Daily Howler - May 27, 2005

WHY BROWN DIDN’T GET BLUE-SLIPPED! It’s an amazing tale of pious hypocrisy—a tale that your “press corps” won’t tell

ANOTHER DEM LEADER IN ACTION: How clueless can current Dem leaders be? We’ve marveled as they’ve understated the transition costs of Bush’s private accounts. We’ve marveled as they’ve repeatedly vouched for the SS trustees’ gloomy forecast. But just how bad does it sometimes get? Last Saturday, we got an e-mail under the heading, “Nancy Pelosi does it again.” You’ll assume our e-mailer, BL, was joking:

E-MAIL (5/22/05): I'm a student at Goucher College, and today was the senior class's commencement. The address was given by Nancy Pelosi, and she said the following: "When I graduated from college, many of the terms you use today had totally different meanings for me: Back then, chips were something you ate, Windows were something you washed, discs were something you played, and the Internet, well, let's just say, Al Gore hadn't invented it yet."

You’ll assume the mailer was joking. But no—the full speech is here, on Pelosi’s web site. Let’s enjoy the fuller context of the leader’s remarks: