Lecturer-in-Chief: Gingrich pledges, as President, to teach an online course for entire nation

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GINGRICH: ‘I THINK I WILL PROBABLY TRY TO TEACH A COURSE WHEN I’M PRESIDENT’

During a campaign event today, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said that, if he wins the election, he will hold an online course laying out the things that he expects to accomplish during his time in office. In announcing this idea, Gingrich poked fun at recent reports that he has received millions of dollars from, among others, mortgage giant Freddie Mac and the pharmaceutical drug industry:


By the way, I think I will probably teach a course when I’m president. I think I will probably try to do something that outlines for the whole country what we’re going to try to accomplish, and offer it online sort of like the University of Phoenix or Kaplan. So that way if the country wants, they can sign up. It would be free. Although given the news media’s assumptions about me, oh he’ll probably charge $100 a piece so I can get rich. No! It’ll be free. But the idea would be, why wouldn’t you want a president in the age of social media to methodically in an organized way share with you what they’re going to try to accomplish, so that those people who want to understand it can understand it.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/21/373813/gingrich-teach-course/


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[opihimoimoi]

1. The BULLY idiot wants to teach How to SCAM and look good at same time

Hateful and Spiteful...the GOPers Blame on

Newt is Kaput

[FSogol]

2. Gingrich envisions a golden age of grifting!

:puke:

[joeybee12]

3. Why does he need a whole class to explain that he's trying to phuck the American people?

Shortest class ever.

[marmar]

4. Preview of the class:

[malaise]

5. Bashir will respond to his call for child labor

and his attack on the OWS' protesters around 3.00pm on GEMSNBComcast.

[Old and In the Way]

6. So he's running for POTUS so he can become an online professor?

Gawd, these Republican candidates are getting more silly by the day.

[Aerows]

9. It's like they are in a race to see

who can be the most ridiculous and crazy.

[snooper2]

7. "like the University of Phoenix"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Aerows]

8. He's not arrogant at all

:sarcasm:

Just what I want - a politician who needs to teach me a class so that I can understand what he is talking about. Here's a clue, Newt: If you can't communicate well enough for people to be aware of your position, you need a new line of work because you aren't cut out to be a politician.

[guitar man]

10. So what website is going to host his course?

AshleyMadison.com?

[Amaril]

11. There is absolutely NOTHING

that I care to learn from the likes of Gingrich. I don't need to learn how to make shit up and then spout it as fact, I don't need to learn how to "grift the rubes", and I DEFINITELY don't need to learn how it is that someone convinces themself that it's "a-ok" to screw around on -- and then abandon -- a spouse that is dying of cancer.

[gratuitous]

12. That should go over well

Remember how calmly and rationally the nutjob faction of Rush Limbaugh's audience reacted to the prospect of President Obama addressing the nation's school children at the beginning of the 2009 school year? Who would have thought a bromide like "study hard" would cause so much nontroversy?

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. If the course is "How to STFU and go away forever" and is taught by example,

then I'm all for it :7

[rurallib]

14. Hey Newtie, how about one on marital fidelity and the family

BTW does this guy have kids. If he does do they speak to him?

[ladjf]

15. Newt is a full blown narcissist. nt