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Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Monday, May 23, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
If Only it Were a Very Bad Joke (Back To Basics)
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The Back To Basics blog caused me to vomit in my mouth just a little bit this morning. Not only did they raise the same ugly specter about Gov. Good Hair that I did yesterday. They included actual facts about the kind of stuff he's tried to ram down the throats of the good citizens of Texas. It's the kind of stuff William Barret Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett would never stand for. But the majority of the voters in the state keep lifting their coattails and saying, "Thank you sir, may I have another!"
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Newt Gingrich’s Wife Dropped Between a Quarter and a Half Million Dollars at Tiffany & Co. (New York Magazine)
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Politico and the rest of the mini-scoop-driven Internet is currently freaking out because, at one point, Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt, reported between $250,000 and $500,000 in a "revolving charge account" owed to the high-end jeweler Tiffany & Co. (In financial disclosure forms, "revolving charge accounts" are basically "credit cards.") The debt was reported in 2007 when she filed forms covering 2005 and 2006 as part of her job at the House Agriculture Committee, and she listed it as her husband's responsibility. Since she shortly thereafter dropped out of public service, and Newt hasn't been in Congress since 1999, we don't know whether the debt has been paid off. (They're a relatively wealthy family that presumably employs financial advisers, or at least listens to Suze Orman, so it's not too much of a leap to guess it has been.) The last time they reported their net worth, back around the same time, it was between $1 and $2.5 million. So, basically, at some point, it looks like they spent ten percent of their net worth on jewels.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Esquire Writer On Newt Gingrich: ‘It Was The Racism That Threw Me’ (Mediaite)
by Colby Hall | 9:42 am, August 11th, 2010
Yesterday Esquire released a rather explosive 8,000 word essay about former Clinton-era Speaker of the House and presumptive GOP Presidentail Candidate Newt Gingrich. The epic expose is sure to make a lot of news, and become an ongoing factor in Gingrich’s political future, because the writer chose a very interesting method of getting to know the candidate: by interviewing his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich. In a follow up blog post, writer John H. Richardson revealed his motivation behind the interview: his racist comments.
In a separate blog post entitled “Why Marianne Gingrich Told Me About a Vulnerable Newt,” Richardson opened:
Yesterday Esquire released a rather explosive 8,000 word essay about former Clinton-era Speaker of the House and presumptive GOP Presidentail Candidate Newt Gingrich. The epic expose is sure to make a lot of news, and become an ongoing factor in Gingrich’s political future, because the writer chose a very interesting method of getting to know the candidate: by interviewing his ex-wife Marianne Gingrich. In a follow up blog post, writer John H. Richardson revealed his motivation behind the interview: his racist comments.
In a separate blog post entitled “Why Marianne Gingrich Told Me About a Vulnerable Newt,” Richardson opened:
It was the racism that threw me. As a reporter, I’ve always believed that everyone has some kind of inner coherence. No matter how inexplicable their behavior may be, there is always logic somewhere.
This proved true with a multitude of subjects, from murderers to movie stars. Until Newt Gingrich.Click HERE to Keep Reading!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Resurgence on the Right Puts Gingrich Back in Style (NYTimes.com)
Newt Gingrich, image via WikipediaPublished: March 12, 2010
WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich still relishes stirring the pot of the culture wars.
There he was last month in Akron, Ohio, telling an audience of 300 people that President Obama was out of touch. Why? Because the president did not understand the gut-level appeal of the pickup truck at the center of Scott Brown’s winning campaign to wrest a Massachusetts Senate seat away from the Democrats.
“What if I have to haul a moose?” Mr. Gingrich said, to laughter. “You cannot put a gun rack in the back of a Smart car.”
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