Madame Speaker Gets a Haircut
And having been found out, she wants an apology from the shop owner.
By WSJ Editors
Sept. 2, 2020 7:22 pm ET
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi adjusts her hair as she speaks during a Day of Action For the Children event at Mission Education Center Elementary School in San Francisco, Sept. 2.
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Six months ago we suggested that many of the elected officials ordering economic shutdowns across the nation failed to understand the human misery they were causing. That thesis now sits atop a mountain of supporting evidence, and it would be easier to take if so many mayors weren’t caught visiting gyms, hair salons and restaurants in violation of ordinances the mayors themselves had imposed.
The news that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday visited a San Francisco hair salon, against standing city ordinances, was the latest exhibition of privileged unconcern. The Speaker—a forceful proponent of the lockdown orthodoxy—is seen in a security camera video, robed and hair wet, moving from one room to another in an otherwise closed salon. In San Francisco, salons and barbershops have been closed since March. Beginning Tuesday, they could offer services but only outdoors.
The salon’s owner, Erica Kious, rents chairs to independent stylists, one of whom came in to work on the Speaker’s hair. Ms. Kious resented the presumption. “It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know,” she told a Fox News reporter, “that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work.”
After she was found out, Mrs. Pelosi told local ABC News Wednesday that “I take responsibility for falling for a set up.” And she’s demanding an apology from the salon owner. Does Mrs. Pelosi mean she was lured to get her hair done against her will?
We don’t begrudge the Speaker an attractive coiffure. Nor do we care if she wore a mask (in the video she isn’t wearing one). We doubt she has endangered anyone’s health. Establishments like the one Mrs. Pelosi visited typically exhibit a high regard for the health and safety of customers because infections are bad for business.
What is offensive, however, is our liberal glitterati’s let-them-eat-cake indifference to the nation’s shop owners and wage earners. Do they remember what it means to work for a living?
And having been found out, she wants an apology from the shop owner.
By WSJ Editors
Sept. 2, 2020 7:22 pm ET
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi adjusts her hair as she speaks during a Day of Action For the Children event at Mission Education Center Elementary School in San Francisco, Sept. 2.
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Six months ago we suggested that many of the elected officials ordering economic shutdowns across the nation failed to understand the human misery they were causing. That thesis now sits atop a mountain of supporting evidence, and it would be easier to take if so many mayors weren’t caught visiting gyms, hair salons and restaurants in violation of ordinances the mayors themselves had imposed.
The news that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday visited a San Francisco hair salon, against standing city ordinances, was the latest exhibition of privileged unconcern. The Speaker—a forceful proponent of the lockdown orthodoxy—is seen in a security camera video, robed and hair wet, moving from one room to another in an otherwise closed salon. In San Francisco, salons and barbershops have been closed since March. Beginning Tuesday, they could offer services but only outdoors.
The salon’s owner, Erica Kious, rents chairs to independent stylists, one of whom came in to work on the Speaker’s hair. Ms. Kious resented the presumption. “It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know,” she told a Fox News reporter, “that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work.”
After she was found out, Mrs. Pelosi told local ABC News Wednesday that “I take responsibility for falling for a set up.” And she’s demanding an apology from the salon owner. Does Mrs. Pelosi mean she was lured to get her hair done against her will?
We don’t begrudge the Speaker an attractive coiffure. Nor do we care if she wore a mask (in the video she isn’t wearing one). We doubt she has endangered anyone’s health. Establishments like the one Mrs. Pelosi visited typically exhibit a high regard for the health and safety of customers because infections are bad for business.
What is offensive, however, is our liberal glitterati’s let-them-eat-cake indifference to the nation’s shop owners and wage earners. Do they remember what it means to work for a living?
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