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Rachel Maddow: Newt Gingrich Running Scams Akin To ‘A Nigerian Prince E-Mail’

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Newt Gingrich is now the Republican frontrunner, and as is the custom with presidential frontrunners nowadays, let the media hazing begin! Rachel Maddow was the latest pundit to examine the Gingrich candidacy on her show tonight, but instead of merely focusing on the same minor scandals as everyone else, went one step further and accused Gingrich of running scams by promoting himself to various groups in order to amass a great deal of money.

Maddow took a few minutes to focus on Gingrich’s campaign earlier in the season, and specifically his inability to register the website ExploreNewt2012.com. Whoever owns the site has been redirecting the page to various websites connected to Gingrich, including Tiffany’s and (as of this posting) Freddie Mac. Maddow used this opportunity as a springboard to bring up Gingrich’s ties to the mortgage firm and how they paid the Republican candidate over $1.6 million. Gingrich tried to explain he was given the money as part of his work as a “housing historian” for the firm.

RELATED: Newt Gingrich Defends His Post-Congressional Lobbying Gig With Freddie Mac

However odd the justification may be, Maddow believes it to be “as legitimate as it gets in Newt Gingrich’s world.” She went through a whole list of Gingrich’s more questionable endeavors, like the letter he sent out to his “2010 Champions of Medicine” and invited them to attend a ceremony with him, all for the paltry sum of $5000. Or, perhaps, the Dallas strip club he bestowed an entrepreneur of the year award to in exchange for a $5000 sum as well. In fairness to Gingrich, he ended up revoking the award the returning the money, but given all these different examples of Gingrich taking money, Maddow could only reach one conclusion.

“This is the ka-ching that makes Newt Gingrich go. He is a Nigerian prince e-mail, send-me-your-bank-details guy. He does e-mail spam, fax spam, direct mail, sucker list, bottom-feeding, prey-on-the-gullible financial scams.”

The reason this strategy works for Gingrich, Maddow argued, is that because Newt is selling himself or the opportunity for people to see him or win a signed gavel. And it’s not just average people. Gingrich collected millions of dollars from the health care sector in exchange for “special access to the former House speaker.” The Chamber of Commerce paid Gingrich as a consultant, and all he had to do to earn the money was “attend dinner or lunch with Chamber officials every few months.”

RELATED: Barney Frank: Newt Gingrich Made Millions By Influencing Public Policy

Maddow finally took the media to task for focusing more on Gingrich’s policy flip-flops than looking at the whole picture, what she deems the real scandal behind Gingrich’s political life.

“Newt Gingrich… is a scam! Newt Gingrich’s profession since he got kicked out of Congress under a cloud of ethics charges related to fundraising, his full-time profession has been selling access to himself as someone who is influential because of his time as a public servant. He has been marketing the Speakership of the House for his own private financial gain to anybody who will pay him. Anybody he can scam money out of, even if he has to do it by fax with fake handwriting. For decades he has been doing this, this is why he is now a zillionaire.”

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  • Rufus Danegro

    I give Newty exactly two weeks before conservatives wake up and realized they’re screwed.

  • proud2teabagu

    No comment. I tried to watch but this self described brainiac is to annoying to watch for more than 30 seconds.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    OH WELL.. Looks like Herm Cain will always have his days of being a sitcom star for happy memories. IF a person can get passed up by NEWT, well, kiss the POTUS goodbye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU till then CAIN DANCE!

  • OSux

    The only thing that Richard Maddow and his viewers are interested in is same sex marriage.

  • OSux

    Doofus the negro has been screwerd for a lot longer than two weeks.

  • Mo Fokker

    Republicans deserve a sleezy dirtbag like Newt Gingrich as their nominee.

  • Anonymous

    The MSNBCain channel is now the MSNewtBC channel !!  Bend over !!

  • OSux

    In order to counter Barry who is by far the dirtiest sleezebag to ever enter politics.

  • Anonymous

    Hey buddy – Haven’t you heard that Maddow is a Roads Collar ??

  • OSux

    At least that is what he says he is.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve heard that St. John’s Wort  will cure your Cain-on-the-Brain !!

  • Anonymous

    They’ll Need One !!  Figthing Fire With Fire !!

  • proud2teabagu

    Yes I get reminded how smart she is all the time.

  • Anonymous

    It goes without saying that Gingrich would be dismissive of liberals and progressives. 

    I wonder if those posting here in his defense recognize the contempt he reserves for them.

  • Anonymous

    I’m no Maddow fan, but that is a really great line.

  • americanjew

    you’re disgusting

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     The over-under is (2) for the number of conservatives on this thread who will attempt to defend Newt as a viable candidate they would personally support after being given the truth about his finances.

     I would bet the over.

    –Cobra

  • Truthcop

    Lol, no one watches Maddow or Mediaite.
    Just thought I would read up on Newt.
    Clearly a hack job.
    She hasn’t vetted Obama half as much as the Republicans.
    MSDNC….

  • Anonymous

    Rachel tries so hard to be smart and witty but it just comes out as smarmy.

  • Anonymous

    I suspect, it would be prudent to count the silverware after Mr Gingrich had been over for dinner.

  • Anonymous

    Busted him up good Rachel.

