The obligatory “Rush rips Newt for calling him irrational” post
posted at 6:55 pm on March 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
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When even a guy famous for screaming says it’s time to calm down, it’s probably time to calm down. The boss assured me this morning, though, that people are still interested in the “I hope he fails” debate and the boss is (almost) always right, so here’s the obligatory link to Rush accusing Newt of criticizing him on yesterday’s “Meet the Press” (albeit not by name) because, and I quote, “I am at the top of the mountain of what I do. Everybody underneath it wants what I’ve got… I know that Newt would give his whatever to have what I’ve got.” A taste:
I’m surprised by nothing when I’m dealing with people in the media who think they’re in politics. No, as has always been the case, Anna Lee, the strength and the courage, the energy that I get is from my audience. I wrote a book once, and one of the chapters is “My Success is Not Determined by Who Wins Elections,” ’cause they come and go. They are fly-by-night operators, and most of them stand for nothing until they see a poll about what the American people want, and then they go out and try to say one way or another what the American people want while trying to falsely hold onto an ideology at the same time — and you can’t count on them. You can’t depend on them. They will sell you out; they will throw you overboard to save themselves, faster than anything. And they’ll use you on their way up as often as they can at the same time.
He took an oblique shot at Newt (also not by name) at CPAC too. Watch the clip of Gingrich on MTP insisting that it’s “irrational” to hope Obama fails but okay to hope he changes his mind on policy; opinions differ as to whether that’s what Rush meant all along. And with that, I’ll join Ace and Patterico in the “enough already” camp and let you have at it.
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These Republicans and Rush need to recognize that the left is using him to cause in fighting within the GOP.
lavell12 on March 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
I’m very glad this is happening…it shows the wheat from the chaff…and it sure shows that the republicans are NOT conservative…
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:13 PM
So is that our choice? I guess we can either accept the fighting in the Republican caucus and vote ‘em all out in favor of conservative candidates in 2010, or we can watch the Republicans sell out and join the Democrats down the long-and-winding road to national self-destruction.
gryphon202 on March 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Maybe so but as Rush stated the GOP doesn’t need just a single leader it needs leadership. We can’t have any of that without debate.
larvcom on March 9, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Once again folks Newt is NOT an AGW alarmist though he does support eventually moving to cleaner technology. Being against pollution and for a cleaner environment does not mean you believe the AGW alarmists. There is a big difference in the two.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 8:20 PM
if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and sits on a couch looking like Pelosi’s sock puppet…its a RINO…
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM
I thought only Democrats ate their own.
sethstorm on March 9, 2009 at 8:23 PM
lavell12 on March 9, 2009 at 8:10 PM
This is much bigger and deeper than that lavell. We have a president who has established a team (war room) and ordered them to attack, demonize, single out, and destroy a private citizen. Then we have plants (Frum for example) in our media pushing this agenda from within. Then we have some legitimate members of our own media who are stuck on Political correctness (PC) and therefore got stuck spending the better part of a week trying to correct Rush for not choosing his words more carefully.
In the mean while, Obama and his thugs are shoveling some combination of Socialism & Communism down our throats at the speed of sound.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:23 PM
This is funny stuff. 2 angry misogynists attack each other. Anyone selling popcorn??
capitulus on March 9, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Newt is Nancy’s bench warmer.
Fletch54 on March 9, 2009 at 8:24 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Right the F*** on comrade. Hard to believe this is the same man who ushered in the Promise to America back in the early 90’s.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Newt needs to go and sit on a balcony with his beloved Calista. He is a has-been that just wants to promote his books and website, which is useless. I can’t stand the guy. Don’t go after Rush – he is the only beacon for us out there. Levin is the only other one. Hannity sucks up to Newt and others. I can’t stand listening to Sean anymore -he’s into himself too much.
suzyk on March 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM
I remember Rush defending Newt for days on end about the social security “die on the vine” comment and excoriating the media for misrepresenting the remark. Newt pays him back by going on Democrat propaganda programs to support the media’s willful misrepresentation of Rush’s comment. What a weasel.
