Gingrich to Americans: ‘People should be afraid’
Published: May 24, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
Newt Gingrich, former GOP speaker of the house, rallied to the former vice president’s side Sunday morning, making excuses for the prior administration’s torture program.
Echoing Dick Cheney during an appearance on Meet the Press, Gingrich insisted that “people should be afraid” because of President Barack Obama’s alterations to former President George W. Bush’s terror war.
“If you look at the behavior the last few months, if you look at the effort to open up past wounds,” said Gingrich. “… If you were a CIA employee today, and you understood there were people who wanted a truth commission, that people wanted to say to you, ‘I want to go back six, seven, eight years and I wanna put you on trial potentially … If you look at what Speaker Pelosi said, they lie to us all the time … This has hurt morale. The question is, is the most important thing to us today to find some sort of American Civil Liberties Union model of making sure that we never offend terrorists, or we’re gonna cover your back, we’re proud of you and we want you to defend America.”
“You will find the message we just heard from Mr. Gingrich, from Vice President Cheney and Mr. Rush Limbaugh to be the same. It’s a message of fear. Be afraid. Be very afraid. And to say that this president is not doing everything in his power to keep America safe is just about as irresponsible as anything I’ve ever heard said on [Meet the Press],” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) at the beginning of a lengthy retort to Gingrich.
“I think people should be afraid,” said Gingrich. “I think the lesson of 1993, the first time they bombed the World Trade Center, was, fear is probably appropriate. I think the lesson of Khobar Towers, where American servicemen were killed in Saudi Arabia, was, fear is probably appropriate. I think the lesson of the two embassy bombings in east Africa was, fear is probably appropriate. I think the lesson of the Cole being bombed in Yemen was, fear is probably appropriate. I’ll tell ya, if you aren’t a little bit afraid after 9/11, with 3,100 Americans killed inside the United States by an effort … If you weren’t worried about the second wave attack that was designed to take out the second largest building in Los Angeles … I think that you are out of touch with reality.”
The so-called second wave attack Gingrich referred to — an allegedly planned jumbo jet attack on the Library tower in Los Angeles (which Bush occasionally referred to as the “Liberty” tower) — has been called into doubt by intelligence officials. Members of the Bush administration have used the claim repeatedly to justify the torture of prisoners, even though waterboarding — which allegedly revealed the plot — had nothing to do with it.
This video is from NBC’s Meet the Press, broadcast May 24, 2009.
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The best these reactionary pricks can do is manipulate people with fear of the unknown when we should all be very, very afraid of them back in power.
A draft dodging chickenhawk/neocon adds credence to the European view that Americans are quite docile and naive in world affairs.
There are some 200 countries with a US military presence either infantry and/or air bases and if Mr. Gingrich who aspires to become a Paul Revere like figure in the US still believes in his almost imbecelic statements that WE should be afraid then its only people like him, Limbaugh a drug addict, Cheney a draft dodger and likewise Rove that can only save us by volunteering to the war front.
Its beginning to look like the principled, moral and ethical Republicans like Congressman Paul need to disassociate themselves from clowns mentioned above.
“If you were a CIA employee today, and you understood there were people who wanted a truth commission, that people wanted to say to you, ‘I want to go back six, seven, eight years and I wanna put you on trial potentially….”
This is where Gingrich, Limbaugh and the GOP always fails miserably. The American people don’t want to see the CIA “employees” investigated and prosecuted. We want to see the upper eschelon that ordered torture investigated–and prosecuted. The leadershiip BROKE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LAW and should be investigated and prosecuted, not the people working in the trenches who were caught between the two jaws of the Bush Administration’s vise. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld et al should be on the block, not the employees. But the GOP holds “leadership” sacrosanct. They are similar to the old royalty of Europe, where even those convicted of serial murders could not be put to death because royalty had the privilege of not being eligible for the death penalty regardless of what heinous crimes they committed. Well, America is not a monarchy system. Leaders are as eligible for prosecution as anyone else when they commit heinous crimes for heinous reasons. And tortore is a heinous crime, pre-emptive war without reason is a heinous crime, and outing a CIA agent and her company (working to keep the world safe from rogue nuclear weapons) is a heinous crime. Investigate! Prosecute!
Who is the best to take advise from? Cheney a liar who has not been straight with us for over eight years or the pant load who was kicked out of congress for being hypocritical, fined $300,000 which he borrowed to pay or do we believe Career Military and intelligence professionals who tell us completely different stories? What kind of leaders try to lead via fearmongering? Could the fearmongers be the five deferment cowards and the draft dodgers like Newt and Rush? These are some sorry bast@rds and the media is giving them a forum. The media is not serving the public interest.
