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NEWT GINGRICH’S mind is in love with itself. It has persuaded itself that it is brilliant when it is merely promiscuous. This is not a serious mind. Gingrich is not, to put it mildly, a systematic thinker. His mind is a jumble, an amateurish mess lacking impulse control. He plays air guitar with ideas, producing air ideas. He ejaculates concepts, notions and theories that are as inconsistent as his behavior. He didn’t get whiplash being a serial adulterer while impeaching another serial adulterer, a lobbyist for Freddie Mac while attacking Freddie Mac, a self-professed fiscal conservative with a whopping Tiffany’s credit line, and an anti-Communist Army brat who supported the Vietnam War but dodged it.
“Part of the question I had to ask myself,” he said in a 1985 Wall Street Journal piece about war wimps, “was what difference I would have made.”
Newt swims easily in a sea of duality and byzantine ideas that don’t add up. As The Washington Post reported on Friday, an America under President Gingrich would have two Social Security systems — “one old, one new, running side by side” — two tax systems and two versions of Medicare. Consider his confusion of views on colonialism. In the 1971 Ph.D. dissertation he wrote at Tulane University, titled “Belgian Education Policy in the Congo 1945-1960,” he is anti-anticolonialism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/dowd-out-of-africa-and-into-iowa.html?src=me&ref=general
Note: December 3, 2011
Are you a news man or just a partisan shill Vendor?
Quoting Maureen Dowd is about as one sided as you get. You might as well quote Michael Moore. :nope:
Are you a news man or just a partisan shill Vendor?
Quoting Maureen Dowd is about as one sided as you get. You might as well quote Michael Moore. :nope: I am independent...btw, I am far from a Newsman one can get.
I am independent...btw, I am far from a Newsman one can get.
You ought to get Neal to change your avatar title then! :DL
Penguin
12-05-11, 01:38 PM
Well, it's not prohibited to post op-pieces here and the fact that Gingrich is a backwards-leaning, hypocrite fratboy is probably news to some people :O:
However I am biased as hell, as I like Maureen Dowd for her looks and her sharp tongue. :yep:
Well, it's not prohibited to post op-pieces here and the fact that Gingrich is a backwards-leaning, hypocrite fratboy is probably news to some people :O:
However I am biased as hell, as I like Maureen Dowd for her looks and her sharp tongue. :yep: "Sharp tongue"....have you tasted it, :O:
Penguin
12-05-11, 01:55 PM
"Sharp tongue"....have you tasted it, :O:
She's dangerously close to my age limit, but I would :smug: (if I were single)
And I really like her style of writing, I like the fact that she doesn't solely attack the Republicans but also others.
She's dangerously close to my age limit, but I would :smug: (if I were single)
And I really like her style of writing, I like the fact that she doesn't solely attack the Republicans but also others. She look like little red hair....but if you were single you could probably get an intercourse, :arrgh!:
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/8794/meanmaureendowd.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/607/meanmaureendowd.jpg/)
soopaman2
12-05-11, 02:11 PM
Dowd writes too many man-hating articles for my taste. I take her as an undercover lesbian feminist, not that it is bad, but when you can use something as powerful (paper of record) as the NY times as a pulpit it can only invoke division and not unity, as she pretends to want.
I am kinda with August here. Outside of Frank Rich, the times editorials are left leaning. Though sometimes they are true, they still have a bias.
The rest of the NY times is the best journalism you can find, just avoid the editorials!:DL
Take it from someone who gets it delivered to his house.
As for Newt, he is the most viable of the candidates, but is getting eaten by his own. Even his own Fox news cronies are smacking him, they want Mitt.
I loved Newts views on foreign aid. Fox hated it, it went against the status quo. Our military contractors got butthurt.
Well...I know her taste and I say,there are those who are better and worse,but I like the magazine in its entirety....but of course it can produce less good material, absolute, :yep:
soopaman2
12-05-11, 02:34 PM
Well...I know her taste and I say,there are those who are better and worse,but I like the magazine in its entirety....but of course it can produce less good material, absolute, :yep:
Times is very good Vendor. In print it has some of the most hard hitting and raw pictures on the front page, and it avoids the "tabloid type, yellow journalism" that the NYpost, and NY daily news gives you.
No 10 page spread of "random actresses" dresses at some irrelavant awards show in the Times.
Just beware of the editorials.
