Newt Gingrich is again the Republican presidential frontrunner. How exactly did that happen?
Jon Stewart on Monday practically lost his marbles over Newt Gingrich’s hypocrisy in a debate ahead of the South Carolina primary. Gingrich responded to a question about his infidelity by railing against negative media and CNN’s “despicable” question.
“You imagined your wife, while she was dealing with having MS, would be open to you having sex with another lady you’d already been having sex with for six fucking years!” Stewart said. “I think you’ve got a pretty good imagination dispicability-wise.”
So now the former Speaker of the House is running as an anti-establishment, Washington outsider. Huh?
“You are the Washington outsider,” Stewart said. “When Washington gets its prostate checked, it tickles you.”
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WHY CAN'T GINGRICH HOLD A LEAD, By AMBASSADOR MO Newt is like that sports team that just when it gains the momentum and looks headed for the win, drops the ball. He lost Florida after having rolled in on South Carolina surge. Before than, he took a late lead in Iowa only to badly fumble all the way through the concession speech. --MORE-- http://diplomaticallyincorrect.org/films/blog_post...
Gingrich wrote the book on "despicable".
I think that the people who look at Newt for answers are the ones whose marbles are lost. When he called King despicable King should have responded "I think it's pretty obvious who the despicable one is in this scenario".
That Gingrich can say what he does with a straight face is just incredible. It takes a mighty big narcissist to be such an incredible hypocrite.
It's astonishing how the 'family values' audience went into a frenzy applauding such a hypocrite and the moderator just standing there with a look of a school kid getting caught and seemingly blaming others. Pathetic Mr. King and lacking any intestinal fortitude without at least challenging Newt's outrageous charge of being a victim of the mean press. What a precious moment of yet another display of collective hypocrisy had by all at this event. What's more, Newts ludicrous contention of having witnesses to say otherwise as to his 'open relationship' with his last wife (2nd) and then only to say that his two daughters from his first wife- can come forward to defend his character and to try to pull the airing of an interview by ABC by his accuser 2nd wife?) Yeah, right-his girls has no vested interest with destroying the woman who stole their father. Please!!!!
Hypocrisy is one of the three main food groups of the Republican intellectual diet, the other two being greed and social conservatism (code for racism, ethnocentrism, jingoism, and social darwinism). That Gingrich is having success with the Tea Party and the Evangelical Christians has more to do with their fear and self-deception (or inability to reason logically) than anything else. Snake oil salesmen have been successful throughout the centuries; clearly nothing has changed.
Remember when there were questions about Clinton's sex life and Gingrich stepped in to tell everyone how despicable it was to even raise the question? Yeah, neither do I.
Brainspore It's only despicable when it's brought up during a Republican debate. When the comments are intended to destroy a sitting Democrat President and damage the global American image, it's okay. Make sense?
Just imagine how awesome a Republican debate would be if it were moderated by Jon Stewart.
thomasjay112 That would indeed be very cool. Jon would run rings around those jokers...
Newt should kiss a toad---it just might turn him human.
Newt Gingrich is a pompous blowhard liar; John King is a cowardly dunce. Cable news and the blubbery lothario are made for each other.
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
Gingrich bluffs, King folds - and the country loses the pot...
Wild Willy This idiotic response of Gingrich's and King's lack of cojones make me want to START smoking pot.
Eft Gingrich is an immature, blustering, arrogant, destructive blowhard. The fact that he is now the "Christian Conservative" candidate is a sad, sad joke. Let's just say that the Bible is anathema to his entire essence.
Ps. 140:12. "I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the poor."
"During the seventh year, let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove." Exodus 23:11
"If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother." Deuteronomy 15:7
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in." Matthew 25:35
#@%& you, Eft.
closetcommie
Fundies aren't real keen about "The Sermon on the Mount" part of the Gospels. Makes is sound like Jesus was a Pinko instead of a Reaganite.
closetcommie Oh, and don't forget they like their Jebus blue eyed and blond.
TYPO alert: where you have Stewart saying “You are THE Washington outsider,” I believe you mean "insider."
Otherwise it really doesn't make any sense.
klg19 No thats his point. Newt says he's the Outsider when he has been on the inside for over 35 years
blurdlt2klg19 Jon does say that Newt is THE Washington Insider. And then calls him Washington's prostate. Not only does it not make sense to refer to him as a prostate if one is trying to agree that he's an outsider, but it also doesn't match what Jon actually says. klg19 is right.
