White House counselor Kellyanne Conway took aim at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif) Sunday on Fox News for refusing to condemn a sexist joke told by Rep. Cedric Richmond (D., La.) earlier this month.
Richmond joked at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner on March 1 that Conway looked "familiar" in a position on her knees, referencing a viral photo of Conway kneeling on a sofa in the Oval Office.
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"You even mentioned Kellyanne and that picture on that sofa," Richmond said during his speech to Republican Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.). "I really want to know what was going on there because she really looked kind of familiar in that position there, but don't answer."
Pelosi has subsequently been asked about Richmond's joke and refused to condemn it.
On Sunday, Conway called out Pelosi for not criticizing the remark.
"Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, no wonder she was a two-term speaker [of the House]. And a majority of the voters were female across the country, and they did not want her to be speaker anymore," Conway said.
"I was very disappointed in her. She either wasn't telling the truth that she was not aware of it, or its not important enough to her caucus that they would bring this to her attention," the White House counselor added.
"She had nothing to say about a Democratic congressman, a member of her caucus, issuing such a tasteless, sexist joke, which a lot of liberals in the room did not think was funny and brought to my attention immediately," Conway said.