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PORT FOURCHON, LA -- Newt Gingrich said while he believes President Obama is a Christian, the president conducts himself in a way that would fuel suspicions that he is a Muslim.
Asked by a reporter following a speech on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Friday if it concerns him so many people in the country believe Obama is Muslim, Gingrich said it was the president’s problem.
"It should bother the president. Why does the president behave the way that people would think that [he is a Muslim]?” Gingrich said. ”You have to ask why would they believe that? It's not because they're stupid. It's because they watch the kind of things I just described to you.”
The former House speaker had already told reporters at the Port Fourchon Operations Center he finds it “very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics” and is at war with the Catholic Church.
Gingrich did note this afternoon: “I have said publicly several times that I believe Obama is a Christian. He went to a Christian church for over 20 years. He was listening to the sermons.”
Earlier this week in Lake Charles, LA, the Speaker passed on the opportunity to correct a man who told the crowd Obama is a Muslim even though later that day he told a reporter he does believe Obama to be Christian.
But today’s comments on Obama’s faith also come just a day after Gingrich referenced “Obama’s Muslim friends” on a radio program.
Gingrich was asked on “Sandy Rios In the Morning radio show” about the press going over the details of Mormonism – Mitt Romney’s faith.
“First, look you need to understand the elite media is in the tank for Obama. They’re going to do anything that helps re-elect Obama. They’re totally committed to Obama. It is just astonishing to me how pro-Obama they are,” he responded. “You think you’re going to see two pages on Obama’s Muslim friends? Or two pages on the degree to which Obama’s persistently apologizing to Islam while attacking the Catholic Church? Do you see anybody in the elite media prepared to see say, ‘Gee, you know this is kind of odd that we really worry a lot about the Quran and nothing about the Bible?”
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Good Grief!
Just when I thought I had heard everything!
Keep stirring your bubbling pot of hate & intolerance, Newt!
America has had enough!
JUSTICE FOR TREYVON MARTIN NOW!!!
Can we discuss something serious? Maybe the GOP education plan? No sperm left behind.
Oh for the love of ... Christmas cookies.
And Newt's repetitious despicable behavior raises suspicions about his status as a human being.
Sheesh.
In a country based on freedom of religion why is it that being a Muslim seems to be akin to being a criminal?
In a country based on freedom of religion why is it that being a Muslim seems to be akin to being a criminal?
We have nothing to fear except for our fellow citizens who are not quite like us. Race and religion, the eternal dividers of ignorance.
Dennis, the trouble is most of these conservatives don't believe in freedom of religion unless it's their religion. One thing, they sure don't practice the principles of any faith I know.
Because the GOP interprets "Freedom of Religion" as "You Can Be Any Denomination of Christianity You Choose".
Because Dennis.... the "freedom of religion" you are speaking of is the freedom from the government establishing a National DENOMINATION.
That is a VERY important term. Because unlike what the left has TRIED to brainwash the sheeples into believing, this country was founded as a CHRISTIAN country.
Look at George Washington's farewell address for ANY proof you need.
Now before ANYONE says "Well the constitution says there is a 'seperation of church and state' " . THOSE WORDS ARE LOCATED NO WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION.
They are, however, found in Thomas Jefferson's response to the Danbury Baptist Association regarding their fear that the fledgling government was in the process of naming the Lutheran DENOMINATION the national DENOMINATION. Huh...theres that silly denomination thing again....wow maybe we were founded as a Christian nation?
But you wont find that in any Mainstream book because that completely discredits the attempted rewriting of history the left is attempting to do.
Oh and Dennis maybe theres that little thing called 9/11.... you know that thing that happened that the left (Jeremiah Wright anyone? But King Barack NEVER actually listened to him in the 20 yeas he was there right??? No of course not! like to claim that we had coming?
Maybe its because King Barack's people (Muslims) crashed planes into buildings and have proclaimed jihad against us?
I dont know....those are all reasons to look at them differently....
How do you behave like a Muslim, or better yet, a Christian. What are the traits? Do you fall into spontaneous prayer - oh, both do that. Is it detectable in one's stride? Ah, it must be in the quality of the voice, Obama can carry a tune, Mitts can't. Damn on-key singing Muslims.
Well the good news is that they are burning down their own house with independents and their hardcore base cannot carry them to victory in a general election we proved that much in 2008.
If the Gingrich campaign didn't think these statements would resonate with enough potential voters to make said statements worthwhile, they would never be made. People want to hear this stuff. Therein lies the problem.
I am convinced we will never truly progress as a society until we free ourselves of "god" and all the institutions that concept spawns. As a start we could at least make a concerted effort to keep religion out of politics. Not gonna happen this election cycle, apparently.
As a Catholic, I wonder based on Newt's behavior if he really is a Catholic- three wives and such. Pathetic.
Larry,
How about we start another “Holy War” with Islam?
