Audio: Gingrich goes thermonuclear on Pelosi
posted at 2:13 pm on May 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Duck and cover before listening so that the force from this blast doesn’t knock you off your chair. Sample quotation:
“She is a trivial politician, viciously using partisanship for the narrowest of purposes, and she dishonors the Congress by her behavior.”
“Speaker Pelosi’s the big loser, because she either comes across as incompetent, or dishonest. Those are the only two defenses,” Gingrich said. “The fact is she either didn’t do her job, or she did do her job and she’s now afraid to tell the truth.”
Actually, there’s a third defense — that she’s telling the truth about the CIA having misled her, a remote possibility that seems ever so slightly less remote today thanks to Tom Maguire catching Porter Goss and Richard Shelby using weasel words about what and when, precisely, they knew. Still, yesterday’s question remains: If poor, innocent Madam Speaker is the victim of a CIA cover-up on a central moral question of the war on terror, why’d she wait four years to mention it? The prospect that intel officials might be suppressing evidence they’re required to disclose to Congress would seem to me somewhat more momentous than whether Pelosi first heard about waterboarding in the fall of 2002 or five months later, yet only now does she think to bring it up?
I’m obliged to link this New Majority piece claiming to have seen details of the briefings that fully support the CIA’s account, but it’s just vague enough and anonymously sourced that I wouldn’t put too much stock in it. Proceed with caution. Click the image to listen.
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When Newt is good he is very very good.
Would it not be funny if the CIA had audio of these so called briefings?
kangjie on May 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Telling obvious truths is ‘nuclear’ now?
You need to publish a ‘Beta Dictionary’, AllahPagan
Newt often speaks his mind like this: Taking no prisoners
Janos Hunyadi on May 15, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Ah Newt? You would have more credibility if you hadn’t sat on that couch with Nan and claimed we were going to hell if we don’t stop Global Warming.
I use to like you alot. Now, not so much.
PappaMac on May 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Obligatory, “now don’t you feel like a sap for sitting on the couch with her to advance global warming propaganda” comment.
Pasalubong on May 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM
go Newt…
t on May 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM
WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS?!?!?!
DwnSouthJukin on May 15, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Awwww and they looked like such a cute couple sitting on that couch together.
Brat on May 15, 2009 at 2:18 PM
OT….Breaking……Fox News
Leon Panetta just threw Nancy under the bus with a memo he sent out this morning……………….
More to come.
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Pelosi raises the revulsion factor to a new level. I’m glad somebody is finally calling her on it without couching their terminology in diplomatic language.
Pelosi is a disgrace, an absolute disgrace.
cruadin on May 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM
And Newt and his ilk say we’re supposed to be nice and cordial to rats like her and work in a “bi-partisan” manner with them? They can eat my shorts.
SouthernGent on May 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Looks like Newt is tired of waiting for someone else
with a set of nads to speak up.
GO, NEWT, GO!
elderberry on May 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM
AP you have a lot pressure on you these next few days to fill in for Ed’s missing posts. Can you wake up at 6AM to start writing? Maybe you can do that Clutch Cargo thing and host Ed’s internet show.
WashJeff on May 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Gingrich was just too easy on Pelosi.
;)
It is great to hear Republicans confronting these idiots again, as Gingrich and Cheney are now doing, and others also beginning to follow suit. Heaven knows, the Left sure needs confronting.
My overall impression is that they’re far too presumptive in assuming they’re the jewels in some giant crown, immunie to any culpability on any of their radical (and today’s Left is extremely radically Leftwing) plans and deeds.
So, glad to read Gingrich isn’t mincing any words, though I believe he can go more harsh on Pelosi and it’d still be reasonable.
This morning, there was a “former CIA” guy who I wished had shouted down the idiot Democratic spokesperson lady who just would not stop talking over everyone. Her remarks were ludicrously uninformed — she was actually sitting there lecturing the world before a CIA Agent about what the CIA should/would/oughtta’ and the CIA guy exclaimed, “you don’t know WHAT you’re even talking about” (which was true).
This same Demo spokeslady, by the way, just last week pronounced all the huge spending by Obama/Dems as “not spending, we’re investing in our future” (by increasing debt to taxpayers!). The woman’s a Publicist or some such thing…
Anyway, great, Gingrich, come on swinging and stay that way. Steele isn’t going to make a dent.
Lourdes on May 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM
why does it have to be incompetant -OR- dishonest, can’t it be both?
VTWaldrup on May 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Congressional hearings – they were good enough for Watergate, they should be good enough for this.
What did she know, and when did she know it? Subpoenaes. Sworn testimony. Perjury.
Let’s get it on.
