Gingrich was for talking to dictators before he was against it
By John Amato Wednesday Apr 22, 2009 5:45am
The Teabagger King attacked President Obama because he actually shook hands with Hugo Chavez and tried to make into an international ordeal except only his teabagging compatriots bought into his lies. ABC News did a little digging and found this on Newt's own website.
On NBC's "Today" show this morning, Gingrich criticized what he called a "weakness" in the emerging Obama foreign policy, saying that the pictures of Obama and Chavez will be used to demonstrate that Obama is "friends" with an anti-American regime.
Asked specifically about whether there's a value to having a diplomatic relationship with an enemy, like the US did with the Soviet Union and China during the Cold War, Gingrich said:"We didn't rush over, smile and greet Russian dictators. We understood who they were. I'm not against him talking to Chavez. But I think you ought to talk to Chavez in a cold and distant way."
But Gingrich sounded a bit different about the potential political value of laughter when talking about his political idol, Ronald Reagan.
As recounted in a recent interview highlighted on Gingrich's own Web site, Gingrich fondly recalled the way that Reagan shared jokes with Mikhail Gorbachev.
In the interview, Gingrich refers to a favorite picture with himself and the late president: "One of the most memorable [moments] is actually a picture hanging on the wall of my family room. The two of us are on Air Force One. We're both in shirtsleeves. We both have our arms crossed and we're laughing. We're laughing because Reagan has told another joke. Reagan collected jokes, particularly about the Soviet Union."
Gingrich recalled a joke about "the man who tells a reporter, 'I have as much freedom in the Soviet Union as I have in Washington.' The reporter says, 'What do you mean?' He says, 'Well, I can get up in front of the Kremlin and I can say that Ronald Reagan is doing a terrible job. And I can get in front of the White House and say Ronald Reagan is doing a terrible job. See, I'm totally free.' . . . . Reagan told those stories to Gorbachev."
You almost have to admire the lies he's willing to tell just to get his teabagger party all hot and bothered.
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Suck on it Gingrich, you pathetic old schwance!
Vas ist dis? Late life vocabulary growth. Ich ben ein itchy. And Scratchy.
Well, at least the meaning was clear, lol!
... because that will really win people over.
Newt, you're an idiot.
I'm sure he treats his lesbian sister that way too.
Family gatherings must be fun at the Gingrich home.
while she was recovering from breast cancer at the hospital.
Clearly "cold and distant" is Gingrich speciality, I am sure he sees nothing wrong with being an asshole to other people openly.
He treats women really well, doesn't he.
Cold? He fondly grasped her hand to make sure she accepted service of the papers.
Why is it a conservative can hold a debate with himself
And lose?
each of them knows less than the other.
put a conservative in a round room and tell them to piss in the corner.
... pissed around in the Oval Office enough for a long while.
I agree 100%
Let them be in the Oval Office only as visitors for as long as possible.
You hear about the conservative who died from taking a milk bath?
The cow slipped on the soap.
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Did you hear about the conservative who died from smoking?
He was smoking on top of a tall building and threw the wrong butt off.
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A conservative was in a store digging away inside his nose. A clerk asked him, "Can I help you?"
The conservative answered, "No thanks, I just about got it now."
Thanks, ysb!
A conservative, his mother, a ten year old kid, and Santa Claus are walking down the street. They see a $100 dollar bill lying on the ground. Who gets it?
Answer: The conservative. Santa Claus doesn't exist, so he doesn't have a chance. And the conservative, seeing an opportunity to get his hands on $100, punches the ten year old in the face and pushes his mother in front of a speeding car. By default, the conservative is the only one left, so he gets the money.
a) fail to report it as income
b) reports it but call Rush's show to complain that paying tax on it represents a stifling of creativity.
yeah and sooner or later they will find a democrat licking up the overflow, aint faschisim grand?
..Yep, he will.
...negative to harp about. A Goddamned liar and lifetime hypocrite...just ask his three ex-wives.
before our resident pissypants finds something to whine about.
If the slack-jowled slop bucket had bothered to watch the video of Obama's encounter with Chavez he would have seen Hugo rushing over to the President and hand him a book-- not the other way around. But, then again, in Neo-Con Land up is down, black is white and Obama is wrong.. always.