  • Anonymous

    Now that several attempts have been made to kill the messenger, how about the message?   He was going to award a Dallas strip club “Entrepreneur of the Year”?  Truly, truth is stranger than fiction.

    How far will he be allowed to take this?  The green room of the WH could serve as a VIP room and we could install poles for the dancers in the east room.  As charming as it sounds, I think we should keep our strip clubs and our presidents separate. 

  • Anonymous

    By all means use the highlighted link “bestowed an entrepreneur of the year award” or use this link.  It would be laughable if he were’nt considering the presidency.  Hell, it’s laughable anyway.

    http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/newt-gingrich-awards—-then-strips—-entrepreneur-of-the-year-honor-to-topless-club-owner.php

  • CosmicDupe

    And your glad 8 transsexual liberals watched it. Vile, repulsive, mentally ill, birth defected bulldyke.

  • skerred bulldyke

    Childish butch degenerate is fuuucking skerred sh itless of the NEWT!

  • MSNPC

    And lean forward !!

  • Ark

    Palin, Limbaugh etc. have fleeced the hicks and rubes that make up the GOP base so why shouldn`t Newt get his snout in the trough. 

  • Roofis The Negro

    I give you exactly two weeks to convert Richy Maddow back to a girl!

  • guest

    what does that even mean?!

  • TSK

    LMFAO
    The 14 year old younger brother of Chaz Bono fails to realise that Newt is making money from Freddie Fraud as a private citizen.(Making money as private citizen is legal for those that don’t know)
    And the rest of shit she spewing about is about the same as a ballplayer selling his autograph.
    Funny you don’t ever hear he/she ever bitch about ObaMao asking for 10,000 donations to dine with him.Or about Clinton selling overnites in the  Lincoln bedroom..while in office.
    Or about ObaMao being the biggest benificiary of Wall Street over the last 20 years.
    Or about the ObaMao regime about to handover another 100 million dollars for bonuses in another collassal failure Fred n Fran.Where its outrage?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I think maybe you underestimate how much the GOP base despises Mittens, and Newt is the most competent SOUNDING Not Mittens. Also, Newt’s been Newt the Big Con for decades, and it’s been over a decade since he lied to Congress and got the boot, and GOP base memories fade a lot faster than the heffalumps in the RNC. I suspect Newt tops out around the same level where Mittens tops out – so here we come Miami Beach.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I like her. She’s smart as a whip, pleasant and fun, and her gender preference is totally uninteresting to me, since I have no more desire to pigeon hole her than she does me. You, on the other hand, are a despicable homophobe, pretending to be a black man when you are not, so you are at least a double liar and certainly at least also a double miscogynist. Go away little boy, you bother the adults.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Self described is untrue. OTHERS describe her credentials, which are quite stunning; she is in fact better educated than any US president other than Clinton maybe going all the way back to Hoover and maybe even Wilson; she is at least as accomplished academically as Obama, which is saying something. But it’s not HER saying these things, it’s others. If you have a link that proves otherwise, you claim, then post it and let’s get it on.

    Besides all that, your avatar name suggests you have quite a limited and probably quite useless education beyond any technical school you may have attended. It’s never too late to remedy that, but you better start soon, because it’s truly sad to waste a brain as you are doing.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Homophobia is a sexual FEAR. You do understand that every time you post this sort of nonsense, it shows you have a tiny penis and are afraid for it, don’t you? We can all see exactly how tiny your penis is when you post homophobic crap. If it makes you feel better, baby Jesus foregives just about anything – while laughing at your tiny penis. And as to those raisin-sized testicles of yours that never descended, hoo boy, don’t get us started.

    We’re not actually mocking your tiny penis, understand; it’s just that it’s so …  tiny.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Actually, I disagree: I think Newt does not give a shit one way or the other. He is a marketer, and his product is himself, and his target buyers are wingers. He could have picked another target audience, but he could not find one more gullible and willing to give him money as a former Speaker. His real contempt is for Rs; Ds are simply some other team playing some other game that is of next to no value to him except for making up childish memes and nursery rhymes, to use in marketing himself to wingers.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Talk about a lazy drive-by. You must be a cop on the take.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    To YOU she does, because you know she nails birdbrains like you to her fence for the squirrels to eat.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    That’s enough from you here. Go to another site because I hereby vow to mock your every future comment here for pure unadulterated sporting pleasure, like Cheney shoots tame captured doves. It will be my singular ambition to rip you apart in ways your own motherboard will end up loathing you for.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    You’re not even good at hate, you moronic homophobe. Get off your mom’s computer and go to bed, dickwad.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    tsk tsk – you have a long ways to go just to reach minimal coherency. Try at a child’s website, like free republic – the freepsters write a lot like you and know where the best cheap meds are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    coming to an in-box near you!!

    “Washington, D.C..
    Attention: The President/CEO

    Dear Sir,

    Confidential Business Proposal

    Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Gnewt Gingrich Department at the KochFreedomWorksTeaFoundation, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $37,000,000.00 (thirty seven million United States dollars) into your accounts. The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by Freddie Mac. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in the subject of American News reports embarrassing to me, a GOP presidential candidate.

    We are now ready to transfer the fund to Gnewt and that is where you come in. It is important to inform you that as a Republican presidential candidate, it is embarrassing to be caught up in such blatant hypocrisy; that is why Gnewt requires your assistance. The total sum will be shared as follows: 70% to Gnewt, 25% to Gnewt and 5% for local and international expenses incidental to the transfer made payable to Gnewt.

