Video: Newt Gingrich Jokes About Public Housing at a 2007 Fundraiser

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Here’s Newt Gingrich at a 2007 fundraiser in someone’s luxurious mansion, making an amazingly crude “joke” about public housing.

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I want to thank the Cox family for inviting us into their home. It’s a wonderful thing to do this for us and we’re all very very grateful. I think any time you can visit a “starter home” like this …

[Laughter…]

You know, if you’re a conservative you come into a home like this and you think to yourself, “What a great country, people can work hard, they can save their money, they can create new jobs, and as a result they can live in a very nice home.”

If you’re a liberal, you walk in here and you think, “Public housing for 40 families.”

[Laughter…]

And that’s the beginning of the core difference.

(h/t: Andy Kaczynski.)

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119 comments
1 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:27:46pm

He’s somewhat right. The money that goes into such mansions could probably provide decent housing for 40 families, which is yet another commentary on the divide in wealth that this country finds itself with.

And that’s about the closest he gets to the truth. Because so many people in this country have worked hard, have saved their money, have helped create jobs…and still don’t have anywhere near the money to afford such a house.

2 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:28:56pm

Newt, the prick for 2012.

3 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:29:04pm

PLEASE GET THE NOMINATION


Would love LOVE LOVE to see Newt slapped silly by Obama in the general

4 engineer cat  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:29:56pm

If you’re a liberal, you walk in here and you think

i always make sure to ask newt and rush what i think

5 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:30:16pm

[Link: www.guardian.co.uk…]

The archbishop of Canterbury has warned that England risks a repeat of the riots that spread across England this summer unless the government and civil society do more to “rescue those who think they have nothing to lose”.

it can happen here too!

6 qubit2020  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:30:53pm

A dick being a dick

“Newt, the prick for 2012.”

7 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:31:03pm

“If you’re a conservative politician, you walk into a nice mansion like this and tell a joke about how the owners’ grasp on their property is threatened by those damned communists liberals.”

8 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:31:03pm

re: #4 engineer dog

If you’re a liberal, you walk in here and you think

i always make sure to ask newt and rush what i think

Especially on marriage and dietary advice

9 darthstar  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:31:28pm

I find it sad to think that this country is so fucked up that at least half of it will consider Newt Gingrich a viable candidate for president if he wins the GOP nomination.

10 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:32:51pm

Is it this Cox family?

Cox Enterprises is a family-owned, U.S. media conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It is one of the nations largest media companies and is also a provider of automotive services. According to Hoovers business website it “publishes 17 daily newspapers (including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) and about 25 non-dailies (weeklies and shoppers) and owns 15 TV stations through Cox Television. It also owns Cox Communications (which was a public company until a Cox Enterprises buyout in late 2004), one of the US’s largest cable systems with more than 6 million subscribers. Other operations include 95% of Cox Radio, owner of about 80 radio stations in nearly 20 markets; Manheim, which sells 10 million vehicles through auctions worldwide; and a majority stake in AutoTrader.com.” [1]

Family member Anne Cox Chambers has a personal fortune of $12.6 billion and is listed in Forbes in position 24 for U.S. billionaires. [2]

In 2007, the company had 83,000 employees with revenues of US$15 billion.[3] Top competitors are Comcast, Gannett, and New York Times. [1]

[Link: www.sourcewatch.org…]

The company spent $4,160,000 for lobbying in 2007.

11 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:33:30pm

re: #9 darthstar

I find it sad to think that this country is so fucked up that at least half of it will consider Newt Gingrich a viable candidate for president if he wins the GOP nomination.

And just think how much worse it will get in the future! I didn’t think the GOP could get worse after Bush. And now they’ve gotten WAY worse!

America! On the downslide baby, watch the slow-motion crash

12 Achilles Tang  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:34:03pm

They say he is smart, and so says he, but how can anyone smart have so little tact?

13 windsagio  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:34:36pm

re: #11 WindUpBird

you know, the thing about GWB was at least he made it clear he didn’t give a shit.

There was a weird refreshing novelty to it all.

14 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:34:50pm

re: #10 jaunte

Is it this Cox family?

s

The company spent $4,160,000 for lobbying in 2007.

There’s nothing more American

15 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:35:03pm

re: #9 darthstar

I find it sad to think that this country is so fucked up that at least half of it will consider Newt Gingrich a viable candidate for president if he wins the GOP nomination.

Lack of options, really. They wanted Bachmann, but then she got shown as two cans short of a six-pack. So then they wanted Perry, but he proved not to be the conservative paragon they were looking for. Then they shrugged and decided Cain had the goods, but found out what a job interview with him entails. So now they’re down to Newt, Santorum, and Paul…political powerhouses all.

