If former President George W. Bush said 500 million Americans are losing their jobs each month, do you think media would report it?
Probably every hour on the hour until all 300 million Americans had heard about it, right?
Well, during a press conference on an undetermined date, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) -- you know, the second in line for presidential succession right behind the vice president!!! -- said, "Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."
Amazingly, she's made this same comment at least twice in the past month -- in front of cameras, mind you!!! -- without creating a media firestorm: (video embedded below the fold):
In reality, this isn't the only time she's made this absurd -- and IMPOSSIBLE!!! -- claim, for this is what transpired when she was being interviewed for the January 18 installment of "Fox News Sunday" (relevant section 1:15):
NANCY PELOSI: Well, I believe that - I know that President-elect Obama is a strong supporter of America's workers. I myself am a strong supporter of that legislation. We passed it with a strong vote in the House in the last Congress, and I continue to be supportive of it.
But in terms of what we have to do in the first 100 days, we must address the needs of this country. Five hundred million people will lose their jobs each month until we have an economic package.
CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: No, 500,000.
PELOSI: What did I say, million?
WALLACE: Yes, 500 million. That would really be a recession.
PELOSI: Oh, no. Excuse me. Thank you for correcting me.
WALLACE: Yes.
PELOSI: It feels like 500 million. Five hundred thousand Americans will lose their jobs each month until we have a recovery package.
Yes, Madam Speaker, it feels like almost twice the entire population are losing their jobs each month.
Of course, one has to wonder given her poor grasp of the facts whether SHE's part of this population and why media didn't make an issue of this when it happened.
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Depressing
February 4, 2009 - 10:37 ET by klchadwickThe nearly depressing part is that while she continues to make huge blunders, play a vituperous game of partisan politics and is indeed right behind Biden for the presideny...there is a huge section of the US population that doesn't even know who she is!
They don't know who she is?
February 4, 2009 - 10:49 ET by Prester JohnThey should consider themselves fortunate.
Average American Idol watching lamebrain thinks....
February 4, 2009 - 14:11 ET by political mavenSpeaker of the house is a speaker outside your house used to play music at parties.
and they called Bush an
February 4, 2009 - 21:22 ET by TruthMongerand they called Bush an idiot:)
what do we call this - Nancyisms?
agreed
February 4, 2009 - 14:18 ET by klchadwickAs far as personality goes, I have to agree with you that they are fortunate. However, since they do not know who she is or what she is doing in Congress, I think that the people are doing themselves a HUGE politial diservice. Like commented in the Obama and Fox News not in Lock step post, there are people (I used my own mother as an example) that are now asking "Why didn't we hear or know about these thigns before the election?".
It's not that this stuff wasn't out there, it's that it wasn't covered by the MSM and Pelosi is one of those "items" that have not been covered prominently enough. If she and others like Reid, Schumer, Dodd, Frank, etc, were more widely known, that question would hae already been asked and answered for them.
She's been hanging with Biden
February 4, 2009 - 10:37 ET by BlondeWe need to start our own democratic gaffe parade. We'll never see it otherwise.
this administration will be
February 4, 2009 - 21:24 ET by TruthMongerthis administration will be the WORST PRESIDENT(S) EVER!!!!
Liberals have a difficult time with big numbers
February 4, 2009 - 10:40 ET by ArminiusA decade ago or so, Lisa Caputo, then Hillary Clinton's assistant, appeared on C-SPAN and claimed that Bill Clinton had created 100 million jobs. I can't remember if the other guest was Andrew Ferguson or Byron York, but he responded, "I think you mean 10 million jobs." "No," Caputo insisted, "it's 100 million jobs."
If they cannot get these big numbers correct, how confident should we be in their ability to spend trillions of dollars?
Citigroup
February 4, 2009 - 10:45 ET by ArminiusAs a side note, Caputo is currently Chief Marketing Officer for Citigroup. That's the same Citigroup that received a federal bailout last fall.
She may be correct . . .
February 4, 2009 - 10:55 ET by bioteachedShe never said those jobs were created in the USA.
Difficulty with big numbers
February 4, 2009 - 12:50 ET by merlin61That's why our trillion dollars in spending money
means nothing to them. Huckabee explained what
a trillion dollars would buy. They need to listen
to that. Lets disperse the trillion dollars to each
American citizen and see how that helps the
economy. I don't know the figure that would be,
but I'll bet it would help the economy more than
what they are already proposing.
They also have problems
February 4, 2009 - 13:11 ET by mattmThey also have problems with small numbers like 57 - (as in 57 states) - and 3 ( as in Biden's three letter word J-O-B-S)
They're flipping idiots, and the people who vote for them are even dumber.
"If they cannot get these
February 4, 2009 - 13:23 ET by celator"If they cannot get these big numbers correct, how confident should we be in their ability to spend trillions of dollars?"
After they get past counting to 20, using all their fingers and toes, the leftists are mathematically lost, in a chaos of fractals and clam chowder.
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
"...the leftists are
February 4, 2009 - 14:18 ET by HelenS"...the leftists are mathematically lost..."
Can we say "million man march"?
Can we say "five million people will travel to DC for the innauguration! I mean 2.5 million. Um...1.2 million." (in which approximately 800,000 people milled around on and destroyed the mall during the coronation)
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
I am sure
February 4, 2009 - 15:11 ET by ahusserThat in the alternate universe that democrats inhabit these are real numbers.
"Somehow, I told you so, just doesn't quite say it." Will Smith in 'I, Robot.'
Pelosi has no concept of reality.
February 4, 2009 - 10:46 ET by Red JeepProtected by wealth all her life. She gives hope to mentally challenged people everywhere that with the right luck, right connections and enough money, they too can achieve great things.
Yep...goes to prove
February 4, 2009 - 11:02 ET by BlondeIf you win the gene lotto in a monetary sense, it matters not what your IQ is.
Blonde
February 4, 2009 - 11:14 ET by thebutlerdiditWell, we all know she didn't win the gene lotto in looks and brains! She is one mighty evil and ignorant woman. I literally cannot stand to look at her or hear her speak. I get so disgusted I want to puke.
Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke
Notice how the media always
February 4, 2009 - 10:53 ET by eaglewingz08Notice how the media always comes to the rescue of some libtard politician making insane statements but if a repub or conservative makes an inaccurate statement the press tries to dig the poor guy in even deeper and goes for the jugular. No bias there, none whatsoever.
I can see that you guys
February 4, 2009 - 10:57 ET by USA4freedomI can see that you guys don’t get it.. That’s why we have to bring in all of those Mexicans in to get up to the 500 million number.
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
It's just numbers for
February 4, 2009 - 10:56 ET by dscottIt's just numbers for dramatic effect to make the point, so stop raining on Nancy's parade already. <sarcasm>
No resitation of so called facts that comes out of Pelosi's mouth is believable, listening to her salespitch is like seeing an old Joe Iszuzu commercial, except she isn't funny. Both her and Biden use the same salespitch. Selling the agenda with dramatic license is just a means to an end. The means are justified by the ends. The end is liberal utopia. Guess who gets to run utopia and keep out those rude conservatives?
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.
But good grief, with 500
February 4, 2009 - 13:40 ET by celatorBut good grief, with 500 million Americans losing their jobs every month we are in a certified crisis.
If the "stimulus" bill doesn't get past until, say, April, that would be about 2 billion Americans without jobs. Would you want that on your conscience? I think not!
Yes, you say, there are still 9 trillion Americans with jobs, but who knows what might happen if this extreme, never before occuring, we are all gonna die crisis doesn't get passed by the permanent political class in Washington? Oh my, oh my.
That's why we MUST past the stimulus bill this very minute. Now. Immediately. Pronto. No time to waste.
Forget the details, and trust Mzzzz Nancy and Harry Reid.
Doesn't Ol' Harry act like a guy who left his house one evening to go bowling with his friends, took a wrong turn and ended up as Senate Majority leader. He has a look that suggests he's constantly asking, "Who are all these people around me and why are they asking me all these questions?"
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
Noel, it is clear ...
February 4, 2009 - 10:56 ET by SentryDanNoel, it is clear that Pelosi doesn't know what she is talking about, on anything. This woman has totally lost her mind and any creditability. She couldn't represent the interests of a bowl of gold fish. The democratic house members need to get her out of the Speakers position, yesterday. God help us the longer she is in that position.
Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know
Is it any surprise that she
February 4, 2009 - 10:59 ET by ConservativeRexIs it any surprise that she is mathamatically challenged? Most of the cabinet members can't handle math either, or they would have figured out their taxes.
This is the kind of crap that is going to haunt these rascals all four years. Good. This is coming around sooner that I expected.
Eight years of hammering President Bush unrelentlessly. pay back is still hell. And yes thank you, I will spite the nose right off of my face.
