Gingrich: People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.”

[Douglas Carpenter]

from salon.com

Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 10:00 PM 02:48:09 UTC+1000

Apocalypse Newt

Gingrich's bizarre obsession with civilization-ending threats


Credit: AP/Wikipedia)

Newt Gingrich has changed a lot of positions over his many years in public life, but there are a few things about his worldview that are consistent. One is an obsession with apocalyptic or civilization-ending threats, often paired with the idea that Gingrich himself is alone (or nearly so) in recognizing the scale of the danger and in being equipped to deal with it.

My favorite example of this genre of Gingrich studies is a 1994 interview in which he declared “People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.”

That line became an instant classic for Newt aficionados; less well-known is that Gingrich elaborated on the theme — at length — in the same interview, conducted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

“I see evil around me every day,” he says. He cites the widespread slaughter from Bosnia to Washington D.C. The German tourist killed by what Gingrich calls “a savage” from the urban jungle of Miami.

“We are at the edge of losing this civilization,” he says. “You get two more generations of what we had for the last 20 years and we’re in desperate trouble …

......

Gingrich also sees the supposed rise of Shariah in America as a threat to “Western civilization.”

“Stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools; violent jihadis use violence,” he said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute last year. “But in fact they’re both engaged in jihad and they’re both seeking to impose the same end state which is to replace Western civilization with a radical imposition of Sharia.”

read full article at salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/13/apocalypse_newt/?source=newsletter

[eShirl]

1. talk about begging for ridicule

[KamaAina]

2. He's right.

He'd be standing in the guard tower.

[arbusto_baboso]

3. Just exactly what I was thinking.

Alles fur Der Vaterland, according to Newt.

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. :D

[opihimoimoi]

19. The man is deluded...he is a HITLER in a closet...its the same message crammed into a fat asshole

If anyone stands for him...they are Gestapo

[DisgustipatedinCA]

46. Well done!

Thank you for the unexpected laugh (because really, who laughs when they're listening to old Gordon Lightfoot?).

[Wait Wut]

53. I realize you meant this as a joke...

...and, it did make me smile, but...

While Newtie is attempting to cuddle with the Jews and Israel, he's demonized and dehumanized an entire populace...Muslims. He seems silly and out of touch now, but I would imagine that's what a lot of people thought about Hitler in the early stages of his "career". Do I really think he could pull off the illegalization of an entire people? Not really. But, he could do a lot of damage and drag us into another, possibly the final, war. This doesn't even cover what he thinks of "poor" people or the undereducated. While he whines about "class warfare" now, as President, he would encourage it. It would give him the excuse to tighten the bonds further.

I spend a lot of time laughing and making jokes about the clowns that are competing for the GOP nomination, but there are times when I stop and really think about it. There isn't one of them that doesn't worry me. It's Newt & Co. that should be closing our ranks. It's up to us to prevent another Auschwitz.

Poop. Now I feel bad about ruining a lighthearted comment. I've had it done to me and it irritates me. I promise, I really do have a sense of humor and I'm far from using tinfoil for headwear!

[KamaAina]

58. It was actually a rehash of an old Pat Buchanan joke

"Pat Buchana's not anti-Semtic. In fact, he lost an uncle at Auschwitz....

He fell out of the guard tower!"

[Odin2005]

4. off his rocker.

[OKNancy]

5. those are simple words, but when I read them I thought

yes... he is off his rocker. That sums it up perfectly. It's clean and neat and true.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. People like Newt are what stand between divorce lawyers and their own bankruptcy

[treestar]

9. Now that's true

[atreides1]

7. Of course

Notice how he avoids mentioning that Christian fanatics are doing the same thing!

[SpiralHawk]

52. Bingo!

This is yet another example of one of the standard occult republicon strategeries: TO proactively PROJECT their very own deep dank stanky shadows onto others with ferocious speed and force.



"If thou FAIL to reckon with and own thy shadow,
then thy shadow shall surely own thee."

- Billy Bibble

[krucial]

8. Evil

Seems like Gingrwich dont know that evil is who, and what is ruling today and for the past 5 decades.