Oh, they’ve got several “draft” campaigns going, but if they’re expecting that one of those outsiders is going to jump in and “save” them, then I’ve got beachfront property in Nevada going for cheap.

16 Atlas Fails  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:35:26pm

Conservatives look at a child and see unlimited potential. Liberals look at that same kid and say to themselves “it’s a shame this kid wasn’t aborted, but maybe I can make him gay!” That’s why I’m a Republican.

When do I surge ahead in the GOP primaries? I seem to have mastered their “humor.”

17 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:35:30pm

re: #13 windsagio

you know, the thing about GWB was at least he made it clear he didn’t give a shit.

There was a weird refreshing novelty to it all.

George W Bush was like having a stupid kid in the white house


Newt in the white house would be more like the rapey uncle

18 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:35:34pm

re: #6 qubit2020

A dick being a dick

“Newt, the prick for 2012.”

Ok, do you have an account with cafe press? This could be my fucking bootstrap!

19 Atlas Fails  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:36:31pm

re: #13 windsagio

you know, the thing about GWB was at least he made it clear he didn’t give a shit.

There was a weird refreshing novelty to it all.

Yeah, we hadn’t had a president like that since…er…the ’80s.

20 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:37:29pm

re: #9 darthstar

I find it sad to think that this country is so fucked up that at least half of it will consider Newt Gingrich a viable candidate for president if he wins the GOP nomination.

Time to quote our host: “off the rails and over the fucking cliff” (profanity mine, gladly)

21 qubit2020  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:38:01pm

Nope. Have at it.

re: #6 qubit2020

A dick being a dick

“Newt, the prick for 2012.”

Ok, do you have an account with cafe press? This could be my fucking bootstrap!

22 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:39:50pm

re: #10 jaunte

Probably. The ultimate monopoly family!

23 Bubblehead II  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:40:06pm

re: #9 darthstar

I find it sad to think that this country is so fucked up that at least half of it will consider Newt Gingrich a viable candidate for president if he wins the GOP nomination.

Not me. Dig through the past. I was a McCain/Palin supporter. But like unlike Charles, I didn’t leave the Republican party. It left me. And it left me with this message and a very sour taste in my mouth.

If you will not adhere to the message/mandates of the religious right, we don’t want you. Fine. That only leaves me with one choice. Obama.

The ONLY ADULT in the room.

And this from a die hard Republican.

24 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:41:39pm

re: #12 Naso Tang

They say he is smart, and so says he, but how can anyone smart have so little tact?

Hubris, narcissism, every thing they project on Obama without a shred of truth, ‘cept, dude’s black & the President.

25 nines09  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:41:52pm

Newt Gingrich, repeatedly disgraced former Speaker of The House; “If you can see my lips moving, I don’t have my head all the way up my ass.”

26 Decatur Deb  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:42:42pm

re: #12 Naso Tang

They say he is smart, and so says he, but how can anyone smart have so little tact?

Videorecording is one of those science things Republicans don’t believe in.

27 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:43:19pm

re: #15 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Lack of options, really. They wanted Bachmann, but then she got shown as two cans short of a six-pack. So then they wanted Perry, but he proved not to be the conservative paragon they were looking for. Then they shrugged and decided Cain had the goods, but found out what a job interview with him entails. So now they’re down to Newt, Santorum, and Paul…political powerhouses all.

Oh, they’ve got several “draft” campaigns going, but if they’re expecting that one of those outsiders is going to jump in and “save” them, then I’ve got beachfront property in Nevada going for cheap.

If sister Sarah didn’t hate Rove so much and vice versa, she’d be thinking.

29 windsagio  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:45:03pm

re: #19 Atlas Fails

I dunno, Reagan was all about pretending he cares.

Just like Newt is all about prtending he’s not a werewolf.

And I don’t mean one of those cool native american dreamcatcher werewolves either.

30 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:46:31pm

drinking in the tears of sad Hotair.com commenters who are afraid of a Newt nomination

tee hee

31 qubit2020  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:48:48pm

Can you imagine this guy with with the launch codes?

32 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:48:51pm

Heartbreak Awaits Republicans Who Love Gingrich

Ramesh Ponnuru: “Gingrich’s energy and creativity are admirable, within limits. But recognizing his own limits is not a Gingrich specialty. Voters are likely to see, as he cannot, that he is temperamentally unsuited for the presidency. “

33 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:48:54pm

re: #23 Bubblehead II

Re-freshing. And very very hopeful.

I respect the balance of power. It’s what was planned & has worked so well, for so long. (caveat - lots of shit, we survived). This seems a bit different?

