from a reasonable, tolerant, i don t give a damn what people look like as long as they vote for me politician in the south in the 50s into seizing on on racial animus as the way to get to the white house. it s a little david duke-ish even, isn t it? this is way out there in that, you know, he s essentially trying to say foreign, black, militant in another language. the interesting thing, though, is that gingrich has kind of been out there on the edge about the lower manhattan mosque. he was about sonia sotomayor and about shirley sherrod and, you know, in a way that suggests this whole sort of bizarre clash of civilizations idea, the notion that what he would consider as us, the whole kind of anglo-american, judeo-christian white enterprise is being besieged by other
what is his end game? nobody s blown himself up more in america except wiley coyote countdown with keith olbermann i suppose we could give him a nice assortment of fine acme products as a parting gift. one big anvil. other than that, nothing really. this doesn t lead anywhere. i don t know a single republican involved in politics who believes newt gingrich could be president exceptewt gingrich. so i think this leads perhaps, i don t know, to cable tv show, a radio show, to becoming one of those small business people like glenn beck and rush limbaugh. not with that diction. no, no. msnbc political analyst eugene robinson, great thanks, gene. great to be here. tea party for dick armey. it s delaware s homophobic anti-masturbation candidate and she s got going to win tomorrow countdown with keith olbermann so she just burst out with it on the air in the middle of her
getting what they want, threaten to shut down the federal government. you may remember then speaker newt gingrich did this in the 90s in a showdown with president clinton. clinton did not budge and gingrich was not bluffing. the government shut down. veterans hospitals, social security checks, all of it came to a halt and it worked beautifully for democrats. the political outrage crippled the gop and helped clinton win re-election if it didn t win it for himself. naturally republicans want to do this all over again. on friday congressman lynn westmoreland said he had recruited republican candidates in the house who would stand with the party to block health care. how? by threatening a shutdown. one day later minnesota house candidate to think progress if the stakes are high enough we might have to shut things down. tea party leader dick armey refused to endorse the idea after possible government shutdown. it s not clear whether or not he means it. why do we say that? huffington pos
so gene, i don t agree with a word of this, but at least the man believes in his own convictions countdown with keith olbermann right in? keith, i don t know how to break this to you fooled again, am i? i have a feeling, yes, you ve been fooled again. this might be a cynical political ploy. clearly i think robert gibbs called him out quite accurately as did david frum. it s an appeal to the fringe birthers, an attempt to make the president seem exotic and other than, and also black, by the way. you know, the actual scary thing would be if gingrich even believed a part of this nonsense about anti-colonial kenyan behavior. there s something different about this this time than the other crap gingrich has thrown out. this is trying to paint the president as this other sounds to me like george wallace going
warns of the end of time and the final struggle countdown with keith olbermann speaking afterwards with the national review and msnbc contributor gingrich praise add recent piece in forbes magazine about president obama by conservative writer mr. desouza who writes the u.s. is being ruled according to the dreams of a luo tribesman in the 1950s. this philandering, inebriated american socialist who raged against the realization of his anti-colonial ambitions is now setting the nation s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. mr. gingrich believes that is stunning insight. what if he is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together that is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior? gingrich suggesting obama is following in the olinski tradition. this is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with the way the world works, who happened to have played a