OhEssYouCowboys on May 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM
The coffin needs one more nail. This could be the one.
sherry on May 15, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Newt, shutup. Don’t interrupt a moron when they are committing suicide.
faraway on May 15, 2009 at 2:21 PM
AP, even with a hyper link you are not going to get us to go to an admittedly unsourced New Majority piece, despite your obligation (which is, what?)
BigD on May 15, 2009 at 2:21 PM
A lot of things not to like about Newt. One thing I do love though, is his ability to take the fight verbally to the Democrats like no other. None of this collegial crap, just honest speaking of the truth, even if it’s not polite.
Makes me long for the days of the 104th Congress and the Contract With America.
Puddleglum on May 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Today simply must be opening day for “Troll Hunting Season”.
I can’t find one no matter how hard I look…
ladyingray on May 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Breaking news….
Speaker Pelosi stopped CIA action after being briefed.
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM
(^^) I was referring to Pelosi, et al., to Democrats, not to the Republicans confronting them.
Lourdes on May 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Go Newt . . . It’s far past time that somebody called out that dirt bag for what she really is.
rplat on May 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM
I wonder if Pelosi will still be around when Ed comes back from vaca? I bet it’s time to drop some bombs on a tylenol factory in Albania…
kirkill on May 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Liar, Liar…
CDeb on May 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Gingrich is still a worthless fake and sell-out. But he’s right about Pelosi, though I’d hardly call what he said “thermonuclear.” He’s just telling us what everyone — including the left — already knows.
2Brave2Bscared on May 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Newt 2012!
davenp35 on May 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM
That is PRECISELY why this bomb Newt just dropped is so significant. He really did try to work with Pelosi. I think everyone wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt and give her some space in her first term as Speaker. Her skanky DailyKos partisanship and moonbattery could at least be somewhat explained away when there was a Republican president. But her behavior since Obama was inaugurated has been revolting, and indeed has tarnished the great office of the Speaker of the House. Kudos to Newt for calling her out.
rockmom on May 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Let’s hope this doesn’t mean the end of Nancy. We need her as Speaker. The GOP’s best weapon at this point.
faraway on May 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM
AP – Ace has something about Pelosi losing her mind. Talking about jobs in the middle of a torture answer. Got video of that?
lorien1973 on May 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Good job telling the truth Newt; too bad you’ll say anything to catch a train to power.
Feedie on May 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM
I’m sorry but hearing a former congressman say something about “dishonroing the Congress” is simply laughable. I think that ship sailed a LONG time ago. What is ithat about honor among, um, thieves?
But well said otherwise…too bad he sat on that couch with the liar.
changer1701 on May 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM
The CIA has been backstabbed, scapegoated, deceived, used and abused since the 1940s. Equally, they are used to dealing with duplicitous, two faced, self serving, lying statesmen. Consider their runup with Carter.
I would not be in the least bit surprised if the CIA has an audio file of the entire meeting archived along with the powerpoint slide presentation. Bitten once by a viper, you learn to put on welding gloves next time you have to handle it.
I suspect they will wait for the dear congresslady from San Francisco to thrash a bit more before the scabbard is unsheathed.
kurtzz3 on May 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Sorry, she is a menace to the Republic and must be stopped by any means necessary. Her head on a pike, I say!
rockmom on May 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Wasn’t the newt sitting next to madame speaker on the Al”ice in wonderland” Gore’s WE couch?
I think he needs to go away.
matthew26 on May 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM
I haven’t seen too much trolling on any of the Pelosi threads defending the slime ball. Not much to defend. “I was a couch with Newt when those briefings took place.”
kirkill on May 15, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Sorry, but if you couldn’t figure out what Nancy Pelosi was all about back in 2006-2007, you’re not smart enough to deserve the attention of the American conservative public.
Newt is an idiot.
2Brave2Bscared on May 15, 2009 at 2:28 PM
I kinda doubt it. They probably thought Pelosi was a dumb bimbo that they didn’t need to worry about too much. Certainly she is an intellectual midget compared to Jane Harman or Pete Hoekstra or Porter Goss.
rockmom on May 15, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Hell, they probably have the Airhead hooked up to a polygraph, confirming that she has been duly advised of the use of waterboarding – and videotape of every second of the briefings.
OhEssYouCowboys on May 15, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Thank you Newt.
I appreciate you offering yourself as a sacrificial lamb to the Left & the MSM.
Learning from the left, put it out there, you can backpeddle later but at least it’s been said.
JoeAvg on May 15, 2009 at 2:29 PM
This from a guy who hobnobs with race pimps and environuts.
Color me unamused.
