From the AP:
Mitt Romney accused Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a “ghetto language.”
GINGRICH: “It’s taken totally out of context…. I did not say it about Spanish. I said in general about all languages. We are better for children to learn English in general, period.”
FACT:In his speech to the National Federation of Republican Women, Gingrich advocated making English the official language, a position he still holds, and added: “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”
He did not explicitly call Spanish a ghetto language. But at the time, the remark was widely taken to mean Spanish, overwhelmingly the main foreign language spoken in the United States and the primary language of many immigrants.
ROMNEY on the same topic: “I doubt that’s my ad, but we’ll take a look and find out.”
FACT: It’s his ad.
ROMNEY: “Obamacare takes over health care for the American people.”
FACT: Obama’s health care overhaul does increase the role of the federal government in the health care system, but even after it is fully implemented in 2019, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says 56 percent of Americans under age 65 will be covered by employer plans, about the same share as today. That’s hardly a takeover.
SANTORUM: Criticized the Obama administration for its “abysmal treatment” of allies in Latin America, and said Obama has a “consistent policy of siding with the leftists, siding with the Marxists, siding with those who don’t support democracy.”
FACT: Obama has not sided with the leading leftists, such as those ruling Cuba and Venezuela, and instead has roundly criticized them.
GINGRICH: “We’re in a continuous state of war where Obama undermines the Israelis.”
ROMNEY: “This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip.”
FACT: Obama has spoken at length about the plight of the Israelis and has talked about an Israeli girl near Gaza who fears for her life because of the rocket attacks launched by Hamas. In a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Obama said both Israel and Palestine have a right to exist, but the U.S. does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. That’s not only the view of his administration; it’s long-held U.S. policy. Despite that, the administration sided with Israel by vetoing a U.N. resolution that would have condemned its settlement policy.
The Quinnipiac Poll has Romney over Gingrich 38-29% among Florida Republican voters.
At the same time, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll released Friday showed Gingrich leading Romney nationally, 37 percent to 28 percent.
Underscoring the topsy-turvy nature of the primary race, however, the same poll showed Romney doing significantly better than Gingrich when voters were asked to chose between either of them and President Obama.…
Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan January 27, 2012 • Comments Three Chicago teens are being charged with a hate crime.
Three Chicago teens are being charged with a hate crime after it was revealed they tried to hang a black student who attended their high school.
The three students from Chicago’s Brother Rice High School are alleged to have used a noose, called the boy the N-word, while threatening him with a knife…
Matthew Herrmann, an 18-year-old graduate of Brother Rice High School, is now facing felony charges for an alleged hate crime.
Herrmann, and two other boys, 16 and 17 years old, lured the victim to one of …
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Romney told Gingrich that big idea aren’t always good ideas.
Romney struck first, saying that he would fire Gingrich if he came to him with an idea of spending a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon. As Romney put it, “You’re fired!”…
Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan January 27, 2012 • Comments Consumer spending is improving as customers are returning to auto showrooms and malls.
Gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced, grew at a 3 percent annual pace after advancing 1.8 percent in the previous three months, according to the median forecast of 79 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Household purchases, which account for about 70 percent of the economy, may have climbed 2.4 percent, the survey showed.…
Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan January 27, 2012 • Comments Patrick Wooden says it’s because gay men become incontinent after putting certain objects where the sun don’t shine.
Wooden called homosexuality a “wicked, deviant, immoral, self-destructive, anti-human sexual behavior” and should make people “literally gag.” Wooden added that gay men have “to wear a diaper or a butt plug just to be able to contain their bowels” by their “40s or 50s” as a result of “what happens to the male anus.”
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Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan January 27, 2012 • Comments Lead researcher Gordon Hodson of Ontario’s Brock University says low-intelligence adults tend toward prejudice socially conservative views.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle…Hodson…Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
“Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood,” he said.…
Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan January 27, 2012 • Comments From 2007:
“The government should quit mandating that various documents be printed in any one of 700 languages depending on who randomly shows up” to vote, Gingrich said. The former Georgia congressman, who is considering seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, made the comments in a speech to the National Federation of Republican Women.
“The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. . . . We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language …
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Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the former San Diego congressman doing time for fraud, says 80% of the inmates he knows would go for Newt Gingrich. Cunningham sent the former Speaker an electronic message last month.
Newt, a voice out of the past. Down but not out and still fighting. First I do not want anything from you but have been watching the debates. I have 80% of inmates that would vote for you. They might not be able to but their extended families will.
Cunningham, sometimes referred as the most corrupt congressman in history, acknowledges that an endorsement would not …
Read more » Posted in Liberaland by Alan January 26, 2012 • Comments 
Mesa, AZ Mayor Scott Smith says President Obama didn’t walk away from Governor Jan Brewer when they met on an airport tarmac, in contrast to what the governor claimed.
…the mayor said he was standing right next to the governor when the exchange took place and Obama didn’t seem to be in any kind of hurry to leave.
“There was no sense that he was running to or from anything,” Smith told TPM. In fact, he said, the president stayed and had a pleasant conversation with Smith, who’s a Republican, and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat.
It was “just …
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