Thanks to the RNC, Pelosi Can Kick Back This Weekend

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can sit back and enjoy her Memorial Day picnic basket after all, because the Republican National Committee has thoughtfully provided her with a pre-holiday gift-pack in the form of a video so sexist that – no joke – it compared her to the Bond movie bad-girl Pussy Galore. (Pelosi Galore, get it? What will these kidders think of next?)

Take the next coupla days off, Madam Speaker. Because ill-advised as it was, claiming you hadn't heard jack about waterboarding -- well, this classic and classless bit of woman-hating is just the diversion you were no doubt praying for.

As the Washington Post reported earlier this week, the RNC posted a YouTube video, "Pelosi versus the CIA,'' that used the theme music from the 1964 Bond movie "Goldfinger" in which Bond, James Bond, goes up against, ahem, the criminal mastermind (and lesbian!) Pussy Galore.

The video, as subtle as any Bond film, showed a split-screen view of Pelosi and Galore, featured a shot from the movie, and closed with a shot of a nearly naked woman's back, along with the tagline, "Lack of Leadership. Democrats Galore.'' So Emily, don't they have any women working over there who could have told them that this sort of thing is perhaps not the ideal way to win over women -- last seen flocking to the other team -- or other voters living in this century?

Filed Under: Woman Up

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