‘Star Power’: CNN Falls in Love With Nancy Pelosi Putting on Sunglasses

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 12, 2018
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After CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon professed their love for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Tuesday night, their colleague Erin Burnett ended Wednesday’s OutFront with another fawning tribute to Pelosi’s “star power”. This one was filed by comedic (?) reporter Jeanne Moos. The smarmy report boasted about Pelosi’s new-found fame on social media and actually tried to make Cuomo and Lemon’s ridiculous “Nanchuck” nickname something that stuck.

Starting with “that now-famous Oval Office meeting” where President Trump duked it out with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over immigration and border security, Moos touted how “[t]here was a lot of shade thrown, but when Nancy Pelosi put on shades for exactly five seconds, that became the moment her fans immortalized.”

Moos read numerous tweets from liberals also falling for Pelosi:

“Pelosi like a rock star.” “That look when you just got finished manhandling a man baby.” “The new power suit for women, red coat, sunglasses, nerves of steel.” “For a politician who almost saw her position as House speaker to be blown up, it must be sweet to be compared to the cool dude in CSI:  Miami.”

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