Mitt compares Newt to Lucy in Chocolate Factory. Newt says, "Say that to my face."

[A-Schwarzenegger]

Last edited Wed Dec 28, 2011, 05:04 AM - Edit history (2)

On Newt's Virginia ballot flub:

MITT: I think he compared that to, uh, was it Pearl Harbor? I think
it's more like Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory.

Newt responds in Wolf interview:

NEWT: I have a very simple message for Mitt Romney. I'll meet
him anywhere in Iowa, for 90 minutes, just the two us, in a debate,
with a timekeeper, no moderator. I'd love to have him say that to my
face.

Relevant part starts at 15:00...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. Not satire, not parody.

Real thing.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. Don't be so sure.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

13. Well, there's parody, then there's self-parody.

What I mean is, I didn't make it up.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. Which raises the question "WTF are they doing over there?"

[flying rabbit]

2. Play nice boys...

[athena5000]

3. Well....

Dem's sound like fightin' words!!! Will it be on pay-per-view? I'm still waiting for Herman's House, the reality series. The GOP is in such a state the whole party is a comedy series.

[gratuitous]

4. Newt's got the scratch to shake Mitt's hand on a $10,000 bet

Just a couple of simple guys, routinely betting $10,000 on shit that doesn't matter a fart in a frying pan. Plenty more for each man where that came from should he lose. Too bad the rest of you didn't choose to be obscenely wealthy through unscrupulous methods. Now, vote for one of them!

[one_voice]

5. OMG...Newt is so full of himself...

he believes his own hype.

That's his response to everything....lets have a debate. Such a tool.

I bet watching himself debate is like porn for him.

He's so gross!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. I'm incapable of doing paperwork, and I'll beat up anyone who doesn't like it. Vote for me.

I think he's got a winning message there.

[murielm99]

7. "Say that to my face."

I dare ya to step across this line! Ya can't make me! Nyah! Nyah! Say uncle! And so on and so on....

What other childish taunts and insults are they going to hurl at each other?

[Angry Dragon]

8. My god is better than your god?? comes to mind

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. My god,

It's fool of stars!

[Enrique]

11. "I'll bet you 10,000 dollars!" n/t

[jberryhill]

46. I'll bet you infinity!

[Johnny Noshoes]

74. Now if...

Newty triple dog dared Mittens that would be something.

[frylock]

9. is newt gonna kick mitt's ass out by the bike racks after school?

[KansDem]

18. No, I heard it was going to be in the park...

Hurry up! Let's go! I think they're fighting by the water fountain!

[Bombtrack]

19. I'm pretty sure the clean living, 6 foot 2 pile of Mormon muscle could beat the shit out of Newty.

and I'd pay my life savings to see that happen.

[MisterP]

20. ugh, it would be a total Bre'r Rabbit situation

[Dulcinea]

56. Steel cage match!! eom

[dhill926]

10. pay per view?????

[Jester Messiah]

65. Steel cage match! [nt]

[wordpix]

86. this is better, totally free for the price of monthly internet service

great teevee

[spanone]

15. newt wants a situation where his bullshit can be shoveled as truth.

no moderator.....newt would never shut up

[Joe Bacon]

59. And Wolf provides it.

Just amazing to see Mr. -4600 on Jeopardy slobber all over Newt.

If you want to be an "anchor" on CNN, you got to be stupid!

[Roy Rolling]

67. LOL

I can't stop thinking of this every time I see Wolf, too. Wolf should fire his agent for letting him demonstrate his ignorance to the whole world. I guess if he had any brains he would have...oh yeah, I forget.

And finally, is Wolf that dumb or is Andy Richter just a genius?

[Joe Bacon]

100. Right on both counts!

Wolf IS that dumb and Andy IS a genius!

[Jello Biafra]

17. "Any place...anywhere....anytime....."

I'd rather see a cage match personally.......lol

[Ichingcarpenter]

23. How about the bottom of the ocean in the next ten seconds

or inside of a volcano?

[Bill USA]

21. GOP Carnival of Presidential Hopefools

Hopefools

[SpiralHawk]

22. FAIL. Mitty the DraftDodger (R) got his analogy wrong.

I think he wanted to talk about Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip. Swing and miss -- just like Newtie DraftDodger Gingrich (R) swung and missed with Virginia.

But then, FAIL is what Americans have come to expect from Republicons.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

24. Lucy & the Chocolate Factory is perfect.

Youve seen the episode, right?
Disorganization SNAFU personified.

[karynnj]

28. I agree - a perfect analogy and it also works because it is both not angry and not nasty, but it

is devastating. The only problem is that it was 1950s TV. I don't know how many here have even heard of it. (In fact, it is funny to think of the rather slow, chubby Newt, eating large numbers of the chocolates because he can't keep up with the line. )

From the video of Romney - all I can say is someone gave him the line - it just does not seem spontaneous.

