Get FREE NRO Newsletters

 

March 5 Issue  |  Subscribe  |  Renew

Close

New on NRO . . .

The Corner

The one and only.

Print   |  Text
 

‘Out of the … Dust of Tweets and Trivia Emerged Gingrich’

Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler slams the media coverage of Newt Gingrich in the aftermath of his remarks about Paul Ryan’s medicare plan and the individual mandate. His statement to the Huffington Post:

The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.

New on The Corner. . .


COMMENTS   45

EXPAND  

   05/18/11 15:25
   05/18/11 15:27
LarryP
   05/18/11 15:28

This from The Onion, right?

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
Bob from MD
   05/18/11 15:29

Wow. This really made me laugh.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:30

Read the statement with the music from "A Fistful Of Dollars" by Ennio Morricone. Makes it more fun.
External Link 

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:31

You got to be kidding me! Was this on the Onion?

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:33

So many metaphors, so little time....

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
MTR
   05/18/11 15:34

Wow. Sounds like the delusions of Newt, but it claims to be a new delusional character.

Perhaps there will be a new offer by Newt. Republicans attacked by Dems using Newt's words will get Newt doing a campaign commercial, PLUS Newt's media guy will write one of these nifty press releases too.

Placement in the HuffPo is appropriate. Crossover Dems looking to destroy the GOP are Newt's best path to the nomination.

The guy in Iowa is right.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:35

Any other GOP luminaries want to publicly hedge on difficult answers to difficult questions?

Because if you do, you too will be reduced to having to sputter the kind of incoherent babble contained in this statement.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:35

Two things, I think everyone would survive a few minutes of hostile "tweeting" and news stories. Our papers were filled with mocking stories about Hitler and the Japanese but no newspaper brought any of our enemies down.

Also when did Ryan's plan become an establishment plan? Is this guy actually claiming that Washington "elites" are behind Ryan and that Newt is speaking for the masses? Man I am more hostile to Newt after reading this tripe...

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:37

I wonder if any tweet which quotes this message will be a falsehood, too. To think we had to take his campaign seriously for almost half a week.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
Kevin McGreevy
   05/18/11 15:37

Wow. Going down with all guns blazing. I only wish I had listened to it with the "A Fistful of Dollars" music.

That's one awesome display of disconnect.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
MBITH
   05/18/11 15:38

Rick Tyler, the Tiffany's man's Tennyson.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
Lemony Snickett
   05/18/11 15:40

Good grief! Newt, exit stage left already so Rick Perry can enter stage right!

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:41

Newt: you're finished.

Please go pull up a chair next to Trump and leave the 2012 cycle now. Anything less is simply proof that your ego is out of control.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:46

I'll agree with Daniel Foster's post about the style of the quote, but Newt as an outsider? Puffington Host indeed.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
Edgar Friendly
   05/18/11 15:46

See, I thought the name they were building up to would be "Sheen".

Losers, winning.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:48

Huh? Not tracking with the Gingrich strategy at all. Unless it's to crash and burn.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:49

With "outsiders" like Newt, who needs Washington?

This is proof - in case anybody needed it - that the establishment is so bloated it has burst its Beltway.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
   05/18/11 15:52

Huh??? This is the most bizarre campaign by a supposed experienced and seasoned candidate ever.

Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse
Load More Comments

Add a Comment

Already Registered? Log In Here.


The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.


* Designates a required field.
© National Review Online 2012
All Rights Reserved.
Subscriptions
NR / Print
NR / Digital

Gift Subscriptions
NR / Print
NR / Digital
NR Apps
iPhone/iPad
Android

NRO Apps
iPhone
Support Us
Donate
Media Kit
Contact