Gingrich says there are rumors
Newt Gingrich spat some poison on a Fox poison-show yesterday:
I believe, and I’ve said this in my newsletter as you know, and I’ve said it actually with you when we talked around midnight after the debate Monday night. This was the Holt-Clinton vs Trump debate, and you have to see it as tag-team. Holt was on Clinton’s team. This moderator stuff is nonsense, and I predict to you that Anderson Cooper will be ten times worse than Holt because he’s so deeply prejudiced against Trump. I think what you’re going to see is a — and Trump’s just got to prepare for this. Every single debate is going to be a double-team. He’s going to have the moderator who’s a liberal, and he’s going to have Hillary, and they’re both going to be on the same team.
And there are rumors that Hillary was actually given the questions in advance. I don’t know if it’s true but it would not shock me because they all operate in the same circle.
They both knew “the questions” in advance. The topics were announced in advance. It wasn’t an algebra test, it was a debate on broad policy issues. Clinton didn’t “cheat” or steal her neighbor’s answers, she prepared. Trump didn’t prepare because he’s too dim and restless and light-minded.
Also there’s that “there are rumors” bullshit which is just an excuse to plant a lie.
I heard a rumor that Newt Gingrich is an arrogant gasbag. I’m not saying that it’s true, but you know, I heard it.
I heard a rumor that he dumped his wife when she had cancer. I heard it in so many places. It was a very well-distributed rumor.
I was going to say “why does anybody take Gingrich seriously”? Then I thought about the huge umbrella of asshole cover that Trump provides for discards like Gingrich and all the other failed $$%^&*%$#. Then I said “oh” and sighed.
We’re living in a postfactual world. Claims aren’t really supposed to be statements about reality, they’re expressions of feelings. Criticizing Obama’s policies is fine for those who merely disagree with or even dislike the man, but if you really hate him, you need to express that by questioning his citizenship. If you really really hate him, then you throw in that he’s also a secret Muslim Manchurian Candidate. It’s not as if people independently came to those conclusions and then came to hate him based on the “truth” of those accusations; the hate came first.
If you hate Hillary, you can’t content yourself with just criticizing her. You need to call for her imprisonment and/or assassination. You don’t criticize her debate performance, you accuse her of cheating. How are the rest of us to understand the depths of your hatred if you don’t express them through outlandish accusations?
This ‘game the refs’ thing is _really_ getting pathetic. And is, I figure, kinda illustrative. Both of what dreadfully sore losers they are, and where and how they would take any office, given a chance. As guys like these want their moderators like they want their regulators: completely passive in the face of thuggish villainy.
Don’t worry Newt, Donald’s got a friend in Chris Wallace…
As Fox News folks go, Wallace isn’t too bad. I realize that is damning with faint praise.
But I think Wallace will want to protect his own reputation, and ensure that Fox anchors are considered by the commission in future elections, so I think there’s a limit to how far he’ll go.
For possibly the six thousandth time since he first appeared on the scene, I find myself thinking: geez, a PhD in history, huh? Shall we remind Dr. Newt there are also people saying Elvis is alive? Perhaps, then, he might work this into a textbook…
I _was_ gonna do another riff. Other things ‘people are saying’, do the obvious joke: people are saying x incredibly lurid and unlikely thing about Gingrich… You know, people are saying Gingrich likes to murder puppies, whatever…
… but then you lot had to bring in the reality. That lovely cancer/divorce thing. And I am upstaged by the actual, yet again.