Buddahpundit on March 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Sorry to say this but Newts ego he lets his mouth get his A** in so much hot water it,s not funny anymore.Remember back in the Bill & Hill white house when Newt went some were on Air Forse One with the Pres. When he came back Newt had to get off exiting the back door.Hewt had a cow telling everone the Pres showed him the speaker of the house no respect making him get off at the back door.The man has no Consev.core he,s all over the place Global warming the spending bill .One day he for it the next day he changing his mind.
thmcbb on March 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Oh, I forgot – when Newt sat on that bench with Pelosi about global warming, he dropped his pants and showed the real bad ugly side of him. He’s a liberal.
suzyk on March 9, 2009 at 8:30 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Have you read his article explaining why he did that commercial with Pelosi? I did and he clearly stated that the science is not settled but pursuing clean energy is not a bad thing. He also supports drilling for our oil, remember he started the whole drill here drill now campaign. I don’t believe in AGW but I do like clean air for the sake of clean air. Its like the difference in being a conservationist or being an envonmentalist.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM
If Newt was a RINO, he’d probably still be in congress. Although there are things we can disagree with Newt on, fundamentally, Newt holds strong to conservative principles. Further, Newt’s motivation for alternative energy does not seem to be fanatically driven by an irrational fear of global warming/change/whatever. He realizes that this is vital for American success (economically, geo-politically, etc)
Upstater85 on March 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM
suzyk on March 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Agree with you on Hannity and his current obsession with himself; but don’t throw him away just yet. Sean is a smart man, and will get this figured out soon enough. I’m anxious to see how Sean will handle the Newt-Rush comments, as Sean is close to both of these men.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Well, that was the Contract On America. Obliterate US jobs in the name of “progress” if it was a jobless recovery.
sethstorm on March 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM
I don’t disagree with you here; however, who isn’t (at least to some reasonable extent) into him/herself on talk radio?
Upstater85 on March 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Hey,, here’s the new pledge!!
“We all, like little school children, pledge to Obama he must succeed!! In all he does in all he says in every policy,
all his laws and decrees,,, we pledge our loyalty to Our Dear Leader O!
May American fail but never thee!! Succeed Obama!! Succeed!!”
JellyToast on March 9, 2009 at 8:35 PM
goat on March 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM
The problem with Newt over the past few years; he’s jumping all over the map with his ideas and his statements. When he’s on with Hannity, he says what Sean’s audience wants to hear. Then he goes on CNN and says what that audience wants to hear. I feakin hate that crap. Conservative principles and values don’t change or get altered based on the audience.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:36 PM
sethstorm on March 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Care to back those lies up there troll?
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:38 PM
I HOPE OBAMA’S SOCIALIST POLICY’S FAIL!
And I feel sorry for the Bills and their idiot management for infecting a class team. This would be like recruiting Nancy Pelosi or Marcos Moulitsas to head up the morality wing of the Morman Tabernacle.
For all you crybabies out there that sit behind your computers and whine about Rush raising the awareness of this leadership’s devastation of our democracy—-go join a moderate party that plays to the PC pussy crowd and “makes nice” with the morons across the isle.
Rovin on March 9, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I think pursuing ‘clean energy’ (an oxymoron if there ever was one) is fine…with YOUR own money..don’t ask the taxpayers to fund it…if it was SO great, it wouldn’t need government funding…
I’d rather take a little dirty air, along with some manufacturing and commerce, than clean air and a collapsed economy…
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Newt is only out because of that old couple that just happened to be going to the store and had a radio on and intercepted a call between him and Boehner. Yah, right.
I don’t trust Washington anymore. I don’t want to send old ickies back there. I want the real true blue guys and gals to go there and stand up for what they believe. Enough is enough.
I’m lucky, I am in Alabama and “most” are great. The ones that area bad, I can’t do anything about because I don’t live in their district.
I spent 18 years in laws and am a great judge of character after that. I just don’t like or trust Newt. I don’t like Huckabee either. I was a Romney girl and I love Sarah. Being from the deep south, Jindahl is promising, but they are ruining his chances. Crist sucks – he is a liberal.
So, I guess, I will run for office. Ub boy!!!
suzyk on March 9, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I thought Herr Klinton created 20 million (billion trillion) new jobs!! that was the left-wing line all during the bush years…did you get new marching orders from headquarters (DNC)???
