Gingrich Admits To Cheating On Wife While Touting Family Values During Clinton Impeachment
That settles it: Newt's made up his mind to run for president, or he wouldn't be spreading this little story of his soul's redemption around the national media, would he? (Kind of traditional for Republican candidates to take a quick run through the All-Purpose Drive-Thru Jesus-Lovin' Sin Washer!)
Setting the stage for his entry into the presidential race, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., gave a radio interview to be broadcast today with Focus on the Family's James Dobson, in which Gingrich for the first time publicly acknowledged cheating on his first and second wives.
"There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them," Gingrich said during the interview. "I look back on those as periods of weakness and periods that I'm not only not proud of, but I would deeply urge my children and grandchildren not to follow in my footsteps."
What, you mean asking for a divorce while your wife's recovering from cancer surgery, Newt? You mean there was something wrong with that?
Gingrich argued that the Clinton case was different from his personal transgressions.
"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," he said, arguing that Clinton had "deliberately committed perjury."
Because he had been through a divorce, Gingrich said, he knew the importance of telling the truth during a deposition.
"The standard is: In a court of law should somebody who's popular get away with perjury?" Gingrich said. "And I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept felonies and you cannot accept perjury in your highest officials."
Even though Bill Clinton did not commit perjury, and Gingrich knows it.
It's worth noting that Gingrich did not limit his comments about Clinton and the Democrats to legalistic allegations of perjury.
Constantly espousing family values even while he carried on an affair, Gingrich linked his party to wholesome family values and Democrats to, well, something else.
During the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Gingrich said, "Woody Allen having nonincest with a nondaughter to whom he was a nonfather because they were a nonfamily fits the Democratic platform perfectly."
In 1994, Gingrich linked Democrats to Susan Smith, a woman who had murdered her two children in 1991.
Even though it turned out she'd been molested by her stepfather, a South Carolina state GOP executive, of course.
"I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things," he said. "The only way you get change is to vote Republican."
I really hope Gingrich does run. Because there's a question I've wanted to ask him for years (Hill staffers are such gossips!): "Can you confirm or deny the allegations that, during the same period you were attacking Bill Clinton for adultery, you were serviced by your employee/mistress (soon to be Wife No. 3) in the front seat of your car while waiting in the parking lot of your kids's school?"
Because I've heard that story for years and inquiring minds want to know. I mean, that's some real family values, right there. Maybe we should call Ken Starr to look into it.
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Newt is the best they can come up with for '12?
Really?!?
reading about Newt being "serviced" by his "employee" makes my stomach turn.
...with Newt in office, maybe the "service" industry can make a comeback
a candidate for the loony bin. Yuck!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
that pink sweaty pig's ass all over ya?
no question about it. He' one of those people you just can't, or don't want to, imagine having sex. The fact he's a despicable human being to boot just ads to the gross out factor. To put my thoughts on Gingrich having sex for just 5 seconds makes me throw up in my mouth a little.
"There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them,"
Funny how no one ever makes the connection between these (the bolded).
.. praying not to get caught ..
Oh! Sky Daddy! Protect me from the Wrath of the Press!!
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
I meant the connection of praying to fix a problem. Which is the same as not doing anything.
but VERY sorry he got caught.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
We'll probably see an end to all US invasions of foreign lands and a dramatic reduction in the so-called Defense Budget before we'll see the end of dragging politician's sex lives into the political debate.
Granted, the "family values" crowd is just asking to have their every hypocrisy covered in the press, even televised, because they bring it on themselves.
*sigh*
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Do we NEED to start listing all the Republicans that were engaged in criminal behavior while Gingrich was Speaker? (starting with Tom Delay?)
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
Starting with Newt: Tom DeLay, Ralph E. Reed, Jr., Grover Norquist and Michael Scanlon , Henry Hyde, Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, Randy 'Duke' Cunningham--just to name a few, and more up to date Republican liars: John Ensign, David Vitter, Mark Sanderson--none of whom have had to answer legally or in the press for their transgressions. Why is it the press ALWAYS emphasizes Democrats who fall (Charlie Rangal, Maxine Waters)and totally ignores Republicans who do?
Liberal press, my ass.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
that Florida male intern diddler?
Oh, yeah....MARK FOLEY. Wow, he dropped from sight without a thud....I rest my case.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
> Do we NEED to start listing all the Republicans that
> were engaged in criminal behavior while Gingrich was
> Speaker? (starting with Tom Delay?)
Yes, we do! Because people have such very short memories, and the Republicans encourage forgetfulness. So let's have that list, and start circulating it.
He cheated on wife #1 (Jackie) with wife #2 (Marianne), and he cheated on Marianne with his current wife (Calista) who got her start ala Monica Lewinsky.
Redemption is fine, but don't use it to justify that you would make a good POTUS.
