Gingrich blames Democrats for rising tide of threats, violence

[sabra]

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution

At a press conference this morning in Buckhead, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich was asked about the acts of violence directed at the offices of Democratic congressmen and the threats of violence and death directed at their persons.

At first, Gingrich was blunt in his condemnation, saying there was no place for it in American politics. “I oppose anybody using vile language, making threats,” he said. “The right way in America, if you disagree, is to win an election.”

However, when Gingrich was asked whether GOP leaders ought to speak out against the violence, he brushed the suggestion aside and in fact blamed Democrats for bringing it upon themselves.

“I think there’s something very disingenuous with the Democrat leaders who attack the Tea Party movement, who refuse to hold town hall meetings, who refuse to go back home, who kept the Congress locked up in Washington, and are now shocked that people are angry,” Gingrich said. “I think the Democratic leadership has to take some real responsibility (for choosing) to use corrupt tactics that bought votes, that bullied people and as a result has enraged much of the American people. And I think it would be nice for President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid to take SOME responsibility for what THEIR actions have done to this country.”

Read more: http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/03/25/gingrich-blames-democrats-for-rising-tide-of-threats-violence/

[driver8]

1. It is always someone else's fault, isn't it?

Some things never change.

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[Kingofalldems]

30. Oh brother

Classic!

[No Elephants]

31. What incident a couple of years ago? Got a link? The only one I remember

a couple of years ago was a RW looney toon who cut her own cheek in a mirror and therefore got the letters backwards.

Nothing is wrong with deem and pass. Republicans used it 100 timnes under Gingrich. Or was it Delay?

"There's now a Republican claiming to be shot at."

So? Any proof that it happened? Any proof that a Dem did it? Anybody can claim anything.

P.S. What does any of what you wrote in your post have to do with Newt's refusal to condemn things like death threats?

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[Wapsie B]

2. It must've taken all of 5 minutes for the gop spin-meisters to come up with that talking point.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Gingrich loves to blame victims

:boring:

[villager]

4. When your base is Nazi Brown Shirts, you can't actually "break" with them

thus, the "modern" GOP will stay in bed with these thugs, until the end.

Key question: What will "the end" look like?

[NJmaverick]

5. words can no begin to describe the anger I feel towards this evil little man

:grr:

[begin_within]

6. What about the army of radio commentators constantly instilling fear and hatred in them?

[arbusto_baboso]

7. Sounds like an abusive husband. "I wuz wrong to beat you honey, but....

if you didn't make me so dang mad, I wouldn't have to do it."

Riiiiiight. Tell me again why anyone listens to this sack of liquid pig excrement in human form?

[JBoy]

12. good analogy.

[prolesunited]

23. Or the rape victim

or the child abuse victim -- or your brother when you were about 7 or 8.

"Johnny, don't hit your brother."
"But, Mom, he made me," Johnny insists in a loud whine. He looked at me funny."

[hedgehog]

42. Sounds like a Pulitzer cartoon idea there!

[arbusto_baboso]

45. Unfortunately, I can't draw worth a crap. But I give permission...

to anyone who wants to take that idea and run with it to do so.

[lbrtbell]

53. I like that

"Sack of liquid pig excrement." And Limbaugh is a HUGE "sack of liquid pig excrement."

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[Warpy]

8. It must be wonderful to lead such a blameless life

to be able to abandon successive wives and families with no conscience, to have your ideas tried and fail and think they were simply not tried long enough, to think your colleagues are also leading blameless lives.

Gingrich is rapidly turning himself into a caricature.

[rocktivity]

9. Candidate for this year's "You call this NEWS?" Award

Newt Gingrich speaking out against corruption is like Madonna speaking out against sexual harrasment.

:boring:
rocktivity

[liberalmuse]

10. Typical.

These sorts also tend to blame rape victims for wearing too short of a skirt - or for having the audacity of being simply female.

Republicans have finally crossed the line. I've detested them for a couple decades now (since the Clinton Impeachment nonsense), but I am no longer guilt-ridden for detesting them. It's like a badge of honor now.

[Shining Jack]

14. "to blame rape victims for wearing too short of a skirt..."

I was about to type something similar.Bunch of pigs.:(

[RKP5637]

11. I would have expected no less out of a piece like Gingrich. n/t

[flakey_foont]

13. only one word comes to mind

ASSHOLE!!!

[eShirl]

15. Of course he says that. he's one of the GOP astroturfers who got the Tea ball rolling.

[Zenlitened]

16. Gingrich has lost his touch, and a new generation of skillful liars...

... has rendered him a has-been.

Give it up Newt.

You were the number-one sociopathic shit-heel for quite a while in the 90's, but now you can't keep up with the younger, meaner, sicker Spin Pathologists you helped to breed.

You still suck, yes. But now you even suck at sucking.

[SpiralHawk]

32. "We suck at sucking." - Slogan for Republicon Chickenhawk Cabal

[No Elephants]

33. Gingrich had a touch?

[Matariki]

17. "..blamed Democrats for bringing it upon themselves"

:mad:

So, they've dragged out Gingrich to call 'day' 'night'. They really must be worried about how this is making them look.

Never apologize. Blame the other side of exactly the thing you're guilty of. Then sit back and watch them sputter impotently trying to deal with the illogic bomb you just tossed.