That should satisfy you need to dominate everything even though Christians are only one-third of the world population.
We are in the minority
Is that pronounced 'min-ought' or 'min-o'? Either way, I sure do love me some rabid, frothy, right-wing christian spewing nonsense trying to convince readers that there is magic invisible ink in the Constitution, when uncovered, reads "We the
PeopleChristian Zealots ..."Larry, Minot N.D,
YOU need to review your "Founding Fathers" info.
George washington, Benjamin F, and Thomas Jefferson were NOT religious.
start here, ignorant conservative.
WTF? All that is missing is The White sheet, the pointy hat and the flaming cross. Newt, STFU! What a a$$hat!
Yes they are. Birther, racist, misogynistic fools!
Sometimes I think the big are keeping these clowns like Newt in the race just to stir up the base for November.
The GOTP "Don't worry we promise to be on our worst behavior".
Obama/Biden 2012!!!
Bet Newt hasn't been to confession since....well probably never.
Larry, please provide the section of the Constitution where our Founding Fathers established this Nation as a Christian country?
One more thing, Larry, your own comment contradicts itself. You state this nation was founded without a Denomination and yet declare it was founded a Christian nation.
Jody, That page was missing from his coloring book.
I haven't read it, but I'll take your word for it, and then I'll see you and raise you by one Treaty of Tripoli, written AFTER Washington left office, unanimously approved by the Senate, and signed into law by President John Adams, making it the OFFICIAL position of the United States at that time --
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html
To wit -- Article 11:
Our Founding Fathers (a silly term in my opinion, but what the heck) were men of the Enlightenment. The religion they practiced, their beliefs in God and the Almighty were rather different from modern evangelical Christianity. God was more a concept than a practical reality. To say the United States was founded as a Christian country within the context of present-day Christianity is not historically valid.
It is difficult for us to truly comprehend the power of state-sanctioned churches of the day. Monarchs and absolute rulers relied upon their respective churches to assure their subjects their rule was not just blessed, but mandated by god. Believe or die. The Founding Fathers intent was to assure no religion could be used in such a fashion.
Just a little historical perspective from an ignorant conservative........
devie, you're right about that.
Mark, well, there weren't any women included back.
Well in some parts of our great nation you can get shot for wearing a dark hoody, being black while coming back from the store...
There aren't enough Hail Marys...
Mark, the rest didn't show. There weren't any women included back then so it's hard to call the men who established our constitution and nation founding persons.
Second paragraph folks.
"Asked by a reporter"
Is it Newt or the reporter "stirring the pot"?
Man, America's "journalists" have it toooooo easy. They could just as well throw something shiney on the ground and all of the looney libs would be drooling to find out what it was.
Start thinking for yourselves for once. It's getting downright embarassing.
Libtards and the main stream media = two peas in a pod
Romney / Rubio 2012
The Republican party absolutely believes in freedom of religion. You can be any kind of ultra-conservative, fundamentalist, evangelical southern babtist Christian you want to be.
Statesmen are what is missing today in politics. Reasoned, intelligent thinkers that accomplished great things. They've been replaced with reactionists, theocrats and puppets that do nothing but obstruct, whine and pollute the process.
Jody,
True enough! For their time the Double F Club, despite being almost exclusively male, was remarkably progressive. They wisely laid the foundation for later reforms that would have been impossible in their day.
Off on a tangent here but I am continually amazed at the United States. There has never been anything like it in human history. I remember reading Bill Bennett's fine two-volume US history summary titled America-The Last Best Hope. At first I thought the title rather presumptious, but in a way it rings true. We are far, far, far from perfect and certainly the rest of the world has much to offer. But the core values upon which this country was founded are unique in the world. That we have chosen not to abide by those values at times does not dilute their power.
It is kinda funny how Obama apologizes to a Muslim family for the death of their terrorist son while riding with al-Awlaki as a Hellfire missile takes them out, but has never contacted the family of the US Border Patrol officer who died from rounds fired from a couple of AK-47s provided to the drug cartels by the US government while protecting the country?
It's kind of peculiar that Obama that cautioned against jumping to conclusions, was so protective of the shooter at Ft. Hood (trying the terrorist attack as a "work place crime"), yet is so forceful in his statements against the 4 tour soldier who allegedly shot 17 Afghans?
How many examples you guys want?
Hey bob, you make some serious claims there, like "Obama apologizes to a Muslim family for the death of their terrorist son" and "was so protective of the shooter at Ft. Hood". How about you back them up?
Gingrich is a joke. He keeps ranting about Obama's "war on religion", despite the fact that he wants to enable employers to force their religion on their employees through health insurance, and has stated that he would not vote for an atheist presidential candidate.
bob - how do you know he never contacted the Border Patrol agent's family?
Obama did go on the Middle East apology tour. Obama has done his best to start class warfare in this country. Obama has picked a fight with the Catholic church. Obama was all set to bring terrorists from Gitmo to the US for trial in civilian courts. Obama has been perhaps the most divisive president ever with the endless blame and partisan attacks.
It is not that being a Muslim is akin to being a criminal as someone suggested, it is more to the fact that if Obama is a Muslim why is he ashamed to admit it? After all everyone born in Indonesia is automatically a Muslim. Right? Of course it is pretty hard to understand what to make of Obama's attending the church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Why would you be embarrassed?
Because you can't spell it?
LoL Our obvious stupidity must give you such a sense of power.
Or doesn't it? Wonder why.
If that's true, that's disturbing to me, too. Can you source that statement?
There, you see, Michael -- I CAN think for myself.
LoL Whatever happened to Larry so-sure-of-himself from Minot?
Anna,
Flummoxed by history perhaps.
LoL Mark.
I know that historians -- like Newt Gingrich, for example -- always flummox me.
Don't you just LOVE that word?
It's a beauty!
If a typo on the net is the worst part of my logic in your eyes, WOOT for me, I'm doin fine!
God bless ya babe! Have a great weekend!
Anna,
Now that's more like the old Anna anomaly ...
I have seen no record of Obama apologizing for Terry's death, while I have seen criticism, even on the floor of the House, for his not offering one.
The big deal was the Holder testimony where Holder refused even after being prompted .... a year after the death.
It became such an issue for the Obama administration that Holder was finally forced to give one to the family. (I was unaware that he had offered one until checking for an update before replying.)
However, in typical Obama/Holder fashion, he released it to Politico, not the family, at first. After the family stated that they had still not received the letter, the issue remained .... they finally received the letter released to Politico.
That is probably good enough, huh?
Have a good weekend Anna and btw, good job .... you "kinda" got me.
Ditto, Michael.
Bring your spellchecker next week. I'll be back.
Sounds like a plan! I hope I can sleep now from the sheer excitement of knowing what next week holds for me!...lol
On a serious note - Have a good weekend!
Chilled, I'll bet Gingrich goes to confession all the time. A captive audience, who has to listen to everything he has to say... How could he resist?
Newt: People ought to believe the president about his personal life. If they don't, the very least they could do is keep their damn pieholes shut.
And since when have you or ANY of the GOP candidates and officials EVER acted like a Christian?? I'm a Catholic (secular and somewhat irreligious at the same time), and I don't see how having three wives is a very Christian, especially as my church denounces divorce. Mitt is supporting the Ryan plan, which cuts billions from social services and has even received condemnations from religious leaders. Santorum keeps mouthing about how certain values seem to be exclusively from Judeo-Christianity when there is proof that people believed in equality far before the Jews and the Christians. And how about Grover Norquist, who criticizes liberals and moderates like me who want tax increases and wants to severely cut social services, all in the name of the conservative "god" Ronald Reagan. And last, but definitely not least (all of them are least in my mind), is Senator DeMitt, who you all know denounced compromise and negotiation with the Democrats at CPAC, violating a Christian tenet of compromise (not Christian, but part of the respect and tolerance part).
Not so good to be Christian and on the right, huh?? That's why I'm a liberal; we don't talk religion in government, and we seek to help EVERYONE, including the common man. Not like the rich-sucking right-wingers...
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
Nope. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-repeats-claim-obama-went-around-world-/
How so?
You mean the Catholic church has picked a fight with women, trying to control their use of medication. Remember, under the compromise plan Obama offered, it is the employee who pays for contraception as part of their health insurance. The Catholic Church want to control their employees' medical plans.
And what is wrong with this? Do you not have faith in our justice system?
By "endless blame and partisan attacks", I assume you are referring to the current Republican candidates' campaigns.
Poor reasoning. Obama is not a Muslim, so there's nothing wrong with him saying that he isn't. Keep in mind that the vast, vast majority of those calling him a Muslim simultaneously say that they would never vote for a non-Christian.
Obama was not born in Indonesia so this is irrelevant.
Wright's words and rhetoric are often taken out of context. His alleged "hatred of America" is really attacks on individual policies of the past that America has adopted. It's undeniable we've done some horrible things in the past, like slavery and Japanese internment.
It's obvious he doesn't want to admit he is Muslim but I thought everyone knew he is one what's the big deal?
the big deal is he isn't a Muslim.
Holla blazera!
And SO what if he was..?
He's a muslim as you are intelligent. You can take that any way you wish. I won't elaborate Herr Komandante
I have yet to see the press show the President facing East 5 times a day and praying on a little carpet. I haven't seen the President's wife wearing a veil either. Why haven't the press photographed the president wearing a kufi? Why are Muslims burning images of the President if he is one of them?
As strict as the Muslim faith is, if you aren't doing it right, you ain't Muslim.
You see, I could ask my own eerily pointed questions but I already know the answer...
