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I think a definitive answer was provided by the late Robert Novak in his priceless memoir, The Prince of Darkness, on pp. 530-1, wherein he described Newt’s rage over a column Novak had written taking him to task for “regressing to his Rockefeller Republican roots” and failing to attack racial quotas. This occurred at a small American Spectator dinner on July 27, 1995. “David Brock, then still a supposed conservative working for the Spectator, was there,” Novak writes, “and later described Gingrich ‘flying into a red-faced, table-pounding rage’ at me.”
Novak wrote the incident up in a subsequent column, noting how “infuriated” Newt said he was by his earlier “column on affirmative action,” and adding: “He does fear alienating such blacks as his Georgia Congressional colleague and fighter for civil rights in the '60s, Rep. John Lewis, and warned against instilling apprehension about ‘resegregation.’”
I was there that night and recall the angry Newt pleading, “What do I say to John Lewis?” I distinctly remember thinking that in Newt’s view, doing away with affirmative action would be like doing away with the civil rights movement. He wasn’t going to go there. No sir, not someone so intensely sensitive to black sensibilities. Who says Newt can’t show empathy?
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ncatty| 1.24.12 @ 3:54PM
I guess the analysis is that anyone in support of affirmative action cannot be a racist. Newt is in favor (or was in 1995) of affirmative action so ergo he is not a racist. Why am I uncomfortable with that logic?
SpiralArchitect| 1.24.12 @ 5:52PM
That is illogical; merely moving from one conclusion to the next.
C Bowen | 1.24.12 @ 3:58PM
Am I to infer that being racist against whites is okay with you Quin? Meets your definition of empathy?
Teflon93| 1.24.12 @ 4:19PM
Since you've opened this line up, Wlady, perhaps you can point us to where Mitt Romney registered his objection to LDS not ordaining black men as ministers until 1978---when Mittens was 30.
Obama's going to go there, so perhaps you can explain the answer to us now.
Occam's Tool| 1.24.12 @ 4:48PM
Novak was a vicious antisemite. Rest in Pieces, scumbag.
Clint| 1.24.12 @ 4:55PM
Israel Firster Smear Bund Bibi Butt Boy, Tool Job Is Wicked Nuts.
"Novak became a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, which caters to Jewish students, while attending the University of Illinois. Novak would later use the group's 'secret handshake' whenever he met fellow alumnus Wolf Blitzer."
Call Bibi In The Mornin'.
Tom| 1.24.12 @ 6:23PM
Novak was not a gung ho blind supporter of Israel and that makes him an anti semite, right?
tonypal| 1.24.12 @ 6:46PM
Not only that, but I think Novak was old enough to have been in the Hitler youth.
Anyway, I just returned from the Paulbot mother ship. I am now a fellow true believer, having been inducted as a result of my groundbreaking new nickname for Mitt Romney, Flip Flopney. I think I saw you there. Were you the one in his underwear at cut and paste central? So hard to tell, as there were literally thousands of dedicated souls at the big board. It's got to be better than doing it from mom's basement, right?
I'm so excited to be on the team. My ability to spot a neo-con from long range has increased dramatically. I'm still coming up a bit short in my new position as an official giver of nicknames. Yesterday I suggested Ttim Yenmor. It sounds Finnish and I just can't see someone with a Finnish sounding name getting elected.
Now this may sound weird, but I've been seeing Ron Paul everywhere. I'm not talking commercials or billboards. For example, yesterday I was eating matzo ball soup and could have sworn the matzo ball looked like our Dear Leader. I'm sure you've seen the cloud formations from time to time, but this is flat out weird. Especially when you consider that matzo ball soup is kind of a Jewish thing. Any thoughts?
Anyway, as I said yesterday, the whole nickname thing ain't working. I applied for the F**k Y** department. For the great unwashed, that's the crew that scours TAS for anti-Paul posts. Their job is to lay waste to the offending poster with a deluge of abusive language, a la The Daily Kos. Sounds like fun and I think I'll do well. Wish me luck.
Occam's Tool| 1.24.12 @ 4:49PM
The racist is Obama. He was opposed to poor Black Children having scholarships to attend private high schools in Washington, D.C.
Sounds fairly racist to me. Not to mention what the Dhimmicrats have done to black fetuses, the Black family, etc.
martin j smith| 1.24.12 @ 4:56PM
Are you a Romney troll or something --get rid of this crap--The WSJ, FOX NUZE, the DC NY crowd you are nothing but sour grapes sore losers.
Mike| 1.24.12 @ 6:48PM
If Gingrich thinks becoming a racist will give him a leg up, he will become a racist.
PCP Smoker| 1.24.12 @ 8:22PM
I love how these assessment come out during presidential races.
I heard that when Newt was a 40 year old man and a member of Congress, he was a Cyclops in the KKK. Oh, wait, that was the Honorable Robert Byrd, Democrat, West Viginie.