Dumb as a box of rocks
February 4, 2009 - 11:03 ET by slickwillie2001Pelosi's own staff has admitted, off the record, that the woman is an idiot. We all know it too.
She and Dingy Harry were elected to their positions after the Gingrich/Wright mini-scandals, when both parties accepted that their leaders in Congress had to be chosen so as to be immune from any criticism. The democratics put up brainless idiots, thinking that a brainless idiot probably won't have any criminal behavior in their past. But in Princess Nan's case, that doesn't save the democratics from the Biden syndrome.
UH---DUHHHHHH!!!!!
February 4, 2009 - 11:03 ET by Lord ErondYou know, when I look at Pelosi, I think of that South Park episode where Cartman is trying to compete in the special olympics. That's what she looks like. 500,000,000 jobs....oy vey..
"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-
I can't help but think of
February 4, 2009 - 13:07 ET by jistincaseI can't help but think of Seinfeld every time I see ol man hands anymore. What a dolt she or he is. I am glad that the one hasn't put a muzzle on it yet because the more it talks the more the ship takes on water.
I can think of 435, maybe
February 4, 2009 - 11:04 ET by dmntd1I can think of 435, maybe even 535, that ought to lose their jobs. No, scratch that, I can think of more than that, as another branch gets weighted down with rotten fruit.
"Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." - Winston Churchill
Could we do some reverse psychology on her
February 4, 2009 - 11:04 ET by robert89Discussing the bailout cost...
WALLACE: No $900 million
PELOSI: What did I say, billion?
WALLACE: Yes, $900 billion. That would really be cheap.
PELOSI: Oh, no. Excuse me. Thank you for correcting me.
WALLACE: Yes!!!!
On a related note....
February 4, 2009 - 11:07 ET by Prester John....ABC played a clip of BHO in which he said, "...we cannot continue the policies which have led to the worse economy since the Great Depression".
Now then, the discerning MSM type would ask BHO 1) which specific policies are you referrring to and 2) do you honestly think that the current situation with regard to unemployment, inflation, and interest rates is worse than what we had during the period 1979 - 1982?
"It feels like 500 million."
February 4, 2009 - 11:17 ET by i was just thinking"It feels like 500 million." Yeah, right. Lame comeback, Your Speakerness.
She's an idiot. Wait. Maybe I'm thinking of Harry Reid. He's an idiot. Wait. Maybe I'm thinking of Chucky Shumer. He's an idiot. Wait. Maybe I'm thinking of Dick Durbin. Now I'm really confused.
"Friends don't let friends vote Democrat."
And it gets worse....
February 4, 2009 - 11:24 ET by Prester John.....Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Boxer, McCaskill, Stanebow, Frank, Dodd, Wexler, Moran, Waxman...
Oh, the humanity!!!!
the circus has come to town
February 4, 2009 - 12:42 ET by i was just thinkingOh, the inanity!
"Friends don't let friends vote Democrat."
I doubt it's an accident.
February 4, 2009 - 11:35 ET by danebramageI doubt it's an accident. She's ginning up the numbers for the sake of the 90% of Americans who are either too dense or too distracted to notice. She'd say "bazillion" if she thought she could get away with it.
The first video from C-SPAN
February 4, 2009 - 11:39 ET by dmsmsaHouse Speaker News Conference
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Congresscriters
February 4, 2009 - 12:14 ET by ricklailAfter hearing her highness, Nazi Pelosi, speak I got to thinking of a question. Most of the folks in Congress are lawyers. If you were on trial for your life, would you want any of them defending you? Out of a collection of 534 people in any other industry or business do you think we could find a dumber bunch of "smart" people. (I left out Franken's because if he gets the seat he it would make 535 but it will also subtantially lower the collective IQ of the other 534.)
Ricky Joe the Plumber
what's a zero here or there...
February 4, 2009 - 11:54 ET by katainkentAll that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke
She's not as stupid as the
February 4, 2009 - 11:56 ET by rbosqueShe's not as stupid as the people who elected her.
Can liberals ever get numbers correct?
February 4, 2009 - 11:57 ET by jarrett.edwardsI guess all those extra people losing their jobs live in those extra seven states that Obama was talking about. Can't we just make it a rule that to serve in elected office you must know the number of states and the population of America.
Just another PELOSI PALOOZA
February 4, 2009 - 12:00 ET by CTPelosi's pathetic track record as Speaker of the House is a constant reminder of what is wrong with American politics today. Too bad there is no national public election for the Speaker's position as she would not be in the running. San Fran Nan has a very small constituency yet she is as devise a pol as America has seen in decades.
This is moving
February 4, 2009 - 12:03 ET by Karinlike wildfire over the internet, just today. Better late than never.
§ I Must Squeesh My Face...
February 4, 2009 - 12:08 ET by TheSterSqueezzze me...
I must Squesshhhh my Face....
Look at me...
Ster.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Moron alert.
February 4, 2009 - 12:21 ET by attorneygirlMoron.
Where are our pitch forks? When do we all march on Congress? When do we throw these idiots out? Doesn't the country see what an idiot this female is? An idiot. A real idiot. A moronic, socialist, stunted, idiotic stupid ignorant moron. I can't find any more words to express my complete lack of respect, disdain, disgust, and utter disgust at this woman and her colleagues.
Why isn't she being run out of town? Called on the carpet by the press? Muzzled? Handcuffed and thrown in jail (a Mexican jail at that)? Ridiculed for the idiot that she is?
Why am I taking my valuable time to earn money writing this comment? Because I'm pissed off--big time.
If the press doesn't call her out on this one, we are going to hell fast.
And with Obama this morning putting caps on salaries of executives, we're done for. Whose jobs are next? Where does this slippery slope end? It will not. This is just the beginning.
Welcome to socialism. No, welcome to communism. This is bad.
Folks, we are watching our country being taken over in front of our very eyes. It's happening. A revolution where the populace is asleep. I'm not. We are in big, big, big trouble.
This woman is a dumb as a
February 4, 2009 - 12:32 ET by midnight cowboyThis woman is a dumb as a box of rocks.
This explains a lot about
February 4, 2009 - 12:42 ET by Jack BauerThis explains a lot about Democrats and taxpayers' money.
500 Million is the new 500 thousand.
lots of people
February 4, 2009 - 16:50 ET by jdlybrandnewsisblues
Hey, a few hundred million here; a few hundred million there, pretty soon you're talking about a lot of people.
If Daschle had to resign because he didn't pay taxes, Pelosi should resign because she doesn't pay attention.
"Stupid is as stupid does" Forrest Gump
Maybe these 500
February 4, 2009 - 12:54 ET by danboMaybe these 500 million Americans a month can move to the Samoan Islands to find jobs. Pelosi thought it appropriate that they have a lower minimum wage if the work for her family. So there must be work there.
It's simple. Americans are losing two jobs a month.
Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.
500,000,000
February 4, 2009 - 12:56 ET by okiehawk44Lighten up you guys!
Nancy sometimes gets her population, unemployment and facelift numbers confused.
I'm not sure which one is which myself.
According to ACORN'S numbers
February 4, 2009 - 13:12 ET by AcrosAccording to ACORN'S numbers Nancy is actually correct with her numbers!!!
Bingo!
February 4, 2009 - 14:50 ET by Pilgrim1949I was thinking along the same lines. She just confused the number of Democrats registered to vote with the jobs-related figure.
A "common mistake" that's "done all the time" I'm sure, in the Libtard universe (not even parallel, but on an obtuse divergent angle!).
Getting us used to the higher math necessary to replicate Zimbabwe's currency face amounts (prior to the recent zero-tuncation they gave it).
What a sorry excuse for a servant of the people...
No wonder my taxes will be doubling.
February 4, 2009 - 13:38 ET by farstar99167% of the population?
OMG!
That means I've lost over one and a half jobs and didn't know it!
I guess those jobs must have been in one of the other 56 states and nobody told me about it.
No wonder my taxes will be doubling.
They're taxing me on those jobs that I...didn't get paid for.
Look at the bright side
February 4, 2009 - 13:55 ET by Prester JohnYou can draw 1-1/2 times in unemployment benefits.
I bet she is talking about
February 4, 2009 - 13:39 ET by dmac18I bet she is talking about all the dead voters that were pulled from the grave to vote for her and her cronies in the last election. Their usefulness is over and they are now being fired from the Democratic payroll.
It's the botox! Ease up on
February 4, 2009 - 14:06 ET by InfidelphiaIt's the botox! Ease up on the old gal! That stuff obviously bogs the mind!
