Dang, FB, now you know we can't have them Jews and Negroes running around being shiftless, lazy, and greedy! The next thing you know they'll be wanted to vote!
Remember all those bailouts the country "we the people" said no to but congress did as they wished with threats of martial law.Let's also not forget expanding war and simultaneously winning the Nobel Peace Prize. If I'm right, it sure looks convenient to me that any questionable or "controversial" legislation under the watch of a "black" man would get a race card pulled at the slightest criticism. What was I when I criticized all the other presidents?
@carehappens Gingrich is not criticizing legilsation or policy in this case. He is repeating code words. As a native of South Carolina who worked in political campaigns there it is common practice, especially among Republicans, but even by some Democrats. Criticism is fine, but this is a diversion to stir the hatreds of voters. I criticize Obama - a lot. But that is not what Gingrich is doing.
Whether one is a god believer or not the opening dedication to Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals acknowledges a high regard for Satan. Weird. “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history,. the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
@carehappens It makes little difference. It's the same spirit and I share it. Viewed purely in mythological terms, since I don't accept that either exists, choosing sides with a sanctimonious, authoritarian god or the rebellious Lucifer, I side with Lucifer.
I simply cannot believe all the people that have chosen to forget all the shady, low-life crap that Newt has had his fingers in, and been the catalyst for...
*sigh* Guess we're doomed for a repeat of Dubya. Only WAAAAY scarier: Whereas Dubya was an ignorant puppet, Newt actually has a brain. An EVIL one, albeit... ;(
@carehappens - Are you serious? Ron Paul?!?!? Do you know what Barack's campaign slogan should be?: 'Holy Shit! That other guy is CRAZY!!! Better for for Obama 2012!"
Ron Paul (and his son!) would set womens' right back to the Dark Ages! Sorry, but I'm not gonna walk 3 paces behind my man, & be forced to give birth whether I want to, or not!!!! :( :( :(
This is a load of bs. We will learn more about Saul Alinsky in the coming days.None of my Jewish friends believe this, and they should be sensitive to "antisemitic dog-whistles". Newt is highly intelligent as his college records show. His concern for the State of Israel shows he is cares about the well-being of Jews as opposed to our current president who has zero problem selling the 6 million Jews of Israel down the river in a hurry. BTW, where are BHO's college records?
@dajudem Newt is a con artist and if you swallow his codswallop I question your intelligence. And what will we learn new about a man who died 40 years ago? The population of Israel is closer to 8 million, by the way.
When I think of Newt, I think of the government shutdown in the 90's. To me, he epitomizes non-functioning government. I honestly can't believe he's even a candidate. I can only hope he's doing nothing more than posturing his posterior for a pedis pummeling at the polls.
@GCNC72 I don't think he can win outside the south, and he is not on all the ballots, so I doubt he will get much further than he is now. As a native South Carolinian I feel ashamed of my state.
As with Bob Dole and John McCain, once again the Republican party will choose another one of the same and lose the election. They don't even pretend to get any smarter. I remember Newt, the angry dough boy, the last time he was in the news so frequently spewing his garbage under RRs administration. "Makes my skin crawl". Hows THAT for a Southern __________ !
@metallicabrad7 Con artists don't trade in facts. They trade in misperceptions by the misinformed. The people Newt targets are under the impression that most recipients of food stamps and welfare are black.
@FantasticBabblings Thank you for the response. I don't know if i completely agree that Newt is intending to use the term in a racist manner. But your comments do make sense, and i understand now why people take the food stamp comments the way they do.
From Wiki: Alinsky was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1909 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, the only surviving son of Benjamin Alinsky's marriage to his second wife, Sarah Tannenbaum Alinsky.[6] Alinsky stated during an interview that his parents never became involved in the "new socialist movement." He added that they were "strict orthodox, their whole life revolved around work and synagogue ...
He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals.
How long have civilizations been around, 10,000 years? And racism is alive and well across the globe. Maybe it's time we all just admit everyone's racist but just agree not to be a-holes about it?
