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WaPo‘s Jonathan Capehart Compares Newt Gingrich To Friday The 13th‘s Jason

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My 12th grade English teacher once told me that “literature is nothing but metaphors.” Whether you agree with her or not, it’s clear that she could just as easily have been talking about punditry. There’s no better way to condense a potentially complicated idea into a quick TV-ready sound bite than with a good, pithy comparison. Hell, there’s a reason that The Five‘s Greg Gutfeld constantly seems like he’s trying to copyright the phrase “strained metaphor”; these things are important. So, it seems within our duty to offer congratulations and appreciation to those pundits who come up with one that’s especially clever and, today, the clear Analogy of the Day winner is the Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart who compared Newt Gingrich’s resurgence to the continuous resurrections of famed movie killer Jason Voorhees.

“Poor Mitt Romney. He’s been running for president for a very long time. He’s run, actually, a very good campaign; Steady Eddie and letting them fight amongst themselves. But he didn’t anticipate that Newt Gingrich would come into the race and flaming out and coming back like Jason from the Friday the 13th movies.”

It’s such an apt comparison. Can’t we all imagine Romney, exhausted after a tough race, relaxing on a canoe only to have Gingrich, shirtless and misshapen, lurching out of the water to pull his opponent underneath.

Now, Capehart’s comment may seem insulting to some but it could be worse. At least he didn’t compare Newt to Freddy Kreuger. That guy occasionally had to get peed on by a dog to come back.

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  • Michelle

    I thought we weren’t supposed to use rhetoric like this anymore?

  • Gloves P. Donahue

    Firebreathing liberal toughguy Capehart is the lefty version of Dirty Harry.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    No. Similes and metaphors are fine, Dingbat.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Intelligent people tend to intimidate you. You begin quivering like a congealed salad on a picnic table on a “warmish” August afternoon in Texas every time I come around. Now, can you arrange to take Michelle-in-Utah to Applebys for some hideous sauce-soaked beef entree? She needs to get out.

  • Anonymous

    Laughing till I can’t stand up! 

  • Anonymous

    Newt is kinda unkillable.

    Like a Terminator.

    Newt = Terminator
    Cain = Sperminator
    Romney = Worminator
    Bachmann = Squirminator
    Paul = Infirminator

  • Anonymous

    Herman Cain is Candyman. Black pimp who comes back from the dead and keeps on coming.

  • Anonymous

    If by fire, you mean a whisper, then yes……totally.

  • Anonymous

    Meh, it wasn’t the best metaphor, but it wasn’t horrible. I would have used a phoenix instead of Jason but that’s just me. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Intelligent people intimidate you, too, I see, Bidet.

  • Anonymous

    Washington Post’s finest on the political beat.

  • Anonymous

    I see that the local bingo hall rejected you too.

    Robert just can’t get a seat at any table can he? It must remind you of your youngster days of having to eat in the phone booth.

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    The Queen of MSNBC with another worthless comment.

  • Anonymous

    How many closets has Capehart exploded from?

  • Anonymous

    Jason vs Freddy – the final showdown in 2012

    If Gingirch is Jason, then Obama is Freddy for the Americans nightmare.

  • Henry Wood

    Idiot conservatives don’t realize that Capeheart actually complimented Newt several times.

  • Anonymous

    And the truth comes out.
    As if we didn’t already know.
    The lefties have been pushing Romney for months as if they could vote for him so the right should nominate him.
    They couldn’t hold it together long however and their true hatred seeps out.
    They had a plan all ready to go if he got the nod .
    They were going to rip him to pieces after it was too late so that is why they left him alone.

  • Anonymous

    When pundints cross the line and say really silly things like this they have a tendency to disappear from the airwaves pretty quickly.  Not always but most of the time.  I hope this guy has his resume up to date.

  • Anonymous

    You mean MSNBC had a black person on who is not attacking Cain?

    MSNBC- you are not trying.

