Gingrich: It's Obama's fault people think he's Muslim

[Julian Englis]

Source: CBS News

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich suggested Friday that President Obama is to blame for perceptions among his detractors that he is Muslim.

"I have said publicly several times that I believe Obama is a Christian. He went to a Christian church for over 20 years. He was listening to the sermons. The fact is I take him at his word," Gingrich said told reporters in Louisiana the day before the GOP primary here.

"But I think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics while they are killing young Americans, while at the same time going to war against the Catholic Church and against every right-to-life Protestant organization in the country. I just think it's a very strange value system," Gingrich added.

Then, asked whether it concerned him that many people continue to believe Obama is Muslim, Gingrich replied, "It should bother the president. Why does the president behave the way that people would think that? You have to ask, why would they believe that? It's not because they're stupid. It's because they watch the kind of things I just described to you. When you have every bishop in the Catholic Church say this administration's at war with their religion, you don't think that has an impact?"

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57403734-503544/gingrich-its-obamas-fault-people-think-hes-muslim/

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And it's Newt fault that people think he's an adulterous, power-crazed hypocrite.

[Kennah]

1. You are right, Newt. Tolerance is a very strange value system, to you.

[Sabriel]

2. Is it syphilis that makes him sound like that?

Or Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease?

'Cuz that's some crazy talk there.

[efhmc]

3. Ego, pure and simple.

[tooeyeten]

46. numbskull pure and simple n/t

[schmice]

45. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Thank you. I may use that line.

[freshwest]

4. X100: And it's Newt fault that people think he's an adulterous, power-crazed hypocrite.

[goclark]

21. Really Family Values Guy ~ Not Newt!

[freshwest]

24. Ha, wrong! Multiple ex-wives to support. He's so desperate for cash he'll say anything.

[sendero]

25. Don't forget...

....sociopathic narcissist.

[Herlong]

5. America

[truthisfreedom]

6. It's a strange value system to want to keep American soldiers alive?

What up, Newt? Too few responsibilities on your hands these days? You've never had young men and women to protect, you leering perv.

[Archae]

7. With Gingrich it's automatic.

Open mouth, insert foot.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. It's a requisite for all Republican presidential candidates

Gingrich, Rmoney, Santorum, Paul-- they all have foot-in-mouth disease

[qbhawk]

38. Hoof & Mouth Disease

Oh please don't forget Bachman and Cain....

[Jamaal510]

9. And this is the man from the GOP that everybody says is a genius...

[Ecumenist]

10. Oh, I see...So, the fact that he casts "black magic" on you morons and make you spout

stupid sh!t amongst yourselves and in the general direction of the nearest open mike and camera is completely his doing. I'm sure the fact that he's black, (at least paternally), doesn't hurt. What F#cking war is he waging against the catholic church? Funny how you're claiming that everyone and their brother is waging these imaginary wars but all the salvos and ammo seem to keep landing on women, the poor and the brown.

[MADem]

33. +1,000 nt

[Skittles]

11. oh shut the fuck UP Gingrich

you pandering piece of SHIT

[BeyondGeography]

12. Your way would kill many more Americans, asshole

But at least everyone'd know yer a Christian.

[rfranklin]

13. Who is this Newt Gingrich guy?

I haven't heard of him before.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. So let me get this straight:

Newt Gringrich essentially wants the President to piss off the Muslim world, have him declare war on Islam, get a Fatwah against him, and have a bounty on his life in order to prove he ISN'T a Muslim.

[goclark]

34. Sounds like what he wants to happen

He is a real piece of trash ~ he probably thinks that if he says something crazy the TeeTee Party will think he is sooo smart.

[polichick]

15. Gingrich: IRRELEVANT.

[Doc Holliday]

16. Just one more reason

that Newt should shut the hell up, get out of the race, and go back to his relative obscurity.

[marble falls]

17. I think its Gingrich's fault he looks like a three-timing potato.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. Newt is a loser

[cstanleytech]

19. Ya know, you gotta admire how Gingrich has his cake and eats it to.

After all it takes skill to say he believes the president is a Christian without confronting the people claiming the president is a "secret muslim" or how he inserts the "fear of the muslims" by "questioining" why the president would apologize when for mistakes or for the crimes of our own soldiers at times like the murder of innocent villagers.

[jzodda]

20. Newt is done

His constant play to the southern racist vote is not working.

[RoccoR5955]

22. As I have stated in the past,

Noot should just go crawl back under his rock.

[Alcibiades]

23. Did I miss some annoucement from the Catholic Church?

"every bishop in the Catholic Church say this administration's at war with their religion"

The Catholic Church should respond to this allegation. Does Newt speak on their behalf?

