RNC's below-the-belt shot at Pelosi - "Pussy Galore"

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She’s the 69-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, second in the line of succession and the most powerful woman in U.S. history.

But when you see Nancy Pelosi, the Republican National Committee wants you to think “Pussy Galore.”

At least that’s the takeaway from a video released by the committee this week – a video that puts Pelosi side-by-side with the aforementioned villainess from the 1964 James Bond film “Goldfinger.”

The RNC video, which begins with the speaker’s head in the iconic spy-series gun sight, implies that Pelosi has used her feminine wiles to dodge the truth about whether or not she was briefed by the CIA on the use of waterboarding in 2002. While the P-word is never mentioned directly, in one section the speaker appears in a split screen alongside the Bond nemesis – and the video’s tagline is “Democrats Galore.”

The wisdom of equating the first woman speaker of the House with a character whose first name also happens to be among the most vulgar terms for a part of the female anatomy might be debated – if the RNC were willing to do so, which it was not. An RNC spokesperson refused repeated requests by POLITICO to explain the point of the video, or the intended connection between Pelosi and Galore.

But what isn’t open to debate is that the waterboarding conflict has been accompanied by a cascade of attacks on the speaker, not as a leader or a legislator, but as a woman.

Earlier this week, Pittsburgh radio host Jim Quinn referred to the speaker on his program as “this bitch”; last week, syndicated radio host Neal Boortz opined “how fun it is to watch that hag out there twisting in the wind.”

Video: (go to the article link below and click on the video - couldn't embed it here)
Article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/22882

Ah, yes, our "conservative" side once again shows us the proper values.



Edit to fix formatting, which caused my comments and links to be lost.

[opihimoimoi]

1. THEM PUBS GONNA BE SORRY.....................

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Actual RNC video is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNQuHsrxXY

[struggle4progress]

5. So the GOP really is equating the Speaker with "Pussy Galore"

:puke:

[ProgressiveProfessor]

14. I think too much is being read into it myself

Others clearly disagree

[man4allcats]

3. Pelosi might be a lot of things, but

Pussy Galore she ain't:

[ccharles000]

4. omg

[jgraz]

6. The Pukes continue their devolution into the party of Beavis and Butthead

And... I'm pretty sure Beavis voted for Obama.

[tj2001]

7. Yep, the GOP can't be a whorehouse:

GOP: Not the best little `whorehouse' in Texas?
By KELLEY SHANNON

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A comment by a strategist for Gov. Rick Perry that the Republican Party shouldn't act like a brothel to lure new voters has infuriated prominent GOP women in Texas and given Perry's primary rival, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, fuel for their election fight.

Perry is trying to distance himself from the remark, published in The Dallas Morning News, by consultant David Carney, who said he agreed the Republican Party needed to attract new voters. But, he added, "that doesn't mean you take your principles and throw them out the door and become a whorehouse and let anybody in who wants to come in, regardless."

Former Republican National Committee member Denise McNamara is leading a group of GOP women demanding that Perry apologize for and repudiate the comment.

"As businesswomen, community leaders and mothers, it is always concerning and disheartening when we see people resort to behavior aimed at belittling women," they wrote in a letter to Perry on Tuesday. "Therefore, you cannot imagine how appalling it was to see your campaign's chief strategist liken our Senior Senator's primary campaign to `opening the doors of a whorehouse.'"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_t0nu6Fj5UI5Fyss3kVl5Nmh6jAD98A95D00

[suchadeal]

8. Insult. It's the mother's milk of right-wingers.

Good thing we don't have their kind here.

[madamesilverspurs]

9. And no doubt every one of them

sees himself as James Bond. As if.

[panader0]

10. "Pussy" is vulgar?

What term does the politically correct man use to describe that "certain part" of the female anatomy?

[David Zephyr]

11. That's OK. So Pelosi is Pussy Galore. That's a compliment and better than Dick Cheney.

This Democrat stands with Pelosi. Not doing so is at our own peril.

[Candy Randy]

12. What if Pelosi would have put impeachment on the table?

The Republics would have been gone 2 years ago. They should be sending Pelosi Candy Grams.

[Politicalboi]

13. Pelosi's torture predicament?

They wish. Hell why didn't they just say Pelosi Gallore.

[woo me with science]

15. Honor Blackman and Sean Connery....Yum!

This is a compliment!

[DinahMoeHum]

16. and she's OLDER than Sean Connery !!

Connery was born in 1930. Blackman was born in 1927.

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000303/bio

"Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo." - Honor Blackman