Cokie Roberts: Pelosi Photo-Op 'Fun, Completely Natural'

Cokie Roberts: Pelosi Photo-Op 'Fun, Completely Natural'

By Mark Finkelstein (Bio | Archive)
January 7, 2007 - 11:33 ET

Looks as if Nancy Pelosi has found a rooting section at ABC. As we detailed here yesterday, Charley Gibson fawned over Nancy Pelosi's baby-clutching photo-op. This morning, Cokie Roberts joined the claque. Appearing on This Week, she enthused:

"Great images, you're absolutely right. And completely natural. . . That baby knew that grandmother even though it's only a few weeks old. All those other children were completely comfortable with her. And it was, it was just, fun. It wasn't in any way stilted and awful."

View video here.

Pelosi, completely natural and comfortable? Not nearly as natural and comfortable as was Cokie -- singing the praises of a new Dem Speaker of the House.

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Next week, in celebration of

January 7, 2007 - 12:09 ET by TE

Next week, in celebration of the Democrat party's one holy, religious sacrament and to show Pelosi's concern for the care of children, Pelosi will have abortionists perform partial birth abortions from the speaker's chair and then spread the blood and internal organs of the dead children among the Democrats for them to enjoy drinking and eating the remains in utter, orgasmic joy.

that is so sad. "compl

January 7, 2007 - 12:17 ET by buddyc

that is so sad. "completely natural", when pigs fly.

Yes, and Saddams photo op with the children was natural.

January 7, 2007 - 12:30 ET by acaiguana

Yes, and Saddams photo op with the children was natural.

:-)

ACA

...

Acaiguana says: "Which city is next?"

That baby knew that grandmo

January 7, 2007 - 12:32 ET by Jack Bauer

That baby knew that grandmother even though it's only a few weeks old.

Oh I'm sure the poor little mite also knows Pelosi's a rabid Partial Birth Abortion siupporter

(you know, where a child killer like "Dr Mengle Tiller" sticks a pair of scissors through the head of a just being born baby, then sucks its brains out)

So it was just being thankful.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

Wonder if

January 7, 2007 - 13:50 ET by pagar

Anyone has done any studies to determine at what age a child finds out just how lucky it was to escape the death that occurs when a child is aborted. Surely at some point, one would look around and notice that there should have been a million or so more children born the same year,
except the Democrats said it was OK to kill inconvenient children.

Jack, you took the words righ

January 7, 2007 - 17:10 ET by bigtimer

Jack, you took the words right out of my mouth when it comes to Pelosi, there is no difference between her and 'Tiller the Baby Killer', she votes for this procedure, he implies it...how either of them sleep at night, let alone look themselves in the mirror every morning is beyond me....

"If we ever forget that we are a Nation Under God....then we will be a Nation Gone Under." Ronald Reagan

Hey Cokie (a.k.a. Ignoramus)

January 7, 2007 - 12:46 ET by fossten

Hey Cokie (a.k.a. Ignoramus) -

If you have to come out and defend it, you've acknowledged that it's probably true.

I may be just a simple man, b

January 7, 2007 - 12:58 ET by happyuscitizen

I may be just a simple man, but the picture Cokie shilled for of the caring Grandma doesn't look so much like that to me.

It reminds me of the old zombie movies and that Speaker Plasticlosi is in full zombie mode looking to suck the brains out of that innocent child!

"I'm just a big fat hairy American Winning Machine!" - Ricky Bobby

Damn. I didn't know Cokie was

January 7, 2007 - 13:21 ET by Roger the Shrubber

Damn. I didn't know Cokie was in "Escape from New York"...

So I Guess if Bush gose aro

January 7, 2007 - 13:50 ET by mlong

So I Guess if Bush gose around holding babies the MSM will get off his back...because holding a baby somehow means your doing a great job?

I don't know how someone who'

January 7, 2007 - 13:56 ET by balboa

I don't know how someone who's been around the political game as long as Cokie has can think that this was a "natural" photo op. Yeah, you expect that her relatives will be there, but...not all that "natural" to hold your grandkid.

Perhaps Cokie just got wrapped up in the moment.

Please help me here. Is Cok

January 7, 2007 - 15:06 ET by 4arrow

Please help me here. Is Cokie R. a second generation pledge in this government for the people? IOW how does the common citizen have their say? Did anyone ask for Robert's opinion or is that 'reporting' today?

And completely natural. . .

January 7, 2007 - 15:24 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls

And completely natural. . .

Hmmmm, taking a poop is completely natural too. Doesn't mean it's pretty to look at and fun to be around.

DSG

All I see here is the same

January 7, 2007 - 15:26 ET by Crimsonfisted

All I see here is the same kind of image as Green Helmut Guy, a baby used for propaganda value.

And it doesn't work.

Another question. Why are m

January 7, 2007 - 15:54 ET by 4arrow

Another question. Why are middleaged media women so obsessed with having their jaw lines tightened to resemble twenty somethings? Their eggs are well past their sell-by-date so it can't be that they are looking for a mate with whom to reproduce. What is it all for? Can you picture Kronkite with a facelift.

