Tucker Carlson anoints Newt Gingrich as 'soul of the GOP'; Fox's MacCallum compares him to Reagan
By David Neiwert Tuesday Jun 09, 2009 6:00pm
Tucker Carlson, appearing on Fox News today, drooled all over Newt Gingrich as the guy who's grabbed the Golden Ring of the leaderless Republican Party:
Carlson: Yeah, this is about who's going to lead the Republican Party, not simply who's going to be the chosen presidential candidate in '12. But who's gonna be the soul of the party?
And there are a bunch of different elements here. I think Sarah Palin's presence, as always, brings a lot of excitement, also a lot of drama. And so a lot of stories going into this were about whether she will arrive in the first place, or whether she'll show up, whether she'll talk. Probably not a good storyline for the GOP.
Newt Gingrich, looks to me, is emerging as, certainly the intellectual center of the Republican Party -- the smartest, most energetic guy, and I think last night, kind of, is -- part of the process is solidifying that. Newt Gingrich is, I believe, running for president, and he's certainly the guy people are looking to for ideas in the Republican Party.
The deisgnated Fox liberal, Peter Mirijanian, manages to sound a note of skepticism:
I have some issues with Gingrich. It's kind of like 'Back to the Future' with him. I don't know if he necessarily is the face they want to put forward.
Yeah, you could say that, since a large chunk of the country sees him as a lying, bomb-chucking little troll.
But the best part of the whole exchange comes when Martha MacCallum, the Fox host, compares Gingrich to Ronald Reagan:
MacCallum: You know, Tucker, you think back to Ronald Reagan, who sort of, you know, entertained the idea of running for president for some time, and then kind of, you know, made a comeback later on. Do you see Newt Gingrich having sort of a similar path? Do you think he wants to run?
Carlson: I think Gingrich does want to run. I think Reagan was a little bit differently positioned, perhaps, coming from having served as governor of California than Newt is.
Well, Reagan, never exactly made a "comeback" -- he just was forced to hold off on his presidential aspirations during Nixon's presidency, and immediately continued his ascension up GOP ranks thereafter.
But if you're talking about Republican political comebacks, why not mention the most famous of these: The Tricky One himself? After all, Gingrich's planned comeback from defeat and disgrace is much more reminiscent of that than anything Reagan achieved.
Hmmmm, maybe that isn't the image wants to be projecting.
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Joe Scarborough thinks he has the answer, and went o Hardball today to talk about the GOP getting back to things like states' rights.
The problem is, Joe is completely for states' rights.
Check out the hypocrisy in this clip.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=1692
Has Joe talked about his providing consel to an abortion doctor murderer pro bono yet?
This is the reason MSNBC's, MORNING JOE SHOW, on the day Dr. Tiller's death was
news everywhere but there. This show only mentioned it once for 3 seconds during a
3 hour on-air time slot.
If there had been any discussion, Joe's involvement with his pro bono work for a
murderer would have had to have been discussed.
Joe would NEVER allow his past be discussed on the air.
Which brings me back to Starbucks and corporate insanity.
Did the CEO look into Joe S. past before
signing on to partner with his show?
NO MORE, MORNING JOE!
NO MORE, STARBUCKS!
I went to Starbuck's on line Idea Site and mentioned Joe's involvement
with his pro-bono work.
My comment was respectful and factual.
It stayed online for only a short time.
Hmmm
for president... and it seemed like matthews is willing to go along...
but i couldn't watch it for long... gag.
Right where you belong. You made the grade. You finally found the place where you belong.
from a prep school who keeps getting swirlys and locked in his own locker? And this is done to him by girls.
Yeah, he DOES look like that!
And the type that reminds the teacher about homework before xmas vacation.
I HATED that kid!
Every time I think this little worm has crawled back under his rock, he rears his ugly little head again to spew more of his frivolous babble. This is easily the most repulsive little character to hit the talk show propaganda shows in ages. I simply cannot abide his high pitched shrill voice and rude confrontional way of speaking. It's a sad day when the so called "cable news programs" can't come with someone more palatable than this nauseating little geek.
carlson is such a smarmy little shit; how hilarious that he's reduced to kissing newt gingrich's ass on fox tv. lol.
Could have been Fatty Arseboil's posterior.
