Paul Krugman: "Newt Gingrich is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person sounds like."

[TheWraith]

I don't always agree with Krugman, but he does know how to turn a phrase. :rofl:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. I always thought that was Dennis Miller but he has a point.

[rtassi]

41. +1

[Nancy Waterman]

2. A perfect description of Gingrich!

Thank you.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Geez, Krugman just described my dad . . . .

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Your dad is a Republican intellectual?

[no_hypocrisy]

27. He *thinks* he's intellectual.

[Jackpine Radical]

29. Given that the last person on the R side who had ANY claim

to being an intellectual was William F. Buckley and he's been dead a while, I assume that anyone posing as a Republican intellectual would be someone who talks like stupid people think intellectuals talk.

[Mimosa]

47. I agree.

Buckley repeatedly argued against the war on drugs. His reasoning would have convinced any intelligent, thinking human being.

[Richardo]

4. !!

:rofl:

[pnorman]

5. I'll save that!

n/t

[FourScore]

6. HA! HA! HA!

:rofl:
That's funny.

[themadstork]

7. Some conservatives I know like to praise newt's intellectual integrity. . .

and it's just so sad that I consider it a major triumph that I don't bust out laughing.

[Ter]

9. That's because they're used to Bush II and Palin

I have to give Newt the edge over those two in brains. :)

[TacticalPeek]

10. He is the intellectual of the Republican field the way Moe was the intellectual of the Stooges.

. . .

But here’s the part that really kills me. You’re kicking me to the curb because I was messing around, and instead you’re going with… Newt Gingrich? I repeat: are you fucking kidding me? Oh, I know what you’re saying: you love Newt because he’s an “intellectual.” Well, Newt Gingrich is the intellectual of the Republican field the way Moe was the intellectual of the Stooges.

And that leads me to my final point: you disgust me, America. Right now if I had my way, I’d up and move to another country. I really, truly would. Only I don’t know where any of them are, and my wife won’t let me leave the house.

Goodbye forever,

Herman


http://www.borowitzreport.com/

[patrice]

8. That thought was on the tip of my brain recently, but I couldn't quite get it to articulate itself.

Thanks, PK!

[flamingdem]

11. Even the pundits are willing to feed the Newt = smart angle

... he's an idiot like the rest of the pugs, yeesh.

[DCBob]

12. perfect!

Its Newt's hot-button, sound bite, one liners with "big" words they dont understand that makes them think he's smart.

[JoePhilly]

13. Newt's ego is so big, it has its own weather patterns.

[Ikonoklast]

15. Newt's Ego is so big, it generates its own gravity well.

NASA has to compensate for Newt's Ego when configuring the flight path of satellite launches.

Newt's Ego has the ability to change the trajectory of artillery shells in flight.

If one gets too close and crosses the event horizon of Newt's Ego, they are never seen again as they get sucked into the black hole that comprises Newt's Ego.

Newt's Ego could have been used to validate the theory postulated by Albert Einstein that gravity can bend light waves.

[JoePhilly]

16. Newt's ego is so big, that when Chris Christy saw it he screamed DAMN!!!!

He's ego is so big that the temperature in his shadow drops 15 degrees.

When Newt walks by, kids think there's been an eclipse of the sun.

Nasa has also confirmed that Newt's ego is orbited by no less than 3 moons.

[treestar]

18. LOL!

You guys are funny!

[Ikonoklast]

22. The last time I ate at McDonald's, they asked me if I wanted to Newt's Ego my meal.

Newt's Ego has it's own Zip Code.

Newt's Ego takes three days to turn completely around, once.

Being intentionally exposed to Newt's Ego is considered assault with a deadly weapon in thirty-two states, and every province of Canada.

Newt's Ego is so massive that clocks run slower the closer they get to it.

Newt's Ego is covered under every ICBM treaty this country ever ratified.

Newt's Ego has never actually been successfully measured by scientists, and when asked why not, they said, "We can't find an edge of the damned thing to start from!".

[JoePhilly]

24. Outstanding!!! And oh ... Newt's ego is so big ...

FEMA is working on ways to use it to deflect Hurricanes away from the East Coast.

Its so big that as the earth rotates, when his ego gets closer to the sun, the speed of the the earth's rotation increases ... and then, as the earth rotates, and his ego get farther from the sun, the speed of rotation decreases.

Scientists now think that a meteor crashing to earth is NOT what actually killed the dinosaurs. Given the size of the blast, and the effect, they have now concluded that it was in fact Newt's ego that crashed to earth and killed the dinosaurs.

NASA is now trying to use the gravitational pull of Newt's ego as a way to sling shot as space crate fast enough to go back in time ... so that the astronauts can prevent Newt's parents from meeting.

[caraher]

28. Scientists finally have the explanation for dark matter

It's Newt's ego, of course.

[grantcart]

30. "People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz"

Doesn't get any bigger than that

Snopes.com rates it TRUE

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/auschwitz.asp

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Newt has a large ego

and the girth to match.

[Swede]

39. If someone told Newt's ego to haul ass,he'd have to make 2 trips.

nt

[Marie Marie]

42. You guys are too funny. Good ones - each and all.

He'll never have hemorrhoids - he's a perfect Asshole.

[Enthusiast]

14. k&r NT

[Zorra]

19. The totally perfect description of Newt Gingrich's appeal to conservatives. nt

[samsingh]

20. so true

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Kber]

23. Nice!!

[DefenseLawyer]

25. Frankly, anyone who says "frankly" that often when they talk must be pretty smart.

Frankly, he might be the smartest person I ever saw. Frankly.

[Ikonoklast]

26. Historically speaking, I disagree with you on saying "frankly".

History will show that most smart people's historical use of the word "frankly" is not overused, in a historical sense of the word...quite frankly.

[DefenseLawyer]

43. History pays well, too, so I hear. n/t

[Ikonoklast]

45. Also makes a chubby bloviator with a massive ego and a mean streak a mile wide into a desirable

sex partner.


Whoda thunk it?

[libodem]

31. Oh, he is the GOP

Intellectual of the conservative movement. If that isn't some kind of oxymoron? What is?

[Javaman]

32. newt is like a vampire with no teeth. He personally does all the sucking for him.

:rofl:

[McCamy Taylor]

33. Then Newt can't win, because the "Dumb and Proud of It!" crowd hates smart folks.

They think smart people are up to no good.

[ellisonz]

34. This is better than the circus!

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

35. Good one...

... put a smile on my face.

[valerief]

36. Wow, that's right on the money! nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. That comment is a couple of weeks old

But very true none the less.

[ooglymoogly]

40. That is a phrase that will land in the hall of wit. Kr nt

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

44. You know, somewhere out there, there's footage of Newt meeting with these two

TBN's Paul and Jan Crouch:

I used to watch them for laughs in the early 90s, and Newt made many a stop in '94 and '95 to kiss their rings of these nutcases and use their wingnutty program to win votes of the rubes. I'd love to see someone on the Democratic side get their hands on those tapes.
Note - this was before Newt supposedly found God and called off his continuing affairs.

[dogknob]

46. Great jokes and comments all... but...

How smart and witty are you all going to feel when the true purpose of this shell-game reality-show called "The GOP Presidential Race" is revealed? It's not that hard to see that, with control over both the House and Senate, the GOP can do even more damage to "big-government" in Obama's second term than they did in his first.

By all means, keep gawking at the idiot parade while the GOP quietly takes over the Senate.

[polichick]

48. So true - dumbshit Republicans admire corrupt blowhards!