Gingrich Gets 'Mic Checked' And Replies, 'No Such Thing as 99%'
Newly minted frontrunner New Gingrich became the latest Republican to get "mic checked" by the Occupy movement at a campaign event in Jacksonville, Florida Thursday.
One tea party supporter agreed with Gingrich that the current 99 Percent protests were "destructive" to America.
"Do you have a directive -- do you have a statement that you would make to that movement [as president]?" the man asked.
"There is a strain of hostile people on the left organized across the country who believe in trashing things, believe in destroying things," Gingrich replied. "Who do they think paid for the park they are sleeping in? Who do they thing paid for the bathroom they want to use? Who do they think paid for the food they're eating?"
"America wasn't created by people who woke up every morning saying, 'You owe me,'" he continued. "I think we ought to confront them head on. The last point I'd make: Every city government has an absolute obligation to enforce the rule of law and to protect private property and, frankly, they ought to be filming these people, and every person who engages in violence ought be given a very long vacation from the streets in order to contemplate why in the future, they're not going to engage in violence against fellow Americans. But none of them should be tolerated if they engage in violence against persons or property."
As the candidate was finishing his remarks, a group of protesters delivered their own message.
"Mic check!" a protester yelled.
"Mic check!" was the reply.
The activists began to chant something about "the 99 percent" before being drowned out by tea party supporters.
"Hold on," Gingrich told the crowd. "I want to answer you very directly. There is no such thing in America as 99 percent! We are 100 percent Americans! We are all part of America!"
"Hold on," Gingrich told the crowd. "I want to answer you very directly. There is no such thing in America as 99 percent! We are 100 percent Americans! We are all part of America!"
Out of touch much, Mr. Newt?
That answer makes me think Mr. Newt has no clue about what the 99% is all about. Does he think that some people are 99% American?
CNN showed some of his shindig and I watched as much as I could stand but either they didn't show this (no surprise there) or it happened after my head exploded.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
He's using a variation of the old GOP flag waving meme.
Newt is sooooo '90s.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
So Gingrich is against bailing out the "too big to fail" banks, oil company subsidies, tax breaks for major corporations and for an open internet? Or, is it only poor people who aren't owed anything?
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
..leave it to the poster boy for 1% excesses, greed, theft & lowlife activities in general to deny there is a 99%.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
Says the man who has a half million dollar credit line at Tiffany's and took time out to cruise the Mediterranean. Oh yes Newt, we are all one. I live in Erie PA, an hour and a half a away from Niagara Falls and can't afford a week there. Some people you just want punch in the fat doughboy face. Asshole.
is intended to be a factual statement
"There is a strain of hostile people on the left organized across the country who believe in trashing things, believe in destroying things," Gingrich replied. "Who do they think paid for the park they are sleeping in? Who do they thing paid for the bathroom they want to use? Who do they think paid for the food they're eating?"
This proves he really doesn't get it. We KNOW who pays for these things. WE DO. With our taxes. And we don't MIND paying for the things that this country needs. It is HIS party that wants to eliminate the need for people to pay for the price of civilization. It is HIS party who want it to be every man for himself. It is HIS party who wants every thing on earth to have a price tag on it that will generate more profit for those in the 1%. Yes, Newtie Boy, there most definitely IS a 99%, and a 1%. YOU have chosen to align yourself with the 1%, and use lies and fearmongering to divide the rest in order to get the ignorant among them to ignore their own self-interests so that they will provide cover for YOU and the WEALTHY AND POWERFUL who want only to continue to rape and pillage the 99%
Every city government has an absolute obligation to enforce the rule of law and to protect private property and, frankly, they ought to be filming these people, and every person who engages in violence ought be given a very long vacation from the streets in order to contemplate why in the future, they're not going to engage in violence against fellow Americans.
In case you haven't noticed, you Kermit the Frog impersonator, it is the POLICE who are the ones engaging in violence. Or did that 84 year-old, 90 pound grandmother who got pepper-sprayed by the police in Seattle really pose that big a threat. I don't care how much anti-occupy propaganda is spewed out by Faux News and AM radio, the PEOPLE understand in increasing numbers that the PEOPLE of America are sick and tired of YOUR KIND, and are committed to changing the way things are done in this country.
The biggest threat you and your kind have to fear is the TRUTH, and the onstoppable VOICES of the people who will CONTINUE to shout from the street and the rooftops until you and your kind get you heads out of your rectums and pay attention.
WWFSMD?
...privately owned and was not purchased with tax money.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Figure that one.
Yeah, we paid for it.
Which is what will cause judges to struggle with constitutional issues in that park. In much the same way that a rehab that gets public funds can't force religion down the throats of patients.
"Time to get out of here!..."
Mic check the fuck out of Newt.
far left loon >.<
Really, Newt?
What ever happened to those "real" Americans?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I think we need to build a wall around Newt.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Are you saying there are now gated communities inside gated communities for assholes like Newt?
Of course. You don't expect old monied types to live within proximity of the low rent new monied types, do you?
There is an order to life.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
is no way to go through life, son.