The President isn't Muslim, duh.
beachbum12-
I am MUCH better after Obama was elected. The stock market is going up; people are going back to work, and America is seeing the light again. I don't care what you damn right-wingers think; I don't @!$%#ing care. You and your damn party keep spinning the facts: Obama is apologizing for America. Obama is un-American. Obama is incompetent. WHY???????? Why so cold against him??? He's made some pretty good decisions: killing bin Laden; maturity in administration; stimulus package; GM assistance. Why don't you admit that??? This guy tried his best to be bipartisan. He compromised on the stimulus; on healthcare reform; the deficit; he even compromised on the damn contraception bill!!! And what do you right-wingers do???? You blacken his name as if he was the devil; as if he was some heartless demon bound to destroy this nation. Well let me tell you something: we are already down. We spent decades starting stupid proxy wars and wasting both money AND the lives of young Americans wishing to serve their nation. And for what??? "Democracy." We do not seek to spread democracy: if we did, we would not have invaded Iraq. Democracy cannot be forced on with bullets and tanks; only an exchange of ideas. We really invade nations for their resources; for power; in order to cement our dominance. Well for once it finally came up to bite us in the butt. And you know what??? Maybe we could use it. Maybe we could use this to actually learn something. But I don't see that in Romney or the GOP; after what they did to this nation, I'm not even sure if they deserve to remain a major party. So let the GOP crash and burn. Maybe it will tell Americans that its time we need change. So think about that before you go on another freaking rampage.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
"Is it Newt or the reporter "stirring the pot"?"
The reporter was doing his/her job. If Newt isn't smart enough to avoid the bait by responding something like this, "This question has been asked and answered repeatedly. It's irrelevant. Let's talk about jobs," then he isn't smart enough to be president.
Beachbum-The reason spending is so high and revenues are so low is because of the recession, which lowered revenues substantially and increased spending for social safety nets. Deficits have actually decreased under Obama: not by much, but still. And where were you when Bush started the spending binge on two unnecessary wars, an unfunded prescription plan, AND two tax cuts that were supposed to "starve the beast???" Like you said; you can't blame both parties.
Oh and the GOP would only make things worse. They plan to give trillions in tax cuts that don't even work to fix the economy while cutting from social services that help low-income Americans. They will give the rich huge tax cuts while sticking it to the little guy.
I can't wait to hear your comments after the election, after Obama is re-elected and the Democrats take back the House and the Senate. Will you be as civil under Obama again????? I highly doubt it.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
DEMOCRAT CONGRESS 2012
DEATH TO THE FASCIST GOP 2012
The treaty of tripoli is not the law of the land The constitution is. I will allow you to be whatever you want or don't want to be I expect the same courtesy from you. When I get that I'll let you know.
True, and the constitution makes clear that the government cannot create an established religion in the First Amendment.
No Newtie boy, ignorance and bigotry is a problem we should all be concerned with! And if you and your ilk had a shred of leadership and intellectual honesty, you would stand for TRUTH.
The president speaks of his Christian faith all the time. His foreign policy and focus on terrorism, to bin Laden, to his allegiance to Israel -- I have never seen anything about the president that would make me think he his Muslim. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a low-information voter who would do well to listen to the president's speech at the recent Prayer Meeting.
If the "misconception" was the presiden't fault, why is it that only the far-Right believe these lies instead of the population overall? Clearly it has to do with the right-wing Echo Chamber, conservative fear of anything different, and code-word pandering by douche-bags like Newt.
But what if the president was a Muslim, huh? We have a few members of congress who are, as well as a significant percent of citizens who are, and all this says is how narrow-minded the Right-wing is. Newt and Teapublicans, you should be embarrassed and deeply ashamed of your racism and religious bigotry, as well as your sexist War on Women, gay bashing, and just plain Haters that you are.
Enough!
Beachbum-
In case you haven't heard, spending your way out of a recession ACTUALLY WORKS. The stimulus and the auto bailout saved millions of jobs and reversed the contraction of the economy. And Obama offered to increase revenues WHILE cutting spending in his deficit reduction package. The Democrats have offered another package to reduce the debt. But neither garnered any support, not in the least because of the damn GOP.
And as for the individual mandate in the ACA, you CANNOT go the jail. All you will pay is a fine. And it will actually HELP keep costs down. Not by much, but its a step in the right direction. If we could go universal on healthcare then we wouldn't need it, but unfortunately "socialized medicine" doesn't sit too well with the damn free-market idiots on the right. Face it: Obama has been a great president, and he WILL be re-elected. Accept it or leave; its as simple as that.
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
DEMOCRAT CONGRESS 2012
DEATH TO THE FASCIST GOP 2012
Wow, the ignorance of the right amazes me. I'm not even going to deal with you, beachbum. You're not worth it. So go ahead; enjoy living in that conservative fantasy; but come November, this nation will rise up and show the GOP that we are sick and tired of their right-wing crap. We don't want more tax cuts for the rich or spending cuts to social services. We don't want privatization of Medicare and Social Security. We want reform; we want change; we want you to get the hell out of Washington. Comprende???
