Gingrich blasts liberals over Giffords

Most years the Bureau of Engraving and Printing does its work, turning sheets of paper into bills at plants in Washington and Fort Worth, entirely out of the spotlight. Not so in 2010. Glenn Beck, Rand Paul, and Sarah Palin turned currency printing into a cause célèbre. Too much of it, they said, would trigger hyperinflation and destroy the middle class. Palin tweeted on Nov. 7 about the Federal Reserve's plan to "print $ out of thin air."

Even in quiet times, currency has a magical quality that both fascinates and frightens people. Imbued with priest-like powers, the government—and only the government—can transubstantiate a simple piece of paper into legal tender. When the Federal Reserve exercises that awesome power to the fullest, as it did in 2010 to fight the economic slump, a backlash of suspicion is probably inescapable. Hence the rally signs: "Abolish the Federal Reserve." "The Fed. Terrorists Since 1913." And this deliciously subtle one: "Irony Is Andrew Jackson on a Federal Reserve Note." (President Jackson, in the 1830s, opposed the quasi-Fed of his day.)

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(Remember Newt's list of how to describe Democrats? Yes, we do!)

Every Word Matters: Using 'Keywords' as a Political Tactic
By Tom Ball

05/16/04

In 1990, Newt Gingrich published a booklet he called "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control". He mailed his little manifesto to Republican leaders throughout the land and encouraged them to "paint a vivid, brilliant word picture." Gingrich, showing a distrust for his fellow Republicans' judgement, saw fit to supply the leaders with two lists of keywords, a positive word list to use in describing themselves and a negative keyword list to describe those evil Democrats.

Gingrich's negative words for Democrats

"Anti-flag, anti-family, anti-child, anti-jobs, betray, coercion, collapse, consequences, corruption, crises, decay, deeper, destroy, destructive, devour, endanger, failure, greed, hypocrisy, ideological, impose, incompetent, insecure, liberal, lie, limit(s), pathetic, permissive attitude, radical, self-serving, sensationalists, shallow, sick, they/them, threaten, traitors, unionized bureaucracy, urgent, waste"

So now we know what Gingrich was doing when he wasn't busy cheating on his sick wife or serving divorce papers to her in the hospital while she received cancer treatment so he could marry his bimbo. Busy! Busy! Busy!

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