Last Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to Orange County, this nation's famed hotbed of the political Right, and all we got were these–well, okay–great photographs of demonstrators.
As my colleague Spencer Kornhaber noted in an earlier post,
certain quarters of our county still haven't warmed to Pelosi,
President Barack Obama, healthcare reform or liberalism. Some
protesters carried poster of the Democratic House Speaker's face
mounted on a witch's body and flying a broom or wearing a Nazi uniform
and saluting Hitler. Others attacked the president, one calling him a
“liar, fake, fascist and dangerous.” Oh, and in the view of many others
there, he's also a “communist” who should be impeached. One woman
declared, “Liberalism is a mental disorder,” a young girl declared,
“Hands off my piggybank,” and another participant rhymed: “Roses are
red. Violets are blue. Obama's a communist and Pelosi is too.”
But inside the sold out Orange County Democratic Party's annual Harry S Truman Awards Dinner, Pelosi was treated as a hero.
After the jump: A collection of photos by Chris Victorio.
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CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.