NYT Smears Gingrich Over EMP Threat Comment

PJ Media ^ | December 14, 2011 | Bob Owens

[Cringing Negativism Network]

NYT = liberals.

Liberals believe in “global warming”.

Nuff said.

[muawiyah]

The NYT is working for the other side and always has been. The sooner they are put out of business the better off everyone is.

They are trying to mislead our public into ignoring the EMP threat. At the same time they are misleading the funny little foreign guys into thinking this is the way to go if they want to hurt the USA.

In the end millions of people will die because of the evil resident at the NYT.

[big'ol_freeper]

Gingrich is absolutely spot on with this issue.

[no-to-illegals]

Thanks for this thread.

[Kaslin]

You’re welcome

[andy58-in-nh]

And then they will blame it on Republicans.

[Reagan69]

He absolutely is right.

[Vermont Lt]

But the good news is that it will be ten years before anyone hears about their blame on TV.

[G Larry]

“...rendering our nuclear counterstrike abilities utterly moot.”

There’s a lot of uninformed speculation throughout both sides of this article.

[Jerrybob]

So let's see if i understand this.

According to liberals, global warming threatens humanity with extinction, but worrying about an EMP -- is just plain crazy....

[SueRae]

EMP is a very real concern...whether it becomes weaponized or comes from the sun. Let the NYT slam and then hide their heads in the sand.

My former Congressman, Curt Weldon, spoke of EMP quite often as a threat we needed to be ready for..

[Pessimist]

Politics aside, the EMP stuff is largely BS.

They like to use terms like “frie”, etc, but that aint the case.

The threat to the grid is limited to data aquisition and control equipment, not literally the “grid” (wires and poles) itself.

Most such equipment is sufficiently “hardened” already, in order to be able to withstand lightning - a strike of which applies exponentially more nergy to the grid then EMP.

This whole EMP thing is basically AGW’s little sister.

[Pessimist]

Here’s a good example of BS hype:

“The 1859 Carrington event, were it to happen today, could be even more destructive than a nuclear weapon, frying power grids worldwide.”

Notice the statements here, then go to the link and read about the event.

Sparking, induced current. No mention of the wires being “fried” though. And realize that they didn’t even know about twisting pairs of wires to reject induction yet. They basically hung out a continent wide antennna, and this was all that happened.

[G Larry]

Lib’s only care about destroying America’s Freedoms, Industry, Economy, Defense, and Religious foundation.

My point was that believing an EMP would prevent us from retaliating with our nuclear forces, is singularly uninformed.

[texican01]

Politics aside, the EMP stuff is largely BS.

They like to use terms like “frie”, etc, but that aint the case.

“The threat to the grid is limited to data aquisition and control equipment, not literally the “grid” (wires and poles) itself.

Most such equipment is sufficiently “hardened” already, in order to be able to withstand lightning - a strike of which applies exponentially more nergy to the grid then EMP.

This whole EMP thing is basically AGW’s little sister.”

I suggest that you become informed about EMP. This has been recognized by the military [the USA DOD] since the mid 1980s during the Cold War. Our enemies understand the concept!

[Ron/GA]

In the kindest possible way, your comments have set a new high (or low) in being completely ignorant about the subject matter being discussed.

[USS Alaska]

“Millions would die in the first week alone,” he wrote in the foreword to a science-fiction thriller published in 2009 that describes an imaginary EMP attack on the United States. A number of scientists say they consider Mr. Gingrich’s alarms far-fetched.

The fact that this is science fiction never enters into this guy's mind but in fact Newt is correct at least to a large degree.

The impact that a nuclear explosion would have on the entire country is dependent on where it exploded, how large it was and what kind of warning we had.

No one has the ability to put a missile into orbit without uncle sugar being aware of the launch, now how we react to it, is both a technological question {we have the technology to handle it} as well as a question of political will to make a hard decision to react.

[Lazamataz]

Whoa. This is the FIRST irrefutable article that tells me that EMP is a threat.

Not because of what was written, but because the NYT, an avowed enemy of the United States, implicitly encourages our enemies to strike in this venue.

[LS]

Newt is absolutely right. Iran probably can't hit us with a nuke but could send us back to their age (i.e., the stone age) with one well-placed EMP blast over Kansas, fired from a ship off the East Coast.

Bill Forstchen's book "One Second After" was one of the scariest books I've read in years, because it's ALL possible, and we are doing almost nothing to counter it. (Why bother to fire hundreds of missiles when you can debilitate your enemy with one?)