Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

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Still The Idea Man

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A great thinker muses (via):

“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

Perhaps he’s influenced by the company he keeps:

A man who has said the government should not allow any mosques to be built in America and compared American Muslims to neo-Nazis is scheduled to speak at the Values Voter Summit in Washington next week, alongside Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich, among other prominent Republicans.

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  1. 1.

    El Cid

    Gingrich is such a Deep Thinker. It’s a great thing that he’s always been a prominent philosopher for the major billion dollar media to turn to.

  3. 3.

    Balconesfault

    Is the opposite of an anti-colonial mentality a “colonial mentality”?

    It’s about time the GOP start talking more about the “White Man’s Burden”. That should be awesome for their minority voter outreach programs.

  4. 4.

    bkny

    wow. newtie’s going all in, isn’t he. at what point are responsible republicans going to denounce this shit OUT LOUD.

    a few in the media have finally begun to catch on to what a threat this language is provoking; but it’s going to take a considerable pushback to stop it. and i just don’t see anyone with the leadership skills to deal with it.

  9. 9.

    beltane

    First of all, if American Muslims really were like neo-Nazis, the Republicans would fund the building of the world’s largest mosque right on the Ground Zero site and they would open the 2012 convention with a Muslim call to prayer. As a pro-colonial lizard person, Newt Gingrich understands this all too well.

    Why is this morally diseased specimen of humanity so worshiped by the media?

  11. 11.

    debbie

    William F. Buckley spins in his grave every time Gingrich opens his mouth. Newt gives both intellectuals and historians a bad name.

  12. 12.

    debbie

    And by the way, why should “pro-colonial behavior” be seen as a good thing? Talk about your class war!

  13. 13.

    RSA

    “What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

    Okay, Newt, go for it: Make a prediction. Should we be worried about the future of America’s coffee plantations?

  14. 14.

    PanAmerican

    So propping up Goldman Sachs was a double secret, 12th dimensional ruse?

    I remember seeing a quote from Newt about negotiating with Bill Clinton. He admitted he had no business being in the same room as the President.

    To paraphrase Homer Simpson:

    I’m a white member of the DC political-press complex. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

  15. 15.

    Linda Featheringill

    “Anti-colonial”?

    My, what an old-fashioned thing to say.

    Is Newt pro-colonial? Are the Republicans pro-colonial?

    Well, maybe.

    At one time a few years ago, some of the neocons were gushing about what they saw as our post-war relationship with Iraq and they basically were talking about colonialism.

    Perhaps Gingrich just slipped up and made a truthful statement.

  16. 16.

    El Cid

    Remember that Gingrich wrote his tepid, non-innovative dissertation on education in colonial Belgian Congo.

  18. 18.

    geg6

    Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with this asshole? And what diploma mill gave him his degree in history?

    Apparently, you must inherit Kenyan anti-colonialism genetically. Considering Obama only met his father once as a small child, it would have been difficult for him to inherit it any other way. But then this is the same guy who says we know less about about Obama’s formative years than any other president in history. This, about a guy who wrote an entire best selling memoir about his, you know, formative years.

    Fuck me, the stupid outstrips the Onion every day in Idiot America.

  19. 19.

    Chyron HR

    What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension

    I knew something was fishy when he redecorated the Oval Office into the Non-Euclidean Office.

  21. 21.

    Sly

    I’d pay good money to see Obama go all Mau Mau on some motherfuckers.

    As is typical of a D’Souza piece, the article that so influenced Gingrich’s thinking is a pastiche of half-truths, logical stretches, and one of the most sloppy interpretations of African anti-colonialism that I’ve seen. That Gingrich loves it is unsurprising: the man is an imbecile, so of course he’s going to go all-in on imbecilic arguments.

  22. 22.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @geg6:

    He received a B.A. in history from Emory University in Atlanta in 1965. He received an M.A. in 1968, and then a Ph.D. in modern European history from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1971.[5]

    Neither of those is a diploma mill, but McArdle has an MBA from Chicago, and Bush has degrees from two Ivys, so …

  25. 25.

    BDeevDad

    A man who has said the government should not allow any mosques to be built in America and compared American Muslims to neo-Nazis is scheduled to speak at the Values Voter Summit in Washington

    Anyone attending does not get to mention the 10th amendment again.

  26. 26.

    katjam

    “What if NEWT GINGRICH is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand insecurity-racked, publicity-seeking, hate-driven types of neuroses can you begin to piece together his actions? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6: He got his BA from Emory and both a Master’s and PhD in History from Tulane.

    I know. I was hoping it would be a Certificate of Attendance from Mule Groin Correspondence School.

