{"id":487851,"date":"2021-05-09T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487851"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:40:22","slug":"pelosi-tweets-wrong-photo-of-black-baseball-player-in-failed-attempt-to-wish-willie-mays-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-tweets-wrong-photo-of-black-baseball-player-in-failed-attempt-to-wish-willie-mays-happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Tweets Wrong Photo Of Black Baseball Player In Failed Attempt To Wish Willie Mays Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-tweets-wrong-photo-of-black-baseball-player-in-failed-attempt-to-wish-willie-mays-happy-birthday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487851&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted a happy birthday message to Hall of Fame baseball player Willie Mays for his 90th birthday on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cHappy 90th Birthday to an all-American icon, Willie Mays. A trailblazing, record-breaking baseball player, civil rights leader, and champion for youth sports and well-being, Willie Mays is a civic legend and national treasure,\u201d Pelosi\u2019s tweet said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The only problem was the photo she used was not of her and Mays.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7187807\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7187807\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7187807 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/E031i9-VEAc9-vp-447x620-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pelosi Failed While Wishing Willie Mays Happy Birthday\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7187807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original birthday message with a picture of Willie McCovey. (Screenshot\/Twitter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/27\/cuomo-lindsey-boylan-tara-reade-nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The speaker\u2019s<\/a> original tweet included an image of her and Willie McCovey, another Hall of Fame player for the San Francisco Giants, who died in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s account later corrected the mistake, deleting the tweet and replacing it with a picture of her and the Say Hey Kid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.882530120482\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy 90th Birthday to an all-American icon, Willie Mays. A trailblazing, record-breaking baseball player, civil rights leader, and champion for youth sports and well-being, Willie Mays is a civic legend and national treasure. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SayHey90?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SayHey90<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KLinpgJ0yL\">https:\/\/t.co\/KLinpgJ0yL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hlpnU4nYpH\">pic.twitter.com\/hlpnU4nYpH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerPelosi\/status\/1390457196455112704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Mays and McCovey played a number of years together on the same San Francisco Giants team, and the organization has retired both of their jersey numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/catholic-church-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pelosi<\/a> has represented San Francisco in Congress since 1987.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">In a statement to KCBS radio, Pelosi\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kcbsradio\/news\/local\/nancy-pelosi-mistakes-giants-willie-mccovey-for-willie-mays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed<\/a> the mistake on a staffer.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/29\/kamala-harris-and-nancy-pelosi-take-the-stage-looking-just-like-lloyd-and-harry-literally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: The Last Time We Saw This Color Configuration, Lloyd And Harry Were Busy Spending Someone Else\u2019s Money)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA staffer inadvertently selected the wrong photo for the tweet. The photo we wanted to use was of the Speaker and Willie Mays at Willie McCovey\u2019s August 2018 wedding. The quickly deleted photo was the wrong photo from the right wedding. We apologize for the error.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted a happy birthday message to Hall of Fame baseball player Willie Mays for his 90th birthday on Thursday.\u201cHappy 90th Birthday to an all-American icon, Willie &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277585,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/E031i9-VEAc9-vp-447x620-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Pelosi Tweets Wrong Photo Of Black Baseball Player In Failed Attempt To Wish Willie Mays Happy Birthday","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/E031i9-VEAc9-vp-447x620-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Pelosi Tweets Wrong Photo Of Black Baseball Player In Failed Attempt To Wish Willie Mays Happy Birthday","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}