Category Archives: Eye of Newt

Newt Gingrich-related crap. Need I say more? No. I need not.

Newt Gingrich Refuses to Debate President Obama if Reporters Serve As Moderators

Awww! Wittle Newt thinks he’s gonna get to debate Pwesident Obama! How pwecious!

During a campaign stop today, Newt claimed that he won’t debate President Obama if reporters serve as moderators.  Even though every debate is moderated by a reporter of some kind, Newton seems to think he’s special and that he gets to make the rules.  I don’t know what he thinks he’s entitled to — a debate moderated by Colonel Sanders?

It’s kind of cute, in a way.  Cute like a raccoon is cute until you realize it’s rabid and it tries to bite your face off.

What?  I don’t know.

From Think Progress,

GINGRICH: As your nominee in the fall, I will not accept debates in which reporters are the moderators, because I will not accept another Obama person in the debate.

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Has-been Cheater Endorses Has-been Cheater for President

The one black Republican of 2011 to somehow dodge the “uppity n!ggger” charge by patriotic, Constitution-loving Teabaggers has “officially and enthusiastically” endorsed fellow philanderer Newt Gingrich for the presidency.

Herman Cain’s nod to Gingrich, announced in West Palm Beach, Fla., just days before the Sunshine State’s primary, could swing the momentum back toward the former House speaker, as it may effect the large swath of matrimonially disinclined conservative voters who remain unimpressed with Mitt Romney’s 42-year fidelity.

Speaking candidly about his experience with unsheathed beef whistles, Cain had this to say about Gingrich:

I know that Speaker Gingrich is running for president and going through this sausage grinder—I know what this sausage grinder is all about. I know he is going through this sausage grinder because he cares about the future of the United States of America.

Between his excessive reiterations about the “sausage grinder,” Cain managed to utter at least one coherent remark, which lambasted that dirty world of “politics” for creating the inhumane and unrealistic expectation that future leaders of the free world keep their dicks in their pants.

“What does something that happened 20 years ago relative to an ex-wife have to do with fixing America’s problems today?” he asked. “Nothing.”

Whatever.

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Mitt the ‘Milquetoast Massachusetts Moderate’ May Not Be Nominee Material

For those who want a quick and easy re-election for Barack Obama, the ideal outcome of the Republican primary race is to see the president’s supposedly most formidable rival, Mitt Romney, suffer a slow and painful (and scandalized and mortifying) defeat at the pudgy hands of the GOP’s “pneumatically overstuffed” chief narcissist, Newt Gingrich.

#romneystumpspeechfail

And don’t act like you haven’t pictured it: Newt on stage at the GOP convention in Tampa Bay, swiveling his tractor-tire hips as only a fat man can as “Dancing Queen” blares over the loud speaker; his wife, Jackie Battley Marianne Ginther Callista Gingrich standing next to him, the skin on her face stretched back and tucked neatly under her bullet-proof platinum blonde helmet, eyes aglow like polished silver dollars placed over the shrunken sockets of a corpse bride, bleached teeth clenched around an invisible key to her husband’s glitchy chastity belt loving heart in a smile that only the editors of Cosmetic Surgery Magazine could say with a straight face was “natural.”

Hanging behind the podium, a red, white, and blue banner spells out the core of this estranged congressman’s presidential platform—“Big Ideas, Child Slavery, No Blacks”—as Gingrich humbly accepts the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nomination, his supporters cheering like drunk pedophiles at a “Little Miss Sunshine” pageant.

Is it that impossible a scenario?

If you look at each candidate’s pros and cons, it’s more than possible.

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Grandiose Newt Gingrich Wants to Annex the Moon Grandiosely

Whitey on the Moon

Newt Gingrich pandered to the NASA crowd in Florida by claiming that at the end of his first term, a permanent lunar base will be built on the moon, and that the moon could be the 51st state.

From Raw Story:

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday vowed to build a lunar colony that he said could eventually become the 51st state.

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Gingrich, lies, damn lies, and the Palestinian people.

I am a child of the Watergate hearings.

By which I mean: I’m no fool.

I don’t believe that politics and running a country can be anything but an (at least) occasionally dirty business, I don’t believe politicians choose politics for purely altruistic reasons, and I certainly don’t believe that any of them don’t lie, or at least fudge the truth. I say this as a person who campaigned for the current President with the greatest sense of urgency, wept when he was elected, and continue to find him to be an inspiring figure. Has he lied to me yet? I don’t know. He’s probably at least fudged the truth.

Having said that: There’s lying, and then there’s lying. There’s “not purely altruistic,” and then there’s “utterly and cravenly opportunistic.” When I look at the front runners in the GOP field, that’s what I see.

Mitt Romney is famous for his “flip-flopping,” which is a terribly cute little way of saying “lying through his teeth.” The man chose positions that would carry him to power, and now that he wants a different kind of power, in a different venue, he’s chosen different positions. The position is not what matters – the power is what matters. He was for gay people before he was against them, he was for health care before he was against it, and let the chips and the human lives fall where they may.

And then we have Newt Gingrich.

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Gingrich Threatens to Skip Debates if Audience Not Permitted to Act Like Jackasses

Newt has revealed himself to be the proverbial naked emperor.  Instead of having no clothes, he apparently has no debate skills.

Today, he appeared on Fox and Friends to complain about Brian Williams asking last night’s debate audience to hold any applause until the commercial breaks:

In an interview with the morning show “Fox and Friends,” Mr. Gingrich said NBC’s rules amounted to stifling free speech. In what has become a standard line of attack for his anti-establishment campaign, Mr. Gingrich blamed the media for trying to silence a dissenting point of view.

“I wish in retrospect I’d protested when Brian Williams took them out of it because I think it’s wrong,” Mr. Gingrich said. “And I think he took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against the media, which is what they’ve done in every debate.”

You see, for all of his talk about wanting to go toe-to-toe against Obama in a series of seven thousand Lincoln-Douglas style debates, Newt doesn’t want to debate Obama.  He wants to preen for the camera and act like a pompous jerk.  He wants to debate the media and bask in the glowing approval of the debate audience members who think the librul media is trying to turn them in to socialists.

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Gingrich Calls Spanish the 'Language of the Ghetto'

Newt Gingrich has no love for The Browns™. A few years ago, he referred to Spanish as the language of the ghetto, and also lamented the printing of voting ballots in multiple languages:

The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up” to vote, said Gingrich, who is considering seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He made the comments in a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women.

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Tweet of the Day – Mittens vs. Newton at the Florida Debate

***yeah, yeah, it’s the Tweet of yesterday.  I told you I’d be backposting a lot of these because — SQUIRREL!!

 

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Angry Black Book Chat: Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals

Thanks to Newt Gingrich, a new generation is about to be radicalized.

Newt Gingrich mentioned Saul Alinsky twice in his South Carolina Klan rally Primary victory speech. This is a classic example of the coded language of Right-Wing True Believers failing to resonate outside their epistemically closed bubble. Maybe 1% of people who don’t watch Fox News or save screen-shots of Glenn Beck’s chalkboard know who he was, or why they should be frightened that he influenced President Obama somehow.

We here at the Angry Black Lady Chronicles would like to correct this ignorance by inviting you to join us for a book chat. We would like you to read Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals with us, and we’ll have a post each week to review a chapter and invite you to join us in the comments for a discussion. We’ll look to you to share what you’ve learned, what resonated with you, and how you can apply his ideas in your own political organizing for change.  Continue reading

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