Gingrich Now Calling Sotomayor "Racialist"
h/t Think Progress. So much for that supposed "apology". Gingrich is back with more back peddling and more fear mongering over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
CBS News reported the interview this way. Gingrich Opts To "Reframe" Racist Tweet:
Later in the program, Gingrich said he wished to "reframe" his initial comment calling Sotomayor a racist, when really he does not know the nominee and meant that her words were racist.
"One of the challenges for the administration is having first chided me for language, then having said she didn't mean it, and then having said she ought to restate it. Now they face the fact that she has said this, written about it four or five time," he argued.
"If you say people of this ethnic background are superior to people of this ethnic background, take out her language and put in the word 'white,' put in 'white male' where she had 'Latina,' that person would be disqualified from the court. Also would be disqualified as a juror."
Gingrich admitted that it is "very doubtful" that her comments would disqualify her as a high court pick. "I think she was a good prosecutor. I think she was an acceptable district court judge," he said.
But, Gingrich added, lower level judges "aren't in a position to live out whatever their prejudices are because they're bound by the Supreme Court," arguing that a lifetime appointment would put her in a position to radicalize the Court.
Gingrich's actual words:
When I did a Twitter about her, having read what she said, I said that was racist — but I applied it to her as a person. And the truth is I don’t know her as a person. It’s clear that what she said was racist, and it’s clear — or as somebody wrote recently, “racialist” if you prefer.
This "reframing" just looks another excuse to fling some more mud at her. I wonder if Newt has looked at what racialism actually means either. From Wikipedia:
Racialism is sometimes used as a synonym of racism.
or
Racialism entails a belief in the existence and significance of racial categories, but not necessarily in a hierarchy between the races, or in any political or ideological position of racial supremacy.
So which one is it you're smearing her with today, Newt? Synonym, or the latter? Newt's double talk makes my head hurt.
Between Gingrich and Liz Cheney, I can't decide which one I'm more sick of seeing on the television.
BOTH are gag worthy.
the difference in gingrich and liz--
one's a dick and the other is.....
oh hell, they both are dicks,
liz just comes with curtains
Dear Media,
Why is this buffoon always on my TV? The only elections he ever won were in a rich white Atlanta district, and he sure brought home the pork to all those government-haters.
Prez. Newt is about right! Just announce you're running for prez in 2012 already and get it over with.
I am now calling Newt Gingrich an assholialist.
He is one you know.
In all his chameleon glory, a newt.
Sorry Mother Nature.
But WHY OH WHY DOES ANYONE LISTEN TO HIM?
NOTHING he has to say means anything to me.
Please, PLEASE stop despoiling your fine web site with that crank.
No really, I mean it.
Who the hell is he - Ali G?
"Whatever, it's racialist. Keep the camera's rolling because this is racialism that's going on right here. He's chucking me out because of the colour of me skin".
n/t
How the fuck are ya?
me-oww!
Newt, Sarah, and Liz are all playing checkers with Jimmy Hoffa.
"Newt's double talk makes my head hurt."
Yeah mine too, but it seems to appeal to the Dolt from Alaska;
“Sarah Palin's speech delivered in Anchorage on Wednesday -- the one in which she declared "screw political correctness" and wondered why "we have to pussyfoot around our troublesome foes" -- repeatedly lifted from an article written four years ago by Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley without attribution.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/p... - comment_25293096
Did she actually say from the podium 'Fuck political correctness'?
By his own grammatical usage, Gingrich can be called a fascialist. Also a bigotalist.
Since he screwed around on his wife while she was in a cancer ward, he is also an adulteralist and philanderalist.
Not to mention a hypocritalist and ethics-violatoralist.
that's the challenge he's perfect for the extreme right. they just love people that make bad choices and ask for forgiveness. i don't believe he has a chance. he's posturing to give the right some voice. palin is saying very little since she's busy taking speech/history/reading classes.
Leave some for the rest of us!
.
sexualist.
me-oww!
The bottom line is that the "right wing" is turning into the "white wing".
Why do we have to read what these assholes say everyday? Where do we go to hear what Democrats or sane people have to say about policy. Please. I'm serious.
I hate politics.
i know this may be far fetched but the right does this. get it out there and backtrack. some on the right'
will follow-up some won't. throwing some negative linguistics to the haters. they can't find anything on this tap by president obama.
...there's President Obama's speech from Cairo. The speech was very detailed, sophisticated, and was another example why Obama was an order of magnitude, a better choice than the Republican.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaxZPiiKyMw
I didn't watch the above version - I grabbed a copy off a torrent
http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/5504/Presid...
Try the blogroll on the side of this page. Here is one of my favorite sites for all things democratic. Democrats.com is another good site.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
someone in the MSM put me on TV so I can talk for 20 minutes about how racist and horrible a human being Newt Gingrich is? Seriously, why is this guy on TV????????????????
I think he goes on TV cheap, now that he has no shelf life.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
But you gotta write a book first.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
That he is actually considering running for POTUS against Barry in 2012.....
The year of the Mayan SHIT'S GONNA HIT THE FREAKIN' FAN!!!!!?????
Fool.
He should just drink a giant can of STFU soda and go home......
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I don't know much more of Newt (and his ilk)'s racist attacks I can take anymore. I'm really getting sick and tired of it.
I feel like I say this every other week, but I've only voted Republican once, for a city council candidate. But the way things are going, it's never, ever, ever happening again! If by some miracle there's a decent candidate for any office who is Republican, they need to switch parties because the GOP is on my permanent voter shit list now. I can''t vote for someone with an R next to their name and maintain a clear conscience!