There is nothing the conservatives, neocons, Republicans or whatever they're calling themselves these days, Love More than Kissing one Another's Ass's. Yuck.
Then they accuse us Libs of worshipping "Teh One". gimme a break.
To quote that old-fashioned conservative, Charles Emerson Winchester, that is roughly the equivalent of being the finest ballerina in all of Galveston.
you're wicked funny!! That was delicious.
Tucker's comeback will be an epic fail - along with Newtie's and Miss Sarahs's
wonder if he can hook me up with his dealer - he obviously has some KILLER WEED!
If Newt "is the intellectual center of the Republican Party" then I say BRING IT
Newt is going to be a senile warmonger who will scare us with nuclear annihilation, run up more debt than all the other presidents' combined, & raise taxes every year he's in office?
Ignore AIDS, put flowers on Nazi graves, makes jokes about how everything's going to blow up in 10 minutes, have his wife consult psychics...
Those are two words that come to mind when I think of a soulful Gingrich driving the GOP's bus into the electoral future.
didn't Fox caused Tucker Carlson's family all types of problems by posting his phone and address years ago so his family could be harressed? WTH is he on Fox, then?
needs a job and Faux is affirmative action for incompetent, smarmy, dickwads like Carlson. Let bygones be bygones or else he's doing real estate infomercials.
who will say anything to be on tv
I hear this twit speaking (which is very briefly and very rarely) he reminds me of the Flintstone's pet Dino.
Tucker Carleson had a show on CNN... and LOST IT...
And he had a show on MSNBC... and LOST THAT ONE TOO.
Sad to say... Tucker doesn't have an intellectual center of his own. He talks so he can hear the sound of his own voice. Nothing meaningful or thought-provoking ever comes out.
You just described a whole lot of Republicans. From Rush to Newt to Hannity to Scarbourgh to Cheney to........too many to name.
If they're going to hitch their wagon to Newt, they're in a world of hurt.
That being said, There are enough stupid people to buy his bs to make him somewhat of a threat.
After all, this the GOP we're talkin about.
Newt? Palin?
I'd be more concerned about Crist.
Or Romney. Romney's not done yet. Plus, he has the money.
These rodeo clowns have more flashbacks then Timothy Leary
More like arsehole.
Tucker, do you know how much we on the Left would just LOVE Newt to be "the face of the GOP"?
tucker carlson is an ignominious horse turd. he was cast out of cnn by jon stewart and msnbc couldnt wait to get rid of him. he like the nutjob glenn beck has sunk to the bottom of the pile, talking only to a shrinking group of right wing nut morons who actually believe what they say.
in the same conversation much less sentence. If Neut is it, they are doomed to failure already.
Why couldn't Gingrich be the "soul of the GOP?" He's dishonest, greedy, and totally without any motives beyond seizing and holding power. That sounds like the GOP to me.
…(I love that word) that the Republican 2012 Presidential Campaign has already begun.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)
crash and burn hehehe
Sounds like the GOP
And Ari Fleischer said:
"Newt is a wonderful, fabulous dinner speaker, full of ideas and entertainment. But Newt is not going to be the next nominee of the Republican Party..."
Translation:
"Newt is great for background noise while people eat their rubber chicken, he is so full of crap. But he is also so last century"
Why does this little kid get a platform? If I want to watch children's television I'll put on Sesame Street.
clever boy.
Was a promise made of Newtie dumping his third or fourth wife, if and when same sex civil unions became legal there !?
Republican love ins, gotta laugh.
then he'll be considered hip and get mass acceptance.
Then launch the NewTech Gingrich Marketing Campaign.
Tweeting for America
and he'll be getting approving nods and snickers.
Carlson is the epitome of so called "news" today--an unqualified, zero-experienced, shouter of slogans for attention, little hack who brings nothing "news" but his own worthless (reread first part of sentence) hot air opinion. He got his job from daddy, who was a tv anchorman in LA (read: mindless voice) and who belonged to such political organizations as "friends of George 'macaca' allen" friends of Katherine Harris, Scooter Libby legal defense fund. All incestuous, "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" right wing nuttery houses that involve absolutely no thought or discourse but blind ideology.
Yes. Please bring back Newty, and have him run with crazy Palin. Just what the younger generation wants to see - the same assholes who destroyed their parents, and left their future in the shitter.