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[treestar]

31. Lucy re-reruns

are a TV staple. You don' t have to have seen it in the 50s!

[karynnj]

64. OK - I didn't realize that they were still on

I thought you might have to go to NYC's broadcast museum (the Paley Center).

[treestar]

25. Newt taking that seriously rather than with grace and humor

Tells us all about Newt.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

47. Ding.

I think he's incapable of genuine self-effacement.
It's hard work being a genius & a prophet.

[knitter4democracy]

91. Yup. The right answer would have been to laugh it off.

Say something like it being an honor to be compared to Lucille Ball or that it sure can feel like that on the campaign trail with everything heating up and then move on like it's not worth more time.

This shows how neither is presidential material. Biden would have made a great joke out of it, Hilary would have smiled and said something gracious with a bit of zing, Obama would have laughed it off and moved on, but no, these two have to make the lame joke and the even lamer response. What idiots.

[demtenjeep]

26. duel

anyone?

[TheCowsCameHome]

36. dual

...assholes

[Scuba]

27. Newt, you're not half as smart as you think you are....

... I'll be glad to call you much worse to your face.

[Spazito]

29. It is a perfect analogy...

I found the Lucy and the Chocolate Factory video clip on YouTube, watched it again and still find it as hilarious as when I first saw the episode, lol. For those who may not have seen it at all or even those who haven't watched it for years, here is the clip, enjoy!

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[A-Schwarzenegger]

33. Except for Newt the chocolates are cash from Fannie Mae.

Thanks for posting it.

[Scottybeamer70]

55. Thanks for the video......

those two women were hysterical. I doubt I missed many of the Lucy shows. She was in a class all by herself.

[wordpix]

90. thanks, that ranks up there with the Veggie Vitamin & wine stomping episodes

[Spazito]

93. I recently spent a few hours on YouTube watching some of the episodes....

and loved them every bit as much as I did when I first saw them. They ARE classic and forever.

[The Genealogist]

30. Newt and his debate fetish

He wants debates because 1) he loves to hear himself talk and 2) he can spout his faux-intellectual claptrap to get his supporters all horned up.

And Lucille Ball had more talent in her left pinky toe than all the occupants of the Repukkke kkklown kkkar put together.

[jberryhill]

32. This thread needs this picture

[Bolo Boffin]

48. Oh, god, I'd forgotten about this. n/t

[VWolf]

61. So had I. That photo is creepy on so many levels. n/t

[treestar]

71. True. Republicans do not photograph well

I think it means something!

[VWolf]

62. Someone smarter than me

needs to figure out how to google bomb this picture. In an ideal world, it would be Romney's "Santorum".

[stlsaxman]

69. "Newt? ... oh Newt!!!!"

[treestar]

72. lol

[tammywammy]

34. That's actually pretty amusing.

Point goes to Romney this round.

[TheCowsCameHome]

35. Did you know Newt was a historian?

Not that I care one little bit.

An asshole is still an asshole.

[pauljulian]

76. Re: Did you know Newt was a historian

Professor of History... with, apparently, a very narrow focus... not the same thing as a historian... no, indeed.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Maybe they can WRESTLE in chocolate.

$10,000 wager!

[Motown_Johnny]

38. THUNDERDOME!!

Two Assholes Enter, One Asshole Leaves!!!

[LiberalAndProud]

39. Link please?

I believe you didn't make it up, I jus' wanna enjoy this comic strip first hand.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

40. Straight from CNN's Wolf Blitzer interview with Newt this afternoon.

Relevant part starts at 15:00...

[NightTemplar]

41. Wolf was a little bit "kissy-ass" with Newt...

I must say one thing... Newt has an accurate grip of History (at least in a selective manner) as I've literally accumulated undergrad units writing research papers with some of the anecdotes and quotations he's cited.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

42. Newt IS history.

Welcome to DU.

[NightTemplar]

43. Agreed. he doesn't stand a chance. nt

[wordpix]

84. lol, he paid $300K for a "lawyer to draft a letter that was technically wrong"?

looking forward to his opposition setting the record straight on this one.

[thesquanderer]

89. Maybe he hired John Yoo. (n/t)

[yellowcanine]

44. The whole country is laughing at you Newt. Shut up already.

Christ what a thin skinned bastard he is.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

45. Or...

keep talking. Can you imagine what Mr Barrel of Hubris
might say down the road? They're all going to have to ratchet up
the crazy to stay in this mad mad mad mad race.

