Newt's spectacular hypocrisy on This Week. Are they incapable of hearing themselves?

[Hamlette]

after Columbine he blamed the event on liberals who have ruined our society. He was asked on This Week if he still felt that way and he said yes and blathered something about god etc.

then he said Reid said the most irresponsible, despicable thing anyone has ever said (the dems will pick up seats in congress as a result of Iraq) because it used a horrible thing, a war, for political gain.

And saying columbine was the result of liberals was NOT using a horrible thing to score political points?

Breath taking.

[Neecy]

1. I saw that, too

This whole 'liberals are the reason for mass slaughters' garbage is a diversion from the real problem - the NRA's death grip on the Republican party. Typical GOP bait and switch.

[Solly Mack]

2. Newt's (Scary) View of Himself

Newt's Scary View of Himself

"I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to." Newt Gingrich"

"Newt's friends have told me that his primary references are movies. They have informed his heroic ideal. "When he watches John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart on TV, he lives out these movies," says Melvin Steely, a former colleague at West Georgia College."

"I'm a mythical person," says Newt, no stranger to revolutions. "I had a period of thinking that I would have been called 'Newt the McPherson,' as in Robert the Bruce."

"Robert the Bruce," Newt continues, "is the guy who would not, could not, avoid fighting...He carried the burden of being Scotland." Like the Bruce, Newt feels he must carry the burden of being his nation."

[Dude_CalmDown]

3. They don't have to make sense - just have to say what the idiots want to hear.

And it seems the more asinine they sound the more their idiots love em.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. I saw part of that....does Stephanopoulos do ANYTHING to deserve his job?

does he know the meaning of "followup question?"

that was the most disgraceful display I've seen of journalistic cowardice since, well, since the last journalist 'confronted' a member of the BFEE klan.

it simply STUNS me every time I see pablum like this, particularly in contrast with the VERY AGRESSIVE manner in which I've seen Stephie confronts almost every dem he's had on

am I delusional in this; merely viewing these interviews through my grossly liberal/progressive/communist lenses?

what an appalling performance

[Hamlette]

9. I know! I've been screaming all morning "ask: So if Reid had said the Iraq war

shows everything that conservatives, religion, republicans have done to destroy our country and the world? it would have been fine?"

When Newt objected Steph should have asked: "how is that different from you taking advantage of the Columbine tragedy for policial gain?"

Are they afraid they can't get big names to come on their shows if they ask questions?

The one good thing is how bad Newt looked. I'm sure there are Americans out there thinking "these people have gone completely mad".

The press is making themselves more irrelevant every day.

Long live the net! All power to the people.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. wasn't that segment infuriating? why was he even there? he should have

just let Newt read off the list of questions, then proceed to his uninterrupted soliloquy. I really couldn't believe the way GS just went from one question, to Newt's outrageous response, to the next question.

the ONLY time I heard him say anything to dispute him, was a VERY weakly, almost whined, "what does liberalism have to do with Columbine?" (or something close to that), at which point he dropped the whole thing, and went on to another question

what a little WORM!

[tabasco]

5. For today's nazis, it's liberals that cause all problewms in the world.

For yesterday's nazis, it was the Jews.

[Deja Q]

6. Isn't this the same guy who married many times AND cheated on his wife?

He must be one hell of a liberal then. :eyes:

Besides, he sides with the camp that loved Margaret Thatcher. You know the quote, "There is no such thing as a society. Only individual men, women, and families."

I agree we all have to move forward as a country, but this attacking on their parts and ours will get us nowhere in the end. That or we really aren't a society so when they attempt to say we were, they lost credibility even before saying others caused it.

[Jim__]

8. But that was all before 9/11.

Everything is different now! Besides, newt has now found Jesus. :sarcasm:

[Clark2008]

11. Newt could never find Jesus.

In order to find Jesus, he'd have to go where Jesus lives: with the old, the poor, the downtrodden and the diseased.

I can't imagine Newt ever going somewhere like that.

[Buzz Clik]

7. Gingrich entire episode was awesome.

His idiocy about Reid. Columbine. His declaration that Va Tech would have been a lot different if the students were allowed to carry concealed weapons. It was endless.

For a guy with some smarts, he sure shows a lot of stupid.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. too bad wimpy little George didn't ask that fat prick what AGE would be

acceptable for kids to start packing, and if he thought that high school kids with guns could have stopped Columbine

[pretzel4gore]

10. gingritch is actually very smart....

maybe reading too much into this, but newt must be intentionally being hypocritical; knowing even the fool freeepers will have to see it (the entire gopig establishment is in a fricking bind, I tell ya! they can't abandon their heroo; but they don't want the costs of what bush has done to continue spiralling, for the kids' sake if nothing else- they have to drop/free Iraq, and they need to get rid of all the bush crowd, but HOW!? How do you do that?) They're like the crew of the SoS Dubia, with water pouring in the hold, and all the stolen loot weighing the ship down, and junyer is in the lifeboat hanging there up by the bridge with the rest of the scaredy cat 'pirates' but the loyal freepers/crew like gingritch can't just free the winch brake and set bush lifeboat etc adrift cuz, well the whole fukkin world is watching and there are ROCKS dead ahead and oooh!...hahaha

[ComerPerro]

14. worst thing is, no one in the media feels it is their job to call them on their bullshit

[depakid]

15. What's required here is a good old fashioned verbal ass whuppin'

Complete with scorn, derision and ridicule.

Trouble is, the corporate media protects their wayward little darling from such encounters- and most Dems or commentators wouldn't go there anyway, because they're either too "polite" or too timid to call a spade a spade, even though Newt has no problem going there himself.

If a few articulate, plain spoken progressives with command of the facts were to dog his act, Newt would quickly be seen for what he is... and what he stands for.