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ALL Major Cable Nets Cut Away When Pelosi Talks Jobs Over Weiner (VIDEO)

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The DC media’s jaw-dropping obsession with the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal will peter out when the New York congressman officially resigns this afternoon. But there’s no better illustration of how this story came to consume the press than the video below.

Democrats had been prepared to up the pressure on Weiner to resign Thursday, but not before House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held her weekly press availability in a large studio in the basement of the Capitol Visitors Center.

Her conference began minutes after the news of Weiner’s impending resignation leaked, and so reporters and cameras scrambled to what otherwise would have been a fairly routine press event. Indeed, because Dems are in the minority, it’s not uncommon for Pelosi events to be under-attended by members the media. Not this time.

Unfortunately for them, Pelosi refused to offer a money quote. In a sign that Democrats want to turn the page on the Weiner scandal, she insisted up front that she’d maintain silence on Weiner’s resignation until he announced it himself.

“As usual we’re here to talk about jobs, about protecting Medicare and protecting the middle class. If you’re here to ask a question about Congressman Weiner, I won’t be answering any.”

If you thought disappointed news networks decided then to make do with the other items on her agenda, you’d be wrong. All three of the major cable nets — CNN, MSNBC, and Fox — all cut away right then.

This post was written by Brian Beutler for Talking Points Memo and is repurposed here via a content sharing agreement:

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  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    There’s my point. American cable “news” is pure krap. Soft pornography is about all it is. Across the board.

  • rubberneck

    Pelosi sucks!

  • Azarkhan

    “All three of the major cable nets — CNN, MSNBC, and Fox — all cut away right then.”

    That’s because the Democrats haven’t created any jobs. In fact, thanks to their socialist legislation, the US is now in a double-dip recession.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Pelosi doesn’t have the credibility enough to discuss jobs. Hahahahahahahaha………….

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Azarkhan said:
    “All three of the major cable nets — CNN, MSNBC, and Fox — all cut away right then.”

    That’s because the Democrats haven’t created any jobs. In fact, thanks to their socialist legislation, the US is now in a double-dip recession.

    You’re incorrect on all accounts. Jobs are still being created, albeit at too slow a pace and no thanks to Tollbooth Perry and Scott Walker for firing thousands and thousands of teachers. The economy is still growing. A recession is three (3) consecutive quarters of no growth.

  • Just4thefax

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    You’re incorrect on all accounts. Jobs are still being created, albeit at too slow a pace and no thanks to Tollbooth Perry and Scott Walker for firing thousands and thousands of teachers. The economy is still growing. A recession is three (3) consecutive quarters of no growth.

    Fact: If Pelosi did talk about any new Jobs 40% would be thanks to Rick Perry of Texas.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    They know by now that Pelosi is full of hot air and baloney , like listening to Al Sharpton , Robert Stephenson or Jesse Jackson babble on .

  • Zandandido

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    You’re incorrect on all accounts. Jobs are still being created, albeit at too slow a pace and no thanks to Tollbooth Perry and Scott Walker for firing thousands and thousands of teachers. The economy is still growing. A recession is three (3) consecutive quarters of no growth.

    Liberals believe that jobs can be created by government that are sustainable and worth the effort of actually getting into them. Actually the government creates the environment to where businesses can, in a long-term basis, hire workers.

  • BatBoy

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    You’re incorrect on all accounts. Jobs are still being created

    That is why the unemployment rate keeps rising – because so many people are finding jobs.

    This is nothing more than ” Code” for “Emotional Lib Math!”

    “Scott Walker for firing thousands and thousands of teachers.” The law was just passed so they could save jobs not fire them. (More Emotional Lib Math)

    Emotional Lib Math is defined at you can say anything you want to say and a lib will believe it.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: If Pelosi did talk about any new Jobs 40% would be thanks to Rick Perry of Texas.

    How is it Tollbooth created any jobs? You claim the government cannot create jobs. Tollbooth has fed at the public trough his entire life. Perpetual politician drawing a government check. Nothing more than that.

  • felixw

    The mainstream media doesn’t like to give any coverage to the unemployment crisis in America. They know that it reflects poorly on Obama, so they bury these stories every day, every week, every month.

    But this puts Democrat politicians in a peculiar situation: they want to pretend that there is no jobs crisis, but these politicians also need to address this very issue if they hope to get re-elected — since it is the biggest single issue in the nation right now.

    In other words, the next election promises to be a repeat of the 2010 midterm election — in which people voted Republican because of the very economic issues that the mainstream media pretended did not exist.

