Newt Gingrich tried to take a page out of Sarah Palin's playbook and took to the waters for a photo-op.
However, a fisherman ripped him.
The House speaker went down to a New Hampshire river yesterday with a horde of reporters in tow some say to test the waters for a possible presidential bid to chat up some anglers.
But Gingrich had hardly waved hello when a feisty fisherman named Tim Kipp ruined the Republican's photo opportunity.
"Your politics are some of the meanest politics I have ever heard," Kipp shouted as he stood waist-deep in the Androscoggin River. "You make Calvin Coolidge look like a liberal."
Gingrich appeared stunned, but recovered slightly and told Kipp: "Despite our political differences, good luck today."
But Kipp was just warming up.
"This guy is the most meanspirited, vicious politician we have seen in a long, long time," Kipp told the reporters.
"The water we are fishing in right now will be destroyed by his policies."
Gingrich later tried to shrug off the encounter with Kipp, a high school teacher from Brattleboro, Vt.
Yet the outing wasn't a total bust. Gingrich realized his dream of seeing a few moose.
Wow, Kipp understands the policies that Newt holds near and dear to his heart. I wonder if Newt was walking around with a fishing rod in his hand?
(correction: This came from a 1995 article. I forgot to make that distinction after seeing Palin do her fisherman photo-op. It's been along couple of weeks.)
The "regular folks" that the GOP flim-flam operatives usually dupe are disappearing faster than the fish in the sea.
And, YES, Newt is vile and disgusting...and more people are calling these fools out - I love it!
EVERY politician should have to face Americans and hear what they have to say. They've certainly taken that practice off their list of public encounters for the last 3-4 decades.
we can't have more canned City Hall Q&A sessions?
why is this story here now?
might be a good idea to take it down, make room for something newer?
It's a great story, that's why its posted. Also, there is plenty of room for other stories, if you have a suggestion.
but john's set up is VERY misleading:
Newt Gingrich tried to take a page out of Sarah Palin's playbook and took to the waters for a photo-op.
However, a fisherman ripped him.
there was no "Sarah Palin's playbook" in 1995...
that story should have been dated, up front, somehow...
just sayin'...
I agree. This post, while entertaining, is very misleading. The article was in the NYT back in 1995. Amato's post makes it sound like it just happened.
If we don't want to be smeared by the same dishonesty that consumes those on the right, then we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.
How about the [Urban Dictionary 2009](Palined)
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There seems to be a correlation?
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
or the [Hindsight is 20/20: The Ultimate Optical Illusion]?
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
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Amended: In hindsight that is :)
Study the symptoms not the virus...
November 08, 2008 By Robert Novak
Snip - In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years?
To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House.
[ http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/200... ]
"A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it."
--Mark Twain
Study the symptoms not the virus...
just army boots.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
....but next time cut him up and use him for bait
Cue the Kabuki....
fishermen want to use bait that will catch fish, not something that will cause them to spit the hook.
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with a New Englander! Score one for the Kipper.
Neo-cons and neo-liberals rejoice, the quasi progressives cannot seem to quite figure out that you are really one and the same.
As for destruction of the ecology, who needs Republicans when the Democrats can do it by themselves.
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And to top off the confusion, this incident seems to have occurred in June of 1995.
Oh well, never mind much, just throw it out there…
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s&fe...
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
and done well...
:D
me-oww!
I should have amended that with an apology to you know who.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Sorry, I've been having some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0O9p8GCM1Q
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Lucky it wasn't a dildoe.
Learned spelling from dan quayle?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
In all seriousness, did this not happen to Newt before? Maybe it had happened to Cheney.
Never mind, this occurred in '95. I should have clicked on the link.
I can tell - it's gonna be a GOOD day . . . .
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LOL. Good on Mr. Kipp.
Although I dunno if kids used that word 14 freaking years AGO!
He should have heeded the travel alert when venturing outside Fox Nation.
I'm tellin ya, he and I would tell off everyone, given half a chance.
I just tore a strip off some assholes laughing at the mentally ill guy in our neighbourhood. Up close and personal, as in I cleaned somebody's grill.
That's what we're here for.
me-oww!
Good on ya' Miss Kitty.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Dang, no footage of that, I guess. Wish I could've been there!
Seeking Moose, the Speaker Gets Hooked
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: Monday, June 12, 1995
Speaker Newt Gingrich came to New Hampshire to see a moose, but he got hooked first by a fly fisherman.
Before he met President Clinton in Claremont this afternoon, Mr. Gingrich donned a pair of jeans and a plaid shirt and cruised the drizzly dawn for moose along the Androscoggin River here in northwestern New Hampshire.
But the other, 48-year-old Tim Kipp, with a full white beard, a camouflage shirt and a hat, announced that, like the Speaker, he was a history teacher too, for 22 years in Brattleboro, Vt. Then he yelled from the safety of his watery perch: "Your politics are some of the meanest politics I've ever heard. You make Calvin Coolidge look like a liberal!"
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/12/us/seeking-...
I'm confused. The articled was dated Monday, June 12th 1995.
what with all the positives coming from the Dem leadership.
... high school teacher from Brattleboro, Vt.
you are a treasure!
i hope the brattleboro citizens know it!
thank you!
He really is a treasure. A web search shows him to be quite active in child-labor issues. And he and one of his classes got Bernie Sanders to find $380,000 for a new school in Guatemala; the Vermont legislature commended them for that.
Let's draft him for some kind of public office!
Snip - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.
[ http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0... ]
In case it matters... Wed Mar 5, 2008 4:36am
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This story is so 20th century. What's Newtie up to these days?
Mr. 'Ethical' will tell you.
http://newt.org/
Barf bags at the ready. Even the free content is sick-making.
me-oww!
I was under the impression that a parent that named their kid Blanket was screwed in the head. Apparently, so are those parents that name their kid Newt.
The story took place in 1995. Thanks, though, because seriously, I've been looking for an account of this incident in print. A friend told me about it back in the day, and I always thought it was a great illustration of a politician trying to exploit "the common man," and it backfiring.
Jeez, this happened three wives ago.
Best comment yet!
Maybe we can forget about Joe the Plumber now, and promote Tim the Fisherman?
Piss Off Joe the Plumber. We need more sound bites from Kipp the fisherman.
Cool....let's do it. Nothing bugs a Republican more than someone who can think.
ljmel
Shades of Joe The Plumber....of course, I doubt that the right-wing media will play this up like it did the Joe-Obama encounter. And, of course, I'm sure that "our Tim" is about 20 times more knowledgeable and intelligent than "their Joe".
But it's always nice to see Gingrich get slapped around verbally....
Nice one!
EDIT: But I do have to add that the DATE of the incident should have been mentioned. The way it is, it's very misleading, because it makes it sound like this JUST HAPPENED. But it happened almost FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.
That's not particularly honest.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Neither do over 2/3 of all Americans. Get over yourself, you self centered hack. Reality just slapped you in your arrogant face. Funny how you get just what you deserve!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Yet the outing wasn't a total bust. Gingrich realized his dream of seeing a few moose.
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Shouldn't that be meeses?
And the bust was sarah's.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Too bad one didn't eat him.
Newt? More like a Toady.
GOP green environmental policy:
Destroy the planet so they can line their pockets with green.
Joe the Plumber (R) v. Tim the Fisherman (D)
Story is old. That being said, I love it anyway.Isn't Battleboro VT ( the only state Bush never went to his entire presidency) the town that voted to have Bush and Cheney arrested on sight?
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