Gingrich Says ‘Work’ Is A ‘Strange, Distant Concept’ To Juan Williams

[demmiblue]

Source: Think Progress

Newt Gingrich launched a now-infamous tirade against moderator Juan Williams during Monday night’s GOP debate after Williams dared to ask him if he could understand why some African-Americans were offended by Gingrich’s obsession with food stamps and child labor. “No, I don’t see that,” Gingrich sneered back.

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Today, during a campaign stop in South Carolina, Gingrich recalled his exchange with Williams and used the same kind of suggestive language that Williams had objected to — this time directed at Williams himself:

GINGRICH: I had a very interesting dialogue Monday night in Myrtle Beach with Juan Williams about the idea of work, which seemed to Juan Williams to be a strange, distant concept.

Many pundits have seen racial undertones in Gingrich’s belittling of Williams during the debate. “That’s the way I like to spend my Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: watching Newt Gingrich sneer at Juan Williams, a black man, for having the temerity to ask him” a tough question, New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/20/408473/gingrich-says-work-is-a-strange-concept-to-juan-williams/

[Scuba]

1. When's the last time Newt lifted a finger? I'll bet he's NEVER cleaned a toilet.

[malaise]

4. He doesn't even comb his hair

His holy hairspray queen does that for him daily

[treestar]

2. I don't see Newt doing much real work

[hobbit709]

3. Newt knows as much about real work as he does about marital fidelity.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Newt's employing his favorite device of Freudian projection again.

[DCKit]

6. Racist, dog-whistle-blowing scumbag.

It's going to be a real pleasure watching that SOB crash and burn.

[spanone]

7. where is mr williams 'come back'? has he nothing to say after being chastised?

fuck newt the racist

[bigtree]

8. when was the last time Gingrich actually 'worked?'

what a joke

[yardwork]

9. Newt's blatant racism may win him the SC primary but it won't work nationwide.

[Mopar151]

10. I's like to see Newtie after a 10 hour day of real WORK

Like mowing his own damm lawn.......

[winstars]

11. Williams clearly doesn't identify with Mr. Tibbs slapping the shit out of the old white mans face

in "In The Heat Of The Night" I would not have thought so anyway...

[Maven]

12. Newt is a worthless piece of shit.

End of story.

[Raine]

13. Noot's a piece of racist shit.

[_ed_]

14. He just won South Carolina

Newt blew the dog whistle, the right people in South Carolina (the only place that's still racist enough to fly the fucking Confederate flag) heard him clearly. The "Southern Strategy" still works.