    Advice to the media (and to the Democrats): Engage on the economy. Everyone in the real world knows that this is the decisive issue right now. If you continue to pretend otherwise, you will pay dearly in next year’s election.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    felixw said:
    The mainstream media doesn’t like to give any coverage to the unemployment crisis in America. They know that it reflects poorly on Obama, so they bury these stories every day, every week, every month.

    But this puts Democrat politicians in a peculiar situation: they want to pretend that there is no jobs crisis, but these politicians also need to address this very issue if they hope to get re-elected — since it is the biggest single issue in the nation right now.

    In other words, the next election promises to be a repeat of the 2010 midterm election — in which people voted Republican because of the very economic issues that the mainstream media pretended did not exist.

    Advice to the media (and to the Democrats): Engage on the economy. Everyone in the real world knows that this is the decisive issue right now. If you continue to pretend otherwise, you will pay dearly in next year’s election.

    Do you even watch broadcast news? It’s covered nightly.

  • Azarkhan

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Jobs are still being created

    Yesterday it was the Empire State manufacturing index that turned unexpectedly negative. Today, it’s the Philadelphia Fed’s manufacturing index that dropped into the red … “unexpectedly.” The report comes amid decidedly mixed economic signals today:

    “Factory activity in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region unexpectedly shrank in June in another sign of weakness in the manufacturing sector, a survey showed on Thursday.

    The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said its business activity index fell to minus 7.7 in June from positive 3.9 the month before. It fell far short of economists’ expectations for a rise to 6.8, according to a Reuters poll. It was the lowest level since July 2009.

    The new orders index also fell, coming in at minus 7.6 from 5.4 in May, while inventories dropped to minus 8.5 from minus 5.4. New orders were at their lowest since June 2009.”

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/16/second-manufacturing-report-shows-shrinkage-amid-mixed-signals/

    Uh-oh. It looks like “Tollbooth Perry and Scott Walker” have unexpectedly taken over our manufacturing industries. Do you have any more BS you care to spew?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    saying the word “jobs” doesn’t mean you are talking about jobs…

  • Moderate

    Pelosi has a weekly news conference, when cable companies carry it, they lose their viewers unless Pelosi is saying something unusually stupid.

  • bruceleroy

    Azarkhan said:
    “All three of the major cable nets — CNN, MSNBC, and Fox — all cut away right then.” That’s because the Democrats haven’t created any jobs. In fact, thanks to their socialist legislation, the US is now in a double-dip recession.

    Fact: Obama extended the Bush tax CUTS and has given tax breaks to small businesses 17 times. Corporate profits and executive pay are UP, it’s just not TRICKLING down like the Republican myth claims.

  • jerrybobphil

    Nothing about Pelosi news coference is news. Its called the weekly talking points. A congressman resigning is called news. Not that hard to understand. Is there nothing people won’t whine about these days.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    GOVERNMENT does NOT create jobs. They only DESTROY them.

    Look at Spain, for every green job created, they destroyed 2.3.

    Whenever the government creates a job, it takes approximately 100 people to fund that job. When will government sycophants realize that?

    FACTS-

    2010 US Federal deficit spending was 9.6% of GDP
    2010 US GDP growth was stated by the Federal government as 2.6%
    The effective GDP growth was a NEGATIVE 7%!

    FACT-

    This is a DEPRESSION, not a recession and sure as hell is not a recovery!

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    FACT-

    Whenever you hear a government official stating they are going to create jobs, in reality that means they are going to destroy them in the private sector.

    FACTS-
    Central control of an economy is NOT a free market. Central control of an economy misallocates capital. Central control of a capitalist economy is not a CAPITALIST economy. Capitalism is based upon a free market. If the Central Control of an economy is based upon a currency that is manipulated by a Central Bank using fiat currency, it is NOT a free market.

    How do you destroy a capitalist economy? Let Marx tell you.

    FACTS-
    Leftists read Marx. Conservatives understand Marx!

  • Pablo

    THE REAL RABID KOOK said:
    You’re incorrect on all accounts. Jobs are still being created, albeit at too slow a pace and no thanks to Tollbooth Perry and Scott Walker for firing thousands and thousands of teachers.

    Walker hasn’t fired any teachers and when it comes to creating jobs, Texas is where it’s happening, Kook.

    The reason no one cares what Pelosi has to say is the same reason no one cares what you have to say. You’re both full of crap and everyone knows it.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    DavidKramer said:
    GOVERNMENT does NOT create jobs. They only DESTROY them.

    Look at Spain, for every green job created, they destroyed 2.3.

    Whenever the government creates a job, it takes approximately 100 people to fund that job. When will government sycophants realize that?

