Posted on 11/10/2011 3:10:30 PM PST by Evil Slayer
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RUSH: I want to get a couple sound bites in, otherwise Cookie's gonna resign. I'm gonna pick a couple of Newt just letting the media have it. I love these. This is during the debate. Jim Cramer, who escaped from the zoo to moderate the debate said, "Speaker Gingrich, do you think that companies can both be profitable and be able to create jobs? You think that's a dichotomy?" This why I'm asking, "How did he get out of the zoo?" Do you think a company could be profitable and create jobs? Even if this is a trick question that's pathetic. Ever heard of Apple? Can a company be profitable and create jobs? Here's Newt.
GINGRICH: What is amazing to me is the inability of much of our academic world, much of our news media, and most of the people on Occupy Wall Street to have a clue about history. In this town Henry Ford started as an Edison Electric supervisor who went home at night and built his first car in the garage. Now, was he in the 99% or the 1%? Bill Gates drops out of college to found Microsoft. Is he in the 1% or the 99%? Historically this is the richest country in the history of the world because corporations succeed in creating both profits and jobs, and it's sad that the news media doesn't report accurately how the economy works.
RUSH: We cut the applause, by the way, for economy of time here, but they went nuts over that. But to have to explain that, I know it might be helpful because how many dunderheads don't think it's possible to be profitable and create jobs, but there's the question, and he answered it. So next it was Maria Bartiromo, CNBC, who was not happy that Newt ripped into media. They had this little tete-a-tete.
BARTIROMO: What is the media reporting inaccurately about the economy?
GINGRICH: What? (laughter)
BARTIROMO: What is the media reporting inaccurately about the economy?
GINGRICH: I love humor disguised as a question. That's terrific. I have yet to hear a single reporter ask a single Occupy Wall Street person a single rational question about the economy that would lead them to say, for example, who's gonna pay for the park you're occupying if there are no businesses making a profit? (applause/cheers)
RUSH: Right on, right on, right on. And Maria Bartiromo, she's not necessarily a commie babe, I mean she understands how the economy works. What's the media reporting inaccurately about the economy? Try everything! And you wouldn't be far wrong.
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My other concern is Newt’s tendency to get ahead of himself and start freelancing in a way that might undermind the administration.
He’d have to be very clear, very disciplined, and very honorable about the fact that President Cain was his boss and, in the end, made the decisions.
I don’t think Cain would have any problem whatsoever rapping Newt’s knuckles if need be, but why hire trouble. Get everything on the table ahead of time.
I can see a Cain/Gingrich ticket as being a good balance. Cain is a strong business/economic type and Gingrich is schooled in foreign affairs and knows the insides and out of Congress.
They would both be a dynamic team on the campaign trail with Cain pounding Obama and Gingrich holding the media at bay along with his additional experience in government over the years.
No one said the truth needed to be tiptoed around.
It’s simply a fact that there is such a thing as “acting presidential.”
One can accomplish the same effect, most of the time, and still preserve the dignity of the office.
All I’m suggesting is that before people get too rah-rah about Newt’s bombthrowing capabilities (google that if you weren’t paying attention during the Clinton years), it would be good to remember that he will have someone different restraints, and rightly so, if he were president.
Ouch!
UGH.
undermind = undermine
I also think we need to put the role of the debates in context.
They are important. But they are not determinative.
I remember watching a debate or two in 2008 where I, as well as many of the freepers on the live thread, thought that John McCain wiped the floor with Obama.
Didn’t matter one bit in that election.
Would be an AWESOME bumper sticker!!!
It would be more than a little entertaining, to see Newt as President of the Senate.
The place would ring like a bell ...
Ye that is without sin, cast the first stone.
I suppose your oh so principled stance would cause you to stay home if Newt were the nominee or would you rather vote for Mitt or Zero.
Come on FRiend! His adultery is none of your business or mine. BTW, I support Herman Cain.
bartiromo got well-deserved bitch slaps from the audience and newt.
she and her leftist buds started out in an arrogant, take-no- prisoners mode.
Did President Reagan cheat on Jane? I wasn’t speaking about divorce.
I hear the squeegee man’s hiring. How’s that working out for ya?
Gingrich has been married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26.[114][115] In the spring of 1980, Gingrich left Battley after having an affair with Marianne.
In the mid-1990s, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, who is 23 years his junior. They continued their affair during the Lewinsky scandal, when Gingrich became a leader of the Republican investigation of President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his alleged affairs.
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