[RD1angel]

30. Totally Agree, I missed that same announcement......

I posted a picture of a saying on Facebook, "if you cut off my reproductive choice, can I cut off yours" I'll be damned if one old classmate of mine who is a proclaimed "Catholic" had to reply how I got the whole thing all wrong and that it was not about choice, it was about making the catholic church pay for someone's rubbers.
( I paraphrased)

Bullshit! As a recovering Catholic, don't make me go there!!

[Alcibiades]

42. Of course, Gingrich's statement goes beyond that

by claiming the president has declared an all-out war on Catholicism. The irony here is that, if he really means to persecute them, he's doing a rather bad job of it. The Church itself is much better at this sort of thing.

[RD1angel]

52. I hear ya .....

Oh yes, just sit back and watch em roll around in their own crap.

[obxhead]

26. Just like it's my fault every time it rains.

It's a real toss up for who to cheer for to win the GOP nom. I want to see Obama debate every one of them.

[xxqqqzme]

27. I do believe he is more

annoying than the permafrost princess.

[RD1angel]

31. permafrost princess

[jonthebru]

28. Its little Newter's fault that

millions of Americans agree that he is an idiot megalomaniac narcissistic sociopath.

[Thinkingabout]

29. NEWT, you say crazy things so you are the reason we think you are crazy.

[MADem]

32. Ahh, it's Newt's fault we regard him as a sexually perverted, mean-spirited, compensating for

his inadequacies, egomaniacal, sexist, dispicable and petty little martinet, then!

Well, actually....yeah--it is his fault, because that's just how Newtie rolls!

When we see Obama hanging at the masjid on TGIF, we can talk, Newt...

[thesquanderer]

35. Unspoken underlying thought: Being Muslim is a Bad Thing. (n/t)

[Dont call me Shirley]

36. Silly Newty, you know that is FOX's fault

And the TEA Party and their billionaire corporate funders and You the Repuglicons

[qbhawk]

37. Freedoms for Religion

And its Ging-richs fault that he's an idiot, and he is attracting our attention for sure. But maybe not, if its true that he can profit by raising political funding that he can use for his personal life after he gets his ass kicked by the freedom of religion clause, a muslin.

[McCamy Taylor]

39. Nope. It's the MSM's fault. From my old journals

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/163

See the first part.

[Bluegene]

40. No need for all the big words

Newtwhack the hack

[Monk06]

41. And it's Gingrich's fault that I think he's an asshole. n/t

[AllyCat]

43. So Obama supporting women's health and rights makes him a Muslim?

This is just all kinds of crazy, but then, coming from Newt, it makes sense.

[LiberalLovinLug]

44. No it YOU Newt and the MSM for not correcting your flawed logic

And he did it again in the interview.

Saying that it is "very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics while they are killing young Americans"

He apologized to the Muslim world, to the peaceful people that follow that religion on behalf of soldiers that burned the Koran. A tiny percent of them are Islamic terrorists. Just like a tiny percent of self proclaimed Christians are terrorists.

And "every bishop in the Catholic Church say this administration's at war with their religion"

If he is alluding to the birth control insurance coverage Obama struck a deal with them in not providing that for women. He's bent over to accommodate them. But on other issues like gay marriage the church will never bend. So who is the one at war?

Newt is very good at framing the answers in such a back handed way to inflame his followers with a "nudge nudge wink wink" - you know what I'm really saying. Its even more sickening that the MSM just lets him couch his answers this way.

[Vattel]

47. No Newt, they are stupid and you know it.

[thecrow]

48. the belief comes from his name, birtherism, kenyanism, beckism, limbaughism.and ignorance.

All straight out of Faux news.... they ask "Some people say Obama is _____".... and "Why does Obama deny _______?"
Add your choice of antiobama wording.
This is not news, but it is repeated and repeated with subtle differences 24/7. It is propaganda, and the RW eats it up.
After 4 years of this, they believe it as if God sent down stone tablets of it.
Just ask my RW brother. He says, "I am not a racist.... the only people I hate are the Muslims." Then he sends me emails with the question "Is Obama the antichrist?" and other such grief.

[crim son]

49. No matter how hard I try

I can't bring myself to give a crap what Newt thinks.

[nanabugg]

50. I guess you might say it's Obama's fault people think he is black? nt

[Smilo]

51. But President Obama is at fault

for thinking that the vast majority of American people are intelligent, informed and can make accurate deductions when listening to the news, reading the paper.

Got to admit Obama gives far too much credit to Americans, especially those on the right.

[yellowcanine]

53. How does conflict with Catholic Bishops (Also overstated, btw) = Muslim?

Newt's logic does not compute. What we have here gentlemen is the logical fallacy known as the false choice.

[RedCloud]

54. I guess he can afford those fancy Tiffany fire proof pants because his should be ablaze right now!