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In just a few short weeks, Newt Gingrich has gone from downplaying the coronavirus threat to urging swift action to stop the spread of the infection.
First, he dismissed the virus, saying COVID-19 was not nearly as bad as the flu. Now, hes warning Americans to pay attention to the tragedy unfolding in Italy. Yet hes also blaming his own shifting attitude on a totally dishonest left wing news media.
The former House speaker tweeted:
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In reality, the misinformation problem in coronavirus coverage came from Gingrich ― who spent much of February downplaying the threat ― and others in the right-wing media.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/newt-gingrich-coronavirus-095036194.html
Crawl back under your rock Gingrich
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Ah, so this is was the media's fault? It was a result of all the "fake news" in the past that he thought the media was spreading fake news with this?
In other words, if the media hadn't been dishonest in the past he'd have been more inclined to believe them now? "the media has lied and been wrong so many times in the past, I thought they were lying about this, too."
Laelth
(32,017 posts)If Newt Gingrichs picture isnt attached to the dictionary entry for slime, IT SHOULD BE.
-Laelth
ProfessorGAC
(65,150 posts)One begins in F, the other in Y.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)tavernier
(12,396 posts)that you are a lying sack of shit, jewelry boy.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)wish he would just die.
But not until after some serious torture.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Always has been.
Get your directions straight.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)...be taken at face value is: vomit.
Never let them call it "Trumpism". It's been standard Republican operating procedure since Newt and Rush's tag-team days.
dalton99a
(81,567 posts)Walleye
(31,039 posts)ScratchCat
(2,002 posts)I mean, totally no sense. Was Fox News incapable of understanding the pandemic? This is backasswards world nonsense. "Conservatives" weren't skeptical because of "hysteria" on ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN; they were skeptical because Fox NEWS told them to be.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)It's the Republican way. Anytime they make a mistake it's not because of what they did, it's because of what someone else did.