    The transfer is risk free onto Gnewt. I am a former speaker of the US House and for references you can call my ex-wife.  If you find this proposal acceptable, we shall require the following documents:
    (a) your banker’s name, telephone, account and fax numbers.
    (b) your private telephone and fax numbers —for confidentiality and easy communication.
    (c) your letter-headed paper stamped and signed.

    Alternatively we will furnish you with the text of what to type into your letter-headed paper, along with a breakdown explaining, comprehensively what we require of you. The business will take us thirty (30) working days to accomplish.

    Please reply urgently.

    Best regards
    Gnewt Gningrich

  • proud2teabagu

    Son you are a lot like Maddow. You are a bloviating douche bag who thinks he is a genius But is nothing but a lonely pathetic loser.

  • proud2teabagu

    I picked that avatar just for losers like you who giggle every time they get to call someone a tea bagger.

  • Anonymous

    Rachel Maddow: Except for Roger Ebert, the ugliest man alive.

  • ROTFLMAO

    Have you seen Rev Al or Fat ED Schultz or Alan Grayson lately?

  • ROTFLMAO

    You must have one hell of a lot of time on you hands!
    Plus it was not funny and boring as shit
    Take up crafts! Or volunteer around the Nursing home.
    Can earn you and extra Jello sometimes.

  • Mencius

    Just keep closing your eyes and stopping your ears to the truth. It’s the teabagger way. 

  • Mencius

    Why did the Teabaggers pick their name?

    Oh, that’s right… They were too dumb to realize the implications. 

  • TPRTR

    MSLSD is so boring and predictable. It is no mystery ways no one watches. Night after night of trash republicans while ignoring the obvious miserable failures of Barack and the far left that make of the modern democrat party.

  • Mencius

    First, there is no “scandal” that comes even close to implicating Obama in any way nearly as bad as just one of Newt’s many scandals. For all of the Limbaugh bloviating and the ridiculous attempts to make anything a scandal for the administration, nothing has stuck because all of it is politically-driven lies. 

    Secondly, the Right vehemently hated Obama back in early 2008, right? That was when he supposedly had “no experience” and “wasn’t qualified” but yet there was still this unexplained hatred from the Right toward him. So if he didn’t have the experience or record to be a “sleazebag” then, what was it about him that bothered you guys so much? I wonder… Maybe… No… That couldn’t be it. 

  • Mencius

    It’s gonna be tough on you when you finally realize what’s driving your otherwise gratuitous homophobia. I’m more concerned though about how your wife and kids will take it, but I guess you have plenty of other closeted GOPers to guide you through the rough times. You should give Larry Craig a call. It wasn’t too long ago when he was around giving his anti-same sex marriage speeches and denouncing gays. 

  • Mencius

    She certainly wouldn’t be scared of a dumb little pantywaist like you. 

  • Mencius

    You should change your name to Dumbasscop. 

  • Mencius

    This is all you guys have got: childish homophobia (good luck getting the votes of any person related to a gay person in this country) and nothing to say about the actual facts. 

  • Anonymous

    What I’m really happy about is that I know some intelligent individuals of good character who are conservatives. They’re actually able to have an intelligent conversation and tend not to be homophobic jackasses spewing insults.

    Feel free to shoot the messenger and ignore the information. Newt is a poster boy for much of what’s wrong with DC. Peddled influence. He retired from politics and made millions selling his name and former position. That’s fine as long as he stays retired. We sure as hell don’t need more of that in DC. Rachel provided good information.

  • joe

    so this is opposite day right?

    have you watch closet gay hannity and the fox shows of rejects, hasbeens and traitors?
    and as far as failure? i think you are talking bush years since obama years have created more jobs than all of bush years combind–just last month..
    2 major dictators gone-1 war over-health care passed will millions more insured-education reform-wall street reform–
    i can do this all day–pretty much–this has been the most succcessful presidency in modern history for a first term…

    but i guess blind faith and hate really does not allow for much objectivity huh?
    WE NEED BREEDERS–NOT READERS~~

  • joe

    so all you clowns can some up with is her looks…
    that just shows how pathetic, moronic and childish you all are..
    i may agre that rachel is more of a man than closet gay hannity, anal fixation O-reilly and the whole gop presidential field…
    so see–we can come together~

  • joe

    that takes about 5 minutes…
    but i guess for you clowns who could care less about truth and really have no life…
    would rather come here an make fun of how people look..
    HEY CLOWNS–HAVE THE COURAGE TO POST YOUR OWN PHOTOS AND YOUR OWN RESUMES—
    if you are all that?
    which we all know you are not~

  • joe

    but they watch fox–religiously to make it #1…
    oh ya–these are the same goofballs giving money to the televangelist..
    hahahahaha

    GO-GOP…
    what a group of scoundrels—preying on the weak of mind and spirit~

  • joe

    at least liberal trasexuals admit it..
    hannity, lil dickie morris, newt and other closet gays…haven’t the courage..

  • joe

    and the cons try real hard to look dumb…and they just come out as dumb…
    just like their constituents…

  • Anonymous

    Is it just anyone who is able to hold an intelligent informed conversation that you have a problem with, or is it just people who disagree with your preferred view and are capable of defending theirs.

  • joe

    i guess YOU do…
    so what does that mean? you are an idiot!
    hahahahahaha

  • joe

    it means ‘BEND OVER AND TAKE IT LIKE  A CONSERVATIVE’..

  • joe

    the only thing that hannity and other closet gay are worried about is nudity..

    just like when he described the OWS..
    THEY WERE NAKED, HAVING SEX AND NUDE..
    you people really need to get laid more..really..

  • joe

    i guess that makes you  a super duper loser huh?

  • joe

    jealous..
    don’t be a hater…

    WE WANT BREEDERS NOT READERS~
    HAHAHAHAHA

  • joe

    she is obviously more of a man than closet gay hannity or anal boy Oreilly–fo’sho’

  • TPRTR

    Still drinking the hope n change Koo-Aid? BTW Bush is know longer president in case you haven’t noticed. Lets see how popular his policies are next November. I predict this little dictator will be toast.

  • proud2teabagu

    And you are still a steaming pile of shit.

  • proud2teabagu

    You call his thousand word diatribes intelligent? You are an idiot.

  • proud2teabagu

    What? The implication is that you have a sack on your chin. Dumb ass.

  • proud2teabagu

    Yes because we all know that she has the answers we seek.

  • joe

    oh snap—
    hahahaha
    what a bunch of losers…
    is that the best you have tea boy?

    DON’T HATE –MEDIAITE~
    i just made that up–copyright…
    you want to buy a t-shirt 
    hahahaha
    now eat me~

  • joe

    yes i KNOW that Bush is NO longer prez…
    BUT HE WAS JUST 3 YEARS AGO…
    and that is when the house burnt down and YES we are better off now…
    so i guess–you clowns can stop blaming Clinton and Carter now????

    and i have an outstanding bet that the dems will take the house, keep the senate and the white house..
    still no takers—only fakers~
    put up–or just talk childish crap..

  • Anonymous

    I’ll give your opinion some regard when you have more to offer than petty insults.

    defend your positions with something other than name calling unless that’s all you’ve got.

  • Valkyrie101

    You never know how it is going to shake down after the NewsCorp scandal, and whether it will filter down to the US and Fox News, because in a year, Maddow could be getting better numbers than O’Reilly and friends.

  • Valkyrie101

    No, that’s not true, she looks fine. A shining star not just on MSNBC.  And Ebert? He looks amazingly fine, all things considered.

  • Silica

    Rachal needs to clean up his act. His MSNBC audience is dwindling fast.

  • Anonymous

    You are totally off your rocker. 

  • Anonymous

    You think Rex’s rants are intelligent? Saying that Rachel is more intelligent than any president, Saying that proud2teabagu is wasting his brain? Rex is just a holier-than-thou douche who is seriously in love with MSNBC. He is constantly explaining how smart Keith and Rachel are and how passionate Larry is. It is very bizarre behavior. 

  • Anonymous

    ‘LEAN FORWARD AND LET RICHARD HAVE HER WAY WITH YOU’

  • TPRTR

    Can you specifically tell me what Bush did to “take our economy down” and do mean specific. If you say the wars, I want numbers. If you say the tax cuts, how much they were and I also want to know what the unemployment rates were under Bush’s two terms.If yut ou say…he de-regulated. What did he de-regulate? I need some facts. I would never claim Bush to be a good President but some perspective is always helpful.

  • Anonymous

    If she’s so smart then why does she only have like-minded people on her show? Why does she rarely invite a conservative guest? 

  • TC

    I almost fell off the chair when someone said that she is almos tas educated as Obama. That is your gold standard?  Obama is the most overrated intellectual – in fact like many self proclaimed academics he is a pseudointelectual. His academic qualifictions are so good tht we have never seen his transcripts from Columbia and Harvard – I know Columbia’s trancripts are sealed. Nothing like transparency.

    Obama can only speak with any sense of brightness when he is prepped (memorizes) or has a teleprompter. He isvery good at organizing and rgurgitating lerned material. He has liitle intellctually flexibilty to speak off the cuff. When he does speak “off the cuff” he goes into tangential meanderings on a topic that he has prepped. He bloviates during his press conferences with excessive ramblings indicative of someone who is unfocused in his thoughts. People equate these ramblings as some sign”that he is so smart”. He is a puppet who has a nice speaking voice – he has little intelectual depth. Bring on Newt.

  • Anonymous

    MadCowGasm !!!  ClintonGasm !!   ObamaGasm !!

  • Anonymous

    Multiple ObamaGasms !!!
    and..
    Racist !!!

    *drink*

  • Anonymous

    Bush Lied People Died !!
    *drink*

    Followed By An Super ObamaGasm !!

  • Anonymous

    you want to go with that prognostication? 

    It’s truly sad when someone with not a whit of comedic timing tries and tries again to do so.  It’s sad for the person and pathetically sad for the audience.  

  • Anonymous

    what do you read?  I’ll be sure to stay away from that section of fiction in the book store.

  • Anonymous

    hmm, so now Hannity is a closet gay.  You go ballistic that someone finds Rachel less than pleasing on the eye and then do your best impression of smear merchant Savage.  

