Gingrich campaign to traveling press: Find your own damn ride

Gingrich campaign to traveling press: Find your own damn ride. Perhaps it is time someone give this same advice to Michell Antoinette.

Kip Hooker:

View Comments (55)

  • I know multitasking is not your strong suit.....I just thought I would be kind and invite you over to say really stupid shit about all of us trailer parking trash racisssssssssssssssts.....But if you don't wanna play...
    *******************
    I'm afraid I'd only disappoint you, because I don't use terms like "trailer trash," and because I use the term "racist" (just one "s") only in response to ugly racial stereotypes, or insinuations that one race is inherently superior (or inferior) to another.

    And, actually, I'm quite good at multitasking. But I wouldn't be, if I got involved with too many different arguments at once.

    • You never disappoint me...Your the most bat shit crazy person I have ever read stuff from..You never cease to amaze me with your unintelligent rambles....

      • Maybe her ramblings are due to her sneaking those psychotic meds from her patients. C'mon Oellie, tell us what you're getting buzzed on. Lunesta/ Oxycodone/ Fentanyl maybe?

        • ...I wonder if there is a nurse Ratched that is forcing her to take 'em?

          Maybe she *IS* Nurse Ratched.

          Would that make us the Cuckoo's Nest? Heh.

          • Or remember the "Right Stuff"? Denis Quad talking with another astronaut and says "I bet the drill here is to see who can drill Nurse Murch!"....Nurse Murch was the tall ugly one with the very pronounced mustache and bad glasses. Now every time I see a post from Olivia, I just think of that face. Never fails to make me LMAO!

          • Oh man I remember that. Haven't seen that movie in years though. We need more movies like that - Hollywood has been sucking ashes for like five or six years. Well outside of say Super Hero movies.

  • The main reason I am leaning to Newt right now is because he doesn't kiss the ass of the media sleazebags. How well did that work for Numbnuts McCain? I hope when he becomes POTUS he kicks their sleazy asses off of AF1 also. Why should we pay the freight for them?

    • The main reason I am leaning to Newt right now is because he doesn’t kiss the ass of the media sleazebags. How well did that work for Numbnuts McCain? I hope when he becomes POTUS he kicks their sleazy asses off of AF1 also. Why should we pay the freight for them?
      **************
      Well, now, THAT's a grand idea. Let's elect a president who's so hotheaded and childish that he can't handle news reporters making their own transportation arrangements......and who then tries to punish them by denying them access to his presence.

      If you think ANY politician can afford to alienate the media just because his nose is out of joint, then you're either ignorant or profoundly immature.

      (And watch the right start whining and crying that the media is picking on Newt, after they've applauded him for alienating them.)

      • hmmm i seem to recall dear leader kicking conservative news reporters off his plane but allowing his suck ups to stay.

        • hmmm i seem to recall dear leader kicking conservative news reporters off his plane but allowing his suck ups to stay.
          **************
          You "seem to recall" a lot of things that didn't actually happen, Robert.

          • Hey look Olivia, it actually happened. Go figure, eh? You seem to be proven wrong time and time again, yet you still come back acting deluded. I wonder if you are getting paid for this.

          • Hey look Olivia, it actually happened. Go figure, eh?
            *********************
            No, what Robert produced is a COMPLAINT from the reporters themselves, one from the veracity challenged Washington Times. Not the same thing as producing evidence that they were maliciously excluded.

            By the way, the article pointed out that your beloved FAUX News wasn't "booted off" the plane. And, let's face it: if Obama were looking to "boot off" news outlets purely because they're conservative, FOX would have been the first one to get bounced.

          • Wow you said Faux instead of fox. Very edgy.
            ****************
            I guess I could have called it FUX News instead, but I'm too classy. ;>

            And, quite honestly, I can't see that the term "FAUX News" is any less original than "Rachel Madcow" or "Moochelle," as we see posted here ad infinitum.

