Gingrich is humping his new book,
To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular Socialist Machine. Nothing inflammatory there. Right?
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/29/gingrich-nazi-walkback/Yet, the editorial board
gives Newt a beatdown and has him backtracking throughout the entire interview.An excerpt:
Newt Gingrich sat down with the Des Moines Register editorial board this week to discuss his new book To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular Socialist Machine. Right at the start of the interview, a Register editor asked if Gingrich thinks
“voters are stupid since they elected President Obama in 2008.” The former Speaker walked back the entire premise of his book. “The whole question of the scale of change has nothing to do with Obama,” he said. :wow:
Later in the hour-long interview, Gingrich backtracked even further.
“I’m not here saying Obama is the bad guy and if he wasn’t there things would be good.” Soon after, the Register editor called Gingrich out:
DMR EDITOR: I was really taken aback by something you just said, in that “I”m not here saying Obama is the bad guy.”
In your book you say, “The President’s secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.” That sure sounds like you think he’s a bad guy with bad ideas. Gingrich again tried to distance himself from the fiery rhetoric in his book, simply saying that the “secular socialist machine” is taking over “traditional America” without linking Obama to it.
More at link. Hilarity ensues. He just makes shit up.