@somegamer1879 I don't believe everyone is racist. Everyone has prejudices but some of us try to balance those consciously and some try to use them for selfish gain, or just to hurt someone else. I think racism in generally on the decline, so I think it is worth pursuing it in its egregious forms and pointing it out so it will further decline.
With our South Carolina background I think that we catch a lot of code words, nuances and dog whistles more directly than many Americans do. Nevertheless they pick up on them and Gingrich is the perfect demagogue to take advantage of the technique. He did spend most of his life in the South after all and learned I'm sure all the worst traits of the region rather than the better ones. My disdain for him goes beyond my capability to describe it.
@jrsnyderjr I know you understand this. When people comment that I can't say for sure what Gingrich is implying, they probably don't know what grits are either.
I think you make an interesting point. The Right Wing would counter you, by saying that your pigeon holing Republicans as racists, and anti Semites, is just as bad as Republicans stereotyping blacks as "lazy and shiftless". Trying to figure out someone who's mind is as odd and byzantine as Newt Gingrich's is as futile and pointless task.
@mrdarcyme The right wing would counter me, but they would be dishonest. Having lived through Nixon's "Southern Strategy", and having worked on a campaign in SC savaged by Lee Atwater's methods, and being familiar with the work of Frank Luntz, I know how they operate, especially in the South. Gingrich's mind is definitely odd and byzantine.
What? A politician stooping to underhand insinuations? That's never happened before! I wouldn't trust a single one of them as far as I could throw them, except the ones that I agree with of course. They are OK! lol
I haven't watched anything yet since I work doubles a lot lately... maybe on my day off I will stop and watcho some... and by the way you look amazing...
When he stood in 1999 he came to Ireland claiming Irish ancestry. He made a grand state trip to Donegal and was ceremoniously told they couldn't find his claimed family. He got a booby price though, a certificate saying he'd visited....... Can he win without a touch of the Irish?
@psynema They're not mutually exclusive. Many people associate Jews with the Communist Party, although Alinsky was never a member. As someone from SC, I'm not sure how many voters there know what "slavic" means either.
Thanks for the enlightenment! Who knew what a brilliant man Saul was, until now! I find the Republican 'style' so repugnant that I agree with the people who have dubbed Republicans as "Repuglicans"!
I'm back... after watching this I watched LiberalViewer's video on Newt's position on SOPA. In it, there is a debate clip where Newt's asked about SOPA... he pauses, then (to the great delight of the audience) says, "You're asking a conservative about the economic interest of Hollywood...." Yep, them conservatives love the free market economy, except when the beneficiaries are assumed to be a bunch of radical Jews?
@kenrg I noticed that too. But consistency has never been of much interest to Newt.I howl with laughter when right wingers describe him as brilliant or a historian. He is neither. He is a former community college professor turned con artist. If he could carry a tune, you could call him Professor Harold Hill.
Thank you, darling. Thank you so very much for speaking out and keeping us informed. You are SO right (in a Lefty sort of way). Now I will check out Wikipedia to discover who Saul Alinsky actually is.
I think many of these low information voters actually have at least heard of saul alinsky before. Do you remember the failed broadcaster/comedian Glenn Beck? Before his career shit the bed and he was fired from fox news for being too wacky he would talk about Saul Alinksy non stop.
The more upwardly mobile south carolinian republican voters have cable and, being thinking impaired, would watch it every day.
@elitemathlete They have heard the name, but even Beck used it as a dog whistle. I bet these people never bothered to find out who he was, they just heard Beck's whistle and accepted Alinsky as a boogey man. And if you looked at the numbers, I bet the percentage of the voters who actually watched Beck is not that large.
The thing of it is; I bet Newt's put more time into studying Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" than Obama has. But, yes, this dog has whistles in every key.
@kenrg I think you're right. And the Tea Party has some similar organizing principles to Alinsky's methods, although I am sure he would abhor their message. Whatever that message really is. Newt is clever, but not wise, and certainly despicable.
who says 'hwistle' or 'overhwelming'?
