I know I have sometimes been unkind to Newt in my assessment of his suitability as the GOP nominee, but with the exception of maybe Santorum you will not hear another Republican speak this directly to Dems on their horrific position.
MR. GINGRICH: And– and– and– I’m– I’m frankly, fed up, with the one-sided bias, okay. Let me give you two examples. Vice president of the United States goes to a black audience and says if the Republicans win you will be in chains. Now, where is the– how can Biden remain as vice president? Where is the outrage over overt, deliberate racism? And we talk about people saying things they ought to get off tickets. How come Biden shouldn’t get off the ticket? Second example, the Democratic Party plank on abortion is the most extreme plank in the United States. The president of United States voted three times to protect the right of doctors to kill babies who came out of abortion still alive. That plank says tax-paid abortion at any moment of– of, meaning, partial birth abortion, that’s a 20 percent issue. The vast majority of women do not believe the taxpayers should pay to abort a child in the eighth or ninth month. Now why isn’t it shocking that the Democrats on the social issue of abortion have taken the most extreme position in this country and they couldn’t defend their position for a day if it was made clear and a vivid– as vivid as all the effort is made to paint Republicans?
MR. FRIEDMAN: I’m a Planned Parenthood Democrat on– on– on the issue of– of choice. And I think that that is where the country should be. That is where many, many women in this country are. And I’m glad there are people running for the presidency who will defend that position. Period. Paragraph. End it.
GREGORY: Newt, I guess the question, too, is whether– whether you’re seeking even in the Akin example of this kind of to seek an equivalency between that and say, Biden, who is using language that Republicans have used about, you know, the regulatory shackles, as opposed to making an overt racial…
MR. GINGRICH: Biden was not talking to a black audience about regulatory shackles, okay. But– but I’m making– I’m making– let me go back to Tom’s point, because I’m– so– so you think it’s acceptable to have a party committed to tax-paid abortion in the eighth and ninth month? And you think that’s a sustainable position in the United States. If the news media spent as much time on the extremism of the Democrats as they spend trying to attack us, you would– they would not be able to adopt that plank this week.
MR. FRIEDMAN: Yeah, I– I do believe that’s a defensible position but I also believe I’m– I’m here as a journalist, I’ll let the Democratic Party defend it.
September 3, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Tom Friedman…. how can he look in a mirror in the morning? I'm stunned. Doesn't anyone do any critical thinking anymore?
September 3, 2012 at 5:50 pm
As has been said by others, if the Lord God does not punish the United States for the murder of 53 million infants, then He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
September 3, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Friedman's remarks dispel any notion that the press is concerned with the dispassionate presentation of the facts.
@ Fr. Frank. Your comment really puts things into perspective. The blood of those murdered infants cries out for justice. Most often I ask God for mercy on us. The times when man's inhumanity overwhelms me, I pray an imprecatory psalm that the Lord God may bring the whole thing crashing down and humble our nations.
September 3, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Fr. Frank, as abhorrent as that death count is, and as guilty many in the US are of that deathcount. I would hope that God who was willing to spare Sodom and Gomorrah for 5 just souls can find proportionally that many here in the US.
Perhaps that is why we still stand, and I pray that God may yet be merciful on us, for sake of whomever that "5" would be.
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September 3, 2012 at 11:05 pm
@Jason Fairfield: it's for the sake of just one, forever and all-time. Please recall that however valid the "bad luck follows from bad behavior" idea ever was—and Job would suggest, not very—it does not apply to Christians at all. To the extent it ever was valid, it is a part of the Old Law.
(Conversely, this makes the "Gospel of Prosperity" go phhht. When people assert that America's status as #1 economy is a sign of our moral superiority, I like to remind them that the three runners-up are China, Japan, and Germany.)