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Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

Newt Gingrich: Mayors who take down Confederate statues are pandering to a black audience

Author:     MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
Source:     Media Matters
Publication Date:     August 14, 2017 8:27 PM EDT
 Link: Newt Gingrich: Mayors who take down Confederate statues are pandering to a black audience
Stephan:   Newt Gingrich, in my view is a particularly loathsome example of auctorem publici consilii Republicus. Reprimanded and forced to resign the House Speakership for his slimy ethics -- 84 ethics charges --  a serial adulterer, who told one wife he was leaving her as she lay  in her hospital bed after surgery to save her life from cancer, and grifter, Gingrich is almost a caricature of the corrupt American politician. But he has outdone himself with this one. Perhaps I should note that something like 90% of Confederate military statues were erected in the post reconstruction era when the KKK and anti-semitic, anti-catholic, racist movements blossomed, roughly 1877 to 1920. They were put up for explicitly racist reasons. Gingrich is presenting his truth.It is not my truth.

Newt Gingrich

From the August 14 edition of Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum:

MARTHA MACCALLUM (HOST): Let me ask you about these Confederate statues because as we just reported the mayor in Lexington is about to take one down of a Confederate general. And where does that stop? At what point do you — are you erasing history and not sort of understanding? The role that these people played and the times that they lived in?

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NEWT GINGRICH: I think the point is we ought to be a country focusing on the future, not a country frothing at the mouth about the past. And It tells you something about the intellectual collapse of the left. That all they have is this kind of rabid behavior. And of course, mayors in towns that are largely black are going to pander to their audience. They are going to go out and prove they are popular by doing something that meets the current demagogic needs. But that’s every thing that the founding fathers worried about. Having demagoguery define your country is truly dangerous. Listen to the mob you got on the screen back there. That’s not democracy. That’s not a free society. That’s a group of people behaving like a mob.

 

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