[Zenlitened]

24. Exactly. It's a TECHNIQUE they use, not merely an over-the-top comment.

... Never apologize. Blame the other side of exactly the thing you're guilty of. Then sit back and watch them sputter impotently trying to deal with the illogic bomb you just tossed.

That's how sociopaths and psychopaths operate.

[husky92]

18. He Cannot Be Serious

Leave it to this ass to come up with this theory. You mean to tell me the Republicans never did any of this stuff like bullying people and corrupt tactics. That was their modus operandi on a lot of stuff. Again, he blames everyone else except his own party and those lunatic Tea Partiers. You are totally out of it!

[Matariki]

29. He's using a technique to change the discussion.

Gingrich is the man who used to send out lists of words for Republicans to use or avoid. Him and his NLP crap.

Of course he's not serious about *what* he's saying. He's deadly serious about trying to turn this back onto the Democrats.

[City Lights]

19. How completely predictable.

Fuck you, newt.

[Warren Stupidity]

20. And there it is: we are to blame for their inciting violence against us.

How long did that take?

But for sure any thread suggesting that REPUBLICANS ARE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS would be a bad thing.

[deutsey]

21. What an ass.

So if someone who didn't like how he was doing things were to come up and roundhouse kick him to the head, he'd be cool with that?

[get the red out]

22. What he means is.....

If Democrats do not come out to a designated area for our Fox News mobilized rabble to shoot them then the rabble will have to come find them to shoot them. It's the Democrats fault because they could have gotten this over and just been shot a long time ago so America could be restored.

:sarcasm:

[benld74]

25. GOP taken Gingrich outa mothballs to speak for them,,

using the same shit he did back in 94 when his COntract with America worked so wonderfully for them.

[Robbie88]

26. Ah, the party of "personal responsbility" is at it again...

Newt, the members of YOUR party and its various media mouthpieces have spent a decent part of the last year ranting and raving about "death panels", claiming that health insurance legislation would "destroy America", and in some cases, comparing President Obama to people such as Hitler and Mao. So, Newt, please remind me again exactly how your party is not responsible for these recent threats and incidents of vandalism?

[Dogtown]

27. Despicable n/t

[No Elephants]

34. Why does the media treat him as though he's still relevant?

[Plucketeer]

38. Good question

Of course, they refuse to let Reagan die too!

[Cha]

51. Because that's what mediawhores do..they get the

most vile gops out of mothballs and give them print or the mediawhores give them face time..see tom delay, mary matalin, etc.

[eugoreht]

55. sad to think it but

i think a small part of it is that the medfia think gringrinch is a moderate level headed Repube at least compared to the new R leaders. So they go to him hoping for a semi-sane statement. But as has been said, he's trying to retain that old school style of shit dumping while trying to revamp and keep up with the new republipathic psychos of today's political disaster rodeo.

[fatbuckel]

35. Let`s see...who else does violence to someone that does`nt agree with them?

[fascisthunter]

37. like I said... the GOP collectively orchestrated this shit....

and now as usual, the sociopath in them tries to project responsibility... always blame the victim. That's a sociopath.

[Plucketeer]

39. GingGrinch

Taking the art of assholery to asstounding, new heights!

[Denninmi]

40. The Nazis used to do the same thing....

... blame the Jews for violent acts against them during the period from 1933 to around 1940.

Not that I'm surprised such a thing would come out of his mouth.

[hedgehog]

41. Yeah - those women and blacks make such good targets....

if they were paunchy old white guys they'd blend in better....

[Odin2005]

43. What happened to personal responsibility, Newt?

[DemoTex]

44. Gingrich: The GOP's go-to guy for revisionist history.

Nothing like having a former history professor (West Georgia College, Carollton, Ga.) to re-write history for you!

[BreweryYardRat]

46. Damn, that's bad even for the Newt.

Gingrich needs to stick to co-writing alternate history and keep his trap shut.

[eyepaddle]

47. Well, Newt being Newt, I'd be afraid if he said anything DIFFERENT from this--what

with all of the climate change implications of hell freezing over and what have you. He may be an amoral, power-crazed charlatan, but he is an amoral, power-crazed charlatan with GUSTO.

[JustAnotherGen]

48. He's such a tool

Really. He's a tool. Don't care about his "education tour" with Rev. Al Sharpton. A tool is still a tool.

[depakid]

49. Typical sociopath- blame the victims

[Cha]

50. Of course the whining wimp wouldn't blame a damn

teabagger for nothing..they might turn on him. Never takes responsibility for anything.

[muntrv]

52. Newt, you've been irrelevant ever since you tried to shut down the fed. govt. in 1995

and blame it on the Big Dawg. Epic fail, that was.

[dogfacedboy]

54. Newt--go f'ck yourself. You're a nobody. Get used to it!

[eugoreht]

56. if only

It'd be nice if Gringrinch believed the repube's lies and would lay in bed shaking every night scared that he's going to be one of the first to be "processed" when the death panels are up and running.

[Hekate]

57. DH read this over my shoulder and said, "Her skirt was too short..." As for me Newt can kiss my rosy

... pink butt.

I don't know about you young'uns, but I remember Newt and his Contract On America all too clearly.

Hekate

[Javaman]

58. This is newty speak for...

"if the Dems had only acted more like repukes, there wouldn't have
been any problems".

newt, as well all know, is a self aggrandizing jackass.