Gingrich: Obama is engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior"

[cleanhippie]

Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D'Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview.

Gingrich says that D'Souza has made a "stunning insight" into Obama's behavior -- the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama."

"What if is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together ?" Gingrich asks. "That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior."

"This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president," Gingrich tells us.

"I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating -- none of which was true," Gingrich continues. "In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest."



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Is this Gingrich's "jumping the shark" moment?

[ck4829]

1. Hey Newt, remember that one country that waged a revolution against their colonial masters?

That sinful and socialist countr... Oh wait, that was US!

[blondeatlast]

2. "Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D'Souza," That's all I needed to read. And Newt never

had a shark to jump in the first place.

[Nite Owl]

3. He's jumped something

and he's out of the realm of sanity now.

[saltpoint]

4. "Anti-colonial" ??

God, Newt, get your head out of your patoot, would you?

It's the colonial impulse that has prompted such distrust and contempt for our country around the world. If Barack Obama -- or anybody else -- is "anti-colonial," that's to the better.

It's important to get along with our neighbors across the world. The planet is a lot smaller now than it was in "colonial" times.

[July]

47. I'd bet any amount of money that he's counting on idiots who don't know what "colonial" means.

For the Teabagger types, that means something like "American, at the time of the Revolution," and calls to mind Colonial Williamsburg.

It's sailing right over their heads that the American Revolution could be described as "anti-colonial."

And Newt's hoping they buy the "born in Kenya, anti-American" intimation.

[saltpoint]

59. I think that's a good take on events, July.

Newt is one slimey little eel, isn't he?

Good god.

[malaise]

5. What a fucking fool

Where would Obama have learned that since he didn't grow up with his father?

Tell Gingrich to go and find a new wife - he's better at that.

[Raven]

6. "Brithers/Racists unite! I'm your last great white hope and I'm

much smarter that you are because I can throw around terms like "Kenyan anti-colonial worldview" and you don't have a clue what that means."

The man is a shameless philanderer.

[marmar]

7. Of course Newt and that POS D'Souza would see colonialism as something to celebrate......

..... but what exactly is a "Kenyan" world view?

[soleiri]

46. I think a Kenyan world view might be

don't invade our country and steal our resources.

Yeah, I think I might have a Kenyan world view, too.

[lunatica]

Newt keeps insulting Americans' intelligence

But then it's a dead giveaway that someone is stupid when they think they're smarter than everyone else. Dead giveaway.

[cleanhippie]

17. Its unfortunate that so many AMericans have very little intelligence to insult.

I am always amazed at how easy it is to find people that support and agree with him.

[mfcorey1]

8. Really odd, since he has lived in the United States for the majority of his life. Gingrich displays

a southern Georgia confederacy mindset and that can be read in all that he does.

[pinboy3niner]

9. "Fundamentally out of touch" describes Newt to a T! nt

[prolesunited]

10. What he's really saying:

Look, there's an non-American n*gg*r in the White House!

Somebody really needs to call him on this shit. Between that and his 911 video, I find his actions irresponsible and completely repulsive. It's people like him that are driving the wedge in this country deeper and deeper and ratcheting up the violence.

[kiranon]

55. Agree. Gingrich is speaking in code. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

11. Somebody please explain to me....

Before I came to DU this morning, I was reading a piece that mentioned "the disgraced John Edwards." Can somebody explain to me why nobody refers to this scum-sucking slimebag, Gingrich, as "disgraced"? He cheated on his cancer-stricken wife, just as Edwards did. Edwards was condemned and his political career ended over it. Meanwhile, here's Gingrich, more than a decade later, and everyone is hanging on his every word. They're even suggesting that this putrid creature stands a chance at becoming President. And, he never got anywhere near the condemnation Edwards got, let alone having his political career terminated over it. Nor did Diaper Dave Vitter or John Ensing. WTF?????

Oh, wait. IOIYAAR. Never mind.

P.S. Please let this be his "jumping the shark" moment.

[HughBeaumont]

34. + 1,000

You can be a disgrace to the country, your wife, your family, yourself and humanity, but no one will call you on it if you're a Republican. Your life will go on and, in some cases, get far, far BETTER. ONLY if you're a Democrat will your life be over. ONLY.

Funny how that works.

[Heywood J]

38. +1 for this comment.