    So, you think of yourself as a well rounded, kind democrat? lol
    p.s. you’re right – you are a fine democrat and it’s not pleasing to the eye.

  • Anonymous

    I wasn’t speaking specifically to anything Rex said but ftr;

    You can strongly disagree with someone’s views and opinions and still recognize their intelligence. People can be to far to wordy , but that also doesn’t detract from their intelligence.

    Hell, you can even choose to communicate in short posts that are just insulting and have no real content , and still be very intelligent. It’s just harder to tell. Personally I just prefer people who can offer an informed intelligent discussion over the sheer volume of insulting information free crap we get on this board. And I’m not limiting that to any particular political view. It’s the nature of the beast I suppose.

  • JimR

    Newt would absolutly clean that Community Rabble Rouser’s clock if the ever debates him on any subject. The lib establishment knows that, and as you can see, are going bonkers over that prospect.
    It would be a joy to behold.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t trust Newt.  Do You? 
     
    I mean even if he is smart, can’t we find someone who is smart and isn’t ethically challenged? 
     
    Our job is to compare Newt to the other Republican candidates.  When thinking of ethics and trustworthiness, Newt just doesn’t make it.
     
    You may not like everything Ron Paul says, but everyone knows he is trustworthy.  With Ron Paul, you can have faith that he will do his best to accomplish what he says.
     
    You want smaller government, right?  You want less spending, right?  You want less regulation, right?
     
    It’s liberty time, baby!  Constitution… Ron Paul

  • Anonymous

    You’re a piece of sh*t racist tea bagger.  Congrats.

  • Anonymous

    I see the homophobic tea baggers are out…

  • Anonymous

    I love to watch the racist homophobic tea baggers defend their sh*t show of candidates.  LOL.

  • Silica

    Yet another idiot posts his lunacy.  Don’t you need to go find a job?  Rachal Madcow can take his show and put it where the sun doesn’t shine.  Oh wait, he might like that.

  • Anonymous

    Rachael is a LOON!!  Pure and simple.

  • Mencius

    Typical childish response!!!
    and…
    Willful ignorance of the facts!!!

    *drink*

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Meme time!

  • Constipatedliberal

    I don’t trust you. Ron Paul is a liberal.

  • Burning Rextum

    Uhhhhhh… Rextum vows gay revenge! See a doctor, then go start a dumpster fire.

  • pocketpool

    We know what you “love to watch”. Repulsive.

  • Mucus

    Wow. You and Rextum pitching a gay bi tch fit over the fact that Richy Maddow is a birth defected transsexual? Get psychiatric medication.

  • Mencius

    I could never cut you down more than you do it for me, Mucus. The fact that you think those sorts of ridiculously narrow-minded and hateful opinions are going to fly with voters is pretty funny. No one but the fucking idiots you drink Bud Light and scratch your nuts with every weekday night gives a shit that you’re a homophobe, whereas the rest of the nation has pretty much grown up on this one issue. You guys only hurt yourselves by continually harping on sexuality instead of the facts, in this case that Gingrich is a pretty corrupt person to be leading in the GOP race.

  • Mencius

    A thousand words must be like two days of reading time for you. Better just to play with your toys and listen to the radio. 

  • Anonymous

    Childish Statements Produce Childish Responses !!

    No Ignorance of The Facts Here !!
    It is a fact that you had an ObamaGasm and cried Racism !!

  • Valkyrie101

    Speculation is more like it. However, it would not surprise me if the Newscorp group did some underhanded things further to their US operation, because that is their MO.

  • odiloglobottschnigg

    However, it seems your intellectual impairment is permanent.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OTNG3XOBO7MNX6ZCHGOQHCS3CM YGeronimoG

    Rachael   I listen to you almost every night. You are (TO THE POINT) and that is what I like. Honesty is one thing, and being SNEAKY is another. It seems  to me that throughout the whole republican debate, I thought cain wasn’t bad, BUT, well, then came the 5 women, and to pay one off $45,000 isn’t INNOCENT by any means. That is money spent to SHUT SOMEONE up. Ron Paul seems to be more of a guy that can get down to the NITTY GRITTY.. otherwise, there isn’t ANYONE on that debate/ticket for the republicans that are even WORTH a breathe of FRESH AIR.

  • Anonymous

    Newt’s ex wives probably  gave her the story.

  • Kid Dynamite

    Show Herman Cain the respect he deserves, you bigoted scumbag.

  • BWare

    Most Republicans are too stupid to recognize Newt`s scams.

  • joe

    yet i have  not been proven wrong yet—
    hmmmm

  • OSux

    All democrats are too stupid to recognize president downgrade’s scams.

  • Anonymous

    We may deserve New Gingrich but we certainly don’t deserve the sleazebag in the White House now.  We KNOW what he is capable of.  I only hope he can’t COMPLETELY destroy this country in the next year before we can get him out.  It may be too late even now. AND I VOTED FOR THE LYING DIRTBAG!!!  I thought that nobody could be worse than Hillary.  There is somebody MUCH worse.  It seems that he is systematically and INTENTIONALLY trying to destroy this country.  If he isn’t – he couldn’t have done a better job if he HAD tried.  And we don’t deserve imbeciles like Rache Maddow, Chris Matthews, Mister Ed and Keith Olbermann!!!!