34 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:54:42pm

OT but just tweeted by Frum

An asteroid discovered by Ted Bowell, the former director of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search, has been named after Vanity Fair contributing editor Christopher Hitchens. The asteroid orbits Mars, Jupiter, and Earth. It’s an ironic but fitting honor for an iconoclast who has spent much of his life shaking his fist at the heavens and the deities they may or may not host

[Link: www.vanityfair.com…]

35 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:56:01pm

re: #33 Stanley Sea

Re-freshing. And very very hopeful.

I respect the balance of power. It’s what was planned & has worked so well, for so long. (caveat - lots of shit, we survived). This seems a bit different?

That’s kinda where it ends. We “survive”. Prosperity for the middle class ended with reagan

36 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:56:26pm

from twitter:

Homophobia: the fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women.

37 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:57:07pm

Four Major GOP Candidates Remain After Cain “Suspends” Campaign

Tim Hogan: “With Mr. Cain’s withdrawal, there seem to be four remaining candidates atop the GOP Presidential field: Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Newt Gingrich.”

38 Petero1818  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:58:47pm

re: #32 jaunte

Heartbreak Awaits Republicans Who Love Gingrich

Which as someone else pointed out earlier in this thread means….Newt is a prick.

39 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 5:59:56pm

re: #36 WindUpBird

from twitter:

That great one you posted earlier (I trust you know) plz name the peep, I must follow!!

40 Petero1818  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:00:08pm

re: #37 jaunte

They should forget the primaries and just let the Donald anoint one of them.

41 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:02:21pm

Newt Gingrich: a millionaire paid by billionaires to convince the middle class that all their problems are caused by the poor.

42 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:03:55pm

re: #39 Stanley Sea

the homophobia one is from user @coyotetoo

was that the one you meant? ^^

43 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:04:32pm

re: #40 Petero1818

They should forget the primaries and just let the Donald anoint one of them.

And THAT is their fall. I’m still amazed that this bankruptcy agile carnival barker is getting respect. In the toilet, as the old saying goes.

44 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:05:27pm

re: #42 WindUpBird

the homophobia one is from user @coyotetoo

was that the one you meant? ^^

Nope. I follow @ work on my iPhone, but one was a major lol

45 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:07:49pm

re: #44 Stanley Sea

Nope. I follow @ work on my iPhone, but one was a major lol

“the consitiution is the one without the talking snake.” that one? That was @lolgop :D

46 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:07:59pm

Alabama following Republican playbook; considering forced labor:

Alabama agriculture officials are considering whether prisoners can fill a labor shortage the agency blames on the new state law against illegal immigration.

47 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:08:52pm

re: #45 WindUpBird

“the consitiution is the one without the talking snake.” that one? That was @lolgop :D

Yes yes yes. Fucking huge.

48 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:09:42pm

re: #46 jaunte

The Dark Future, it’s speedin’ up!

more forced labor from prisoners = more incentive to toss more (primarily minority) people in jail = more forced labor!

So they get to keep their illegal immigrants…as slaves :) Republicans!

49 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:09:55pm

re: #47 Stanley Sea

Yes yes yes. Fucking huge.

@LOLGOP is full of awesome :D

50 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:10:23pm

re: #47 Stanley Sea

Yes yes yes. Fucking huge.

Omg his icon!

51 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:10:47pm

re: #48 WindUpBird

Photo ID or 30 days, son.

52 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:11:22pm

re: #46 jaunte

amond on Dec 6, 2011 at 5:10 pm

ThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created a labor shortage in the state. Farmers say crops are rotting in the field and they are in danger of losing their farms by next season.

GOP politicians have crowed that driving immigrants out of the state will reduce unemployment by letting native citizens fill those jobs. But they’ve quickly discovered that Americans are simply unwilling to do the back-breaking labor of harvesting crops.

To stave off the disastrous collapse of state agriculture, Alabama officials are seriously considering replacing immigrant workers with prison laborers who they could perhaps pay even less than immigrants. Earlier this year, the head of Alabama’s agriculture department floated this idea. Now, the department is actively promoting it to the state’s farmers:

Alabama agriculture officials are considering whether prisoners can fill a labor shortage the agency blames on the new state law against illegal immigration.

The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries is meeting with south Alabama farmers and businesses in Mobile on Tuesday. Deputy commissioner Brett Hall says the agenda includes a presentation on whether work-release inmates could help fill jobs once held by immigrants.

Georgia implemented a similar scheme to deal with its post-immigration-law exodus, but the program had mixed results, with many inmates walking off the job early. In fact, some in Georgia were amazed Alabama did not learn from their mistakes before implementing an immigration law that jeopardized agricultural and construction industries. “It was like, ‘Good Lord, you people can’t be helped. Have you all not been paying attention?’” said Bryan Tolar, president of the Georgia Agribusiness Council.

Replacing skilled workers with virtually free (and sometimes actually free) prison laborers has become a trend in Republican-led states.