Newt did the same thing, but never got near the same response.

[WinkyDink]

44. It's the whole "baby" thing.

[soleiri]

48. exactly

also Gary Hart, who is 100x more intelligent than Newt will ever be. Why don't we see him on these shows?

[uponit7771]

51. +1

[blondeatlast]

54. Word, wordity, word, word, WORD! nt

[athenasatanjesus]

67. Liberal media bias

Newts a liberal right??

[Mimosa]

12. Please Lord, why don't bad things happen to bad people?

Newt Gingrich is one reason I believe justice demands there be punishment in the afterlife.

[Redstone]

13. Why the fuck does ANYONE care what Newt says?

I'm just curious.

Redstone

[cleanhippie]

15. Because the ignorant sheep listen to him, and then vote. Thats why.

I do not like it any more than you do, but thats the way it is.

[Overseas]

24. He can talk in complete sentences. Supposed to be one of the smarter ones.

Distinguished Party Leader among the Greedy Obstructionist Plutocrats.

Going Extreme among the right wing PR machinery's new construct of extreme right "genuine grass roots" movements.

Updating his GOPac memo Language: A Key Mechanism of Control http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

[C_U_L8R]

14. Newt... Obama won fair and square

In fact he kicked your spiteful repube asses...
so get over it.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. Gingrich has become so predictable and banal.

Just a bunch of RW code words strung together.

[cleanhippie]

19. But it seems to be a very effective dog whistle

Gets the ignorant ones fired up.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

18. 'What projection: 'to achieve the position he needed to achieve...he was authentically dishonest'

I'll never forget what Gingrich said about children who would be removed from their mothers by mid-'90s 'welfare reform': "They can go to an ORPHANAGE!"

(See http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2606_v124/ai_17606188/ to refresh your memory.)

[Sal Minella]

Isn't it amazing how phony people INVARIABLY accuse

people they don't like of being phony.

How can they elevate phoniness to such a high art in themselves, and still talk like it's a bad thing???

[otohara]

20. Seething Hate for the President

what an asshole

[Botany]

21. "anti-colonial?" Newt weren't you a professor of history?

I wonder if has had heard of the most successful anti-colonial
movement in history?
:rofl:



Newt is trying to throw enough crap at the President hoping something will stick.
I just looked up the Alinksy tradition and it was grass roots activism for community
organizing in order to help living conditions ..... boy what a scary concept.

[Enthusiast]

22. And Obama should be pro-colonial?

Gingrich is slime, full slime, all the time.

[athenasatanjesus]

23. Petition to have Newts face under the definition of "no shame". nt

[dgauss]

25. I wonder if Frank Luntz helped with this phrasing...

...between bouts of fretting about the political climate?

[blondeatlast]

56. Of course he did. Have you seen this thread?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9119775

[area51]

26. Obama is Kenyan?

Who knew that Kenya had annexed Hawaii? </sarcasm> Seriously, b/c his dad was Kenyan, that magically transmitted "Kenyan beliefs and values" into him? Obama's carrying on some of the same policies that G.W. Hoover did while in office, such as bank bailouts and continuing on the two wars of choice, and now, with congress, have instituted the Republinazi '93 health care plan; does that make G.W. Hoover a secret Kenyan? I wish nazi party members would put down their crack pipes.

[WinkyDink]

45. Newtie knows the code.

[glitch]

70. Code is the only way to explain his comments.

That or early onset alzheimers. :crazy:

[Swamp Rat]

27. Sneaky reptile!

In true form of any upper-caste alien lizard propaganda merchant, Gekko Face Gingrich used D'Souza's comments to launch his own blatantly bigoted blather. Sneaky reptile! He'll just blame D'Souza at a convenient time while continuing to push the same propaganda.

[Starry Messenger]

28. So why was Newt consulted about our Education policies?

I ask this every time I see a Newt thread. Will we be re-examining our bipartisan approaches to Education in light of Gingrich's attacks on the President?

[pscot]

29. Will somebody, please

just eat the crap out of this asshole?

[soleiri]

52. I don't believe in violence

but please tell me you mean beat the crap.

otherwise, the mental image...

[tanyev]

30. Newt, you can't be a Tea Partier AND a Loyalist.

Pick your side, sir.

