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UNBELIEVABLE?! Newt Loves FDR, Models Himself After Woodrow Wilson and Admires SEIU’s Andy Stern
Glennbeck.com ^ | January 21, 2012 | Glen Beck

Posted on 01/21/2012 11:52:56 AM PST by Steelfish

UNBELIEVABLE?! Newt Loves FDR, Models Himself After Woodrow Wilson and Admires SEIU’s Andy Stern Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:52 PM EST

t’s not as if Newt couldn’t have known his past comments were going to eventually be called into question. He’s capably navigated his way through his big government tendencies so far and miraculously still has solid support in the Tea Party. Will the latest damaging clip have any impact? Gingrich is caught praising his favorite president of the 20th century: FDR. Yup, he picked the mother of all progressives ahead of Ronald Reagan.

Watch the video montage below:

Cue sound of heads exploding across the country…NOW!

Seriously?! This is unbelievable.

“This goes back to what Newt Gingrich said on this program. You got to get things done. That’s akin to saying we all love the Constitution but there are things we got to do,” Glenn warned.

“FDR did get things done, and then they were ruled unconstitutional,” Stu joked.

But that’s not the worst thing – on the clip at the top of the page Glenn reads a story where Gingrich praised SEIU’s Andy Stern in one of his books.

In his book “Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works,” Gingrich praises the SEIU head, who remains a close adviser of the President Obama. Pitching the need for conservatives to respect organized labor, while simultaneously pushing back against some of Labor’s more cherished legislative goals, he wrote the following:

” Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reasons for workers to organize together, and there is a strong need for a healthy, competitive, union, movement that helps improve the lives of its members and the competitiveness of our country.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: beck; beck4romney; glennbeck; rinobeck
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To: cripplecreek
I personally think our only hope is with congress.

Obama, in an election year, created a slogan ("We Can't Wait") to market his extra-constitutional efforts to regulate his way around Congress. In a second-term, he won't even bother trying to sell such efforts to the public. He'll just do as he pleases.

If he wins re-election, we have ourselves a dictator. Congress isn't going to stop him.

121 posted on 01/21/2012 1:14:38 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: cripplecreek

“I personally think our only hope is with congress.

I don’t personally believe the GOP has any intent of taking the white house at this point when it serves their purpose to sit on the sidelines. Why shouldn’t they, there’s plenty of money to be made on insider trading and green energy scams.”

You may be right. I’m glad Michigan knows how to still steer right in some places.

At one point, Beck has said there is no political solution. I’m sure you’ve heard that. He’s got his own network and is entitled to do with it as he sees fit.

I will say that our congresspeople should wear flashes on their suit coats to advertise who bought them. Now that Chris Dodd is the MMPA head (can you believe that?) and has even said that such and such a congressperson won’t be paid.....it just feels like the stuff of the Ottoman Tulip period or the corruption of Louis XIV. The sheer amount of money flowing to corrupt companies, the chess plays made out of sight by 0bama’s goons, the ‘foreign company’ election software/Clarity-driven vote counters. It’s like a whole host of people, entities, and foreign enemies are going in for the kill.

A certain major is paying no merit raises this year. Their management is expecting something. IMF is warning that 2008 is only harbinger of a deeper development and degradation.

We had 40,000 new laws go on the books at the beginning of 2012. Thanks to Dodd-Frank and its built-in corruption, bank regulators can write law ON THE FLY/AT WILL and these will be the law of the land. These are the people being hired as bank auditors.

We are being robbed blind, and many in congress are in on it.

Then, there’s the whole positioning of the muslim brotherhood in the highest places of our government. The Shanksville memorial is an outdoor mosque, for cry-eyed.

I believe over 75% of our congressmen have been compromised. Those and others are in fear of their and their families lives.

We are fighting the mob, AKA, the unions. And you don’t fight these types with strongly worded letters.


122 posted on 01/21/2012 1:16:42 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: svcw

There’s a YouTube video where Newt says (when asked about “rape and incest”) he was in favor of federally-funded abortions. It was from the same appearance on (de)Face the Nation as this article mentions:

http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-04-10/news/17801484_1_poor-women-school-prayer-anti-abortion-lawmakers

Don’t tell me...he’s flip-flopped on that too?


123 posted on 01/21/2012 1:17:20 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Steelfish

Glenn:
You are cracked and will say anything to remain relevant to your paycheck.

