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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:51 PM Mar 2012

Newt calls Obama's Trayvon Martin comments 'disgraceful'

Per POLITICO's Ginger Gibson, Newt Gingrich accused President Obama of playing race:

Newt Gingrich called Obama's remarks about Trayvon Martin "disgraceful" in an interview with Sean Hannity, according to CBS/National Journal.

“It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background," Gingrich said. "Is the President suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be ok because it didn’t look like him?"

Earlier in the day Gingrich told reporters that he thought the case should be investigated and suggested the shooter was at fault.

"That’s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot," Gingrich continued on Hannity's show. "It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian-American of if he’d been a Native American. At some point we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American. It is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.”

Obama has gotten some criticism for discussing a pending legal matter. But the question of whether Martin's race was a factor in his death, in which his alleged shooter was not arrested, is very much a part of the outcry over the case, and why it's gotten so much attention.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/03/newt-calls-obamas-trayvon-martin-comments-disgraceful-118518.html

Uh, fuck you Noot.

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Newt calls Obama's Trayvon Martin comments 'disgraceful' (Original Post) one_voice Mar 2012 OP
Newt is a fuckhead, and I still wonder how any breathing female could Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2012 #1
Newt can go to hell. CakeGrrl Mar 2012 #2
Newt Gingrich is a fucking jackass. madaboutharry Mar 2012 #3
Onemay be tempted to suggest that one who was run out of office by rustydog Mar 2012 #4
The President's comments will help some people really think about the event in a different way. mucifer Mar 2012 #5
so have some DU'ers, as well as calling out many of the child's supporters got root Mar 2012 #6
yeah, gasbag, that's exactly what he's suggesting fishwax Mar 2012 #7
Newt's talking to Republican voters Mariana Mar 2012 #17
Mr Gingrich reveals just how clueless he is- Bluerthanblue Mar 2012 #8
I kind of want Obama to say "Newt would be an excellent president" Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #9
Newt, you don't matter any more. Go home. lpbk2713 Mar 2012 #10
I rarely respond like this but Lilyeye Mar 2012 #11
Any parent, including the President, can't help but feel that this could have been his son. nanabugg Mar 2012 #12
Thank you for pointing this out Lilyeye Mar 2012 #13
I am certain lukkadairish Mar 2012 #14
In other words.... mackattack Mar 2012 #15
fucking whore JI7 Mar 2012 #16
Newt is a horses ass. n/t arthritisR_US Mar 2012 #18
Newt is a twit Rosa Luxemburg Mar 2012 #19
lowgrade amoeba newt Whisp Mar 2012 #20
Mr. Moon Colony is the only disgraceful thing in here. Initech Mar 2012 #21
the NRA lobbies for Laws Like the Stand your Ground laws so racist wackos will buy guns TNLib Mar 2012 #22
This old lady wants to tell Newt this Horse with no Name Mar 2012 #23
This "old" lady, (I'm 18 years old with 30 years experience, LOL!!), wants you to know that Ecumenist Mar 2012 #32
Wait this ProSense Mar 2012 #24
And why should anyone give two shits what he says? Meh. n/t X_Digger Mar 2012 #25
"...that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be ok..." unkachuck Mar 2012 #26
who really gives a fuck what he has to say? madrchsod Mar 2012 #27
Those funding his campaign really are not getting their $$ worth lunasun Mar 2012 #28
Time to pretend Trayvon wasn't shot because he was black. hay rick Mar 2012 #29
That makes it even then, because Lifelong Protester Mar 2012 #30
Disgraceful? WTF?? What the hell is wrong with these idiots who drum up indignation Ecumenist Mar 2012 #31

Sarah Ibarruri

(21,043 posts)
1. Newt is a fuckhead, and I still wonder how any breathing female could
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:52 PM
Mar 2012

put his penis inside her. On the other hand, I may be assuming too much. He might not have a penis.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
2. Newt can go to hell.
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:53 PM
Mar 2012

He's nothing more than a male version of Palin. They only exist to gin up GOP outrage against the President by saying any outlandish crap they can.

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
4. Onemay be tempted to suggest that one who was run out of office by
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:54 PM
Mar 2012

his own party and fined a few hundred thousand bucks for ethics lapses, for shutting down the government twice...CHEATING on every single wife he has...might know whatdisgraceful is...Obama and his commentis NOT Disgraceful.

Newtered (Cheater) Gingrich is a disgraceful piece of fecal mater.

 

got root

(425 posts)
6. so have some DU'ers, as well as calling out many of the child's supporters
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:56 PM
Mar 2012

i remember someone here saying yesterday that Obama will put a stop to all that million hoodie 'nonsense' in a heartbeat.

guess he pissed them off today by speaking up!

fishwax

(29,149 posts)
7. yeah, gasbag, that's exactly what he's suggesting
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 09:57 PM
Mar 2012


"Is the President suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be ok because it didn’t look like him?"