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
ABGOP (Anybody But GOP) 2012
And the Crazy radical right wing train is coming to a town near you.
Yeah and I hope it derails.
So Newt, ol' boy, suppose you tell us what YOU would have done better. Why make us wait until you "take office" in January after your "victory" in November to find out what you would do. That would, of course, be the first thing on your agenda. Even before all the balls and celebratory parties there is Newt announcing to the world that he decrees gas prices are now $2.50 a gallon. The speculators, refiners, oil companies, governments, sellers and buyers can just go to h-e-double toothpicks Newt has the answer and you will toe the line.
Tell us now, Newt, tell us so we don't have to suffer any more.
Gingritch: Typical shallow right-wing dittohead idiot.
Republicans: What's wrong with America!
ABAR 2012!
Anybody But A Republican!
grinch reminds of the N Platte River - an INCH deep and a MILE WIDE
Newt is still trying to gain some relevance. Not the 'muslim' thingy again!
This man is desperate.
You know what the underlying dialogue is here.
Newt is willing to hire himself out to the Republican/Romney campaign as their attack dog if he can get a position in the Republican administration.
This is his audition tape.
If I were Romney - I'd say nah, I pass.
Willard can OFFER grinch any position he wants - but when Willard LOSES, what DIFFERENCE does it make?
LOL Very well put canary
Cynical.
Newton is still campaigning? I had no idea.
Just another GOP idiot !
Agreed!
1 out of 4 (plus all of those teavangelical reichwingers) The vulture will feast off the 3 also rans
Cheese and crackers got all muddy. First off, as Colin Powell said, so what if he were? What an arrogant and lying excuse for a man Gingrich is. Geez, Newt, maybe if the GOP lawmakers had backbones and FOX, Rush and the others would stop telling their supporters, their listeners that President Obama is a Muslim, wasn't born in the US, there wouldn't be this belief among a certain segment of the population. You stand up and make such comments as you've made the last few days, including this one, and then wonder why conservatives believe what they're told to believe. Why didn't Newt correct a supporter the other day who said President Obama was a Muslim? Because that way, Newt can continue his narrative of blowing the Muslim dog whistle. Sad, really sad. What a despicable man Newt Gingrich is.
"maybe if the GOP lawmakers had backbones and FOX, Rush and the others would stop telling their supporters, their listeners that President Obama is a Muslim'
No one at Fox News ever stated or insinuated that Obama was a Muslim... nor did Rush Limbaugh.
Newt Gingrich just said Obama was a Christian. How is he blowing the dog whistle?
Media Matters pretty much makes things up, and so do you, Jody.
Jody---as General Powell said, there are graves in Arlington Cemetery of brave soldiers who died for this country bearing a crescent star of the Muslim religion. How embarrassing that a prominent Republican like Gingrich would say this insulting drivel. He should be ashamed of himself but we long ago learned that none of them have any shame.
Bobber, sorry but you're as full of pious baloney as Newt Gingrich. Ever heard the word imply or the term implicate by suggestion. Well, they've been implying it for 4 years both the "secret Muslim" and the "birther" nonsense. They don't have to say flat out call him a Muslim, they merely suggest it just as Newt Gingrich is doing here, pose a question and those wanting to believe it will. Obviously, they fooled you.
Steeler Fan, it is insulting.
Agree Jody, Steeler Fan
TeaPeople have no shame. They lack integrity and their moral compass is non-existent!
So far, I've had no success finding anyone who cares less about Obama's-or any other politician's- religion.
I'm also having no success figuring out why any of you people care.
Yep--is there no end of foolishness by the ones who are wise only in their own eyes? This is getting crazier by the minute!....and these TPGOP "christians" want to govern our country?
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Oh Bob - up to you little white lies again!!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/another-media-tweak-rush-limbaugh-calls-the-president-imam-obama/
no joe, no bo, nj
"So far, I've had no success finding anyone who cares less about Obama's-or any other politician's- religion."
Dear NoJo, you need to get out more and meet your fellow republicans. I am beginning to think that you have boarded up you windows and are living in a Dickens like world of not so great expectations.
Wonder if No Joe realizes how silly that sounds because apparently Newt and his supporters care about other politician's religions, especially President Obama's or why would old Newtster mention it. It has nothing to do with the economy or gas prices or health care but there's Newt talking about Muslims off and on all week.
No Joe---of course you miss the point. The issue is not about President Obama's religion. We care that national politicians insult peaceful members of the Muslim faith and their religion. And we care that lies are told about our President in another of the many ways that he is not treated with the respect due to his office.
oh, the amphibian BLOWS, but it's not a DOG WHISTLE...
No TRUE conservative would CARE about religion...huh? the "no true scotsman analogy"? TRUE conservatives DO CARE abut religion? Hmmm - if they DON'T you coulda fooled ME...
