{"id":210,"date":"2009-08-14T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2009-08-14T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T19:21:40","slug":"speaker-pelosi-was-once-a-fan-of-those-un-american-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/210\/speaker-pelosi-was-once-a-fan-of-those-un-american-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Pelosi Was Once a “Fan” of Those “Un-American” Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, most people have read — or at least heard about — the USA Today <\/em>column<\/a>\u00a0in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer labeled the protesters of Obama’s health care plan\u00a0“Un-American.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 But apparently the Madam Speaker used to be a big fan of those “angry mobs.”<\/p>\n

In a January 2006 town hall event, captured in this video <\/a>being circulated on the web, Pelosi applauded a group of disruptive, anti-war protesters by stating, “your advocacy is very American and very important.”\u00a0 She went further in stating, “There is nothing more articulate, more\u00a0eloquent to a member of Congress than the voice of his or her own constituents.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Pelosi closed by saying “I am a fan of disruptors!”<\/em>\u00a0 I guess she is only “a fan” when it’s convenient for her agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, most people have read — or at least heard about — the USA Today column\u00a0in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer labeled the protesters of Obama’s health care plan\u00a0“Un-American.”\u00a0\u00a0 But apparently the Madam Speaker used to be a big fan of those “angry mobs.” In a January 2006 town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,36,13],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-pelosi","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}