I think these rightwing baby boomer morons should stay in the spotlight as long as they can. Keep on talking about Ronny Raygun too. He's the guy that made corporate fascism cool, and started shipping all of our jobs overseas. Let's definitely remember what St. Ronny the Wingnut did for us.
has his big boy tie on.
Have absolutely no effect on 80% of voters, so this only helps us. These guys are doing a great job making clear that they have no place on mainstream America. They sound more and more like a bunch of rabid dogs that need to be quarantined because they keep forgeting that we live in a new technological world, where these videos are accessible with the move of a mouse. They have nowhere to hide.
And believe, I do not like him... I just can't see him watching Nancy get cancer and deciding then was a good time to give her the boot.
The moral high grounders, like Newt the Salamander, are pond sucking bottom feeders. I can't reconcile the extreme hypocrisy that's projected in their own life stories and the bullshit they espouse: from paganism taking over America to hating teh gay to determining what decisions a woman should make regarding her body.
I can't think of a single position or issue where I found even the tiniest bit in common with Reagan, but I'll have to admit that at least he always seemed like a nice enough guy. Should never have been elected dogcatcher, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.
Tucker - Even though you no longer wear one, you are still a twit in a bowtie.
the GOP hopes people are foolish enough to yearn for the disaster that was Reagan, in order to forget the catastrophe that was Bush. Is that what they are going for?
many of whom weren't born when The Gypper was in office and have little familiarity with him.
Yeah, good luck with that.
The Rethuglican dream ticket! A pasty faced good ole boy and the female George Bush. Tough to beat!
How can Newt be the soul of the Republican party? They have no Soul!!!
This is the man you think will be your salvation? A Republican who couldn't hold his seat in '90s Georgia?
The Republican trolls love to accuse the left of being "afraid" of Newt and Palin. How afraid? I will contribute to their primary run just for the opportunity for them to implode in the general.
newt does embody the soul of the republican party.
No honesty, no honor, no integrity, greedy, lying, amoral, sack of shit. No offense to shit intended.
tucker and the rest of these CONservative assholes don't know shit about running a government. Hell they don't even know what it is to be a thinking human being.
They are just crazy paid liars.
The whole lot of them.
It is a proven fact, republicanism is a mental illness.
Like Ron White say's you can't fix stupid! The republican party is a whole load of stupid on top of being crazy.
But the party is owned and operated of, for, and by, the corporations.
Just look at what these people are paid to tell the lies!
Another fine example of what our corporate owned government criminals get away with.
These people need to be tried and spend some jail time!
Under ethics rules passed in 2007, lobbyists for the first time last year had to report any payment made for an event or to a group connected to a lawmaker and other top federal officials.
USA TODAY undertook the first comprehensive analysis of the lobbying reports and found 2,759 payments, totaling $35.8 million, were made in 2008. The money went to honor 534 current and former lawmakers, almost 250 other federal officials and more than 100 groups, many of which count lawmakers among their members.
The total cost is roughly equivalent to what the U.S. government spends to operate Yellowstone National Park each year.
Most of the money — about $28 million — went to non-profit groups, some with direct ties to members of Congress. In two cases, USA TODAY found, the donations to non-profits associated with a member of Congress came in response to a personal appeal for funds from the lawmaker.
The donations cover various activities — from a golf tournament that raises money for a lawmaker's non-profit to gifts to the alma mater of a powerful House committee chairman.
"You can still have a gala or something or the other for a charity and earn some favor with members of Congress, which is what the gift ban was put in place to avoid," says Dan Danner, CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business and a veteran Washington lobbyist.
Here is a list of elected people taking payoffs to cheat the American people and the amounts of bribes being taken. This is just from health care and insurance.
It is mind boggling to think how much these people are taking from others!
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $4,026,933)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $2,833,731)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $2,758,468)
And when you just go right to Big Insurance, the non-presidential candidates who got the biggest legalized bribes were the 7 senators who have been tasked with the job of killing single-payer:
Ben Nelson (DLC-NE- $1,196,799)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $1,184,113)
Joe Lieberman (DLC- CT- $1,036,302)
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $1,035,530)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $981,400)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $929,207)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA- $884,724)
We need to investigate and prosecute these criminals now. Severe jail terms are in order for these criminals!
Yes, all the republicrats should be in jail for bribery. Can someone please take up the cause?
