I told you guys he was a progressive! The headline comes from the Huffington Post, Beck just read this on the air.
Below is the actual link, but it shouldn't be clickable. I put the quote from Huff Po into google, and that's how I came up with the link from Newt's actual book link above.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/newt-gingrich-union-seiu-andy-stern_n_1144164.html
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To: Admin Moderator
Beck just read this on the air live, minutes ago. I know Huff Post isn’t normally something welcome on FR. But given the circumstances, and given that they’re really the only place that’s carrying this as of right now that I saw, other Freepers should be able to see this. I have the link from Gingrich’s book, so we’re not giving Huffpo web hits.
2 posted on
12/13/2011 6:33:02 AM PST by
Halfmanhalfamazing
( Media doesn't report, It advertises. So that last advertisement you just read, what was it worth?)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
3 posted on
12/13/2011 6:33:58 AM PST by
AmericanInTokyo
(Bye bye Hugo (Chavez)...He might smell sulphur slowly approaching.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Great. We’re going to nominate that POS Romney. MSM and Obama get their way. Again.
4 posted on
12/13/2011 6:36:29 AM PST by
Grunthor
(We dont LOVE Newt - heck we barely even like him. He's just the best of a rotten bunch)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Newt praised Andy Stern?
Did he have anything nice to say about Richard Trumka?
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Newt praised Andy Stern?
Did he have anything nice to say about Richard Trumka?
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I simply don’t care. Romney is a pale Obama. Newt isn’t great, but he’s way better.
8 posted on
12/13/2011 6:38:37 AM PST by
Lazamataz
(That's all.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Anyone who has listened to Newts love of FDR “being able to get things DONE” should know! I want to beat Obama as badly as the next person...but we don’t need a BIG Gov’t Republican to do the job. Time to look a little further down the line
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Newt is not getting his information about Conservatives cheering unions overseas from conservatives!
11 posted on
12/13/2011 6:41:10 AM PST by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Keep reading the passage, the meaning changes from what is insinuated by this snippit, IMHO. Not sold on Newt here, but these studid claims should be questioned.
13 posted on
12/13/2011 6:41:58 AM PST by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I didn’t read anything there that said he was a Progressive.
Now go find something else to hyperventilate over.
15 posted on
12/13/2011 6:43:27 AM PST by
VanDeKoik
(1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
The left attacks those who they fear.
20 posted on
12/13/2011 6:46:06 AM PST by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Not to worry.
Gingrich is due to self-immolate anytime now.
He can't help himself.
22 posted on
12/13/2011 6:46:32 AM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Holding our flawed politicians to higher standards than the enemyÂ’s politicians guarantees they win)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Is there more to the quote than that? What's the drift of the entire chapter? After all, the book came out in 2007, so was probably written in 2006. It was published by Regnery -- if that's the tone of the book, hard to see why they would have accepted it or why their editors wouldn't have done something.
One sentence pulled out of context seems a frail reed to lean on!
23 posted on
12/13/2011 6:47:05 AM PST by
maryz
To: Halfmanhalfamazing; cripplecreek
Hey, thanks for posting that book link within your Gingrich hatchet job!
Because now reasonable people with a brain who want to go beyond Glenn Beck sound bites and really understand the candidate can scroll UP in that e-book and see the CONTEXT of Gingrich’s quote, which is a withering attack on out-of-control unions!
In fact, the title of the section under which Beck’s out-of-context quote appears is: “An Unreformed Left Dominated By Unreformed Unions: A Codependency Of The World That Fails”.
Sounds like Newt has that about right!
Great job! Even if unwittingly so.
24 posted on
12/13/2011 6:47:33 AM PST by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Did you bother reading any of the following paragraphs? Scathing indictment of GOVERNMENT WORKERS UNIONS.
Straw man arguments and GBTV cut and paste quotes without context.
Are we conservatives wanting to outlaw private sector labor unions? Of course not.
25 posted on
12/13/2011 6:48:08 AM PST by
ecomcon
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Did you take the five minutes to read the rest of the section that you linked to?
It is clear in reading it that he sees big dangers in Unionization and is opposed to such things as "Card Check"
27 posted on
12/13/2011 6:49:14 AM PST by
Michael.SF.
(When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I will support Newt over Romney, but don’t ask me to be happy about it. I’m still hoping somebody beside Ron Paul surges or an acceptable outsider jumps in.
29 posted on
12/13/2011 6:49:51 AM PST by
umgud
To: All; Halfmanhalfamazing
More from the source:
"As the unions have become less and less competitive in seeking members, and as unionized companies have become less and less able to flourish in a free market, their leaders have turned to an overtly political strategy of seeking and holding on to power in the narrowest sense. For union membership, those they can't persuade to join, they intend to coerce. For industries that supply union jobs but that can't deliver goods and services competitively, they seek to make monopolies without competition. What they can't earn in the marketplace they intend to win through political power and government control."
Agreed.
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Let’s see the quote in context. Karl Marx had an insight into the challenges of the Industrial Revolution, that doesn’t mean that his answers were right.
33 posted on
12/13/2011 6:52:18 AM PST by
Lou Budvis
(Newt/Marco '12)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing; All
More from the source:
"For the government employee, the government-financed unions, and the trial lawyers, however, political power leading to legislative power is a matter of life and death. Thus over the last three decades there has been a steady growth of union and trial lawyer investment in politics and politicians. Ironically, the number of Americans who voluntarily join a union has been shrinking as union political power has been growing."
Agreed.
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