Oh, the drama! Newt's spokesperson: “The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding...”

[jefferson_dem]

Priceless stuff right here. The sweet smell of sheer desperation...from Newt's bunker. :popcorn: ...

When asked by The Huffington Post about media coverage this past week, Gingrich press secretary Rick Tyler fired off a response blasting the political and media elite.

“The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” Tyler wrote. “Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/18/nbcs-david-gregory-defend_n_863660.html

[villager]

1. Don't ever forget: It's bad, bad, bad to be literate!

In fact, we'll eventually get around to making it a crime!

[emulatorloo]

2. Newt is an "outsider" now? LOL n/t

[Mz Pip]

3. So if Gingrich

is "ready to lead those who won't be intimidated" then why did he apologize? Some fierce leader Newt is!

[hatrack]

4. "The Liberace sent out the Funyuns to do their piddling"?

Seriously, that's how the Baggers will probably read this.

[sharp_stick]

5. Ooooooh the outsider defense

wasn't this little shit the speaker of the fucking House of Representatives Tyler? That is before he was forced to resign in disgrace.

I almost hate Gingrich as much as Santorum, Palin and Bachmann.... I guess he really is running for President as a Republican.

[Thrill]

6. Newt the Outsider? Funny

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Most pundits (esp. on Fox)

still refer to him as "Speaker" too- even though he hasn't held that post since 1998

[AtomicKitten]

7. It's the Palin defense .... "The LSM is trying to trick me with gotcha journalism!!"

[lunatica]

8. They develop whole new sets of synapses every day to come up with this shit

their brain pathways must look like obstacle courses for olympians. Can't jump over that one, just veer right and zig zag your way to the finish line. Logic? Who the fuck needs logic when we already know the answer. We're just working on getting there from here.

[madinmaryland]

9. Hey Newt...

[tanyev]

10. Somebody tie a sturdy rope to that man's ankles.

That dirigible's about to lift off.

[Enrique]

11. one-word answer to Newt:

Tiffany's.

[surrealAmerican]

12. Time to fire that press secretary.

Even as a rant, that doesn't make sense. Perhaps if he were to limit himself to just one metaphor per paragraph, he might come up with something intelligible.

[Ikonoklast]

13. The clock is already winding down on Newt.

He will implode in four weeks, no more.

He's already very close to self-immolation.

[yellowcanine]

14. I thought Liberace was dead. And he didn't work for a news organization.

[NatBurner]

16. I COMMAND THEE, MINION! SPRINKLE NEWT WITH GLITTER!!

after that? hors d'oeuvres and cocktails at my place. kthxbye © the literati

lol

rick tyler: american idiot