Bluerthanblue

(13,669 posts)
8. Mr Gingrich reveals just how clueless he is-
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:01 PM
Mar 2012

and how much he likes to use the word dispicable for the wrong reasons. To George Zimmerman, 'ethnic' background had everything to do with it.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
9. I kind of want Obama to say "Newt would be an excellent president"
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:10 PM
Mar 2012

Just so Gingrich can call those comments "disgraceful" out of reflex...

And of course he uses the standard GOP spin of 'race doesn't matter in this case' as if Martin would have been profiled and shot if he was any other race...

Lilyeye

(1,417 posts)
11. I rarely respond like this but
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:11 PM
Mar 2012

FUCK YOU NEWT! There is NOTHING this asshole won't whine and complain about to trash the President. He is beyond sickening to use this tragedy to trash the President.

 

nanabugg

(2,198 posts)
12. Any parent, including the President, can't help but feel that this could have been his son.
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:17 PM
Mar 2012

Since no arrest was made and the police say no crime was committed, the President hasn't spoken out on a legal case. And as a matter of fact, no one has to try to turn this case and many others like where police are concerned into a racial issue. It almost always is about race and Newt know it. Why else would he talk about blacks receiving food stamps and Obama being the "food stamp President?"

Lilyeye

(1,417 posts)
13. Thank you for pointing this out
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:18 PM
Mar 2012

Newt of all people has a nerve to talk about anyone race baiting, when that is all he has done when attacking the President. Anybody else remember "the Kenyan worldview" remark? His a true scumbag.

lukkadairish

(122 posts)
14. I am certain
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:19 PM
Mar 2012

That this vacuous, bigoted, overinflated adulterous zealot will never ever be the President of the United States
Keep on gum flapping mister....you are
Doing Wonders For Democratic Causes Everywhere

 

mackattack

(344 posts)
15. In other words....
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:19 PM
Mar 2012

hmm....how can I make Obama look like a racist????

Ohh I know. Ill take a murder based onr ace and say that the person talking about it is a racist. Yeah, thats the ticket.

TNLib

(1,819 posts)
22. the NRA lobbies for Laws Like the Stand your Ground laws so racist wackos will buy guns
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:35 PM
Mar 2012

and live out their wet dream of getting to kill a black kid.

Newt you and Politicians like you should be held accountable for the shitty laws you support that put innocent lives at risk!


Horse with no Name

(33,958 posts)
23. This old lady wants to tell Newt this
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:42 PM
Mar 2012

President Obama is BLACK...and you don't get what that means. Sometimes I don't even get that...because I am white.

I know of the racism that exists simply by second hand.

But I will tell you this....the ENTIRE country should be up in arms over this. I won't say that this could happen to my kid because it wouldn't...my kids are white.

BUT you can bet your ass on ONE thing. IF a BLACK man gunned down MY white child in cold blood....I can guarandamntee you one thing. THAT man would have been in jail immediately.

So this is what the issue is...en toto. YOU can't understand what it would be like, I can't understand what it would be like...BUT President Obama can (oh yeah...he is BLACK)...and only a BLACK man would know what it is like to be a BLACK man in America.

I posted on a friend's FB today my opinion of this whole matter. To my surprise, I was "friended" by quite a few young Black males. After creeping their FB pages, there was a current that ran through all of them.

They are ALL fearful of this happening to THEM. We have these same laws in Texas as they do Florida and they have EVERY RIGHT to be afraid. And to be honest...I am afraid for them as well.


Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
32. This "old" lady, (I'm 18 years old with 30 years experience, LOL!!), wants you to know that
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 01:39 AM
Mar 2012

you are 1000% correct in your assumptions about the 'safety" of black PEOPLE in America. I know because I've been black most of my life, as I tell people and the fact that the baby that was murdered was black had everything to do with the act that neither zimmerman's gun nor his clothing was detained for forensic examination, let alone doing the correct thing in the first place and arrest this monster.

It kills me when I read where some posters say that the proof of the legality of the murder is in the fact that he had a cut on the back of his head and a broken nose. CHILDREN ARE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT AGAINST PREDATORS and TRAYVON had every reason to believe, (rightfully so), that that man had nefarious plans for him. Thankfully, I live in California and although I understand that there are attempts by the same group to extend that creepy law to California, I doubt that it will EVER happen.

 

unkachuck

(6,295 posts)
26. "...that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be ok..."
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:58 PM
Mar 2012

....no, oldt newt....the President was merely suggesting that if he had a son, he wouldn't look like a fat, old, white, right-wing fascist like you....

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
27. who really gives a fuck what he has to say?
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 11:13 PM
Mar 2012

because another dumb fuck gives him access to a microphone does`t make him anything more than what he is...a dumb fuck.

hay rick

(7,648 posts)
29. Time to pretend Trayvon wasn't shot because he was black.
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 11:25 PM
Mar 2012

Newt kowtowing to his racist base. I didn't see that coming.

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
31. Disgraceful? WTF?? What the hell is wrong with these idiots who drum up indignation
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 01:28 AM
Mar 2012

at everything that is uttered by people who aren't their flunkies? It's getting old, tired and trifling.

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