During the debate on Monday, Juan Williams asked Newt Gingrich several questions about Gingrich’s recent statements about food stamps and lazy Negroes, statements which served as a racial dog-whistle bullhorn to scrounge up votes in the upcoming South Carolina primary.
Gingrich’s response to Williams, as well as the response of the raucous (mostly white) South Carolina debate crowd aptly exemplifies why Black Republicans are a dying breed:
It’s the reliance on such “facts and data” that allows Gingrich to sleep at night after publicly dubbing Barack Obama “the food stamp president.”
During an exchange with Fox News analyst Juan Williams during a debate in South Carolina on Jan. 16, Gingrich defended previous statements that poor kids lack a strong work ethic, that they should be put to work as janitors (child labor laws be damned), and that black Americans should “demand jobs, not food stamps.”
“Can’t you see that this is viewed, at a minimum, as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?” Williams asked.
“No,” Gingrich responded, to roaring applause and rolling laughter. “I don’t see that.”
“It sounds as if you’re speaking to belittle people,” Williams added later in the exchange.
“Well, first of all, Juan,” Gingrich said, “the fact is, more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.”
The pro-Gingrich Super PAC (Winning the Future) is going hard after Mittens:
Dang. Pay attention Democrats.
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I’m watching Hardball with Tweety and I’m just now seeing Chris Matthews’s interview with Newt Gingrich in which Newt whines about Mittens’s negative ads, and how Mittens should be ashamed and oh! think of the grandchildren!
He has grandchildren. He ought to run a campaign worthy of his grandchildren. He outta take those ads home and show them to his grandchildren… grandpa did this, what do you think of this kind of trash on television- someone being beaten up like this on television? We should run campaigns worthy of our best, not campaigns that demean us to our worst.
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The Romney Administration’s foreign policy strategy was rather obscure even after delivering a 23-minute speech on American “greatness” at the Citadel military academy on Oct. 7, but the looming cloud finally broke Saturday during the Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa.
“On foreign policy,” Romney said, “I would lead like a spineless lackey with Stockholm syndrome, a Yes Man who speaks only when spoken to and asks ‘How high?’ when told to jump by a foreign leader of any or no repute, because I have no self confidence and all I want in life is for someone to like me, and if that means bending over and taking one or two or three for the team—the royal team, the one-man team of me, myself and I—then I’m willing to do it, silently, clandestinely, behind closed doors and without a whimper.”
Those weren’t his exact words, but that’s essentially what he meant when he said that he’d deal with foreign leaders, specifically Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, by asking, “Would it help if I said this? What would you like me to do?” by disagreeing with foreign leaders only “in private,” and by telling allies exactly what they want to hear.
Newt’s baaaaaaack, and stomping hard on all the 90′s era dog whistles:
So more Americans now get food stamps therefore and we now give it away as cash,” Gingrich said of President Obama. “You don’t get food stamps. You get a credit card and the credit card can be used for anything. We’ve had people take their food stamp money and use it to go to Hawaii.”
Only one problem, Newtie. You’re lying out your ass.
Each of Gingrich’s claims about food stamps is so ridiculous — especially for a self-styled policy wonk — that we wondered whether he was really intending to be serious. (By publication time, we did not receive answers to several queries made to his press staff.) But the transcript makes it sound like he wasn’t joking, so we’ll assume he wasn’t. For being so ridiculously wrong in so many ways, we rate his statement Pants on Fire.
Gingrich's Skeletons Await (via The Economist)
The New Hampshire Union Leader may not have a strong track record when it comes to influencing presidential elections, but when international pundits are making the observation that the Republican Party would have to be “feeling particularly suicidal” to award Gingrich the nomination, it’s no-cred fish rags like the Union Leader that give a depressed presidential campaign reason to stay the course, however doomed.
As everyone predicted, the Herman Cain wave crashed, and as a result the former Speaker of the House found himself floating to the top of the polls after six months of being anchored to the bottom of the shallow end of the GOP candidate pool.
Mostly disregarded by the press as a washed-up, burnt-out, has-been shellback whose presidential ambitions were assumed to be recorded as an “also-ran” footnote in whatever post-’90s history books that bothered mentioning him at all, Gingrich is now the undisputed leader of an eight-deep presidential roster, according to polls.
He was next in the line of third-tier candidates to be beckoned from the shadows of irrelevance and emerge as the latest and greatest—if still generally unacceptable and unelectable—conservative alternative to the loathed frontrunner, Mitt Romney.
And that, in essence, is the only real significance of the Union Leader’s endorsement: the slightly more electable, moderately more likeable Mitt Romney was “snubbed” by the largest-circulation newspaper in the first state to hold a primary election in 2012.
The GOP is catering to the lowest common denominator. It boggles my mind that we are still talking about whether or not Obama is a citizen, and whether or not he hates white people, and whether or not he’s the devil reincarnate. The right complains that “libruls” are quick to race-bait; the right doesn’t like to be painted with the racist brush.
Well, maybe the right needs to tell Newt “Contract with America” Gingrich to shut his sconehole because this shit is offensive, it is absurd, and considering the number of American citizens who come from countries that have been historically raped and pillaged by colonialists, it’s a really fucking dumb political strategy:
“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”1
“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” Gingrich tells us.
“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Gingrich continues. “In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”
Really? Obama is out of touch with how the world works? A guy who went to Harvard Law, studied the Constitution, taught constitutional law, was a community organizer who championed the rights of the poor and voiceless, is out of touch with how the world works? Meanwhile Newt and other members of the Asshat Brigade are trying to sell the American people on the idea that if we extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, somehow that’s going to create jobs and reduce the deficit (when economists on both sides of the aisle are citing evidence that the richy riches don’t spend tax cut savings (thus stimulating the economy) but rather add it to their pile of money. And, the Asshat Brigade keeps spewing this nonsense even though Americans just aren’t buying it.
Come the fuck on, people.
If you want to read the D’Souza’s article, you can find it here. Be prepared for a brain explosion or two. It’s the most ridiculous shit I’ve ever read. Here are some snippets:
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On Monday, Sonia Sotomayor broke her ankle in a rush to catch a plane out of New York City’s LaGuardia Airport to attend meetings with various Senators in Washington, D.C. She stopped at the White House first, than popped over to a clinic to get x-rays, a cast, and some crutches before heading back to the Hill for her meetings.
Yesterday, The Huffington Post published this story:
