'PART OF THE SICKNESS' - Newt Gingrich, Hypocrisy Pioneer

[DonViejo]

No politician has had a more malignant influence on the United States over the last 30 years.

MICHAEL TOMASKY
06.20.17 1:00 AM ET

I’m never sure these days whether to be outraged or bored by Newt Gingrich.

Outraged because he keeps spinning further and further out of control. Peddling the disgusting conspiracy theory that former DNC staffer Seth Rich was rubbed out by Democratic operatives. Peddling the hilarious conspiracy theory that some Democratic-led deep state is trying to bring down Donald Trump (James Comey, he recently told Sean Hannity, is “part of the sickness”). Going on Fox about four hours after the shooting of Steve Scalise and the others last week and blaming not just Bernie Sanders but the entire Democratic Party and all of liberalism for James Hodgkinson’s actions; and then, when a Fox host—a Fox host!—asked him if the Republicans should “rise above” rancor, bellowing at her, “No!” Ever since the shooting he’s been a vending machine of hate and hypocrisy.

Or bored, because dumping this kind of toxic waste on our political system has been what he’s done for most of his adult lifetime? The Gingrich of the past week who takes great umbrage at the idea that anyone could object to his linking Kathy Griffin and Shakespeare in the Park to the Democrats to Hodgkinson is the same Gingrich who back in 1994 blamed a woman drowning her two sons on the Democratic Party.

Okay, maybe not quite that directly. It happened right before the election that year, when Susan Smith drowned her little boys, and then sent authorities off on a several-day chase for some black assailants who did not in fact exist before the gendarmes got to the truth. Gingrich essentially called the killings emblematic of the moral rot that had consumed America under Bill Clinton and said: “The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.”

When it turned out that Smith, far from being raised in a hippie commune with posters of George McGovern and Madalyn Murray O’Hair on the wall, was reared by a stepfather who sexually molested her and who was a local leader in the Christian Coalition, I don’t recall Gingrich having much to say about that.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/newt-gingrich-hypocrisy-pioneer

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Frustrated, outraged white racist conservatives who cant stand

for one second to think brown people have equality.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Newt has always been one of the very worst GOPers.

The article didn't mention the details how personally dishonest and corrupt he is. While he was bloviating about Bill Clinton's escapades with Monica Lewinsky he was having an extramarital affair of his own. He was the guy who shut down the government for more than three weeks because he was miffed about having to use the back door of AF1 (which didn't actually even happen). When he was Speaker he was reprimanded by the House for ethics violations (he claimed tax-exempt status for a college course he ran for political purposes), and had to pay back $300,000 for the cost of the investigation. He notified his first wife he was divorcing her while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer; he then married the woman he was having an affair with - but then he started having another affair with the woman who is his current wife (the new ambassador to the Vatican).

Why any woman would f*ck Newt, who looks like an evil Pillsbury Doughboy and has the personality of Trump but with a better vocabulary, is beyond me. But the point is that his hypocrisy really is unbounded. I've hated his guts since the '90s and he's even worse now.

[3catwoman3]

4. "Ever since the shooting hes been a vending machine of hate and hypocrisy."

He has been that way forever.