You’ve made plenty of money.

Go get a job as Carnival Barker.


124 posted on 01/21/2012 1:20:10 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: combat_boots
At one point, Beck has said there is no political solution.

There is a lot of evidence that this is true.

125 posted on 01/21/2012 1:21:03 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: combat_boots
At one point, Beck has said there is no political solution.

That's why I'm voting as if I have a meeting with God the morning after and I don't intend to explain why I voted for the lesser evil.

I can't save America but I can save my own soul.
126 posted on 01/21/2012 1:22:04 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek

Yep.


127 posted on 01/21/2012 1:22:09 PM PST by BufordP ("Drink me if you can't take a joke." --Kool-Aid)
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To: Red Steel

Did you hear him calling Newt a “Dirt Bag” on his show? I did. He and those idiot friends of his. Yucking it up like they think they’re in the mainstream of American or even conservative thought. I can’t identify with what this guy says any more. Either with Ann Coulter, who I am sure is getting drunk on Mai Tais at the moment.


128 posted on 01/21/2012 1:23:15 PM PST by nikos1121
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To: Steelfish
The trouble with politicians is that it's frequently hard to tell when they are lying. So when Newt puts FDR ahead of Ronaldus Maximus, it's not easy to tell whether he really believes this or he's hoping to win the hearts of some Democrats even if it costs him Glenn Beck, who really has no place else to go anyway.

ML/NJ

129 posted on 01/21/2012 1:24:11 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Sprite518

I’ve watched that video a few times, and I stand by my original comment. In that it doesn’t sound like Newt is praising his policies, just merely respecting the fact that FDR had a large impact on the course of history. This is true.

Seriously though, it’s just a collation of sliced video clips drawn from over decades of Newt’s speaking. I wouldn’t read that much into given the entire lack of context.


130 posted on 01/21/2012 1:24:19 PM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: Utmost Certainty

Beck is irrelevant. Hes gone off the deep end.


131 posted on 01/21/2012 1:25:58 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: All

Beck is irrelevant. Hes gone off the deep end.


132 posted on 01/21/2012 1:26:22 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Shery

And, FYI, Beck is not supporting Romney, and has not been the whole cycle.

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So where has Beck attacked the RINO Romney the way he has attacked the conservative candidates. My guess is that you won’t be able to produce anything.

He is an attack dog for his fellow Mormon, of course he won’t endorse him publicly at this point it would detract from his Mormon Mission.


133 posted on 01/21/2012 1:26:45 PM PST by Leto (Damn shame Sarah didn't run the Presidency was there for the taking)
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To: Utmost Certainty

I read the article. I didn’t know Newt was against school prayer also.

Newt will win SC.

Team Obama is smiling today.


134 posted on 01/21/2012 1:29:49 PM PST by gswilder
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To: justsaynomore

“I’m amazed sitting here watching FReepers go Alinsky on Beck.

But he is telling the truth.”

NO! Glenn Beck is twisting the truth and only presenting one side of a slanted argument. Newt’s compass is pointed toward Conservatism. Does he deviate some? Yes, we know that. Even Ronald Reagan deviated from Conservatism. But he always comes back to his true compass point which is Conservatism. GO NEWT GO!


135 posted on 01/21/2012 1:29:49 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Steelfish

First thing to remember is that Glenn is a Mormon. So you know where his vote is going. Second thing to remember about Glenn is that He was likely passed out with his face in the peanuts at his local watering hole when Newt Gingrich was balancing the budget, reforming welfare and lowering taxes in spite of a Democratic president.


136 posted on 01/21/2012 1:31:45 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Utmost Certainty

In away this article shows how biased Glenn Beck is in presenting the so called facts. It is much more damning on Glenn than on Newt.


137 posted on 01/21/2012 1:34:02 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Beck, whom I think is just north of nuts, thinks Mitt Romney is a big government Republican and has never supported him. He did support Bachmann and my guess is that he now supports Santorum, a Catholic. Go figure.


138 posted on 01/21/2012 1:38:01 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Georgia Girl 2

How is attacking Beck for his past drinking any different than attacking Gingrich for his past serial-philandering?


139 posted on 01/21/2012 1:39:17 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: RasterMaster

Take it or leave it I don’t care.
Gingrich’s record on abortion:
http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/House/Georgia/Newt_Gingrich/Views/Abortion/


140 posted on 01/21/2012 1:40:09 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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