53 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:12:22pm

Bbl

54 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:13:08pm

“Good Lord, you people can’t be helped. Have you all not been paying attention?”


55 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:13:12pm

In campaigns past, politicians tried to convince folks that they were “One of them,” from chowing down on country fair grub to shaking hands with factory workers. This year? The GOP’s flicking ashes at the homeless from their limos and telling them that they can’t punish “success.”

Seriously, you got a guy who made his fortune from driving companies into bankruptcy vs. a guy whose made millions lobbying for big business in the halls of Congress. If you needed a better example of how fucked up our political system is, you need not look further.

56 engineer cat  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:14:22pm

Heartbreak Awaits Republicans Who Love Gingrich

he’s already filed divorce papers and is screwing some other political party “athwart” his desk at this very moment?

57 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:14:23pm

re: #55 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

In campaigns past, politicians tried to convince folks that they were “One of them,” from chowing down on country fair grub to shaking hands with factory workers. This year? The GOP’s flicking ashes at the homeless from their limos and telling them that they can’t punish “success.”

Seriously, you got a guy who made his fortune from driving companies into bankruptcy vs. a guy whose made millions lobbying for big business in the halls of Congress. If you needed a better example of how fucked up our political system is, you need not look further.

And it’s gonna get way worse

58 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:16:06pm

re: #52 WindUpBird

GOP politicians have crowed that driving immigrants out of the state will reduce unemployment by letting native citizens fill those jobs. But they’ve quickly discovered that Americans are simply unwilling to do the back-breaking labor of harvesting crops.

Perhaps if Donald and the Newt ran their Apprentice program in AL it might help?

59 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:17:21pm

Hmmm… The Donald and The Newt … sounds like the name of a children’s book. Maybe I should copyright it.

60 HoosierHoops  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:17:24pm

From the Hoopster: order your bumper sticker now..
Newt 2012: I have America and Tiffany’s on Speed dial
Bachmann 2012: 93,000 foster kids and counting
Perry 2012: I’m not as stupid as I act.
Huntsman 2012: I have 3 hot daughters
Paul 2012: BUY GOLD!
Mitt 2012: You knew it was going to be me
Trump 2012: Surprise!

61 Four More Tears  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:18:23pm

re: #55 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

In campaigns past, politicians tried to convince folks that they were “One of them,” from chowing down on country fair grub to shaking hands with factory workers. This year? The GOP’s flicking ashes at the homeless from their limos and telling them that they can’t punish “success.”

Seriously, you got a guy who made his fortune from driving companies into bankruptcy vs. a guy whose made millions lobbying for big business in the halls of Congress. If you needed a better example of how fucked up our political system is, you need not look further.

aT LEAsT THey weREn’T “community organizers!!!”

62 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:23:29pm

re: #46 jaunte

Alabama following Republican playbook; considering forced labor:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s not jobs that Americans “won’t do,” it’s jobs Americans won’t do for what the employers are willing to pay. If these farms aren’t willing decent pay for what is back-breaking and unforgiving labor, then they should not be surprised that nobody but illegals will do the work.

Of course, I’m surprised they’re going with prison labor and didn’t go with the suggestion I heard from some wingnuts, which was to send letters to every person on unemployment telling them they were cut off because there’s plenty of jobs on the farms.

63 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:25:22pm

re: #61 JasonA

aT LEAsT THey weREn’T “community organizers!!!”

*squints* Torgo, is that you?

/

64 TedStriker  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:27:12pm

re: #8 WindUpBird

Especially on marriage and dietary advice

Or pharmaceuticals…

65 windsagio  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:28:22pm

[Link: www.cracked.com…]

“abortion is an inside job” lol

66 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:31:29pm
I want to apologize to President Obama. But first, some background.

I found out three weeks ago I have cancer.

Fortunately for me, I’ve been saved by the federal government’s Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, something I had never heard of before needing it. It’s part of President Obama’s healthcare plan, one of the things that has already kicked in, and it guarantees access to insurance for U.S. citizens with preexisting conditions who have been uninsured for at least six months. The application was short, the premiums are affordable, and I have found the people who work in the administration office to be quite compassionate (nothing like the people I have dealt with over the years at other insurance companies.) It’s not perfect, of course, and it still leaves many people in need out in the cold. But it’s a start, and for me it’s been a lifesaver — perhaps literally.

Which brings me to my apology. I was pretty mad at Obama before I learned about this new insurance plan. I had changed my registration from Democrat to Independent, and I had blacked out the top of the “h” on my Obama bumper sticker, so that it read, “Got nope” instead of “got hope.” I felt like he had let down the struggling middle class. My son and I had campaigned for him, but since he took office, we felt he had let us down.