“First, look you need to understand the elite media is in the tank for Obama."
Truer words never were spoken.
Can you define what the "elite media" is Bob, and then explain what kind of media the Fox Network is Bob, can you please tell explain that to me? I really want to understand the truest words every spoken.
Hey, Bob, perhaps you can answer me this question:
What parts of Article VI and the First Amendment do Butterball and the rest of the GOP fail to comprehend?
Yeah, Bob for VP NOT, it's easy for a man like Newt to blame the media because conservatives can never accept responsibility for their own failures--it's always somebody else's fault they fell over. It wasn't Sarah Palin's fault she couldn't answer simple questions, it was the media's fault for asking her something. Conservatives blame President Obama for the economy yet it was their President's and their policies that took us over the cliff. They blame the deficit and debt on President Obama but THEY CREATED IT because "deficits don't matter", just charge it as long as they were in the WH. Sorry, Bob, the blame the media for Newt's failures doesn't work any more than all the other fingerpointing they do for what they did.
"First, look you need to understand the elite media is in the tank for Obama."
So what? In the minds of the majority they live next door to used car salesmen.
Your Republican guys running for President will say anything and Romney is the biggest liar of all. Do you folks on the right have no shame left?
Watching Gingrich is like watching the NBA. You're losing and rather than worry about fixing what's wrong with your team you complain about the referees.
Which is more likely...the media is rooting for Democrats or Mr. Staypuft is a bad candidate?
Bob -- Please qualify that statement with WHAT media you think is acceptable? C'mon as I'm sick of BS! Do not run away either. List the media you find acceptable.
I don't watch "elite media" I watch "middle class" media, or maybe "working class" media, I can't afford "royal media" I am trying to work my way up to "luxury media". Ha Newt you are the king, no the king kong of made up undefined BS.
Newt Gringrinch as usual speaks authoritatively in completely undefined and therefore nonsensical babble and some fools will believe it to be the truest words ever spoken because obviously they don't know what they don't know and more importantly they don't care to know.
Well for Bob that would be his employer Fox...
Newt had good news and bad news for the media today. To the folks at MSNBC (except for Joe Scarborough)---congratulations, you are elite. To the folks at Fox News and Joe Scarborough----sorry to say you are ....well....common.
According to their own polls, FOX news is number one, making them the "elite media."
FOX NEWS is now supporting President Obama for Re-election.
You heard it first from Newt Gingrich (after Santorum endorsed Obama over Romney, of course.)
Why is everyone trying to confuse Bob with facts?
Hey, beachbum,
Why don't you take your jug of wine and go back to sleep beneath the pier? You're not contributing anything here but unfounded allegations.
It's not so much Bob as it is Newt, Jack. There are too many Bob's taken in by Newt, people actually think this guy is smart. He is full of crap is what he is, BS dished out with a serious tone and a good vocabulary is BS all the same. I guess I should be grateful to Newt as is doing plenty of damage to the republican candidates with independents and he is costing Mitt and republican donors a bundle and in the end he appeals to a very very small slice of the electorate.
Forrest,
The only thing that concerns me at all about this election is that Romney and the Right are going to "buy" it. If they succeed, then we're done for as a nation. The 1% will cement its control and the "opposing party" will cease to exist.
Beachbum,
On the contrary, it's the Right that does that. Citizens United. See above.
I can deny it, and I do. The fog rolls in kinda heavy beneath the pier, does it? I can see why you would be confused.
You refuse to put up specifics, and the unfounded allegations stand.
Where are you Bob? Come back and qualify your comment. Pretty please. ; )
Bob has left the building, DCIA.
Have a good weekend!
Thanks Jack, you too! ; )
Translation: "I'm really, really, really, desperate."
Add mean and nasty to that for the trilogy of Newt.
Jody,
Newt is blowing as hard as he can on the dog whistle of division: Muslim friends, attacks Catholics, Koran and Bible. Words he uses to describe President Obama's actions.
And this guy wants to be President of the United States? He is pathetic and a reiigious bigot.
LOL - elite media? So Newt just confirmed it! Fox News is - low class media, senseless media!
Apparently those are the type of peoples - Republicans want voting for them.
Low informed, non-thinking, numb --ts.
TRUTH - not crap
Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA
Hi, the Democrat Soldier, yes he did confirm that. Always fascinating that Newt and others like him who are of the "elite" group suggest elite is a four-letter word.
And who cares if he IS a Muslim? I don't remember ever reading in any legal context that a president MUST be Christian. I would think, considering how wonderful our relationship is with our Muslim neighbors that it would be a boon to have a man in the White House that would understand Muslim culture to the Nth level.
Newt Gingrich is the personification of Eric Cartman.
Except the cartoon character Eric Cartman has more intelligence and class than the cartoon caricature, Newt Gingrich.
