About us Login Get email updates
Quick Clip
Print

Shuster grills Lewis over Gingrich's "intellectual nonsense" comment

June 09, 2009 4:25 pm ET

From the 3 p.m. ET hour of MSNBC's MSNBC Live on June 9:

Please upgrade your flash player. The video for this item requires a newer version of Flash Player. If you are unable to install flash you can download a QuickTime version of the video.

EMBED

Previously:

Media Don't Ask If Gingrich Considered Reagan's "Citizen Of The World" Comment "Intellectual Nonsense"

Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All Add Comment
    • Author by princeofwheels (June 09, 2009 4:38 pm ET)
      2  
      I get it, Reagan was older so if he says it, it matters more.
      He didn't really mean the same thing, I guess.
      How can this guy justify what he said? Do people get paid for this stuff? WHO pays them?

      MMFA start ponying up...LyingFairlyLiberally should receive some type of compensation for his crusade here. Forgot, he/her is compensated with intelligence by the posters who just do summarily dismiss him/her.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by MickD (June 09, 2009 5:09 pm ET)
        2  
        That's all the neocon could come up with with, when he damn well knew the question would be asked? Weak. The Heritage Foundation needs better faxes for the young Repubs, who definitely have intellectual nonsense as their only basis.
        Report Abuse
      • Author by deeznuts (June 09, 2009 6:49 pm ET)
        2  
        I think the second guy hit it right on the head. A much better answer than the guy who essentially, as you said, gave Reagan a pass because he's...older?

        I don't get it either.
        Report Abuse
      • Author by skiploader1111 (June 10, 2009 7:39 am ET)
        1  
        Matt Lewis should not feel too bad about losing the debate in this short discussion. It's hard to win when you are basically wrong and have nobody that can hang up on Shuster and that other guy and talk over them.
        Report Abuse
    • Author by congero6189599 (June 09, 2009 5:00 pm ET)
      4  
      Did you hear what the Republican said , it goes against "American Exceptionalism",and "gifted by God", how much pain and suffering has been justified by this ideology, starting with the genocide of the native Americans, the enslavement of the Africans and continuing with the occupation and unjustified war in Iraq and our use of torture. This ideology is the ideology of "imperialism" and "empire", and allowed and allows the most grosteque actions against nations and other humans all justified in the name of "God" and country. The reemergence of this talk is erily similair to that prior to WW II and Hitlers master race plans and how Aryans were destined by God to rule the world. Wake-up people!
      Report Abuse
    • Author by tascorp (June 09, 2009 6:06 pm ET)
      2  
      again newt thinks everyones dumb is this the newt and improved GOP what's old and didn't work is still old and doesn't work please feel free to let people know what the GOP stands for because they are falling for anything old and not working sara palin rocks
      Report Abuse
    • Author by vwcat (June 09, 2009 7:00 pm ET)
      4  
      I reject the concept of American Exceptionalism. I don't think this country was anymore 'blessed' or favored than any other and I think we, as the people, make what our country is.
      I think our founding fathers would be appalled by the thought of American Exceptionalism. It's so British Colonialism ala 1880s.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by vwcat (June 09, 2009 7:00 pm ET)
         
      I reject the concept of American Exceptionalism. I don't think this country was anymore 'blessed' or favored than any other and I think we, as the people, make what our country is.
      I think our founding fathers would be appalled by the thought of American Exceptionalism. It's so British Colonialism ala 1880s.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by mescal (June 10, 2009 2:57 am ET)
         
      "Be clear... I am NOT a citizen of the world" - Newt Gingrich



      On behalf of the world, we would humbly like to thank you for your rejection, Newtie.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (June 10, 2009 7:50 am ET)
        2  
        "Be clear... I am NOT a citizen of the world" - Newt Gingrich
        It is clear... Gingrich is also not a resident of Reality.
        Report Abuse
    • Author by tjmccool2284 (June 10, 2009 7:24 am ET)
      1  
      When you're giving a speech to red meat lovers in the US, you don't give them fish. Newt played to his crowd: the Idiot America of Charlie Pierce, the unexceptional cranks who give evidence for the Third Premise. In Idiot America, Pierce argues that this Third Premise is that the truth is a function of how many people believe something and how fervently they believe it. In Newt;s context of a speech to the RNC, I think it self-evident that the audience never wants to believe that the US lives on the same planet as all those inferior people. Worse, they don't even see the irony in their stance.
      Report Abuse