Nancy Pelosi: 500 million Americans Lose Their Jobs
It seems that Democratic speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi believes that the recession will become worse than even the most negative person thought; according to the California Democrat, 500 million Americans will lose their job. This means that every single American living today and even the unborn will be unemployed soon.
American has a population of slightly more than 300 million at this moment.
It’s rather obvious a slip-up. She meant 500 thousand rather than 500 million. We all know that which is probably why most big MSM outlets won’t report it.
Lets play a game, however. Imagine that not Pelosi but Governor Sarah Palin made this rather innocent mistake. What do you think would’ve happened? How would national and international media have responded? They would’ve jumped on it, citing it as yet more evidence of Palin’s lack of intelligence.
Hypocritical? Sure – but we’re all used to it now.
Watch Pelosi say it:
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The difference is that Pelosi, while a terrible leader and politician in her own right, doesn’t make these sort of verbal mistakes with the frequency of Gov. Palin.
Not only did Palin make verbal mistakes, she betrayed a lack of familiarity with basic facts about America, the world, and her own running mate’s political positions.
The class bias is when sarah says anything off base shes treated as a moron, but if its a dem. oh no thats ok.
sarah could slap nancy around on energy issues. any day
You don’t think saying 500 Million American’s is a lack of familiarity with basic facts of America ChrisWWW?
Or is it Democrat = Obvious Mistake, Republican = Obvious Moron