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  • Pelosi Chokes Up, Recalling Milk Assassination (You racist, homophobic, angry brutes!)

    09/17/2009 5:32:18 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 93 replies · 3,814+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | September 17, 2009 | Paul Kane
    In a rare display of public emotion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) choked up Thursday morning recalling the anti-gay rhetoric in the late 1970s in San Francisco, which culminated in the assassinations of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay S.F. Board of Supervisors member, and Mayor George Moscone. Pelosi, responding to a question about whether anti-government rhetoric posed a threat of domestic violence, said that protesters on all sides had the right to voice their opposition to legislative proposals in a heated fashion. But then Pelosi -- whose weekly press conferences are legendary for their highly scripted nature and her...