remember this story from last may?
Newt Spokesman Pens Epic Poem In Tribute To Gingrich’s Heroic Crusade Against The Media
Newt Gingrich has taken some potshots at the press since his campaign went off the rails on Sunday’s Meet The Press, but it’s nothing compared to the spectacular anti-media tirade that his spokesman offered up today.
“The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” [spokesman rick] Tyler wrote in an e-mail. “Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world.”
... “The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness.They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles.”
... “But surely they had killed him off.... This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”
-- talking points memo
this story broke after newt was caught flip-flopping about his stand(s?) on health insurance mandates. only two weeks later, his campaign imploded amongst infighting with his staff, either due to or resulting in his ill-timed exit with callista for a greek cruise vacation fact-finding mission.
While passengers enjoyed port calls at Rhodes and Mykonos, according to the ship’s itinerary, the Seabourn Odyssey, Mr. Gingrich said he wrote two policy speeches.
“I don’t know how other people work,” Mr. Gingrich said. “To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.”
Several advisers pleaded with Mr. Gingrich not to go on the trip, an aide said, but Mrs. Gingrich wanted to go. “We have a spouse who controls the schedule,” said the aide, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the internal workings of the campaign.
-- new york times
newt became the laughing stock of the race and a punch line for stephen colbert, with an assist from john lithgow:
surely we all thought he had been soundly killed off ... but what a difference eight months makes. and this time around the laughing stock is the GOP, whose overexposed political stock is sadly souring as their public battle drags on past their nominee's pre-planned sell-by date.
newt: the gift that keeps on giving.