As events would have it there is a good follow-on to the post: The Winds of Folly Begin to Buffet Newt Gingrich on this morning’s Meet the Press called the “Gingrich Fallout.”; http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/43038275#43038280. It’s also available on their Twitter feed.
The bottom line on all of this is that it seems that all of the king’s horse’s and all the king’s men can’t put Newt back together again. As such, no amount of damage control can now save Newt or his presidential aspirations. Thus the rocks of political reality are now looming ever closer for the Gingrich presidential folly.
sjg
5/22/11
Please share widely!
The overuse of “thus” was the result of inattention not rhetorical emphasis.
Please edit before crossposting
Please show me where this is required as per the ground rules of this site.
I’m sure your “readers” in Minnesota enjoy reading the overuse of “thus” just as much as we do.
Buschie: “You are proud of spreading badly written stuff all over the web?
I’m sure your “readers” in Minnesota enjoy reading the overuse of “thus” just as much as we do.”
Steveie: Let’s see my stuff is soooooo bad that I just signed a permission, see below, to have one of my pieces included in an anthology to be published by Cenage Learning, a division of Gale Publishing of Chicago, for which I will be compensated. Perhaps you should get your pompous head out of your arse and stop worrying about how I am doing as I’m doing just fine, thank you very much.
Terms of Grant: Permission is granted for non-exclusive, all language use in the World market for this edition and for future and derivative works of Current Controversies: The Tea Party Movement…Citation: Steven J. Gulitti, “An Impending and Inevitable Train Wreck,” in open.salon.com, October 31, 2010, Entry Number: 968879
Below is a copy of the last e-mil from the permissions people. If you really don’t beleive me, then send me your e-mail and I’ll send you a copy of the legal request. Or, I can just wait for the book to be published and then direct you to the book store or the library so you can hold it in your hand and marvel at it all by yourself. The choice of course is yours. Let me know, okay?
Dear Mr. Gulitti,
Thank you for your permission to reprint the revised version of your article (4-8_CCTTP.pdf attachment). Would you please fill out and return the attached permissions form (last page of letter) to me by email or fax. My fax number is 312-@#$-*&^%. As requested, I will be sure to forward a complimentary copy to the address written on the permissions form.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Much appreciated,
Cynthia
Permissions Specialist
Creative Compliance
http://www.ccpermissions.com
1147 W. Ohio Street, Suite 502
Chicago, IL 60642
That’s not evidence. Anyone can fabricate a letter to himself or herself.
You seem to have a pretty big mouth, why don’t you put your money where your mouth is? Why don’t we bet on the authenticity of said letter? How about $250,000.00? Is that to much of a strain on ya? Then name your price and well arrange for each of us to deposit said sum in an account and have the subject letter verified by an independent third party, such as a minister or a rabbi. What do you say, game on or are you going to continue to talk yourself in circles? You should have taken me up on my offer to e-mail the subject letter to you at the e-mail of your choice.
Remember the old version of Mutiny on the bounty, the one where Marlon brando plays Fletcher Christian? There’s a scene in that version where Christian puts Captain Bly in the rowboat and Bly turns to him and says, “Go to the dirtiest, darkest hole on earth, I’ll be there waiting for you with a rope in my hand.” Well that sort of sums up where you and I are now. I won’t let you off the hook for your persistent and annoying bleating about my posts or your denial to swallow the facts that one will be published in the aforementioned anthology. When the time comes I’ll rope ya and drag you through your own pompous and haughty swill. I’ll rub your very nose in the stinky swill you yourself created so as to teach you a lesson. I’ve got you backed into a corner and within my sights, so to speak. At this point all you are doing is to further erode your own credibility, oh the pathos of frustration and desperation! Till then, tah, tah, unless of course you want to put your money where your mouth is?
Meant to say Mutiny on the Bounty
I didn’t read it anyway.
Just as I suspected, you don’t have the courage of your convictions to face your own absrud nonsense and self inflicted tom foolery head on, thus your never ending Kabuki dance of deflection and denial and refusing to face reality. As they say down in Texas, “you’re all hat and no cattle.”
I’d label you a clown but then I’d have to write an apology to the clowns of this world. Your day will come when the aforementioned book is published and as I said, I’ll happily point it out to you so as to embarass you for all of your inane stupidity.
None of the OP’s comments in this thread include the thumbs-up or thumbs-down button, but the other comments do. I hope this is a bug that will be fixed.
I noticed this also and sent an email to the editors (probably a quicker way to get their attention) earlier today. Any comments by any post’s author lacked the thumbs icons. The “feature” was fixed within a couple of hours.