Would someone please explain to me why the adulterous and "we lost a bunch of seats in 1998 so I'm gonna quit my job and go home" former Speaker of the House of Representatives has any credibility with the press?
The guy quit not only the Speakership but his House seat after facing a revolt of his caucus in the House, he's not formally running for anything, he made his reputation by throwing verbal bombs in the empty chambers of the House when only C-Span knew he was there, he shut down the government in a snit when he was supposedly denied a seat on a presidential airplane, and he's generally a jerk.
What's next? Dick Cheney appearing on Fox?
Posted by Linkmeister at May 15, 2009 10:12 AM | TrackBackthat commenter had it right (at the linked site) about Gingrich looking in the mirror. LOL.
Posted by: RONW at May 15, 2009 02:25 PM"Credibility with the press" is no longer based on objective evaluation of a source, it's based on orders from the corporation that owns the reporter's outlet. When that's Rupert Murdoch, for instance, objectivity doesn't enter into it at all.
Posted by: Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers) at May 16, 2009 12:25 PMA bit later (20 May) Mr. Gingrich is now showing immense contempt for his readers, calling upon MS Pelosi to step down because she's done so much Harm To Our Nation (by discouraging talented young people from joining the CIA) with her statement that the CIA lies all the time. (She probably should've said "frequently", but one can make some allowances for Rhetorical Excess in a politician.) By begging the question -- ignoring the possibility that the CIA actually did deliberately mislead her -- Mr. Gingrich has (IMHO) shown that he thinks we're not smart enough to understand the basics of logical reasoning. *sigh*
Mind you, I've thought MS Pelosi should step down (or be replaced) since the moment she stated that "impeachment is not on the table", but that's something else again.
I note that another Congress member was informed by the CIA that they'd briefed him three times. He asked them for the dates, pulled out his little daily schedule notebooks, and said "Not on two of those dates", whereupon they discovered that their records "were in error" and apologized. I believe this is what poker players might term "bluff called".
Posted by: Don Fitch at May 20, 2009 04:50 AM
One only needs to look at history to discover that the CIA does indeed lie. I don't think William Casey told the truth about anything consequential in his entire term (speaking of rhetorical flourishes), and we got Iran-Contra out of that.
Posted by: Linkmeister at May 20, 2009 08:36 AM