  • Anonymous

    The scam artist has his defenders among the racists and the homophobes. Let them all have their own (and separate) party.

  • Ritan

    Nigerian Prince, is she talking about the President??

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Truth be told, her producers would love to have more conservatives on. When Rachael interviews folks like Rand Paul…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4FTd-1m-o

    Richard Cohen…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Pg22ow1e8&feature=related

    David Frum….
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjzzVz8-m4Y&feature=related

    …it makes for compelling television. Even newsworthy, in the case of Rand Paul.

    And here’s an open, on air invitation to conservatives…from the host herself
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DetS7ZFRM7Y

     if a conservative candidate, author or political figure has their facts straight, and can make convincing arguments for their positions, he or she should have nothing to fear from any fair forum.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Right…and the reason why you don’t call for Newt Gingrich’s transcripts from Emory University and Tulane is….why again?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

      Based on what? His performances in the GOP Primary debates?  Newt spends more time attacking the media than his debate opponents, and Romney made him look like a complete idiot on the health care mandate.

      Perhaps in captive audience of right wingers who boo gay soldiers and cheer for executions  for letting the sick die, yeah…Newt got some great applause.  Let’s try it in General Election America, where despite recent conservative initiatives…people of all stripes get to vote.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Nigerian…Kenyan….Hawaiian….Same thing, right?

    LOL

    –Cobra

  • BoyMaddow

    How old to you have to be to work on TV? This boy looks like he is about 12!!

  • insistwemuch

    I’m pretty sure this is from the Fred Savage Show?

  • Anonymous

    You just keep flapping there boy.  Not a bit of sense or even proof – but that makes no never mind to you and your ability to smear.  

  • AliveStillKickin

    TYPICAL MADDOW INTERVIEW:
    Maddow: Now that you no longer let Bill  pop your junk….Don’t you ever get horny?
    Hillary: Sure I do….but I can control it.
    Maddow: What do you do?
    Hillary: I just suck on a Lifesaver.
    (silence)
    Maddow: Who drives you to the beach? 

  • MIKE

    What planet do you live on? She opens her segment trying to form some conspiracy or straight out attack on the individual, then watches as the person sits there and defends himself. Then if it didn’t go too well she bring more ammo the next night when said individual can’t even defend themselves. Who in their right mind want’s to put themselves thru that?

    All she is, no pun intended, is a professional bushwhacker.

      

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sandra-Hopes/100000943403348 Sandra Hopes

    The real bottom feeders are those who work for MSNBC and those in charge who allow this kind of crap.. Comcast will be hearing from me.   I am sick of this.

  • Mencius

    Wow, I guess I really hurt your feelings. Don’t worry. You’ll turn 30 one day and realize what a douchebag you’ve been since puberty. 

    As a side note, if you guys in the Teabag Party ever decide to change your name but still want to stick with the kinky sex theme, might I suggest the Cleveland Steamer Party? It fits with how you guys operate.  

  • BWare

    Yeah reality and truth makes teabaggers ill. LOL

  • Anonymous

    What imbeciles do we deserve? I noticed you didn’t mention any conservative imbeciles.

    In case you forget Obama walked into a huge mess he had little or no part in creating. You can argue he’s been ineffective in making things better, or even that he’s made things worse, but to make the claim he’s intentionally trying to destroy the country strikes me as , well, the term you seem to like.

  • Anonymous

    You are right that he didn’t START the mess, but he has made it much much much WORSE.  With the country going down the tube, why, why, why did he use ALL of his energy and resources to ram through Obamacare?   Even if it were a  good program (It is egregiously bad.) it shouldn’t have taken priority over jobs and the economy.  Even simpletons know that THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT CREATE JOBS!!!  (except for the government jobs themselves).  The government sure as hell CAN prevent the people who do create jobs from doing it!  All the government has to do is make taxes so high and the cost and time for following government regulations (there are so many that some even contradict each other) so prohibitive that it is cheaper to move your company out of the country.  And I certainly am not saying that there shouldn’t be SOME regulations.  There are so many duplicative departments, commissions, agencies etc that they contradict each other.  And some are so useless that they have to do SOMETHING and it usually isn’t anything worthwhile.  No Obama didn’t create the whole mess but he SAID that he would go over the budget (he hasn’t even submitted a budget) line by line and eliminate useless expenditures.  HE HASN’T.  He said that his would be the most transparent administration.  IT’S BEEN THE MOST SECRETIVE!  He said that he would end no-bid contracts over 25,000.  HE HASN’T.  He said that all bills would go on the internet five days before a vote so that everyone could read them.  HE DOESN’T EVEN READ THEM!!!  The reason I say it seems that he is TRYING to destroy the country is:  even a simpleton knows that you cannot spend/borrow yourself out of debt and he is trying to do so.  Has there ever been anything so stupid as “cash for clunkers.”  Nobody and no business is too big to fail.               When businesses made bad decisions they should fail.  Why are we rewarding failures???? and punishing people who create jobs?

  • BooBoo Bear

    Teabaggers….The first “American” Terrorists.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jimhunt James Hunt

    When did this guy get a show on MSNBC?

  • Anonymous

    The Newster whole life is scam.  You wonder why he goes after the media instead of answer the question? Because it’s a just a joke to him.  

