Newt Gingrich is quite the kidder

October 5, 2006

Sometimes, you can’t make this stuff up.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic [tag]sex[/tag] [tag]scandals[/tag] have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley. […]

“What we don’t have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on [tag]morality[/tag],” [tag]Gingrich[/tag] said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. “There’s a certain stench of [tag]hypocrisy[/tag].”

Yes, when the former Speaker talks talking about “lectures on morality,” the word “hypocrisy” does come to mind.

[T]he most notorious [adulterer] of them all is undoubtedly Gingrich, who ran for Congress in 1978 on the slogan, “Let Our Family Represent Your Family.” (He was reportedly cheating on his first wife at the time). In 1995, an alleged mistress from that period, Anne Manning, told Vanity Fair’s Gail Sheehy: “We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, ‘I never slept with her.'” Gingrich obtained his first divorce in 1981, after forcing his wife, who had helped put him through graduate school, to haggle over the terms while in the hospital, as she recovered from uterine cancer surgery. In 1999, he was disgraced again, having been caught in an affair with a 33-year-old congressional aide while spearheading the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.

Gingrich, I have to assume, was kidding around yesterday. There’s simply no way Gingrich, in light of the Foley scandal and his own “provocative” background, would seriously try and pick a fight with Democrats over sex, morality, and hypocrisy. It just wouldn’t make any sense.

Hey the Carpetbagger got a mention in the WaPo article about the “Comma” incident.

Critics of Bush began e-mailing and blogging about the remark within minutes of the CNN interview. The Carpetbagger Report blog called it stunning “even by Bush’s already-low standards” and added: “Everything we’re seeing is ‘just a comma.’ I’m sure that will bring comfort to the families of those who have sacrificed so much for Bush’s mistakes.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100401707.html

Sorry to go off topic.

The vision of those hypocritical congressmen sitting in judgment of Clinton haunts me to this day.

  • Today’s GOP is a psychiatrist’s wet dream. It seems that everything they say about others is what they (today’s GOP) is all about. All about projection of the qualities they hate about themselves unto others.

    What have they called Dems?
    Tax and Spend
    Cowards
    Morally Lax
    Unamerican
    Traitors
    Perverts

  • Newt, Newt, Newt…..

    pot meet kettle…..

    I think I just feel sorry for someone how has so deluded themselves.

  • “Gingrich, I have to assume, was kidding around yesterday. There’s simply no way Gingrich, in light of the Foley scandal and his own “provocative” background, would seriously try and pick a fight with Democrats over sex, morality, and hypocrisy. It just wouldn’t make any sense.” — CB

    Of course, Newt was kidding. It would makes as much sense as attacking the military record of a decorated, wounded veteran when your own candidate sat out the same war in the US and didn’t even fufill his National Guard service.

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    Oh.

    Never mind.

  • Why is it that Newt can appear on TV (much less get paid to speak in person) and nobody puts the title “Disgraced former Speaker of th House – Forced to Resign amidst ethical scandal”? If tha tis too long then they could just refuse to have him on sighting lack of credibility.

  • Nothing makes any sense when it comes to the GOP these days. That’s because most of us are capable of thought beyond “we win! we win!” Real-world things like marital fidelity, National Guard service, and so on. What is it that so attracts the GOP, or the “news” media, to Newt? His name? His high, squeaky voice? His pretense to being intellectual? His affair with the widow Bono? His hair?

    Incidentally, “Iraq is just a comma” is Bush’s mangling of a current Christian phrase. Wishing to emphasize that death isn’t the end of all, certain pop-theologians take pleasure in trumpeting “Don’t put a period where God puts a comma.” Unfortunately for the fundies, it’s not derived from Scripture. According to Editor and Publisher it’s a line from “Gracie Allen, the actual and TV wife of the legendary George Burns. Memo to the president: She was the batty one who often talked nonsense.”

    Bush can’t even get his doubly plagiarized put-downs right.

  • Newt talking about hypocrisy is like Hunter S. Thompson talking about drugs, booze and guns, “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone . . . but they’ve always worked for me.”

