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04 Dec 2011, 7:06 pm

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How Newt Gingrich Saved Porn
In the 1990s, the speaker of the House fought against censorship of sexually explicit materials on the internet.
—By Tim Murphy
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 is not a subject that Newt Gingrich likes to talk about on the campaign trail. For the new GOP front-runner, the episode also marks a notable exception to his record as a social conservative: the time when Gingrich took on his own base to keep the web open for pornography. Here's how it happened.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/how-newt-gingrich-saved-porn

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04 Dec 2011, 7:14 pm

The only thing that Newt Gingrich has going for him is precisely the same thing that John McCain had going for him: he's not Barrack Obama. That said, I didn't vote for McCain and I certainly won't be voting for Gingrich.

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04 Dec 2011, 8:14 pm

I heard he likes "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It's the one thing we got in common.

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04 Dec 2011, 9:07 pm

We already knew him to be a w*ker.

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05 Dec 2011, 2:57 am

snapcap wrote:

I heard he likes "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It's the one thing we got in common.

Who cares if he buys something at Tiffany's like Jewelry for his wife... I mean seriously, he spent his own money, that he worked for.

The fact you guys are going batty over this is rather telling, and why people should throw liberals out of office in 2012.

NEWT GINGRICH'S MONEY THAT HE WORKED FOR IS NOT YOUR MONEY, SO STOP ACTING LIKE YOU ARE ENTITLED TO MONEY HE WORKED FOR!

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05 Dec 2011, 12:12 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

NEWT GINGRICH'S MONEY THAT HE WORKED FOR IS NOT YOUR MONEY, SO STOP ACTING LIKE YOU ARE ENTITLED TO MONEY HE WORKED FOR!

I don't think that the poor feel entitled to the wealth of the rich. I think they just want a fair shot at some wealth of their own, beyond the meagre wages usually paid to people who do not have a degree, or who do not own businesses. Not everyone can own a business, and, like it or not, not everyone can go to college. Most of these people do not aspire to be millionaires. They just want to be able to make enough money to have some left over at the end of the day, and not have to be in debt because they had to buy groceries.

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05 Dec 2011, 12:45 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

snapcap wrote:

I heard he likes "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It's the one thing we got in common.

Who cares if he buys something at Tiffany's like Jewelry for his wife... I mean seriously, he spent his own money, that he worked for.

It's the reason he left his first wife, because Marianne somehow looked "tastier"

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21 Dec 2011, 5:18 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

snapcap wrote:

I heard he likes "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It's the one thing we got in common.

lol

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Well, at one point, it did take me to tiffany.com

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21 Dec 2011, 5:41 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

snapcap wrote:

I heard he likes "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It's the one thing we got in common.

Actually, it is our money. As a Congressman, Gingrich was paid on the taxpayer's dime. As a lobbyist for Freddie Mac, he received money that ultimately was coming from taxpayer-funded bailouts.

Also, laughing at your ridiculous notion that Gingrich works for his money. The man has never done an honest day's work in his life.

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21 Dec 2011, 5:58 pm

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Also, laughing at your ridiculous notion that Gingrich works for his money. The man has never done an honest day's work in his life.

It is possible that he delivered papers or ran errands when he was a skinny young Newt.

Before we became corrupt we were sort of alright.

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22 Dec 2011, 4:13 am

Inuyasha wrote:

snapcap wrote:

I heard he likes "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It's the one thing we got in common.

Sure, he can spend his money however he likes. But at a time when millions of Americans have been left out in the cold in regard to America's prosperity, he and that tart he cheated on his second wife with really look disconnected from the rest of us. How am I, or anyone else who isn't rich, supposed to think he could possibly represent the rest of us as president? And it's not just the matter of his tremendous bill at Tiffani's, but also his lack of marital fidelity, which separates him from married couples like my wife and me, who take our vows seriously.

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22 Dec 2011, 10:13 am

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Representing is the job of Congress. Our President is our Elected King with fairly limited powers except in time of war. Perhaps this is why our country is at war so much.

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22 Dec 2011, 4:01 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

Representing is the job of Congress. Our President is our Elected King with fairly limited powers except in time of war. Perhaps this is why our country is at war so much.

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When I say "representing," I don't literally mean the president votes in regard to our interests like congress does, but rather, has an understanding of how ordinary Americans live and think, and so can take that into account when he/she acts.

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23 Dec 2011, 1:00 am

Of all the problems I have with Newt Gingritch, his non-monogamy and jewelry tab don't even make the list. I didn't care when Clinton was screwing anything that stood still, I still don't care if other politicians do the same.

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23 Dec 2011, 1:04 pm

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I actually don't care either. I am just amused by the boundless hypocrisy of the Republican base.

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23 Dec 2011, 8:21 pm

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That last time that was true, was when Harry Truman was President.

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