Gingrich Plots GOP Comeback Against 'Radical' Obama

[babsbunny]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2010/06/20/127965909/newt-on-npr-plots-republican-comeback-against-radical-obama-and-dems

by Ken Rudin

Newt Gingrich helped design the plan that brought Republicans control of the House in 1994 for the first time in 40 years. It's a majority the GOP held until voters kicked them out in 2006, when many in the party said it lost its way, and they were further set back with additional Democratic gains in 2008. Not to mention the election of a Democrat to the White House.

[spanone]

1. NPR = Now Promoting Republicons

[davidinalameda]

5. huh?

:shrug:

you and I must listen to different NPRs then

[Tempest]

6. NPR took a hard right turn during the Bush administration

NPR went to the right after Bush appointed Tomlinson to head CBP and Warren Bell to its board of directors.

I stopped listening to NPR after that.


If you're in Alameda, CA, you should be listening to Pacifica radio.

[davidinalameda]

8. uh no

Pacifica radio is way too left wing for me

[depakid]

11. Expect to be on the receiving end of a lot of propaganda then...

[davidinalameda]

15. you get propaganda from left wing sources too

it's call putting a spin on the news

I'll stick with NPR; never had any reason to question their reports

[Tempest]

16. The only spin you get from Pacifica

Is the truth.

Most people can't handle that much true in the course of a radio show.

[davidinalameda]

19. thank you Tom Cruise

[RainDog]

17. well you should

during the Bush administration, they made it a priority to put republican idealogues in power. I learned a BIG lesson during the Bush administration, and it was this: ALL mainstream American media lies its ass off in fealty to power, including NPR.

I learned this by reading news from other countries. I learned, long before, months and months before I heard any mention of the same in the U.S. that the Jessica Lynch story was bullshit propaganda made up by Rumsfeld.

I learned about Pat Tillmans' death.

I learned about the propaganda machine that manufactured a "victory moment" pulling down the statue of Saddam - the area was closed off and Chalabi's crew was brought in - the pictures are still available to see online. This was pure bullshit propaganda for American consumption.

Oh, and you know where I learned these things? Via British news sources, chiefly.

You apparently have no idea how much you are being manipulated by limiting your news sources to mainstream American media. This is true even in the case of NPR, sadly.

Via Pacifica, however, I learned about the Harper's Magazine reporter who covered the refusal to hear the case against Chaquita banana for forced labor (labor AT GUNPOINT - in American courts.) I learned about the lies of the Bush administration regarding the restructuring of Iraq - and these things were the truth.

Alternative Radio, Democracy Now! - in addition to sources like Harper's and The Nation, in print, provide some truth that you will rarely hear in mainstream media... that's the honest truth that I learned - and you would too if you didn't automatically assume something is "too liberal" for you... what you're saying is THEY TELL TOO MUCH TRUTH that you don't want to know about.

[Radical Activist]

23. Yep.

I only knew Bush was lying before the Iraq invasion because I read alternative media and some foreign press.

NPR may not be as bad as MSNBC or CNN. But, it was still a victim of the right-wing effort to destroy the effectiveness of any legitimate source of news.

[MattBaggins]

20. Really?

Do you question anything you hear or just take everything at face value?

[davidinalameda]

22. I question things

unlike many of the posters on here

[alstephenson]

2. Good luck, Newt.

Your old playbook isn't going to cut it this time.

[Dawson Leery]

3. 16 years later.

Many things have changed, including demographics, people's perception of the corporation, and Obama's clear majority win in 2008.

[WCGreen]

4. and newt is much more Jowllly now...

[Tempest]

7. Has he started shopping for wife #4 yet?

It's been a while since he's dropped a wife for another one.

[Bitwit1234]

9. You know why republicans are starting their LIE campaigns

because they know the MSM will post and repost and repost every single word they say, along with pictures.

[ladjf]

10. Does anyone still pay attention to that toad Gingrich?

[Bluebear]

12. "Radical" lol . . . what a sales job

[cbdo2007]

13. I'd love to see him run for Pres against Obama in 2012. He'll be crucified by his own party.

[Canuckistanian]

14. Fine, then

Let him run for public office. If he wins, THEN we'll pay attention to him.

[RainDog]

18. so, the guy who fucked his staffer while his wife was dying of cancer...

while acting outraged over Clinton's blow jobs wants us to think he has anything worth saying?

What a fucking worthless piece of shit. really. my cat should bury him in the litter box where he belongs.

[The Wizard]

21. Labeling your adversary a radical

is from the Luntz/Gingrich book of effective language and framing.
In 04 they successfully made a genuine war hero a chump and a genuine chump a war hero. Owning the major media outlets helped, as they ran the Swiftboat ads against John Kerry as news. Consequently, it appeared that the news was reporting about Kerry's military record.
Did I say Newt Gingrich is a certified douche bag?

[Radical Activist]

24. Bring it on.