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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGingrich Says ‘Work’ Is A ‘Strange, Distant Concept’ To Juan Williams
Source: Think Progress
Newt Gingrich launched a now-infamous tirade against moderator Juan Williams during Monday nights GOP debate after Williams dared to ask him if he could understand why some African-Americans were offended by Gingrichs obsession with food stamps and child labor. No, I dont see that, Gingrich sneered back.
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Today, during a campaign stop in South Carolina, Gingrich recalled his exchange with Williams and used the same kind of suggestive language that Williams had objected to this time directed at Williams himself:
Many pundits have seen racial undertones in Gingrichs belittling of Williams during the debate. Thats the way I like to spend my Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: watching Newt Gingrich sneer at Juan Williams, a black man, for having the temerity to ask him a tough question, New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote.
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Today, during a campaign stop in South Carolina, Gingrich recalled his exchange with Williams and used the same kind of suggestive language that Williams had objected to this time directed at Williams himself:
GINGRICH: I had a very interesting dialogue Monday night in Myrtle Beach with Juan Williams about the idea of work, which seemed to Juan Williams to be a strange, distant concept.
Many pundits have seen racial undertones in Gingrichs belittling of Williams during the debate. Thats the way I like to spend my Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: watching Newt Gingrich sneer at Juan Williams, a black man, for having the temerity to ask him a tough question, New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/20/408473/gingrich-says-work-is-a-strange-concept-to-juan-williams/
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Gingrich Says ‘Work’ Is A ‘Strange, Distant Concept’ To Juan Williams (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jan 2012
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. When's the last time Newt lifted a finger? I'll bet he's NEVER cleaned a toilet.
malaise
(268,695 posts)4. He doesn't even comb his hair
His holy hairspray queen does that for him daily
treestar
(82,383 posts)2. I don't see Newt doing much real work
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. Newt knows as much about real work as he does about marital fidelity.
no_hypocrisy
(46,021 posts)5. Newt's employing his favorite device of Freudian projection again.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)6. Racist, dog-whistle-blowing scumbag.
It's going to be a real pleasure watching that SOB crash and burn.
spanone
(135,791 posts)7. where is mr williams 'come back'? has he nothing to say after being chastised?
fuck newt the racist
bigtree
(85,975 posts)8. when was the last time Gingrich actually 'worked?'
what a joke
yardwork
(61,538 posts)9. Newt's blatant racism may win him the SC primary but it won't work nationwide.
Mopar151
(9,975 posts)10. I's like to see Newtie after a 10 hour day of real WORK
Like mowing his own damm lawn.......
winstars
(4,219 posts)11. Williams clearly doesn't identify with Mr. Tibbs slapping the shit out of the old white mans face
in "In The Heat Of The Night" I would not have thought so anyway...
Maven
(10,533 posts)12. Newt is a worthless piece of shit.
End of story.
Raine
(30,540 posts)13. Noot's a piece of racist shit.
_ed_
(1,734 posts)14. He just won South Carolina
Newt blew the dog whistle, the right people in South Carolina (the only place that's still racist enough to fly the fucking Confederate flag) heard him clearly. The "Southern Strategy" still works.