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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.
Its 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 didnt 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.
"Thats 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 hed 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.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)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)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.
madaboutharry
(40,234 posts)He is a racist son of a bitch. Always has been, always will be.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)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.
mucifer
(23,576 posts)got root
(425 posts)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)"Is the President suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot that would be ok because it didnt look like him?"
Mariana
(14,861 posts)when he says that. They'll believe it.
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)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)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...
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)Not that you mattered much to begin with.
Lilyeye
(1,417 posts)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)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)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)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)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.
JI7
(89,279 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,300 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)TNLib
(1,819 posts)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)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)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.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Newt:
Newt Gingrich Doesn't Like Poor Children
http://www.theroot.com/views/newt-gingrich-doesn-t-poor-children
Newt's SuperPAC Guy Rick Tyler: Democrats Abort Black Babies
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/karoli/newts-superpac-guy-rick-tyler-democrats-abo
Gingrich Wants Kids To Work As Janitors, But Refused To Work Himself
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002241493
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....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)because another dumb fuck gives him access to a microphone does`t make him anything more than what he is...a dumb fuck.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)hay rick
(7,648 posts)Newt kowtowing to his racist base. I didn't see that coming.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)EVERYONE thinks Newt is a disgrace.
What an ass hat.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)at everything that is uttered by people who aren't their flunkies? It's getting old, tired and trifling.