BROADCAST BIAS: Maybe Nancy Pelosi could get on the Mount Rushmore of House speakers

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., yet announced what everyone expected, that she would not tally for bureau again present that she’s 85. It’s the extremity of an era, an epoch of broadcast TV flattery and shamelessness. Pelosi has wielded large powerfulness implicit her members, and besides large powerfulness implicit the nationalist media. She viciously attacks immoderate newsman that asks her a question she doesn’t privation to answer. In caller years, the large networks person been putty successful her hands. 

This starts with the contented of her hubby Paul’s assertive fiscal trading, and her quiescent absorption to immoderate effort to restrict members of Congress from trading stocks, which is connected the docket again. Back successful 2011, CBS’s "60 Minutes" cooperated with blimpish writer Peter Schweizer erstwhile his publication "Throw Them All Out" was published. Since then, the contented has mostly vanished. 

A New York Post investigation revealed that earlier archetypal taking bureau successful 1987, Pelosi and her hubby reported betwixt $610,000 and $785,000 successful stocks successful their portfolio — worthy $133.7 cardinal today, according to the latest estimates from Quiver Quantitative. That means that Nancy Pelosi grew her small nest ovum by 16,930%. 

In the past 4 years, the gush from the property has been remarkably excessive. Stock trading didn’t travel up successful 2022 successful a George Stephanopoulos interrogation connected ABC’s "This Week." Stephanopoulos asked then-Speaker Pelosi: "the [Biden] White House is informing of an imminent penetration of Ukraine. The Ukrainians look to deliberation that’s each hype. Do you judge that Putin is poised to invade?" Stephanopoulos adjacent asked Pelosi if "Congress [is] doing everything you tin to forestall an invasion?" Most laughably, helium asked her what "should President Putin cognize from you, the talker of the House, astir the consequences of invasion?"

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being interviewed by CNN's Anderson Cooper connected Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025. (Screenshot/CNN)

When Democrats mislaid the House successful the midterms, Pelosi relinquished her station arsenic Democrat leader, but the encomiums ne'er stopped. On CBS’s "Sunday Morning" successful aboriginal 2024, substitute big Tracy Smith announced, "House Speaker Emerita that has a caller publication out, ‘The Art of Power’ — an creation which Nancy Pelosi is thing of a master." 

Pelosi besides gushed, proclaiming President Joe Biden was astatine the "top of his game. Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore benignant of president of the United States." Lesley Stahl asked if she was serious: "Lincoln and Joe Biden?" Pelosi underlined it: "You got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he’s wonderful. I don’t accidental instrumentality him down, but you tin adhd Biden." 

Stahl conscionable had to travel up that drama with flattery: "If determination were a Mount Rushmore for speakers of the House, Nancy Pelosi would surely beryllium up there, commemorating her 20 years arsenic a commanding person successful Congress." If there's a stellar accomplishment connected Pelosi's résumé, it has to beryllium however impressively she and her hubby person enriched themselves portion she was successful "public service."

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Two weeks earlier the 2024 election, CNN and PBS big Christiane Amanpour work a virulently anti-Trump transition from Pelosi’s book. It was astir his "repeatedly stomping retired of meetings, his foul mouth, his pounding connected tables, his temper tantrums, his disrespect for our nation’s patriots, and his full separation from world and existent events." Then Amanpour asked: "How did you woody with that? And bash you deliberation this country, your country, tin past different term?" What would America bash without Pelosi? 

On the one-year day of the Jan. 6 riot, "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt was a brushed touch. He walked done the hallways of the Capitol with her and noted they "desecrated your office" and 1 rioter wrote helium wanted to "shoot her successful her freaking brain." Pelosi said the representation "breaks your heart. It’s similar idiosyncratic successful the White House dropped a weaponry connected the Congress." 

Holt concluded with the devout Catholic angle: "You’ve been precise vocal successful the past astir praying for your adversaries." She said, "I ever do," but the existent Republican Party "melted down into a cult." 

Perhaps the astir servile interviewer was "PBS NewsHour" co-anchor Geoff Bennett, who interviewed Pelosi successful beforehand of a PBS assemblage successful California successful May. He began by gushing to the assemblage that Pelosi, who did the interrogation remotely from Boston, is "known for her governmental leadership, her crisp insights and her existent singular quality to support Democrats united."

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Bizarrely, Bennett expressed daze that the Democrats weren’t getting recognition for the economy: "Having covered Democratic policies, you tin accidental objectively that Democrats did person policies that benefited the mediate class! And Joe Biden spent a batch of governmental superior passing them into instrumentality and yet it didn’t look to resonate, didn’t link with the American radical successful this past election." 

Stahl conscionable had to travel up that drama with flattery: "If determination were a Mount Rushmore for speakers of the House, Nancy Pelosi would surely beryllium up there, commemorating her 20 years arsenic a commanding person successful Congress." 

Pelosi generously said the anserine voters shouldn’t beryllium blamed: "When idiosyncratic doesn't get a message, it's not due to the fact that of them. It's due to the fact that of america who are delivering the message, that we did not present it intelligibly enough."

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This didn't consciousness similar a "newsmaker interview." It felt similar a journalistic mentation of "Driving Miss Daisy." 

No 1 should expect these broadcast networks to unrecorded up to the anticipation that they’re "holding authorities accountable." They person been easy brought to bottommost similar they’re each Nancy Pelosi’s tense caucus members. 

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