Gingrich on SOPA Proves Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day?

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When Newt Gingrich at CNN's Southern Republican Presidential Debate came out against SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, he gave a pretty good forty second summary of some of the main problems with SOPA, but also mischaracterized support of SOPA as coming from leftwing Hollywood, as I show in this video.

The clips I use of Newt Gingrich come from the January 19, 2012, broadcast of CNN's Southern Republican Presidential Debate available in full online at http://bit.ly/xm2w3O

The image I use of Clay Shirky's TED talk titled "Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)" comes from my own YouTube video player page at http://bit.ly/wQd0U0

The image I use of Michael McLeod-Ball's Blog of Rights post titled "Online Protest Over SOPA Helps" comes from the ACLU webpage at http://bit.ly/xCcHlc

The image I use of the March 2, 2011, Fox Nation article titled "Fox News Announces Suspension of Contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum" comes from the Fox News webpage at http://bit.ly/zuMhQQ

The image I use of Rupert Murdoch's January 14, 2012 tweet comes from the Twitter page at http://bit.ly/xkC9uL

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[TheUberAtheist]

Give him a sailor suit and he'd look JUST LIKE The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!!

[CViFi]

Tom Merritt actually gave my favorite analog: Shoplifting is a problem, but do we really want to hire FBL agents to frisk random teenagers in neighborhoods with Wall-Marts in it? And a stolen thing is lost twice, the thief won't buy it, and no one else can buy it.

If someone downloads a movie, and likes it and buys the DVD, that is an additional sale, SOME of their growth is due to exactly that. (especially in music)

[ReachDeep1]

I can't believe Newt has gotten as far as he has in this election cycle......wait, nevermind, Obama got elected as president.

[ramone2185]

This might be the first thing he has said that I agreed with. About half his answer anyway.

[GuacamoleKun]

I know so many people who just blame everything they don't like on "liberals".

"Liberal" doesn't just mean "stuff I don't agree with", people. Try and learn what the opposing side ACTUALLY wants. Sometimes both sides want the same thing, especially when the thing we dislike has almost zero positive traits. (Like SOPA.)

[thewag777]

Well...Hollywood does support SOPA, and that is what Gingrich was thinking of I'm sure. But of course lame-stream righty media wants to limit internet competition as well. 

[tremedar]

@PinballWizard249 And what really broke SOPA was not so much us opposing it as it was one group of mega corporations vs another group of mega corporations and the one with greater influence won. If traditional media hadn't been stepping on new media's toes there, it very well could have passed.

[drizzt5555]

Gingrich did have a point... hollywood put a lot of money behind SOPA and they are largely liberal.

[RalphInRalphWorld]

Just watch Gingrich's take on the Patriot Act from a few years back.

[Justin1976]

Like most polititians Newt is a whore.All of his beliefs are subject to public opinion.The only reason he would even oppose SOPA is because popular opinion was swaying towards dislike on that bill.

[MrKillingGuy]

I think Newt just got all senile at the end, give him his little bit of credit.