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Bill Maher says Antonin Scalia, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are more racists than Paula Deen.
MAHER ON RACISM 2.0
The American people know Racism 1.0 (Paul Deen style) when they see it, and most don’t like it. [other than the Talibangelicals] Many Americans haven’t learned to recognize it, or don’t want to face the reality of Racism 2.0 (Trump, Palin, Scalia, Gingrich).
Bill Maher was right to call out the new form or racism, but wrong to try to split the two. America is right to punish Paula Deen’s type of racism - but for us to not address Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, and this new breed of racism - they should be held accountable, and held to the same standard.
Despite what the Supreme Court believes, racism is alive and well in America. Whether it be racism 1.0, or 2.0, the goal should be to eliminate it all.
Below are two videos that should be a wakeup call to Americans, minorities, and women. An insider speaks candidly to the Rev on GOP politics - radical tea bagger style.
"We have no proof to support Robme’s welfare attack"
The ad is blatantly false; a fabrication critics say is aimed at stirring up resentment toward people of color. Yet, amid a flurry of negative speculation in the media over why Romney refuses to release his tax returns, the deceptive welfare attack has suddenly emerged at the very epicenter of the Republican’s struggling presidential campaign.
And yet, if the above videos are not pungent enough for you, listen to Eye of Newt “moon unit” Gingrich:
The number of Americans reliant on government assistance to buy food grew by more than 70 percent between 2008 – 2011, driven by a lack of jobs and the unavailability of credit as the country grappled with a near total economic collapse at the end of President George W. Bush’s second term.
Despite the nearly unprecedented economic pressure on working class Americans, President Obama did not scrap a rule that requires welfare beneficiaries to look for work. Instead, the administration gave states the option to waive federal welfare work rules if officials come up with a plan that can increase employment among the poor even more.
All this utter bullshit from the radical tea baggers, is there anything beneath them, is there a point where they stop the lies and deceit? Probably not, stay tuned and watch closely as this desperate group comes unglued before our very eyes.
Newt Gingrich came to Michele Bachmann’s defense during an event at Politico Tuesday morning, insisting that she and the four Congress people who have been criticized by other Republicans for implying that a senior aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, are raising legitimate concerns about the groups’ efforts to infiltrate the American government.
“There weren’t allegations, there was a question,” Gingrich insisted. “The question ought to be asked across the board, what’s the role of the Muslim Brotherhood, what are its various networks and to what degree does it now influence the United States?” Gingrich claimed that senior members of his own party — including Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) — have bought into an “elite” culture of “political correctness” that prevents any discussion about radical Islam:
JIM VANDEHEI (POLITICO): So you think the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the American government?
GINGRICH: I think it’s worth knowing and I think it tells you something about the level of hysteria attacking these five members of Congress….I would ask the question, what is it they’re afraid of learning?
The former House Speaker lamented that most Republicans, including the party’s presidential nominee Mitt Romney, have resisted investigating the influence of radical Islam on the government and singled out former primary opponent Rick Santorum as a leader on the issue.
CPAC 2012, not just your average idiot in attendance.
If the Conservative Political Action Conference can be expected to accomplish anything more than angry bellowing, it is to reliably embarrass every decent and sane conservative in America. Sometimes the problem is a conspiratorial extremist co-sponsor, like the John Birch Society; sometimes the problem is a certifiable kook giving the keynote address, like Glenn Beck; and sometimes the problem is just vicious bullying of gay conservatives, who have been officially expelled from the conference. But now the annual Washington showcase of the far right is plunging toward new depths of disgrace, by featuring "white nationalists" among its speakers.
And so, a collage if you will, of why not to vote teapublican in November.
Ann "the man" Coulter
Because it's pointed out to me every time she is in front of the camera, I always forget to listen to what she says, and I end up looking at the "Adams Apple" on this "woman". Seriously, we stopped listening to this vile hunk of hate years ago.
Chuck Woolery of "love connection", "we'll be back in two and two fame"
Maybe its best that Chuck stick with what he knows best...... Mind numbing host of 30 year old lame TV.
Santorum
Speaks for itself.
Bachmann
The call her "Batshit" crazy for a reason.
Herman "the pervert" Cain
RickPerry:
"In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.
Nothing says bullshit, and fear like Glennbeckistan.
Newt-ron-bomb throwing tons of red meat to unlettered teabaggers:
Where do you start with this "anti establishment" diatribe? To much nonsense, not enough time.
