Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, one of the most powerful and influential Democrats in America, has implied that nearly one-third of all Republicans are too racist, sexist, and homophobic to support Kamala Harris for president in 2024.
That remark came on Saturday, when Pelosi sat down with journalist Kara Swisher, host of the podcast "On with Kara Swisher," at the 2024 Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas.
'You can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call a basket of deplorables.'
Pelosi and Swisher touched on a number of topics, including why former President Donald Trump is still doing so well against Harris in the 2024 presidential polls.
When Swisher asked Pelosi whether she was "worried" about Trump's possible re-election, Pelosi suggested that "30%" of Republican voters are just too bigoted to consider voting for Democrats.
"There are people who will never be, shall we say, inclined to support Democrats because of — they just have a different orientation toward women, people of color, LGBTQ, you know, they just are not ever going to be there," Pelosi replied. "So say that's about like 30% or something like that — of the Republicans."
As the Post Millennial noted, this response from Pelosi was remarkably similar to an infamous statement from Hillary Clinton that likely helped sink her presidential campaign against Trump in 2016. At the time, Clinton characterized "half" of Trump's supporters — in other words, a large segment of the American electorate — as "deplorable."
"You can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call a basket of deplorables," Clinton said. "They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up."
Pelosi also indicated to Swisher that some Republicans are just "very rich people" who could not care less about "clean air or clean water." They just don't want to pay taxes, she claimed.
Perhaps to soften her remarks, Pelosi then quickly added that some of Trump's supporters have concerns about globalization and immigration. "I think we have to be as respectful and understanding as possible," Pelosi told Swisher.
Despite that call for comity, Pelosi also inexplicably stated that some Republicans feared "innovation."
"They saw the factory down the road move overseas," Pelosi explained. "They're fearful of innovation."
She then tried to give an example: "My father is a truck driver, and now they're going to have all of, you know ..."
As the 84-year-old congresswoman then appeared stuck, Swisher jumped in and added "autonomous truck." "Yeah, and so, so the innovation, globalization, and they include immigration in there," Pelosi continued.
She also insisted that "migration" is not actually a "big job-taker" and that it "fuels the economy."
Another moment from Pelosi and Swisher's hour-long conversation also went viral. At one point, Swisher asked Pelosi to give Trump advice for his debate against Harris on Tuesday night.
"You think he’s gonna show up?" Pelosi asked.
Swisher appeared surprised by the question. "I do. Do you know something that I don't know?" Swisher replied as the audience chuckled in amusement.
"I know cowardice when I see it," Pelosi answered.
In response to a request for comment from Fox News Digital, Steven Cheung of the Trump campaign called Pelosi a "liar and fraud" who "has no idea what she is talking about." Cheung also called the suggestion that Trump would not appear at the debate "fake news."
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CNN host Don Lemon issued an apology for comments that were deemed "sexist" and "completely offensive" that he made against Nikki Haley and women who he considered to be out of their prime.
On Wednesday, Haley made a veiled slight against former President Donald Trump, 76, and President Joe Biden, 80. Haley called for "mandatory mental competency tests" for politicians over the age of 75.
"America is not past our prime — it's just that our politicians are past theirs," Haley said during a rally in South Carolina that launched her 2024 White House bid.
"If you're tired of losing, put your trust in a new generation," Haley added.
Speaking about Haley's remarks, Don Lemon strangely talked about the prime ages of women.
"This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable," Lemon said during "CNN This Morning." "I think it’s the wrong road to go down."
"She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s," the 56-year-old Lemon said of the 51-year-old Haley.
Co-host Poppy Harlow was befuddled by Lemon's comments.
Harlow asked Lemon, "Wait. Prime for what?"
"That’s not according to me," Lemon deflected.
Harlow again asked, "Prime for what?"
Lemon replied, "It depends, it’s just like, prime."
Lemon attempted to blame Google for his comments.
"If you look it up, if you Google ‘when is a woman in her prime’ it’ll say 20s, 30s, and 40s," Lemon argued. "I'm not saying I agree with that."
Harlow questioned Lemon, "Are you talking about prime for, like, childbearing? Or are you talking about prime for being president?"
Lemon said, "Don't shoot the messenger."
"I'm just saying what the facts are. Google it. Everybody at home, when is a woman in her prime? It says 20s, 30s, and 40s," Lemon backtracked. "I'm just saying, Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that [politicians] are not in their prime, and that they need to be in their prime when they serve, because she wouldn’t be in her prime, according to Google or whatever it is."
