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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 04:47 AM Apr 2016

Hypocrisy? Is Newt Gingrich JAMing Into Private Equity

Forbes and other main stream outlets are picking on Newt Gingrich, for - hypocritically - joining a private equity firm, after ( purportedly) lambasting Mitt Romney's robber baron ways with Bain Capital.
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As usual, main stream has it all wrong.
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In the Forbes take on the issues titled " Newt Gingrich Joins Private Equity Firm, 4 Years After Slamming Romney's Bain Ties ", certain questions are raised, sneered or veiled,

which are complete - udder -Bull Chits.

Forbes journo Dan Primack points out that Newt Gingrich is joining his former staffer (John McCallum) in a private equity firm named Jam Capital Partners.

Primack remarks that Gingrich called "some" of Romney's Bain Capital antics were "exploitative" (neither Newt, nor Primack have any idea, how much of an understatement that word exploit, really is).

Compounding the bogus assumptions, Dan barks that Gingrich "refused" to ask a SuperPAC to pull an "error" ridden documentary about Bain Capital.

First of all, the film was called "King of Bain: When Romney came to town"...so it was really more about Mitt...not so much about the equity fund.

And secondly, the film was produced by Romney..you dumb frug'k.
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That's right...Mitt played everybody with a 'Red Herring'. The documentary was funded by Sheldon Adelson, who was backing both Romney & Gingrich; and directed/ associate produced by one of Mitt's own campaign guys.
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Moi is currently in discussions with several players, from Hollywood, about book & film rights, for our eToys case story. Problem is, I'm insisting on final edit, and no one wants to grant me such.
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Romney is a racketeer, pure and simple; and we're turning up the heat on the willfully blind Dept.of Justice.
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Fraud, corruption, crooked money, corrupt federal prosecutors and judges, mayhem, homicides (usually by suicides) are the real Mitt Romney ways and means towards the White House.
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Mutt's coming in June...ya loons!
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The real film won't do justice, if the title is Racketeering Romney, or Retroactive Mitt, because Goldman Sachs is equally duplicitous.
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Going to love shoving the told you so's up main streams arse.
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Just sayin......Primack is a RMoney....tool.
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Hypocrisy? Is Newt Gingrich JAMing Into Private Equity (Original Post) laserhaas Apr 2016 OP
Rank hypocrisy is the cardinal "virtue" of the G.O.P. AxionExcel Apr 2016 #1
😎 laserhaas Apr 2016 #4
They're clucking about Gingrich hypocrisy NOW? JHB Apr 2016 #2
Perhaps laserhaas Apr 2016 #5
Just a politician selling his connections Hortensis Apr 2016 #3
Lifetime of dishonesty laserhaas Apr 2016 #6
Sincerely, Newt is suspected to be a sociopath, Hortensis Apr 2016 #7
Mitt is ...too laserhaas Apr 2016 #8
Interesting! I have Mitt pegged as a Hortensis Apr 2016 #9

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Just a politician selling his connections
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 07:08 AM
Apr 2016

and access to business. Yet again for him, of course. I've read that private equity firms are putting a lot of unemployed pols to use these days. Sure joining one of them shows this sleazebag up for what he is, but after a lifetime of dishonesty Newt probably can't put on his shoes without that contradicting some once-expedient lie.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Interesting! I have Mitt pegged as a
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 12:37 PM
Apr 2016

religious true believer who sincerely believes he is serving god's will, all as part of establishing god's kingdom here on earth (soon!), when he runs for president. Care to say why you think he's a sociopath?

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