So this is my public apology. I’m sorry I didn’t do enough of my own research to find out what promises the president has made good on. I’m sorry I didn’t realize that he really has stood up for me and my family, and for so many others like us. I’m getting a new bumper sticker to cover the one that says “Got nope.” It will say “ObamaCares.”

67 TedStriker  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:31:43pm

re: #41 negativ

Newt Gingrich: a millionaire paid by billionaires to convince the middle class that all their problems are caused by the poor.

While proposing or supporting proposals to make the middle-class into the poor, as he and his confederates look down on everyone who’s not as filthy-rich as they are.

68 Linden Arden  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:41:06pm

re: #10 jaunte

Is it this Cox family?

The company spent $4,160,000 for lobbying in 2007.

I live in Atlanta and know much about the family.

The male heir is named “Kennedy” and is worth $6 billion. Anne Cox Chambers is set for life too at $12 billion. They are Obama supporters, fwiw.

69 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:43:28pm

re: #68 Linden Arden

Maybe the benefit was at some other Cox family’s mansion, then.

70 Linden Arden  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:49:56pm

re: #69 jaunte

Maybe the benefit was at some other Cox family’s mansion, then.

Or they are disgusted with Republicans since 2000.

I know I am.

71 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:53:07pm

re: #69 jaunte

“Cox” is not that unusual of a name.

72 TedStriker  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:54:34pm

re: #71 freetoken

“Cox” is not that unusual of a name.

Only if their first name is Seymour….

/*cue Beavis & Butt-Head laughing*

73 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 6:58:38pm
74 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:00:57pm

re: #73 jaunte

Heh.

Image: File:SpeakerGingrich.jpg

eerie!

75 Interesting Times  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:01:15pm
76 Varek Raith  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:02:16pm

re: #72 talon_262

Only if their first name is Seymour…

/HEH HEH HEH

77 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:02:19pm

re: #74 WindUpBird

Ack, doesn’t load. Here’s the artist’s site: [Link: www.thomasnash.com…]

78 austin_blue  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:03:13pm

It continually amazes me that Newt “My Baggage Rules!” Gingrich is polling over Conservative Centrists like Romney and Huntsman. I know, I know, they are pandering to the freakazoids right now, but I don’t believe that is the way they would govern. Why is their Mormonism such a pair of cement boots?

I’m areligious, so I find all faiths kind of… odd. But if Christians believe in ritual cannibalism- the Eucharist- on every Sunday, who’s to say what’s bizarre in other Christian sects?

79 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:03:39pm

I’m glad I don’t paint serious portraits of politicians for a living.

80 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:04:34pm

re: #77 jaunte

worked for me!

81 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:05:09pm

I’m having trouble not finding a source for the latest howler that a wingnut told me. Seems they’ve got themselves a “courageous” black reverend up in Washington state, who’s suing Pres. Obama and the Democratic Party for…get this…an apology for slavery and decades of discriminatory laws and practices.

82 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:05:55pm

As some may know, I’ve been following COP17 down in Durban… though the time difference is 10 hours.

Anyway, looking at the various news aggregators and the stories around climate change, the UNFCCC, etc. it appears as the critical mass of idiocracy has arrived. Story after story, but most are full of misstatements, or just wrong data. Besides the expected innumeracy even the basics of journalism, such as verifying sources, is abandoned.

The NGOs are too often on their own ideological wars, and these UNFCCC gatherings are not helping the case of dealing with climate change by giving a platform to those who really want something else than the nominal cause of the meeting.

In that regard this ineffectiveness reflects what is going on between the formal parties. The large nations, all of them, are doing their best to make sure nothing really much gets accomplished.

Which raises the question as to why they all go through this circus to begin with. I suspect that many of the powers that be are in fact afraid that they can’t really control the future of the international system to the extent that would make them feel comfortable. I also suspect that the vagaries of the financial markets has most nations’ leaders skittish. Thus they are not in the mood to do anything other than the status quo, something with which they feel comfort purely through familiarity.

I tweeted a couple of times asking if the UNFCCC has become the League of Nations. Probably most (of the few) who read that didn’t understand to what I was referring. It was simply this: when nations can’t think and act outside of the habits which are ingrained then the ineffectiveness will lead to a resolution that is cataclysmic.

83 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:06:42pm

re: #78 austin_blue

Why is their Mormonism such a pair of cement boots?

Same here; it’s also surprising to me that the religious feelings that drive the ‘anyonebutMitt’ decision making are so casually accepted by most of the media.

84 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:07:21pm

re: #4 engineer dog

If you’re a liberal, you walk in here and you think

i always make sure to ask newt and rush what i think

Oh, don’t bother. They will tell you. Even if you don’t ask.

85 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:08:20pm

re: #79 jaunte

I’m glad I don’t paint serious portraits of politicians for a living.

