Olbermann on the freedom-hater Newt Gingrich

Keith shreds the hypocrital, nonsensical freedom-hating arguments of authoritarian Republican Newt Gingrich:

"I further think," you said in Manchester, "we should propose a Geneva convention for fighting terrorism, which makes very clear that those who would fight outside the rules of law, those who would use weapons of mass destruction, and those who would target civilians are in fact subject to a totally different set of rules, that allow us to protect civilization by defeating barbarism ..."

Well, Mr. Gingrich, what is more "massively destructive" than trying to get us to give you our freedom?

And what is someone seeking to hamstring the First Amendment doing, if not "fighting outside the rules of law"?

And what is the suppression of knowledge and freedom, if not "barbarism"?

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[skhan1943]

ickythump101; you said; "newt is the biggest hippie-crit alive. he took a shot at clinton for the sex scandal but at the same time was boning some lady behind his wives back, look it up."

You left out the worst Newt-move. He served his wife with divorce papers when she was in the hospital dying of cancer.

[rivi8840]

Olberman twisted what Newt said. Why didn't he play the part of the speech to give it more context and not put words in Newt's mouth

[THEFEDERL1ST]

Olberman is an idiot of the highest degree and shouldn't even be going near Newt as Newt would rip Olbermann's timid little mind to shreds with the brain power he posseses. Newt is one of the finest political minds in this country and even though Clinton takes all the credit. Newt was in charge of the House when the budget surplus came about..BTW congress is in charge of spending not the POTUS. Newt balanced the budget not Clinton. Newt is a brilliant man and Keith is out of his league.

[jereuter01]

Newt was a disaster in the House and should go back to pretending to teach his pseudo-political-science to people who don't question what he says or think for themselves. Newt should stick to writing alternate reality historical novels.

[cauboi12]

we are in agreement on this, and NG is NOT saying that we should swap liberty for security. that's why i said that KO missed the point. but folks who aim to torpedo ideas as "unacceptable" without first debating them thoroughly are guilty of committing the very censorship we both abhor.

[BilltheICEMAN]

Newt Gingrich exhibits brilliance in various solutions to problems facing our currently destructive social and political situation. Rights described herein only apply to American citizens, and not to terrorists. I don't want to give terrorists American rights, or even Geneva Convention rights. No terrorist organization has signed the Geneva Convention, so no such rights are owed to them.

[totallyasimpsonjunki]

because olberman is the lowest form of scumsucker in all of media. He utilizes this tactic constantly in his pathetic attempts in trying to devalue all arguments in support of conservatism.

[ksol1460]

"suspect place", hunh?

Thus we live in America today.

[Alicecbrown]

I call us peasants because we don't know world history and can't make reasoned opinions. Yet here is a man who DOES know History who is as bad as any dictator.

How horrible: demagogues as hypocritical as my Alabama pst.

[jamesmorgandavies]

Stop feeding the fucking NEWT.

[upconstruct]

Are we to allow our rights to be removed even for a little while for security? those who swap liberty for security deserve niether is not just a catchy quote by Mr. Ben Franklin Bravery and intelligent ideas being exchanged will win the war on terrorism not fear, censorship and denied liberties.