"After all, he’s the only candidate that appears to be made of dough.” Stephen Colbert.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
The not-so moral, and not so majority, Republicans who are backing a man of similar character. Of course they won't listen to the 99%. They are the 1% Army!
labor mr. gingrinch, labor. whether performed by machines which are rapidly using up our energy supply, or by wages slaves in indochina, indonesia, samoa, thailand, the good old USofA, or anywhere you care to mention, it is labor performing work which produces anything of value.
start from there, you'll get it eventually.
Labor is prior to capital
Dudes like Newt act all high and mighty and think they're respectable citizens.
Really they're only scum that hasn't been caught and jailed yet.
far left loon >.<
Is Mr. Dishonest yappin' his trap again? Yawn.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
What is truly amazing is that this fucking asshole doesn't get that most of us despise him. He has about as much chance of being elected to anything, let alone president, as I do of being named the Sultan of Brunei. His fucking baggage has baggage.
There isn't a single GOP nominee that beats Obama.
As Democrats we should start pushing Nancy Pelosi aside. She should not be allowed to hold the Speakership again.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
And keep moist dish rag Harry Reid??
far left loon >.<
No. Get the dust buster and suck him up as he disintegrates.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Seconds later ...
He usually takes a few weeks to say the exact oposite of what he said before. He's perfecting his lying technique.
From what Gingrich is saying I figure he thinks he and his moneyed one percenters paid for everything and therefore own everything. This is the real face of the ownership society which Bush talked about. They own you.
Corporations are not citizens. Corporations with a presence in the US are sometimes managed by citizens of other countries. Money buys votes. Yes Newt, there is a 99%.
The 1% are the Occupy protesters - much as it pains me to say that - and I think those people and the progressives who support them should realize that and leave the U.S.
Well thought out.
Surely all the countries outside the U.S. could hold 3 million or even 30 million immigrants.
Let's face the facts:
- Roughly half the voters in the U.S. consistently align themselves with the GOP. These people tend to be fully supportive of corporations, and because they are conservative, they are unlikely to change their politics regardless of the economic situation.
- Most of the rest of the other half of voters in the U.S. are Democrats, and these people are at least tacitly supportive of corporations, as they are dependent on corporations for jobs, consumer goods, etc. It follows the Democrats are never to be an effective counter to corporate power, even when they are in the majority. For example, blue collar workers who depend on environmentally-destructive activities like logging and mining are always going to prevent the Democratic Party from taking strong positions on the environment.
- The people who don't fit into either of those categories - i.e., progressives - are clearly a very small minority in the U.S., probably no more than 3 to 30 million people, judging by the Occupy movement. Now it's clear that what these people want is a lifestyle that is not dominated by corporations, but since the U.S. is a democracy, they are never going to have that as long as they remain in the U.S. Furthermore, they are going to lose badly on every single issue that is important to them - the environment, globalization, secularism, you name it .
- These demographics are unlikely to change, as children who are raised by Republicans or Democrats tend to adopt their parents' politics as adults.
Given this set of facts, it follows that progressive Americans are only ever going to be able to live in the sort of country they want if they leave the U.S. While I'm sure a lot of progressives don't like to accept this reality, it's the reality nonetheless.
However, while the republicans may never be intelligent enough to know they are being screwed, the democrats (including those in denial) will eventually come to that conclusion even if they are employed by corporations.
I've been employed by corporations before - and I've known full well (as did everyone I worked with) we were being exploited and taken advantage of.
The #ows people are just ahead of the curve.
As for moving to another country. Yeah, I've long wanted to. This one is way too fuc*ed up.
Because I am seeing some big holes in your argument.
"These demographics are unlikely to change, as children who are raised by Republicans or Democrats tend to adopt their parents' politics as adults. "
Really? I have read otherwise, here...http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
True it's only a 30 year study, peer reviewed, and whose findings have been called "empirical", it's testing methodology 80-90% accurate.
Is it possible to be a progressive Democrat? wouldn't that person span over two out of the three ONLY choices?, how about a fiscal Conservative, but Social Liberal?
I would assert there are far more variations, and a greater complexity to the American elecorate, than your argument suggests.
How then do you explain the fact that the U.S. has been dominated by the Democratic and Republican Parties for more than a century? One would think that if a generation of young people hated the politics - and thus the political parties - of their parents, then a third major party would've emerged at some point in the last hundred years.
Judging by the progressive caucus in Congress, the answer is no. At the end of the day, all Democratic politicians are corporatists and globalists, which is proven by their voting records. Whether or not they *claim* to be progressive is irrelevant.
What you're describing here is a Democrat. In fact, social liberalism is precisely how the corporate Democrats continue to get the votes of young people opposed to corporate domination of the U.S.
That may well be true, but whatever variations exist cancel out in the end, so that what remains is a corporate duopoly. For example, you may have a Republican politician who is somewhat liberal on environmental issues. This person will cancel the vote of a Democratic politician who is conservative on environmental issues.
The guy who runs the major appliance manufacturer up the street makes in one week what I make in two years. And I make decent money.
