Gingrich, Durbin on Meet the Press – Video

Transcript – Gingrich, Durbin on Meet the Press – May 24

(Source: NBC’s Meet the Press)

MR. DAVID GREGORY: Our issues today: America’s fight against terrorism, a debate about the past…

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PRES. BARACK OBAMA: All too often our government trims facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions.

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Text: Newt Gingrich Testimony, American Clean Energy & Security Act of 2009

More Gingrich Crazy Talk – This is Why We Put the Adults Back in Charge

Ostensibly on Fox News Sunday to talk about re-branding the Republican Party, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich let the world know today that he’s still just as faux-intellectually nutty as ever.

You see, Gingrich would have just blown that pesky North Korean rocket off the launch pad two or three days ago.  From a transcript of the show:

WALLACE:  …  Mr. Gingrich, before today’s launch, you said the North Koreans should not be allowed to fire a missile and that the U.S., quote, “should take whatever preemptive actions are necessary.” Are you saying that “President Gingrich” would have taken out that missile on the launch pad?

GINGRICH: Yes, I’m saying if you look at the new book by my co- author Bill Fortune called “One Second After,” and you look at electromagnetic pulse capabilities, which can take out — one weapon could take out a third of the electric generating capacity of the United States.

We do not appreciate the scale of threat that is evolving on the planet, and North Korea is a totally irresponsible dictatorship run by a person who is clearly out of touch with reality, and I think to say, you know, we’re now going to have another meeting at the U.N. to have another paper resolution that has meaningless effect is very dangerous.

I think both with Iran and with North Korea, you have countries which could decide at any morning to try to actually use their weapons.

WALLACE: So you’re saying that “President Gingrich” would have taken out that…

GINGRICH: There are — there are three or four techniques that could have been used, from unconventional forces to standoff capabilities, to say we’re not going to tolerate a North Korean missile launch, period.

I mean, the world’s either got to decide that North Korea is utterly dangerous — and again, I’d recommend — look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes — which we’ve known about since 1958. It changes every equation about how risky these weapons are.

Ahh, Newt.  That same smug, all-knowing air is still all about him.  Just like 1994, only this time he’s expounding on actions that could put us at odds with China and see North Korea’s million-man army pouring into downtown Seoul.

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