Well, Phil Hale did do Tony Blair’s portrait

But what he does for a living is paint the most badass stuff imaginable

86 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:09:19pm

re: #85 WindUpBird

Yeah, I think he’s in a whole different league.

87 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:10:19pm

re: #86 jaunte

Yeah, I think he’s in a whole different league.

that newt painting kinda reminds me of really stiff portraiture from the 50’s

88 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:11:23pm

re: #87 WindUpBird

Compare gestures:
Image: stalin_xviii.jpg

89 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:11:29pm

re: #81 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

I’m having trouble not finding a source for the latest howler that a wingnut told me. Seems they’ve got themselves a “courageous” black reverend up in Washington state, who’s suing Pres. Obama and the Democratic Party for…get this…an apology for slavery and decades of discriminatory laws and practices.

I’m prob waaay behind in this thread, bit it’s all about race. All the fuck about race with these freaks. They didn’t say a word before.

90 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:12:54pm

re: #82 freetoken

Pls keep reporting.

91 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:14:45pm

re: #73 jaunte

Heh.

Image: File:SpeakerGingrich.jpg

Complete with the great American Phallus in the background.

92 austin_blue  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:16:45pm

re: #82 freetoken

As some may know, I’ve been following COP17 down in Durban… though the time difference is 10 hours.

Anyway, looking at the various news aggregators and the stories around climate change, the UNFCCC, etc. it appears as the critical mass of idiocracy has arrived. Story after story, but most are full of misstatements, or just wrong data. Besides the expected innumeracy even the basics of journalism, such as verifying sources, is abandoned.

The NGOs are too often on their own ideological wars, and these UNFCCC gatherings are not helping the case of dealing with climate change by giving a platform to those who really want something else than the nominal cause of the meeting.

In that regard this ineffectiveness reflects what is going on between the formal parties. The large nations, all of them, are doing their best to make sure nothing really much gets accomplished.

Which raises the question as to why they all go through this circus to begin with. I suspect that many of the powers that be are in fact afraid that they can’t really control the future of the international system to the extent that would make them feel comfortable. I also suspect that the vagaries of the financial markets has most nations’ leaders skittish. Thus they are not in the mood to do anything other than the status quo, something with which they feel comfort purely through familiarity.

I tweeted a couple of times asking if the UNFCCC has become the League of Nations. Probably most (of the few) who read that didn’t understand to what I was referring. It was simply this: when nations can’t think and act outside of the habits which are ingrained then the ineffectiveness will lead to a resolution that is cataclysmic.

Rock, meet hard place. The Chinese are trying to corner the market on export sales of solar panels with government subsidies (hence the failing manufacturing industry in that market segment in the US). But they are unwilling to commit to not building coal power stations. Same with India. The west should be pushing nukes for baseline power generation world wide, but it’s expensive and takes a long ass time.

It’s a puzzlement.

We’ve had six inches of rain in the last five weeks (Yay!). Our two major reservoirs have come up six and two inches, respectively. No runoff. Everything went to replace soil moisture. Long range patterns predict that the rest of the winter and spring will be dry as toast.

As a global entity, we are slowly killing ourselves.

93 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:19:33pm

Well, I give up. This is the most recent report on the lawsuit that I’m willing to touch without a class 4 biohazard suit:

Liveleak: Blacks File Class Action Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama & Democrats

Seattle, WA. On September 11, 2011, blacks from the West Coast and the East Coast joined together and signed one of the most comprehensive legal briefs ever prepared on racial discrimination, then filed their brief today, September 12th, at 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time in US District Court in Seattle (Case No. C11 - 1503). The plaintiffs, who refer to the defendants as “Father of Racism,” allege that as an organization, the Democratic Party has consistently refused to apologize for the role they played in slavery and Jim Crow laws and for other subsequent racist practices from 1792 to 2011. Rev. Wayne Perryman, a former Democrat himself and the lead plaintiff in this class action lawsuit, said he was inspired to file this action after seeing the recent movie The Help. The movie takes place in the region that was exclusively controlled by Democrats for more than 150 years (the South). Mrs. Frances P. Rice, the Chair of the National Black Republican Association is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Mrs. Rice is a resident of Sarasota, Florida and has lived in the the South most of her life.

The case cites the collective work of over 350 legal scholars and includes Congressional records, case law, research from our nation’s top history professors, racist statements from Democratic elected officials, citations from the Democrat’s National Platforms regarding their support of slavery, excepts of speeches from Senator Obama, individual testimonies from blacks who lived in the Jim Crow South and opinions from the NAACP.

Perryman said President Obama was named as a defendant not only because he is the official leader of the Democratic Party, but because of certain statements he made about his own party in his book, Dreams from My Father (see attachment). In 2009, the President was asked to issue an apology to blacks on behalf of his party, but he refused. Unlike other reparations lawsuits, this lawsuit merely asks for a public apology, but no monetary damages.