I don't think it would matter to Republican supporters , it would not phase them , they have a set of values applying to the opposition but when it comes to their own , those same values do not apply . They are cult members , brains shut down , they listen to Fox , Limbaugh and the rest , believe and repeat what they hear , incapable of using logic or reason , there is no getting through to them .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Someone asked "How could anyone name her child 'Newt'?"
So I searched Google Images and found this:
Mama Newt & Baby Newt
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
Awwwwww... kewt!
looks like a kitten taking refuge under a mom cat.
had cravings for fig newtons while pregnant.....these critters are too cute for HIM to be named after....after all, he is pretty doughy.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Newt , Biff , Mitt ... obviously son's of coal mine workers .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
The interview with Gingrich is from 2007.
Sorry. Ken's unavailable at this time. He's busy 'polishing his shoes.'
me-oww!
This was a good article -- well, except where it skips right over his deferment from going to Vietnam because of psoriasis!
http://www.nhgazette.com/display/?id=98
I'd love to read more biographies of these people; it's so fascinating (OK, morbidly fascinating) to me how they were raised to become the people they are now.
Ayn Rand used to have a column in her newsletter she called the "Horror File," which I still think is a great name for a regular feature somewhere -- much like Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World."
Biographies of Ken Starr, Newt Gingrich, and all the others like them would make a wonderful anthology...
One might also include the upbringings of sociopaths such as Ted Bundy, Adolf Hitler, et al., and show how similar they are to the youths of the neo-cons.
in 2008, I used consortium news, which mentioned he was totally pro Vietnam war, while dodging his duty to uphold his beliefs due to 'the heartbreak of psoriasis...I do like to change it up from time to time, but the Post while accepted as a 'legitimate news source' by many can be light on disparaging details.
me-oww!
Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics
Huffington Post article:
Four to five percent of the population is born without a capacity for empathy. It is a neurological lack. A psychopath may be a genius and become a multimillionaire, but he will never be able to understand empathetic values. In fact, because of the grandiosity of these personalities and consequent intense denial they have toward their shortcomings, they are arguably less capable of understanding empathy than a congenitally deaf person is of understanding music. Their minds are closed. Psychopaths treat the empathetic majority as the defective ones and seek relentlessly to remake the world in their own image, to proselytize their viewpoint and values and to "teach" their "defective" empathetic fellows to think like them.
Unfortunately, they can. A psychopath can never learn to think like an empathetic person. The functioning brain tissue is just not there. But people with a normal capacity for empathy can turn off that capacity and think like psychopaths.
To a certain extent, the empathetic do this as a matter of evolution. As studies of war, racism and genocide indicate, humans draw what Martha Stout called circles of empathy. They behave empathetically toward those in the circle and psychopathically toward those outside the circle. However, we are not hardwired for xenophobic violence like chimps. For us it is a function of learning and culture.
without a capacity for empathy.
And they are all Republican Representatives and Senators.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
The small minority incapable of empathy who also embody the traits you mention - egomanaical personalities, denial of their own flaws - often rise to positions of power in this society BECAUSE of their shortcomings and flaws. In an society that makes a religion out of capitalism those capable of empathy are expected to tolerate the excesses of those incapable of empathy in the way that an adult will tolerate bad behavior from someone elses child.
wouldn't recognize his previous marriages as marriages nor the offspring of those relationships as legitimate. If Newt's such a good Catholic now, why is he still talking to those little bastards?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
American Bastard Factory.
One of the entries suggests that Newt will be running in 2012 but not really expecting to win. Rather, he will be calling in lots of corporate favors, losing the primary race gracefully to someone like Mitt, then maneuvering himself (with all that corporate sponsorship) into the VP nomination. He wants to be like Cheney.
I shudder to think. 'Way a long time ago, maybe the late '70's when Newt was first running for office, he was put on a list of scariest politicians to watch out for, by Hustler or Penthouse or one of those sources.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
That's Rove's fleshy mug at the top.....anyone notice?
promoters of "Republican Values" these days.....and THAT says exactly what the party is all about..sleaze, excess, and hypocrisy.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
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The Sanctity of Marriage is for everyone else...
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
Fat chance. Not only is he an adulter, he resigned from congress in disgrace for ethical reasons. In the House banking scandal, Newt was shown to have bounced 22 checks. His background reads like a bag of sleeze and slime. One thing's for sure, there will never be a Presidentof these United States named Newt!
Woody McBreairty
Have you looked at the slate of candidates the Rethuglican/Tea Partiers have presented lately? Slime and stupidity seem to be the prominent attributes.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Q U E S T I O N:
Maybe Newt should be asked about his book signing gig back in 2008 where he thought it would be a good idea if George W. Bush would let terrorists attack America again just to "remind" us of the importance of being safe, please?
What kind of American thinks that letting terrorists attack America is a good thing worth lauding over and highlighting as an example of HOW he would handle running the Nation?
What cities would Newt like to see attacked? How many Americans must die?
Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
NEWT is aptly named.
He is nothing but a slimy salamander, trying to slither his way into national politics once again.
Seriously, if Newt or Miss Sarah get elected/appointed to any high office in this nation, I'll be on the first boat to some remote island....well, if there are any still above sea level.! #;{
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
hard to say.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
If this is supposed to change my opinion of this slimy prick it isn't working.
Contract ON America.
Newt is largely responsible for putting us where we are today.
me-oww!
This could be great! Newty could have Connie Chung as his press secretary. Hillary could re-up as Sec of State. Lorena Bobbitt could do Secret Service.
could overcome his (and his party's) disastrous "Contract ON America('s Middle Class)" that went so swimmingly well for only the wealthiest top 2%, let alone the disastrous 8 years under Dubya. I should qualify that by saying "except for that 29% die-hard knuckle-dragging sycophants". Of course, that's predicated upon the American voters growing a lot smarter regarding looking out for their best interests -- not a good bet, IMO.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
How I wish a rich Dem would start an investigation of Newts divorce trial transcripts.
Im pretty sure lies can be found..........
Lew
Fighting the Christian American Taliban daily.
He'll be running to lose.
What he wants is vice-president. His goal--as it has been since Bush was elected--is to become Dick Cheney. That's where the real power is. It's secret, and if you get on the right ticket, it's total.
Look for him to be selected the running mate--especially if it's Romney who gets the nomination--and look for his campaign debts to be retired by his rival's campaign.
He's got it all figured out.
I wish Jesse Ventura would run. He surprised a lot of people by being able to win up in Minnesota. He'd make for an interesting campaign and debate schedule. Peace. Draft Jesse.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If Newt knew anything about the bible and if James Dobson was a real religious minister instead a political minister, he would have set Newt straight that there are no level of sins in the bible. That two wrongs don't make a right and that Newts sins were not better than Clinton's sin.
These Republicans and their so-called religious leaders are a bunch the highly profiled HYPOCRITS. James Dobson is proving more and more that he is nothing more than a wolf in sheep's clothing. Why do all of these Republicans throw themselves in the same company as GOD...This absolutely shameful. Just like Newt calling Obama a Socialist. Jesus was the biggest socialist in History. Jesus had the rich and people that had to gather all of their possessions and share with each other and especially the poor and needy (Acts 2 and Matthew 6)and yet these Republicans continue to called Obama a socialist for wanting to tax the rich and share. DO NOT VOTE THE GREEDY SOULESS PEOPLE BACK IN OFFICE.
again Christian, never mind that he lies through his teeth every chance he gets
Newtie/Cutie 2012. The pseudointellectual arrogance of Newt, the elegantly coiffed incoherence of Palin, on the same doomsday ticket. The fundies won't vote for the "cultist" Mittster, but they loves them some Mamma Grizzly
But I think they would vote for Mittens IF he has a fundie-on-steroids behind him. That's where all the power would be in a Rethuglican administration anyway.
And it's something we have to think about countering from the get-go because the consequences would be tragic.
I wouldn't know about American family values
I never tried to buy and sell any...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I'm all for watching them shoot themselves in the foot.
I don't think Palin's running for squat. There's too much money to be made--and too much havoc and revenge to be wreaked--elsewhere.
My guess: #1 on the ticket will be Romney. Newt's gonna be #2--both for the big-business and defense contracting dollars he can attract and for his appeal to extreme social conservatives. They'll overlook anything in his past as long as he claims his conveniently new-found devotion to Jaysus.
to see those vicious smear merchants go after at others throats and tear each other apart in the Republican primary. Gingrich, Mittens, 9ui11iani and Bible Spice in particular. Get your popcorn ready!
It's all about the cash. He's a cash collecting whore who soaks the minimal section voters who hope he runs and collecting millions for himself. He harvests this crop of cash every election cycle.
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along with David Corn while they were discussing the blatant hypocrisy of the far Right Wing...but the guy bought up the fact the reason they 'get away with so much' is that "I was forgiven' crap. My hubby says he always like dating Catholic girls because they went to Confession the day after a Friday night date...
Now more than ever.
and walk the line, oh yeah. It sounds like a convicted murderer making the case to you that he really is innocent but all those other people in the joint are guilty as hell. And of course nobody tried to put him in front of a judge for plowing a furrow in the back 40 because no democrat was asinine enough to attempt to make a criminal case out his infidelity. Could someone pose to Newt the hypothetical question "What action should be taken if a sitting president issues numerous press passes to a male prostitute who uses an alias and has marginal journalist credentials?"
Divorce is great.
even most Republicans would not vote for this sleazebag.
This whole thing is a complete fraud that exists only in the corporate media propaganda machine.
Gingrich is such an obvious scumbag, that John Doe Republican in Nebraska or Kansas would never vote for this guy.
He outed an undercover CIA agent. He should be in jail now for the rest of his horrible life.
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