Right-wing activist and blogger Andrew Breitbart at CPAC must be under a lot of stress lately from legal battles and having so much of his hard work discredited. "BEHAVE YOURSELF", " STOP RAPPING THE PEOPLE", "YOU FREAKS". I knew he was F**cked up, but this is overboard, even for this teabagger! Maybe "straight jacket" would suit him best.
Occupiers tell Andy, "Racist, sexist, anti-gay! Right wing bigots go away!"
Mr. Dana Loesch(Chris Loesch) comes out from behind his wife for once, maybe he does actually have a pair, but the again... GOP Patriotism in the US has been renamed terrorism by NFTOS. (See closing remark below)
I would tend to be more convinced of the "patriotism" by this (Steve Chowder) "American" rapper/comedian (sarcastic) - that is if he wasn't a part time Canadian.
Loesch and Crowder have proved that "white hip hop" is indeed and oxymoron, and that it needs to end...............and end now. Most of NFTOS' millions of readers know I've never really been a big fan of Dana "Diva" Loesch - and I would like to add she's never looked more tasteless than in this video with husband Chris.
Based on these videos, it seems inevitable that the tea party movement will continue to ooze and slime its way from town to town enveloping helpless citizens until – spoiler alert– some brave soul cripples it with a fire extinguishers and drops it off in the Arctic, better yet drop them off at Newts Moon Base!
If you want to declare a winner from CPAC, a good case could be made for Barack Obama, mainly because this movement underscored the degree to which every likely GOP presidential candidate had both serious and major malfunctions.
"in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ~ Declaration of Independence: July 4, 1776
Translated, "When it becomes necessary for one group of people to break away politically from (the teabagger) another and assume all the powers and rights of an independent people, out of respect for everyone else, those people need to explain why they think they need to break away."
I think the above videos explain everything!
I would tell the CPAC partiers, that even Napoleon Bonaparte thought he was being patriotic!
Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow had an explosively caustic argument with former Newt Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler about the candidate's approach to race on Tuesday night, in which Tyler himself used some very dicey rhetoric about African Americans.
Both MSNBC hosts had previously excoriated Gingrich for calling POTUS the "Entertainer In Chief" and telling him to "stop singing" during his speech just after his loss in the Florida primary, saying that he was attempting to tap into racial animosity from white conservatives. Maddow took that concern directly to Tyler:
"MSNBC ought to get off this race baiting kick," he said, adding that the teapublican Party has a "proud history" of fighting for civil rights going back to the Civil War.
"I don't get it!" Tyler said. "...The Democrats have failed in the public schools with African Americans. They abort their babies, they've done nothing to lift them out of poverty." He said Gingrich was just trying to show black voters that he wasn't going to "give them a handout, tell them to live in public housing, shut up, collect a check and vote for a Democrat." He also said that he thought Sharpton would agree with him about many of these points.
Rev Al jumped in to make it clear just how little he really concurred:
"Newt Gingrich is the one who brought race up!" he said. "...He's brought race in the campaign by name. You cannot then turn around and act like Rachel or I are bringing up race."
Tyler's words are "Coded" to the very core - the epicenter of race baiting and racism!
The nature of creatures can not be changed with language. The questions asked: "Entertainer in chief, food stamp president," were racially charged phrases. People do not use those sorts of terms blithely. Gingrich and his minions are a tacit, plotting lot who choose their terms to some ends. Debating on television, feeds the energies on both sides. But most intelligent viewers know that Gingrich is appealing to redneck Southern white folks who detest an African American President and African American people.
This battle was lost before it began. The Reverend served progressives well, asserting that the Tyler's of this world be held accountable for the bullshit that they spew. I can not count the times the I have said that "freedom' of speech" guts a human worse than a fifty caliber machine gun. Freedom of speech can be a dangerous two-edged sword, especially when expatiatedfrom the vocal chords of radical white teapublicans!
Former President Bill Clinton warned of a slippery slope from angry anti-government rhetoric to violence like that of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, saying "the words we use really do matter."
Clinton goes on to say:
"I'm glad they're fighting over health care and everything else. Let them have at it. But I think that all you have to do is read the paper every day to see how many people there are who are deeply, deeply troubled," he said.
There's been nothing more racially divisive from a national teapublican in the past five years - than what Gingrich is doing. Gingrich, the GOP and Tyler, are offensive tubs of industrial-strength rotting vegetation.