So wouldn't that mean Obama's white?
Kinda like the old Star Trek episode about racism, with Frank Gorshin playing a being who is black on the left side and white on the right, and the downtrodden minority is white on the left side and black on the right. In Neo-Con Land being half black means being ALL black, while being half white means nothing at all.
Wasn't that also a Tabitha plot on Bewitched?
I don't recall that one. I was too busy wondering what was so wrong with Samantha that both Darren's were gay. I think that she was a Fag Hag.
wasn't gay.
Dick Sargent, on of the twin girls that played young Tabitha, Paul Lynde (Arthur), the actor that played Maurice, and possibly Agnes Moorehead. Nothing was "wrong", as you so nicely put it, with Samantha.
... that they agreed to talk about improving relations, and shook hands on it.
Just more ammunition against the lying Reslug if he trys a run against Prez. Obama. He doesn't have a chance in HELL because he is a constant habitual liar on the Reslug channel Faux Noise.
... in exactly the same sense that the thrice-married serial adulterer is a defender of "traditional marriage."
I'm a Ron Paul-variety libertarian conservative, and I think Obama is doing the right thing by trying to open lines of communication with traditionally hostile governments. (I do wish he'd re-arrange his priorities on Cuba just a bit; he should end the embargo immediately and feel free to condemn the treatment of political prisoners, rather than doing the reverse.)
It makes no sense at all to refuse to talk with people, unless one's idea of diplomacy is to cultivate problems where they don't exist and exacerbate those we're already aware of, which seems to be the approach favored by the post-Duhbya GOP.
To Reagan's credit, he recognized that the Soviet Union was in retreat and moved to capitalize on that historic development in a peaceful fashion. (The nasty business of funding insurrections in Nicaragua and Afghanistan don't reflect nearly as well on him, especially the latter, of course.) I was very suspicious of Gorbachev at the time, and it's a blessing to realize that I was wrong.
Though I never really considered him a dictator.
proof positive that all Reslugs are terminally stupid. As long as the electricity stays on and the video tapes are kept dry, it shouldn't be too hard to eliminate him as a viable candidate for anything, should he choose to run.
Hah! that just made me chuckle - the image in my mind of Newt running - in his fancy sneakers and boxers.....
Please, please run for potus in 2012. And bring that pillar intelligence Sarah Palin with you.
run with Miss Sarah - he hates women!!! Can you say misogynist??!
I used to confuse potus with potash
Which I thought was
Pot with Hashish.
That explains alot.
ha
You could say it effected my DNA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPk1-UjHKQ
Then what the hell have I been smokin all these years?
worry though. It's not a dream. Obama is President and the republicans are epic failures.
I was worried there for a minute! lol
Two wealthy Repubs are sitting in a restaurant, one of them being the owner.
The owner turns to his guest and says, "See? I'm doing my part to help the economy, I just opened up three new jobs in my restaurant."
Just as the two get finished toasting each other's success, the busboy comes by to clear off their dishes and says, "I know, I have all three of them."
Cut the rope...
How do you keep a con from drowning?
Take your foot off of his head...
Conservative family values:
"Mommy, mommy, I don't like hamburger!"
"Shut up and put your other hand in the meat grinder."
Little Moran jokes.
What about the use of Little Moron jokes?
Why did President Clinton name his dog Buddy instead of Spot?
Because he didn't want people running around the White House saying, ''come...
You guys are killing me!
...Gorbachev was not a brown person. I mean, it's one thing to talk to a dictator, but to a brown dictator?? No way!
I knew I remembered this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NyvYwfZR38&fe...
Question--why should you always take two Republicans fishing with you?
If you take only one, he'll smoke all your pot, but if you take two, they won't smoke any.
No you didn't!
Cuz it is soo true
and yes, it's QFT!
Better yet, why fish in the first fromming place?
Fishing is zen!
even if you don't catch anything besides a buzz, it's still fun!
This is way funny. Richard Pryor as the first black president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_cdbByTeNE&fe...
Isn't that Robin Williams in the back as a cameraman?
Probably:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075567/
The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV
(updated below - Update II)
The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Barstow uncovered. Here is how the Pulitzer Committee described Barstow's exposés:
http://digg.com/d1pGAo
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Uh newtie...?