I watched this last night, and it was the funniest Daily Show I've ever seen. I almost wet my pants laughing.
I wonder if someone is ever going to ask Newt about his personal health? He looks like he's about one T-bone steak away from a triple-bypass surgery. How about the whole "personal responsibility" angle of the individual mandate? I'd like to see his cholesterol numbers...
blanda_fan Gnewt has government healthcare & retirement. He just wants to make sure no one else has either.
wrightwingnutblanda_fan His Congressional pension, according to his tax disclosure, is $76,200. That is just his pension which BTW is included in the $3.16 million Newt made in 2010.
I wonder, do they get "cost of living" raises, too?
wrightwingnutblanda_fan Just what we need another anti universal health care republican six million dollar man project. How much money do we have tied up in Cheney and his electric heart
blanda_fan
someone should ask him how all his wives become quite ill, after being married to him for several years....what is this man doing to his wives....is he a walking disease-carrier?
Newt is just creepy - no matter what.
Handy Megalomaniacs usually are.
Gingrich is the kryptonite to the "family values" crowd. Their whole "sanctity of marriage" BS is exposed for what it is -- gay bashing and homophobia. They couldn't give a damn about the ACTUAL sanctity of marriage. And the Bible? Hell, they don't care about the Ten Commandments, which Gingrich has violated. (He also violated the expressed statements from JC himself, where he proclaims those who divorce and remarry as having committed adultery -- which Newt did anyway.) But hey, those explicit statements in the Bible condemning EXACTLY what Newt did ain't important to the evangelicals -- what matters is a few other lines taken out of context. Liars, frauds and hypocrites they are.
And can you imagine how off-the-wall nuts these hypocrites would go if any Democrat had a personal track record like Gingrich?
Newt will be the gift that keeps on giving, Exhibit A whenever these people vomit up their bile and hatred in the guise of "family values." And just add the word "Hypocrite" at the end of any reply.
quicken66 Gnewt also perverts christianity by claiming he asked God's forgiveness, leaving out the confession of sin and asking of forgiveness from his wife (wives). I think Gnewt sees himself as a modern day Henry VIII (kinda looks like it).
quicken66 Its unfair to bash them as if they only care about gay-bashing and homophobia - they are also in favor forced childbirth and deporting US citizens with the wrong skin color.
bay.of.arizonaquicken66 don't forget child labour.
quicken66
Unlike the character in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," this Newt didn't get better.
quicken66 Newt is an over-sized cancerous polyps up the farthest reaches of a septic colon ...
...and speaking of class envy, do you think Buffet is envious of Romney?
...every time Romney repeats his "you middle class lackeys are SO JEALOUS of me and my rich friends," someone needs to ask him that question.
JEP He is very humble for a guy who really appreciates the advantage wealth has afforded him and his family. He is the only real true American - the rest of us are just serfs and or supporters.
Handy A lot of people who became rich themselves are, because they remember what it was like to not have money and what it took to make it. George Romney was like that. Unfortunately it's not heritable.
midnightramblerHandy
Romney's aura of arrogance or his arrogance of entitlement is a put-off.
Presumably by the time he was born his father was probably already fairly well-off which means Willard's realm of experience would be limited & narrow. If he never saw his father struggle, then it would in-part explain Mitt's aloofness & his inability to connect with or even understand muchless feel empathy for people who struggle every single day.
I get the distinct impression he was handed everything on a silver platter -- he did not go out and look for a job. His father had connections. At least that is how it works in Texas: it is not what you know, it is who you know.
In other words, midnightrambler hit the nail on the head.
All we have left is bitter humor to deal with this Republican primary reality TV show.
No amount of logic or reason can define this strange mess, with ghosts of ages past like Newt the Despicable rising from misty political graveyards to fill a political vacuum of historic proportions.
It is only funny because there is no other option.
JEP
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Just last night I was thinking much the same thing. There is no further reality that can be applied or compared.
It is now simply and only 'farce'.
jw1
JEP "Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."
Mel Brooks
lmao Jon is reatrded
Yet, apparently, he can spell.
Chris Scott Jon is a maroon or is he a moran?
Chris Scott Did you mean retreaded? Or does reefer do that to you?
@Chris Scott - "No Child left behind." I guess that plan failed.
Chris Scott Why did you meet him on the short bus sparky?
Jon Stewart has just become so agitated and bitter. It's kind of sad. I liked that guy.
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