          • Oh yes, you are nothing but class.

            I like how you tried to turn the argument back at me too. Totally wasn't expecting that.

          • Ah there you go again! Trying to get a rise out of me by saying something demeaning towards me. Wow. You aren't holding anything back tonight, eh? Your play book must be getting really thin by now.

            Well you sure told me. I shall slink off and lick my wounds.

          • Oh yes, you are nothing but class.

            I like how you tried to turn the argument back at me too. Totally wasn’t expecting that.
            ***************
            I wasn't "turning" any argument anywhere, Warren----just giving you a much needed reality check.

            If you're interested in "arguments," you're going to have to come up with something of substance to discuss. Preferably something more intelligent (and more creative) than calling me Nurse Ratched (now, THERE'S an original putdown @@) or accusing me of abusing prescription drugs.

            But, personally, I don't think you've got it in you.

      • Paging Princess bedpan, Paging Princess bedpan..Your needed at the Michelle Obama thread immediately since your hero is being attacked with a vengeance, respond stat!

        • Paging Princess bedpan, Paging Princess bedpan..Your needed at the Michelle Obama thread immediately since your hero is being attacked with a vengeance, respond stat!
          ****************
          Translation: "Hey, we're getting bored on this other thread. Will you come over and argue with us?"

          Maybe later, Viscount Prostate. I've got more than enough to occupy me right now. ;)

          • I know multitasking is not your strong suit.....I just thought I would be kind and invite you over to say really stupid shit about all of us trailer parking trash racisssssssssssssssts.....But if you don't wanna play...

          • So full of herself - ie. shit - that she thinks we miss her puke here. It would be so much nicer if she'd stay the hell away, but that won't happen since she thrives on irritating any non-communist. Miserable bag of dung that she is, we'll never be rid of her stench.

          • So full of herself – ie. shit – that she thinks we miss her puke here. It would be so much nicer if she’d stay the hell away, but that won’t happen since she thrives on irritating any non-communist. Miserable bag of dung that she is, we’ll never be rid of her stench.
            ****************
            Translation: "I can't debate anything intelligently with her, so would it work just as well if I flung a bunch of silly personal insults instead?"

            (Psssst, Dean: if you don't want me around, there's a simple solution: don't read my posts. Your buddies go to some trouble to "hide" them shortly after I've written them, so there's absolutely no need for you to see them if you don't choose to.) ;)

          • Looky! Looky! There some more of the Olievia droppings!

            ******************************************

            Translation: Olivia as all the wit and verve of a NYC sewer rat. But doesn't realize it.

          • I'm not kidding when I say I think Olivia is paid to do this stuff. People do get paid for that - to go on websites with dissenting opinions and just be the fly in the ointment.

          • I’m not kidding when I say I think Olivia is paid to do this stuff. People do get paid for that – to go on websites with dissenting opinions and just be the fly in the ointment.
            ****************
            No, Warren, no one is paying me to post my views here, nor do I post them in an effort to be a "fly in the ointment." Like you, I'm merely expressing my opinions. Unlike you, I don't mind expressing them to people who don't agree with them.

          • Yeah - because you wouldn't lie about something like that? Heh. If you aren't paid, I kind of pity you.

            BTW Your comebacks are pretty old and pathetic. I think you've actually used that one on me before - and I know you've used it on other people. Do us all a favor and take a day or two to write up some new put-downs. It'll make us all less bored at reading the same thing over and over again.

          • BTW Your comebacks are pretty old and pathetic. I think you’ve actually used that one on me before – and I know you’ve used it on other people. Do us all a favor and take a day or two to write up some new put-downs.
            *************
            I'll be glad to, just as soon as you come up with some new talking points. Why should I waste time dreaming up new comebacks, when you keep on repeating the same tired old Limbaugh schtick?

          • At the rate she's dropping her waste here today, I am likely to accidentally read something she spews. When that happens I usually avoid submitting a response directly, but sometimes I go speaking my mind with less than my normal consideration for the genteel readership.