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Upstater85 on March 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM
That’s what I have been saying, being for a cleaner environment and against pollution is not the same as buying into the AGW alarmist’s theory of catastrophic doom. I support research into alternative forms of energy for a cleaner planet but not because of AGW just because a cleaner world is a good thing. I also support using all forms of energy we currently have available just as Newt does.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Monday, September 27, 2004 marks the 10-Year Anniversary of the signing of the Contract with America in Washington, DC on the Capitol steps by candidates for the U.S.
House of Representatives in the 1994 election.
The election results were stunning. Nearly nine million more voters turned out for the Republicans over the last off-year election and one million fewer voters turned out for the Democrats – a ten million vote swing that resulted in the Republican Party picking up 54 seats in the House and winning the majority for the first time in 40 years. Newt Gingrich was elected Speaker of the House – the first Republican Speaker since Joseph W. Martin, Jr. of Massachusetts who served until 1955. The GOP went on to win the next three elections in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate marking a decade of Republican leadership in Congress. All ten items in the Contract with America were brought to a vote in the U.S. House in the first 100 days as promised by the Contract. Nine of the ten items passed the House. The sole exception was Term Limits which received a plurality but required a two-thirds majority as a Constitutional Amendment.
• Committee Chairmen were term-limited.
• The Office of Speaker was term-limited.
• The Legislative staff was cut including in the Speaker’s office. Also reduced were committee
sizes. Many unnecessary perks were eliminated.
• The Congress was forced to live under the same laws as the rest of the nation – OSHA,
disabilities, and workplace laws.
• A big six accounting firm audited the U.S. House’s finances.
• The Budget was balanced for the first time in a generation.
• The line-item veto passed and was signed into law.
• Eventually after a Presidential veto, taxes were cut for the first time in 17 years. Included
were a cut in the capital gains tax, a $500 per child tax credit and new tax credits
for tuition to college and voc-tech schools. The capital gains tax was actually scored as
a revenue increase marking a significant shift in tax policy debates.
• Military spending increased for the first time in over 10 years including funding for a national missile defense.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Rovin on March 9, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Tell us how you really feel my friend! :)
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:44 PM
I have to say that I am getting tired of the belief that if you have a problem with Rush’s delivery, you’re not a “true” conservative.
pjean on March 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Buddahpundit on March 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Good point! I had forgot about that.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:46 PM
I agree here, at some point this needs to just stop. It isn’t just up to Rush. Republicans have got to stop taking the bait on this. Jindal answered this well. Why can’t others???
What is Rush suppose to do if he is getting attacked by top Republicans???
This is really stupid and I can understand a Spector or even McCain saying this,, but Newt should know better.
This is really getting old and there are other things to talk about.
JellyToast on March 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM
pjean on March 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Only you can decide that. This argument is much larger than debating political correctness.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM
sethstorm on March 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Gee seth, waiting for you talking points? Can’t think for yourself?
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM
I have never seen Newt support economy gutting plans like cap and trade. I also agree that the research should be privately funded and if it proves lucrative it will get all the funding it needs. Clean energy is not an oxymoron since nuclear power is clean and highly efficient and Newt is a big proponent of nuclear power.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM
I like Newt and respect the man–he’s undeniably brilliant–but this just isn’t cool. Juxtapose this MTP statement with any of the several he’s given on FOX ie Greta, Hannity on same subject. The rhetoric doesn’t match. Newt obviously stepped it up since he was on the liberal Sunday morning circuit–the granddaddy of them all. I know the guy wants to sell books and stuff, but he needs to remember who’s buying his book and works.
Stop pandering, Newt.
RepubChica on March 9, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Despite all of his problems, I now think a Newt/anyone else 08 ticket would have been better than what we had.