You know we have much faster recording devices than your jazzed up cuneiform stone tablet carvers now.
A Democrat only fucks one person at a time, Republicans fuck up entire countries.
Wouldn't that make larry craig an independent?
Larry Moran jokes.
Ah...to hell with it...
I removed the link...
Sometimes...it don't pay to roll outta bed.
proves anything about Newt and the Republican stand on invading CITGO self service stations?
He just called out Bush on his bullshit. Everyone needs a friend who will do that.
chavez aint likely to let this bunch of nazi thugs back into his country ,hes to smart for the everyday bush obama crowd, hell a mountain gorrilas to smart for some crowds , does he trust a warmonger for the corporations ? not on your rosey red arse! gingrich as i said befores irevellent , mccains the same just a bunch of punching bags to keep the key board commandos riled up!
Ah yes, St. Ronald Of The Deficit was perfect in wingnuts' eyes. He could have blown Pinochet and Gorbachev on top of the Sears Tower and they would have applauded.
But when Obama talks to someone? Forget it. Horrible liberal who's trying to destroy the country.
forget the party line obamas a far sighted politician , his aim is the goal of all american presidents get a foot hold into all of south america and then rape and exploit its resources, just another in the long line of dictators determined to enslave the masses!
Republicans find it easy to lie as most Americans believe what their told. McCain twisted history and now Newt is doing the same. Look you can't blame these guys look how successful Bush and Cheney were for two terms. Americans believed Bush's lies so much they put him in office twice. Yes now we know he lied for 8 years but it fooled the American people. Some are even still looking for the WMD's and Mushroom Cloud. Now many Americans who have read or live in much of US History, know the truth. Obama did shake the hand of Chavez but so did Nixon/Mao, Kennedy/Khrushchev and Reagan/Gorbachev. We also have photos of Rummy/Saddam smiling and shaking hands and of course Dick Cheney recruited a young Bin Laden to help the US in the 80's. Newt knows people will believe what he says because he was once Speaker of the House and his famous Contract with America that Americans knew nothing about. Will Americans allow another idiot to get in the Oval Office. If so why not put John Boehner the drunk there he thinks Cow gas is the cause of Global Warming and if not him then Eric Cantor and Britney has his VP.
everytime I see Newt Gingrich on TV, I want to go take a shower..until ALL the hot water runs out!
Shake the hand man. We all know "the devil comes in the name of a man numbered six, three-score and six"....Right, Christians?
Yeah, Gingrich sounds like my "tired old uncle". He screwed up. He got me overtaxed. He let people like Ronald666WilsonReagan come in and steal this country and screw it up with Bush. They say they are "the greatest generation ever" but, they let too much happen. Now, they don't want diplomacy (told you he is a TIRED old man...last gasp crap) but the respect comes when the respect is due.
Cheney,Bush, Gingrich,Rove,Rumsfelt,Rice all are planning another attack,again, on this country to gain control. Another, tired old man waving a flag. No real love for America. Like I asked my uncle:"Why do you invest in off shore accounts ?", his answer is to not pay taxes.
He and the rest of this damn generation are the ones that put" I'm spending my childrens inheritance" on their RV's. And really, they support the Jap's (they buy Jap cars) but they say all 12 of them(that's all it took, no country here with an illegal bomb) dropped the ATOMIC BOMB AND WON THE WAR ON HIROSHIMA. Not religious! Not patriotic! Cheat on Taxes (I have to pay...the one's they made) and they are nothing but: TIRED OLD MEN...DRAFT THEIR ASS AND SEND THEM TO IRAQ...THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO DO.
Shake the hand man. They did with Gorbachev. But they betrayed us. This is for us. We have to clean up what they did.
Old Man Down The Road
....Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Clinton all had relationships with our "enemies".
Conservatives, like Rush, who think that Obama is the scary blackman out to get them and THEIR country. That is why, to them, it looks like he's cozying up to Chavez. However, the other 4 listed above are having proper diplomatic relations.
I doubt we would have heard as much of a fuss, if say, it had been Biden or (any democrat white male). It's the racism that they don't see in themselves.
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