# Last week's news \[Pelosi encounter with parking valet\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 13, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086 "2019-03-13T18:38:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![n5tp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@n5tp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/n5tp)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/1 "2019-03-13T18:38:33Z")
Last week I read a news article about Nancy Pelosi having an altercation with an airport parking valet, and now I cannot locate any mention of it. Can anyone tell me where to find it? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/2 "2019-03-13T18:47:05Z")
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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/3 "2019-03-13T18:48:59Z")
Googling various versions of “Nancy Pelosi parking” / “Nancy Pelosi valet” / “Nancy Pelosi airport” don’t return anything that looks like such a story within the first few pages of searches. (Granted, Pelosi is a high-profile figure, so there are a lot of news articles featuring her.) Do you remember where you saw the article? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/4 "2019-03-13T19:29:05Z")
Maybe you misremembered her, um, encounter with that student delegation supporting the Green New Deal? Hard to believe if there was actually a valet-bashing involving Pelosi, that it wouldn’t be all over the Internet. I did find a story about [this incident](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prominent-dallas-attorney-wife-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-valet/), which it’s a shame I didn’t get the chance to witness. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/5 "2019-03-13T19:36:54Z")
I tried searching [Foxnews.com](http://Foxnews.com) and [breitbart.com](http://breitbart.com) for “Pelosi valet” (on the theory that those sites aren’t going to kill a story unfavorable to Nancy Pelosi), but found nothing like you’re describing. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/6 "2019-03-13T19:48:43Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Maybe you misremembered her, um, encounter with that student delegation supporting the Green New Deal? Hard to believe if there was actually a valet-bashing involving Pelosi, that it wouldn’t be all over the Internet. > > I did find a story about [this incident](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prominent-dallas-attorney-wife-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-valet/), which it’s a shame I didn’t get the chance to witness. ☹ The student encounter was with Dianne Feinstein. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/7 "2019-03-13T23:34:42Z")
You didn’t imagine it. [Here](https://twitter.com/wilekenmeyer/status/1102770369176449024)’s evidence it existed - the article, anyway. The link to the article is now dead, as is the website itself. Googling it, it appears to have been one of several websites used by a guy to [create “parody” fake news](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-news-turf-war) in order to “troll” conservatives by getting them to repost made-up stories. However, while the guy’s intention appears to have been to parody fake news, it looks like his “parody” fake news may have been a bit too close to the real thing, and therefore just [added to misinformation online](https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2017/a-satirical-fake-news-site-apologized-for-making-a-story-too-real/). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/8 "2019-03-14T00:37:21Z")
Nice bit of hunting, Walken! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-weeks-news-pelosi-encounter-with-parking-valet/831086/9 "2019-03-14T02:49:15Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > You didn’t imagine it. [Here](https://twitter.com/wilekenmeyer/status/1102770369176449024)’s evidence it existed - the article, anyway. > > The link to the article is now dead, as is the website itself. Googling it, it appears to have been one of several websites used by a guy to [create “parody” fake news](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-news-turf-war) in order to “troll” conservatives by getting them to repost made-up stories. However, while the guy’s intention appears to have been to parody fake news, it looks like his “parody” fake news may have been a bit too close to the real thing, and therefore just [added to misinformation online](https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2017/a-satirical-fake-news-site-apologized-for-making-a-story-too-real/). Good job. Now n5tp knows what websites never to go near ever again.