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Gingrich confronted on race, agrees to meet with Sharpton
The Hill ^ | 1/21/2012 | Cameron Joseph

Posted on 01/21/2012 9:56:52 AM PST by CitizenReporter

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Newt Gingrich was confronted by a black man outside Tommy's Country Ham House, who questioned him on his comments on having poor children work as janitors.

The man said what Gingrich was asking for amounted to a "new form of slavery" and would force young African Americans to drop out of school.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: al; chameleon; gingrich; moron; racist; sharpton
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To: CitizenReporter

Al gotsta keep his face in da news and his palms greased with Benjamins. Just keepin it real. Know whut ah’m sayin?


61 posted on 01/21/2012 11:39:05 AM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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To: Azzurri
Gingrich already did a tour of the country with Al Sharpton promoting education reform.

A little 'drive by' attack on Newt, eh? Seems that is a regular part of your posting history.

Here's some facts about Newt promoting education reform (that's a GOOD and needed thing) ....

Gingrich applauded Obama for showing "real courage on the issue of charter schools." Obama wants to increase the number of charter schools, which have a controversial history and are a divisive issue for his party's base.

Yes, Newt should have known better that 0 is a total liar and owned by the Teacher's unions that would never let this happen. But what Newt was promoting, the increase of and financial support for charter schools, was right and conservative.

62 posted on 01/21/2012 11:41:27 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: katiedidit1

Condi Rice is incompetent. Another affirmative action appointment like Powell. And she has sucked up to Obama big time. Read the books by Rumsfeld and Cheney and you will see how poorly she performed.


63 posted on 01/21/2012 11:43:29 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

Pandering?! Seriously? Newt will tell them all in person what he told Juan on national TV. Newt is not afraid of the race-baiters and is willing to debate them, which is surely not pandering to them.


64 posted on 01/21/2012 11:45:06 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: IM2MAD

Oh man, what a ticket!
Gingrich-West!


65 posted on 01/21/2012 11:56:28 AM PST by ntnychik
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To: Servant of the Cross
Just meeting with them is pandering. Who is next, La Raza? Since when does Sharpton represent the 35 million black people is this country?

We are supposed to be a party that doesn't view people through the prism of race and victim classes. You only lose when you "debate" idiots like this. Sharpton is a tax cheat who owes the government $2.6 million. And he should be in jail for his role as a racial arsonist in the Freddie's Fashion Mart incident.

Gingrich is supposed to be running for President not debater in chief.

66 posted on 01/21/2012 11:57:05 AM PST by kabar
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To: jimbo123
Newt should ask the Rev. Al to release his tax returns.

LOL! Then challenge him to a series of Lincoln Douglas style debates.

67 posted on 01/21/2012 12:06:58 PM PST by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: CitizenReporter

68 posted on 01/21/2012 12:08:47 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: CitizenReporter

¨Resist we much....¨

Now there´s a maze of racist code language.


69 posted on 01/21/2012 12:49:35 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Focault's Pendulum

Is Sharpton the same person who was violating rent control laws in NYC by using rent-controlled units for offices? 4 or 5?

Is he the same person who had a car parked for free for YEARS in Congressional parking garage? I do mean YEARS.

Is this the same person who had condos he owned in the Carribbean rented out & ne never reported the income?

I might have the wrong Dem crook-—there are so many of them. It’s hard to keep track of them all & no one is printing a program for those of us who are not on the inside ring of their follies.


70 posted on 01/21/2012 1:20:20 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Parley Baer

Why “race baited”? Why doesn’t he meet with JC , Walter Williams, or Thomas Sowell


71 posted on 01/21/2012 1:25:42 PM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: ngat
"...there have not been any “food stamps” for a long time..."

A rose by any name would smell the same.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (the new name for the federal Food Stamp Program) helps low-income individuals and families buy the food they need for good health. Although SNAP is the national name, your state may use a different name.

72 posted on 01/21/2012 1:38:13 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Parley Baer

“That Black mans mind is so messed up that he will never get it. He just does not understand the message that Newt was trying to convey. He has been on the dimoKKKRAT plantation to long.”

He is but one of millions who feel exactly the same way.

What can be expected from a people who have been bombarded with the propaganda from the day they’re born that they live in a “racis’” world, perpetrated by each and every white, and that the only way they can get ahead is by affirmative action which by design must push aside others so they can have their place?

Having written that, what on earth does Gingrinch hope to gain from a meeting with Sharpton? Wake up, Newt!


73 posted on 01/21/2012 1:43:10 PM PST by Road Glide
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To: Red Steel
“Sure — glad to do it,” Gingrich said. “I’d be willing to do it. I know Al.”

Here we go again.

74 posted on 01/21/2012 2:31:33 PM PST by La Enchiladita (If you believe John Edwards has a heart condition then I feel sorry for you...)
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To: Azzurri
Gingrich already did a tour of the country with Al Sharpton promoting education reform. It had the members of FR in an uproar and they said they'd never vote for the guy...how quickly people forget.

You've got to do a lot of selective forgetting and revisionist history with Newt.

Btw, Michael Steele when head of RNC was thoroughly vilified on this forum when it was rumored RNC made a donation to Sharpton. It was never documented or proven, but that didn't make any difference because of the opportunity to bash Steele.

75 posted on 01/21/2012 2:36:27 PM PST by La Enchiladita (If you believe John Edwards has a heart condition then I feel sorry for you...)
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To: kabar
Gingrich is supposed to be running for President not debater in chief.

Thank you, but there is an audience out there for the Marjoe-type of show he puts on. He's good at the sound bite, the catchy phrase, whatever red meat will appeal to the audience of the moment and sway the crowd EMOTIONALLY.

For all that Newt poses as a professor or intellectual, his effect is emotional and he knows it and he works it.

76 posted on 01/21/2012 2:42:06 PM PST by La Enchiladita (If you believe John Edwards has a heart condition then I feel sorry for you...)
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To: lonevoice

Now that I could endorse. Otherwise, Newt has no business meeting with anyone. He should have responded that he is a bit busy winning the Republican nomination so the man who approached him could get a job — and a life.


77 posted on 01/21/2012 2:56:32 PM PST by varina davis (Elect a real American patriot in 2012 -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: CitizenReporter

Isn’t it odd that when he said “poor children” everyone on the left assumed it was poor BLACK children he was speaking of instead of any other race? I mean never mind that we are on the 3rd and 4th generation where everyone in the family has always been on welfare and no one has ever known anyone who has had a job.Newt told the truth there are many out there that know no one who have ever worked....the left is stuck on race.


78 posted on 01/21/2012 2:57:13 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: IM2MAD
Selecting Allen West as V.P. would do a lot to shut up Sharpton.

Sharpton won't shut up until the day he dies. Maybe not even then.

79 posted on 01/21/2012 2:58:25 PM PST by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Spunky

I used to do that too and it allowed me to keep the $$ my Mom gave me for lunch.Back then lunch was only .75 but after 5 days that $3.50 added to my $5 allowance gave me a little extra. If I save 2 weeks I really had a lot of money for a 12yo!


80 posted on 01/21/2012 3:01:34 PM PST by chris_bdba
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