Washington Post Slams Pelosi HBO Documentary As Partisan Hack Job

February 16th, 2009 (24) Posted By .

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Politico:

In Alexandra Pelosi’s new documentary, “Right America: Feeling Wronged,” the daughter of the House Speaker turned her lens on conservative voters in 2008. Based on his Washington Post review, it’s unlikely Michael Leahy will want to catch it again when the film premieres tonight on HBO.

It’s drive-by journalism, to put it charitably, a string of stupefyingly brief hit-and-run interviews with a bunch of unidentified people who we know are going to say nothing that will surprise us. By then, we’ve already figured out they’re going to be fried by Pelosi’s camera. We know they’re going to sound like yahoos, often goaded, always reduced to sound bites and caricatures.
Leahy’s main gripe is that Pelosi focused primarily on those Republican voters with extreme positions, often full of misinformation or just blatantly racist.

But Pelosi, an interview today with Salon, said that she anticipated questions about her motivation while making this film, and defended the work as balanced.

SALON: At one point, you’re talking to someone who describes Obama as the antichrist, and you say to him, “Do you want to maybe rethink that? Because I’m going to be accused, when this is on TV, of just looking for the craziest guy in the room.” And he ponders it and says, “No.” He’s OK with saying it. How often did you have that kind of conversation with somebody?

PELOSI: Every day. It was much more common than you’d think. In the heat of an election, people say some crazy things. And in the case of the gentleman you’re talking about, I have talked to him since then and this is just the way he sees it. I heard that every single day. It was much more common than you’d think. And I think that a lot of them were mimicking things they heard on right-wing radio.

Pelosi said that she’s “not naive,” and realized that she’d “be criticized for picking people who say some extreme things.” She added that if someone wants to take the antichrist guy “as a sample of the movie, you have to take one of the 20 other people who say very reasonable things.”

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  • bill

    id hit it

  • Stacy

    :arrow: bill,
    you need to get out more buddy. I mean, I’m a straight chick and all, but ew. :???:

  • CPLViper

    :arrow: bill

    I would have to second Stacy’s opinion … I am not a chick but the only thing I would do to that Pelosi bitch is throw her out of a moving vehicle. Right after running over her mother. :twisted:

  • 31Mike

    Pascoli said,
    And I think that a lot of them were mimicking things they heard on right-wing radio.

    ——————————————————–
    Tell that cunt of a mom of yours to hurry up with that Fairness Doctrine thing before the whole world is brainwashed.

  • Kirk

    “right-wing radio”? Assuming that people are too dumb to think for themselves, yep, that’s a verification of who her mama is :!:

  • Sully0811

    Only thing I’d hit her with is a bat. She sounds like someone who didn’t get any parental discipline as a child.

  • http://alcove-one.blogspot.com/ Rob

    She looks like Ugly Betty. When does her adventures in plastic surgery begin like her mom?

  • American Woman (bitter clinger to my guns and religion)

    This girl is a wack job. I saw her on Hannity and she acts as dumb as her mother. The nut does not fall far from that tree.

    What about all the radical left movies about Bush???? :roll:
    Liberals have short term memories.
    They have spent the last 8 years trashing this man and is still trashing him.

  • trustme1013

    :arrow: Bill

    There are attractive, conservative women out there without vapid minds. I would be totally unattracted to her if I were a dude. Since I’m not a dude, but a chick, I say no way anyway, but she’s not pretty.

    And she’s an idiot.

  • Top Ward

    And why is she dressing like Ellen? :wink:

  • Chocolate City Dave

    :arrow: Bill
    I like your bipartisan spirit. I’m with you. Then throw her under the bus.

  • Deathstar

    Id hit it, no I mean really hit it, with my fist, or a bat.

  • Mike in Dallas

    I have never ever heard one talk show host say that Obama is the antichrist. That is just some more liberal bullshit.

    They WANT to believe that we are just stupid, brainwashed fools who march around like mindless zombies, following the right wing radio hosts. No we don’t.