Yeah Krugman can make sense sometimes, Dowd can make you chuckle. But they serve an interest, the interest that signs thier checks. Just as Fox news editorial shows serve theirs on the other end of the spectrum.
Clear mind and objectivity would save this (my) country from being an joke and a bully.
But most will go for internal strife, and eating our own.:down:
Times is very good Vendor. In print it has some of the most hard hitting and raw pictures on the front page, and it avoids the "tabloid type, yellow journalism" that the NYpost, and NY daily news gives you.
No 10 page spread of "random actresses" dresses at some irrelavant awards show in the Times.
Just beware of the editorials.
Yeah Krugman can make sense sometimes, Dowd can make you chuckle. But they serve an interest, the interest that signs thier checks. Just as Fox news editorial shows serve theirs on the other end of the spectrum.
Clear mind and objectivity would save this (my) country from being an joke and a bully.
But most will go for internal strife, and eating our own.:down: Yes,you get points.
frau kaleun
12-05-11, 02:46 PM
Dowd writes too many man-hating articles for my taste. I take her as an undercover lesbian feminist
That's funny because from what I remember most of the avowedly feminist bloggers I used to read regularly didn't seem to like her that much either. :haha:
soopaman2
12-05-11, 02:52 PM
That's funny because from what I remember most of the avowedly feminist bloggers I used to read regularly didn't seem to like her that much either. :haha:
Please don't take my post the wrong way Frau Kapitan.
It is just hard to catch the male attention in journalism when 2 articles out of 4 a month seem to trash them for something most of us testicle bearing gentleman can't help.
I don't want to seem like a misogynist. I love girls. They smell nice, and make me happy.:D
frau kaleun
12-05-11, 03:00 PM
Please don't take my post the wrong way Frau Kapitan.
It is just hard to catch the male attention in journalism when 2 articles out of 4 a month seem to trash them for something most of us testicle bearing gentleman can't help.
I don't want to seem like a misogynist. I love girls. They smell nice, and make me happy.:D
No, not taking it the wrong way at all. :DL
A lot of what gets pushed by mainstream media as "feminist" or "written by/for women" isn't particularly feminist at all, because it exists primarily to sell copies and make a profit and therefore either goes overboard to one extreme or the other in order to create controversy, or else falls pretty much in line with the status quo which means it only serves to perpetuate the same old tired sex/gender stereotypes.
Then So, why waste your time, Frau Kapitan can perhaps learn a little anti-feminist talk to you ... and I'm sure she smells good, :arrgh!:
AVGWarhawk
12-05-11, 03:01 PM
So what did she say about Newt? :hmmm:
frau kaleun
12-05-11, 03:03 PM
I don't know if Vendor's been eating too many Wheaties lately or what, but he sure is mighty frisky these days. :haha:
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/263/episode002.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/episode002.jpg/)
soopaman2
12-05-11, 03:19 PM
No, not taking it the wrong way at all. :DL
A lot of what gets pushed by mainstream media as "feminist" or "written by/for women" isn't particularly feminist at all, because it exists primarily to sell copies and make a profit and therefore either goes overboard to one extreme or the other in order to create controversy, or else falls pretty much in line with the status quo which means it only serves to perpetuate the same old tired sex/gender stereotypes.
More about eye catching headlines, and using division (nationalism, racism, sexism etc) to create opposing vicious dialogue, rather than saying it like it is.
If you look closely at some media outlets you will see they only serve to turn us against each other.
Example? Watch the response to this:D
Tea Party is born from the womb of Koch industries. Soros funded the OWS movement.
Hold on kids!
More about eye catching headlines, and using division (nationalism, racism, sexism etc) to create opposing vicious dialogue, rather than saying it like it is.
If you look closely at some media outlets you will see they only serve to turn us against each other.
Example? Watch the response to this:D
Tea Party is born from the womb of Koch industries. Soros funded the OWS movement.
Hold on kids! You use the wrong method to make it an effect on FK ..... read GWX manual first, :haha:
Penguin
12-05-11, 04:01 PM
Dowd writes too many man-hating articles for my taste. I take her as an undercover lesbian feminist, not that it is bad, but when you can use something as powerful (paper of record) as the NY times as a pulpit it can only invoke division and not unity, as she pretends to want.
I am kinda with August here. Outside of Frank Rich, the times editorials are left leaning. Though sometimes they are true, they still have a bias.