Yeah, he's just like me.
You first, douchebag. Moving isn't going to help if the world's largest nuclear power turns into the fascist theocracy that the GOP dreams about. Take your un-American defeatism and GTFO.
It's being put in place by both Republicans and Democrats. For instance, how many Democrats voted the other day to keep *In God we Trust* on U.S. currency?
Who do you think paid for this? The workers you fat fucking asshole.
And here again, the Publicans are trying to paint OWS as violent
and destructive. I wonder if the Tea Party questioner was aware of the
huge fee Gingrich got from Fanny Mae.
Ed-words
But what about the all important hoverround quotient?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
The toad is "clueless"as are his minions...
with what he thinks is his intellect. That, and in love with the sound of his own voice.
I hope this wife cleans him out when he dumps her for some other intern.
Is she a proctologist?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
After Newt she'll be damaged goods.
far left loon >.<
this is newt is his element: an easily manipulated crowd, enemies to flog, a microphone and an appeal to faux-patriotism. hee-haw, hee-haw
USA-USA-USA
funny thing though, newt has decades worth of failures, lies, and skeletons that are going to be slowly paraded thru the MSM, like a succession of grotesque macy's day parade floats, as long as he remains at the top of the polls
Gingrich replied. "Who do they think paid for the park they are sleeping in? Who do they thing paid for the bathroom they want to use? Who do they think paid for the food they're eating?"Mr grinch who do you think installed the park and took care of it? Who do you think built and installed the bathroom? Who do you think grew the food you eat? They did the very people your insulting did. You didn't build or grow anything REMEMBER without them you don't exist.
When it comes to race, religion, education, or human rights, for starters, the GOP cynically divides and conquers. When it comes to systematic redistribution of wealth into the pockets of political contributors, only then are we all the same.
takes this sadistic, doughy, lump of hypocritical excrement seriously is beyond me.
Reslugs just can't help it since they are born FK'N stupid.
We're all born stupid, but some of us are kept stupid. Those become conservatives.
some are born to follow ideology without exception. Knee jerk reactionaries. They are known as authoritarians, I just call them wingnuts.
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others"
" Squealer consoles the animals, saying, "Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?" The classic hypocrisy seen here is too hard to miss. "
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Typical Newtie, thinks his mental flatulence is proof of profound insight and intellect. Friggin' psychopath.
There is no one more full of mental flatulence than newt. I'm not sure how anybody ever imagined him as innovative or smart. Conniving and devious would be closer.
He demonstrates a predator's cunning, which isn't the same thing as native intelligence.
saying, 'You owe me.'"
It sure as hell was. And those people had a strong sense of what constitutes a fair exchange in the relationship between citizenry and nation, where citizens "fund" this country over and over - with their blood, their taxes, their intelligence, their leadership, etc.
And those citizens have every right to expect something back.
Otherwise, what you have is exploitation - the kind of exploitation that happens when 1 of 2 parties in an exchange relationship takes without giving back in fair measure.
The people who created and continue to create America are owed something if they, their parents, grandparents, et al. have paid over and over to America.
Taking from people and then berating them when they say "You owe me" is standard stuff for callous, swindling conservatives who make a practice of this kind of shenanigans in business and politics.
There is no such thing in America as 99 percent! We are 100 percent Americans! We are all part of America!"
The Occupy movement isn't about who is or isn't part of America. Once again, Newt misses the point entirely.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
I want this guy to get the nomination; I really do. It's going to be great fun when all the sordid details of the life of one Newt Gingrich get plastered all over the media. Because the only person the whores in our completely corporate-owned media love more that a reichwing conservative scumbag is a scandal-plagued reichwing conservative scumbag. So yeah, bring on Newt!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
"Do you have a directive -- do you have a statement that you would make to that movement [as president]?" the man asked.
A directive?? talk about a mindless follower waiting for his marching orders, "please., tell me what to think, who to hate and I will punish them, O dark Lord"
RWA/SDO embrace, google it folks, and watch it happen all around you.
This is typical wingnut. They have no knowledge of the issues so they condemn others as enemies. They always move to personalities over substance. Its not real life to them. Its all just a soap opera in their head. They are weak and hackneyed.
As one of the patriotic millionaires that were asking for a tax increase said yesterday.
"America is no longer based on markets and capitalism, instead our economy is designed as 'socialism for the rich' – it is designed to ensure that the wealthiest people take all of the gains, while regular Americans cover any losses," he said at a press conference in Washington, D.C.
Newt and all his right wing reactionaries can defend and deny that all day everyday, they just look more unaware of what the american people have already awakened to. Time for them to catch up.
And his supporters are brainless sheep.
NOBODY 2012
Okay Newt, you don't want to be called the 1%; fine.
How about the greediest greedheads,of the super greedy. How's that sound?
The only people who wake up in this country thinking they are entitled, are the trust fund lucky sperm club members - who never did a day's work in their lives.
Oh, and the political parasites that they own - like you Newt.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
of the air, the forests, and the water courses.....
would be a characteristic of the right....
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