Jack Abramoff Accuses Newt Gingrich of Corruption
This clip from Meet the Press' webshow "PRESS Pass" leaves me somewhat conflicted. On one hand, Jack Abramoff accusing others of corruption is akin to Karl Rove calling out someone else for rigging elections. On the other hand though I can't disagree with a word Abramoff says about Newt Gingrich. From anyone else still in the Republican Party such comments would likely kill Gingrich's chances at the nomination. As it is, even with Abramoff's checkered past, they're still devastating.
It's also telling that Villager David Gregory has such a hard time grasping that which seems obvious to the rest of us.
GREGORY: Transparency of government is still an issue. It's an issue on the campaign trail and Newt Gingrich, a former Speaker is now caught up in this with Freddie Mac, a large housing giant controlled by the government. He claimed he got $300,000 to be a consultant to them. Bloomberg's reporting was well over a million dollars, providing strategic counseling. What do you make of all that?
ABRAMOFF: Well, this is exactly what I'm talking about. People who come to Washington who have public service and they cash in on it. And they use their public service and their access to make money, and unfortunately Newt Gingrich is one of them who's done it. But far too many of them do it and one of the reforms I propose in my book is to close permanently the door, the revolving door, between public service and cashing in as a lobbyist.
GREGORY: Now I'll ask you more specifically about that in a moment, but let me stick with Gringrich, because of course you're operating at a time there when he's in power.
ABRAMOFF: Right.
GREGORY: Is there more to even the Gingrich era that he was part of, that will become a bigger part of this campaign debate, and should it?
ABRAMOFF: Well, I don't know if he'll survive this, to be honest with you, this is a very big thing.
GREGORY: Why?
ABRAMOFF: Because he is doing, he's engaged in the exact kind of corruption that America disdains. The very things that anger the Tea Party movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement and everybody who is not in a movement and watches Washington and says why are these guys getting all this money, why do they all become so rich, why do they have these advantages? Unfortunately Newt seems to play right into it.
GREGORY: You call that corruption though?ABRAMOFF: Yes.
GREGORY: That's a heavy charge.
ABRAMOFF: Well that... what is it? It's corruption. At the end of the day, I say in the book, I believe now, although I didn't believe then unfortunately, that any provision of favor or any provision of anything to members of Congress and their staff is bribery. And any cashing in on it by them coming out later is corruption.
GREGORY: And he, you, would make the case that he's catching it as a former Speaker, being able to get that kind of contracts.
ABRAMOFF: I know he says that they paid him as a historian to give him a historic lesson, but I'm unaware of any history professor being paid that much money to give someone a history lesson.
In other news, Mephistopheles accuses Beelzebub of being evil.
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I was just listening to Newt speak at an gathering in Jacksonville, Florida. He was telling the rather small group of people how hard he had worked for his money in his lifetime. I couldn't help but wonder if anyone in that gathering knew a screwin' thing about his history. He went on to call MSNBC, "Obama's re-election committee". Later he added that the media never looked into Obama's past the way the republicans asked them to do. I think that's when my head exploded because I remember nothing past that point.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
More lies from a clinical liar.
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What a load. Few sitting presidents have had their pasts examined by the media the way that Obama's has.
Of course, what the republicans want is not for the media to dig up the truth about Obama's past, but for the media to report the GOP talking points that Obama spent his formative years learning how to become an "Islamo-fascist/atheist terrorist".
This man knows corruption.
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I agree. That's why some firms hire ex-burglars to show and tell them where their security is lax.
Newt thinks he is too smart to get caught at anything. He is totally my definition of a pompous ass.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...reporting in spite of your head exploding. You listen, we're grateful.
Two.."pompous ass", spot on or a cheap shot at pompous asses everywhere.
Newt will flame out eventually.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
They "flame out". They're supposed to be prosecuted for bribery. But instead, they just fade out of the spotlight with no consequences.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
... to see a crook such as Abramoff laying the cards on the table and calling Newtie one, too. Maybe all Abramoff is up to is trying to sell books. At any rate... Newt Gingrich, the serial cheater and serial liar, has been discredited many times, but hopefully this is the kiss of political death from Jack Abramoff.
...to clients he ripped-off. So selling a few books won't come anywhere near that. What is more likely is that as part of his plea bargain he stays out of jail for a longer period than he actually served, and he gets to settle some old scores.
He and Tucker Carlson still seem to be pals though.
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He'd better hope he doesn't accidentally shoot himself in the head and then hang himself in the garden shed.
far left loon >.<
We'll know for sure it was suicide if the garden shed collapses into its own footprint at near free-fall speed.
There'll be no need for an investigation.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I absolutely beleive Abramoff, not because he is such an upstanding citizen but because he is getting even. I believe Abramoff was from Ohio and a big time player in the republican party. Apparently, when he first got caught the republicans turned on him faster than you can imagine. Everyone of them distanced themselves from him and stabbed him in the back. They were all as involved as he was but he quickly became the fall guy.
SOmetimes things come back and bite you...frankly Abramoff squelling on them could not happen to a more deserving bunch.
How sad for him. The criminal was set up by bigger more powerful criminals to take the fall.
Boo fucking hoo.
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There were just so many visitors to the White House.
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The new Bush jr. mantra is that he "was" a lot more intelligent than he presented himself to be ?????