It is evil that is invading and occupying peoples land and killing them everday,invading innocent people and destroying a nation based on lies for oil and control,so you could reap the windfall profits when they start the Nation building after the death,destruction,mayhem,and misery heaped upon the innocent people,for"Strategic interest" and the bogus and laughable claim that they are defending western civillation and Israel

The evil are those who thinks they own the world and can dictate can have this and that kind of weapons,it is the evil who has amssive quantites of Wmd while telling and threatenting others if they even think about trying to get one,it is the Evil who only supports the rich against the masses of hard working people like his "God Squad" Christian right Republican Conservative party.
The Evil that is drumming up even more war,with and all out concerted war to go after Iran
A war that already started wiht execution of their scientist and sabbatoge against them for the last 4 years.

We can not get anymore evil than Gingrich and those who think like him and those who support,and are in the same calls of one of the most evil americans who ever lived"Dick Cheney".
What is ruling the the world today is" EVIL",and its too bad that Gingrich and the rich and wealthy,their arrogance are blinding them to the truth.
If they really want to see evil,they should look in the mirror

[closeupready]

10. Right, Newt. Let's let you do your part and stick with Wife #3, without being unfaithful, okay?

That's a good start to strengthening the institution of marriage, which you have contributed towards helping to destroy.

[TBF]

11. This quote:

“You get two more generations of what we had for the last 20 years and we’re in desperate trouble … "

Newt, do you realize that the past 30 years has been primarily leadership by YOUR party?

[xxqqqzme]

44. That was my exact thought when I read that.

Just because HE doesn't know or remember history doesn't mean the rest of us are as willfully ignorant.

If he is all that stand between us and destruction, I'll take my chances on the street.

[TBF]

56. Same here - I can't stand that evil man. nt

[smirkymonkey]

12. He's projecting again.

What I'd like to know is what's standing between him and reality. He makes W. look harmless.

[applegrove]

47. Yup. Newt is a creep.

[hankthecrank]

13. Don't think I need your fat ass saving me from anything

unless its saving me from that piece of pie that keeps looking at me

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. TY for the reminders

I also remember how he basically attempted to lay the blame for the Susan Smith kid murders on the Democrats prior to the 1994 midterms. He is a walking gasbag of ugliness.

[Erose999]

26. I read somewhere that one of Newt's campaign managers was Susan Smith's stepfather.

... the one Smith accused of molesting her....

http://www.alternet.org/story/8695/

[ article ]

Journalists might also ask Gingrich about Smith's stepfather, Beverly Russell. Prior to the kids' disappearance, Russell was busily campaigning not for the depraved Democrats, but for Newt Gingrich and his minions. Russell was a Republican leader in South Carolina and local organizer of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. During the nine days that Susan Smith had the country hunting for a nonexistent black carjacker, Russell urged nationwide prayer for the two missing kids: "All we can do is pray. This is a nightmare." A prominent businessman and stockbroker, Russell married Smith's mom after she divorced Smith's dad (who later committed suicide). From the age of six, Russell raised Susan Smith in an upper-middle-class, church-going home. Gingrich's campaign comments notwithstanding, the home was free of counterculture and welfare-state influences. But Susan Smith attempted suicide at age 13, and at age 15 told authorities that her stepdad had been sexually molesting her for at least a year. [ / atricle ]

Now as to whether all thats true or not I can't say for certain.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. I heard about that too

The hypocrisy of all that is enough to make your head explode!

[izquierdista]

16. ...pointing the way."

Healthy men to the left; elderly, women and children to the right.

[undeterred]

17. The SS are too afraid of him to enter.

[opihimoimoi]

18. I am disgusted the man continues to get his bizzarre thoughts into the mainstream media

possibly infecting others out there of a brain disorder.

Newt sound good to the untrained ear...He talks to peeps in a way that makes some sense

and reasonable....but when scrutinized....FAIL

[eppur_se_muova]

20. " ... hawking tickets." nt

[SoCalDem]

21. Wrong-o goofball. People like YOU are responsible for

creating an atmosphere that LEADS TO stuff like that.

People who create an atmosphere that stresses similarities, foster peace
People who stress DIFFERENCES, foster strife.

[Erose999]

22. I think Newt has it backwards... its it him standing between us and freedom. Now as to whether one

could compare our state to auschwitz I don't think we're there yet. But it Der Neuter has his way we might very well be.

[T S Justly]

23. More likely to have stood guard at Auschwitz. (nt)

[Erose999]

24. I'll also just put it out there that in one of his awful "revisionist history novels" the Nazzies

win WWII in Europe...

[Major Nikon]

25. Newtie's narcissism has always been his undoing

It's why his marriages fail. It's why he failed as Speaker. It's why his presidential campaigns have failed. It's why he will continue to fail.

He thinks he's very smart, but the reality is he's just a pseudo-intellectual asshole.