Joan Walsh called it the teapublican id unleashed. I'd say that might start to describe it, but it's something more than that. It's as though the last 30 years of barely-veiled hate has bubbled up and is erupting like a volcano filled with the hottest, mephitic disgusting offal we've seen. They're spewing it all over the nation, because they're that frenzied to see our first African-American President fail.
A very special shout-out to Reverend Al for calling it what it is, and standing up for what's right. He was steadfast and resolved with his rapid fire responses.
Closing with a Clinton quote:
"By all means keep fighting, by all means, keep arguing," he said. "But remember, words have consequences as much as actions do, and what we advocate, commensurate with our position and responsibility, we have to take responsibility for.
Newt "slim ball" Gingrich often pepper sprays us with ludicrous connotations of Saul Alinsky and his connection to both progressives and POTUS Obama - and there is a great reason for that.
"And I believe, if we have a big election with truly historic big choices, that we can defeat Barack Obama by a huge margin...it will be an American campaign open to every American who prefers a paycheck to food stamps, who prefers the Declaration of Independence to Saul Alinsky and who prefers a strong national security to trying to appease our enemies," said Newt Gingrich
Why do Newt and fellow teapublicans fear the Alinksy boogeyman? Because he was a civil rights activist who advocated for blacks. Just like Democrats and our POTUS.
"After a few years, by 1939, he became less active in the labor movement and became more active in general community organizing, starting with the slums of Chicago. His early efforts to "turn scattered, voiceless discontent into a united protest aroused the admiration of Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson, who said Alinsky's aims 'most faithfully reflect our ideals of brotherhood, tolerance, charity and dignity of the individual.'"
As a result of his efforts and success at helping slum communities, he spent the next 10 years repeating his organization work across the nation, "from Kansas City and Detroit to the barrios of Southern California." By 1950 he turned his attention to the African Americanghettos of Chicago, where his actions would later earn him the hatred of MayorRichard J. Daley, although Daley would later say that "Alinsky loves Chicago the same as I do." He traveled to California at the request of the San Francisco Bay Area Presbyterian Churches to help organize the black ghetto in Oakland. Hearing of his plans, "the panic-stricken Oakland City Council promptly introduced a resolution banning him from the city."
So its clearly easy to see why the pasty white racist would make the connection to Alinksy and POTUS, as they represent the same thing, "black America", which as we know is not something within the thinking mechanism of GOP - dom - which is, recognizing that African Americans are human too.
Wikipedia's definition goes on to say:
"Nor did he have much respect for mainstream political leaders who tried to interfere with growing black–white unity during the difficult years of the Great Depression."
A documentary was done titled "The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy," which states that "Alinsky championed new ways to organize the poor and powerless that created a backyard revolution in cities across America."
The Democratic Promise
Real Time's Bill Maher - Alinsky related video starts @ 2:23, but for entertainment watch entire clip.
Lord knows how dangerous it is to empower the poor, destitute and non-whites. Every time Newt mentions Alinksy, the deep rooted racist within him is exposed - by his nasty diaphoresis laden sports jacket. When you start piecing the Gingrich puzzle together, you assemble a vile, repulsive, racist, and the Alinsky puzzle piece is a hug component to showing us how immersed and subaqueous this racist is.
Whether your issuing and approving racist hate letters, or speaking from your lectern on Saul Alinsky, a racist is a racist no matter how you try to exscind it.
In the latest tell-people-what-they-want-to-hear speech on the endless election circuit, teapublican presidential hopeful Newt "slime ball" Gingrich made a remarkable promise: he wants a moon base. Well... don’t we all?
Appealing to residents of the state's economically struggling "Space Coast," teapublican racist Newton Leroy Gingrich promised to have a permanent U.S. base on the moon by the end of his second term as president.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.”
In reality the U.S. is no closer to having a colony on the moon than it was when the last astronauts left in 1972, but it’s not for a lack of thinking about it. Until 2010, a moon base was exactly what NASA was working toward.
Space policy expert John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University, told SPACE.com:
"When we are not expecting a U.S. crewed launch to the ISS until 2016-2017 and are just getting started on a lunar-class launch vehicle, establishing a lunar outpost by 2020 is a fantasy,"
"It would be much better to set realistic goals, but that is not Mr. Gingrich's strong suit."
Given the parlous state of US finances and the retirement of NASA's shuttle fleet last year, the Newtster has raised a few eyebrows with his ambitious plans, but that did not seem to interfere with this grandiose vision for a moon colony as America's 51st state.
But how would the Newt-ron-bomb convince a future Congress to go along with what certainly would be an expensive proposition? President Obama couldn’t even convince Congress to give NASA an extra $6 billion over five years, and instead NASA’s budget has remained flat, without the big boost in technology development and science the current President was hoping for.