I've never seen change without a fire
That's exactly the kind of condescending, "you're all too stupid to know this is bullshit" argument that's pushed the Republicans out of power.
When people hear what the actual comments were, they're left angry at the pudgy white con-men who took them for fools-- again.
I had a wingnut acquaintance 'cut 'n paste' the Sotomayor 'wise latina woman' quote into a thread on another site, and he was ranting about what a racist radical she was.
So I posted the entire speech to prove that she was talking about minorities being better able to understand the concept of discrimination.
He said the greater context didn't change his mind one bit.
Wingnuts will eat up what Newt is saying, regardless of it's truth, because they hate anything and everything to do with Dems, the left, or Obama. Their line of thinking is; if it's from a liberal, it's evil and we must oppose it. End of story.
they hate people who are in any way 'different' from them:
e.g., Democrats, independents, people of color, Buddhists, Jews, agnostics, etc., etc. etc.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
but that's old news.
Retardiddling: Altering a normal word to achieve an effect that appeals specifically to rightwing morans.
Gingrich's retardiddly decepticonniving has become ridiculiferous. Just when you think he might degassify his rhetoriloaded blahblahwhining, he reconfabulates some new bogustruction.
Gingrisch is a serpentilian tounged neo-compoop, a buschkivite, a book tour whore. A serious asshole.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Wow! Newt has his mouth open! WOW -- He's saying something irretrievably STUPID! Who could have predicted that???
*
Bwahahahahahahaha! When the media gets done with him .....Oh wait.
Ya remember, TV is make-believe, for money.
Same as W.W.F.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I didn't watch on TV. I don't care what this sorry lying fool has to say, I don't care what he thinks.
I know that he and all things republican are just insane.
republicanism is a mental illness and this guy needs to be in a hospital. Some where that they can give him some meds and just keep him from injuring himself but more importantly from hurting the American people any more.
The republican party is the biggest danger America faces.
They are batshit crazy, greedy fools, that care about nothing but themselves. STFU lizzard face!
republicanism is a mental illness, but I believe it is a character defect. That gives each republican the responsibility for his or her own actions, and collectively, that of the whole party. And they are "batshit, greedy fools, that care about nothing but themselves."
... clowns like Gingrich ain't done by a long shot. Doesn't matter that they lost a national election - they're so morally bankrupt, so dishonest that they can't even begin to consider the errors of their positions on key issues.
With Gingrich whining about how America is beset by paganism (HuffPost), and then opining that 'citizenship begins with the creator' in the United States, it's clear the conservangelicals won't be done until they transform America into a White Christian Paradise.
Doesn't the disgraced former Speaker have a sick wife to harass on her hospital bed with divorce papers somewhere and an exta-marital affair to tend to?
President Gingrich doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of ever winning a future presidency so he might as well crawl back in that spider hole he's been in for the past 8 years or so.
He hangs out with cockroaches and rats. The Universe has means of dealing with people like him. Just watch. And try to get it on video.
The smarmy little troll used gays in the military to wound Clinton's presidency and he trying to do the same thing to the Obama presidency with Sotomayor. He knows her not being confirmed would be a pretty big blow to his presidency here right out of the box much the same way this troll used gay marriage to undermine Clinton's presidency.
I remember once trying desperatly to get out of jury duty. At one point during the voir dire, I essentially, said I distrust lawyers. The judge said, "Okay, can you distrust them equally?"
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
we allow this fucking idiot on tube, now we complain.
Amerryka!
Go fuck yourself.
That's ok, I call Newt a Stupidist.
The more this braindead, disgraced, faux noise sheep, keeps bleating this ridicious bullshit the better for Dem's in the end.
I just *love* watching the Republicans implode- Apparently in republican world, the only true victims of racism are white men...
As long as they run with this white supremacist delusion, they will be alienating prospective votwers left and right.
Newt wants to run in 2012, but he doesn't have a chance..
Gingrich is a propagandist. He thinks he can throw out words that will change the minds of people and get them to think differently than they want to. Gingrich used this tactic to take over congress in 1994. It had a lot to do with words. He had a handbook for candidates titled "Language, a Key Mechanism of Control" that included a directory of words to use in writing literature and mail,in preparing speeches, and in producing electronic medium."
Some of the words he chose to describe Democrats were sick, corrupt, anti-flag, liberal,and traitors. The last term they decided was not working because they received bad publicity so they took it out of the their toolbox, just like he almost took racist out this time but he seemed to like the word so much he made another word that is almost the same.
I just red a book, that I have mentioned a few times here, that spells out all this crap that the Republicans have done over the last 30 years and especially during the last eight year.
Big Lies by Joe Conason. I highly recommend it. Highly!!!
I laugh when I hear disgraced former Speakers Gingrich and Delay talk about racism and race baiting. The entire platform of the GOP is based on that.
Karl Rove 101; Falsely accuse the other side of what you are guilty of.
Extra-maritalist.
How 'bout, Fucktardalist?
Draft dodgelist.
A couple of pepperpots from Monty Python used the word "racialist" in some sketch.
Adolf Hilter used the term at a National Bocialist rally in Minehead, with Bimmler and Ron Vibbentrop by his side.
An early version of Gumby did as well.
"If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they get infections and they don't have upper body strength... On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes."
Newt Gingrich
"Between Gingrich and Liz Cheney, I can't decide which one I'm more sick of seeing on the television."
I can't decide which of them I'd like to see under a television either-- preferably one dropped from a great height.
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