{"id":61338,"date":"2021-04-20T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=61338"},"modified":"2021-04-20T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T20:30:15","slug":"a-profoundly-disrespectful-and-dead-wrong-pelosi-loses-it-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=61338","title":{"rendered":"A Profoundly Disrespectful and Dead Wrong Pelosi Loses It Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>GOP congresswoman fires back after Pelosi calls her &#8216;that woman&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;That woman on the floor should be apologizing for what she said,&#8217; Pelosi said of McClain<\/h3>\n<p>By Audrey Conklin | Fox News<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Rep. Lisa McClain, R-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mich<\/a>., on Monday responded to House Speaker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/nancy-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>&#8216;s comments calling the Michigan lawmaker &#8220;that woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;That woman on the floor should be apologizing for what she said,&#8221; Pelosi, D-Calif.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pelosi-maxine-waters-shouldnt-apologize-confrontational-remark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0The Hill on Monday, referencing McClain&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday speech<\/a>\u00a0on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>McClain fired back on Twitter, saying that as &#8220;that woman,&#8221; she would not\u00a0&#8220;apologize for calling out the double standards&#8221; Pelosi has &#8220;set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=true&amp;id=1384224385796481029&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fmcclain-pelosi-that-woman&amp;sessionId=133bb18b4e0bbbc30a4c030accdd3b4ef6b237ed&amp;siteScreenName=foxnews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ff2e7cf%3A1618526400629&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1384224385796481029\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>McClain in her speech called on Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., to apologize for encouraging\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/minnesota\">Minnesota<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-protests\">protesters<\/a>\u00a0to &#8220;get more confrontational&#8221;\u00a0in the event that ex-cop Derek Chauvin is acquitted of murder for the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once again, this weekend, we saw a member of the majority openly call for more confrontation in a Minneapolis suburb,&#8221; McClain said. &#8220;That very night, there was a drive-by shooting &#8230; where police and the National Guardsmen were targeted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container tablet\"><\/div>\n<p>McClain was referencing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/live-updates-chauvin-trial-closing-arguments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weekend incident<\/a>\u00a0in which drive-by\u00a0shooting suspects fired at members of a National Guard and Minneapolis Police Department security team.<\/p>\n<p>McClain added that if roles were reversed and a Republican had told protesters to &#8220;get more confrontational,&#8221; the House majority &#8220;would move to strip that representative of their committees and possibly move to expel them\u00a0Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1470\/828\/waters.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1862\/1048\/waters.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/640\/320\/waters.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) speaks to the media during an ongoing protest at the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Centre, Minnesota on April 17, 2021. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA \/ AFP)\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) speaks to the media during an ongoing protest at the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Centre, Minnesota on April 17, 2021. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Are those not the words that someone would use if they wanted to incite more violence or insurrection?&#8221; the Michigan congresswoman said of Waters&#8217; remarks to protesters. &#8220;If the majority cares &#8230; about our nation, they need to get their own house in order and tamp down on the rhetoric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said Monday that Waters should not apologize.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container tablet\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Maxine talked about confrontation in the manner of the civil rights movement,&#8221; the speaker said. &#8220;&#8230;I, myself, think we should take our lead from the George Floyd family. They&#8217;ve handled this with great dignity, and no ambiguity or lack of \u2014 misinterpretation by the other side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waters visited an anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\">police<\/a>\u00a0brutality\u00a0protest\u00a0in Brooklyn Center,\u00a0Minnesota, on Saturday evening, saying demonstrators needed to &#8220;stay on the street,&#8221; demanding justice until police reform becomes a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Chauvin&#8217;s fate rests in the hands of a jury as of Monday afternoon after attorneys on both sides gave their closing arguments, convincing jurors to either acquit or convict the former officer on second- and third-degree manslaughter in Floyd&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox News&#8217; Brooke Singman contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mcclain-pelosi-that-woman\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/mcclain-pelosi-that-woman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP congresswoman fires back after Pelosi calls her &#8216;that woman&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}