I swear, I’m not making this up just to make Pubbies look like brain-dead dickweeds. In fact, I’m not making this up at all!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/22882
Updated, up to the minute news…
The link offered in the aforementioned Politico article goes to Nowhereville, so either Politico is making it all up, and we’ll Pit them, or they’re not, which means the wimp-ass Pubbies have finally learned how to make something disappear!
More as developments arise…
Udate: the video is available as a Youtube over at Daily Kos
(Warning advisory for tighty-righty: Daily Kos. You saw that part right, Daily Kos?..)
Boy, they really, really want to lose the youth vote, don’t they? “This mean lady is like somebody you’ve never heard of (who had sex with James Bond)!”
Besides, Pelosi looks far more like Jayne Mansfield than she does Pussy Galore.
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Feminine wiles? The fact that she touches her hair and has trouble finding a page? Give me a break. It wasn’t even funny.
Is there ANY point to that video? I mean, it’s a pretty unfocused effort without much evident message beyond the fact that there is some issue between the Speaker and the CIA. If this is the best the Republican National Committee can manage on the subject, they need a new ad agency on their payroll.
Also, the fact is that she alleges that the CIA lied and their counter argument seems to be, “No, we didn’t! That’s mean!”
The perfidy of the Republican Party is boundless in its vile debasement of the fair flower of American womanhood, and gross disrespect for pilots, lesbians, and blondes! I am shocked! shocked and sickened by the corrupt depravity so shamelessly displayed!
Meh. It’s more obtuse than unconscionable.
Inspires as much laughter as a Mallard Fillmore comic strip.
Here’s what I don’t get.
Bush repeatedly blamed the CIA for his policy blunders. Why did we think Iraq was connected to Al Qaeda and 9-11? The CIA said so. Why did we think Saddam Hussein had WMD? The CIA said so. Even if you believe (as I do) that the Bush Administration cherry-picked the intel to fit its agenda, it isn’t really debateable that the CIA has been lacking in the “intelligence” department lately.
The Republicans didn’t seem to have a problem with Bush passing the buck off to the CIA when his ass was on the line. And he was the president of the US, the one person who should be expected to take the blame for agency failures.
So really, I don’t get the scorn against Pelosi. If the previous administration was right when they said the CIA was producing misleading intelligence, then Pelosi’s claim of having been misled is quite credible and deserving of investigation. If the agency has always been impeccable, which is what the Republicans seem to be saying now, then that means it was impeccable when Bush was in office, and he has no one to blame except for himself for launching an illegal war. The Republicans seem to want both to be true.
I would really enjoy reading your own personal comments on this. I really would. And this is very probably the only time in my life that I will enjoy reading anything whatever that you might post.
That was 110 seconds of almost nothing, but there was an instant of 8th grade wit that may be the key to the entire concept.
At the end there’s a shot with some superimposed tag lines, one of which is “Democrats Galore.” That’s the only reference to the name of the Bond film’s character. They show Miss Galore’s picture several time, but the name isn’t spoken or written.
So, my interpretation is that this was done as an excuse to call Democrats pussies in an oh-so-clever euphemistic way. For comedic brilliance it ranks right up there with a waitress saying, “Kiss my grits.”
With Bush, the CIA was mistaken.
With Pelosi, the CIA lied.
Mistakes aren’t deliberate, so it could be forgiven.
Lies are deliberate, and no so easy to forgive (or forget).
See, it was just an innocent blooper when the CIA gave bad data to the President that helped start up this war thingy. Oops! Sorry!
But accusing known incompetents, who have only the very best of intentions, of lying! That’s outrageous! The CIA would never deliberately mislead someone! Sure, it happens accidentally, or because of oversights, or misjudgment… but not on purpose!
But one was trying to save us from all the Bad Guys, and the other is Evil Incarnate (or something). Whatever. It’s just the usual political bullshit. It’s just the “usual suspects” flinging the shit too.
So the Republicans are glorifying the prospect of assassinating the Speaker of the House? That’s what it looks like to me, what with the gun-barrel view of her, and the blood washing down the screen. If Democrats had depicted Dubya that way, they would have been arrested.
Sure. But would there be a trial? Or would they be “disappeared” to Gitmo or some secret “place of rendition”?
Me, too, and I couldn’t make head or tail what the overall point of the ad was, nor what role the James Bond imagery was supposed to play.
In that case, I shan’t give you the pleasure.
Wait a minute! Is your real name Lula Mae, and were you in Waco, TX, in 1965?