\u201cDon Lemon: "Nikki Haley isn\u2019t in her prime. Sorry, when a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s\u2026"\n\nPoppy Harlow: "Are you talking about prime for like child bearing?"\n\n"Don\u2019t shoot the messenger! I\u2019m just saying what the facts are! Google it!"\u201d— Townhall.com (@Townhall.com) 1676559460
Haley responded to Lemon's comments by saying, "Liberals can't stand the idea of having competency tests for older politicians to make sure they can do the job. BTW it's always the liberals who are the most sexist."
Former CNN correspondent Kate Bennett blasted Lemon.
"This is sexism, and completely offensive. And it’s amplified by the 'sets off' description below," Bennet wrote on Twitter. "Can women not respond to a boneheaded statement without being accused of overreaction? Also, who over the age of 14 uses 'google it!' as a defense."
Lemon issued an apology on Thursday.
"The reference I made to a woman's 'prime' this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it," Lemon tweeted. "A woman's age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day."
\u201cThe reference I made to a woman\u2019s \u201cprime\u201d this morning was inartful and irrelevant, as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out, and I regret it. A woman\u2019s age doesn't define her either personally or professionally. I have countless women in my life who prove that every day.\u201d— Don Lemon (@Don Lemon) 1676572343
"CNN This Morning" is languishing in the ratings, notching the network’s lowest-rated morning show in nearly a decade.
The Wrap noted last week, "Since its Nov. 1, 2022 launch, 'CNN This Morning' — hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins — has drawn in the lowest viewership among adults 25-54, the key demographic for cable news, and the second-lowest total viewership among each iteration of the network’s morning programming since New Day' was launched in June 2013, according to Nielsen data."
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An MSNBC contributor is being blasted as a "sexist" for suggesting that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert do porn if she loses her seat in the House.
During Wednesday night's episode of "The ReidOut," MSNBC host Joy Reid discussed the 2022 midterm elections with former Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill and DNC adviser Kurt Bardella.
The trio were thrilled that Boebert was locked in a tight race with Democrat Adam Frisch. At the time of publication, Frisch was leading Boebert by just 64 votes, with 98% of the votes counted, in the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.
Reid asked her guests, "What's the meaning if Lauren Boebert – the second most popular QAnon Congressperson in MAGA – what if she goes, what if she loses?"
Reid added, "And what job will she have? I don't even think Shooters exists any more."
Boebert previously owned the gun-themed restaurant Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado. The restaurant closed in July after a new landlord did not renew the lease for Shooters Grill.
Bardella proclaimed that Boebert would transition from congresswoman to a performer on OnlyFans – an adult website that features pornographic content.
"I guess it might be a gain for OnlyFans," Bardella stated. "I don’t know what she would do in this scenario."
The remark delighted Reid and sent her into a laughing, wheezing outburst.
McCaskill's jaw dropped in reaction to Bardella's comment.
Bardella said of Boebert's potential loss, "I think that symbolically to take out one of the poster childs of the MAGA movement – someone who has been an absolute disgrace to the office that she holds – would be a great feather in the cap. And would, I think, cement the fact that this has been an absolute unmitigated disaster for the MAGA wing of the Republican Party."
\u201cMSNBC's @JoyAnnReid: "What job will Lauren Boebert have if she loses?"\n\n@kurtbardella: "I guess it might be a gain for OnlyFans"\u201d— Greg Price (@Greg Price) 1668044545
Bardella – a former publicist for Breitbart and the Daily Caller as well as a former senior adviser to the Lincoln Project – was slammed as a "sexist" in reactions on Twitter. Many online commentators decried hypocrisy and believed that there would be a far greater backlash if Bardella made the same comment against a Democrat politician.
Conservative commentator CJ Pearson: "So misogyny is ok, as long as it’s exclusively directed towards conservative women?"
Author Jim Hanson: "The shameless misogyny of the tolerant Left."
Reporter Alex Salvi: "Very creepy and misogynistic."
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald: "Demeaning, creepy, sexualized things you get to say about female politicians if you're doing so for the right cause and on the right liberal channel. Pick your most beloved liberal politician and imagine the uproar if this were said about them on Fox while the host giggled."
