Pelosi’s vision
Actress Tiny Fey got a lot of deserved laughs for her dead-on “Saturday Night Live” portrayal of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who said during her 2008 vice presidential campaign that she could see Russia from her state. In the Bering Sea, after all, one island belonging to Russia and one island belonging to the United States are less than two and a half miles apart, so it’s totally possible.
Whether U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gets as much lampooning over her recent statement remains to be seen, but she, unlike Palin, could not see what she claimed to see.
The California representative, seeking to establish legitimacy with last week’s detention by Iran of two U.S. boats that had strayed into Iranian water, claimed she had viewed Iran from Bahrain across the Persian Gulf, and that “everything is very close.”
Apparently, she didn’t think anybody would do the research, but U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., did. Iran, he tweeted, is 136 miles away from Bahrain, and is definitely not visible from there.