Take heart Republicans: you can come back. Not this year, but you can't win them all. Give it four years, clean up your act, a few scandals by both sides, and you may produce a palatable candidate for the masses. It just isn't happening this time. And stop crying and fingerpointing because that isn't going to fix this mess you're in. Go home, lick your wounds, and clean your house. Who knows? Maybe you can come back with another Ronald Reagan or Teddy Roosevelt. But it doesn't look like it will happen this time.
- signed, A lifelong Detroit Lions Fan
I would personally be very proud to be associated with Fox.
I wonder why it is the highest rated cable station ? Only Conservatives watch cable ?
Fox has higher ratings than all the other cable channels combined.. and also has been honored many times as the most accurate and unbiased of all the cable channels.
For those of you that watch MSNBC at night,, may God be with you :-)
MSNBC does not have 1 intelligent anchor on at night. Only libs would watch Rachel Madow ,, who had a sex change operation ,, was never into transexuals myself,, must make me a demon in your minds,, as if I care :-)
WOW, insulting women and transexuals in one sentence, amazing. I bet if you keep writing, you can get an insult to blacks, hispanics, asians and middle easterners into one scentence without breaking a sweat.
Nice trolling, however.
Don't forget, Alan W, independent studies have shown that viewers of FOX are the most misinformed of any who watch cable news. Why does it have so many viewers? Guess people like to be misinformed and remain clueless. As for the rest of your insulting comment, your words tell readers what they need to know, they represent who you are without my adding to it.
I think we will be more than willing to associate you with Fox, your desire is granted. The reason Fox is #1 is because most conseratives can't figure out how to change channels let alone the digital clock that is still blinking 12:00 for the last 10 years. As for the Anchors on cable I bet they have more degrees than you do.
What about Media Matters? I checked it out yesterday and was surprise to see that the majority of the stories are about Fox News. Is this a News site or a site that is design to discredit anything that Fox reports?
Its pretty obvious that they dislike Fox, but why dedicate a whole website? It seems to me that in doing so they give Fox more power.
Just curious.
maybe IF Fuchs just had som3 ACCURACY, it wouldn't be necessary to dissect their "news". They seem to SPIN everything
"What about Media Matters? I checked it out yesterday and was surprise to see that the majority of the stories are about Fox News. Is this a News site or a site that is design to discredit anything that Fox reports?"
If you checked the Media Matters site then you must have checked their mission statement that reads: "Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
Found here: http://mediamatters.org/p/about_us/
I do not believe that Newt Gingrich is a genuine Catholic ...
or a genuine human being, for that matter. In my opinion,
he is a vitriolic charlatan who appeals to the baser instincts
of bigots like himself.
Actually, Newt Gingrich is genuine, a genuine horse's rear end.
Arthur, true.
Can any of you Lib Babies help me ?
I am desparetly searching for something that Obama has done right ?
Obama Care -- over 50% of Americans are against it,, but those are the 50% that pay the taxes in this country. And Obama missed the cost by $1 Trillion . Have you all read the bill yet ? If you say yes you are lying thru your teeth,, it isn't all written yet,, it wasn't all written when it was voted on ,, but why would that bother anyone ? Congress was given 12 hours to read the bill,, how interesting,,
Green Jobs ? LOL
Shovel Ready Jobs ? LOL
Obama's promise to cut the Deficit by 50% ? Not his fault,, he thought cut it or reduce it meant increase it by 50% ,, yep,, Obama sure is smart.
His energy policy ? LOL -- talk about an issue that is kicking his butte. :-)
His foreign policy ? Assad in Syria is a reformer ? ( quote from Hillary Clinton - the ladies idol of knowledge ) :-) How is Eygypt doing these days ? Why does Obama vow to donate $1.5 Billion to the Muslim Brotherhood ? Trying to spend the excess money we have ? How is the Start Treaty with Putin in Russia working for you ? How is Obama's plan to negogiate with Iran working for you ? Do you enjoy Obama funding Brazil and Chille on oil drilling ?
Are you impressed with Tim Geightner as Treasurey Chief ? no one else is :-)
Is Eric Holder a burning symbol of justice as Justice Attorney ? Or is refusal to supply subpoenaed documents cause you concern ? What could he be hiding ? That he lied thru his teeth about not knowing ? LOL
How is Obama's Afghan policy and war strategy going ? Afghanistan is a total disaster.
Obama sure has strengthened ties with traditional allies like Israel, Canada , Yemen, Eygpt, Poland, Czecheslovakia, Japan, ,, who all scartch their heads and wonder if he is insane or just incompetent beyond belief .
The Left may win because the Media has the spin out ,, unless Independents who surely do not read this blog site,, its too far left for their tastes,, are as stupid as the Liberals on here,,
I have to say the ladies on here stand out as truely clueless,, yep,, it is my own war on women here,, but Jody in Iowa, Feisty, Barb in Chicago and so many of these women are so hopeless,,, it is shocking,
Have a nice day .
