Yet again, media figures respond to a Pelosi controversy with attacks on her looks

[Mr. Ected]

Commenting on the controversy surrounding what Nancy Pelosi was told about the use of harsh interrogation techniques, numerous media figures have resorted to attacking Pelosi's looks, for example, by characterizing her as being incapable of "human facial expression," referring to her "fashionable" "Botox shots," and calling her a "hag."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200905180006

Media Matters for America has compiled the following examples:

During the May 17 edition of CNN's State of the Union, CNN contributor Alex Castellanos claimed that "if Speaker Pelosi were still capable of human facial expression, we'd see she'd be embarrassed, because, right now, she is in a very Nixon-like position."

In his May 17 Townhall.com column, Doug Giles wrote: "Either Nancy Pelosi is lying her backside off regarding her knowledge of the CIA's irrigation for information techniques, or one of the side effects of a high dollar Botox habit includes severe short-term memory loss." Giles further wrote: "In December 2007, Mrs. Pelosi admitted that she attended the briefing, but she wouldn't comment for the record about precisely what she was told. (What do you think old Nancy is doing here? Is she Botoxing? Does she have selective amnesia? Perhaps, a senior moment? Or is she revving up the engines on her BS Express?)."

During the May 15 broadcast of his radio show, referring to Pelosi, Neal Boortz said he was going to talk about "how fun it is to watch that hag out there twisting in the wind."

During the May 11 broadcast of his program, Rush Limbaugh said of Pelosi: "All right, all right. It wasn't a lie. It's a fashion statement. She wears Armani clothes -- fashionable; Botox shots -- fashionable. She's against waterboarding -- fashionable. Of course, after 9-11, she was for waterboarding. That was fashion then." On May 15, Limbaugh claimed that during her May 14 press conference, Pelosi was "shaking." He added: "Well, that could be Botox withdrawal. I don't want to be too hard on the shaking."

[Bolo Boffin]

1. "don't want to be too hard on the shaking" - that fuckwad

He's of course sharing a little joke with his listeners about how he imitated Michael J. Fox.

[BR_Parkway]

2. Sounds like a guy who's experienced shaking when his housekeeper

was late coming home with his Oxy

[rateyes]

3. All of them ugly people who couldn't be helped with Botox or

anything else.