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Mar. 12th, 2011 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneGotta love The Newt!
"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."
— Newt Gingrich, on his multiple affairs and marriages
His Newtiness went on to say: "And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them. I found that I felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness. Not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness."
He said this while talking to the Christian Broadcasting Network. It immediately started getting parodied. Two that I easily found were from Vanity Fair, which has an excellent Top 10 list, and from HuffPo, in which Lawrence O'Donnell mocked him by speaking a (perhaps) more accurate subtext along with The Newt's explanation.
"There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate."
— Newt Gingrich, on his multiple affairs and marriages
His Newtiness went on to say: "And what I can tell you is that when I did things that were wrong, I wasn't trapped in situation ethics, I was doing things that were wrong, and yet, I was doing them. I found that I felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness. Not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness."
He said this while talking to the Christian Broadcasting Network. It immediately started getting parodied. Two that I easily found were from Vanity Fair, which has an excellent Top 10 list, and from HuffPo, in which Lawrence O'Donnell mocked him by speaking a (perhaps) more accurate subtext along with The Newt's explanation.
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Date: 2011-03-13 06:26 pm (UTC)A highly appropriate pun in more than just the situation Ms. Maddow debuted it on.
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Date: 2011-03-13 06:47 pm (UTC)I was about to say "I'm sorry, but...", but I'm not. The bastard notified his first wife that he was divorcing her while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer (she says, he disputes it). His current wife Callista, was a House staffer with whom he continued an affair while he was leading the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He is a rotten bastard of the worst cloth and should never be president, not that I have a strong opinion about it.
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Date: 2011-03-13 07:40 pm (UTC)