    FACTS-

    2010 US Federal deficit spending was 9.6% of GDP
    2010 US GDP growth was stated by the Federal government as 2.6%
    The effective GDP growth was a NEGATIVE 7%!

    FACT-

    This is a DEPRESSION, not a recession and sure as hell is not a recovery!

    FACT (to expand)-

    When you deficit spend, you take from the future to give to the present. Sooner or later you are “supposed” to pay that debt off. If you cannot, what does that mean? It means Weimar or Zimbabwe.

    FACT-

    Younger people have to realize sooner or later that deficit spending and debt enslaves the future and the young. When are they going to realize this?

    FACT-

    When I went to college 20 years ago, I use to deride my economics professors. I had never even heard of the Austrian (NO, it is not a language there Obama) economic field of economics. I use to say that if in the micro something does not work, how in the hell do you think it will work in the macro! They would tell me I just did not understand.

    FACT-

    When running experiments in science, you create a study by creating a set standard of observable experiments. You study the outcome and relay the observation. You can then state your theory from future re-enactments of the same experiment. This gives you a provable theory and THEN it becomes a fact. Why is it that the same thing over and over and over and over again proves that Keynesian economics fails, yet governments can convince the populace that they are correct when applying Keynesian economics? Maybe Obama and other elites are correct, the US population are stupid in the leftist vernacular.

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Question, my previous comment is awaiting moderation. Are we not allowed to use he!! in a comment? Just wondering.

  • Marty73

    Just goes to show how useless cable news has become.

  • Arthur (Not a Political Comic)

    Jobs are mere talking points right now. Neither side is engaged in anything that will actually create jobs. But everyday, both sides say the exact same thing. “We are focused on creating jobs, the other side isn’t, they are destroying jobs.” The thing that annoys me is the media never asks, Okay, explain. I wish right after Pelosi or Boehner says, We are committed to job creation, I could say, Explain how. And no f-ing talking points, I want a detailed description on how you are planning to create jobs. And again, this goes to both parties, because they keep saying they are committed, but neither side is really doing anything. The Republicans don’t want job growth, because the moment things turn around, well, then they don’t win the White House. The Democrats don’t want job growth, because then they can’t take back the House. It’s an odd catch 22, which leads to both groups spinning their wills and more focused on how the other side is screwing up.

  • OxyCon

    Why post stuff from a biased, activist, far-left website like TPM here?

    Doing that only damages any attempt Mediaite makes at appearing impartial.

  • felixw

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    Do you even watch broadcast news? It’s covered nightly.

    Do a count at Mediaite of stories on Trump, Weiner and unemployment…and then come back and report on the results.

    You will find that Trump has received at least 50 times as much coverage as the unemployment crisis, and maybe 100 times as much coverage. MSNBC’s prime time programing would show the same amount of bias. You will find a little more coverage of the economy on CBS or CNN, but still nothing like the way they would cover the bad news if a Republican were in the White House.

    And, ironically, you were the one who denounced me earlier this week when I asked for more coverage of economic issues at Mediaite. It’s spelled D-E-N-I-A-L, my friend. And you are deep, deep into it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Pelosi was just passing the blame on to Republicans as usual anyway.

  • Dem4Ever

    Does Pelosi feel as Barbara Walters does about FORMER Congressman Weiner’s “package”?

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Just wondering, does anyone think my economic evaluation is relevant to the discussion or is factual?

    I mean we hear from these morons like Pelosi that has expanded her wealth by 62% in only one year! Folks, I left the market in 2006 and it only took 12 months to pull out my retirement and then took a 25% tax hit and then put it into gold. I was told I was insane to do such a thing!

    We have Obama, that held stock in pharmaceuticals and within 6 months declared a NATIONAL EMERGENCY on the H1N1 virus. Do you UNDERSTAND what he did? He declared an emergency where there was no emergency, he declared an emergency where the flu was one of the LEAST DEATHLY in HISTORY. Where are the stories on that? I wrote an article on that and NO ONE picked it up! He made millions on that investment!

    What the hell is going on in our country!? They do not care, they do not even attempt to care. Oh well, I better vote for him because he has a (D) by his name.

    You want a solution! You want a change! Remove the party affiliation from the ballots! Do not allow ballots from anyone that does not go to the polls! Yes, provide exemptions to the military but no one else. You would see a turn around that would astound you.

