Newt Gingrich Lies, Uses Race-Baiting To Play To Right-Wing Prejudices

Newt Gingrich looks to be winning the race-baiting competition this Republican primary season. Fueled by a new version of his well honed attacks on the safety net, Gingrich celebrated Martin Luther King Day on Monday by restating what has become a staple of his stump speeches, calling President Obama the "best food stamp president in American history."

The remark came, this time, after debate moderator Juan Williams asked if Gingrich's campaign-trail suggestion that poor students be given jobs as janitors might me "viewed at a minimum insulting to all Americans, but as particularly to African Americans?" "The fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barrack Obama than any president in American history," Gingrich said before an audience that erupted into vociferous applause.

Gingrich argues that the reason so many people are on food stamps is not that the economy has thrown millions into poverty, but rather that lazy black families are getting on the dole and don't want to work. Earlier this month, Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire, "If the NAACP invites me, I'll go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps."

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 Southern Strategy relics he can get his hands on.

For two decades, Gingrich and the GOP, often with the support of Democrats, have torn to shreds many of the New Deal and Great Society era programs that kept poor folks from total destitution—and that specifically sought to close the racial gaps in economic opportunity that black children inherit from generations of American apartheid. The conservative assault on these programs has often come with racially loaded caricatures of benefit recipients as lazy, greedy and criminal.

Yet, the food stamp program is among the last functional parts of the nation's economic safety net. Food assistance has actually expanded to meet growing need.

The program, now officially called the Supplemental Food Assistance Program, serves 46 million Americans, 13 million more than in January 2009 when Obama took office. While cash assistance, Section 8 housing assistance and other programs have been slashed close to death, food stamps have held on and expanded thanks to an infusion from the stimulus package. For many families, it's now the only thing that's stopping hard times from turning into total catastrophe.

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[tstruss912]

Gingrich is a psychopath. How that's not obvious to other people...I'll never know. He lies without a single twitch in his face and he fucks around on two of his wives who have a terrible disease? Ya, go look up the definition for "psychopath". Then you can easily see how this guy is a prototypical case.

[EsotericWorldViews]

@tstruss912 Definitely he's a textbook sociopathic psychopathic narcissist LOL or something like that!

[greenchickenfries]

Gingrich is a tool. But I don't think it's a bad idea to offer kids work in schools. They do chore rotation in Japanese schools, I always thought it was a neat concept

[EsotericWorldViews]

@greenchickenfries Lol... welll.. that is Japan.. this is America.. in this country we have this super whiny pseudo-liberal political correctness retardedness and I doubt something like that would fly.. in any western country even.. I think it conjures up too many bad images of child labor during the industrial revolution..

[EsuDalyvis]

hey guy, add an annotation, the title on the 3D screen is from the previous vid, whoops! lol, you can delete this comment once you fix it

[EsotericWorldViews]

@EsuDalyvis Woopsies! Sloppy editing >.>

[tstruss912]

The reason conservatives don't talk about or care that we're borderline slaves is because that's what they like. Studies show they're afraid of chaos more than anything else, even tyranny. Tyranny helps them feel safe and they'll fight to keep the system this tyrannical, or even shift further up-right in order to implement fascism. Only the left, moderates, and libertarians care about freedom and it's up to us to fight the crazy conservatives!

[tstruss912]

Gingrich is a psychopath. How that's not obvious to other people...I'll never know. He lies without a single twitch in his face and he fucks around on two of his wives who have a terrible disease? Ya, go look up the definition for "psychopath". Then you can easily see how this guy is a prototypical case.

[greenchickenfries]

Honestly the only people I've personally known to be on food stamps are white.

[ShinobiShaw]

Newt is just a typical racist out of touch corporate shill