Newt: the left is worse than terrorists

[Ed Barrow]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday said that "secular socialism" has "infiltrated" the nation's courts, the Congress, academia, the bureaucracy, Hollywood and the news media and is "even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists."

"In the 20th Century, America fought and defeated Nazism, Fascism, Imperialism and Communism — four existential threats to our survival,” he writes. “In this century, America is facing two different kinds of threats, though no less grave,” Gingrich continued. “This time, the threat does not come from nation-state superpowers, but from non-state networks, each pursuing an agenda based upon radical ideologies.”

The first threat the Georgia Republican identifies is “non-state terrorist networks to kill Americans.”

"But even more disturbing than the threats from foreign terrorists is a second threat that is right here at home," he writes. "It is an ideology so fundamentally at odds with historic American values that it threatens to undo the cultural ethics that have made our country great. I call it 'secular-socialism.'

"The Left has thoroughly infiltrated nearly every cultural commanding height of our civilization," he says. "That is, they hold power, influence and control of academia, the elite news media, Hollywood, union leaders, trial lawyers, the courts, the Congress, and the bureaucracy at all levels of government."

“Barack Obama is the most radical President in American history," he goes on. "His administration combines the radicalism of Saul Alinsky, the corruption of Springfield, and the machine politics of Chicago. If they succeed in completing their agenda while in power, America will face becoming a European-style, high-tax, big-bureaucracy, low-economic-growth state.”



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37489.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Why does anyone even bother giving him a moment's thought anymore?

[donco6]

2. You mean we still have a chance to be more like Europe?

Cool.

[WCGreen]

3. Newt, no mater how many five dollar words you toss around....

you are still just a thug in a white shirt...

You have more mumbo jumbo than any high falutin' liberal you chose to deride at any chance and yet every thing you stand for has been proven to be disastrous when put in to play...

[bluestateguy]

4. If he doesn't like America he can leave

Any American who seems to hate this country as much as he does is welcome to take up residence elsewhere.

[rurallib]

19. let him move to Saudi Arabia.

they sound like his kind of country.

[Angry Dragon]

5. newt is just pissed because

he was unable to destroy this country while he was in office. seems he wants another try. Notice how when he talks it looks and smells like diarrhea??

[izquierdista]

6. He used to teach history??

:rofl: :rofl: He combines the intellectual depth of W. Bush, the fidelity of Hugh Hefner, and the political success of Harold Stassen.

[sakabatou]

7. Projecting yourself doesn't help you, Newt

[hayu_lol]

9. Gingrich is a disease...

time will take care of the problem for us. Or, a really unhappy wife will.

[villager]

12. +1

[KonaKane]

8. After reading "Obama is the most radical president in history"

I broke into a laughing fit that almost made me pass out.

[reggie the dog]

39. Andrew Jackson the great Indian killer

was pretty damn radical if you ask me....

[Bitwit1234]

10. Because they know the media is all the time republican

they have to keep repeating it is liberal so the ignorant masses that follow them blindly will be reminded of this. Any body with 1/5 of a mind knows full well we have no LIBERAL MEDIA.

[villager]

11. Since the right is currently producing actual terrorists, it's another classic case of projection

But then, all of right wing "philosophy" is based on clinical projection...

[tomm2thumbs]

13. 'the sky is falling' only works for so long when no one is getting hit on the head by sky

at some point, it all becomes background noise and loses its power

[Oedipus W. Bush]

14. Newt's desperate plea for relevancy has become pathetic.

His screeching of his current buzzwords of evil is very reminiscent of his GOPAC list of words he taught republican candidates to parrot in the 80's and 90's. Sadly for the loathsome and odious Newt, the followers he trained to vote based on hatred now hate him.

[Bryn]

15. Did Newt forget to take his meds?

He sounds crazy!

[Raine]

16. Fuck off Newt, you're irrelevant

you old philandering hypocrite.

[Make7]

17. If 'The Left' controls the media, why is HE on my tv all the fucking time? ( n/t )

[treestar]

18. What a friggin' drama queen

Our survival has never been threatened.

[QC]

20. It is a good thing for Gingrich that America has become more secular,

because in the old days for which he longs, a serial adulterer like Gingrich would have no place in public life.

[HillbillyBob]

35. Oh I long for the days of putting adulterous, philandering,

lying, traitors in the stocks in the village square to be publicly humiliated and laughed at....

[QC]

40. I would certainly be fun to thow some rotten produce on Gingrich, wouldn't it? n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. He's a complete jerk.

Always was, always will be.

