Gingrich: Obama is engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior"
September 12, 2010 12:28 am ET by Jeremy Schulman
Since the beginning of the Obama presidency, right-wing media -- especially those who work at Fox News -- have been carrying out a campaign of not-so-subtle race-baiting.
Today, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich took this campaign to new levels, reportedly telling the National Review that Obama has pretended to be "normal" but that Obama actually seems to be engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior":
Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D'Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview.
Gingrich says that D'Souza has made a "stunning insight" into Obama's behavior -- the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama."
"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich asks. "That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior."
"This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president," Gingrich tells us.
"I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating -- none of which was true," Gingrich continues. "In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest."
Here's the completely ridiculous D'Souza article Gingrich is referencing. D'Souza's thesis -- backed up by an impressive combination of factual distortions and twisted logic -- is that Obama is using the Oval Office to push anti-colonial policies championed by his father half a century ago.
Here's one particularly inflammatory portion of what Gingrich calls D'Souza's "stunning insight":
Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father's dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is governed by a ghost.
Fox's race problem just keeps getting worse.
[H/T Dave Weigel]
UPDATE: Gingrich was interviewed on the September 12 edition of Fox News Sunday, but host Chris Wallace did not ask him about his racially-charged assertion that Obama might have a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview.
Newt Gingrich, Kunta Kinte & Fiddler? I wonder who would be whose Savior.
Newt Gingrich, He all but has President Obama Casted in a Reproduction of "Roots"
He sees The President of the United States as a Cotton Picker, it's his idea of Green Shoots.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
he's obviously lost whatever mind he once had.
I don't think they will win back either majority. The democrats may end up holding one by just one seat, but that will prove my point: It will be a seat they Roght COULD HAVE (and should have) won, if they were at all reasonable.
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And they'll lose most of the gains they make in 2 more years, when Obama is on the ballot again.
The funniest part, however, is that apparently Republicans themselves failed to see this coming in their rush to hop in bed with the Tea Party. And now that the GOP's finally woken up and found themselves wed to a small army of lunatics, they have no idea how to get a quickie divorce.
But hey, conservatives wanted the likes of Sarah Palin to be their guiding light.
Now they've gotten their wish.
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And besides: the 9/11 hijackers were NOT cowards. To what they did, you've got to be lacking in a lot of things, but BALLS is not one of them.
So bravo Newt for using him as your reference to attack Obama.
That's some pretty profound insight.
Both men make me ill.
I truly hope that Gingrich runs for POTUS. I can't wait to see all the dirty laundry he's accumulated throughout his sorry life thrown back in his face.
It was also the home of the John Birch Society and it's leader congressman Larry McDonald.
For 40 years they blocked a decent mass transit system now they have some of the worst congestion in the country.
When the right always shouts about San Francisco values how come no one responds with a critique of Cobb County values.
The larger question is why do we give this man any airtime. He quit as speaker in 1998.
The same thing happened in my city. When our former mayor, Jack Ellis, wanted to connect our city's rail system to others inside and outside of the state, the local yokels, including Erick Erickson opposed it because they felt that Ellis, partly because he was the city's first African American mayor, didn't know what he was talking about. Well, when oil prices went up a couple years ago, they bemoaned the fact that we didn't have a passenger rail service. Now, the city is practically begging private agencies to get hsr service and struggling to raise the funds. Ellis did a lot to improve the city like paving roads, ridding the city of substandard housing, bringing new businesses into the city, etc. Last month they voted against a one cent local option tax to build a much needed new courthouse because they hate taxes, and the vote totals were split along racial lines. We AAs voted for the one cent increase, and you can guess who voted against it, but they continue to complain the loudest about the scarcity of parking space available downtown when they have business at the courthouse.
Which is where I live and work everyday... Sitting in it right now. On behalf of the six other people with a conscience in this district, I'd like to take this space to apologize.
"He (Obama) was authentically dishonest", said the thrice-married adulterer, failed former Speaker and ethics violator.
Newt Gingrich can read?
This changes everything, because now rather than being his wife or a member of his 'inner circle' who tell him what to think, we might be able to get factual information to him through the written word.
Once again, being from Chicago and gone to the same places the president and I identify with him moreso than I do with Newt.