The rest of the NY times is the best journalism you can find, just avoid the editorials!:DL
Take it from someone who gets it delivered to his house.
man-hating != feminist != lesbian
I fear no woman with a strong opinion, but I can't stand prejudices on grounds of sex either, against both sexes.
You probably read more op-pieces by Down than me, but I couldn't find much from her that lets me fear for my balls.
And calling Al Gore "feminized and diversified and ecologically correct that he's practically lactating" doesn't sound too feminist/PC to me :O:
A lot of what gets pushed by mainstream media as "feminist" or "written by/for women" isn't particularly feminist at all, because it exists primarily to sell copies and make a profit and therefore either goes overboard to one extreme or the other in order to create controversy, or else falls pretty much in line with the status quo which means it only serves to perpetuate the same old tired sex/gender stereotypes.
The same goes the other way around, for example Ann Coulter follows the same path, just with opposite colors. Bimbo statements for provocation, profit and press.
soopaman2
12-05-11, 04:16 PM
man-hating != feminist != lesbian
No sir, just the mood she exudes from her pieces.
I do not want nor deserve that stigma.:timeout:
Coulter has an adams apple larger than me, she can trash men all she wants, she is one.:O:
Coulter has an adams apple larger than me
That would make yours so small as to be non existent... :DL
soopaman2
12-05-11, 04:39 PM
That would make yours so small as to be non existent... :DL
I am a skinny fella, I will admit. 5 foot 10, 160 soaking wet. But uhhh... :D
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7673/adamapple.jpg
Wow.
Sad because it is one of the few pics of her that she is good looking in. Maybe it is because she lacks an angry face in this particular pic.
I am a skinny fella, I will admit. 5 foot 10, 160 soaking wet. But uhhh... :D
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/7673/adamapple.jpg
Wow.
Sad because it is one of the few pics of her that she is good looking in. Maybe it is because she lacks an angry face in this particular pic. I can see that you are good to the girls' :DL
Bilge_Rat
12-05-11, 05:03 PM
Anyway, back to the main point, How long before Newt self-destructs? I give him 2 weeks. :|\\
Jimbuna
12-05-11, 05:54 PM
Even more so :DL
soopaman2
12-05-11, 06:04 PM
Anyway, back to the main point, How long before Newt self-destructs? I give him 2 weeks. :|\\
It is kinda sad, because I like Newt, but he isn't getting the attention. He isn't far right enough to appeal to the crazies.
His views on foreign aid won me. None until you prove you deserve it. Meaning Bin Laden hiding Pakistan would be SOL. (India, nuke them please?) *AHEM* Pardon me.
Why do people like Cain and Bachmann get more attention than serious candidates like Newt?
Because the establishment wants a passive (easily controlled) type like Mitt to win. (go ahead, accuse me of wearing a tinfoil hat)
Jimbuna
12-05-11, 06:06 PM
You ought to get Neal to change your avatar title then! :DL
God protect us :DL
You ought to get Neal to change your avatar title then! :DL It will be that way, :yep:
Jimbuna
12-05-11, 07:02 PM
Looks like a game of tennis to me :doh:
Looks like a game of tennis to me :doh:Tennis lesson is over for good.
Jimbuna
12-05-11, 07:18 PM
Tennis lesson is over for good.
I doubt it :03:
I doubt it :03: You have only one way to go, if you want the tennis back...:sunny:
Jimbuna
12-05-11, 07:25 PM
A return ticket :zzz:
A return ticket :zzz: A pm....the first-mentioned can be helpful to have so ya don't need a lift, :smug:
Jimbuna
12-05-11, 07:35 PM
http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img104/2807/icontennisyk3.gif
Is this your answer, you know what I mean....ya are sharp Jim on the same wavelength as me ...:06:
http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img104/2807/icontennisyk3.gif You lost again, sorry :roll:
Bilge_Rat
12-06-11, 09:03 AM
Why do people like Cain and Bachmann get more attention than serious candidates like Newt?
Because the establishment wants a passive (easily controlled) type like Mitt to win. (go ahead, accuse me of wearing a tinfoil hat)
I would say it is more a conflict between say "realists" and "purists". It is a conflict inherent in any political party, but probably more acute now in the GOP, namely, do you pick a candidate who most represents your views or one who is most likely to win?
Gingrich may be closer to what da "Base" is looking for, but is a long shot against Obama.
Romney probably has a better chance to win the election, but is too moderate for da "Base".....plus he's a MORMON! :o
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