Newt’s Intellect: 2 Parts What?

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To FOX

From the FOX no spin, or what is their tag? zone:

“Implement a no fly zone this evening…” — Newt (ver: 1)

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To NBC

“I would not have intervened, I think there were a lot of other ways to affect Gadhafi. I think there are a lot of other allies in the region that we could have worked with. I would not have used American and European forces.” — March 24

What this demonstrates isn’t Newt’s flip flopping. It isn’t that he has nuance, nor is it an example of fallacy or fancy. It is completely, almost academically rigorous in philosophy. It is the rhetoric that shows us what Newt means, but can’t say. What he thinks but will not express. What Newt opposes is Barack Obama. Whatever President Obama does, Newt opposes. That is the hallmark of many, the trademark of some.

Prisoner McCain Just Doesn’t Get It

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Former Sen. Rick Santorum said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years enduring brutal treatment at the hands of his North Vietnamese captors, does not know how effective waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques can be.

Mybe, Mr Santorum, Prisoner McCain understands the effect of torture far more than most others do. Maybe his continuring hatred, indeed his misunderstanding of the Vietnamese war is due to the continued effects of his years in Hanoi.

The effects of torture are exhibited in one other significant case. That case is #2 in Egypt. You bet torture is effective. It keeps on giving.

Right Wing9

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Extract a definition of intelligence from this intelligent extract from this:

Gingrich flips the Holmes formulation around: He has a first-class intellect but his temperament belongs in steerage. // then in the next paragraph, and example(?) of intelligence
Gingrich made the most compelling and damning statement about Pres. Barack Obama’s inaction in Libya, right before he made the most compelling and damning statement about Obama’s action in Libya. He tried to square them after the fact in an unpersuasive explanation that lacked the eloquence and conviction of his mutually exclusive denunciations.