  • Michelle

    Please tell me you aren’t including yourself in the “intelligent people” group, Royal Dimwit.  You have become less than irrelevant.  I think Mr. Ed might even poll ahead of you at this point. 

  • Anonymous

    Well, that excludes you.

  • Anonymous

    After watching the video, I also thought he was generous in his assessment of Newt. Maybe conservatives just read the headline and comment, or they’re  too obtuse to detect a compliment.

  • Michelle

    Idiot morons don’t realize I was joking at liberals who claim they are appalled at the use of violent rhetoric.

  • Michelle

    An apt comparison. 

  • Anonymous

    and I compare you to “Tinkerbell.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BVNN7YQ5S6CUYNRI3HVN4NCNDI Carlton

    Capehart is just another GAY HATER so who cares?  Gays hate EVERYBODY that isn’t gay.

  • Anonymous

    Or to a “Fruit-fly.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BVNN7YQ5S6CUYNRI3HVN4NCNDI Carlton

    Hey Thonathan, pwease thtop tawlkwin wike you are the gay you are.  Seriously Jonathan; go get a real job and find a woman to bear your children.

  • Anonymous

    Reading your tedious comments is more painful than listening to a  cherubic Ron Howard sing “Gary, Indiana” in “The Music Man.”

  • Anonymous

    Actually, Newt is more like a really, really, really large CHUCKY.

  • Anonymous

    Wait, wouldn’t a GAY HATER hate gays?

  • Anonymous

    Similes and metaphors are fine”

    So that explains why you sound like an idiot.

  • Gloves P. Donahue

    Robert…Rob..Bobby.

    When you come around?   You appear as so many characters here you probably forget who you are.

    (Dump your “Rex” persona or cut it down. Nobody reads manifestos. Your “Pro Obama Agenda” one is so unhinged, it’s funny) Just a couple of tips.
             

  • Anonymous

    You’re learning from Cain, when wrong, just say,” I was joking when I said that.”

  • Anonymous

    Like Michelle Obama, eh?

  • Michelle

    Hold the phone, Pro Obama Agenda” isn’t Moochelle!?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BVNN7YQ5S6CUYNRI3HVN4NCNDI Carlton

    Gay hater – gay and hates (anyway he hate hates any man that loves a vagina and any woman that loves a penis).

  • Anonymous

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BVNN7YQ5S6CUYNRI3HVN4NCNDI Carlton

    Jonathan Capehart is just another gay that hates any man that likes a vagina and hates any woman that likes a penis.  Capehart is one sick dude according to those that know him.

  • Anonymous

    Obama= Flatulator.

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    I dunno man…it’s a weird comparison really…I mean Jason has a lot of charisma and personality compared to Newt so..I disagree with J.C.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

     I enjoyed flagging every one of your posts.

    ;-)

  • Anonymous

    Also from Rush.

    The old “I’m not racist, I say racist things because I’m satirizing the actual really real racists” excuse.

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    …..

    *drink*….

  • Anonymous

    I love it when teabaggers riff on my jokes because they have no sense of humor of their own.

  • Anonymous

    Ok, thanks for straightening that out.

    You guys are the experts on hate.

  • Anonymous

    Dylan was tight- you libs “break like a little girl.”

  • Anonymous

    No, you libs are the quintessential haters.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know this Johhny Capehart shrew, but he looks like a porch-sitter who rode the affirmative-action gravy train all the way up to the 2nd-Floor of life called ‘Media.’

  • Anonymous

    “Dylan was tight- you libs “break like a little girl.”

    Quoted for posterity.

  • Anonymous

    No- until conservatives carry signs with Obama with a bullet hole in his head, or show his head at the bottom of a guillotine or in a noose  or carry signs saying we are here to kill him, you libs are still the gold standard of haters.

  • Anonymous

    I doubt it’s a coincidence that this comment was made on whack job Bashir’s show but the comments here to the point that it was a compliment are correct.

