There’s a new “channel” on You Tube now called House Hub, bringing the House of Representatives closer to the people.
Most of the videos are not even remotely popular - Representative Buck McKeon’s latest clip has 77 views. But Nancy’s cats? 39,000 views.
She may be almost 70, but she knows a thing or two about how to make a popular video.
She’s no stranger to love either. 
(It’s a rickroll)
That’s amazing! I expected a video of Pelosi’s cats, but instead, after 40 seconds it cut to a video of little-known '80s singer Rick Astley performing his now-forgotten hit “Never Gonna Give You Up!” That’s a brilliant substitution prank. I never saw it coming, and I was mortified at work when that song came blasting out of the speakers. I didn’t expect it at all! I predict this is the dawn of a new age of internet humor!
Reopening the thread upon request.
Thanks for reopening the thread Marley. Yes, it’s a rickroll, but it’s a rickroll that Pelosi herself posted. I can’t believe that the freakin’ Speaker of the House pulled a rickroll on her Youtube channel. And the video has increased to 160,000 views and 3,900 comments in 3 days – not bad. My esteem for Nancy Pelosi just went up another notch, just for being aware (even if it was only through staffers or whatever) of an Internet phenomenon like rickrolling.
ETA: Although frankly, I think I might like to see more of those cats. They were pretty cute. And the cat music was nice and soothing, which Rick Astley definitely is not. 
Seems this Thread was closed in error. This was not a Guest Rickrolling the SDMB. Apparently Pelosi really did Rickroll the nation- seems worthy of a Thread.
I have no comment yet, I’m at work and can’t watch Congress’ Rickroll vid (apparently this Rickroll has kitties!). Just thought we ought to have a Thread.
Well, that’s one way to get free advertising.
That’s…awesome. I think.
Daniel
It would have been better if the threads in MPSIMS and Cafe Society hadn’t tried to keep the Rickroll going. Ah well.
I think that’s awesome.
That lady is batshit crazy.
Is rickrolling covered under ‘fair use’?
While Rickrolling is played out, that was still pretty funny.
The thread wasn’t closed in error. There’s no difference between the usual Rickroll and that one when you don’t tell the audience what’s going to happen. Since you explained the video in your OP, this thread can stay open. It does, however, belong in MPSIMS, so I’ll move it there for you.
Hey, we don’t want any!
Merging with another thread about the Capitol RickRoll.
Wait. Why couldn’t some hacker have substituted a RickRoll for whatever Pelosi had originally on her site?
(Or am I stating something already pointed out?)
EDIT: NVM. Pelosi’s press spoke’shole is claiming it was intentional. Just saw post #6.
I can haz gavel AND Rick-rolling?
It wasn’t a complete Rickroll – there really was footage of cats (presumably Pelosi’s) at the beginning. Then there’s a record-scratching sound and it cuts to the infamous music video, but the video fades out pretty quickly and is replaced by a little screen directing people to the HouseHub and SenateHub pages on Youtube. And there’s an informational box telling people that if they don’t know why this music video came up, to google “rick roll.”
I think it’s quite a bit different than an ordinary Rickroll, where somebody posts a misleading link that only goes to Rick Astley’s music video.
No, apparently some lame-ass staffer of Pelosi’s really did Rickroll the nation.
Rickrolling: now stale enough for Congress to get away with.
No, there’s plenty of rickrolls like this. When rickrollers found that people started to be mistrustful of Youtube links, they began to carry it a little further, by having the first part of the video be something innocuous to draw folks in, then it suddenly switches to Rick.
Short version: if it’s misleading and it leads to Rick Astley, it’s a rickroll.