  • Just4thefax

    Arthur (Not a Political Comic) said:
    Jobs are mere talking points right now. Neither side is engaged in anything that will actually create jobs. But everyday, both sides say the exact same thing. “We are focused on creating jobs, the other side isn’t, they are destroying jobs.” The thing that annoys me is the media never asks, Okay, explain. I wish right after Pelosi or Boehner says, We are committed to job creation, I could say, Explain how. And no f-ing talking points, I want a detailed description on how you are planning to create jobs. And again, this goes to both parties, because they keep saying they are committed, but neither side is really doing anything. The Republicans don’t want job growth, because the moment things turn around, well, then they don’t win the White House. The Democrats don’t want job growth, because then they can’t take back the House. It’s an odd catch 22, which leads to both groups spinning their wills and more focused on how the other side is screwing up.

    Fact: That’s why Tea Party is in full swing now to reject any and all elected people no matter what party they are from. Quit spending more money is the call. Less government intrusions and fewer taxes. Thus a big change in the current IRS tax code to a more simplified growth making entity. Some think that they are a product of the Republican Party but that’s not it. It just happens to be more democrats are willing to turn our free nation into a socialist society so they go first. Socialism and the progressives that haven’t to date or ever been workable at any point in history must be defeated. Republicans not for people and are for their pocket book are next. Tea Party will continue until it succeeds.

  • slickerwick

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    There’s my point. American cable “news” is pure krap. Soft pornography is about all it is. Across the board.

    And you prefer the hard kind. I understand.

  • slickerwick

    Pelosi was doing her weekly talking points. That isn’t news. A congressman resigning is news.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Pelosi talkin’ JOBS!

    What, how many more millions her Democratic policies are going to cost us?

    2012 – Turn back the OBAMA DEPRESSION!

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Is MSNBC still considered a Major Cable Net?
    lol

  • Liberty_Hound

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    thanks to Tollbooth Perry and Scott Walker for firing thousands and thousands of teachers

    Maybe I missed this.. Walker firing teachers?.. It’s my understanding he was fighting to keep their jobs. The cost of the teachers and other public union members not contributing to their medical coverage or their pensions was costing Wisconsin billions on current and future cost. He was prepared to fire over 1,500 teachers if the law had not passed. It was the union that was not fighting to save jobs. They yet wanted their benefits untouched, tax payer and fellow low-on-the-totem-pole teachers be damned.

    There are no cases where unions members, public or private, will sacrifice benefits or cut their pay to save their fellow low-on-the-totem-pole unions member jobs. If there are examples they are few and far between.

    So please stop spewing out the lies or show me some evidence where Walker laid-off any teachers.

  • Liberty_Hound

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/25/60minutes/main20046867.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States

    Nancy Pelosi was about to explain the Conservatives wanted to give greedy corporation tax cuts that send jobs over seas. She’s right. What she didn’t tell you was that our corporate tax rate was the 2nd highest in the developed world. We will be the highest once Japan lowers theirs. Companies are not just leaving for lower wage countries they are going to countries with wages comparable to ours, in Europe. Why, because of the
    corporate tax rate here. .. As bad as I dislike the MSM CBS 60 minutes aired a featured segment discussing this topic and I was proud of them. If we lower our corporate tax rate just to a rate say number 8 out of the 16 most developed countries we would bring 100′s of thousand of new jobs and some old ones back to the United States. You see lowering taxes especially on corporations bring jobs to Americans and actually increase revenue because people have not only jobs but a meaningful jobs. Punishing large high profit employers only hurts our country.

    But Nancy won’t tell you that.

  • Scrapette Jones

    {Sigh} Had the media only been doing this to her all along…

  • MrTPar_taY

    Like Princess Stargate here knows anything about creating jobs. LMFAO!!!!

  • Dem4Ever

    Pelosi is an idiot.

  • X-3

    I would admit that most anything would be more important than weiner boy’s public announcement (further proof of his insecurity and craving for attention), but in this case, I’m fairly certain that everyone knew Pelosi would be spreading some lies and at least weiner boy would be telling the truth…for a change.

    FWIW, Weiner’s deplorable actions has been yet another sad episode in American politics and BOTH sides have had their shameful acts, but it is “We the People” who have allowed it to happen. For Weiner, it’s kind of a “what goes around comes around” event; he has tried so hard to use his position to defame conservatives and libertarians (his Congressional investigation of one of Glenn Beck’s sponsors comes to mind, which–as we all knew it would–proved unfounded), and Karma has come back to bite him on his scrawny arse. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.

  • X-3

    X-3 said:
    has been

    Correction: “have been”

  • hgovernick

    Dronetek said:
    Pelosi was just passing the blame on to Republicans as usual anyway.

    Where it rightfully belongs.

  • hgovernick

    slickerwick said:
    And you prefer the hard kind. I understand.

    I don’t understand why you understand. I guess you know all about that hard stuff.

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