    It suggests Gingrich has the ability repeatedly to take enormous amounts of abuse and torture only to rise again and again to wreak havoc and ultimately to always be the victor.

    I’m torn though,I can’t decide if the guy from the Halloween movies is a better choice.

  • Anonymous

    You came out of the closet to say that?

  • Anonymous

    More lib racism- God I love it when liberalism reveals its true nature.

  • Anonymous

    Wow !! That’s about $7,000 an hour !!  Sign Me Up !!

  • Gloves P. Donahue

    Well. it’s her or Robert channeling her.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    Such an angry little man!

  • Anonymous

    Dylan was tight- you libs “break like a little girl.” Cry baby, cty

  • Anonymous

    Oooooh Rush. Those Lefties sure have a lot to talk about.

    Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush, Rush…..

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty sure a conservative LEADER just sent out pictures of Obama with bullet holes in his head.

  • Anonymous

    But you have no proof- typical.

  • Anonymous

    As is evidenced by folks in LA that actually put Palin in a noose.

    Silly BFD.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    Wow you must be a sexist too. Get WCinWC2 to explain that to you!

    LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    You must be the smartest conservative on this thread bar none.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    I’d say you hit a nerve there BFD…

  • Anonymous

    No, little man Williams, it’s called being off topic, like your petty comments often are.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Poor liberal Williams wants to play all the cards tonight.

    Hey, turkey face, I don’t think Dylan was being sexist, I think you are just a stupid liberal.

  • Anonymous

    He sure described Capehart and you to a t.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Not real fond of Capehart; light-weight, no “grahvee-toss” as he puts it, wrongly, doesn’t even understand the last sort of humor Newt will ever show is “self-deprecating”. WaPo is a funny strange paper, with my favorite purely political pundit not on Comedy Central in Eugene Robinson and my least favorite in Capehart – I’d rather gnash my teeth at any of the drivel written by any of the hole-in-head gang of George F***ing Will, der Kraut, the grotesque Gerson and the oblivious Cohen, than listen to or read a single word from Capehart. He’s completely gravitas-less.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    Such anger! We all know where that comes from!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003007486095 Seren Dipity

    I hope Mediaite isn’t becoming msnbc, and bores us all with non-stop attack topics against Republicans!

    The President lies directly a contributing group of his “useful idiot” Jewish supporters that his Administration has done more for Israeli security than any other…and no piece on this hysterical canard?

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    They all ran the affirmative action gravy train back in the day’s. I suspect Cain did also but at least he hired thousands of employees.

  • Anonymous

    Tom, you need a different word; ‘quintessential’ is above them.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You? Don’t think so. No discernible sense of humor.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Go through some College Bowl “tapes” from the early 1970′s.

  • Anonymous

    Doleful Lions is awesome and tight!

  • Anonymous

    U just won the contest.

  • Anonymous

    eat an ass

  • Joke Scareborough

    I hope Mediaite isn’t becoming msnbc, and bores us all with non-stop attack topics against Republicans!

    No offense, but did you just awake from a coma? Or is that some snarky comment that went over my head?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    This isn’t all that clever semantically but I compare Jonathan Capehart to a stupid, dumb, frickin’ racist, moron.

    This is the dip who wrote: “There is not, after all, that much difference between accusing Obama of being afraid of “free black men” because he was reared by Caucasians, and bashing him for possessing a Kenyan anti-colonial view of the world that he supposedly got from his African daddy.” in writing about Dinesh D’Souza’s article “How Obama Thinks” and Cornel West’s racist rants.

    Yeah Jonathan, there is a difference: one is speculation based on reason and the other racism.

  • Anonymous

    He is certainly smarter than EVERY SINGLE LIBERAL on this thread. Like an icon pic of a colored man will enforce political correctness here. You should get with the commenter named “Rufus Danegro”.

  • Anonymous

    You mean large like First Lady Michelle Ghetto Butt?

  • Anonymous

    As if you now understand common sense. You’re gonna need medicine and liberals’ anonymous meetings.

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