  • Damn, Princess Bedpan picks the stupidest damn topics to seagull in on. Sorry, sugar, haven't read a word of your trash today.

    Anyway, have y'all really read this story? You may know I'm not a huge Newtonian, but it sounds to me like he flipped his lid a little bit here, and is doing himself no favors.

    As difficult as it is to get anything like positive press coverage (for one of us right-wing knuckledragging bitter clingers at least), you would think he would not begrudge the expense of having a paid-for entourage in tow. If you didn't catch it, it was the reporters looking to save their employers a bit of dough that kicked off this whole party.

    And it was the campaign that refused to allow some other reporters to cancel their seats when plane fare shot up to 3 GRAND per seat.

    It all sounds screwy, and that's one reason I disprefer Gingrich.

    • Damn, Princess Bedpan picks the stupidest damn topics to seagull in on. Sorry, sugar, haven’t read a word of your trash today.
      ********************
      ...says Psycho, as he proceeds to "seagull in on" the very same topic....and to express an opinion very similar to mine........

        • Princess bedpan..snort I love it!
          *************
          Of course you would---because it's a silly and childish attempt to insult.

          In fact, as I've stated a few dozen times, I'm not embarrassed that my job involves offering bedpans. It's just one more part of meeting patients' needs, like giving medications or bringing in an extra pillow. How odd that some of you seem to think it's something to be ashamed of.

          • it's not that you offer bedpans to the patients, it's that you get your thoughts and ideology from those used bedpans.

          • So your into bedpan diving? is that what your saying..loosely translated of course...I hate to tell you this but that's corn, not gold...

  • Author: RobertW
    Comment:
    you're full of crap oevilia. you have no idea what is going on in Newt's mind, let alone his reasoning behind refusing the press snakes to curl up beside him.
    ***********************
    I don't have to be able to read his mind, Robert, to see what's going on here. His actions and their timing pretty much say it all:

    1) He had a standard working relationship with the press, up to and including allowing them to ride with him to campaign events (after paying for the privilege, as is typical in such situations).

    2) A group of reporters chose NOT to travel with him to W. Palm Beach, opting instead to make their own, much cheaper, transportation arrangements (carpooling).

    3) Directly after this incident, reporters were summarily told that they couldn't ride with Newt to his next few engagements, and his campaign manager responded, "I don't have to give a reason," when asked for the rationale behind such a decision.
    ********************
    The press started out being unkind to Newt simply because he's a conservative.
    ***********************
    Oh, nonsense. Newt invites controversy, because he tends to be short tempered and vindictive. Obviously the press didn't have a problem with him before the incident in question, because they were used to traveling with him----in fact, HE assumed that they'd be traveling on his chartered jet. What's that, you say? Newt MADE ARRANGEMENTS for the "press snakes to curl up next to him"? But it's true. ;)
    *****************************
    Wow. You should go help Jimmy C. build houses for the homeless, you could be a 2x4.
    *****************************
    And you could be a weathervane on the roof----blowing in whichever direction you're told to.

    Politics aside, I hope your surgery went well and was a success.

    • so far so good, thanks for asking.

      this topical rash i'm enduring is more of a hassle than the surgery site. I'll be getting the doc to attend to that when i go back for a follow-up appt.

      Windvanes don't blow, they merely point out the way the wind blows. therefore your argument is without substance.

  • Gingrich knows that the press isn't the friend of conservatives and Republicans and acts accordingly. He doesn't take their bull lying down and isn't even afraid to call them out in debates.

    • Gingrich knows that the press isn’t the friend of conservatives and Republicans and acts accordingly. He doesn’t take their bull lying down and isn’t even afraid to call them out in debates.
      ********************
      Please tell me how you arrived at the conclusion that it's "bull" for reporters to decide that traveling with Newt on his chartered jet was too expensive.

      I thought you righties believed in "fiscal responsibility."

