Newt Gingrich Goes to the Congo

[Octafish]

Background on the Champion of the Overdog from the good folks at MotherJones:



Newt Gingrich Goes to the Congo

Newt Gingrich isn't ashamed to tout his background as a historian, but few Americans probably know that he received his history PhD for a dissertation about the Belgian Congo. Foreign Policy's Joshua Keating has read Gingrich's 1971 dissertation, "Belgian Education Policy in the Congo: 1945-1960," and reports that he found the young Gingrich's attitude toward colonialism to be "remarkably benign, often drifting into 'White Man's Burden' territory." Morehouse poli-sci professor and Congo expert Laura Seay drew a similar conclusion after she read the thesis, which Gingrich appears to have written without setting foot in the former Belgian colony (then Zaire).

Hearing of Gingrich's paper reminded me of another apology for colonial Congo: Tintin au Congo (Tintin in the Congo), a notoriously racist comic book starring the beloved Belgian boy reporter. First published in the early '30s, it was later mildly revised but went unpublished in English for decades. It remains a stain on the career of its creator, Hergé, as well as that of his soon to be even more famous protagonist. (A Belgian court recently rejected an attempt to have it banned for being racist.)

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http://motherjones.com/mixed-media/2011/11/newt-gingrich-congo-tintin-comic

[SpiralHawk]

1. Newtie is a Compleat Chickenhawk RepubliPimp Pompous Wanker

Never set foot in the Congo! Thinks he's an 'expert.' Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha. Republicon dipshit 'academics' and imaginary 'scholarship.' What an arrogant a-hole maroon.

No wonder the RepubliBaggers are luving Newtie up big time right now. He's got the qualifications they seek: Chickenhawk. Serial dumper & divorcer. Blowhard. Long track record of FAIL. Hates democracy. Makes shit up. Shuns responsibility for his words and actions. Routinely stirs the shit pot to thwart unity and instead to divide Americans. Teh Newtie is a true Republicon thru and thru.
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[Octafish]

2. I sense anti-anti-colonial behavior.

With the Gingrich. Same for a lot of turds from across the political spectrum.

As you know, SpiralHawk, one Democrat did break the chain, for a few years, anyway.