[L0oniX]

31. anti-colonial behavior = a good thing

[Canuckistanian]

32. Looks like Newt's gone "full birther"

He can't deny it now.

In fact, ANY Republican who utters the word "Kenya" should be declared a de facto birther.

[flamingdem]

33. Kenya believe this crap? nt

[hobbit709]

35. I WANT my President to have an "anticolonial worldview"

[cleanhippie]

36. Kinda what I was thinking.

[scarface2004]

37. hey jingorich.....

go suck a dead donkey you asshole!!

[Hannah Bell]

39. "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior" = mau-mau

gingrich = paid lackey

[MrScorpio]

40. How in the hell do they think this shit up?

It sounds like the ravings of some madman on a street corner.

[Matariki]

41. Dog whistle.

He needs to be called out. Loud and often.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

50. A billboard is not a dog whistle

This is a loud and direct statement of what it is... "Obama is an African Marxist"

No dog whistle there. It's a siren.

[Matariki]

66. It's a dog whistle for racists who can no longer say what they *really* think

Obama is 'different', 'other', African!, Muslim, etc, etc. - and what's under all that is the 'n-word' for these people. They'll deny it, but it's the sad truth.

And btw - WHAT billboard are you talking about? The OP is about a quote from Gingrich:

Today, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich took this campaign to new levels, reportedly telling the National Review that Obama has pretended to be "normal" but that Obama actually seems to be engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior"

[blondeatlast]

68. Indeed it is. Newt and his ilk can't say it--so they whistle it to

those who slavishly follow.

They know EXACTLY what they are doing.

[WinkyDink]

42. Dinesh D'Souza is a crack-pot who fancies himself an intellectual.

[devilgrrl]

64. +1,000,000,000

Which is why he's known as Distort D'Newza.

[MilesColtrane]

43. Hey Newt. Fuck you, you piece of shit.

And, I mean that sincerely.

[Odin2005]

49. He doesn;t believe a word of this garbage, he is throwing red meat to the idiots.

Newt is a very intelligent guy, too bad he has to use it for evil.

[LeftishBrit]

53. Thought being anti-colonial was what the USA was founded on!

Is George Washington also now suspect?

[IDemo]

57. What I think he was trying to say:

"Obama has some dark characteristics that hide an agenda guaranteed to drive America into a state of blackness."

[Puregonzo1188]

58. How many people with "anti-colonial" points of view send 40,000

more troops to Afghanistan?

[mitchum]

60. Humpty Dumpty references Gunga Dim

[opihimoimoi]

61. NEWT IS A CANCER TO OUR SOCIETY...HE WAS ALL FAIL and now he wants a repeat?

Fuck that.....nothing positive comes from his assmouth...nothing....he is of EMPTY LANGUAGE

[Aviation Pro]

62. Salamander Gingivitis: Assclown Emeritus.....

...and also:

1. Asshat
2. Asswipe
3. Ass Carrot
4. Fuckwit
5. Motherfucker
6. Loser
7. Amway Shill

[LoZoccolo]

63. OH HE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT.

We need to K&R this on the front page; people need to see this come out of a major Republican leader.

I think I've spent a little too much time fighting the splinterists and the professional left and forgot to watch the Republicans.

[Cherchez la Femme]

65. So it's genetically inherited?

Carried on the chromosomes?

--that is, if even Pres. Obama's father was "anti-colonial" :eyes:


Gingrich is one of the U.S.'s absolutely worst "thinkers" <-- being generous using that word in even the same sentence with Newtie.


It's my sincere belief Gingross Jumped the Shark a LONG time ago...




****1000th post! Only took me a 2 & 1/2 years LOL

[Morning Dew]

69. Congrats on the 1000th

I think it took me 5 years.

[Cherchez la Femme]

72. Thank you!

:hug:

[mistertrickster]

71. Since when did "Alinsky" become synonomous for "Machivelli"?

Alinsky never espoused lying. He believed in techniques which exposed the opposition for the people they are.

[blindpig]

73. If only that were so....

mebbe the US would be standing down from it's self imposed planetary hegemony. Sadly that is not the case and Gingrich is even more blatantly squirrelly than usual.

[BurtWorm]

74. No, this is a clear sign that Gingrich sees no downside in being as gross and xeonophobic

as imagination allows--and beyond. He knows his audience very well and he's playing right to them.