And no doubt that he'll get away with it and still get positive happy stories written about him by the MSM & Politico in particular.
This is about the best example I've ever seen exposing the true nature of Newt Gingrich, a premiere merchant of slime.
His I-sound-so-intellectual-I-can't-possibly-be-lying delivery causes instant salivation to those who'd never dream of actually thinking about what he's just said.
I mean, as long as he's so eloquently crapping on President Obama, why bother checking his facts?
He's not stupid; he's knows exactly what he's doing. But does no one in the mainstream media call him ou? We've known about his tactics for 16 years now. And yet the interviewers (not only at Fox) just smile and nod and accept his ridiculous framing as valid. This is why the Republicans keep getting away with the same scams over and over. It's like freakin' Groundhog day.
"I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating -- none of which was true," Gingrich continues. "In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest."
JEEZus. Newt's so skilled at projection, he should be working in a movie theater.
"America today is governed by a ghost." - Newt Gingrich
Does anyone here have any doubt that Gingrich had to restrain himself from using a far more loaded Synonym for "ghost"?
Gingrich has now managed to remove any doubt about his racism, the putrid little terd.
I saw this in action on Yahoo! yesterday in the comments about the First Lady's trip to commemorate 9/11 in PA. There were many references to her being an ape, insults to her intelligence, attempts to tie her and the president to Islam and Muslims, and very ugly comments about Muslim-Americans. I was sick to my stomach before I had read fewer than 10 comments. None of the comments were based on facts, and they reflected hate in its purest form.
Well, now, hold on a minute (or an hour, depending on reading speed).
Newtie patooty is indeed jab-jabbering racist cant and doing it to provoke riotous racism among the afflicted audience suffering FUXed News. And, plausibly, also doing it because Newtie is racist to the core, himself, and 'thinks' that way.
But he's onto something providing the idea that President Obama is beholden to, and obedient of, a deeply internalized mode of beliefs and behavior. Saying Obama is more (inside) than meets the eye on the surface. Saying Obama could be a CIA-programmed minion of military-industrial-complex warmongers and fear-sowers.
Which might be the scenes and setting of the greatest crazy-making novel of all time -- "WarWar and PeaceWar" or somesuch whatever. The total i_r_o_n_y of it all, of course, would be if the wretched facism Contract-ers Newtie leads are all out demonizing one of their own ilk, (Obama). To be sure, the FUX News fops and fools aim to stir the bigoted racist gay-bashing xenophobic sad-souls for their votes, (... those people vote?), staying mum and never objecting about the militaristic torrent-war supremacism which Newtie and his crudes propound in-common with inner-Obama, outer-Rahm Emanuel and all the Bush-serving carryovers.
Yet it is going to require a spell of suspended judgment before knee-jerk reacting, and focussed consideration of a lot of facts, on the part of Commenters hearing this for the first time here.
The thesis in its exegesis must be based on a 2-step premise:
1) that the CIA has been bent on producing a 'Manchurian candidate' empowered in Office, (POTUS, to their liking), before and ever since the 1959 book and 1962 movie memed the idea into the massmind; and,
2) the subject (victim?) would have to be indoctrinated from pre-verbal infancy -- subtley, psychologically, profoundly, in order to produce the reliably-affected specimen.
'Everyone' knows that 1) is true. Recently we're offered the chapter-and-verse of Obama's biography, (elsewhere 'officially' redacted before), in which 2) is true-to-life.
The book-length report may be read (free) here: ThomHartmann.COM/users/wm/blog/2010/09/suppressed-evidence-showing-cia-indoctrination-obama, or in the 5-part original by Wayne Madsen Report (behind the paywall) at dates Aug.13-15, Aug.16, Aug.19, Aug.25, Aug.30-31 here: www.WayneMadsenReport.COM/sitemap.
The viciously recriminating denials, repercussions, retaliations, following this report of Obama's biography by 'White House sources' has been quite telling and credence-lending in its ways and means. Surely there has been reaction to it, (but not lawsuit charging 'false reporting' or 'defamation' ... yet), and the back-channel White House has not remained cooly indifferent or distantly disinterested.
