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It’s Still A Wonderful Life It still is a wonderful life when you get paid by the Heritage Foundation to summarize the plot of a movie that everyone has seen three dozen times. The fact that I am the daughter of Newt Gingrich is completely and utterly irrelevant, thank you very ...
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Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda — ... Caroline in the Senate is a dumb idea.  It’s not quite as dumb as giving Newt Gingrich’s daughter a wingnut-welfare-financed platform because she’s Newt Gingrich’s daughter, but it’s close. ...

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Gingrich on Hertzberg: ‘a total jerk’
politico.com 12/8/2008 — Last Thursday on“The O’Reilly Factor," comments made by Newt Gingrich a month earlier on the show, fueled a battle between host Bill O’Reilly and New Yorker writer Hendrik Hertzberg, who'd penned a column referencing them.  ...
Gingrich: My Claim About A Gay Fascism Was ‘A Very Narrowly Focused Reference’
thinkprogress.org 12/9/2008 — On Nov. 14, Bill O’Reilly and former House Speaker Newt Gingirch cited very limited incidents of thuggery by those protesting Proposition 8. Though the demonstrations — such as throwing leaflets in a church — were in no way the ...
Gingrich Offers To Be Rep.-Elect Cao’s Liaison To The African-American Community
thinkprogress.org 12/12/2008 — Earlier this week, the Times-Picayune profiled the district’s new congressman Joseph Cao (R-LA), who beat out the indicted Democratic incumbent William Jefferson . As the first Vietnamese-American in Congress — and the only non-Hispanic ...
Newt Gingrich, bringing people togetherPolitical Animal
NEWT GINGRICH, BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER.... Rep.-elect Anh "Joseph" Cao (R-La.) managed to get elected thanks to the cash in William Jefferson's freezer. Given the Democrats' overwhelming advantage in the district, Cao will have a lot of work to do if...
Rove vs. Steele?The Corner on National Review Online
Karl seems to be taking a not-so-veiled shot at the head of GOPAC (Mike Steele) in his WSJ column today: "Second, while it's the responsibility of all, someone must take the lead on training candidates and party leaders and nurturing their focus on ideas. Under its founder, Newt Gingrich, ...
Lobbing Minnelli CocktailsJesus' General
Dr. Gary Cass Christian Anti-Defamation Commission Dear Dr. Cass , Newt Gingrich is right : There is a gay and secular fascism in the country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us. Those of us in anti-homosexual ministries see it everyday as we are vilified for working to deny basic ...
Candace Gingrich: Newt Makes a New FriendPolitics on HuffingtonPost.com
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an open letter to my brother, Newt, following his bizarre attack on LGBT Americans. I thought he was reaching pretty deep into the GOP's bag of hateful tricks to come up with that one. But, he's got company. Yesterday, Pat Boone outdid Newt in a post on the far ...
Newt Gingrich: Still A DoucheShakesville
Remember last month when Newt called us gays fascists for having the temerity to stand up for our basic human rights? Turns out he totally didn't mean it . Well, he did mean it, but only sort of . Just in a "very narrowly focused" way. Oh, okay, I guess that's alright then. Seriously, does he ...
Newt Gingrich: Hendrik Hertzberg A "Jerk"The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Politico caught up with Newt Gingrich and asked him about comments that fueled an on-air fight between Bill O'Reilly and New Yorker writer Hendrik Hertzberg: "I thought that was funny. I thought the fact that O'Reilly played unedited the entire walking interview with Hertzberg--who is a ...
Newt Gingrich: Hendrik Hertzberg A "Jerk"Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Politico caught up with Newt Gingrich and asked him about comments that fueled an on-air fight between Bill O'Reilly and New Yorker writer Hendrik Hertzberg: "I thought that was funny. I thought the fact that O'Reilly played unedited the entire walking interview with Hertzberg--who is a ...
Glenn Reynolds: Let's outsource critical government functions to Walmart!INSTAPUTZ
Talk about a stale take. A LOOK AT WAL-MART VS. FEMA in response to Katrina. So which approach will the Obama Administration emulate? Several months ago, I saw Newt Gingrich on some talking heads show babbling about how he'd rather have Walmart take care of federal emergencies than the stupid, ...
Gingrich's Ties To Fannie, Freddie Go Even DeeperTPMMuckraker
Earlier today we reported that Newt Gingrich had recently been on Fox denouncing Democatic lawmakers for ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- despite himself having worked as a consultant for Freddie back in 2006, helping to fight off potential regulation. But it turns out that the ...
Gingrich Slammed Pols "Beholden" to Fannie and Freddie -- But Shilled For Freddie HimselfTPMMuckraker
We already knew Newt Gingrich doesn't lack for chutzpah. But this looks like a whole new level... Back when Congress was debating the bailout package this fall, Gingrich was bravely sounding the alarm about the nefarious influence wielded in Washington by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...
Freddie Mac spent early and often to avoid regulationAMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
It's nice to see Newt Gingrich, the other hero of the right, so well highlighted in this AP article . I know he's no Sarah Palin, but it's nice to see that he managed to make a buck or two supporting those free market values of his. What a great American and what an honor it must be to be on the ...
The Destructiveness and Historical Dishonesty of Newt GingrichThe Moderate Voice
Michelle Goldberg, author of the fantastic Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism , had a must-read guest post at TNR’s The Plank a couple of days ago on Newt Gingrich’s latest contribution to the far right’s seemingly endless culture war in support of ...
Gingrich Says Israel Should Set A Deadline For Attack On IranThink Progress
Last night on Fox News, co-host Alan Colmes asked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about a Jerusalem Post article yesterday reporting that Israel is preparing options to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. At first Gingrich gave a measured response, saying “I don’t think ...
O'Reilly Ambushes Hendrik Hertzberg (VIDEO)The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
On Thursday night's show, Bill O'Reilly showed footage of when he sent a camera crew to ambush New Yorker writer Hendrik Hertzberg, who he called a "far-left zealot" for something he wrote about Newt Gingrinch and gay marriage after an appearance Gingrich made on O'Reilly's show. After some ...