Gingrich Says Democrats ‘Have To Take Some Moral Responsibility’ For Far-Right Death Threats

[underpants]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/26/gingrich-democrats-responsibility-terrorism/

GINGRICH: Just as there was no place for the kind of viciousness against Bush and Cheney, there’s no place for viciousness against Democrats. I would condemn any kind of activity that involves that kind of personal threat. But look, I think there’s something very disingenuous about the Democratic leaders who attacked the tea party movement, who refused to hold town hall meetings, who refused to go back home, who kept the Congress locked up in Washington, and are now shocked that people are angry. I think the Democratic leadership has to take some moral responsibility for having behaved with such arrogance, in such a hostile way, that the American people are deeply upset. So let’s be honest with this. This is a game that they’re playing. People should not engage in personal threats. I’m happy to condemn any effort to engage in personal threats. But I think the Democratic leadership has to take some real responsibility for having run a machine that used corrupt tactics, that bought votes, that bullied people, and as a result has enraged much of the American people. And I think it’d be nice for President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Majority Leader Reid to take some responsibility over what their actions have done to this country.

Audio is at link

[Solly Mack]

1. He's really asking the Democrats to apologize for existing.

Much like the tea baggers want everyone not like them to apologize for existing and ruining their "way of life"

[eShirl]

2. Why doesn't your party take some responsibility for once, Newt, you smarmy fat f^

sleazebag extraordinaire

[LiberalLoner]

3. Unbelievable. I hope so much we defeat them this next coming election and

eventually drive pretty much all the Republicans out.

[BeFree]

15. 'Twould be nice, eh?

Ya think we Dems can put aside our differences for a few weeks, come together and run all the pubbies out of office?

[ananda]

4. As long as Dems act like abuse victims..

.. and keep trying be like Reeps..

.. well, Reeps will continue abusive tactics
and bullying.

[tom_paine]

5. Ah, the old "Jews responsible for Nazi attacks on them" strategy

Some things never change, they just shed their snakeskin and readapt to the time and nation they wish to re-infect with their RW Authoritarianism.

[Raksha]

21. EXACTLY!!! Tea party = pogrom = Krystallnacht

I just now made that connection and hope to write about it more extensively later on, elaborating on the analogy.

[w8liftinglady]

6. yeah,newt-when you take responsibility for these:

http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm

[Bucky]

7. Ah-ha, it's the old "Bitch was askin' for it" defense

Newt's a classic.

[spanone]

8. what else would a partisan hack say?

[Politicub]

9. Fuck you GOP - I refuse to be your battered spouse

Is this for real? Apologizing to the abuser?

[chill_wind]

26. +1000

[City Lights]

10. Slither back under your rock, newt.

You're a liar, your breath stinks, and you have no business lecturing the Democrats on moral responsibility.

You are a sick joke and a complete waste of oxygen.

[Urban Prairie]

11. "the American people are deeply upset"

I despise how Republicans and conservative pundits use Americans in an all-inclusive manner, as if all agree with them. I suppose that anyone who doesn't is then in placed in the "Bachmann" category...suspected of being an anti-American who should be investigated, exposed, arrested, convicted, and imprisoned.

[will_in_chicago]

30. The tactics of the GOP

These tactics remind me of some great quotes about false patriotism, as found on Bartelby.com


[br />Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON.—James Boswell, Life of Johnson, entry for Friday, April 7, 1775, p. 615 (1970).

“In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.”—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, at entry for patriotism, The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, p. 323 (1946, reprinted 1973).

H. L. Mencken added this to Johnson’s dictum: “But there is something even worse: it is the first, last, and middle range of fools.”—The World, New York City, November 7, 1926, p. 3E.

[coti]

12. That's pretty gross. nt

[geckosfeet]

13. ging-grinch is simply insane

[socialist_n_TN]

14. As a couple of other posters have noted.......................

This is classic "blame the victim" strategy. "The bitch was asking for it." "She made me hit her." "She shouldn't have worn that short skirt. She was asking to be raped." I think that this attitude exposes the psychological underpinning of the entire right wing attitude.

[Rex]

16. Oh Newty Newt Newt, STFU and go away no one cares about

your flaccid brainstem anymore. Why not just jump off a cliff and do the world a favor?

[area51]

17. Rilly, Gingrich?

C'mon, take responsibility and credit for your crappy, pro-corporate, for-profit, healthcare bill, it's your GingrichCare, you must be a very proud papa.

[Enrique]

18. impeach Obama!

think of the children!

[G_j]

19. and African Americans bear some resonsibility too!

for being the the wrong color.

:sarcasm:

Newt, you are a pig.

[TwilightGardener]

20. And nobody knows moral responsibility like Newt Gingrich.

:crazy:

[laughingliberal]

22. Yeah? Gingrich can bite me. While we're at it, can the WH quit sending him out on tour with Arne?

WTF are we doing making this RW asshole part of the education reforms of a Democratic administration?

[spanone]

23. why, newt? tell me why? your party is the teaparty of hate, don't shit on democrats.

[Catshrink]

24. WTF is wrong with him?

[OnionPatch]

25. Our opposition to unjust wars that kill millions is just the same

as their opposition to health care that helps millions, yeah, Newt. :eyes:

[saracat]

27. Boy they make everything work to their advantage! Flipping blame on the victims!

This is positive proof of what they are and it isn't pretty! This is why there is no such thing as bipartisanship. Memo to the WH "pay attention! These are NOT your friends"

[upi402]

28. propaganda tactic #32

blame the enemy for exactly what you are doing, or plan to do. Use this especially if you get caught doing it publicly.

[Onceuponalife]

29. What's the difference between what he's saying and Ward Churchill's

"chickens coming home to roost" comment after 9/11? Churchill was excoriated for those comments....when will the FBI be paying Newtie a visit?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

31. Whatever he said, it's a lie. Newt, you're a piece of shit.

For almost 20 years now, he's proven hiself to be nothing else. No need to read what he said.

[underpants]

32. Newt 2012!!!

Oh PuuuhLEASE make it so GOP Please!!!

[Naturalist111]

33. Huh did someone say something?

Oh I thought not.