  28. 28.

    sparky

    for some reason, whenever i think of Newt or his consort Sarah, the queen of Amour-propre i am reminded of this:

    Here the general average of intelligence, of knowledge, of competence, of integrity, of self-respect, of honor is so low that any man who knows his trade, does not fear ghosts, has read fifty good books, and practices the common decencies stands out as brilliantly as a wart on a bald head, an[d] is thrown willy-nilly into meager and exclusive aristocracy. And here, more than anywhere else that I know of or have heard of, the daily panorama of human existence, of private and communal folly—the unending procession of governmental extortions and chicaneries, of commercial brigandages, and throat-slittings, of theological buffooneries, of aesthetic ribaldries, of legal swindles and harlotries, of miscellaneous rogueries, villainies, imbecilities, grotesqueries, and extavagences—is so inordinately gross and preposterous, so perfectly brought up to the highest conceivable amperage, so steadily enriched with an almost fabulous daring and originality, that only the man who was born with a petrified diaphragm can fail to laugh himself to sleep every night, and to awake every morning with all the eager, unflagging expectation of a Sunday-school superintendent touring the Paris peep-shows.

  29. 29.

    Annnie

    Later in the column, Newt calls Obama “authentically dishonest.”

    Talk about authentically dishonest. This from a man married 3 times after having numerous flings, and who paints himself as the embodiment of conservative Christian traditional values…

  30. 30.

    Citizen_X

    Whew! Imagine if Newt had said that in a country that had fought a revolution to get rid of its colonial masters!

  34. 34.

    60th Street

    So, wait…are we at peak wingnut, yet?!

    Gettin’ giddy!

    Baggers running in all directions from debates and now “Teh Kenyan” starring Newt is coming to a teevee near you!

    Newt’s been blowing so hard on his dog-whistle that he swallowed it. Now. Well, you’ve seen this cartoon.

  35. 35.

    Bill Murray

    @katjam: I woud have gone with Newt as power-hungry, amoral sociopath, but I like the cut of your jib. As opposed to the cut of Newt’s gibberish

  36. 36.

    Uloborus

    @60th Street:
    I don’t really see Wingnut getting any worse than it was a year ago. The trick about Peak Wingnut is that you can stay at or near the top of that mountain for a long time! GOP politicians have been unable to defy the roaring beast crowd they set loose since contradicting Rush got them slapped down in 2009. Ditto the beast crowd has been throwing up spoiler candidates in previously safe seats, and public discourse has been lunatic lies spawned by FOX and proudly marched forward by the greediest and most self-serving public figures. It could easily continue until after the 2012 elections!

  37. 37.

    Jamey

    “…Only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior the racial politics of George Wallace, can you begin to piece together [his actions]. That is the most accurate, predictive model for [Newt Gingrich’s] behavior.”

    Fixed

  41. 41.

    debbie

    It would be great if someone asked Gingrich at his next press conference just what he means by “authentically dishonest” and whether the opposite of that would really be “dishonestly dishonest.”

    My prep school unintentionally taught me how to write bullshit when necessary, but Gingrich takes it to a whole new dimension.

  42. 42.

    Judas Escargot

    Newt Gingrich, Robert Bork, Bob Novak, Larry Kudlow, etc. etc… (all late-in-life Catholic converts); At least two (possibly three) Opus Dei in the Supreme Court. Now the President of the US isn’t just “anti-capitalist”, but “anti-colonial” (in the Cecil Rhodes sense). And the Tenth Crusade (complete with apocalyptic battle for Israel) was just announced by Newt on DVD yesterday.

    Every time I fool myself into thinking that the necons can’t get any more scary, or more weird… I’m proven wrong.

  43. 43.

    debbie

    @ efgoldman: He later realized and acknowledged he’d been wrong:

    Q: Did he ever recant his opposition to the civil rights movement? —Chris

    A: Yes, he did. He said it was a mistake for National Review not to have supported the civil rights legislation of 1964-65, and later supported a national holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whom he grew to admire a good deal, above all for combining spiritual and political values.

    Q: Did Buckley ever change his 1950’s pro-Segregation stance? —Bill

    A: See above. He did, strenuously. He debated George Wallace quite strenuously in the late 1960s. It may seem odd, but Buckley, whose parents were both Southerners, actually inherited views on race that were fairly progressive for his time and place.

    http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/qa-with-sam-tanenhaus-on-william-f-buckley/

    If you read the entire column, you’ll see Buckley was on to Limbaugh pretty early.

  44. 44.

    AxelFoley

    Please, Newt, you prick muthafucka, please run against President Obama in 2012. Please, you sumbitch.

    Oh, but he won’t. Plugging his books and all.

  45. 45.

    Mike G

    Newt is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Southern, authoritarian-follower militarism, cringing deference to power and wealth, perpetual-whiny-victim resentment, deep-bone violent racism, fundamentalist Xtian pride in ignorance and bigotry can you begin to piece together his actions. That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.

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