Infidelphia: My thoughts
February 4, 2009 - 14:13 ET by QueenMumInfidelphia: My thoughts exactly. In addition, I'm sure that the constant stretching of her facial skin to pull up her wrinkles via plastic surgery has constricted the blood flow to her brain. Poor thing. ;)
Letter to our Dear Leader
February 4, 2009 - 14:37 ET by political mavenHey Nancy
300 million of us 500 million out of work
Guess you are counting the government workers , especially congress as unemployed times 100 since they are unemployed(do nothing)
I think your face lifts squished what little brains you have
Harry's problem is medical
February 4, 2009 - 14:09 ET by slickwillie2001Dingy Harry spent several years as an amateur boxer; I suspect his problem is early-onset Alzheimer's, or Muhammad Ali syndrome.
Well, there are only 300
February 4, 2009 - 14:20 ET by GregEWell, there are only 300 million people in the United States......the 50 of them......
But the other 7 states, according to Obama, plus the two that Obama didn't visit and the one he had left, that's 10 more, and those are likely very populous, so 200 million more people can lose jobs from those states.
But, since 500 million arent at working age, are either above or below it, we're talking about 850-900 million Americans in existence, according to 2rd in line of succession for the Presidency, Speaker Pelosi.
I have the answer...
February 4, 2009 - 15:31 ET by AMR1960500 million...Pelosi is just also including in the count all the Illegals in the country.
Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !
ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET NB TO POST THIS??
February 4, 2009 - 14:41 ET by political mavenPelosi swearing no earmarks in stimulus package....
did she keep this promise?
http://www.youtube.c...
Nan is seeing the future.....
February 4, 2009 - 14:54 ET by Jack HermanShe is looking forward to the time when 500 million citizens from the newly formed United States of North America (formerly U.S., Canada and Mexico) all lose their private jobs to becomes slaves to the USNA; working solely for the benefit of the Obama installed socialist government.
Pelosi is like the Crazy
February 4, 2009 - 15:28 ET by AMR1960Pelosi is like the Crazy Aunt that lives up in the attic, of the House Democrat...
Long Live...THE REPUBLIC !
The MSM may be FORCED to
February 4, 2009 - 15:55 ET by TN MomThe MSM may be FORCED to report Pelosi's "500 Million" error.
This morning the youtube views were at 7000. They now stand at 473,000 views!
MSM is so late to the party!
Nancy and no earmarks pledge
February 4, 2009 - 17:03 ET by well99That needs to be the story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaDtkG6afBc&feature=related
Pelosi
February 4, 2009 - 17:20 ET by MudhenPelosi is truly an icon of the Democratic Party - A real Jackass. My hair stands on end whenever I hear the woman speak. The only people in California who have to be dumber are the ones who keep relecting her. What a disgrace. She should hire Blago to be her spokesperson. He's just as delusional, but at least he's amusing.
I heard her say this and I
February 4, 2009 - 17:49 ET by bigtimerI heard her say this and I cracked up laughing, so did my other half...we both mentioned that if President Bush had uttered those words the msm, along with the leftist blogs would have had their usual field day, or better yet, week.
The hypocrisy never ceases...never will either.
As an aside, her using the words, "well, it feels like"...remind me of the weather-guessers everyday when stating what the real temp. is or is going to be...then they always add on...but "it will feel like", or it "feels like"....lol!
Its OK...Nancy Pelosi is
February 4, 2009 - 18:08 ET by Radar_OneIts OK...Nancy Pelosi is using that "New Math" you know the stuff Liberals love.
Barack Obama= Half Honkey...ALL Donkey
NitWit Nancy
February 4, 2009 - 20:09 ET by TN MomWho elected this dope as Speaker? My fish are smarter than NitWit Nancy!
TN Mom... LOL... You
February 4, 2009 - 20:16 ET by bigtimerTN Mom...
LOL...
You can be sure Steny Hoyer wasn't one of them!
bt
February 4, 2009 - 20:28 ET by TN MomNitWit Nancy and Stupid Steny Hoyer. I have zero, (non-partisan) respect for these clowns.
The fact that this idiot woman holds the third position...
February 4, 2009 - 23:17 ET by R D Helm...from the top on the POTUS totem pole scares the hell out of me.
-Dave
Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.
I think it's safe to say...
February 4, 2009 - 23:36 ET by MightyMouth...that ANY stats this woman quotes, should be hence forth challenged. What amazes me is that no one in the press corps called her on it at the time! What are they monged or sumfin?
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
I'm dying laughing
February 5, 2009 - 19:03 ET by MeowMeowat this ignorant, blithering fool.