Tuna-gate

I did a blog yesterday about Nancy Pelosi. In it I referenced the recent minimum wage bill that will go into effect for the entire United States and all of its territories -- except for American Samoa. The reason for the exception is that Nancy Pelosi has protected Starkist Tuna from the wage hike in a back room deal. The wage hike would have cost Starkist millions of dollars. The deal only cost taxpayers the integrity of the Speaker of the House.

Oddly enough, the only place I encountered this story was on the Fox News Channel and the New York Post. Both conservative voices.

However, if she had been a Republican, the mainstream (liberal) media would have had a feeding frenzy. It would have had a "gate" name by now. Such as: Tuna-gate, or Pelosi-gate, or Water-gate II, or Samoa-gate or something. The talking heads would have been yakking non-stop all weekend and Michael Moore would have had a film crew out already. Leno would have had some else write him a wry quip to stumble through and Letterman would have read a Top Ten list about it. And Clooney, and Penn, and Williams, and Baldwin, and every other celebrity asshole would have had their say about it.

But a liberal did it during her First 100 Hours of The Most Ethical Congress in History. So it gets swept under the rug.

And now, her fellow Congressmen will have two reasons to think they smell fish when Nancy Pelosi walks into the room.

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