A lot of people seem to think that folks like us have this issue with celebrities speaking their minds. That is hardly the case.
I think that our issue more or less lies with the fact that when celebrities give uneducated opinions about something and try to act as if they are experts on things that this is when we have the issue.
It’s not particularly difficult to find ways that Nancy Pelosi is out of touch these days.
For instance, the House speaker’s “let them eat ice cream” moment on James Corden’s late-night show this week was one of the most shockingly ill-conceived attempts at humanizing a politician in quite some time.
As Pelosi showed off her gourmet ice cream collection, Democrats were refusing to budge on giving $250 billion in loans to small business owners unless Republicans caved to their legislative demands. Absent that, she’s more than willing to let the program’s cash reserves run dry.
The current impasse is reminiscent of how the Democrats tried to hold up the third round of stimulus legislation with a prepackaged list of liberal agenda items. In that battle, the Democrats mostly folded — but not before Pelosi managed to get $25 million for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
There’s a big image problem with that, one which country music legend Charlie Daniels identified in a Thursday tweet.
“Ms Pelosi do you know how many desperate veterans that twenty five million dollars you gave the Kennedy Center could have given a reason for living,” Daniels tweeted. “My guess is you just don’t give a damn.”