Order from Speaker Pelosi: ‘Don’t mess with me’

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lectured a reporter during a press availability, when he asked her if the impeachment proceedings had to do with her hatred of the president. She referred to her Catholicism, and said she has a heart “full of love.”

“Do you hate the president?” the reporter had asked.

Pelosi replied, “”I don’t hate anybody…As a Catholic, I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. I don’t hate anyone…So, don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.”

It’s clear that Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter James Rosen will not be invited to the cool-kids’ table at the next reporters’ luncheon. After the exchange, “#DontMessWithNancy was a hashtag that raced to prominence on Twitter, where politics is a blood sport.

Rosen maintains that it is a fair question in the context of Pelosi hurrying the impeachment proceedings along in the House of Representatives.