Technology will not be the problem when it comes to getting Gingrich’s (or even Bush’s) moon base built. With the right investment, America’s scientists and engineers could easily get the job done. The major issue today is the same as it was in 2004: where will the money come from?
In these economically straitened times, with Congress hell-bent on cutting every federal program going, finding the money to send a new generation of NASA astronauts to the moon will remain an impossible dream, and lets face it readers, we really need to concentrate on the "earth base" structures before we can focus on moon base fantasies.
My question to the Newt-ron-bomb, do we get Jedi Knight light sabers when we move to the moon?
It's it obvious Speaker Gingrich is using coded language to single out poor black people. His statements encapsulate the myths which postulate that African-Americans are shiftless, criminally inclined "Negroes", but more importantly, aren’t teapublicans assuaging their racist base when they peddle this putrid prejudice? Indeed their mission is to employing this "strategy”.
"Shit Republicans Say About Black People"
This mentality won't ever change because we as a race fail to educate these ignorant racist people. Lets take the bootlicking toadying of Lt.Col Allen West and Herman Cain. These men have ignored every single teapublican out there denigrating their race - as long as there's money to be had from it, or an office to be held I say.
But let's face it readers, teapublcians are equal opportunity bigots, if a white radical teabagger can identify a skill or talent they can abuse, mock, berate and make money off of, they will, regardless of color.
I grew up around white teapublican households (grew up in Richmond, VA home the Confederate Capitol) , and it's not a secret, it used to be just about the older teapublcian voters, but that's not the case any longer, as most radical righties, regardless of age, are plain racist, and mistakenly believe that minorities and welfare are "The Problem". It was white people in affluent areas with poor minorities in rougher urban areas, so they made that connection. However, the reason teapublican politicians single out blacks, is that it plays to their voter base - Southern whites - In fact, it's referred to as 'The Southern Strategy' in campaign circles, especially here in Virginia
Lets take a gander at some high profile teapublcians.
RUSH LIMBAUGH:
If we listen to anything excreted from Rush Limbaugh's upper orifice, it's nothing but racially charged idiom. Limbaugh is not a fringe conservative media figure. Teapublicans (elected officials or not) bow at his altar with alarmingly frequency. Here is just a collection (46) of Rush at his best:
Ann Coulter's existence revolves around implementing the far right's strategy of 'The Southern Strategy". Coulter's job is to inject into the teapublican echo chamber, racist words that would be unacceptable anywhere else. We are drearily familiar with her lies, false accusations, exaggerations, innuendo, and racist attacks while pretending to be "funny." Her bimbo routine for some reason lets her get away with it. Faux News puts her on and then the viewers react to her outlandishness, and then repeat it until it seeps into the mainstream (where the Far Right wants it).
With Coulter it is best to look not at what she says -- but who she is.
Coulter and her likes lay out the far Right's anti-Obama strategy:
"You're electing a black guy and he only cares about African Americans"; and
"He has a middle name that sounds like a 'terrorist' therefore he's 'soft' on terror and national defense." (Romney and Newt-ron-bomb will love this one because it dovetails perfectly with their strategy). It's coming into focus. The far Right wants the Obama campaign to waste a lot of time and energy answering meaningless slurs aimed at driving home these two racist lies.
Non-racists don't say things like: "Our blacks are so much better than their blacks ... We have very impressive blacks in our party," - not only is this not 1963, it's certainly not1863, but this shows the mentality and reality of life under radical teapublican rule.
Ann's resume shows she is a very educated woman. She went to Cornell University, is a lawyer, and was trained at the National Journalism Center. She's obviously playing to the teapublican base, a base that still believes that "the South's going to do it again" - riling them up in an attempt to sell her "brand."
But then again if you watch the below video, Ann 'the man" appears dumber than a box of rocks: CAUTION LANGUAGE!
SIDEBAR: If G.W. Bush had the slightest sense of irony, he might have paused to ask himself, "Wait a minute. How did I get into Yale?" It wasn't because of any academic achievement: his high school record was ordinary. It wasn't because of his life experience--prosperous family, fancy prep school--which was all too familiar at Yale - and it certainly wasn't his SAT scores either: 566 verbal and 640 math.
GLENN BECK:
The best of Beck’s race-baiting:
Beck suggested Obama’s name is un-American. On the February 4 edition of The Glenn Beck Program, Beck said of Obama: “He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America — you don’t take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical?”