Speedwagon82 on March 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Newt concedes the global warming argument (which is just insane) but he hopes to argue it from a conservative point of view (nuke energy, …). That is cold comfort and the wrong way to approach the issue. If someone is for nuke energy, as I am, then there is no need to concede any idiotic environmental/global warming argument and then argue from there. Newt is taking the wrong approach, as McCain did (even though I was 100% for McCain’s “solutions”). Newt is not yet as bad as McCain, since Juan loves cap-and-trade idiocy, but Newt will eventually be forced into similar positions, since his concession of the original flawed argument sets him up for it.
progressoverpeace on March 9, 2009 at 8:57 PM
it does produce radioactive waste, unless you’re talking about breeder reactors, but don’t they produce plutonium?
everything has a cost…even solar power..the land it takes, and the manufacturing of the components…same with wind power…along with the dead birds..
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:57 PM
I meant to leave his cap-and-trade, and other idiocies, out of that. I was 100% for his nuke energy and drilling (though he should have spoken about drilling EVERYWHERE!).
progressoverpeace on March 9, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Newt is the man.
MarcusBrody on March 9, 2009 at 8:59 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:39 PM
I should add that Newt knows that cheap abundant energy is the key building block for the economy. The only reason I brought this topic up is so many here equated him doing that commercial with Pelosi about alternative energy to him being an AGW alarmist which he is not. I despise Pelosi as much as the rest of you but I don’t project her views onto Newt because he sat on the same couch with her.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM
I am not going to read the whole thread, if I am repeating anyone please accept my apologies. That said, I think we have beat this topic to death. I am crazy about Newt, think he is really interesting but he and all other politicians who have been put on the spot during this mess are not instilling confidence. It’s not like this is their first rodeo after all, they need to stop acting like the press has never asked “gotcha” questions before.
Cindy Munford on March 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM
what he did was further Pelosi’s agenda, not his. I just watched the commercial again, he said
we agree that our country must take action to address climate change
so he’s agreeing with pelosi..and we know what her agenda is. Newt betrayed conseravtives with this commercial, and no amount of explanation will change that…
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 8:44 PM
I’m just getting sick of these politically correct whining counterfeit conservatives that sit outside the ring and refuse to put the gloves on while the democrat party is destoying the foundation of our constitution. This nation’s in economic peril and Newt bothers to call Rush “irrational”, while Obama claims his administration is embracing free market principals??? If you folks believe this crap, there’s little hope that this nation won’t be a European socialist body in the next two years.
Rovin on March 9, 2009 at 9:09 PM
I still like them both. As far as i’m concerned, they are at the top of the game and exactly what this country needs. Who cares if Rush doesn’t say it exactly the way Newt does and vice-versa, the message is pretty much the same. Socialism fails every time it is tried. I’m getting sick and tired of the oddballs on our side trying to tear down the best conservatism has to offer out of shear jealousy.
mike_NC9 on March 9, 2009 at 9:10 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Yes nuclear energy does produce some waste but not like coal ash, using recycling techniques a decades worth of energy produces a cup of waste with the same radiation as natural uranium ore. I am all for clean and green as long as it does not hurt the economy or raise the cost of energy to fuel that economy. Glenn Reynolds always has interesting links to developments on that front.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Well, to the idiot messiah, “free market principles” mean that those who don’t produce are FREE to take from the MARKET of those who do.
progressoverpeace on March 9, 2009 at 9:13 PM
……. and Nancy Pelosi reversed all of these when Mr. Teleprompter was elected, especially;
“• The Congress was forced to live under the same laws as the rest of the nation – OSHA, disabilities, and workplace laws.”
Didn’t quite make “60 Minutes”…………
…………. did it? And you wonder why so many Democrats have “problems” paying the taxes they impose on us.
Newt and Rush can argue all day long……..
…… they don’t set tax laws, they can’t de-fund our military in the middle of a war, and they aren’t the bunch of incompetent and corrupt narcissists that are currently in power.
By the way……….. anyone else notice what North Korea is up to today?
Seven Percent Solution on March 9, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Yes and no. Breeder reactors can burn excess plutonium and get rid of it, or generate new fuel from a blanket of useless U-238. Newer technology puts fuel recycling on-site and places the fissionables back into the fuel cycle, leaving only the light fission products. These are dangerous for a few hundred years. Burying the light elements for a few hundred years is a reasonable goal. Burying heavy elements, which could be re-burned, is a waste of fuel and a figment of liberal nut-jobbery.
Sabotaging the fuel cycle is another turd layed by Jimmy Carter, the gift who keeps on giving.
Newt needs to go back on the couch with Pelosi; only this time, add duct tape.
Feedie on March 9, 2009 at 9:15 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 9:08 PM
When Newt says “climate change” I believe he is referring more to environmental degradation due to pollution more than the Gore theory of impending doom. BTW I don’t think CO2 is pollution, its plant food and a vital natural gas.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Maybe holding hands with Nancy was the final straw.
StevefromMKE on March 9, 2009 at 9:18 PM
All prominent Republicans should be doing what John McCain is doing now — being respectful and dignified with each other. McCain is being a loyal Republican in his ocal and visible opposition to Obama spending and his votes, and he is not complaining about Rush’s parodies treating cCain as if he were going along with Obama, which he is not at all.
Phil Byler on March 9, 2009 at 9:19 PM
the only people talking about ‘doing something’ about climate change are the ALGORE types…we don’t need to do anything about climate change…and he was just repeating left-wing talking points…
he’s a RINO. I’m sick of these republicans masquerading as conservatives…
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Sorry, goat. “Climate change” is global warming nonsense, plain and simple. Nothing else. It’s not related to traditional pollution ideas. It’s all about climate! Like I said, I love Newt (still) but he is just way off on this. Way, way off.
progressoverpeace on March 9, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Newt had and blew enormous power and prestige when he first became speaker. He slitered and slimed it away while trying to be Mr popular with the press and seriously in need to testosterone injections when battling bubba clinton. Why does anyone listen to this loser?
jsanderssr on March 9, 2009 at 9:26 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 9:08 PM
progressoverpeace on March 9, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I have just never seen Newt suggesting the draconian solutions like Gore or his greenbots. He does afterall support drilling for and using our oil which Gore and Pelosi vigorously oppose.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Seven Percent Solution on March 9, 2009 at 9:13 PM
I only posted that for the seth-sicko; trying blindly to educate the worthless POS…
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 9:31 PM
He doesn’t. He proposes good and reasonable policies (the ones that I’ve heard), but he concedes an issue that is wrong, to begin with. Newt said a few times that conservatives needed to make this concession to get a seat at the table, but I think that approach is all wrong. There is no scientific basis for anthropogenic catastrophic global warming. Period. Ideas of energy generation are totally different and have nothing to do with global warming insnaity. No one should ever confuse them.
progressoverpeace on March 9, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Rovin on March 9, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Agreed Rovin… Way past time to take the gloves off and start punching back. Political Correctness was thought up in some Liberal think tank (probably in Santa Monica) designed to bait wobbly kneed Republicans and Moderates into a wheelchair.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Ok guys let me ask you this if AGW were real, I don’t think it is, who would you rather have crafting solutions, Newt or Pelosi and Gore? Newt is trying to interject his ideas into the discussion to keep liberal solutions from taking over the debate.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 9:36 PM
The boss assured me this morning, though, that people are still interested in the “I hope he fails” debate
I’d rather watch paint dry, since it so fascinating a pastime, but that’s just me.
Purple Avenger on March 9, 2009 at 9:36 PM
progressoverpeace on March 9, 2009 at 9:34 PM
I agree with you there.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 9:38 PM
And those who are in charge of the table demand alterative enegry be pursued at the expense of good and reasonable policies. This is a no win issue. Don’t even bring up the “global warming is real/false” question. We should propose our solutions and not cave in order to be given a seat at the crazy person table.
darii on March 9, 2009 at 9:39 PM
he said what he said…there is no explaining it away…it was a victory for the left…he bent over for pelosi…she sure didn’t say anything about needing to drill for oil now did she??? but he agreed with her agenda…
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Finger.Mouth.Wind.Newt.
SouthernGent on March 9, 2009 at 9:41 PM
OT, but on topic for another thread…
“the “o” dissing brown and the Brits …”
o’reilly on his talking points memo at 7:30 EDT on radio…
Not a single word on what it was really about…
O’CRAPOLAreilly strikes again…
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 9:41 PM
He was busy cheating on his second wife at time. Going too hard on Clinton was problematic for him.