The Ugly American on May 15, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Gee Newt, you finally wised up to this did ya? She was your good buddy a year ago when you figured you could get some mileage out of doing a “green” PSA with her.
Yes Newt, she’s a lying, conniving, b*tch. And you are an asshat.
DamnCat on May 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM
I could not believe how dry her mouth got yesterday in that press conference. Did anyone else notice how she kept adjusting her lips over her teeth. Weird. She was sweating bullets. “Nervous, nervous, very nervous”…Edgar Allen Poe
She is gonna crack!!!!!
JAM on May 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Steele should take some pointers from Newt… when bipartisanship fails, start attacking the weakest links…
Newt: Attacked Obama, Holder, and defending terrorists… check
Now attacks Pelionosi… check
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM
I have the vague suspicion that Gingrich would criticize Pelosi for wearing Hermes, not Armani, if it would poll well with the mainstream (it’s all about “controlling the conversation!”).
At least now. He was a warrior, once, and this is pure old-school.
emailnuevo on May 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM
They are all mimicking Nan… running with pee dripping down their legs…
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM
WOW! Now I remember why I like Newt Gingrich so much. That man has passion and intelligence.
Newt & Palin in 2012!
Gotcha on May 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM
When Richard Nixon got caught in his Watergate lies, good Republican leaders, such as Barry Goldwater, putting nation above party, went to him and told him that he had to go.
Nancy “Milhous” Pelsoi (aka, Richard Nixon on
botoxsteroids) has now been caught in her Waterboardgate with more lies, and more contradictory lies, than Richard Nixon ever was, so where are any good Democrat leaders to go to her and tell her she has got to go?Hello, President Obama, is this above your pay grade?
MB4 on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Name another Republican who could eat up Obama in a debate (or ANY of his policy wonk advisors). Name another Republican who acts as aggressively as Newt does. He may have taken some actions in the past you don’t like, but as far as being an asset to conservatism in general, there aren’t many that reach his level.
davenp35 on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Gingrich cheated on his wife.
nice343 on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
I could vote for that.
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Don’t they make recordings of every committee meeting that get sealed in the congressional archive? The classified recordings have their own section, if memory serves.
dogsoldier on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Gingrich = House Speaker
Pelosi = House Liar.
(Have I mentioned that Pelosi is kept in office by people who practice the bizarre hobby of scrotum inflation, publicly?)
BobMbx on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
She is the dumbest politician I have heard speak in a very long time. I cannot believe how the media goes on and on about the anti-intellectualness of Sarah Palin when they have so much material w/the mentally midgeted Speaker of the House!
JAM on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
The very notion of Nancy Pelosi finding out that someone had pulled the wool over her eyes about doing something that she claims she was so strongly against, and keeping quiet about it for four years is absolutely preposterous. Especially if it had anything to do with the previous administration, for whom she’s had nothing but contempt for since day one. So no, her story isn’t the least bit believable. Good for you Newt. Let’s hear from the rest of the party about this two-faced liar.
scalleywag on May 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I asked this in another thread: Where the hell are the Republicans?
Thanks to Newt and Cheney for speaking out, but frankly, they “have nothing to lose” since they are not in office. But Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, etc. should be out there condemning her. They do have something to lose – their next elections.
Brat on May 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM
We need to encourage the Blue Dogs to do just this. It will both benefit their party and their country.
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM
If Newt was not selfish, he would let Nancy hang on her own rope. The other GOPers are smart enough to stay out of the way – for now.
faraway on May 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM
abc radio should be commended for hiring the handicapped. That interviewer may be the most stupid media person I’ve ever listened to. He had absolutely no clue what the issue was, he had no idea what gingrich was talking about. The sad thing is, that stupidity is typical of the left and we are losing the war to them, they are cleaning our clocks.
peacenprosperity on May 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Newt’s getting there. The proper description for the left is:
Despicable, lying scum.
And it’s good to throw in their anti-Ameicanism, too.
progressoverpeace on May 15, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Oh look, one dried off and made a comment at 2:35. A personal attack on Newt was all it could muster. Poor thing.
Brat on May 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Gingrich cheated on his wife.
nice343 on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
And that was wrong.
Pelosi is lying to America and falsely accusing the CIA of lying. Which one affects more people?
kingsjester on May 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Gingrich cheated on his wife.
nice343 on May 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Kennedy & Clinton cheated on theirs. And there are rumors that Barry has also…
and your point is?
JAM on May 15, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Yes. And? How does that matter to the current discussion?
lorien1973 on May 15, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Regardless of the couch thing; THIS was delicious!
Panetta is duh man now! THIS is also delicious!
