Okay, so there’s this old photograph been making the rounds, purportedly of a very young Nancy Pelosi in a pointy-boob swimsuit being feted as Miss Lube Rack of 1959. Uncle Joel slavered like Little Bear with his own rawhide bone: A gift from the blogging gods! The snark would write itself!
Alas, Uncle Joel had had his coffee. He heeded the still, small voice in the back of his brain that whispered Kill them! Kill them all! No, not that voice. This was the sensible one that shows up about once a month and says, “Too good to be true, bub. Might want to fact-check that. Won’t take a minute.”
First, the sweet young thang in the photo doesn’t look a bit like Nancy Pelosi. Granted Pelosi’s alleged to have had a lot of work done in the intervening, er, century. But still. I wouldn’t guess that for Nancy Pelosi. Second, Pelosi comes from Old Politics and it’s very difficult to imagine her doing such a thing, even if she were so inclined, in 1959 without ending up in a nunnery. In Mozambique.
Turns out still small voice was right. Delicious rumor not true. But even so, the Snopes link brought a little bit of Monday goodness:
Sheesh. Is that a politics nerd mafia, or what? And she already had those disturbing eyes, way back then…
At first read,I ws inclined to say that there aren’t any photographs of a young nancy pelosi,cause cameras hadn’t been invented yet.But you found one,I stand corrected.
Bill
Wait… The hag has had work done? No wonder she’s out to vindictively destroy health care.
Couldn’t she just sue for malpractice like everyone else?
Dammit Bear, I should know by now not to read your posts with my mouth full of coffee. What a mess …
The Snopes article has a link to the original photos by Life magazine of the event that the ‘Miss Lube Rack’ picture came from. Those are fun to look at, lots of 1950 era swimsuits and hype. Helps wash away the bad taste from the Pelosi photos!