Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi is as sharp as a tack. The Democratic Party should keep her as their leader. Whatever strategy Nancy Pelosi lays out for 2018, the Democrats should follow.
Can you detect my sarcasm? Because Mrs. Pelosi just made a huge fool of herself.
The former House Speaker was trying to sound smart by saying in an interview that the Constitution doesn’t make it lawful to yell “wolf” in a crowded theater.
I think the term is “fire,” but I won’t hog this moment to make fun of Pelosi.
This is one slip-up too many. Clearly, Pelosi is losing it. It may be time to retire.
Source: Daily Caller
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared confused in an interview this week about what kind of speech is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
“The Constitution does not say that a person can shout…yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that,” Pelosi said in an interview on Wednesday with San Francisco TV station KRON.
The Democrat seemingly meant to paraphrase an opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in the landmark free speech case, Schenck v. United States (1919).
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic,” Holmes wrote in his opinion.
We assume she meant “fire” and not “wolf.” Yelling fire in a crowded theater is not free speech. The First Amendment does not apply to dangerous speech. However, hate speech is indeed covered by the First Amendment. After Charlottesville, liberals like Pelosi have been trying to ban hate speech. This was clearly some convoluted verbal reasoning by Pelosi, trying to justify a crackdown on speech she disagrees with.
Actually, if you read Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.’s famous decision, he says you CAN yell “fire” in a crowded theater, if there is really a fire. Specifically, he said you cannot falsely shout “fire” in a crowded theater. In other words, you can state the truth, no matter how offensive. You just cannot incite panic or a riot without justification. The case was not about hate speech, but about inciting people to commit a crime.
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After seeing this clip, I recognize it is prudent and acceptable to yell idiot in a crowded Pelosi interview.
BTW: WHAT IS IT with pantsuits and Democrats?
Do these artificial fiber pantsuits provide some sort of artificial environment or atmosphere to these aliens the planet Douche Bag?!
This is one stupid woman. They lifted her face so many times, they must have squeezed her brain.
Nancy Pelosi IS an embarrassment.
Constitution?
What Constitution?
We don’t need no “stinkin” Constitution.
Yeeesss…San Francisco’s finest in action…wow! I wish they would just drop in the pacific for afflicting the rest of the nation with her!
If there is a wolf in a crowded theater, everybody is going to be screaming.
In the early days of motion pictures, the film being projected was highly flammable and it didn’t take much to set it on fire. Many theaters did burn to ashes and people were included. Yelling “fire” in those times was taken very seriously, especially if there was no fire. Now, if Pelosi thought it was a wolf and not a real fire being called out, a wolf would not have been a big deal. People might have tried to pet it, believing it to be a German shepherd. Pelosi is demented.
It “may be time for her to retire” is crazy. It’s WAY PAST time for this senile old hag to retire. She doesn’t even make sense anymore when she speaks! Either the Demonrat’s are more ignorant than I thought since they haven’t replaced her as House Minority leader or they all are losing it! She has no clue what the Constitution says & should be in an old folks home or a mental asylum. Looney!!
Nanny Pelosi clueless in California??? Is this a brain teaser???Explain the constitution???not in this life time>>>>
Nancy is a pathological liar, like Hillary, Obama, Maxine Waters, and more Democrats. They have told so many lies that they believe what they say. What is sad is that so many people still believe them. It way past time, Nancy needs to go home to stay, I don’t know how many health problems she has, but Alzheimers sounds like it has started every time she opens her mouth.
ONE HUGE PROBLEM… you say in this idiotic article…
“The First Amendment does not apply to dangerous speech. However, hate speech is indeed covered by the First Amendment.”
YOU FORGET that hate speech IS dangerous speech. It incites and encourages violence and as such IS NOT PROTECTED! Hate speech DIRECTLY caused the death of Heather Heyer, the woman trump blamed for her own murder, HATE SPEECH IS NOT PROTECTED PERIOD and your own article PROVES IT! Dangerous speech is not protected and hate speech IS dangerous…
President Trump did not blame her for her own murder. Saying he did is not even a spin on anything he said, it is simply a twisted lie. Hate speech did not cause her death. A twisted individual killked her, while she was attacking a vehicle because she did not like what the other group represented. She was killed while trying to stop someones right to free speech. Certainly not a reason to be killed, but she would not have been there otherwise.
Nancy Pelosi is a prime example of what happens when the lips have lied once too many times. God warned everyone, “All lying lips shall be cut off”, and her’s certainly have been! She cannot even speak intelligibly, as we notice. My question to the democratic party and to the fake news; How is it that a criminal can be allowed to freely focus her evil agenda and attacks on our President!? Would you listen to other crazy criminals in such an accommodating manner? Are you not becoming suspects for the same moral disease of “lying lips”. Should we the public consider this thought?
Nancy Pelosi is so pathetic she is hilarious. She is the perfect spokesperson for the dAmocratic party. She screws up so many of her stupid comments I have lost count.But you have to admit she would make good news print if the media actually printed it.
Nancy Pelosi uses the Constitution when making a point like my uses the buffet at Golden Corral, she take some of this and a bit of that, put it all together and voila’ you have an instant moral lesson with legal roots to go along with it. Who would not want to follow THAT line of reasoning? The problem with the Pelosi doctrine here, as well as in ANYTHING else dem Dems do is that they are ALWAYS looking to some legal premise to support their point of view, as if ALL social doctrine in tis country has a corresponding ‘code’ hidden in the law. What dem Dems CANNOT do and NEED to do, is work on getting their constituents to understand that we as a country have a certain degree of historical consciousness that drives our moral efforts and they need to learn what that consciousness is. Grabbing a dab of ‘tater salad here or some strained prunes there ain’t law OR morality.
Ding Dong !!!
Ding Dong Ding BAT????any more questions.???
Keep them coming. Pelosi is one of the best for the GOP, and, doesn’t even know it. A star of the democratic party. Let us hear from more like her (and their are many if one just listens).
nancy p never disappoints in her role as a blithering idiot.
Her conservators have a custom-designed ‘camisole’ for her when she finishes ‘Wolfing’ (Blitzer) in theaters near you…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straitjacket
camisole
Hey Nancy Pelosi you’re a complete idiot! Go back to school and complete it this time around. It’s obvious you did not pay attention when you were in school. All you dumb ass Libs/Dems need to take a friggin hike and get the hell out of our way. We WILL run your asses down and get what needs to be done whether you like it or not. Nobody is going to stop us as hard as you’re trying you’re wasting your time.
A Freudian slip…she has “crying wolf” on her mind because that is what the Democrats do.
this woman and Watters are two real nut cases…
Nancy is glomming onto the media’s newest obsession to try to get rid of Donald Trump. Drop it, Nancy! We all know about that law! That isn’t what happened! What does the Constitution say about showing up to a demonstration with bats and bags of urine & feces?
In her defense, when she was growing up in the middle ages, wolves would often snatch children from theaters. In fact, she lost her own sister at a Punch and Judy show in 1385.
Philip two thumbs up!
Ok well that might explain it>>>>