Beck’s “funny ‘black guy’ character.” Journalist Alexander Zaitchik wrote in his September 2009 profile of Beck for Salon.com that Beck, as a younger man, had many “racial hang-ups.” According to Zaitchik: “Among the show’s regular characters was Beck’s zoo alter ego, Clydie Clyde. But Clyde was just one of Beck’s unseen radio ventriloquist dolls. ‘He was amazing to watch when he was doing his cast of voices,’ remembers Kathi Lincoln, Beck’s former newsreader. ‘Sometimes he’d prerecord different voices and talk back to the tape, or turn his head side to side while speaking them live on the air. He used to do a funny “black guy” character, really over-the-top.’ “
Beck forced to apologize for “mocking Asians.” In 1995, Beck and his co-hosts at KC101 in Hartford, Connecticut were made to apologize for mocking an Asian man who called into the program. The Hartford Courant reported in October 20, 1995: “When [Zhihan] Tong telephoned WKCI- FM to protest the broadcast as a racial slur, disc jockeys Glenn Beck and Pat Grey made fun of him. The two played a gong in the background several times, and Papineau, the executive producer, mocked a Chinese accent.”
Beck praised constitutional provision protecting slave trade. In his 2009 book Arguing With Idiots, Beck reprinted and praised the now-obsolete Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution, which prohibited Congress from ending the slave trade before 1808 and capped taxes on the slave trade at $10 per slave. Beck, without mentioning slavery, interpreted the provision to mean that “the Founders actually put a price tag on coming to this country: $10 per person. Apparently they felt like there was a value to being able to live here.”
Health care reform. “This guy is not who he says he is. None of his bills, none of his proposals are about what he says they’re about. The health care bill is reparations. It’s the beginning of reparations. He’s going to give — if you want to go into medical school, the medical schools will get more federal dollars if they have proven that they are putting minorities ahead.” [The Glenn Beck Program, 7/22/09]
Assistance to Native Americans. On November 11, 2009, Beck said: “When the president was sitting there, or standing there, and he was talking about Native American rights in the middle of a tragedy, Fort Hood, it didn’t feel right. And it seemed, maybe to me, that he was even promising reparations.” [The Glenn Beck Program, 11/9/09]
I don't want to make black people's lives better...
Leopards cannot change their spots readers, and neither can those of the tepublican persuasion. Whether its a "strategy" or true ideals - I could careless, its vile and repulsive!
A gassy belly wants to belch, likewise, a racist wants to belch. Changing his diet requires ingenuity -- which would very rarely be applied. Racists are highly lazy people, and don't expend energies, whether positive, in solving problems. Their shortcut is always the answer, whether complaint, insult, threat, or violence.
Yet another bombshell that could, potentially, derail former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential aspirations? That is the newest insinuation made against Gingrich — not by a former spouse or lover, but rather by another former House Speaker.
On Wednesday, Gingrich sounded really annoyed about it. Just before the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Pelosi told King that Newt was "not going to be president of the United States," because, "There's something I know." Ominous! And it really irked Gingrich, who sounded exasperated on the Today show this morning.
"She lives in a San Francisco environment of strange fantasies and strange understandings of reality. I have no idea what’s in Nancy Pelosi’s head. If she knows something, spit it out. Tell us what it is. I have no idea what she’s talking about."
Better times for the speakers.
Tension between the two is at all time high - the fuse is ignited and ready to blow the powder keg.
Pelosi needs to toe the line very carefully here, as suggesting to use material that she developed when she was on the ethics committee - is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House, and Newt-ron-bomb would ensure that members would immediately file charges against her the second she does it.
Newt said in response to Pelosi's comments about her knowledge of his ethics probe:
"I think it shows you how capriciously political that committee was when she was on it." Capricious or not, disclose the information immediately, so we can kick this can down the road" and dispose of it properly"!
Capricious or not, disclose the information immediately, so we can kick this can down the road" and dispose of it properly!
While this blog is geared towards racism, we are also are pointing out that Newt can't keep track of his lies, I mean facts! Please save us the theatrics Newt, and your condescending sneering look when spewing detritus from your vocal chords.
Once Newt Gingrich played the race card, he soared above the other teapublicans to win the South Carolina primary. He knows how to prey on the fears and prejudices of voters. He's the antithesis of our current POTUS.
With each debate we see and hear thunderous applause in support of Newt Gingrich's continuing effort to connect poverty to stereotypes of African-Americans, and Newts history of race-baiting continues on.
