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Gingrich: LGBT rights fight ‘one sided’ because Catholics are oppressed too
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Sunday said that the debate over rights for LGBT people was “one sided” because Catholics were also being oppressed. During a panel discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press about gay NBA player Jason Collins, Gingrich quickly tried to change the subject from equal…
Newt Gingrich joins entertainers, athletes as Google Glass ‘explorer’
Attention zoo and museumgoers: Newt Gingrich could soon be filming you without your knowledge. CNet reported on Saturday that Gingrich was among the nearly 3,900 winners of Google’s raffle to determine the first paying customers for its new “Google Glass” line of $1,500 eyeglasses. The company encouraged people to enter…
Gingrich and Santorum nearly mounted 2012 ‘Unity Ticket’ coup against Romney
For a brief moment in the 2012 campaign, former Speaker of the House Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) contemplated forming a “Unity Ticket” in an eleventh hour bid to scuttle the candidacy of former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) and perhaps seize the presidency. According to…
Fox News chief Roger Ailes: Obama is ‘lazy,’ Biden is ‘dumb’ and Gingrich is a ‘prick’
An author was recently given “unprecedented” access to Roger Ailes and came away with the Fox News president’s thoughts about a “lazy” President Barack Obama, a “dumb” Vice President Joe Biden and former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who he described as a “prick.” In an excerpt from the new…
American Atheist president blasts ‘horrible, bigoted, backwards, primitive’ Newt Gingrich
American Atheist president David Silverman said Monday that a series of billboards recently purchased by his group were meant to show non-believers why they needed to organize. “A lot of people say, ‘Well, why do I need to get involved? Why do we need an atheist movement?’” he said on…
How Congress became the boy who cried ‘Wolf!’ or: How I learned to stop worrying and hate the sequester
Do you even remember the first time Republicans threatened to shut down the government? (The first time, that is, since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich followed through on his promise in 1995 with disastrous political consequences?) Unless you’re a serious political junkie, you probably don’t remember (it was 2010, though, for the…
Scarborough whines: PAC fight is like when GOP ‘establishment worked against me’
The prospect of a Republican squabble over selecting future candidates struck a nerve with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Monday. “The question is, how do you sort through conservative people who are actually competent?,” he asked his “Morning Joe” panelists. “And I speak from knowledge because Newt Gingrich and the…
Gingrich: Calling an AR-15 an assault weapon is ‘lovely propaganda’
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says that AR-15 military-style rifles should not be banned and that it is just “lovely propaganda” to call them “assault weapons.” Following the introduction on Thursday of Sen. Diane Feinstein’s (D-CA) bill to ban assault weapons, CNN host Piers Morgan reminded Gingrich that Aurora…
Gingrich: Obama ‘potentially’ allowing Syria’s ‘virus’ to infect the U.S.
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says that President Barack Obama’s policies are allowing a “worldwide virus” of terrorism from places like North Africa and Syria to destabilize the planet and “potentially” infect Europe and the United States. Gingrich on Sunday told CNN’s Candy Crowley that a recent hostage crisis…
Gingrich: Obama bullying Republicans by refusing to cave on debt ceiling
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says that House Republicans can’t win a fight to cut spending by holding the debt ceiling hostage because President Barack Obama is “going out of his way to bully” them. “In the end it’s a threat they can’t sustain,” Gingrich told CBS on Tuesday.…
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