, not staff.” Which, tomayto, tomahto. The real kicker came when Conway reportedly shot back with, “Wow, that’s really pro-woman of you.”
<<<snip

>>>snip
When asked for comment on Conway’s Fox interview Thursday, Pelosi responded, “I’m not going to talk about her.”
<<<snip

The more I see of Pelosi the better I like her. She's exactly who we need right now, God love her.

[Me.]

63. I Saw Her This Morning

saying Nancy was treating her like a maid....well she does try to clean up traitor trumps messes.

[coeur_de_lion]

69. Maid is a fitting title

She is so disgusting I can’t watch her anymore than I can trump.

[eleny]

68. Seems like KO thought she could hide the fact that her question was really an opinion in disguise

Pelosi's response plowed right over KO's attempt at a follow up. The Speaker took KO to school.

[Me.]

70. Exactly

loved how she couldn't fool Nancy