    Have people of the general public said that they believe Obama is the antichrist? Yes. But that is their opinion just like the leftwing wackos spent the last 8 years saying Bush stole the 2000 election, he lied about WMD’s so we could invade Iraq for its oil, 9/11 was an inside job….the list goes on and on. Lets have a fucking HBO docmentry about them?

  • bill

    id hit alright, with a ugly stick, oops already done

  • MG

    Looks like Nancy spent some quality time with Pee Wee Herman :shock:

  • RacerRick

    :arrow: CPLViper
    Now that’s my sentement about these two Morons LMAO

    The Pelosi child fits right in with Bill Maher (Piece of Shit On HBO), one of the biggest Liberals on TV. Great replacement for Dennis Miller Ehh? Looks like HBO has found their niche…. Pandering to a Collectivist audience!

    :gun: :evil: Pelosi

    RR :gun:

  • RacerRick

    :arrow: CPLViper
    Now that’s my sentement about these two Morons LMAO

    The Pelosi child fits right in with Bill Maher (Piece of Shit On HBO), one of the biggest Liberals on TV. Great replacement for Dennis Miller Ehh? Looks like HBO has found their niche…. Pandering to a Collectivist audience!

    :gun: :evil: Pelosi
    RR :gun:

  • Mike Constitution

    I listen to “right-wing radio” and it is obvious that people, like Pelosi that always refer to it in an accusatory manner, do not. Conservative talk radio is so popular because it is the only place one can escape the left-wing propaganda spewed by extremists like Pelosi.

    CNN, MSNBC (ha), NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Time, Newsweek, and virtually all the rest of the major media are lapdogs of the Democrat Party. Obama worship is out of hand and we still do not know what the man believes because the media did not do their jobs of vetting him.

    The very people, Democrats Dodd, Frank, and Clinton, et al, that caused the subprime and financial crises are now in charge of running the bailout and the American people do not know the facts because, again, the major media is not doing their jobs.

    I know because I listen to conservative talk radio and that is the truth they do not want you to hear. The left-wing thugs want to use government force to silence their political enemies…unbelievable.

  • http://www.gwuh.com Marc Stockwell-Moniz (Infidel since birth thanks in part to my crusader ancestors, especially Egas Moniz, Knight Templer who defeated the Moors.)

    She sucks.

  • Irene Flick

    Please, everyone, start up a term limits movement wherever you are. The political class is out of control.

    TERM LIMITS FOR ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS!

    Yes, I know I’m shouting

  • vincenzo4

    Bill: From that pose in that photgraph and her eloquent mode of dress, if you hit it, you would have to talk to it, and most importantly, have to listen to it.

    She is quite the typical leftist chihuahua bitch, snooty, arrogant, never comfortable, never content. The left intellectuals are the most annoying, whining and arrogant self-licking ice cream cones I have ever experienced.

    I would not hit it.

  • http://earthlink nomee1

    :shock: Hey pelosi turn over your dealer for chist sake, and stop with the mushrooms. TWEEKER. :shock:

  • Indy

    “And I think that a lot of them were mimicking things they heard on right-wing radio.”

    I have never heard that said on any conservative talk radio show. She should prove her allegation. Any of you heard it said that Obama was the Ant-Christ on conservative talk radio? I know I’ve head some really crazy allegations coming from liberal talk radio like AirAmerika. I think they even promoted the idea that Bush was involved in bringing down the towers. Is their anyone that comes across crazier than Randi Rhodes?When she fell on her face, didn’t we hear allegations of conservatives beating her up?

  • http://daflikkers.blogspot.com/ Blogengeezer

    If attitudes do not change, we as a nation, are on track to become ‘non-relevant’ as a world power. A non-relevant, can not intervene as the growing world demand for the destruction of tiny Israel, looms. Just watch the stages as they approach. Nothing to fear, just Pity, as the worlds greatist nation now faces the very real possibility of slowly disolving in an acid bath of it’s own making. (destroyed from within) A knowledge of history would be welcome, but few students are interested in that study. Engineering, Hard Sciences are also demeening apparently. Alas, only Lawyers and their combined parasitic drag ‘the law’, are flourishing to divide up the ‘Pork’ of our efforts. Rhodesia II ? DaFlikkers