Media don't ask if Gingrich considered Reagan comment "intellectual nonsense"

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In reports on Newt Gingrich's June 8 speech to the Senate and House Republican campaign committees, CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley and CQ Politics' Jonathan Allen reported Gingrich's claim that "I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous." Both Crowley and Allen reported that the line was a jab at President Obama, but failed to report that former President Ronald Reagan made similar remarks. In a July 2008 speech in Berlin, Germany, Obama described himself as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world." In a June 17, 1982, speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Reagan similarly said, "I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world."

During the June 8 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Crowley reported that Gingrich was "on offense when it comes to the president" and aired Gingrich's claim that he is "not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous." Similarly, in a June 9 article on CQPolitics.com, Allen wrote of Gingrich: "On foreign policy, he attacked Obama for declaring himself a 'citizen of the world,' " and quoted Gingrich saying: "We must strengthen our unique American civilization. ... Let me be clear: I am not a citizen of the world."

http://mediamatters.org/research/200906090002

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1. That's the same line the Taliban and AlQeada and other fundamentalist extremist violent groups take.

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2. ?

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3. "I am not a citizen of the world; I am a citizen of (whatever the whacky fucks are into)"