[Generic Other]

27. Is he characterizing himself as a kinder gentler Hitler?

Cause that's the only man who stood between his people and a Nazi death camp.

[Initech]

29. Whoa!! Nail. Coffin. Newt is done.

[kenfrequed]

30. Moron!

Seriously Newt,

I thought you were supposed to be a writer of historical works. Well I suppose that only counts if you reduce history to poorly scripted, softcore sleeze, alt history nonsense (1945). Or to utterly absent, history that reinvents the southern perspective towards former slaves taking up arms in the service of the union. (The battle of the crater).

So I suppose I shouldn't be surprised about your commentary about the holocaust. Though really, the barest research would probably bear out problems with your suggestion of defending us from Auschwitz. I... I don't even have the patience to point out the problems with your suggestions that clearly are more rooted in the ridiculous ramblings of Jonah Goldberg than in anything even remotely resembling historical fact.

I would only have one question: Were the Nazi's an exotic bunch of foreignors to germany that secretly slipped in and started a series of revolutions and political movements that gradually took over Germany and ran it as an outside agency preaching foreign religions, homosexuality, academic admiration, and tolerance ubber alles?

Again. Moron!

[ieoeja]

31. Before I read his explanation, I thought he meant he stood between the U.S. and the Rabid Right.

Because I have encountered more than one Rightist who advocates killing everyone-not-just-like-them. I even have my very own executioner standing in the wings waiting for "when they make it legal to kill Liberals".

[tblue37]

39. Ann Coulter has actually advocated killing liberals, you know. nt

[NecklyTyler]

32. So Gingrich is the gate keeper who keeps the 1% out of the camps

[bobhuntsman]

33. Please, Oh Please. . .

Republican Party, NOMINATE this guy!!

We'll see a 48-state landslide in Nov. 2012 (for Obama).

[Major Hogwash]

34. That's because Gingrich wants to be a greeter at the front gate!!

He'd love to wear the SS uniform.
He is one of the most soulless characters to ever appear on the political landscape.

[hobbit709]

35. No, Newt. You're like the guy in the snappy uniform standing at the unloading point.

[Octafish]

36. Oh. The nice NAZI.

Know your BFEE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=133897

[rocktivity]

37. And now for something completely different

Newt Gingrich's Literal Embrace Of Yasser Arafat (1993)


rocktivity

[Ken Burch]

50. Wow-Newt shakes hands with people who DON'T EXIST!!!!!

(Insert "Twilight Zone" theme here).

[tblue37]

38. “Stealth jihadis use political, cultural, societal, religious, intellectual tools. . . ."

Gosh, that sounds like the Republicans, doesn't it? They are doing their best to turn this country into a fundie theocracy--the Christian version of Sharia Law.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

40. OH BULLSHIT Newt!! People like you are what is bringing us closer to Auschwitz.”

you fucking porky pig. someone please stick an apple in his mouth and Shut him the fuck up

[randr]

41. The far right so called Christian crowd he sucks up to

are longing for the day the nukes fall on Israel so their fantasy king can appear.
Who does he think he is fooling?

[ellisonz]

42. Newt Gingrich inspires intense feelings of rage within this poster.

[VOX]

43. Newt's correct: An SS Commandant would literally stand between the trains and the concentration camp

So, strangely, he's right -- it's heartless, mega-assholes like himself who would stand before minorities, women, gays, liberals, etc., pulling them off the trains and sorting out who could work (step to the right) and those who should be eliminated (step to the left).

Newt and his ilk would be positioned in front of the camp -- standing in between, as he says.

[DissedByBush]

45. He's right, a high divorce rate and marital infidelity are doing us in

So that pretty much disqualifies Newt as our defender.

[madrchsod]

48. he`s an old man with old ideas

he appeals to those who are afraid of the shadows on their walls and the monster under their beds. he has old ideas that are no longer relevant in this century.

old wine in old bottles

[blackspade]

49. fixed.

"Gingrich: People like me stand for Auschwitz.”

[Nay]

51. Uh, Newt, people like you grease the skids to Auschwitz. Putz. nt

[Pakid]

54. Gingrich would be the first one to send you to a camp

and your only crime would be that you didn't agree with him! What a joke that this fool is going to save civilization his kind are the one's who are destroying America and the rest of the world with their greed and arrogance

[Javaman]

55. Yeah newt, you're the fucking guard at the gate. nt

[AtomicKitten]

57. Ugh.