Excellent post! Opposition to the single-payer system is completely based on pay-to-play politics and not what is best for the American families. Shame on these criminals regardless of their party affiliation. A real wake up call to contact your congressman and express our outrage.
It's OK to compare Gingrich with Reagan.
Reagan was a corrupt salesman.
If the Dimwitted Dems hadn't gone along with it, Reagan might be better known for how he screwed everyone but the very very rich. We never recovered from the theft he helped engineer.
Why Obama has to keep kissing Reagan's ass is a mystery.
I guess he ain't as bright as they say.
The dems didn't bury Newt deep enough when they had their chance. This kind of shit always floats to the top. Cheney and Rumsfeld should have been buried forever, but no these guys keep coming back to cause more damage to the country.
right, Tucker...
Newt is ah.... interesting.
Sure hope he is the nominee
Haaa Haaaa Haaaaaa
"Newt Gingrich,...intellectual center of the Republican Party"
Says a lot!
Even though Obama is turning out to be Bush Lite and we will never see his promises fulfilled, especially on health care, The Dems should retain control by default if the GOP ticket is headed up by the Newt. It is just too pathetic how the majority Dems still show no indication of having any backbone. A third party is really going to have to emerge and rid this country of the present banking system, Federal Reserve and the cretins on Wall Street.
A friend was sending e mails to the White House and this is a reply to a reply he received (which are all generic responses), to wit:
"Dear David (David Axelrod),
Yeah, he gives great speeches. And I believed some of them during the campaign. Looking more and more like bushlite. Tell him we want him to keep his word, then we'll hope. Tell him to get congress to have a REAL investigation to find out the FACTS about 9/11, then we might begin to trust. Tell him to live up to real American principles, don't protect complicit Dems, put truth ahead of party, and prosecute all the war criminals, then we might begin to be free. Tell him this nation's people are strong enough to handle hearing the truth about how the CIA, NSA, etc. have created way too many of the "wars" of our past, then we might be able to believe that he was sincere with all his glittery, vote-getting talk about change."
Americans are starting to do their part in fixing the problems of this country...as they have no choice but to do so. We would now like to see our "leaders" step up and do their part. Like STOP these trumped up oil wars of terrorism and prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice etc. etc. etc.
ray gunn laid the basis for the S&L collapse with the Garn-St Germaine act, which also had an effect on our current banking meltdown due more though to the gramm-leach-bliley act over-throwing Glass-Steagall, so gramm could enrich himself and his buddies at the whiners expense.
Under ray gunn we had increasing homelessnes, racial and economic divides, and a budget busting first-time peacetime arms build-up.
Then he tries to take credit when the Soviet Union allows itself to collapse. If the Queen takes a dump, would he take credit for that too?
got his job from his daddy, a former newscaster, and member of such organizations as friends of Scooter Libby
Lies and bullshit is all that they have.
Newt is amazing in one way. He's a guy with no substance that carries the title of deep conservative thinker. What ideas has he ever brought to the table? He is a master of Luntz verbiage, and understands sound bytes as it relates to cable TV, but again I have never heard a real idea on any issue from him. I hope he is the face of the GOP, it will insure a century in the wilderness for them.
Is he interesting on any topic besides bitching about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?
When I think of them, I will post again.
Reagen was one of the worst presidents this nation has ever had. He was voted in based upon the same SUPERFICIAL PRE-QUALIFICATIONS as Arnold in CA. He is the father the the now proven failed "trickle down economic" strategy. I think Newt represents the GOP quite well... if you get my drift.
Newt has a ton of negatives yet he's now a statesman? Does america have a short memory or what? He steamrolled Clinton while preaching family values and cheating on his wife! I'm speechless that this hypocrite is given a forum.
they also continue to prove to be totally hypocritical when it comes to family values
videos being shown at the corner
pakistan blast
roof collapse
gop dinner
roflmao
Chuck it tuck; you ain't gonna develop a set of bodacious ta ta's.
If Newt is the soul of the GOP, what does that make Bowtie Boy?
The small intestines or the colon of the GOP?
The frenulum.
The epiglottus?
There you go. It's done. If that's all the old people have then they are bankrupt. They always drive into bankruptcy, and that means this is right for 2012. A bankrupt soul is more than dead. Now, add Palin and you have perfume on the corpse. Good show gop...you're dead.
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