Is some network management thinktank actually telling them that the public is abhored by grandma faces?

Any opinions?

Hi 4arrow,Great question and

January 8, 2007 - 14:07 ET by Darth Dutch

Hi 4arrow,

Great question and it's one I've wondered myself. I think the truth of it is that, no matter how much the media talks about the need for equality and oppression of women, etc., you still don't see a woman who is considered "unattractive" on TV since that would hurt ratings. So they're torn between their ideology which includes wanting to blur the lines between genders (there are no "real" difference between men & women besides physiological ones) and between making sure ratings are up. That's why women still wear make up and do their hair in a traditionally "feminine" way even though they would try to support a "regular" woman not looking like a woman because its her "right" to be an individual.

Dutch

Rep. Stillson

January 7, 2007 - 15:50 ET by Unsane

Once again, Greg Stillson leaps from the pages of fiction into the Real World.

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

I never saw that one coming,

January 7, 2007 - 16:14 ET by Jack Bauer

I never saw that one coming, Johnny Smith.

Proud member of the all-powerful and vast militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex

WTH?

January 7, 2007 - 18:34 ET by 4arrow

WTH?

(sigh) Read (do NOT be lazy a

January 7, 2007 - 20:42 ET by Unsane

(sigh) Read (do NOT be lazy and watch the movie) The Dead Zone. I really need to institute the Greg Stillson award for politicians...

Way to ruin my making an obscure reference, 4arrow... :-)

"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)

in English please.

January 7, 2007 - 18:36 ET by 4arrow

in English please.

Kudos for the Stillson refere

January 7, 2007 - 18:50 ET by Roger the Shrubber

Kudos for the Stillson reference, Un!

I was walking through the den

January 7, 2007 - 16:13 ET by lehman

I was walking through the den this morning and saw Cokie on the television screen.(no one was in the room) I just kept on walking because I knew she was spouting liberal crap that I didn't want to hear.

You know while you are meant

January 7, 2007 - 18:02 ET by 4arrow

You know while you are meant to be distracted by Ro and the Trump, the pantieless strump, football scores, weather fears, end times and ghetto rhymes, fashion today not yesterday, slippery lips not natural kiss. endless...endless

Something is slipping by your notice. Country I is considering nuking Country I.

And you say?

It is still Sunday, not to la

January 7, 2007 - 18:48 ET by 4arrow

It is still Sunday, not too late to gather together in prayer.

Yesterday for our Hebrew friends...

already happened in Newfoundland. : )))

Cokie Roberts, like comrade A

January 7, 2007 - 20:05 ET by Galvanic

Cokie Roberts, like comrade Andrea Mitchell, personifies the blend of Big Government and MSM elite. A long time MSM face and married to MSMer Steve Roberts, she virtually grew up in Washington DC as the daughter of two Senators from Alabama. The image of Pelosi sitting in the Speaker's chair surrounded by children must harken pleasant memories for her of that little Boggs girl running around the halls of the Senate, or sitting in Daddy's lap in his Senate chair ----- "perfectly natural."

I am surprised Nancy didn

January 7, 2007 - 20:25 ET by Red Jeep

I am surprised Nancy didn’t pull out a breast and mime breast feeding the baby. That is completely natural like Cokie says. What a photo op! The Mother of our country breast feeding her grandchild. Man, she cares! S/off

Thank you Galv' for the info.

January 8, 2007 - 03:40 ET by 4arrow

Thank you Galv' for the info.

UnsaneSorry I refused to watc

January 8, 2007 - 05:03 ET by 4arrow

Unsane

Sorry I refused to watch the Hollywood flick. My character is what is it is thanks to my family and not due to some sci/fi hollywood brainwash crap. Still there is hope for you.

It doesn't dawn on Cokie we h

January 8, 2007 - 06:35 ET by Andrew H.

It doesn't dawn on Cokie we have a leaderless congress now. Conusion will reign--and then the tax increases, then an imboldened enemy will plan to deliver their next attack, then the committee chairs will blame republicans.

Liberalism is a convenient lie.

Being A Grandma Is Fun; Try It, You'll Like It!

January 8, 2007 - 11:00 ET by emjem24

Oh, my God, I'm gonna scream! Maybe she should run as the first grandma for president. Perish the thought! Yeah, let's pull out the children to convince America that Democrats give a crap about our kids and protecting them. If they trully gave a crap, then why did they brush aside the whole page scandal? Terrible for the Republicans to cover it up but we weren't involved in the least. What a crock! Hey, why you're at it, Feloozi, why don't you take care of America but letting her keep more of its money so more children's parents can make choices about their children's schooling. Since you care so much about kids, Fellozi, why don't you pass a federally mandated voucher program so that not so many of our kids keep getting liberaly indoctrinated by our public schools and are left disempowered, disenfranchised, and unable to communicate in complete sentences. I won't hold my breath, though. Like most liberals, it's do as I say, not as I do.

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. Air Force Motto