Writer Carmine Sabia: "If @KurtBardella was a Republican, @JoyAnnReid was on Fox News and Lauren Boebert was a Democrat people would be fired, apologies would be made and it would be a national news story. This is abhorrent."
Columnist David Harsanyi: "If this was a Republican, The Atlantic would have to dedicate an entire issue to the dark misogynistic heart of the party."
Former Trump adviser Jenna Ellis: "Gross. @kurtbardella is a pervert. If anyone had suggested this about Tiffany Cross when she was fired, the Left would have whined racism, sexism, misogyny. So maybe everyone just stop suggesting women do porn altogether, regardless of race or party?"
Entrepreneur Alok Bhatt: "Liberal privilege again at display - thanks to which this democrat strategist @kurtbardella, will get away with this utterly sexist remark!"
Journalist Brad Polumbo: "I am a big critic of Boebert, but this is sexist and demeaning. She ran a successful business before Congress."
Investigative reporter Chuck Ross: "I hope MSNBC keeps @kurtbardella on air because he’s a clown and he amuses me, but hard to see how they justify keeping him on after this when they just got rid of a black female show host for lack of 'standards.'"
Conservative commentator Kurt Schlichter: "Remember that much of the hatred of conservativism is cheesy class snobbery by mediocre people who have nothing but their ridiculous 'elite' status."
Reporter Tatjana Pasalic: "I am not a fan of Boebert at all but this is just disgusting trash. Why is misogyny like this OK on national TV? Shame on these two women giggling at the OnlyFans comment. Such feminism. Much wow. Gross."
Former Democratic Congressional candidate Alexandra M. Hunt: "I can’t stand Boebert, but this sexism isn’t cute. There’s no shame to having an OnlyFans. @kurtbardella do better."
In a glowing feature article published Monday, Vogue described White House press secretary Jen Psaki as warm, humorous, intelligent, and edgy. But one thing reporter Lizzie Widdicombe didn't call her was "nice" — and it's a good thing she didn't. That's not a descriptive word Psaki is particularly fond of. In fact, she thinks it's sexist.
Vogue's article began by fawning over Psaki, 42, in a way that was to be expected from a liberal publisher that took a "four-year hiatus" from the White House during Donald Trump's presidency.
Widdicombe described Psaki's first press briefing as one that earned a "collective swoon" from reporters. A reception "largely due to what she was not doing: berating the assembled reporters, griping about CNN's coverage of a presidential tweet, or spouting flagrant, easily disprovable lies."
"She had a mixture of warmth, humor, intelligence, and edge," Widdicombe said of the Biden official.
But lest any readers start to think of her as a "pushover," the article made sure to include ample descriptions of Psaki's toughness and resolve. Former colleague David Axelrod noted that she is "unflappable" and "has a steel rod for a spine."
One such example apparently occurred at the White House recently when someone introducing Psaki to a foreign delegation made the horrible mistake of describing her as "a really nice person."
She tells me that she hates when people describe her as "nice." "It is like nails on a chalkboard," she says. "And it still happens. I was introduced to a foreign delegation in the hallway the other day as 'This is Jen. You may have seen her do the briefings. She's a really nice person.' I'm like, Really? You can't think of a better description?" The word is sexist and a little diminishing, but, she says, "it's also this desire to put people in a box. Yes, sometimes I'm friendly and joyful, and sometimes I'm tough, and sometimes I'm straightforward." After shadowing Psaki for a bit, I start to think that her real gift is her ability to be several of these things at the same time. Many of her cheerful quips are actually ways of shutting down a line of questioning. When there's information the administration is not ready to share yet, she'll respond with a chipper "Stay tuned!" or "Buckle up!" Or she'll brush aside questions about tense dealmaking by chirping, "Democracy in action!"
Hot Air writer Karen Townsend, in her coverage of the Vogue article, notes that "most people would appreciate the description" since "it's a personal acknowledgment, not a comment on her professional abilities" nor a "dismissive remark."
But not to Psaki, who reportedly thinks being called "nice" is restrictive, sexist, and diminishing. It's a wonder what she thinks of "sweet" or "kind."
Democrats' problem isn't that their leader just said the quiet part out loud. It's that they've been so loud about their disdain for Trump supporters for so long.
The film's explicit allegory about the female menstrual cycle isn't bad in itself, but lends itself to offensive messages about women controlling their emotions.
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