Newt is irrelevant. His service to the country was as an unknown, railing against Democrats in the House well, when C-SPAN was new. Once he got power, it was all about retaining power. Ignore him. He’ll say anything for power. He is useless.
Feedie on March 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Although it is too early to even be thinking of it, I have thought that Newt maybe the perfect candidate to run 2012. If our current president is not doing well then maybe the majority of people will look past Newt’s personal baggage to get someone competent into the White House. If it is still nip and tuck on Mr. Obama’s performance and he wins a second term, Newt’s stature in the party is unlikely to be hurt as would another less established candidate.
Cindy Munford on March 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM
What makes Gingrich valuable to the conservative movement is his ability to formulate and promote ideas that challenge the standard liberal-Democratic line.
What makes Gingrich absolutely hopeless as a national presidential candidate in 2012 — despite what he might think right now — is Newt has and has always had a little bit of Joe Biden disease, in that when he starts talking his mouth rushes to places 15 seconds before the thought processes arrive. He’s not as reliable a gaffe machine as VP Joe is, but as with his complaint in 1995 about not being able to ride in the front of Air Force One with Bill Clinton, Gingrich is prone to saying things that result in days or weeks of clarification and discord. And unlike Biden, whose verbal neutron bombs are laughed off and/or ignored by the big media outlets, Newt doesn’t get a free pass whenever something he says stirs up conflict that hurts his own side.
jon1979 on March 9, 2009 at 9:47 PM
For God’s sake people…Doesn’t anybody remember how this all started?…Rush was exasperated by all of the Republicans coming out and saying that they hope Obama succeeds…Rush’s point was that for Obama to “succeed” his socialist policies would have to succeed…That is when Rush said : I hope he fails….All of these gutless Republicans who let the Media distort what Rush said are disgrcaeful….Newt included!!!
sirpatrick on March 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Newt and Rush shouldn’t be criticizing each other.
Ed and Allahpundit have those bases well covered.
notagool on March 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM
My son (11th grade) was forced to watch the Gore lie-fest movie last week Science class. Then the class was given an assignment to write an essay on the movie & climate change. First thing I noticed was the title change from Global Warming to Climate Change. Anyway, the teacher told the class that 98% of all scientist agree with the fact that man is causing the planet to be very sick. My son raised his hand and asked the teacher if he had any back-up evidence for that statement, that 98% of all scientist believing that is hard to believe in of itself. The teacher asked my son (ignoring his question) if he believed the movie. My son told him that his older brother did a lengthy report in college, rebutting Global Warming, that he came up with hundreds of scientific data that didn’t go along with the movie; therefore, he finds it hard to believe that 98% of all scientist agree with the movie.
My son (with my help) turned in a 100 page report today, complete with back-up for every theory, a list of scientist who are not at all in agreement with the scam, many articles written calling this movement a total and complete scam designed to tax, tax, tax…. My son told me that several other students turned in their essay’s in rebuttal of climate change also. I have talked with a few parents who are going to demand an answer from the teacher for telling the classroom full of young minds a complete lie about the 98% thing.
The tides turning… These people are relentless though. When this scam has been debunked, they will already have another one started.
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
that is true. As far as Newt as a writer, if you want to read some fictitious crap, read “Gettysburg”
Wade on March 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
I’m not a huge Rush fan…but on this point…
He is right on the money…not a safer bet could be had.
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I think you and others are making a little too much of a thirty second commercial where they read scripted lines about alternative energy. I agree Newt should not have submitted to the commercial and that it damaged him to a degree but it still does not put him the same boat as the Gorebots. The only place I ever saw that ad was at Michelle’s, never saw it on TV but then again I don’t watch it much.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Once again, Rush called a spade a spade. Newt Gingrich is a big old buffoon that will say anything to get himself some press. Anyone who’s paid any attention to him in the last ten years can testify to how his ego is always getting him into trouble. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard him give an interview where he didn’t beg for attention to “Me and Calista”. It’s like, “Newt, we get it, trophy wife, not going to cheat on this one, shut up!” Maybe Newt sees himself as the prime successor to Mavericky John McCain.
anniekc on March 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Gingrich does come across as sour grapes. He so desperately wants back in power.