Alan you have one thing right........you are desperate!
Why bother listing the many accomplishments of President Obama, you aren't interested in facts anyway plus I refuse to do the work for a lazy man who has no respect for anyone but himself and who could not hold a candle to the men in my life. Try Obamaachievements.org So this proud, leftie liberal lady will say so long, farewell, and all that jazz.
love em
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. You've probably seen work being done on your roads.
Vastly increased domestic oil production on his watch.
Please don't spread lies.
But Fox News is the most viewed news station in America. One of those weird Paradoxes of the right, praising Fox News as the biggest, while still claiming the left controls the news.
thank you for making it so clear for us to see.
Poor Baby Alan - can't be helped. He's already fallen off the cliff. Good luck with your self-declared "war on women".
It is funny that opposition to Obamacare is called a war on women. We received a flyer from the DNC talking about the benefits for women, and from my perspective, it sounded like the kind of things a fraternity boy would supply a girl so she would abandon chastity.
You don't want to have a baby? Here's free contraceptives!
You are afraid of AIDS? No worry, we'll do free screening.
You are concerned about HPV? Such a deal we have for you. We will do DNA testing (free of course) to get you in our database, and see if you are susceptible to HPV. We will also do free HPV screening! And if you already have it, we will make sure that it doesn't develop into cervical cancer (75% of cervical cancer is from HPV). No worrys. We have it covered.
I don't want to have a problem before I get any medical treatment. Free well WOMAN care!! We can look for it before you have symptoms!
What if I am the wrong kind of guy? No problem, we have free abuse screening (what is abuse screening?)!
Brought to you by the DNC (Doit Now Chicks*)
* If you are a progressive, you can use the Maher "c" word instead without losing your political correctness.
If all Rush had done was call a public figure a c word one time. I don't think anyone would have even noticed.
But what Rush did do was make up vicious sexual lies and then proceeded for three days to get more vicious and more abusive every day.
Just so the brain dead like Roger can understand, let me explain it to you. For three days he went on and on with his viciousness. Republicans then want to claim that calling someone a c word once is equal to three days of vicious lies.
Then you wonder why we think republicans are in a war on women. I understood what Rush meant and the republicans who agreed with their silence is that all women who speak up for themselves are considered by republicans to be nothing but sluts and whores.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM.....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Newt Gingrich continued: "It's very bizarre to me, the things this president does. Why does he like basketball so much? Why does he invite rappers to the White House. Why does he cut his hair like that? Why didn't he come up with a more American name to put on his fake birth certificate? People see these things and it makes them wonder if he might be a Muslim, and I don't blame them."
lol...pure Newt...
yes it is
If it weren't for Hatred, Bigotry, and Lies, the Republicans would have nothing to offer!
Psychologist on Obama
Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our president.
Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.
Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident -- a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling.. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people.
The fact that Obama is a total incognito with Zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."
Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest friends suggest that the man is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao, Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom.
When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse "Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations,"says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant two years old. Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white) grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. "She died of cancer in 1995."
One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and does not deserve their attention.
If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him.
Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations. The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.
Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still a nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself?
Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.. A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power. A narcissist cares for no one but himself .
This election was like no other in the history of America . The issues were insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world?
I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others. They are simply self serving and selfish. Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined.
This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw.
Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous. Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks voted for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple.
The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites. The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting . They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites. The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960's.
Obama will set the clock back decades. America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.. It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists, and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House .
America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.
Michael A. Haberman, M.D.
hahaha you again OMG hahaha The last sentence describes G.W. perfectly.
Concerned Ctz,
You post is an old chain email from 2009. Your Dr. Sam is not a pyschologist, has a so called PHd in Philosophy from an unaccredited university.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/vaknin.asp
LOL....
Another one of barry's could have been sons shot five people in a tire store in Durham N.C. two are dead and three injured. I am sure the racist in chief will not have anything to say to these families they are WHITE. And most of the crimes commited locally had the same MO black and wearing hoodies you can't change facts.
OMG! (Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist.")
Dr. Sam is a quack! this is so funny.
And Bob Jones, I'm white and I live in a white neighborhood. A very nice usually quiet neighborhood. My neighbor was at work when 3 young white boys broke into her home, beat her dog bloody, destroyed everything in it that they couldn't carry out, drank the liquor out of her liquor cabinet until all the booze was gone, drove off in their get away van and crashed into one of our elderly neighbors as they were driving themselves to the store. They smacked the poor old man around and grabbed his wallet and ran off. These white criminals turned out to be boys from a neighborhood a few miles away. All white. All wealthy. And guess what. They were wearing hoodies.! Dumb ass.
Newt's and Concerned Ctzn are Completely NUTS!!!!
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition ... In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.
-- George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition ... In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.
-- George Washington, letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793
I'll give you twice danny - then it's SPAM