Gingrich: My Infidelities Helped Me Understand How To Impeach Clinton

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/27/gingrich-affairs-help/

This morning, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace questioned likely presidential candidate Newt Gingrich — who has placed social issues at the forefront of his emerging campaign — about his personal infidelities and multiple marriages. Gingrich has admitted to having an affair with a Congressional aide (his present wife Callista) while leading the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton and so Wallace asked the former Speaker of the House if he thought his actions were hypocritical. Gingrich said they weren’t, going so far as to suggest that his past divorce and experience with giving depositions helped him understand why Clinton should have been impeached:

WALLACE: There is something else that bothers people. You were leading the charge to push Bill Clinton from office for lying about an affair and yes, he lied in a court proceeding, in a deposition, where he was sworn to tell the truth, whole truth, nothing but the truth. At the same time, you were leading that charge, you were having an affair. Isn’t that hypocrisy?

GINGRICH: No. Look, obviously it’s complex and obviously I wasn’t doing things to be proud of. On the other hand, what I said clearly — and I knew this in part going through a divorce. I had been in depositions. I had been in situations where you had to swear to tell the truth. I understood that in a federal court, in a case in front of a federal judge, to commit a felony, which is what he did, perjury was a felony. The question I raised was simple: should a president of the united states be above the law?

WALLACE: I’ll ask you man-to-man. did you think to yourself I’m living in a really glass house? Maybe I shouldn’t be throwing stones?


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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/27/gingrich-affairs-help/

I mean, he's the worst of the worst. He doesn't understand the meaning of the word hypocrite, when it's his name in the damn dictionary under that term.

You are spewing your scant supply of cred right into the cesspool of Republicon Family Amorality.

hope you look past my hypocritical, sociopathic self love and make me king of America. Thank you and tip your waitress.

So many with no shame.....now that is the 'norm.' I guess they live in houses w/ no mirrors.

STFU

:rofl:

Anyone want to take the sucker's bet that he hasn't already cheated on Callista (aka Mrs. Gingrich 3.0)??

I'll pass on that bet; I'm fairly certain you are correct.

Wow - what a republicon...

The man is a duplicitous bastard, and a lying scum of the earth!!

Sit down and shut up.

You are the GRAND MASTER of hypocrites.

wonder how many divorces will take place because of it............

read '1984' and has a PR firm full of bloodsucking, greedy, heartless, wastes of flesh.

Actually, I think that comes naturally.

...and I am laughing all the way.

Just another unprincipled, philandering opportunist. Run Newt, so we can kick your ass again.

that you would be true to your wife? Are you above gawd's law? I guess so.

GINGRICH: No. Look, obviously it’s complex and obviously I wasn’t doing things to be proud of. On the other hand, what I said clearly — and I knew this in part going through a divorce. I had been in depositions. I had been in situations where you had to swear to tell the truth. I understood that in a federal court, in a case in front of a federal judge, to commit a felony, which is what he did, perjury was a felony. The question I raised was simple: should a president of the united states be above the law?



That entire statement is complete and total bullshit, and has exactly NOTHING to do with the question asked.

Newt, you were asked if you were a hypocrite, and there is NO WAY you could have foretold any answer given in a deposition by Clinton, unless you are now saying that you can foretell the future.


If I was President Clinton, I would have said, "Yes, indeed, I had sex with Monica Lewinsky, not that it's any of your goddamn business. Next question, you crotch-sniffing pervert."

comin' at me in a hotel room...well...maybe I shouldn't have brought that up...sorry...a little throw up in my mouth now....

Cheating on your wife with your staffer and asking for a divorce from your dying first wife are despicable things, but they're not felonies. They're not even illegal.

He was trying to make the point with Wallace how the article of impeachment wasn't about cheating on Hillary it was about the felonious act of perjury in a sexual harrassment lawsuit. You shouldn't have to be a lawyer to get it. As much as I depise Newtie, I can't believe smart people like Chris Wallace can't distinguish the two.

to pretend he is a defender of 'morality' in any way shape or form.

Sensible Americans absolutely get it about Republicon condemnation of others while they indulge in toe-tapping diaper-clad rentboy bathroom luggage-handling faux lesbian male-escort whooopie.

Hello.

which is the height of hypocrisy.

Remember they were trying to take down the Clintons on many, many fronts: from Travelgate to Whitewater. It's interesting wouldn't you say that after something like $56 million dollars trying to nail the Clintons on any front, they finally get him for lying about an affair.

If you can't see the absolutely despicable hypocrisy of Newt Gingrich, I'd say your stay here at DU will be very, very short. Because one thing's for sure, and Clinton's sky-high approval numbers showed during his Presidency, that virtually all of the American public got what was going on and didn't like it. Not one bit.

:rofl:

lose...like he did after Contract On America. Newt is one of my favorite losers...he cannot apologize or admit to being wrong, EVER. He is like so many posters you run into on an anonymous message board.

If I recall the Bible correctly, there's a verse where Jesus says he hates hypocrites. :mad: :grr: