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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewt Almost Kills a Hog (careful, graphic)
The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich
by Gail Sheehy
Vanity Fair September 1995
One day, Newt says to me, I need to be the one to kill the hog. Its only right, just morally.
Carter showed Newt how to use a Walther P-38, a W.W. II German pistol. I said, Put some corn in your left hand. When the pig comes over to get it, put the pistol against his head and shoot him between his eyes.
So the pig comes over and he starts eating, says Carter. Newt flinches as the round hits the pig on the side of the head and ricochets down. But the shot only stunned the hog and sent it fleeing back into the pen. Newt keeps trying to get this pig to come back to him. Newts getting madder and madder. I said to him, You just shot the son of a bitch in the head, Newt, why do you think hes gonna come to you?
Carter recalls urging his comrade-in-arms, You gotta get in there, in the hogpen, and go get him. But Newt wouldnt do it. So I ended up going in the pen and killing the hog.
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Newt Almost Kills a Hog (careful, graphic) (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2012
OP
Wouldn't that would be suicide? (And as a thrice-married good Catholic lad, Neut could never do it.)
11 Bravo
Jan 2012
#1
that story, short and bitter, plus the cartoon..... are just brilliant, it sums up the existential
stockholmer
Jan 2012
#2
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)1. Wouldn't that would be suicide? (And as a thrice-married good Catholic lad, Neut could never do it.)
stockholmer
(3,751 posts)2. that story, short and bitter, plus the cartoon..... are just brilliant, it sums up the existential
revulsion I feel towards power-hate slammed into the moral solar plexus of life.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)3. Whew!1 Do I ever need a shower after plowing through all that documentation of filth!1
And besides his own mess of a life, it figures that he plays it out from chickenhawk John WAYNE scripts.
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)4. Wow. He is a troubled individual.
Read the whole story at link. Rejected by two fathers? Yeah, that explains a lot.
Nevermind the various forms of depression he may suffer from, he's a malignant narcissist.
Julie