94 Stan the Demanded Plan  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:19:53pm

re: #92 austin_blue

How’s your Governor serving the state while reaching for the big prize? Is he in the capitol participating? What’s the home state scoop?

(hate how they are allowed to essentially abdicate for a higher office campaign)

95 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:21:45pm

re: #93 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Liveleak: Blacks File Class Action Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama & Democrats

“Frances P. Rice”

IIRC, this is the person who started that idiotic “MLK was a Republican” bullshit that Republican Black No. 16, Alveda King, picked up and spat at dumb conservative white bigots to repeat.

They are so easily manipulated, all of them.

96 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:23:43pm

re: #90 Stanley Sea

Pls keep reporting.


main()
{
x=1;
while (x > 0)
{
printf ("Welcome to COP %d∖n", x);
printf("This COP is a clusterfuck");
}
x++;
}

97 austin_blue  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:24:28pm

re: #93 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Well, I give up. This is the most recent report on the lawsuit that I’m willing to touch without a class 4 biohazard suit:

Liveleak: Blacks File Class Action Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama & Democrats

Ummm… those are all Republicans, now, and they’ve got deep pockets. Get new lawyers.

I might suggest John Edwards. He’s got a lot of free time right now.

99 engineer cat  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:26:41pm

re: #96 freetoken


main()
{
x=1;
while (x > 0)
{
printf ("Welcome to COP %d∖n", x);
printf("This COP is a clusterfuck");
}
x++;
}

compile error: unknown token ‘x’

(you didn’t declare a data type for it)

100 Bubblehead II  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:28:01pm
101 Four More Tears  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:28:40pm

re: #98 jaunte

Bill O’Reilly: How Will The Obama Administration Reach Out To African Americans? “Are They Going To Be On Soul Train?”

The Obama Administration gonna get them some mother fuckin’ ice tea.

102 austin_blue  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:29:32pm

re: #94 Stanley Sea

How’s your Governor serving the state while reaching for the big prize? Is he in the capitol participating? What’s the home state scoop?

(hate how they are allowed to essentially abdicate for a higher office campaign)

Well, Texas has a weak Governor system and the Legislature meets only in odd-numbered years and for only 120 days. That session ended in June. The Gov can only appoint to boards and veto bills. So, right now, Pointy Boots doesn’t have much to do.

103 jaunte  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:29:39pm

re: #101 JasonA

There seems to be a huge appetite in America for broadcast dickheadery.

104 Interesting Times  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:29:44pm

re: #82 freetoken

I tweeted a couple of times asking if the UNFCCC has become the League of Nations. Probably most (of the few) who read that didn’t understand to what I was referring. It was simply this: when nations can’t think and act outside of the habits which are ingrained then the ineffectiveness will lead to a resolution that is cataclysmic.

What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors? What Will Take Us from Procrastination to Action?

I agree with the commenters saying that no disaster will be enough to dent the delusions of the deniers.

105 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:30:54pm

re: #78 austin_blue

I’m areligious, so I find all faiths kind of… odd. But if Christians believe in ritual cannibalism- the Eucharist- on every Sunday, who’s to say what’s bizarre in other Christian sects?

Aka god-eating

106 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:31:46pm

re: #98 jaunte

Bill O’Reilly: How Will The Obama Administration Reach Out To African Americans? “Are They Going To Be On Soul Train?”

No.

Fred Sanford is going on a bus tour to all those black liberation theology racist churches.

9_9

107 Targetpractice  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:32:09pm

re: #104 publicityStunted

What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors? What Will Take Us from Procrastination to Action?

I agree with the commenters saying that no disaster will be enough to dent the delusions of the deniers.

Of course not. When severe weather doesn’t do much damage or doesn’t appear, they go “Where’s all the horrific weather you said was gonna happen?” And when entire towns get ripped off their foundations or flooded by hurricane after hurricane, they go “These things go in cycles!”

108 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:34:25pm

re: #104 publicityStunted

My point is much broader - it’s not just the “deniers” who are the problem here. The inability to act outside of well-trodden (and thus comfortable, or maybe better yet - comforting) habits is keeping nations from acting in a globally beneficial matter.

109 bratwurst  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:36:01pm

re: #104 publicityStunted

What Are the Near-Term Climate Pearl Harbors? What Will Take Us from Procrastination to Action?

I agree with the commenters saying that no disaster will be enough to dent the delusions of the deniers.

If we still get regular readers of this blog basing their ambivalence about the reality of climate change on their personal observations of winter weather in their own neighborhoods, there is little cause for optimism.