A once experienced politician and strategist who was Speaker of the House during the contentious period of welfare reform, he knows all too well where the racial landmines lie, making it obvious that he has been purposely stepping into them. This clear political strategy to gain a certain group of white voters always presents a Catch-22 for the black community and progressives.
“Newt Gingrich is throwing red meat to the base, saying little words and phrases that we are very familiar here in the South. I’m saying he’s appealing to an element in this party that will see President Obama as different from all other presidents that we have had.”
“It’s unfortunate that liberal leaders, whatever their ethnic background, can’t have an honest open debate about policies that fail. The fact is far more whites than blacks are on food stamps, and liberals shouldn’t get away with hiding the consequence of their bad policies by yelling racism.”
Unfortunate for Newt, the majority of the people temporarily relying on food stamps and unemployment insurance to get them through bad times are white.
If asked if he is race baiting, Newt Gingrich would obviously say no, in his arrogant, 'you're asking me a ridiculously stupid question' sort of way.
Newt's race baiting tactics apes another - This race-baiting strategy proved an effective tool for another politician from the south as well, AKA George Wallace. The only difference between the two is time and death.
When Newt Gingrich began using racially charged assertions like President Obama wants to be "food stamp" president - while he - Gingrich wants to be the paycheck president - he knew that's exactly the kind of hyperbolic contrast that the one-third of the American radical right electorate wants to hear - and he fed it to them; and they rewarded him mightily for it.
Gingrich’s attack on the food stamp program is not surprising; it’s the kind of politics that he’s been helping to perfect for over 30 years. He’s been waging the conservative counterrevolution against economic justice for a generation, using whatever "red meat" he can toss at the rabid racist republican base.
More than 40 Catholic leaders and theologians have issued an open letter to Catholic candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, warning them “to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.”
The signers of the open letter, which was released Friday (Jan. 20), cited Gingrich’s repeated criticisms of Barack Obama as a “food stamp president” who encourages government dependency for the poor, especially for African-Americans.
They also criticized Santorum’s statement that he does not want “to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” Santorum later said he intended to use a word other than “black” but did not say what that word would have been.
At last Thursday’s debate in South Carolina, both Santorum and Gingrich continued to blast the Obama administration for allegedly encouraging the use of food stamps.
Those statements have been criticized for encouraging racially charged associations between blacks and government welfare, and have drawn sharp denunciations from civil rights groups and many pundits like NFTOS.
In their open letter, the Catholic leaders say that raising “racist caricatures is irresponsible, immoral and unworthy of political leaders.”
Well, I am not as kind as the Catholic leaders - Newt's race baiting - its repulsive, disturbing, and full of crapulous rhetoric!
Someone needs to school lard ass behind the woodshed if he continues with this tone. Regressing, as the tea baggers are so inclined to do - and era pre 1861 is not acceptable, and it should not be tolerated by any American citizen. This vision only exists with the "Bill Looman's" of the world, and this mentality proves that teapublicans truly encapsulate the troglodyte lifestyle, which is:
"a prehistoric cave dweller, a person of degraded,
primitive, or brutal character,a person living
in seclusion, a person unacquainted with affairs
of the world, an animal living underground."
Using Newt Gingrich and family values in the same sentence is like saying faux News is honest and "fair and balanced".
Newt Gingrich is smarter than you and I readers. But don't feel bad, he's smarter than everybody else, just ask him.
The problem with Newt is - the garbage bags he tots around with him just doesn't support his theory of his holier than thou teabagger attitude. Newt so aptly appoints himself CEO of 'family values", yet nothing in the last 30 years substantiates this claim.
Character plays a hug part in ones ability to manage and lead, and while I have a multitude of issues with Newt's policies and ideas for how to "regress" our country, we have to be able to move forward or get past his "baggage" before we can even debate whether Newt has a clue or not on running the most powerful land on terra firma.
Roger Simon of the Reid Report nails it by saying:
"Anger, umbrage and bitterness are so much a part of Gingrich’s public persona that he likes to attack the very concept of happiness."
The below tweet says it all, but if you still are enticed to follow this pasty lard ass, see the facts below. Then if you still choose to follow this pasty lard ass, your are as hypocritical and disgusting as he is!
The Resume of the "Holy" one:
Adulterer:
Callista Bisek, Anne Manning, The unnamed "young volunteer". Are we missing anyone?