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Just one more example in the very long list of ways that Newt Gingrich is a disgusting moron. Well put, Phil. Great to see you again. :-)
1938superman 3 weeks ago
Dang, FB, now you know we can't have them Jews and Negroes running around being shiftless, lazy, and greedy! The next thing you know they'll be wanted to vote!
ron956 4 weeks ago
The more I learn about American Politics, the more crazy it all seems.
Tiwaking 4 weeks ago
Remember all those bailouts the country "we the people" said no to but congress did as they wished with threats of martial law.Let's also not forget expanding war and simultaneously winning the Nobel Peace Prize. If I'm right, it sure looks convenient to me that any questionable or "controversial" legislation under the watch of a "black" man would get a race card pulled at the slightest criticism. What was I when I criticized all the other presidents?
carehappens 1 month ago
@carehappens Gingrich is not criticizing legilsation or policy in this case. He is repeating code words. As a native of South Carolina who worked in political campaigns there it is common practice, especially among Republicans, but even by some Democrats. Criticism is fine, but this is a diversion to stir the hatreds of voters. I criticize Obama - a lot. But that is not what Gingrich is doing.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
Whether one is a god believer or not the opening dedication to Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals acknowledges a high regard for Satan. Weird. “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history,. the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
carehappens 1 month ago
@carehappens Mark Twain said more or less said the same thing when writing about heaven and hell.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
@FantasticBabblings but not in the same context as a "community organizer".
carehappens 1 month ago
@carehappens It makes little difference. It's the same spirit and I share it. Viewed purely in mythological terms, since I don't accept that either exists, choosing sides with a sanctimonious, authoritarian god or the rebellious Lucifer, I side with Lucifer.
FantasticBabblings 4 weeks ago
@FantasticBabblings business as usual
carehappens 4 weeks ago
I simply cannot believe all the people that have chosen to forget all the shady, low-life crap that Newt has had his fingers in, and been the catalyst for...
*sigh* Guess we're doomed for a repeat of Dubya. Only WAAAAY scarier: Whereas Dubya was an ignorant puppet, Newt actually has a brain. An EVIL one, albeit... ;(
ShortbusMooner 1 month ago
@ShortbusMooner Ideologues are plagued with cognitive dissonance.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
@ShortbusMooner They are all smooth talking charlatans with the exception of Ron Paul. Notice how Romney resembles Reagan a little bit.
carehappens 1 month ago
@carehappens - Are you serious? Ron Paul?!?!? Do you know what Barack's campaign slogan should be?: 'Holy Shit! That other guy is CRAZY!!! Better for for Obama 2012!"
Ron Paul (and his son!) would set womens' right back to the Dark Ages! Sorry, but I'm not gonna walk 3 paces behind my man, & be forced to give birth whether I want to, or not!!!! :( :( :(
ShortbusMooner 4 weeks ago
This is a load of bs. We will learn more about Saul Alinsky in the coming days.None of my Jewish friends believe this, and they should be sensitive to "antisemitic dog-whistles". Newt is highly intelligent as his college records show. His concern for the State of Israel shows he is cares about the well-being of Jews as opposed to our current president who has zero problem selling the 6 million Jews of Israel down the river in a hurry. BTW, where are BHO's college records?
dajudem 1 month ago
@dajudem Newt is a con artist and if you swallow his codswallop I question your intelligence. And what will we learn new about a man who died 40 years ago? The population of Israel is closer to 8 million, by the way.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
When I think of Newt, I think of the government shutdown in the 90's. To me, he epitomizes non-functioning government. I honestly can't believe he's even a candidate. I can only hope he's doing nothing more than posturing his posterior for a pedis pummeling at the polls.