This is also a glaring fact that the Dems are not all in love with each other and that they TOO have some party turmoil. Of course I am not waiting for anyone in the MSLSD media to acknowledge this in any way. THIS too is DELICIOUS!
freeus on May 15, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Waterboardgate?
selias on May 15, 2009 at 2:39 PM
They also have tea in China.
MB4 on May 15, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Puke. Gag. Vomit. Barf.
If this is true, “conservatism” is a dead and hopeless movement.
2Brave2Bscared on May 15, 2009 at 2:40 PM
So did barry with a homosexual limo driver.
peacenprosperity on May 15, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Well, how are we supposed to win when the RINOs are trying to appeal to the far left and kick out anyone center right? They pussy foot around the issues that really matter and then they get all excited about the ridiculous bullcrap that they don’t even have the Constitutional power to control…
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Well, that is almost understandable if you keep in mind the entirety of the event. It’s not everyday a Speaker Of the House accuses the CIA of lying on live TV.
It’s akin to testifying against the mob. What makes it doubly difficult for her is that she’s the one telling the lie.
BobMbx on May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM
hillary will never be president if barry wins a second term. the clintonistas will cause barry constant problems.
peacenprosperity on May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM
OK, since you all caved in…
Prejean got a boob job…
Palin’s daughter had a baby before getting married…
The worst thing, they didn’t lie under oath :(
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Whatever dries the tears, darlin’, whatever dries the tears.
ladyingray on May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Pelosi lied to everyone in the United States, the people she is supposed to represent. Which means she probably lied to her spouse about it too. And she CONTINUES to lie about it. That’s what this post is about in case you weren’t clear.
scalleywag on May 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Ignore the troll. He/she/it is trying derail this discussion since there is nothing else the left can do right now.
strictnein on May 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM
I like the sound of Pelosi-gate
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM
time to go
http://www.polmachina.com/?p=252
ranchoforte on May 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM
The agency needs to take down panetta too.
elduende on May 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Is that a troll I smell?
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Heh, Heh….
Pelosi would be sittin in high cotton if Obummer had not published the CIA
EIT’s….
I think Obummer wants to get rid of Pelosi so HE can have a puppet he can control in Congress. Obummer does not like women telling him what to do.
izoneguy on May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Didn’t know Nancy herself was trolling… I guess that’s what happens when you tolerate something your party is “firmly against…”
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
It’s a troll that doesn’t have access to Google… I would expect better…
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
More precisely: She got pregnant with a
manboy she’s never going to marry, and never planned to.2Brave2Bscared on May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Easy shot, especially since every Democratic president in the last fifty years, save Carter, had a squeeze on the side.
Serious question: isn’t the CIA leftist, and thus her friend?
emailnuevo on May 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Hey don’t forget John Edwards….
izoneguy on May 15, 2009 at 2:44 PM
The Ds are learning that you have to own the power…
Upstater85 on May 15, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Bret is on Fox News right now talking about this. Nancy’s about to strike out. Hoyer is warming up in the bullpen.
Way to stick up for your organization, Panetta.
kingsjester on May 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM
No Sh*t! I also forgot LBJ, FDR and about a hundred Senators and congressmen and governors. The list is endless…How stupid for Trolls to throw stones from their glass homes!
JAM on May 15, 2009 at 2:47 PM
I had forgotten that Newt cheated on his wife.
I now must change my whole opionion on the situation.
I believe Nancy.
Thank you, Troll.
myrenovations on May 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Well, maybe now that Newt has spoken out some more will follow?
scalleywag on May 15, 2009 at 2:48 PM
I am surprised by the cogent reactions to Pelosi. Gingrich is, of course, quite right.
She was a former member of the Intelligence Committee but didn’t bother to follow up by debriefing by her aide?
That’s incompetence.
OR she’s suggesting that the CIA makes up memos? Well, then why bother to torture? Just shoot them, write a memo at your leisure and go have a beer.
It’s inane.
AnninCA on May 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM
So did barry with a homosexual limo driver.
peacenprosperity
Is that a joke or did I miss a significant news report somewhere?
SKYFOX on May 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM
And….
Peolosi stoppped CIA action by objecting after briefing.
Don’t know what that means but it’s breaking on Fox also.
Did Panetta get the green light from the Precedent to throw Ms. Nancy under the bus?
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM
They think you won’t notice!
ladyingray on May 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM
ZING!
scalleywag on May 15, 2009 at 2:50 PM
He got the green light from Hilary.
ladyingray on May 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Yeah, he’s so tough he cozies up to Nancipoo on a couch and instructs us to make nice with the libtards.
He was an asset to conservatism but like most Republicans these days, he’s backslid into the Democrats backwash.
The Ugly American on May 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM
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