Maybe it’s just me, but Newt Gingrich still reminds me of the Pillsbury Doughboy.
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“the President’s got to learn to think”
Aye, there’s the rub.
"I think generally, he could end up being a remarkably great President. But he’s got to make a couple of mid-course corrections.”
A couple of mid-course corrections, like a significant increase in his intelligence, education, awareness, concern, humanity, involvement.
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I was reading this and thinking, “Oh God, where to start” and then it occurred to me that if you’re a grandiose know-nothing blowhard yourself, you’d be inclined to think all Trump needs is a couple minor tweaks here and there and then he’d be just dandy.
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Perhaps if Newt had followed his own advice, he would not have lost his job as Speaker of the House. He’s not exactly in a position to offer this advice, and Trump wouldn’t know “discipline” if it bit him on the ass. Go away, Gingrich…
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It’s not just you.
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Like times 1000.
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That never stopped Gingrich. Hope his wife won’t be too disappointed when she has to go back to living with Newt instead of living in Rome. hahahahahahaha
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Trump’s mission is to be a dick and piss off Democrats
This is why they love him
Because he does
He’s a dick and he pisses off Democrats
Any odoriferous legislation that gets passed is icing on the cake
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More postmortems. Media manipulation and asymmetric coverage.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud
Asymmetric vulnerabilities: The right and left were subject to media manipulation in different ways.
The more insulated right-wing media ecosystem was susceptible to sustained network propaganda and disinformation, particularly misleading negative claims about Hillary Clinton. Traditional media accountability mechanisms—for example, fact-checking sites, media watchdog groups, and cross-media criticism—appear to have wielded little influence on the insular conservative media sphere. Claims aimed for “internal” consumption within the right-wing media ecosystem were more extreme, less internally coherent, and appealed more to the “paranoid style” of American politics than claims intended to affect mainstream media reporting.
The institutional commitment to impartiality of media sources at the core of attention on the left meant that hyperpartisan, unreliable sources on the left did not receive the same amplification that equivalent sites on the right did.
These same standard journalistic practices were successfully manipulated by media and activists on the right to inject anti-Clinton narratives into the mainstream media narrative. A key example is the use of the leaked Democratic National Committee’s emails and her campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, released through Wikileaks, and the sustained series of stories written around email-based accusations of influence peddling. Another example is the book and movie release of Clinton Cash together with the sustained campaign that followed, making the Clinton Foundation the major post-convention story. By developing plausible narratives and documentation susceptible to negative coverage, parallel to the more paranoid narrative lines intended for internal consumption within the right-wing media ecosystem, and by “working the refs,” demanding mainstream coverage of anti-Clinton stories, right-wing media played a key role in setting the agenda of mainstream, center-left media. We document these dynamics in the Clinton Foundation case study section of this report.
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Just think, folks: Trump will get his own presidential library. In New York. Maybe the peepee tape will end up there, along with adoring works of pro-Trump fiction penned by Gingrich himself, and maybe O’Reilly too.
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This whole business with Trump is like The Scorpion and the Frog, and the frog’s name is Pepe.
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Advice from the guy who when he was SOH alienated members of his own party with his overbearing as$holeness and illegal money-making schemes that led to massive IRS fines, plus a massive royalty advance from Murdoch/Harper-Collins for a dumb book nobody would read but was really a payoff to lubricate an exception to standard FCC-licensing practices so Murdoch could expand a media empire beyond historic means. Then Gingrich was unceremoniously kicked out. Of course he continued to be a liar, adultery, and cad for many many years…because he loved America, no less.
Self-discipline indeed.
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I feel more of an Abbott & Costello vibe.
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Thanks, Captain Obvious.
But I wouldn’t hold my breath. This guy’s about as disciplined as Chris Christie when he hears the bells on the ice cream man’s truck.
And coming from someone that never tried being disciplined in his life.
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Sage political advice from a man who couldn’t figure out how to flush the toilet on a Greyhound bus.
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Yeah, I can see the library already: a complete collection of Hustler magazines, half a can of Krylon gold spray paint, and transcripts of his Tweets and VHS copies of episodes of “The Apprentice”.
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Now here’s a Republican legislator that I KNOW Trump would gladly take advice from because, of course, this Idaho GOPer is out of his motherfucking mind:
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could say he was a bug and not a feature of the Republican Party?
Consider this his resume for the upcoming Breitbart TV network.
I’ve already got a slogan for them: “We’re the National Enquirer of tv, but without the accuracy” or “we make shit up, you decide”.
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It’s not that they couldn’t see the truth - even those that could didn’t give a damn.
The point was that it would piss off Democrats and liberals.