Draft Dodger:
Though he relentlessly pushes military spending and talks like the chicken hawk that he is, Gingrich avoided the Vietnam War through a combination of student and family deferments. (He married one of his teachers at age 19.)
Dead-Beat Dad:
If asking your wife for a divorce when she is battling cancer in the hospital is not enough; shortly after the cancer ward visit, Newt stopped paying alimony and child support. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get him to contribute for bills, as utilities were about to be cut off.
Family Values?
"He walked out in the spring of 1980.... By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery." - Jackie, his first wife. One of Newt's daughters from that first marriage, who is also a conservative columnist, recently disputed that story (after Newt co-authored a book with her), saying among other things that her mother Jackie had initiated the divorce and that "the tumor [removed in a surgery the day before] was benign." Of course no one knew the tumor was benign at the time, so I don't know why that is supposed to matter. And CNN recently found court documents that show that Newt did in fact initiate that divorce.
House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks
Then there is the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help.
Questionable Book Deals:
Two times did Newt struggle with book writings and scandals. Both with Rupert Murdoch (Yes owner of Faux News). It seems Newt was offered first $2.5 million, then $4.5 million by Harper Collins, a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Fox TV network and newspapers and TV stations around the world. Murdoch has been having problems with a complaint by NBC that Fox is a foreign owned TV network, which is against US law.
GOPAC:
Newt in his political career was the king of using tax-payer subsidized donations for his personal and political purposes. He stooped so low as to hijack not one but two charities for poor inner city kids and use their donations for his personal goals.
GOPAC is Newt-ron-bombs longtime political action committee, was the centerpiece of a complex network of non-profit, and mostly tax exempt organizations that Newt has used to support himself and other conservative candidates. In an act of incredible hypocrisy, this crusader against taxes obtained taxpayer subsidies for his personal and political goals, by misusing these tax-exempt groups.
Of course, using tax-exempt educational or charitable donations for partisan purposes is illegal, and several ethics complaints were filed against Gingrich. He agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for misleading the committee during the investigation, and in the process dodged conviction on the actual charges through a combination of finessing some legal definitions, sheer self-confidence and raw political power (as Speaker of the House at the time of the complaints, he appointed the ethics committee. Furthermore, GOPAC had one ethics committee member on its roster last session, and gave money to another.)
The Ethics Committee dropped its final charges against Gingrich not long before he resigned as speaker, despite finding that Gingrich had in fact violated one rule by repeatedly using a political consultant paid by GOPAC to develop the teapublican political agenda, because there was no evidence he was continuing to do so.
Newt's history as a serial adulterer and husband did didn't mean a thing to the "Family Values" mob in South Carolina, All that matters to these troglodytes is the fact that old Newt really despises that Big, Black, Bolshevik Boogieman in the White House. That's good enough for them. He told the white South Carolinian (99% of SC GOP that voted in primary was white) that he didn't merely want to bloody Barack Obama's nose, he wanted to "knock him out". He'd have done much better in the final tally had he just told this crowd that he was in the mood for a good old fashion lynching. String him up! That would have brought out the radical rights base alright - in droves.
But Newt, the self proclaimed "best man to articulate" the GOP "racist", "hate the poor and finish them off while your boots on still on their neck" ideology", did us one better.
By constantly referring to "food stamps" and "welfare", Gingrich lassoed the imaginations of the white supremacist, and was able to paint a black face on nearly every issue. He knows that the only way the teapublicans are going to take back the White House next January will be by appealing to the very worst in America's historical character - and Newt Gingrich is the world's outstanding authority on the subject of bad character. All he needs to do is exploit the irrational prejudice toward the most oppressed people in the history of the human race. And to do so under the guise that he has the almighty on his side? Hell must be beckoning.
The teabaggers are as radical as they come, South Carolina showed us that last Saturday -Not content with firing the first shots in the South's losing war against the United States of America, South Carolina this past weekend reaffirmed their status as inbred morons by handing a victory to Newt Gingrich in the Republican primary.
Let's face it readers, garbage from garbage, it's just more garbage.
I leave you with this thought: If a woman cheats on her husband repeatedly she is called a "whore", but if a man does it, the GOP calls him "frontrunner".
It was a great day for progressives yesterday, as those right of center struggled to maintain sanity. It was a grab your favorite soda pop, make a big bucket of buttered popcorn, and pull up your most comfortable man chair, and sit back and watch the freaks in action.
It's really kind of sad that all the funny, mean and nasty
clowns have been eliminated from the teapublican debate. Now we're down to just the mean and nasty ones.