I did not watch, because I refuse to watch these jerkoffs, cheney, limbaugh, rove, gingrich and a few more try to blow their nuts.
It is obvious they are all nuts, but reading above what he said, makes no sense at all. NONE.
And fortunally the world knows these people are over the edge. WAY OVER THE EDGE AND GRABBING AT STRAWS TO TRY TO COME BACK.
Inspirational.
Christians and Repunantkkkan’ts are fearful people and easily controlled by fear. We should think about this. Maybe there’s a way to use this to make decent humans out of them. We should figure a way to make them afraid of Newt, Darth, Lush Rimjob, and Chimpy McFlightsuit. Or maybe we could get them all to move to some god forsaken island in the middle of nowhere. A whole gaggle of Christ Cultists are getting ready to leave my small town for Belize to wait for their silly rapture. I’d love to go just watch them but they’d probably burn me at the stake for laughing at them. About the first sighting of a Fer de lance or a bug the size of a ground squirrel and they’ll be on their way back.
[b]“If you look at the behavior the last few months, if you look at the effort to open up past wounds,” said Gingrich. “… If you were a CIA employee today, and you understood there were people who wanted a truth commission, that people wanted to say to you, ‘I want to go back six, seven, eight years and I wanna put you on trial potentially … If you look at what Speaker Pelosi said, they lie to us all the time … This has hurt morale. The question is, is the most important thing to us today to find some sort of American Civil Liberties Union model of making sure that we never offend terrorists, or we’re gonna cover your back, we’re proud of you and we want you to defend America.”[/b]
Newtie, you scum sucking cowardly traitorious piece of shit! How Fucking Dare You stand there pontificating. You are lower than Whale Shit and it is lying on the bottom of the Marianas Trench. How I would have loved to have had you in one of my divisions or working for me during my career as a US Navy Chief.. But then again I am aged, and a little forgetful and realize that you used every possibility and probably that teacher you married plus your mother to fuck enough of the draft board where you could be excused from having to fight and instead sent several good men to bleed and die in your stead.
Having received a good education, I do know that there is no time limits on Treason, Sedition, and Murder and surely you can still be held accountable for at least one of these. Along with all the dog shit repigs that you supposedly represent.. I have no use for any of you and these days the only reason I am still a democrat is I want to be different than a shit eating reich wing repig xtian piece of dog shit.
These days I have nothing but contempt for the leaders of the democratic party. I feel that most of them are cowards or senile or even possibly both.. Many are like you, bought and paid for by the corporations and the very rich… I only wish that it were possible to act like Robin Hood. Guaren Ball Bearin’ Ass Wipe, you would see me in front of you with my dick in my hand and you on your knees… Betcha after a little “enhanced interrigation” You and the rest of the cocksuckers who supported and support torture to this day would be willing to Knob Off the entire 7th Fleet.
I watched the past 8 years and not a peep from your warty pie hole! Were you hoping that we all forgot all the intern pussy you were getting while you were busy pillaging President Clinton? How about the #1 wifey that you deserted? Or the fucking backstabbing on #2 and #3???
All you Motherfuckers are nothing more than Charlatans, very rich Alcholics who are totally owned and manipulated by the rich to do their bidding…. I am a 71 year old Retired Navy Chief who would like to run into you on the street one day, and I would bet you a dollar to a dog turd that I would walk away and you would need an entire emergency med team to rid you of the fur collar that would be strangling you… That fur collar would be your asshole as I would kick it up around your adams apple.. You Fucks really piss me off.. Pelosi is nothing more than a bought a paid for whore in my opinion, and the only good thing I can think that should happen to Harry Reid is that in one of his midnight drunken meanderings around Searchlight Nevada, is that he might fall down one of the old abandoned mine shafts that litter that trailer trash town that he represents. As far as for you perhaps the South will secede and you all will turn to Cannibalism and all die of ptomaine posioning or lmphogranuloma venereum or even better Ebola…. After all, the Rethuglicans and thieves and pimps and shitheels only deserve the very best.
By the Way Newtie……. Our Fucking Government has been lying to us for years, decades, You white xtian pieces of shit have managed to keep the commons stupid and enthralled with your silly Gawd and shit while you have milked the country dry….
One of these Days Mother Fuckers Payback will be a Real Bitch
Just This Old Chief’s 2¢
Maheanuu Tane
CPO USN Ret.
Citizen of Tahiti
Naturalized French and Fuckin’ Proud!
There is NO news on TV, just INFONEWS. Who the hell lets these spewing gas bags on and NEVER questions them about their anal comments—Oil, Gas,Electric and the fascist OWN these blow torches that scorch our eyes and ears. Stop paying for cable or satelite tv that deliver that “crack” into your house.