GCNC72 1 month ago
@GCNC72 I don't think he can win outside the south, and he is not on all the ballots, so I doubt he will get much further than he is now. As a native South Carolinian I feel ashamed of my state.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
As with Bob Dole and John McCain, once again the Republican party will choose another one of the same and lose the election. They don't even pretend to get any smarter. I remember Newt, the angry dough boy, the last time he was in the news so frequently spewing his garbage under RRs administration. "Makes my skin crawl". Hows THAT for a Southern __________ !
yescandles 1 month ago
@yescandles In the SC primary in 2008 the rumor was spread that John McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child. That's typical SC politics.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
You said yourself the majority of people on food stamps are white. So how can you possibly say his comments are about race?
metallicabrad7 1 month ago
@metallicabrad7 Con artists don't trade in facts. They trade in misperceptions by the misinformed. The people Newt targets are under the impression that most recipients of food stamps and welfare are black.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
@FantasticBabblings Thank you for the response. I don't know if i completely agree that Newt is intending to use the term in a racist manner. But your comments do make sense, and i understand now why people take the food stamp comments the way they do.
metallicabrad7 1 month ago
Good video Phil, as per. This kind of subtext really does need to be highlighted more, especially in the light of his recent win in the SC primary.
Peace.
logicaust 1 month ago
@logicaust I think SC is his high point (and our low point).
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
It feels as though racism is on the rise; along with a lot of other hates. I guess it's just hate on the rise. :(
thizizliz 1 month ago
@thizizliz I don't think it's on the rise. I think we are more aware of it.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
@FantasticBabblings I hope you're right.
thizizliz 1 month ago
From Wiki: Alinsky was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1909 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, the only surviving son of Benjamin Alinsky's marriage to his second wife, Sarah Tannenbaum Alinsky.[6] Alinsky stated during an interview that his parents never became involved in the "new socialist movement." He added that they were "strict orthodox, their whole life revolved around work and synagogue ...
He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals.
Boyntonstu 1 month ago
I think you're reading too much into Newtz rhetoric. Southern Hillbillies aren't that clever.
RDJim 1 month ago
@RDJim That's the problem. If they were more clever they would realize they're being played. Con artists always target the un-clever.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
How long have civilizations been around, 10,000 years? And racism is alive and well across the globe. Maybe it's time we all just admit everyone's racist but just agree not to be a-holes about it?
somegamer1879 1 month ago
@somegamer1879 I don't believe everyone is racist. Everyone has prejudices but some of us try to balance those consciously and some try to use them for selfish gain, or just to hurt someone else. I think racism in generally on the decline, so I think it is worth pursuing it in its egregious forms and pointing it out so it will further decline.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
With our South Carolina background I think that we catch a lot of code words, nuances and dog whistles more directly than many Americans do. Nevertheless they pick up on them and Gingrich is the perfect demagogue to take advantage of the technique. He did spend most of his life in the South after all and learned I'm sure all the worst traits of the region rather than the better ones. My disdain for him goes beyond my capability to describe it.
jrsnyderjr 1 month ago
@jrsnyderjr I know you understand this. When people comment that I can't say for sure what Gingrich is implying, they probably don't know what grits are either.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
@FantasticBabblings Precisely.
jrsnyderjr 1 month ago
Great point. Newt left his cancer stricken wife stating he needed a younger woman to win the election when he knew down the road he was going to run.
jenniferashley99 1 month ago
@jenniferashley99 Not even the Republicans who served with him in Congress have anything good to say about him.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
I think you make an interesting point. The Right Wing would counter you, by saying that your pigeon holing Republicans as racists, and anti Semites, is just as bad as Republicans stereotyping blacks as "lazy and shiftless". Trying to figure out someone who's mind is as odd and byzantine as Newt Gingrich's is as futile and pointless task.
mrdarcyme 1 month ago
@mrdarcyme The right wing would counter me, but they would be dishonest. Having lived through Nixon's "Southern Strategy", and having worked on a campaign in SC savaged by Lee Atwater's methods, and being familiar with the work of Frank Luntz, I know how they operate, especially in the South. Gingrich's mind is definitely odd and byzantine.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
I don't know who that Alinksy is, so can you explain? (I will wikipedia it)
Completely off topic, but I like how you said overwhelming :P
TheSH1N1GAM1 1 month ago
@TheSH1N1GAM1 I had to listen to it again. Overwhhhhhhelming :)
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
What? A politician stooping to underhand insinuations? That's never happened before! I wouldn't trust a single one of them as far as I could throw them, except the ones that I agree with of course. They are OK! lol
periurban 1 month ago
@periurban I know just what you mean.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
I haven't watched anything yet since I work doubles a lot lately... maybe on my day off I will stop and watcho some... and by the way you look amazing...
sunsetlover 1 month ago
@sunsetlover Thanks. And thanks for the card!
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
When he stood in 1999 he came to Ireland claiming Irish ancestry. He made a grand state trip to Donegal and was ceremoniously told they couldn't find his claimed family. He got a booby price though, a certificate saying he'd visited....... Can he win without a touch of the Irish?
yellowlabrador 1 month ago 2
@yellowlabrador He's a total con artist. He will say whatever is convenient for him at the moment and one minute later deny he said it.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
Alinksy also sounds Slavic, may have been dog whistling "commie socialist" and not anti semitism
psynema 1 month ago
@psynema They're not mutually exclusive. Many people associate Jews with the Communist Party, although Alinsky was never a member. As someone from SC, I'm not sure how many voters there know what "slavic" means either.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
bingo
rollofnickles 1 month ago
Thanks for the enlightenment! Who knew what a brilliant man Saul was, until now! I find the Republican 'style' so repugnant that I agree with the people who have dubbed Republicans as "Repuglicans"!
bluebluesdancer 1 month ago
@bluebluesdancer They have been taught well by the likes of Lee Atwater and Frank Luntz.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
you need your own show
AreYouSuprised 1 month ago
@AreYouSuprised I have one... on YouTube. Not much money, but I have the best audience in the world - as long as you are watching :)
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
newt is trash!
Steadno 1 month ago
I'm back... after watching this I watched LiberalViewer's video on Newt's position on SOPA. In it, there is a debate clip where Newt's asked about SOPA... he pauses, then (to the great delight of the audience) says, "You're asking a conservative about the economic interest of Hollywood...." Yep, them conservatives love the free market economy, except when the beneficiaries are assumed to be a bunch of radical Jews?
kenrg 1 month ago
@kenrg I noticed that too. But consistency has never been of much interest to Newt.I howl with laughter when right wingers describe him as brilliant or a historian. He is neither. He is a former community college professor turned con artist. If he could carry a tune, you could call him Professor Harold Hill.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
Thank you, darling. Thank you so very much for speaking out and keeping us informed. You are SO right (in a Lefty sort of way). Now I will check out Wikipedia to discover who Saul Alinsky actually is.
DameEdithDivine 1 month ago
@DameEdithDivine Alinsky was a brilliant man. As kenrg points out in another comment, Gingrich probably has read Alinsky more than Obama has.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
I think many of these low information voters actually have at least heard of saul alinsky before. Do you remember the failed broadcaster/comedian Glenn Beck? Before his career shit the bed and he was fired from fox news for being too wacky he would talk about Saul Alinksy non stop.
The more upwardly mobile south carolinian republican voters have cable and, being thinking impaired, would watch it every day.
I think this is just a case of Newt copying Beck.
elitemathlete 1 month ago
@elitemathlete
Sorry, I should say Newt copying Beck's seething anti-semitism.
elitemathlete 1 month ago
@elitemathlete They have heard the name, but even Beck used it as a dog whistle. I bet these people never bothered to find out who he was, they just heard Beck's whistle and accepted Alinsky as a boogey man. And if you looked at the numbers, I bet the percentage of the voters who actually watched Beck is not that large.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
The thing of it is; I bet Newt's put more time into studying Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" than Obama has. But, yes, this dog has whistles in every key.
kenrg 1 month ago
@kenrg I think you're right. And the Tea Party has some similar organizing principles to Alinsky's methods, although I am sure he would abhor their message. Whatever that message really is. Newt is clever, but not wise, and certainly despicable.
FantasticBabblings 1 month ago
Fantastic Babblings - what has happened to this country that the worst rise to the top? Palin this evil character. Its so sad.
elitemathlete 1 month ago