Anyone heard any more about Newt's scandal?

[applegrove]

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. You mean, aside from being an adulterer despite looking like the Frankenstein monster?

Do tell.

[applegrove]

2. Last night Anderson Cooper reported that Newt had started a charity then

had an employee of his get paid for consulting to that charity. Also the charity gave Newt's campaign a mailing list without claiming it as 'in kind' which they are supposed to do. I don't hear about it anywhere on CNN now and I've been listening for about an hour.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Why would this trivial story be of interest to anyone?

Hey, hear the latest about Weiner?

[applegrove]

6. LOL! By the way where is your name from? Cause there is a famous

Canadian Painting calle Jackpine. Is it from that?

[Jackpine Radical]

16. The term "jackpine savage" is used in the north woods of WI, MI & MN

in referring to backwoods people, sort of like hillbillies. Jackpines are rather scrubby but very hardy pines that tend to be among the first trees to seed after a forest fire or clearcutting. There were many thousands of acres of jackpines growing in the poor, sandy soil of that country after the virgin white pines were logged off. I come from that country & took the name as a simultaneous expression of my origin and my politics.

Slightly off-topic, but I used to tell city-raised mental health professionals who took jobs "up north" that the first thing they would have to do is to learn to tell the difference between a jackpine savage and a woods hippie. I pointed out that the problem was complicated by the fact that the two strains had hybridized, and the proper term for a hybrid specimen was "Hippy Comitatus."

People from outside the north woods would always look rather strangely at me, not entirely getting what I meant, but people with their north-woods roots would always pick up immediately.

[applegrove]

17. It is a great screenname.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. He's such a piece of evil trash, poor dear

Why does the American population endure these individuals?

[bluethruandthru]

15. If his name was Weiner...or there was a weiner picture involved, you'd see it everywhere! n/t

[DeSwiss]

3. Here ya go.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4884028

:)

[applegrove]

8. Thanks.

[madinmaryland]

5. I think nude sunbathing is legal in Greece....

:hide:

[applegrove]

7. LOL!

[66 dmhlt]

9. Newt? MSM is all on Weiner Weiner Weiner Weiner Weiner Mode

Especially NBC (Nothing But Crap)

[Angry Dragon]

10. Part of what I read also was that they bought about $250,000

worth of dvds and other stuff from one of his for profit companies

[Raine]

11. Last night Nightline's Brian Ross really dumped on

on Newt but good, haha! :evilgrin:

[The Gunslinger]

12. Nope.

For some reason Newt and Fox News' Glen Beck's calling for the president's assassination haven't made a break in the MSM. I wonder why?

[customerserviceguy]

13. If Newt had a ghost of a chance

of getting even Tim Pawlenty numbers, we'd hear more about it. It's all over for him except the crying.

[jmowreader]

18. Which one? There are so many

If Newt had sent a picture of his dick to a woman, the press might be all over it,

Newt only laundered between $250,000 and $1 million through his charity. No one cares about that.

[struggle4progress]

19. I don't think it matters: the Great White Whale is beached and no longer afloat

Try this on for size:

Newt's a divider, not a uniter: much of our modern partisan ugliness can be traced to Newt's divisive strategies in the mid-90s. And he's not only unpleasant politically -- he's unpleasant in person too: wehat sort of person asks his wife for a divorce while she's hospitalized for cancer treatment?

Nobody's gonna vote for Newt