I’ve known for years this idiot Gingrinch is a consummate shithead. His fear comments just further confirm what’s obvious. I think both he and ole Cheengangy, as well, are unpatriotic assholes….dangerous, irresponsible.
All US citizens should be leary of them. Of course, the RePUKES are in such tragic shape right now, they’re into grasping at straws—and straw men these two treasonous bastards surely are.
Idiot Gingrinch has about a piss ant’s chance in Hell of ever being elected to anything again; and I’ve recently read only 7% of voters think ole Cheengangy’s still sane, i.e. IF he ever were….Is it true that BOTH of them are draft dodgers of the most stinking sort?
The 21st century “contract with america”…..Never let republicans gain control of this country again!
Gingrich is a lying hypocrite. He thinks because he converts to be a catholic all his prior acts are erased……like leaving his second wife(while she is on her hospital cancer bed) to sleep with his third future wife—-his intern. He’s a low life scumbag.
I really would like an answer from anyone here in Raw Story to logically explain any of the past 10 years (I am including in this question the Kerry / Bush or the Bush Steam Rolling of America period, hence the 10 year period). Bushes military Service Jacket appears to have disappeared, This is the Son of King George I, now I am not really sure, but if this old Chief’s Service Jacket were not found, I would be on the quest to find out why.. remember you still have the exclusive rights to all of your service jacket as long as you live. Period…. Nah, you can mebbe fool the retards and the morons, but the public, the educated? A man who could read or put more than 3 words together to make some (?) semblance of sense to someone out there….. Why is it that the whole fucking world sees this and the country of my birth seems to be blinded by myopic mind fogs? Everything the administration has done is a complete rat fuck of the human mind…. I have no Idea of what their fucking reality is.. I know that what ever they believe in is going to be some insane thought about some new Democracy under a constitution that has no separation between the church and state. One where there are only two Classes, Us and Them, and with the dumbing down of the country, we have no time left if we don’t get this train turned around… The repigs want to go back to the dark ages, I truly am lost these days in the country of my birth. Up is Down, Right is Left, I can’t seem to keep up…. Every few minutes there is another pompus son of a bitch repig in front of a camera sayng “Be Very Afraid” Gawd, fuck me dead!!! Stop the world!!! I wanna get off!
Please Please Please understand this…..There is NO Republican Party….There is NO Democratic Party….There is NO LEFT..There is NO RIGHT…
THEY ALL work for the same people…They are puppets that take orders from others..
\It’s like going to Burger King to make a complaint about your food and the manager comes out to take care of it…You never actually can talk to the owner of Burger King…
They read from teleprompters..They are told what to say…
Ask yourself why Fox, Cnn and MSNBC have the same news stories??
The Cheney, Obama fight is scripted..to make the stupid public think they are not on the same team…So you don’t catch on that Obama is pushing through the same agenda…When we figure this out things can change..
I wish everyone would wake up!
The people are so “divided and conquered” through partisan politics that they all have their heads up their asses!
Back and forth, back and forth while the controlled media steers the course. The banksters just love it!
The BushCo war on terror has rocked the pendulum so far to the extreme right, that all Obama has to do is bring it back halfway and everyone will accept it, just like the gas price fix!
The globalists banksters that run the monetary system are the true power (whodda thunk, money running everything, hmmm), and are so obviously in control of Obama it can make those of us who are not standing so close to the tree that we actually see the fire PISSED OFF AS HELL!
Obama is the perfect scapegoat!
There has been NO CHANGE! I implore you whether you like Ron Paul or hate him, read his book The Revolution a Manifesto and you will surely be enlightened to what you are being robbed of even if you think everything is peachy.
The Federal Reserve Bak needs to be shut down and the criminals running it should all be tried. Unfortunately most of our Congressional leaders should be too!
I wasn’t afraid when the Red Army Faction bombed our base in 1981.
I wasn’t afraid before, during or after that NYC nonsense.
And I ain’t afraid now.
I think the rich should be afraid.
Let the class wars begin
Maybe we should be afraid. Maybe the Sibel Edmonds story will never be fully told and the behind-the-scenes Zio-zealots who own and run this country will prevail. She can upend them and they know it, but not without our unrelenting collective support. We let her story die at our peril.
Here’s a recent editorial by her:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/23
Here’s some background on her — documentary: “Kill the Messenger.”
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22071.htm
Help keep her story alive.
Gingrich is a worthless POS. So are all the rest of those neocons To give Limpballs and credence is a disgrace. That worthless cigar smoking oxycontin viagra baffoon faced rat.
I thought when people are FIRED,
they leave.