[applegrove]

22. Newt is obviously in the race. He's playing to the teabaggers. Watch Romney to follow.

[unkachuck]

23. " I call it 'secular-socialism.' "

....well, I call it, 'Republican bullshit'....the only domestic threat this democracy is facing is from corporate fascists, like yourself, who will stop at nothing in order to loot and pillage the American society for the rich and few....

....spreading lies, perverting our electoral system, destroying our governmental institutions, raping our population with predatory capitalism, destroying jobs while melting-down our economy is what you and Republicans are all about....

....and do you know what? The American people have figured that out....

[Johonny]

24. he Left has thoroughly infiltrated nearly every cultural commanding height of our civilization

which is why Newt, Sara Palin, mayor 9/11 etc are on 24/7 and Gary Hart of Mike Dukakis can't get arrested on TV. Yes we liberals are in control we just happen to love listening to Rush Limbaugh, watching Glenn Beck and the 700 club. How dumb do you have to be to believe this theory?

[vercetti2021]

25. This guy is a total goon

Hey Newt if you think that way, GTFO of the united states and free us of your stupidity. That is all :)

[DemoTex]

26. Newt slimed a good friend of mine to win the GA 6th (US Congress) in 1978

But Jack Flynt retired after his 1976 term, and 1978 was Gingrich's year. His Democratic opponent was Virginia Shapard, a state senator. The campaign was so rough that Shapard is still more than a little bitter about it. "It was, early on, that same sort of technique that you saw in this last campaign at the presidential level," she says, "the Willie Horton type of thing." Gingrich, seeking to drive Shapard to the left and carve out the middle and right for himself, campaigned as a hard, no-tax, anti-welfare conservative. One Gingrich ad, which Shapard says was particularly effective, showed hands reaching out and grabbing at a pile of dollar bills-taxpayer dollars-"and this voice-over said, 'Virginia Shapard says she's against welfare fraud, but she voted against...' and then they cited the bill number, and it was absolutely devastating."

More at "Good Newt, Bad Newt" - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/boyernewt2.html

Virginia Shapard, Newt's Democratic opponent in his first national race in 1978, was a good friend of mine.

[depakid]

27. Newt has long since lost the plot- but he's starting to sound paranoid and delusional

as in- syptomatic of mental illness.

[LeftishBrit]

28. Nothing worse than being like a Europaean country!

'"The Left has thoroughly infiltrated nearly every cultural commanding height of our civilization," he says. "That is, they hold power, influence and control of academia, the elite news media, Hollywood, union leaders, trial lawyers, the courts, the Congress, and the bureaucracy at all levels of government"'


He sounds like the reincarnation of Joe McCarthy. Ugh.

[upi402]

29. Newt, named after a small slimy lizard

Maybe if we all chip in and get his ass some therapy he'll stop messing up the nation.

[krabigirl]

30. lol when windbags like him talk, it drives more and more people to be secular

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

31. So is Dennis Miller going to switch sides again?

Remember, he liked to claim that it was because of anonymous liberals at some cocktail party comparing Giuliani to Hitler that he just had to go Republican.

Dennis has been awfully quiet about the constant Nazi comparisons from prominent Republicans and his FOX and talk radio co-stars

[Rex]

32. HAHA! Poor stupid Newt creature! Too late the Baggers are going

to destroy all that you and Rove built! It is way late for your one trick pony act! Won't work and now I can't wait to watch the Baggers eat your political career. Newt is trying to do damage control and will be eaten by rabid Baggers...just give it time.

[scarface2004]

33. newt is infiltrated with 'fat assholeism'

e s and d!!!

[Mojeoux]

34. Newt is a Puke-Douche

A barf bag. Newt is a waste of space.

"Something is happening and you don't know what it is...do you Mr Jones?"
B. Dylan

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. Newt is certainly articulate

When he's done speaking, a teabagger has no clue what he said. But they like it.

Democrats could use some Newt-like leaders. People who can wield a majority to get things done, who can shove a majority position into the opposition's face. Our leaders seem too focused on appeasement.

[Dr Morbius]

37. So is he an idiot or simply a liar?

If only the left did hold power somewhere, like the Congress.

[reggie the dog]

38. He wants a civil war,

seriously he is educated, he knows basically every country in europe is further to the left than the usa and that they function fine and that people still have rights. He just wants a civil war. So if the left in the USA is worse than terrorists and the right in France, Germany, Spain,Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland etc is farther to the left than the left in the USA he basically thinks that the ENTIRE EUROPEAN UNION is worse than terrorists. If he wants a war against us BRING IT ON, we will kick the shit out of your weakend christian fanatic army and then take over the usa.