  • Anonymous

    every time i see Maddow i wanna slap the asinine smirk off her bigoted idiotic mug.” Putrid” is the only word that adequately describes this imbecile. She’s the female ( questionable ) equivalent of Chris Mathews as they wallow in he the filth of their facile minds together.

  • Anonymous

    sicko Joe. lacking the ability or discourse, resorts to  typical loony left filthy mindedness.

  • Anonymous

    small minded is an apt description of the peanut that occupies the unthinking space between your bigoted  ears. Boring boring boring.

  • Anonymous

    I appreciate the detailed and civil response.
    Obamacare. I think he/they may have figured they needed to do that while they had a strong majority. everyone agreed and still agrees that our health care system has a lot of problems. Any and every piece of major legislation goes through a process of tweaking and changing as we see in practical terms what works and what doesn’t. Obamacare wasn’t intended to be the final solution.
     A big time recession/depression, like the one in 08 that you know Obama didn’t contribute to doesn’t change overnight. Look at our history. The economic problems we have today have been decades in the making. It’s unrealistic to think a new president can turn things around in a year or two or even 1 term. I think it’s overly simplistic to think just cutting regulations and taxes will suddenly create jobs. We can’t compete with ultra cheap labor, even if there is zero taxes and regulations.
    I agree that we need to take a look at government agencies and regulations but again, those are not all Obama’s doing either, and he is perfectly willing to address that issue in a practical realistic way. A scalpel, not a machete. The other things you mentioned are indicative of the corruption of politics and special interests rampant and evident in both parties, not just the Democrats and not just this admin.
    Swapping parties is like changing the bedding on someone’s sick bed and never addressing the real illness.

    You seem to be repeating a lot of GOP talking points and I agree that some of them have merit and need to be included in the discussion, but in a realistic way. Many of the things you’re hanging Obama for is business as usual in DC. The problem is much bigger than Obama or the Democrats. Members of the GOP say they want drastic cuts, until the cuts may hurt them politically and then they change their tune.   We’ve created a deeply flawed system where allegiance to special interests and money replaces allegiance to the common good of American society , and getting elected again takes priority over honesty and integrity. It will take time ,persistence, sacrifice, and the public working together to root out the common enemy. Corruption.

  • Anonymous

    What does his race have to do with anything

  • Anonymous

    Are you jerking off right now?

  • Anonymous

    Cops are mostly a bunch of Dicks.
    You prove it again.

  • Anonymous

    You certainly have a lot of love for your fellow humans.

  • Anonymous

    You need to get laid!

  • Anonymous

    First, I am not a republican.  I gave up on them years ago.  They TALK of cutting government but don’t DO any more than the democrats.  Again, Obama didn’t START many of the problems, but he has made ALL of them worse.  When a patient is brought in to the emergency room bleeding, the first thing you do is stop the bleeding.  You don’t cut another gash and make him bleed more!
    Obamacare.  Whatever the reason, it was the biggest mistake Obama has made. It isn’t even a good beginning, much less a final solution.  Of course there are problems with our healthcare system (the government caused most of them just as it causes most of the problems) by jumping in bed with the pharmaceutical companies.  The old joke that “we have the best politicians that money can buy” is more true today than ever and it applies to almost all of them.  Read William Faloon’s book, Pharmocracy to get an idea.  Another problem is our ridiculous “legal” system that allows the most frivolous suits imaginable and makes malpractice insurance sky-high.  Besides being unconstitutional and just a “mess” Obama care has contributed to unemployment because of the cost to employers.  This is one of the areas where Obama didn’t start the problem but he surely made it worse, not better and not even slowing or stabilizing it. 
    No, Obama didn’t START the recession, but he surely HAS contributed to it.  He has made it infinitely worse.  Almost everything he has done has made it worse, from Obamacare to cash for clunkers, bank bailouts, auto bailouts etc etc etc.  I BELIEVED him when he said that he would go through the budget (he hasn’t even submitted one) line by line and eliminate wasteful items!!!! I BELEIVED him when he said that his would be the most transparent administration.  It has been the most CLOSED.  I BELIEVED him when he said that he would stop no-bid government contracts over $25,000.  I BELIEVED him when he said that lobbyists would not run his administration.  I BELIEVED him when he said that he would post bills on the internet five days before voting so that we could read them.  HE DOESN’T EVEN READ THEM!!!  I suppose my biggest gripe with Barak is I BELIEVED HIM!!! And I did not know about his myriad socialist/communist ties.  The news media let us down on this one.  They absolutely gave Barak Obama a free ride.  If they had investigated Barak Obama the way they are investigating Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, Barak Obama would not be president today.

    We CAN compete with cheap labor, as long as we don’t have to pay grossly higher taxes (corporate tax is highest of any developed country) and comply with petty, convoluted, conflicting regulations (the precise height of a sink for example, license/school for hair weaving when hair weaving isn’t even taught at the school but you have to go to get the license).  It is a vicious cycle.  Businesses move out of the country because the government has made it impossible to make a profit here.  They take the jobs with them; there are no jobs here and people have no money because there are no jobs.  
    He keeps saying that the rich should pay their “fair share.”  What IS their fair share?  They pay 70% of the income taxes now.  I am more concerned about the 47% who pay NO income tax.  What is THEIR fair share?  Nobody should get a free ride.
    Look at the socialist/communist people and organizations he is connected with: Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn, Van Jones, Jeremiah Wright, Frank Marshall Davis, Alice Palmer, Robert Malley, Anita Dunn, Saul Alinsky, Michael Pfleger, Mike Klonsky, Marilyn Katz, Carl Davidson, Bill Fletcher, ACORN, Cornel West.  The list goes on and on and on.   These are just a few.   