And the game continues.... Outwitting teapublicans is like Albert Einstein vs Pat Roberson, Mr. Spock vs Gilligan, or James Bond vs Bozo the Clown.
In case you missed the South Carolina GOP debate last night, dumping your first mistress and second wife for your second mistress and third wife is 'human,' and yet asking a question about it is 'close to despicable.' Not my words....see show below.
I bet Newt can now relate to how African Americans feel with his onslaught of welfare and food stamp association. Its funny how things come full circle.
What truly is appalling and despicable, is during yet another debate, callous teapublicans give Newt G a standing ovation, which sends a clear message to intelligent viewers, that disobedience of God's laws are acceptable - and in the "bible belt", or the land of the "Southern Baptist" to boot. This speaks well of "Gods Children" doesn't it?
Newt Grinch is a pasty white, obese, racist, who thought he had enough "man" power to have an open marriage? Really?
Newt Gingrich on the sanctity of marriage: I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman and a woman....... You would tend to believe with Newt's open marriage theory, and or policy if you will, came from reading Flipflopney's bible, which is titled, "Joseph Smith, an adulterers guide to multiple wives", which is more aptly titled "the book of Mormon" - which gives cult leaders tips on how to successfully have more than one wife and get away with it, just ask Flipflopney about his 23 grandmothers.
After the conclusion of last nights debate, NFTOS predicts that President Barack Obama just won his 18th straight GOP debate.
The appropriately named Newt Gingrich is the political personification of troglodyte. His sociopathic selfishness is the product of blind ambition driven by a reptilian lust for power and revenge.
Current TV's Keith Olbermann said last night:
"Did you notice how John King never said a word to Newt Gingrich when he came out swinging at him from the very beginning? He had an opportunity to cogently state that character was an important ingredient in a presidential candidate. After all, Newt went after Clinton for his character unabashedly (all while he was married and getting plenty on the side himself). Yet John King says nothing. He lets Newt get away with his nasty overbearing dictatorial egotistical narcissistic attitude. What a weak debate moderator he is. That is the big problem in America. It's bad enough we are living in a time of unprecedented corruption by politicians who want to parse our Constitution, dictate their morality and turn back the clock on our civil rights but having a media that wears blinders or a media that does not have the forbearance to call a spade a spade has ruined our nation. Newt Gingrich blames the media for going after him. I blame the media for waiting too long to go after ALL of them."
How convenient that God is so forgiving to teapublicans. They take it as license that they can sin against their fellow man without questioning their actions. After all, what is the incentive not to sin when all will be forgiven anyway? What a bunch of hypocrites! If that is what "teapublican Christianity" is all about, then I tell you I'd rather have nothing to do with it.
We have to re-post this quote from an earlier blog this week:
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." ~ Mohandas Gandhi
Do you think that Gandhi had Newt in mind when saying this?
So, let me understand Newt clearly, Newt Grinch, a staunch conservative teapublican, is for marriage between a man and a woman and another woman making for an "open" marriage, but against same sex marriage as it's immoral and against God's law? Do I understand Newt correctly?
Gingrich is the only Speaker of the House in the history of the U.S. to be charged for ethics violations. He was found guilty, and forced to pay a $300,000 fine. His game plan is to call out other Americans and teapublican candidates on their lack of ethics. His baloney has a first name, its h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y, his baloney has second name its o-p-e-n m-a-r-r-i-a-g-e.
Spike Lee tweeted last night during the debates:
"Folks, We Gotta Rally Around President Obama Or Do You Want To Be Led Astray, Run Amok, Hornswaggled, Okey Doked, Flim Flammed or BAMBOOZLED? YO!"
Newt had been ranting all evening long on how he and the teapublican God Ronnie Reagan worked together often during Newts tenure in DC. Romney aptly placed Newt in his place by saying that poor little Newt had only received one mention in Saint Ronald's memoir, and the mention was not a positive one at that. But then again, Flipflopney thinks that if every car in America had a Reagan bobblehead on the dashboard, we'd be a more righteous and godly nation, with a thriving economy.
If the reichwing-nuts continue to push the 'beginning of life' concept back any further, men are going to have to start deducting their sperm as dependents.
Let's face it readers except for it's workers, poor, gays, blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, women, rights, laws, and Government... teapublicans love America!
I got to thinking, if Newt and Calista gain the right to occupy the house at 1600 Penn ave, would that make them First adulterer and first tramp respectively?
UPDATE: Breaking South Carolina: Gingrich Leads Romney By Two Wives!
