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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDave Zirin WINS TODAY'S INTERNET for his reply to Newt Gingrich's tweet slamming the NYT.
@newtgingrich
The NY Times 1619 Project should make its slogan All the Propaganda we want to brainwash you with.it is a repudiation of the original NY Times motto.
2:54 AM · Aug 18, 2019·Twitter for iPad
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@EdgeofSports
Replying to @newtgingrich
It's history, not a wife in a hospital bed. You can't just walk away.
9:45 AM · Aug 18, 2019·Twitter Web App
Link to tweet
Iggo
(47,558 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That one left a mark!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)wife when she was diagnosed with M.S. He called her on Mother's Day to break the news.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He deserves it!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)that a "prize" such as Newt can be choosy. No sick women for him. He has an ego almost as large as tRumps. He once threw a temper tantrum because Bill Clinton made him exit AF1 by the back door. Disgraced (D) politicians fade away. Why do the disgraced (R)'s always get jobs at Faux, I wonder? They seem to think that they are so special that we need their guidance and advice. WRONG.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Where white mediocrities can get jobs at conservative places because the conservative places are funded by rightwing billionaires.
Its literally affirmative action for conservatives, due to billionaire funding.
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)That should leave a few marks
lapucelle
(18,275 posts)onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)Marthe48
(16,975 posts)gingrich isn't, trump isn't, cheney isn't, stone isn't. None of the government demolition freaks are decent. But keep the comments coming, at least we know our scorn and opprobrium aren't alone in the desert.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)And, I leaned another latin root word today. Thanks!
Marthe48
(16,975 posts)but they do the opposite.
Glad to help out! lol
certainot
(9,090 posts)to rationalize and power their sex on the wrong brain ignorance racism fear and hate
Demonaut
(8,919 posts)Beakybird
(3,333 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Beartracks
(12,816 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)is that what Dave said is 100% true
elleng
(130,974 posts)Quite an accomplishment!
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,184 posts)Whoa! That is smoking. Newt's losing it. He was among the earliest for Right Wing hatred, telling supporters they were in a war against liberals, no?
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)all (R)'s refer to democratic politicians as democRATS, not democratic. He must be so proud to have the orange ass still doing that, in Newt's honor. He has no other accomplishment. The books he pedaled at every rally were not the literary treasures he thought they were. He is convinced he is so much more intelligent than the rest of us.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Honestly, he has zero credibility!
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)powerful amunition for Dave Zirin
@EdgeofSports to use on him. So he did something worthwhile for possibly the first time in his life. It's okay by me, just this once.
Marthe48
(16,975 posts)I wouldn't be surprised if he were holding hands with russia.
TNNurse
(6,927 posts)This is not all inclusive: Martin Luther King, jr, Jimmy Carter, Julian Bond, Sally Yates, Stacey Abrams, Max Cleland, Alice Walker, I could go on and on. I am from Georgia and these people make me proud of that and erase the image of Newt.
Also, the late Emily Summerour Cook who was my mother and was born 105 years ago tomorrow. She is the reason I am a Democrat and a liberal.
patphil
(6,182 posts)He's the one who instilled liberal values in me. He always said, 'The republicans never did a thing for the common man".
He was correct in 1960, and still correct today.
Patrick Phillips
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)for you and TNNurse - wonderful parents that have made the world a better place and given the world great children to work to make it even better!
StarryNite
(9,446 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)paleotn
(17,931 posts)the Times would be more than willing to publish a rebuttal. How about it, Newt? Want to argue the the White House was constructed by white, union scale construction workers instead of enslaved African Americans? Or that poor white folks were lining up to work along side slaves in that utopia that was the southern plantation economy. Go ahead. Knock yourself out, Newt. Otherwise, shut the fuck up, you 90's has been.
spanone
(135,844 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)He is just another asshole republicon.
patphil
(6,182 posts)calimary
(81,322 posts)oasis
(49,389 posts)from a collosal ugly truth.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)Most newts are cute and harmless. The obnoxious, hateful, selfish, spiteful Newt Gingrich is an aberration, whether compared to newts or humans.
wolfie001
(2,252 posts)....that fat pig Gingrich is a cancer on America! Just sayin......
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)NJCher
(35,687 posts)But his behavior in this matter has haunted him through observations and remarks like this.
certainot
(9,090 posts)why a piece of crap like gingrich became anything at all
gingrich was piggybacking 1500 radio stations just like trump did and it magnifies the incredible ongoing stupidity of ignoring talk radio
gingrich and his 'revolution' would be nothing without talk radio, and because dems ignore it it worked over and over and over and now we have trump. the house cons then even gave limbaugh an honorary house seat that session. there was a reason for that.
certainot
(9,090 posts)260 limbaugjh stations through sports broadcasting - it's ridiculous
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)That's going to leave a mark. Nah, you'd have to have a conscience for that to hurt at all I guess, and Newt certainly wasn't weighed down with a conscience or compassion.
flying_wahini
(6,606 posts)This from one of the best Propagandist ever.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)December 22, 1996
After more than two years of steadfast denials of wrongdoing, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) admitted yesterday that he broke House rules and "brought down on the people's house a controversy which could weaken the faith people have in their government."
With a one sentence affidavit, Gingrich admitted to the charges in the House ethics committee's 22-page "Statement of Alleged Violation," the House version of an indictment, issued yesterday. It said Gingrich failed to ensure that charity-financed projects -- a college course he taught and a televised town hall meeting -- would not violate federal tax law. And then, the statement said, he gave the panel untrue information as it investigated those projects.
The committee of five Republicans and five Democrats will soon meet to recommend to the House a punishment, which could range from a denial of any of his rights as a lawmaker to expulsion from Congress. It was unclear whether the committee would meet before Jan. 7, the day Gingrich hopes to become the first Republican reelected House speaker since 1929.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Or would, were it aimed at a person with actu al human qualities and emotions.