    The Republicans are authorities on morality only in the sense that they’ve done all the immoral stuff with relish for decades.

  • “What is it that so attracts the GOP, or the “news” media, to Newt?” He is what they are. And they all profess to be better than everyone else. Gotta shuffle and kick around every one else’s dirt so that no one really focuses on their own. And a large portion of our populace buys into this because they are just the same. And it is all in support of self centered, self directed greed and personal gain. In short, it appeals to a large part of the masses.

  • This is a case of believing one’s own propaganda. Gingrich spent much of his career trying to convince the American public that Democrats are the party of perverts and have no morals. Therefore, when Democrats demonstrate that they have morals and hate perverts, they are hypocrites (though technically, it’s not “hypocrisy” but inconsistency). The only inconsistency is between what Democrats actually say and what Gingrich believes about them.

  • MNProgressive–though you’d think that Gingrich’s ethical transgressions was the reason he resigned, the real spur was his failure to win seats in 1998. Actually, even that was probably just the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back: previously, Armey and DeLay and others had tried to stage a coup against him, for reasons I no longer remember.

    His affair with the congressional aide, naturally, didn’t bother his foully hypocritical colleagues a bit. Remember, the shame function is surgically removed from these bastards before they stand for office as Republicans.

  • And we all know Newt the Hoot wanted Crane and Studds expelled. Now we know why: He was angry they didn’t share.

    MNProgressive – I would suggest a shorter title for the Grinch: Relentless Horn Dog.

  • I was led here from WP. (first visit) This sordid mess reminds me of the quote:
    “Nothing ruins a congressman’s day like a dead teenage girl or a live teenage boy.”

  • “What we don’t have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality,” Gingrich said at a party fundraiser in Greenville. “There’s a certain stench of hypocrisy.”

    That any Republican takes this conscienceless shithead seriously about anything is incredible. This world-class bullshit artist only became a “conservative” when he figured out he couldn’t get elected in Georgia as a “Nelson Rockefeller Republican.” If he has a deeply-held belief past “anything that’s good for me is Good for everyone and thedevil take the hindmost,” I would be seriously surprised.

    Further proof if proof was necessary that you can take the boy out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of the boy.

  • “Gingrich, I have to assume, was kidding around yesterday.”

    That would be the Coulter defense. Gingrich just lacks integrity Say one thing today and the opposite tomorrow, no problem. Talk high and mighty while behaving badly himself, no problem.

  • ***”What we don’t have to do is allow our friends on the left to lecture us on morality,” Gingrich said***

    Well, of course you don’t, Newt—seeing as how a REALLY BIG CHUNK of the Right is doing it for us! I’m waiting for al Quaeda to weigh in on the issue, using the sexual depravity of the GOP as further reason to wage jihad on the whole damned country, you stupid twit.

    And by the way, Newt—you call me “your friend” one more time—and I’m gonna pummel your powder-white scalp with my good friend, “Mr Crowbar….”

    Also—is it just me, or does the title of this post—“Newt Gingrich is quite the kidder”—seem a bit—well—bizarro-like? I mean, it utilizes the name of an unethical, immoral, pontificating Republican with a historical past that includes various sexual indescretions, and the term “kid” in the same sentence….

  • Ed Stephan: Incidentally, “Iraq is just a comma” is Bush’s mangling of a current Christian phrase. Wishing to emphasize that death isn’t the end of all, certain pop-theologians take pleasure in trumpeting “Don’t put a period where God puts a comma.”

    I was reading about that at LanguageLog (perhaps you were, too), and they had some follow-up with a non-scientific survey of conservative Christians. While some had heard of the “comma” aphorism, none associated Bush’s remark with it. In fact, they were appalled.

    Furthermore, it might be pointed out that Bush’s off-the-cuff example of how such a comma would work was, in fact, incorrect usage. He was using it to link two separate sentences. In other words, he should’ve put a period there instead.

  • Newt Gringrich is a little brown turd! What a shit disturber! Newtty has as much moral worth as a discarded cigarette butt face up in the street gutter! -Kevo

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