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The Big Lie, Gingrich Edition

Hypocritical adulterer Newt Gingrich is trying to create a new mythology for 9/11 by trying to pretend that the 9/11 hijackers were here illegally. I saw the nativist Michelle Malkin pushing this idea recently as well. The inconvenient facts make clear that they were here quite legally and that all this noise from the right is the same old crap they’re always slinging.

32 Responses to “The Big Lie, Gingrich Edition”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Enlightened Liberal

    Boy, the big lie is right. Just waiting for the liberal media to point out Gingrich’s error. Or the Iraq was in cahoots with OBL error. Or the Clinton had chances to capture OBL error.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 Dugger

    The 9/11 commission indicated that some of the hijackers had fraudulent passports.
    Newt is right and you are wrong. Your ‘confusion” may stem from the fact that they used legal procedures but illegal documents!

    If he knew you existed, Newt could run out and call you a liar.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Oliver Willis

    Ah, Dugger, you’re so cute when you cover.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Enlightened Liberal

    Thanks for proving my point Dugger. Have a Scooby Snack. Good boy!

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 SaveFarris

    Would you be referring to “hypocritical adulterer” Clinton, since we’re into truth in labeling and all?

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Oliver Willis

    I don’t remember the part where President Clinton set himself up as the nation’s moral scold when committing adultery himself, as Gingrich did.

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 locus

    That’s right, O-Dub.

    Wasn’t Newie getting a little on the side while he oversaw Clinton’s impeachment trial?

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 william

    Of course they were here illegally. Over staying your visa is illegal.

    http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=754770

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 SaveFarris

    I don’t remember the part where Mr. Gingrich lied before a grand jury.

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 Dugger

    KABOOM!!!

    Thats the sound of this item blowing up in OWs face.

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 Quaker in a Basement

    Well of course they were here illegally, OW. They came into the country as part of a criminal conspiracy, and conspiracy is illegal.

    Therefore, we just need to keep out all those people who are going to commit crimes, see?

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 Quaker in a Basement

    From the Gingrich ad:

    “The new McCain-Kennedy immigration plan will put millions of people who are in our country illegally including potential terrorists and gang members on a path to U.S. citizenship.”

    Solution? They’re all “potential terrorists” so just send them all away!

  13. Gravatar Icon 13 Duros62

    I don’t remember the part where Mr. Gingrich lied before a grand jury.

    Neither did Clinton. And as Dugger has pointed out on countless occasions, Clinton did not lie.

  14. Gravatar Icon 14 william

    So when will OW correct and/or take down this posting which is clearly a lie? Let the countdown begin…

  15. Gravatar Icon 15 Enoch Root

    The only reason this line is coming from Newt is to combine the BS nativism of the white supremacists with the general fear of another 9/11. It doesn’t matter if he’s correct or not, just that he gets the base peeing their pants.

  16. Gravatar Icon 16 Duros62

    Judging from the 28%ers we got here, it seems to be working.

  17. Gravatar Icon 17 Harry the Talking Points Droid

    EVERYTHING BAD THAT ANYONE HAS EVER DONE WAS DONE BY CLINTON FIRST SO IT’S ENTIRELY JUSTIFIED EXCEPT WHEN CLINTON DID IT OBVIOUSLY WHEN IT WAS A NATIONAL DISGRACE

  18. Gravatar Icon 18 SaveFarris

    So when will OW correct and/or take down this posting which is clearly a lie?

    As soon as he apoligizes for smearing The Politico. I wouldn’t hold your breath…

  19. Gravatar Icon 19 Nimrod Gently

    So as soon as he acknowledges that you guys are right simply because you say so? Yeah, that’s not going to happen.

  20. Gravatar Icon 20 That American Chap

    Well, the “hijackers” couldn’t have been *too* illegal, considering the special military training that the U.S. provided for them:

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmnew/is_200109/ai_kepm316109

    (Gee, you think that maybe we weren’t given the whole story on these guys?…nah, the Cheney/Bush administration have been paragons of virture, right?)

  21. Gravatar Icon 21 C.S.Strowbridge

    Dugger: “The 9/11 commission indicated that some of the hijackers had fraudulent passports.
    Newt is right and you are wrong. Your ‘confusion” may stem from the fact that they used legal procedures but illegal documents!”

    And how would Newt’s improved border security change that?

    William: “Of course they were here illegally. Over staying your visa is illegal.”

    Same question, how would Newt’s improved border security change that?

    You see, he is trying to equate people crossing the Mexican border to find a better life to those who killed more than 3000 innocent people. I know you are not too stupid to understand that, so you are being intellectually dishonest.

    Lying is the intent to deceive, having plausible deniability does not change your intent. Newt lied.

    By the way, weren’t a couple of the hijackers given visa extensions after 9/11? They were a.) known terrorists, and b.) dead, but the government still gave them extensions. It seems border security needs more than a fence to be fixed.

  22. Gravatar Icon 22 Oliver Willis

    Who’s signing up to serve in the Dept. Of Pre-Crime? I am!!! You guys are just silly.

  23. Gravatar Icon 23 Dugger

    duros,

    Didn’t say Clinton did not lie. Said he did not commit perjury. I think he lied, but since I don’t know his thoughts or motives and since there is no legal finding, I can’t state it as fact.

    And OW, give it up. Illegal documents are illegal - from day one. Fess up. You shot from the hip and blew this one. Given you also blew the Politico story, I think you need a vacation.

  24. Gravatar Icon 24 Nimrod Gently

    Dugger, this:

    You see, he is trying to equate people crossing the Mexican border to find a better life to those who killed more than 3000 innocent people.

    …is the issue. Please actually acknowledge this.

  25. Gravatar Icon 25 Duros62

    See, this way you get to have your 2 biggest boogeymen in the same hand; 9/11 + mexicans= AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!1111!!!!

  26. Gravatar Icon 26 Dr. Anatole Gavage-HuskanoyDr

    Drudge has been beating the “immigrants=disease ridden” drum for months now. Just throwing that out there. Thank god nobody knew about “German measles” when my people came over on the boats. What hypocrites these nativists are.

  27. Gravatar Icon 27 Nimrod Gently

    Does anyone worthwhile still pay attention to Drudge, though?

  28. Gravatar Icon 28 Nimrod Gently

    Does anyone worthwhile still pay attention to Drudge, though?

  29. Gravatar Icon 29 Dugger

    Nimmer

    “Does anyone worthwhile still pay attention to Drudge, though?”

    Maybe not. He keeps posting stuff twice and we all know that’s a sign of dementia.

  30. Gravatar Icon 30 Nimrod Gently

    Or a bad connection probably caused by stormy weather.

  31. Gravatar Icon 31 Duros62

    Or Typepad dragging its ass on the carpet again.

  32. Gravatar Icon 32 C.S.Strowbridge

    “Maybe not. He keeps posting stuff twice and we all know that’s a sign of dementia.”

    Serious question, do you really think he typed the message out twice?

    If so, you really are a moron.

    If not, that was the lamest comeback I’ve seen in a long, long time.

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