Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

George Will Dismisses Newt Gingrich, Scoffs At Idea That He Is A ‘Historian’
mediaite.com ^ | November 20th, 2011 | staff

Posted on 11/20/2011 12:23:58 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion

George Will really doesn’t like Newt Gingrich. On the This Week round table this morning, Will began his comments on Gingrich, now a frontrunner, by stating that his candidate “embodies everything disagreeable about modern Washington,” going on to laugh at the idea that Gingrich was hired by Freddie Mac as a “historian,” and, as a final blow, speaking more glowingly of even Rep. Ron Paul than of Gingrich.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: georgewill; gingrich; newt; newtgingrich
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last

1 posted on 11/20/2011 12:23:58 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion

Actually this is good news for Newt. If George Will hates him he must be doing something right.


2 posted on 11/20/2011 12:25:15 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion
If the Republican party is lucky , George will endorse Obama.
3 posted on 11/20/2011 12:28:17 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion

Will and Newt are both posers.
Neither is really conservative.
Both are little more than opportunist insiders.


4 posted on 11/20/2011 12:30:49 PM PST by Joe Boucher (FUBO ( Real conservative or go fish) Sooo, that leaves you out Mitt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: CaptainK; BarnacleCenturion

ahahaha - yep on both accounts.

Used to like George - many years ago.

Can’t listen to him now


5 posted on 11/20/2011 12:32:22 PM PST by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion

RINO fight!


6 posted on 11/20/2011 12:32:29 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Joe Boucher

I agree with that assessment. If you recall, Will went out of his way not to support Reagan in ‘80 until the last minute. He was a Howard Baker guy for crying out loud.


7 posted on 11/20/2011 12:34:02 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion

Newt +1

Will -whogivesadamn


8 posted on 11/20/2011 12:36:08 PM PST by RockinRight (The circular firing squad among conservatives has Romney smiling.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion
If this dude is a conservative, then I can shoot 59 every time I can tee-up at Augusta National.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwVp0cwOMA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154
9 posted on 11/20/2011 12:36:18 PM PST by federal__reserve (What matters in 2012 is jobs, jobs, jobs! Jobs kill unemployment, foreclosures & deficits)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion

Lol...!

“Will is on the side of the liberal angels.”
...Joseph Sobran (National Review)

“creature of the Washington Post.”
...Kevin P. Phillips


10 posted on 11/20/2011 12:36:41 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: federal__reserve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwVp0cwOMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n_-wB154


11 posted on 11/20/2011 12:37:32 PM PST by federal__reserve (What matters in 2012 is jobs, jobs, jobs! Jobs kill unemployment, foreclosures & deficits)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion

Headline; Newt Attacked by RINO;
Gingrich’s Conservative Bonafides Proven


12 posted on 11/20/2011 12:40:14 PM PST by jessduntno ("They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong." - RR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie

George will wrote a column years ago pining that we no longer need a 2d Amendment! He is a left wing RINO....


13 posted on 11/20/2011 12:41:50 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion

From the same site: Paul Krugman, George Will, Megan McCain, and Jay Leno don’t like Newt.

I consider that to be all positive for Newt.


14 posted on 11/20/2011 12:42:32 PM PST by BigBobber
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: federal__reserve

“If this dude is a conservative, then I can shoot 59 every time I can tee-up at Augusta National.”

Interesting cartoon. Mother Jones? When did Conservatives frown on making non-lobbying money by establishing a firm that represents all comers who pay their fees and proceed legally? Are we buying into the anti-free marketplace of ideas now? George Will is getting to you, huh?


15 posted on 11/20/2011 12:43:34 PM PST by jessduntno ("They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong." - RR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: BigBobber

“From the same site: Paul Krugman, George Will, Megan McCain, and Jay Leno don’t like Newt.”

They all on FR now?

A lot of the posters here don’t seem to want to win this election, either.


16 posted on 11/20/2011 12:45:31 PM PST by jessduntno ("They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong." - RR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: MNJohnnie

Did you read what he said about Newt? Do you have a response? Will gave a devastating, and wholly accurate, rendition of Newt’s big government record. As to historian, well I suppose....a “historian” who couldn’t get tenure at a third rate college.


17 posted on 11/20/2011 12:46:22 PM PST by Captain Kirk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BigBobber
I consider that to be all positive for Newt.

And Will's critique of Newt's big government record (support for ethanol subsidies, etc.) is wrong because.....?

18 posted on 11/20/2011 12:48:04 PM PST by Captain Kirk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Captain Kirk

Who is your choice!

Me here is my choices as of today.

Ron Paul
newt
Bachmann.


19 posted on 11/20/2011 12:48:08 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: BarnacleCenturion; All
You're right, George, Newt's not an historian - look at his degrees - looks like a plumber to me =

Gingrich pursued higher education....He received a B.A. in history from Emory University in Atlanta ...in 1965...a M.A. in 1968, and a PhD in modern European history from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1971. ... Gingrich worked early on in academia, as an assistant professor of history and geography at West Georgia College....years later, in 1993, he taught a class, Renewing American Civilization, at Kennesaw State College in Georgia.[18]

Yep - obviously no historian...

20 posted on 11/20/2011 12:50:15 PM PST by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-65 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson