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By Jay Newton-Small | @JNSmall | May 26, 2009 | +

There are so many gross problems with this RNC video comparing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the James Bond character Pussy Galore that I don’t know where to begin. For those Republicans worried that attacks on Pelosi might backfire — this is exactly the kind of over-the-top sexist gambit they should be losing sleep over.

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  • gysgt213

    “this is exactly the kind of over-the-top sexist gambit they should be losing sleep over.”
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    I wish there was someone in the party who would lose sleep over it.

  • FlownOver

    Which means Goldfinger would be … Cheney? Willing to kill US troops so the well-off can raid the treasury?
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    Yeah, that works.

  • rose83

    Thanks for doing a post on this.
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    The fact that a politically powerful 69-year-old mother of five can be reduced to a misogynistic caricature of her sexuality shows how serious a problem sexism is in politics. Once again it’s time to ask Gloria Steinem’s question about the 47-year-old mother of two and Illinois Senator’s campaign for President. It’s not just profoundly unfair, it’s also dangerous to push qualified women out of politics at a time of crisis when the best minds are needed.

  • sacredh

    We can stop watching Comedy Central. The republicans are far more fun to watch. It’s almost as if they go through a list of options and then choose whichever one does the most damage to their party. Is Kevorkian giving them advice?

  • kbanginmotown

    Sexism aside…
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    …the opening scene of the ad is a picture of Pelosi through the barrel of a rifle with the sound of a gunshot!
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    Does advocating the assassination of the 2nd person in line to the presidency not merit outrage?
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    Or, does the absence of crosshairs on the speaker’s forehead absolve the GOP of this outrage?

  • kbanginmotown

    yeah, yeah, outrage, outrage. It’s early.

  • sacredh

    Just when you think they can’t get any crazier, they set the bar a little higher. You have to give them credit, they’re not even trying to pretend they’re sane anymore.

  • rose83

    Just read Douthat’s column about the need for “sexual stigma” and permanent (yes, that’s right) ostracism of the “sexually irresponsible” who include the thrice-divorced and “pregnant starlets”.
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    So now the Republican party doesn’t like divorced people. How is this going to affect their view of beloved St. Ronnie? Or is there some kind of three strikes rule?

  • sacredh

    With all the people and different groups the republicans are saying they don’t want, could they become the party of old white right wingnut guys? If it didn’t make me look like a spastic having a seizure, I’d dance.

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  • bobcn1

    It’s interesting to contrast the RNC’s video with this quote from MS’s post on the Sotomayor pick for SCOTUS:
    “I didn’t think he would go that radical,” Levey said. “There is so much to go after there. . . . But I think that’s what happens when you box yourself into a corner–say it has to be a Hispanic, it has to be a woman.”
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    Boxed into a corner??? Why is anyone surprised that the gop is shrinking?

  • mrtoads

    Oh, poo – they can be much more ridiculous than this. See, when you drive out anybody with a lick of sense, there are pretty much no limits to the idiocy that sounds reasonable.

  • billiecat

    Set aside the stupidity of the ad, it’s not likely to be very effective. I have no idea what they’re trying to say here – that Pelosi is James Bond in pearls? That Obama has cut her adrift? That she out to be gold-plated? What? What are you saying, GOP? I JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU ANYMORE!
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    Oh, my head hurts.

  • jarais

    Ew. I’m expecting a RNC video featuring Sonia Sotomayor in a sombrero any day now.

  • yutsano

    Ew. I’m expecting a RNC video featuring Sonia Sotomayor in a sombrero any day now.

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    Lawd I hope so. Insult Hispanics in general and Sotomayor’s culture at the same time. Beautimous.

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