Hey when Jack's boat was sinking, Bush and his lying bunch of shitheels were throwing Jack anchors. They said they never met him and then all of a sudden pictures start popping up of Jack with the Shrub and letters thanking Jack. Boy those were some funny times.
I wonder when Scooter Libby will write a book.....
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Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I'd say Gregory is both vacuous and oblivious...what a dolt.
Gregory can't get on top of it enough to perform the missionary position.
that in the worldview of a pampered, extremely wealthy Villager like Gregory, Gingrich isn't raking in all that much money.
That's why he's having such a hard time with this: He sees Gingrich as working-class. Hell, by David Gregory's standards, he is.
I actually become physically ill when i try to listen to him..........i sense something VERY wrong.......
Really? Jack Abramoff accusing Newt Gingrich of corruption?
This is like Satan calling out a sinner for ungodly conduct.
It takes one to know one....it fits perfectly!
a callgirl calling a streetwalker a whore
He's not a history teacher. He's a history "specialist". Everybody knows that specialists get paid more.
and another not-Mitt bites the dust.
Lying lobbyist criminal, convicted of corruption, to know another corrupted lying, lobbyist ..... what does Abramoff have to gain in pointing out the OBVIOUS? In addition, really who, in their right mind would pay close to 2 million, for the opinion of a historian? Sadly, the GOPs love of bad boys, crooks, liars, grifters, and thieves, will somehow catapult this man to the front of the Teapublican line, and up on the almighty pedestal of GREED!
Madame Guillotine.
Casino Jack should still be in prison. He is the living-breathing example of what's wrong with the system.
Scumbag.
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Gregory is not an idiot but he plays one on TV
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No. He's an idiot.
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... like I said above, by David Gregory's pampered-Villager standards, Newt Gingrich isn't making all THAT much money. So he really doesn't see it.
David Gregory's wife, Beth Wilkinson, was one of only three senior presidents at Fannie Mae forced to resign when the government took over the troubled institution. Ahem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Wilkinson
Dick Gregory is as dumb as a dog turd. I think Jack is pretty clearly spelling it out. Jack knows why he did time.
And he did his time not like some pussy who blames everybody else. If anyone knows about lobbying it would be Jack. Ethics committee already got Newt for lying. Twice. Newt as a liar is a done deal. You don't get do-overs for lying. You are what you are. A LIAR.
Another of those times, and it seems there are so many, when you know you've really gotta suck when a scumbag thinks you're worse than he is...
The R's have forgotten the first rule when you find yourself in a hole... for which I'm eternally grateful..
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Gingrich was fined and repremanded: 1/22/97
Yesterday, for the first time in Congressional history, the Speaker of the House of Representatives was fined $300,000 and formally reprimanded for violating House rules. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly — 395 to 28 — to accept the House Ethics Committee’s recommendations that Newt Gingrich be punished for using tax-exempt organization to advance the political agenda of the Republican Party. He was also reprimanded to making inaccurate and false statements to the Ethics Committee.
Newt is very well qualified to be the next Republican President.
He's a liar- he's a crook- he's a serial philanderer-he's pink skinned with silver hair and has a plastic wife.
What more could the portly, over 50 rich white man crowd want in a Prez.
Maybe he'll pick "the Donald" for a running-mate.
Ethics-shmethics-that stuff's for pussies.
Kevin Spacey plays "Casino Jack" better than the real Jack.
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Ginrich corrupt ? Nah , tell me it isn't so !
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
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Gregory typifies what's wrong with today's MSM ... and this country .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
The "media" is NOT the problem with America, it's Americans seemingly unquestioning belief in it...
from that worthless hack's interview was the Candy Crowley line, "don't you think BOTH SIDES are responsible?"
Abramoff seems to be getting a lot of mileage out of playing the repentent sinner these days. But whether or not he's sincere, the GOP should be worried. He probably knows where a lot of bodies are buried and which closests have the most skeletons. If he keeps talking, he could tear down a lot of powerful people.
I'm sure he also knows where to get the best hookers and blow.
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I'm sure he knows where they ordered any and all of the above.
mic check...
could be worth a lot of moola. Not that I'm saying blackmail or anything like that.. .
Pot to kettle Pot to kettle come in please!
Keep in mind that David Brock, CEO of Media Matters, was a paid-in-full right wing hit man that turned against his right wing benefactors and regained his soul.
Abramoff may be trying to clean his image and has no fear of a right-wing backlash at this moment. Maybe he has the "goods" on more than just Newt?
Regarding what Pissed Off Patricia said up there... Newt calling MSNBC, "Obama's re-election committee" is rich. Coming from a turd like him and he even worked at FOX. Newt was toast before he even started, EVERYBODY hates Newt. It only shows how desperate the Republicans are. I mean really, who do they have? When Romney wins the Republican nomination, only about 1/3 of the Republicans will even come and vote. Obama is the luckiest man in politics.
Abarmoff accuses Newt of lying, Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahaha..
This is just too funny! lol to the hundredth power!
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I heard someone describe Congress as a bunch of prostitutes. That statement is slanderous to all prostitutes and should be stricken from the record.
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I thought his name was gingivitis.
forget my mathematics degree, here I go
history 101.
I'd like Abramoff to implicate every scumbag in the House and Senate. Republicans and Democrats.
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