Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi Quote Slamming Obama Advisers Is False

Susan Crabtree | October 3, 2011, 3:33PM

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

Some tough words from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) about President Obama and his team's communications strategy were raising eyebrows in Washington Monday morning, but that was before Pelosi disavowed the quote and Newsweek's Daily Beast admitted a mistake and retracted it.

"I think you need to talk about how poorly they [the White House] do on message," Pelosi is quoted as saying in a story by Howard Kurtz. "They can't see around corners; they anticipate nothing."

Pelosi's office quickly denied having ever made the comments, and Newsweek/Daily Beast has since issued a broad correction.

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Howard Kurtz

Issa Slaps Down Kurtz Claim That Ex-Aide 'Impersonated' Him

Eric Lach | March 11, 2011, 8:39AM

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Howie Kurtz

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) tells TPM that he has no reason to believe his former spokesperson, Kurt Bardella, deliberately tried to impersonate him in a conversation with The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz last year, despite what Kurtz has said.

Last weekend, on his CNN show "Reliable Sources," Kurtz interviewed Politico editor-in-chief John Harris about the bizarre email scandal that cost Bardella his job as spokesperson for Issa. During the segment, Kurtz made mention of his own Bardella incident.

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