[AtheistCrusader]

50. Exactly, let him go nuts.

He'll drag them all down into the stupid with him.

[wordpix]

83. funny line, "ratchet up the crazy" lol

[wordpix]

88. no, keep on talking about Romney's "phony superPAC"---would love to hear more about it

Are campaign laws being broken? Keep singing, Newt!

[AtheistCrusader]

49. This just gets better and better.

I seriously need a big bowl of popcorn for this one.

[MilesColtrane]

51. Nice dick waving

Just like two kids in summer camp having a "sword fight".

[fortyfeetunder]

52. Sophomoric behavior

this sounds so stupid on so many levels, one step away from name calling, how silly.
And both of them want to be POTUS?
If they behave like this during an election...what would happen if a foreign head of state said something similar should one of them becomes POTUS?

Sigh.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

53. I bet somebody's photoshopping Newt into the original Lucy conveyor belt scene

as we speak. It's not hard to picture him stuffing those candy balls
into his mug.

[JHB]

54. 10,000 quatloos on the amphibian!

Cue the music

[AlbertCat]

73. Wait... is that Michelle Bachmann on the right?

[JHB]

77. Naw, it's Newt's campaign staffer...

...aka the next Mrs. Gingrich.

[Major Hogwash]

57. Hahahahaha!!!!! Luuuucccyyyy!!!!! Waa-aaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Perfect analogy. Noot is so full of himself.
"Say that to my face."

"Which one?"

[ejbr]

58. Newt vs. Mitt

[pangaia]

60. The Blitzer

Blitz still has to hold that silly piece of paper even when he is sitting down. And he has the exact same 11:45 o'clock growth of stubble every time I see him (not that I turn on the TV.. just that the gym has that station on the big screen TV when I usually work out.) :&gt
Why in the world does this nitwit have a job..anywhere?

[DWilliamsamh]

63. "say that to my face?" From NEWT Gingrich?

Please. I've known plenty of jerk wads exactly like Newt Gingrich. The LAST thing Newt wants is a personal "in my face" confrontation mano a mano. He is softer than a 100% goose down pillow.

[Kennah]

99. Imagine if he'd said, "I'm comin' for ya, brother!"

[Roy Rolling]

66. Hey Newt...

stick your tongue on the flagpole. I triple dog dare you . . .

[Myrina]

68. Um, weren't they supposed to meet in the Trump debate/debacle?

The Newt's getting all puffed up in self-defense. Isn't that cute?

[felix_numinous]

70. I get a totally different visual.

[Hubert Flottz]

75. I love that Dave Vitter I think I shit my drawers again look on the Nutzi!

I wish somebody would drown that POS on live TV, in Grover's bath tub filled with shit eating supertoxic goop. And then something really bad would happen to the crybaby bastid.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

78. Santorum just passed Gingrich in Iowa.

Oh, Lucy!

[Hubert Flottz]

79. Are they counting the dead baby in Ricky's pocket?

Prolly are!

[DirkGently]

80. There's only one solution: One-on-one, gladiatorial nuclear combat.

Gentlemen (and Newt) elect your warheads and enter the Blowhard Dome.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

81. BAG OF GAS VS. EMPTY SUIT!

[Kennah]

96. I'm offering up an alternative: Naked greco-roman wrestling on a trampoline, in Jell-O

We'll do the whole thing on Pay-Per-View, and it will cover the National Debt.

[Kennah]

97. Sorry, forgot to say chocolate Jell-O

[wordpix]

82. I think Newt's "oopsie" is more like Lucille Ball trying to get into Rickie's band

She never made it

[Orsino]

85. Because by then he'll have thought of a comeback?

Watching pampered millionaires talk pretend-tough is always amusing.

[wordpix]

87. Obama is "the best food stamp president in US history"? Terrible that we're feeding the poor when

they have no jobs in the worst downturn since the Depression.

Wolf should have asked Noot what he'd do for people who have no money in America who would starve without food stamps, instead. Let them starve?

[Fire Walk With Me]

92. OM NOM NOM NOM

[JBoy]

94. Damn, that was a quality burn by Mitt.

[lumberjack_jeff]

95. I have to say; that photo on the front page is hysterical.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

101. Er...huh?

[lumberjack_jeff]

103. the photo that was on the front page of DU

Newt's doughy little face; "game on motherf*cker"

[Kennah]

98. Does No Moderator mean No Blitz?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

102. So Newt visits an actual chocolate factory to show he can

take a joke. Challenges Romney to . . . a debate!
Makes a chocolate cookie, says, "I'm a little sloppy."

Cookie-making at 00:35...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gingrich-visits-chocolate-factory-after-romney-joke/2011/12/28/gIQApMZ4MP_video.html