So racist Newtie may be correct that Obama enacts a hidden agenda, but it is absolute cockupped b.s. that Obama has a racist motive; (like for himself Newtie seeks voters). Supremacist, maybe ... but we can read all about it and decide for ourselves.
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According to Gingrich...you can't take Bl**** out of Africa but you can't take the Africa out of Bl*****
Yeah, but George W. Bush is no longer president.
Must. Kill. Saddam. To. Avenge. Daddy.
The only person being "authentically dishonest" he is Newt Gingrich. (Big surprise.) If you want to know what's REALLY killing any kind of bi-partisanship in Washington, and why Obama is completely wasting his time (and Liberal's patience) trying to compromise with these fools, it's this attitude than even if he gives them everything they want, and acts exactly the way they do, they will say that's it's all being done to "fool us" or to give us a "false sense of security." They are so desperate to paint his as something he's not, that they'll take every bit of evidence to the contrary of their narritive, and say that it SUPPORTS their narritive because it's all part of the ploy.
Yeah, maybe. Or (more likely) you lot are just so full of $#!t that couldn't tell the truth if someone put a gun to your head.
Obama has not done one truly liberal thing since coming into office. Not one. We're still in two wars, taxes haven't gone up (down even more, in fact, but the Right still complains), health care reform was gutted to satify the Right (who voted against it anyway), Banking reform was weakened to satify the Right (who voted against it anyway), Centrist Moderates were nominated to the Supreme Court (but the Right painted them as radicals anyway)...
What has the man done that so "radical"? If this is "all a ploy" the Right may as well keep him in office. He's pretty much done everything they've wanted, even as they complain about being "shut out" of negotiations. (More BS - Obama's done everything bar picking them up and hand-carrying them into the room himself to bring them into nehotiations!)
This is ridiculous. It's the typical paranoid, conspiracy-theory bull$#!t that we see with the truthers, the birthers, the anti-vaxers, etc... That LACK of supporting evidence is somehow proof that it's being kept secret, that the conspiracy is working.
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Yeah... OR: You're just an idiot.
Markos Moulitsas says it in something less than total seriousness, points out that it's actually a bad thing, and even liberals criticize him.
[facepalm]
People like Newt, Palin, Limbaugh, and Glenda won't say it, and they don't have to. They have filled the minds of their supporters with so much evil that they are now using the word on some blogs. I was on Think Progress last week when one of the rw trolls used it. It is very offensive to me because I grew up in this country under segregation and have been called the word many, many times. I don't use it because my parents had a rule about it. My siblings and I were taught that to use the word would mean that we thought of ourselves in the same way as those who used it against us.
When I first read Newt's comments, the phrase "the most profound insight" really stood out.
For a long, long time, Newt's shtick has been to put on airs of profoundness. He has always reminded me of a really, really good manure salesman with a mouthful of samples.
Along with many other dog-whistle phrases from his past, these latest comments provide actual "profound insight" to Newt's own Southern Strategy.
Newt isn't really counting on his glassy-eyed flock actually understanding what he says.
What really matters to his dog whistled, fact-deprived followers is the number of multi-syllable words he uses 'cause that means he must be smart.
Right?
oh wait i forgot for a min who i was talking about.....
I just can't believe that the companies having their products advertised on this network are really OK with this kind of stuff. To have their product ad follow such naked racists statements would really make me (if I was on the board of the company) to have second thoughts. At some point there is going to be a backlash and the questions will be directed to the companies CEOs advertising on FOX:
"Why did you continue to pay ad dollars to a network that was producing clearly racists propaganda on a daily basis and inciting their viewers to violence? Was this in the best interests of your shareholders?"
"Obama is black and I, Newt Gingrich, am in FAVOR of American colonialism and think it is reasonable for the US to maintain HUNDREDS of US military bases around the world in perpetuity and expressly to wage more resource wars around the globe."
Randy
Speaking of the fatman, when is Koran-burning, high-school paling Rev. Jones gonna be on the fatman's radio show?? This should give the fatman material for weeks !!
Has his 15th wife filed for divorce yet or do we have to wait until the air finally comes out of Newt's blow-up companion??
WTF?
Keep in mind folks this loon wants to be president himself. . .whoa.