Gingrinch is pathetic. He thinks that he is setting himself up for running for the presidency. What kind of LEADERSHIP is “Be afraid. Be VERY afraid”? That was the freaking X Files! A damned TV show, and these are the guys who keep telling us how Hollywood can’t be the ones to call the shots. But they worship a second rate actor as their best president ever, a guy who couldn’t out act a chimp! They elect people like Fred “Gopher” Grandy and Sonny Bono to congress and an immigrant Austrian to the governorship of California. It seems to me that they ARE the party of Hollywood.
But this BS about be afraid all the time is the most pathetic crap I have ever seen. To try to instill fear in people who USED to be the most fearless people around is just disgusting. This is a party that wants to rule so badly (the ONLY way they ever did run things), they would destroy the spirit of the people themselves.
Go ahead, Newt, you be afraid for both of us, I REFUSE, you sorry assed sack of shit. Live in fear, get an ulcer from it and die, for all I care. I don’t fear other countries, I don’t fear other religious groups, I don’t fear brown people or black people or Asians, and I don’t fear much of anything else but YOUR party getting back in power. If you do, this country truly IS over with.
You are truly pathetic, you freaking worm.
maheanuu
Why would you want that fly jacket? Its so full of shit that his eyes are still brown….
Look at Gingrich’s face. Would you wear mask like that on Halloween? Now that would be scary.
The thing I am really afraid of is the people stupid enough to believe anything this un-American traitor to the Laws of the US has to say. Why will they not go away already? Are Americans really that stupid? I think I need to run for office, if that shit bag can get in anyone can.
I AM afraid! Afraid of having people who ordered TORTURE free in our country! It’s a disgusting slap in the face to the brave men and women who for the past 200 years gave their lives defending this country from those very people!!! To allow thos epeople to remain not only free but to put those criminals on television as some kind of heroes for the crimes against America that they committed makes me as a veteran SICK!
“9/11 was a SHOCK and we were totally caught off guard”? Remember a little memo entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US”?
Bush did NOTHING BUT LIE during his administration. The “generals on the ground” that he promised to listen to were fired if they disagreed with his agenda. Of course, the CIA lied because they were afraid — very afraid.
Why can’t the Republicants do anything but instill fear in the American people? Even Lindsey Graham admitted he wasn’t briefed.
Newt Gingrich and his cohorts should crawl back under their rocks. THAT would be doing something positive for America.
No truer words were ever spoken than these: ” When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
The founders had it right, it was not until our courts decided the only way to undermine the Bill of Rights (which GUARANTEED AS PROTECTED from our newly forming government) was to “interpret” them for us” (thanks but too much help is no good) that that they were able to undermine them.
The Bill of Rights has no “BUTS” in it! Our courts put them in while interpreting them for us. There has been a steady downhill erosion eversince. Read them, they say what they mean.
THERE ARE NO BUTS IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS!!
Wev are currently living in a sugarcoated tyranny!
Just more bleating from the GOP echo chamber of fear mongering village idiots.
“I think people should be afraid,” said Gingrich.
It’s so much better when it’s like that, eh Newt? The masses are so much easier to control when they’re always afraid.
Leave it to these MORONS to scare their brainwashed viewers!
All they do is instill FEAR. Why? Don’t they get by now that WE KNOW their SICK GAME????? Didn’t electing OBAMA prove that?
Rove, Gingrich, Bush (even though we haven’t heard from him), Rumsfeld, Condie, the entire Fox News Network with their right wing guests (except Shep) and the big DICK - should GO FAR AWAY… really FAR away; THEY ARE WHAT MAKES THE UNITED STATES LESS SAFE… not anything else… just THEM and their mouths.
And I am so sick and tired of hearing that Bush kept us safe after 9/11… HE ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN… 9/11 WAS UNDER HIS WATCH… HE DID NOT KEEP US SAFE AND AFTER THE WAR WITHOUT MERIT AND TORTURE TACTICS… WE ARE LESS SAFE - that’s reality.
And… for no other reason than me wanting to say this…
9/11 WAS MOST DEFINITELY AN INSIDE JOB.
1. All prior and post plane crashes leave PLANE WRECKAGE; ALL OF THEM - how come we saw nothing in PA or at the Pentagon????????
2. A commercial jet could NOT produce the hole in the Pentagon… WHERE DID THE WINGS GO? DID THEY FOLD UP CLOSE TO THE PLANE before flying through it????
and
3. The NY buildings were brought down via a CONTROLLED DEMOLITION!!! Buildings have burned and burned and burned and NEVER FALLEN INTO A DIRECT FOOTPRINT OF THEMSELVES. Not to mention those infamous words… “pull it”.
PULL THIS! Too many people live with their heads in the sand and they are only fooling themselves; so sad.