110 SanFranciscoZionist  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:37:49pm

re: #12 Naso Tang

They say he is smart, and so says he, but how can anyone smart have so little tact?

Tact, in this case, is the art of not offending anyone who may vote for you.

I have a lingering hope that this sort of nonsense is alienating habitual Republican voters who are registering it as a slam on the non-rich, rather than on liberals, but that may prove to be in vain.

111 palomino  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:38:11pm

re: #78 austin_blue

It continually amazes me that Newt “My Baggage Rules!” Gingrich is polling over Conservative Centrists like Romney and Huntsman. I know, I know, they are pandering to the freakazoids right now, but I don’t believe that is the way they would govern. Why is their Mormonism such a pair of cement boots?

I’m areligious, so I find all faiths kind of… odd. But if Christians believe in ritual cannibalism- the Eucharist- on every Sunday, who’s to say what’s bizarre in other Christian sects?

Mormonism is definitely a big part of it, as some Christian pastors have told their followers not to vote for Romney because he’s a cult member. Then again, some of those same pastors have said voting for Mitt in the general would be OK because Obama’s a Muslim.

Anyway, Mitt has another problem: he’s a Mass. moderate whose newfound conservative positions are in doubt. And Huntsman, well, he’s said nice things about Obama and actually worked constructively in his admin. for 3 years, so forget about him.

112 engineer cat  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:39:08pm

re: #96 freetoken


main()
{
int x=1;
while (x < MAXINT)
{
printf ("Welcome to COP %d∖n", x);
printf("This COP is a clusterfuck");
x++;
}

}

113 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:40:08pm

And the “left” is just as ineffective here. Yesterday Juan Cole jumped on the Kepler-22b announcement and tried to ride it as a hobby horse. He laments the lack of progress in Durban and states that getting excited about other planets isn’t worth it because we aren’t doing such a good job here.

But he misses a very important, vital, insight - until humans look at their surroundings as a planet, as a single object rolling through space, instead of identifying their local piece of land as “theirs” in some eternally unique fashion - until then all we’ll get is an mine-vs-them battle.

Cole also misses several other connections (such as the importance of planetary science in the development of climatology).

114 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:43:36pm

re: #112 engineer dog

Hey, I used to have to pay code monkeys to write correct code… now I gets it for free!

115 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:46:22pm

re: #113 freetoken

And the “left” is just as ineffective here. Yesterday Juan Cole jumped on the Kepler-22b announcement and tried to ride it as a hobby horse. He laments the lack of progress in Durban and states that getting excited about other planets isn’t worth it because we aren’t doing such a good job here.

But he misses a very important, vital, insight - until humans look at their surroundings as a planet, as a single object rolling through space, instead of identifying their local piece of land as “theirs” in some eternally unique fashion - until then all we’ll get is an mine-vs-them battle.

Cole also misses several other connections (such as the importance of planetary science in the development of climatology).

Probably going to need something like this to occur.

Nothing like competition to unite and bring out the juices in homo sapiens.

116 austin_blue  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 7:52:24pm

re: #113 freetoken

And the “left” is just as ineffective here. Yesterday Juan Cole jumped on the Kepler-22b announcement and tried to ride it as a hobby horse. He laments the lack of progress in Durban and states that getting excited about other planets isn’t worth it because we aren’t doing such a good job here.

But he misses a very important, vital, insight - until humans look at their surroundings as a planet, as a single object rolling through space, instead of identifying their local piece of land as “theirs” in some eternally unique fashion - until then all we’ll get is an mine-vs-them battle.

Cole also misses several other connections (such as the importance of planetary science in the development of climatology).

Well said. If I wasn’t a Flat-Earther, I would agree with you. But that was a nicely presented argument.

Oh, and ExxonMobil has paid me to be a member of the Flat Earth Society.

117 freetoken  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 8:09:51pm

re: #115 oaktree

118 sagehen  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 8:40:43pm

re: #23 Bubblehead II

Not me. Dig through the past. I was a McCain/Palin supporter. But like unlike Charles, I didn’t leave the Republican party. It left me. And it left me with this message and a very sour taste in my mouth.

If you will not adhere to the message/mandates of the religious right, we don’t want you. Fine. That only leaves me with one choice. Obama.

The ONLY ADULT in the room.

And this from a die hard Republican.

I feel your pain; I’ve been feeling it for decades.

I’m the last of the liberal Republicans — I think Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower were the three best presidents this country ever had; and now a Democrat is the closest thing we’ve got to any of them, and he’s derided as “socialist marxist fascist kenyan anti-american” by people who think family values is all about what slogans you spout and nothing to do with how you actually live your life.

119 HappyWarrior  Tue, Dec 6, 2011 9:06:39pm

Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny? Anyhow how have a can of go fuck yourself dipshit, Newt.


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