    Obama has not looked at ANYTHING realistically or practically!!! He is in waaay over his head and is absolutely incompetent.  

    Things I think need to be done: Balanced budget amendment, term limits, end almost all foreign aid, end farm subsidies, flat income tax with absolutely no deductions, cut corporate income tax to 25%, get the government out of the housing/mortgage business, abolish the department of Housing and Development, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, abolish the Department of Education and let the states take care of it where it should be, limit unemployment benefits to 26 weeks (99 weeks is disgraceful.  I wish I knew how many times I have heard “why should I take that job when I get almost as much in unemployment?”) , secure borders, enforce immigration laws, repeal “anchor baby” law, raise the retirement age for social security/medicare benefits to 67, make congress live by all laws that they pass, curb the power of the EPA.  Why can windmills kill endangered birds with impunity when other industries are crippled if one of the hundreds of varieties of worms are endangered by their activities?  The dinosaur, dodo bird and homing pigeon are extinct.  Are we any worse off without them?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry VoltBrain, but you are misinterpreting. These other posters are having the Gasms over their favorite politicians… not me. It’s so revolting that it should be mocked.

  • Anonymous

    I was until I saw your pic !!!

  • Michael J Keane

    Ah, the “your brain is so small it’s a peanut” insult. It’s been decades since first grade, but it’s good to reminisce.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Newt has more baggage than O’ Hare Airport!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m not an economist but from what I’ve read the idea was to stop things from getting a lot worse and even  more millions of jobs lost. There’s no way to measure what the bailouts stopped from happening.
    My complaint is that no demands seemed to be made when handing out billions of dollars. That would have been the time to break up some of these giants so this wouldn’t happen again, but IMO this was set up long ago
    You’re talking about the kind of corruption I am in big Pharma. I agree. A lot of decent ideas get poisened as everyone sells their support by injecting some rider or loophole. It’s funny you want tort reform though. Isn’t that also just more regulation? Why are judges allowing frivolous lawsuits. Isn’t there a discovery phase to weed those out. I agree that’s part of the problem but another part is health care with major profit as  it’s priority rather than , you know, health care.
    You must not have been paying attention when Obama was running because I heard all about his anti American connections before I voted for him Whether you’re republican or not , that’s just another conservative talking point.
    It’s certainly possible that Obama’s view and vision for America is more socialist than mine but to determine that we need to have an honest fact based discussion. Crying socialist as if it’s akin to bogyman doesn’t make for an adult informed conversation. We’ve been a partially socialist country for decades now and haven’t collapsed. Let’s acknowledge that and have a realistic discussion about where the lines ought to be drawn. Let’s elect people who want to encourage that discussion and deal in relevant facts rather than buss words.

    I’m going to stop here. You’re tendency to use extreme language makes me inclined to not engage even though I agree on some points.

  • Billy Sunday

    How Republican of you.  You don’t like what you hear so you try and sensor the truth!! 

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    If the government cannot “create jobs”, then how can you explain the millions of people currently EMPLOYED by local, state, and federal government?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

     If you are strong enough in your convictions, and can support those convictions with facts to make a compelling argument, you shouldn’t be afraid of ANY interview, whether it be from Maddow, Bill O’Reilly, or Mike Wallace.

    –Cobra

  • George

    I think Newt Gingrich is the father of the present day gang warfare of the national republicans and democrats. He only wants “pure republicans” those that agree with him in the republican party. I wish someone could throw a bucket of water on him and he would shrivel up like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz

  • http://www.cobrahealth.com Craig J. Casey

    Newt is a total and complete DC scumbag.  Should the right nominate a thief just because he could debate Obama well?

  • rightwingradical

    Don’t be so stingy whitehat. Let ‘em have their own country, in Africa.

  • Davidram43

    12voltman: you kiddin’ the US has a long history of racism going back hundreds of years. Recent events nationally certainly have highlighted that, especially among the best the country has to offer, Congress.

  • Anonymous

    I am in a mixed race marriage. I have first hand experiance.Personally I have always tried to be color blind.
    You are afraid of anyone unlike youself it seems. Blacks, Homosexuals,etc 
    Your old world order is dying. We now live in a muticultural world. A better world will be the outcome because of it. America the beautiful…a great melting pot!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Bibeau/1199881877 Joseph Bibeau

    How About WE THE PEOPLE, sever all politician assets, revenues, etc. Till they EARN THEIR MONEY LIKE THE REST OF US!!!!! California had to stop all the legislators from getting paid til they fixed the state Budget, Time we see the FEDERAL LEVEL GET THE SAME!!!! No PAY FOR FAILURE!!!! NO MORE PAYING THEM FOR SERVICES NOT RENDERED!!!! They were elected to keep the system running, not to take sides and obstruct the nation. This government is appalling. “PUT THE IDEOLOGY ASIDE AND DO YOUR JOBS!!!!!

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