      • you erroneously believe that MD is speaking to this instance specifically when he cites bull. The descriptor is much more general and far reaching. The fact is the press are as full of themselves and arrogantly throw their weight around, making news where there is none and rarely if ever simply reporting the news.

  • I don't see a problem in this. Let the companies that hired the reporters foot the bill. People are commenting on that article like it is a bad thing - I don't see that. It shows that someone in Newt's party is looking at finances at least.

    But hey - people are offended, right? so it must be bad.

    • I don’t see a problem in this. Let the companies that hired the reporters foot the bill.
      ****************
      Uh.....that's exactly what they were doing, Warren.
      If you'd bothered to read the article, you would have seen that the reporters had neither asked for nor received a "free ride." In fact, most of them cancelled because they deemed the chartered jet travel, which their employers would be paying for, to be too costly, just to cover one dinner engagement.

      In typical hotheaded fashion, Newt----and/or whoever manages his campaign logistics----got his nose out of joint that they'd elected not to travel with him. And, like an angry child who takes his toys and goes home, he retaliated by refusing to invite the press along to other engagements. In no way was he the pitiful victim of the big bad old press, as some seem to be suggesting. Apparently he's been living in a Tiffany bubble for too long to understand that reporters have expense accounts, and are obliged to try to contain costs whenever they reasonably can.

      (And then you wonder why the press isn't kinder to this man?) ;>)

      • Hey you're still alive. I thought I smelled something foul slink its way towards my comment.

        I would reply but it wouldn't do any good. I have come to conclude you are just a Democrat Party Spambot sent to cause dissension on conservative sites. Oh I'm sure you're human, but you hardly think for yourself.

        • Direct responses excite her withered turd. Best to let that thing dry up and blow from gutter to gutter until it is finally completely gone.

          • But it's fun to mock her. She so tries to be eloquent and verbose, it's almost cute in a way. Of course I don't come on here very much but occasionally I get the urge to do so, heh.

      • you're full of crap oevilia. you have no idea what is going on in Newt's mind, let alone his reasoning behind refusing the press snakes to curl up beside him. The press started out being unkind to Newt simply because he's a conservative. Wow. You should go help Jimmy C. build houses for the homeless, you could be a 2x4.

  • Does this mean we'll get stories about reporters carjacking folks to get to the debates? Screw those cockroaches since all they want to do is smear the Rupublicans anyways. They all seem to be Obama's little spies so he knows what's up. This will scare the hell out of him when he realizes his spies are nowhere to be found.

    • Does this mean we’ll get stories about reporters carjacking folks to get to the debates? Screw those cockroaches since all they want to do is smear the Rupublicans anyways.
      *******************
      Unbelievable. Did anyone actually read the article before barging forth to avenge Newt? The reporters chose not to fly with Newt BECAUSE they'd arranged their own, much cheaper transportation. Newt got piqued because this meant that they wouldn't be covering his chichi dinner in W. Palm Beach (or chipping in to help pay for the charter flight to it), and retaliated by refusing to allow them to travel with him to future appearances.

      Basically, it's a non-issue, except it shows that Newt (1) doesn't handle glitches or minor conflicts well; and (2) is more interested in throwing his weight around than maintaining a good working relationship with the press. Neither of which are good qualities for an effective head of state to have.

  • They could always stand beside the freeway, thumb out and pull up a pant leg or skirt to "help" get a ride....Corporations like NBC/CBS/ABC make millions upon millions, if they wanna cover the story either get someone local to do it or pay for the transportation. If I give money to a candidate I sure as hell don't want to pay for some "reporter" to get a free ride. That's whats going on in the white house with Obutthead and company.

Related Post
  1. DALLAS POLICE SHOOTING: ‘ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE ASSAULT VEHICLE AND TROOP TRANSPORT’
  2. Kim Jong-un was a child prodigy
  3. Top GOP Leader Promises Total Amnesty In 2015