The Two Men Most Responsible for the Downfall of our Public Discourse

[kpete]

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[RT Atlanta]

1. need to add a few

though you have a great starting point

newton leroy gingrich is another one that needs to be on there

[Beartracks]

3. I've always considered Newt the turning point.

Rush was already on the air at that point, on TV if I recall. But Newt was a dick that changed Congress for the worse.

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[yonder]

2. Addie and Oxy, sauntering side by side.

Why is Addie wearing golf shoes there?

[hunter]

4. The sewer rats of public discourse could take them down...

... if not for the corruption and false politeness of our mainstream corporate media. And their gatekeepers and bodyguards.

There's a lot of fat on those two, enough to feed the dogs of hell for many days.

No wonder the devil has taken dibs on them.

[Beartracks]

5. Whoa, a public health warning should have been included!

"Some gagging may occur."



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[TeamPooka]

17. Of course the White House released the pic. Rush makes Trump look healthy by comparison

[TwilightZone]

6. It's been going downhill for decades.

Lee Atwater and the Southern Strategy come to mind.

Newt Gingrich, later, in the Contract On America days.

[33taw]

8. Grover Norquist is a POS.

[hlthe2b]

10. If there IS a God, this only goes to prove God doesn't want them EITHER.

[Sherman A1]

11. Ronald Reagan

And the end of the fairness doctrine.

[wryter2000]

21. OMG Reagan

Going back to when he was governor. "You've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."

We thought he was a joke.

[llmart]

12. Egads! That picture almost made me lose my lunch.

Two ugly, hateful, disgusting pigs. They belong together. Surprised they're not holding hands.

Rivaling one another to see whose gut can hang over their belt the farthest.

Ugh. Just ugh.

[Va Lefty]

13. Roger Ailes. Served as advisor to Nixon and McConnell's campaigns and created State TV

[TwilightZone]

14. Agreed.

He's pretty close to the top of the list.

[Generic Other]

15. Don't leave Pat Robertson out of this swamp

"Feminists want to murder their husbands and children, become lesbians and practice witchcraft." This should be carved on his grave so women can urinate on it.

[TeamPooka]

16. TweddleDumb and TweedleDumber

[eppur_se_muova]

19. Seriously. nt

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[jalan48]

18. The Waddling Twins.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. Follow the money - Rupert Murdoch. n/t

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[peggysue2]

22. Think you need to add . . .

Eye of the Newt to the list. Newt Gingrich was disrespectful in all things and certainly helped lower the standard.

[maxsolomon]

23. And we're losing to them and their ilk, year after year.

Neither has paid any price for their vileness, and it's likely they never will.

Such is our Great Nation.

[JHB]

24. Newt Gingrich was vandalizing public discourse when Trump was still...

...getting people to hand him money for casinos.

Newt practically built his congressional career on protecting the good people of Cobb County GA from the People's Republic of Escape From New York. He even sideswiped Reagan for being too soft with Gorbachev.

For at least the last four decades the only thing that comes out of this mouth that should be given the benefit of the doubt that it's for real is vomit.