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Obama and Notre Dame
Political Animal —
... the president's appearance "a deliberate thumbing of the collective nose at the Roman Catholic Church to which Notre Dame purports to be faithful." The conservative Cardinal Newman Society and CatholicVote.org are both demanding that Notre Dame to rescind the invitation to Obama (the latter claims to have a petition with 50,000 names). None other than Newt Gingrich -- the thrice-married supporter of the war and the death penalty, who isn't a Catholic but is about to convert -- called Notre Dame's decision "sad," and accused the president of embracing "anti-Catholic values." ...
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
... Did you hear the joke about the Zogby poll showing Obama at 50 percent approval? The punchline is that some people are taking it seriously. Nate Silver actually wastes valuable time explaining why Zogby is the least credible pollster in the world, one that I've long-ago learned to ignore whether I like his results or not. They're always garbage. I actually look forward to eight years of this. Did you know that the twice-divorced, pro-dealth penalty Newt Gingrich is "pro-Catholic values"? Crisitunity ...
Hullabaloo — ... I know that whenever I seek guidance on whether a policy is Catholic or anti-Catholic, I hit up the twice-divorced guy who was committing adultery while chastising the President for doing the same, thus breaking two of the Ten Commandments at the same time. ...
Tom Matzzie: Notre Dame is Right to Welcome Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... FOX contributor Newt Gingrich even twittered it writing, "It is sad to see Notre Dame invite president obama to give the commencement address Since his policies are so anti catholic values." (The typos are verbatim.) ...
MSNBC, CNN Use Media Matters Tip to Attack Gingrich's Criticism of Notre Dame
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Both MSNBC’s David Shuster and CNN’s Rick Sanchez pulled their scoop straight from Media Matters’ blog, and focused on Newt Gingrich’s Twitter comments criticizing President Obama’s upcoming commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, instead of the controversy over the speech itself. Shuster targeted the former Speaker of the House during the “Hypocrisy Watch” segment on Tuesday’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue program, saying that Gingrich was “already telling Notre Dame what to do,” even though he wasn’t Catholic yet and had gone through two divorces. Almost a day later on Wednesday’s Newsroom ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
Matthew Yglesias: The incontinent right wing echo chamber is fomenting panic about the fake Sino-Russian currency plan
Firedoglake: FEC turns a blind eye to Fred Thompson's flagrant violations of election law
Leftist Grandpa: GOP working to keep the poor from being politically active
Infrastructurist: Daily News Digest
Here's your opportunity to tell Bill O'Reilly's advertisers to stop supporting his Harassment Machine
HOLY CRAP: How 'good' is the Good Book?...Horny about America...Does Satan Exist?...Men Only ...
What's Behind the Right's Current Twitter Advantage + Using #TCOT vs. No Hashtags Whatsoever
The Next Right —
Practicing Politics in the Twitter Era: If we are to speak of the age of online politics -- and I am not certain that we should -- let's say we've lived through the Blog Era (2001-04), the YouTube Era (2005-08) and now we are in the Twitter Era (2008-?). This screen shot of a blog post at Media Matters (of all places) juxtaposing tweets from Newt Gingrich and Matt Cooper -- proof alone that everyone in Washington is using Twitter -- provides a useful snapshot of the how Twitter works alongside the blogosphere (rumors of its death still exaggerated) in moving political messages online: ...
GOP Narcissists On Parade
Open Left - Front Page —
Not using the word "narcissism" (though she has before), digby is instead focusing on the issue of temperament in a recent brief post, "Finger On The Button", but the two are clearly related. She begins:
I think one of the things I find most reprehensible about the Republican Party and their Big Money backers is that they think it's ok to play Russian Roulette with the country (and the world) by nominating people to power who have completely inappropriate temperaments for it. George W. Bush, with his thin skinned, shallow understanding of the world, bottomless need for flattery, is a good case in ...
Holier-Than-Thou Gingrich Not Above Pushing Falsehoods To Smear Obama
News Hounds —
Newly-minted Catholic (and admitted adulterer) Newt Gingrich appeared on On The Record last night, April 7, 2009, for a two-part interview. It was clear from the subjects discussed in Part 2 of the interview – President Barack Obama's “controversial” speech at Notre Dame and his appointment of a gay activist critical of the Pope to the White House faith-based initiative council – that FOX News producers were deliberately setting up an anti-Obama segment. There was nobody to balance Gingrich at any point in the show. “Liberal” Greta Van Susteren not only ...
Holier-Than-Thou Gingrich Not Above Pushing "Infanticide" Falsehoods To Smear Obama
News Hounds —
Newly-minted Catholic (and admitted adulterer) Newt Gingrich appeared on On The Record last night, April 7, 2009, for a two-part interview. It was clear from the subjects discussed in Part 2 of the interview – President Barack Obama's “controversial” speech at Notre Dame and his appointment of a gay activist critical of the Pope to the White House faith-based initiative council – that FOX News producers were deliberately setting up an anti-Obama segment. There was nobody to balance Gingrich at any point in the show. “Liberal” Greta Van Susteren not only ...
they turned me into a Newt and other witcheries
Sisyphus Shrugged —
so did you know Newt Gingrich is making a comeback? Not in the general sense, in which it would be equally correct to say "Newt Gingrich is a bipedal hominid" or "Newt Gingrich is very popular with people who are impressed by Newt Gingrich," two other things which have remained constant since the brief period a decade and a half or so ago in which Newt Gingrich had attained something to come back to (that attainment, specifically, having been a series of press releases with a shallowly wonkish populist air which sanitized his actual revolution in governance, the discovery that as long as the other party is getting the ...
