{"id":6415,"date":"2011-11-30T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/newt-and-the-minority-elite\/"},"modified":"2011-11-30T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T08:01:02","slug":"newt-and-the-minority-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/newt-and-the-minority-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt and the Minority Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The latest Republican flavor, Newt Gingrich has his perspectives somewhat skewed.&#160; He seems to think that Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians are the majority and that minorities are the elite.&#160; Lets examine the extent of his hypocrisy, as he accuses the left of dividing America.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"NeuterNewt\" alt=\"NeuterNewt\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/NeuterNewt.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/>Think Progress <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/11\/29\/377802\/gigrich-repudiate-occupy\/\" target=\"_blank\">has posted a video<\/a> of Newt Gingrich calling on President Obama to &quot;repudiate the concept of the 99 and the 1,&quot; saying it is &quot;un-American [and] divisive&quot; and promising that, if he is elected, he will be &quot;president of all the American people, not part of the American people, and I will seek to unify the American people, not to divide them against each other.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, of course &#8230; because Gingrich would never seek to divide Americans and pit the majority against the minority. <\/p>\n<p>So obviously his remarks at the recent &quot;One Nation Under God&quot; event [Theocons delinked] where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8twUvTK0foA\" target=\"_blank\">he told<\/a> Religious Right activists that they are the majority in the country who must stand up and take this nation back from the anti-Christian &quot;minority elite&quot; who are ruining it was actually a message designed to &quot;unify the American people&quot;\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/gingrich-tells-religious-right-audience-they-must-take-power-back-minority-elite\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8twUvTK0foA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There\u2019s no doubt here.&#160; Newt, liar and hypocrite that he is, is projecting his own faults onto the majority.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Republican flavor, Newt Gingrich has his perspectives somewhat skewed.&#160; He seems to think that Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians are the majority and that minorities are the elite.&#160; Lets examine the extent of his hypocrisy, as he accuses the left of dividing America. Think Progress has posted a video of Newt Gingrich calling on President <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/newt-and-the-minority-elite\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}