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Scarborough: ‘Screw’ GOP if I’m booted for defending mosque
White House claims politics played no role in Obama’s mosque remarks At least two prominent Republicans are going against the bulk of their party to say that Muslims have every right to build an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. Monday morning, conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough found himself agreeing…
Stewart: Gingrich wants US to descend to Saudi Arabia’s standards of tolerance
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart on Tuesday took on Newt Gingrich for the tenor of his opposition to the Mosque slated to be built near Ground Zero in New York City. Gingrich weeks ago argued that the Mosque shouldn’t be considered until Saudi Arabia warms up to Christianity. “I don’t want…
Gingrich: Roosevelt would have attacked Iran, N. Korea
In a speech Thursday before the conservative American Enterprise Institute, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich charged that the United States had failed to take George W. Bush’s 2002 “axis of evil” speech seriously when it ignored the opportunity to attack Iran and North Korea following the invasion of…
Gingrich blames Obama administration for his attack on Sherrod
Newt Gingrich says the White House is at fault for his mistakenly calling Shirley Sherrod “viciously racist.” “Was that irresponsible, calling her viciously racist based on an Internet clip that had been taken out of context?” Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked the former House speaker Sunday. “No. I was operating…
Gingrich calls for Obama to withdraw Kagan nomination
There will be no need for the Senate to waste their time interviewing President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court if Newt Gingrich has his way. Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked Gingrich Sunday what he thought of the nomination of Elena Kagan. “I think the president should withdraw it,”…
Gingrich: Tea Party will become ‘militant wing’ of GOP
Former President Bill Clinton got into trouble with conservatives after he compared today’s political climate with the climate preceding the Oklahoma City bombing. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seems to be having a moment of his own: in a little-noticed appearance Wednesday, he suggested that the Tea Party will become…
Oops: Going for an insult, Gingrich unwittingly calls Obama a Nazi-fighter
President Obama is a man of the people, bravely working against a tyrannical dictatorship to help throw off the chains of Nazi oppression … And that’s according to former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who mistakenly called Obama a Nazi fighter while trying to hang a thread of…
Shh: Politico poll predicting Coakley demise conducted by ex-Gingrich aide
The “exclusive” poll conducted for Politico which predicted the demise of Massachusetts Democrat Martha Coakley was conducted by a former staffer for ex-Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich — a fact they seem to have buried in their story. “No bias there,” noted John Aravosis, the prominent liberal blogger who highlighted…
Olbermann: ‘Seedy’ GOP politicians show terrorists how to sow havoc
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) was widely condemned by liberals last week after he sent out a fundraising letter which used the failed Christmas Day airplane bombing to promote his campaign for governor of Michigan. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has come in for his share of criticism as well since…
Gingrich openly says let’s ‘profile’ and ‘actively discriminate’
WASHINGTON — Another prominent Republican has joined the chorus of conservatives championing open discrimination against Muslims after the failed Christmas terror plot. In an op-ed published Wednesday for the conservative magazine Human Events, former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich forcefully slammed the Obama administration’s counter-terrorism policies as insufficient and said…
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