Pelosi's Daughter Scolds Bill Maher For 'Dissing America'
A rather surprising thing happened on HBO's "Real Time" Friday evening.
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of the former Speaker of the House, scolded host Bill Maher for spending the first half of his show "dissing America" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER, HOST: But right now she is a filmmaker whose seventh documentary “Citizen USA: A 50 State Road” and its companion book debuts July 4th on HBO. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Raise your right hand and repeat after me. “I hereby declare my oath…”
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: I hereby declare my oath.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: For long, long time I wait for this day.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: This is greatest day of my life.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: I love America.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MAHER: Please welcome Alexandra Pelosi.
ALEXANDRA PELOSI, FILMMAKER: Thank you.
MAHER: How are you doing? You didn’t think you’d be following the President of the United States, did you?
PELOSI: Well, I came to the show because after you spent the first half dissing America, I came to tell you how the American dream has people in every other country all over the world still wanting to come here to live here.
Absolutely delicious. Brava!
For a little background, here's what Pelosi's new documentary is about:
Each year, nearly one million people from more than 150 countries become American citizens.á Who are these new Americans, and why do they want to live here?
Inspired by her husband's desire to become an American, Emmy«-winning filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (HBO's "Journeys with George") attends naturalization ceremonies across all 50 states and meets brand-new citizens to learn why they chose America as their home.The uplifting, thought-provoking documentary CITIZEN U.S.A.: A 50 STATE ROAD TRIP reveals what she discovered. [...]
CITIZEN U.S.A.: A 50 STATE ROAD TRIP opens with the swearing-in ceremony of filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi's Dutch-born husband, Michiel Vos. After the couple's children were born, Pelosi remembers him saying, "I can't be a foreigner in my own family." Her husband's example inspired Pelosi to embark on the road trip "to experience the moment new citizens take their oath, to find out why so many people are willing to renounce their birth country and swear allegiance to the United States of America."
Pretty cool stuff regardless of her liberal leaning, wouldn't you agree?
With this in mind, after Pelosi enumerated to Maher some of the things that are fabulous about our country, he tried without success to get his audience to chant “USA, USA”:
PELOSI: There are a lot of things we take for granted in this country.
MAHER: USA. USA.
MAHER AND PELOSI: USA USA.
PELOSI: USA, USA. Come on. Oh, come on, guys.
MAHER: I know, I know.
PELOSI: They can’t go for USA. They can go for four more years but they can't go for USA.
Certainly not.
For the last 30 plus minutes – as well as for roughly 60 minutes in all previous “Real Time” installments – they’re told by the host and most of his guests how awful this country is.
Why would they consider his sudden bout of patriotism either genuine or something to emulate?
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Comments
Coward.
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 8:13pm.
Coward.
He must agree with her; he
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 8:17pm.
He must agree with her; he didn't say the $h*t didn't fall far from the bat.....
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Wait...
Submitted by Tuari on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 8:40pm.
Pelosi has a daughter?!?!
Whats more amazing
Submitted by Vic138 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 9:37pm.
is someone had sex with her. Then again, she lives in san francisco...
Sex with Nancy Pelosi?
Submitted by packman on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 10:32am.
Isn't that where that saying came from about waking up somewhere and wanting to chew your arm off lest you wake sleeping beauty?
"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson
Ever hear of artificial
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 10:20am.
Ever hear of artificial insemination?
Alexandra Pelosi
Submitted by well99 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 9:53pm.
Well kudos to her for her film.I would like to see it myself.We are probably political opposites but there are many in this country who don't appreciate what we have.I am for legal immigration.Those that come here the right way make good citizens unlike the illegals who come here because they think it is their right.
Wow.....
Submitted by Harbinger041 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:03pm.
Is it just me, or does Alexandra seem pretty unlike her mother? They do not appear to have the same worldview whatsoever....
Common Sense for Our Times...
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Good for her, regardless of
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:04pm.
Good for her, regardless of her political views............and at least she is celebrating the LEGAL immigrants trying to come to our country!!
As for Donkeyface............he's a complete piece of sh*t idiot with no balls.......except the ones in his mouth.
Her looks
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:05pm.
She's a helluvalot more attractive, that's for sure.
Hm, I think I might like her!
-Jon
I guess she didn't inherit
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:13pm.
I guess she didn't inherit the botox-ridden skin tone, huh???
Maybe the apple falls a little further than I thought.
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:14pm.
PELOSI: They can’t go for USA. They can go for four more years but they can't go for USA.
Doesn't sound to me like she wants four more years of this crap any more than I do.
Regardless, whether she's as batshit crazy as her mom or not, looks like a pretty good documentary, one that celebrates our country and the legal immigrants wanting to join us. Shining a light on that, rather than glorifying the law breakers who come here illegally, is a good thing, no matter who her momma is.
Pelosi light
Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:21pm.
I don't believe anything Nancy's daughter says. She had a show about the plight of the homeless, in California. She blamed everyone but the real culprit, her mother, the State Rep., Nancy Pelosi.
Oops...oh well!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:59pm.
I said earlier that I think I *might* like her.
So I guess I might NOT, eh?
Too bad, so sad.
Time for some gene pool exiting!
-Jon
Too bad some Americans act so bad
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 6:16am.
I used to work with some fellows who came here from Africa, good guys, hard workers, busy trying to better themselves and become Americans. They thought they would come here and be welcomed with open arms by their kin, 'African-Americans'. Nope. Their 'brothers and sisters' would call them the most vile names and demand to know why they were 'acting white' by working two or three jobs, going to school, being frugal, etc. They were very surprised and disappointed.
Ain't dat da troof !
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 9:07am.
We have a town full of eastern European kids (mostly former USSR countries) who are a delight. They work two and sometimes three jobs to make as much money as they can.
They are here legally, many are on a path to citizenship, and they truly love this country.
They are also the most conservative people I have ever met. They know from their parents, and sometimes first hand just how screwed up communism and socialism can make life.
Meanwhile back at the ranch; there are a substantial number of "locals" who can't seem to find and keep one job! They are third generation welfare "citizens" with a dozen kids, all with a different last name (if they have a guess at all), and in most cases they have NEVER had a job, unless you count "entrepreneur" which is local speak for street level dealer.
They laugh at the stoopid foreigners who work dey asses off, yo, when dey could sit on dey asses and git paid.
I say keep bringing these kids over here, legally of course. They may be our future if we are to have one.
Maher didn't challenge her?
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 4:56pm.
It is rather telling that, unlike if a conservative guest had said this, Maher didn't immediately interrupt her and vehemently deny the accusation.
Now I don't know what this Pelosi's politics are but if Maher left her accusation go unchallenged it seems a pretty safe bet that she is a fellow traveler of his.