Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., finally announced what everyone expected: that she would not run for office again now that she is 85. It’s the end of an era, an era of flattery and shamelessness on television. Pelosi has exercised great power over her members, and also great power over the national media. She viciously attacks any reporter who asks her a question she doesn’t want to answer. In recent years, the major networks have been in her hands.
This starts with the issue of her husband Paul’s aggressive financial trading, and her quiet opposition to any effort to ban members of Congress from stock trading, which is back on the agenda. In 2011, CBS’s “60 Minutes” teamed up with conservative author Peter Schweizer when his book “Throw Them All Out” was published. Since then the problem has largely disappeared.
An analysis from the New York Post revealed that Pelosi and her husband had between $610,000 and $785,000 worth of stocks in their portfolios before first taking office in 1987 — worth $133.7 million today, according to the latest estimates from Quiver Quantitative. That means Nancy Pelosi has grown her little nest egg by 16,930%.
During the past four years the flow of press has been remarkably excessive. Stock trading did not come up in 2022 in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.” Stephanopoulos asked then-Speaker Pelosi: “the [Biden] The White House warns of an impending invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainians seem to think this is all hype. Do you believe Putin is about to invade?” Stephanopoulos even asked Pelosi if “Congress [is] do everything you can to prevent an invasion?” The most laughable part was that he asked her: what “does President Putin need to know from you, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, about the consequences of an invasion?”
FIVE TIMES NANCY PELOSI LOST HER COOL WITH THE MEDIA
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is interviewed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. (Screenshot/CNN)
When Democrats lost the House of Representatives mid-election, Pelosi stepped down from her position as leader of the Democrats, but the praise never stopped. On CBS’s “Sunday Morning” in early 2024, replacement host Tracy Smith announced, “House Speaker Emerita who has released a new book, ‘The Art of Power’ — an art that Nancy Pelosi is something of a master.”
Pelosi also gushed, exclaiming that President Joe Biden was at the top of his game. Such a consistent president of the United States, a Mount Rushmore-like president of the United States. Lesley Stahl asked if she was serious: “Lincoln and Joe Biden?” Pelosi underscored it: “You’ve got Teddy Roosevelt up there, and he’s great. I’m not saying take him down, but you can add Biden.”
Stahl simply had to follow up that comedy with flattery: “If there were a Mount Rushmore for the speakers of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi would certainly be there, commemorating her twenty years as a leader in Congress.” If there’s one great achievement on Pelosi’s resume, it has to be how impressively she and her husband enriched themselves while in “public service.”
NANCY PELOSI’S CRITICS CELEBRATE RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Two weeks before the 2024 election, CNN and PBS host Christiane Amanpour read a fiercely anti-Trump passage from Pelosi’s book. It was about his “repeatedly stomping out of meetings, his foul mouth, his pounding on tables, his tantrums, his disrespect for our nation’s patriots, and his complete divorce from reality and actual events.” Then Amanpour asked: ‘How did you deal with that? And do you think this country, your country, can survive another term?’ What would America do without Pelosi?
On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt was gentle. He walked her through the halls of the Capitol, noting that they were “desecrating your office” and one rioter wrote that he wanted to “shoot her in the damn brain.” Pelosi said the memory “breaks your heart. It’s like someone in the White House dropped a bomb on Congress.”
Holt closed with the devout Catholic angle: “You have spoken very loudly in the past about praying for your opponents.” She said, “I always do that,” but today’s Republican Party “descended into a cult.”
Perhaps the most servile interviewer was Geoff Bennett, co-host of PBS NewsHour, who interviewed Pelosi before a PBS audience in California in May. He began by telling the crowd that Pelosi, who did the interview remotely from Boston, “is known for her political leadership, her sharp insights and her truly unique ability to keep Democrats united.”
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS ADVICE
Oddly enough, Bennett was shocked that Democrats weren’t getting credit for the economy: “After discussing Democratic policies, you can objectively say that Democrats had policies that benefited the middle class!” And Joe Biden spent a lot of political capital to pass this into law, and yet it didn’t seem to resonate and resonate with the American people in the last election.”
Stahl simply had to follow up that comedy with flattery: “If there were a Mount Rushmore for the speakers of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi would certainly be there, commemorating her twenty years as a leader in Congress.”
Pelosi generously said that stupid voters shouldn’t be blamed: “If someone doesn’t get a message, it’s not because of them. It’s because of us delivering the message, that we haven’t delivered it clearly enough.”
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP
This didn’t feel like a ‘newsmaker interview’. It felt like a journalistic version of ‘Driving Miss Daisy’.
No one should expect these broadcast networks to live up to the expectation that they will “hold government accountable.” They’re easy to get the hang of as if they were all nervous Nancy Pelosi caucus members.
CLICK HERE TO TIM GRAHAM
