Pelosi pulled this “I know something about Newt” stuff twice

Recently, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mentioned there was “there’s something I know,” and Newt Gingrich will never become president. It wasn’t it is something I know, the words were there is something I know. Gingrich called her out, told her to put up or shut up … now they are trying to spin her answer.

She wanted people to to think there was some sort of secret that she or someone else would drop at some point in the future. She probably didn’t expect Gingrich to call her bluff so quickly, so now it’s time to “clarify” what the former speaker said.

But, she’s done this before.

In early December, Pelosi pulled the exact same trick. And not surprising to me, it was the same week that Gingrich was surging in the polls. Gingrich had increase his average RCP numbers from about 10 percent to about 30 percent the 30 some-odd days prior to Pelosi’s first full-of-bull statement.

“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”

That statement clearly kicked up a media storm about what she might know, and Gingrich called her out. She backed down.

With Gingrich on another roll during the last week going from 16 percent to almost 30 percent, her statement smells outright fishy. Why isn’t Pelosi being called out by the media for these full-of-bull statements designed to stir up a bit of chaos before and during the primaries?

The video from her most recent statement is below.

P.S. I realize many of my recent posts seem to be in support of Gingrich and dissin’ Romney. Don’t take that as blind support for Gingrich. I assure you, I’ve got issues with Gingrich as well, it’s just that my writing happens in spurts and is generally associated with something I read that sets me off. I’m not ignoring Santorum or Paul either.

httpv://youtu.be/zu6ibVy0FPM

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12 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on January 25, 2012 at 10:15 pm

    So the old adage is true: an old dog can’t learn new tricks.



  2. gillie28 on January 26, 2012 at 4:03 am

    She just hadn’t put the right bio-fuel in her broomstick….it was taking her in reverse.



    • Dimsdale on January 26, 2012 at 8:34 am

      She makes her own gas….? 😉



  3. Lynn on January 26, 2012 at 7:46 am

    The “World According to Pelosi”, Garp told a much better story. Don’t worry Steve we know you are “Fair” (President’s favorite word) and Balanced (LOL unlike Pelosi)



  4. stinkfoot on January 26, 2012 at 9:27 am

    I don’t think that someone who, on one hand purports to advocate Obama’s socialist policies and endorses his insulting class warfare drivel but on the other hand saw her own fortunes grow from $20million to $35.2million while many working class Americans who were lucky enough to have a job struggled to make ends meet has the moral authority to call anyone out on ethics.? I guess she figures that only the current administration is moral enough to loot the working poor.



  5. NH-Jim on January 26, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    “four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year”
    Whaaat?? When did this take place?
    Had I known, I would have taken the key to the locked door and thrown it in the ocean.
    Pelosi is a maniacal, petulant, thieving, hypocritical witch that should have a lawsuit slapped on her immediately!



    • stinkfoot on January 26, 2012 at 12:43 pm

      That or just send her to the 51st state on a fact finding mission.



  6. JollyRoger on January 27, 2012 at 12:02 am

    Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…? Obviously, Newt didn’t realize Nancy’s global warming sofa was actually a love seat!?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154



    • stinkfoot on January 27, 2012 at 6:58 am

      If I think hard enough about steel wool will I be able to scour the image inspired by that comment out of my mind?



    • Lynn on January 27, 2012 at 3:55 pm

      Now you two have just sickened me, LOL



  7. JBS on January 27, 2012 at 11:08 am

    The sad fact is that Pelosi could make up anything about Newt and the liberal jackal MSM would lap it up and it would be trumpeted loud and long. There are many liberals and socialists who think that what a Democrat says is gospel. The bigger the lie, the more believable it will be to the uninformed and gullible.



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