Blake on March 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM
hahahahaha!One of my bothers,quite knowledgeable on the era, dimissed it after, as he said,one chapter…lol…
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Keemo on March 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
A high five to you and your sons for fighting back against the Gore propaganda.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I know this is — at best — a seven-degrees-of-separation stretch from the original thread, but I’m watching ‘24,’ and for the second straight week one of the series characters came on during the commercial break to encourage the viewership to “engage in the fight against global warming…”
I’ve got to hear this crap from Jack Bauer & Co., now?
CaptFlood on March 9, 2009 at 10:05 PM
the normal person doesn’t listen to political shows and sit for newt expounding at length what he does and does not believe..
this soundbite made more of an impact than anything he could say otherwise…and he bent over BIG TIME for the left…totally supporting their agenda and getting NOTHING for it…it was something a typical republican would do, as we have seen…
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Isn’t Gettyburg one of the fictional alternative histories that Newt has been doing lately about what would could have happened had things gone the other way? The point being it is fiction not historical fact.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 10:09 PM
He was just more willing to work with a Republican-led Congress.
sethstorm on March 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM
right4life on March 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I wonder how many people actually saw that ad beyond Michelle’s audience, of which I am a loyal fan. You are reading way, way to much into a benign ad for alternative energy just like the Dems are reading reading to much into Rush’s comments.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Agreed… It is our having believed in the likes of the newt that had our guard down…
The power and the limelight is what he is about now… and nothing can change that…
He should quietly fade away…
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Newt lost me a few years ago with his global warming nonsense. Newt is all about Newt, and he basks in the same media glow as all the other quasi conservatives: Brooks, Frum, Noonan, etc. Yes, you can add Steele to that menu too.
But, it is the media who is serving up the red meat and it is Newt who is obliging them with his attack on Rush.
Captain America on March 9, 2009 at 10:15 PM
I agree. And while hand wringers like Allah are hyperventilating about it..I’m not. I think this is a battle on two fronts. With the libs and within ourselves. We are either going to go hammer and tong with the dems and hit hard or become a bunch of Specters and Snowe’s. And that’s no way to be.
I love Newt…Although I think he’s been sitting on the toilet and refusing to poop for too long.
Pretending to be a player in all this, really pisses me off. If he wants to be relevant in this battle, then be relevant and quit the tease.
These are times when the chips are all in…and there’s no time to be a ‘poser’.
Handel on March 9, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Comon’ Goat …think about that…
anybody who believes in AGW is a globalist…
taxation…control of our lives in ways they haven’t even thought of yet…
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM
f’ Newt! He’s a spineless prick for playing right along with the democrats on this. It’s not even about “how dare he criticize Rush” to me. I’m more pissed that he is willing to sit there like a stooge and go along with this distraction. This Rush stuff is just a manufactured distraction created by the left and their media. Newt perpetuates it instead of calling the left out on this so Newt is being a tool. Way to stand against the left Newt.
Newts has become just another “I wanna be on TV” republican.
Ampersand on March 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Yep, Steele discredited himself by viewing Rush as a competitor. Letting the “Nazi” remark go was intolerable. Steele demonstrated he is not leadership material. We have no more time for this “give him a second, third, fourth chance” garbage. Get rid of him.
Feedie on March 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Do any of y’all so critical of Newt get his newsletter or ever visit American Solutions or his personal site? From the comments and complete misrepresentation of his views I don’t think so. If you have better ideas join American Solutions and get involved in the discussion don’t just bitch and whine on a Hot Air thread.
goat on March 9, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I’ll bet any farmer will concur…
Not good to plant the same seeds in a field year after year…
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Oh no…I’m starting to sound like MB4…nooooooooo…;)
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I wonder if any of you critical of Newt get his newsletter or visit his American Solutions site or his personal site. If you have ideas get involved at American Solutions and put you ideas out there don’t just b**ch and whine on a Hot Air thread, Newt gives you the tools to be active in the debate, USE THEM!
goat on March 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Actually they didn’t lose. Did you forget what Kruschev said? They would take us from within because we are stupid and lazy. He was right.
True_King on March 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Sorry Goat…He’s a globalist…not what this contry needs…
jerrytbg on March 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
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