Nancy Pelosi Gives Insulting Answer When Asked if Biden Went Too Far With Race Games in Georgia Speech – Opinion

Though the writing was on the wall well before Tuesday, the incendiary comments President Joe Biden made during the speech he gave in Georgia where he proclaimed that if you don’t agree with him on the filibuster then you were no better than prominent Democrat racists of the past are being credited with hardening the positions of Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Silena were not persuaded to agree with him, but rather hardened their positions.

“I ask every elected official in America: How do you want to be remembered?” Biden asked rhetorically at the time. “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Are you ready to stand on the side Bull Connor or John Lewis? Would you rather be with Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Now is the time to make your decision. Our elections. To defend our democracy.”

Though Biden has been roundly criticized not just by leaders on the right but by some in his own party over his racially-charged, counter-productive remarks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had nothing but high praise for Biden’s speech when asked about it today during her daily press briefing.

Specifically, Pelosi was asked by a reporter if she thought Biden’s comparison of his political opposition to Democrat racists of days gone by went too far. Though she appeared a bit out of sorts over the question at first, Pelosi quickly recovered, not only declaring the speech “was wonderful” but also insultingly stating that Biden’s references to Bull Connor were no big deal because, in her (rambling) words, “nobody knows who Bull Connor is.”

“The only criticism I would make, too, I wouldn’t say they’re criticism but observations, nobody knows who Bull Connor is,” she claimed. “You know, if we’re making the case to say wanna be with Martin Luther King or Bull Connor, who’s that? Would you like to join Martin Luther King? That’s who Bull Connor is. Strom Thurmond, none of us have a lot of happy memories about Strom Thurmond,” she laughed before gushing again about how “fabulous” Biden’s speech allegedly was.

You can watch the video starting at about the:48 mark.

Nancy Pelosi gave nothing but praise to Joe Biden for his divisive speech in Georgia last week. pic.twitter.com/utmJSFcYAG

— CNSNews (@cnsnews) January 14, 2022

For starters, Biden’s references to Thurmond were not comparisons made to Biden’s modern-day political opponents. The comments were a praise for Thurmond, who was instrumental in filibustering the Civil Rights Act (577) but later supported the Voting Rights Act’s extension. So from that perspective, Pelosi’s disjointed comments about how “none of us have a lot of happy memories” about Thurmond made no sense considering Biden, who in the past praised the segregationists he worked with, didn’t appear to view Thurmond from an “unhappy” perspective.

Secondly, how insulting was it that Pelosi believes that because, in her view, “nobody knows who Bull Connor is” that it was an okay comparison to make? If someone compared her to the late conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, who Democrats absolutely hated, would she be okay with it because “nobody” supposedly knows who Schlafly was? I don’t think so.

Pelosi was wrong to assume that all people hearing her speech are too ignorant to be aware of U.S. history. That, in fact, is precisely how Democrats see voters. They think they can make them believe that everyone else knows the truth but that their followers will fall for the constant spin, demagogy, and lies.

While some may not know who Bull Connor was, there were many in the crowd who did know, according to some reports I read where reporters said they heard gasps from the crowd when Connor’s name was mentioned.

The bottom line though is that whether or not people know who Connor is, it was a disgusting reference to make and a despicable cheap shot from the man who promised to be the “uniter in chief.” We shouldn’t be mad at either Biden or Pelosi, though, because they ripped the masks off and told voters who they really are this week. And as I’ve said before, the American people should respond accordingly at the ballot box come the fall midterms.

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