"FEEL THE RAINBOW NEWT!!!" - Gay rights protester dumps glitter on Newt Gingrich
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Gay rights protester dumps glitter on Newt Gingrich
By Holly Bailey
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Could Newt Gingrich's week get any worse?
Just days into his 2012 presidential bid, the former House speaker has been under fire this week from fellow Republicans for trashing Rep. Paul Ryan's proposal on Medicare during his appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday--criticism that forced Gingrich to apologize.
On Monday, an Iowa voter was caught on camera griping him out. And Tuesday, it was revealed that Gingrich at one point owed at least $250,000 to Tiffany's—an embarrassing detail that could potentially come back to haunt the self-described fiscal conservative's 2012 bid.
Last night, Gingrich suffered yet another indignity, when a gay rights protester dumped a box of glitter on him and his wife, Callista, at a conservative fundraiser in Minneapolis.
The Gingriches were signing books ahead of their appearance at fund-raising dinner for the Minneapolis Family Council, a conservative group that has lobbied against gay rights and same sex marriage.
"Feel the rainbow, Newt," the protestor said, as he poured a box of glitter over the former speaker's head. "Stop the hate. Stop anti-gay politics. It's dividing our country, and it's not fixing our economy."
You can watch the video of the clash here, via the Associated Press:
05-19-2011, 10:19 AM
bokunya~
I remember reading about this… too awesome.
The People have gotten over their fear barrier now, realizing that they can be both agitational and non-violent.
We can demand accountability from all politicians and notables in the public eye with more creative demonstrations like these.
05-19-2011, 11:19 AM
SPINMASTER X
he's never gonna get rid of that glitter.
05-19-2011, 11:35 AM
RabbitTroop
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he's never gonna get rid of that glitter.
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. Five years from now, he's going to be finding pieces of glitter in the pocket of that jacket.
05-19-2011, 11:48 AM
norton9478
Yeah, I agree...
I once went to a Crisis concert...
And at the end, the lead singer dumped glitter all over the crowd. I found that stuff all over the place for at least a week.
05-19-2011, 11:53 AM
Poopporn Smutton
Glitter is the herpes of the arts and crafts world.
05-19-2011, 01:25 PM
OrochiEddie
Newt is shaping up to be the conservative howard dean
05-19-2011, 02:00 PM
abasuto
Newt talking about "sanctity of marriage" is some glitter worthy shit.
Dude cheated on both his former wives, one affair was going on at the time he was raising hell towards Clinton over his cheating ways.
05-19-2011, 03:39 PM
Zenimus
If Newt would've gotten up and punched that guy, he'd have my respect. I have absolutely no love for childish and potentially dangerous stunts like these, no matter who it's happening to.
If someone threw a pie at Obama and he quickly jumped up and kicked them in the gut, I'd say kudos to the president.
If Newt would've gotten up and punched that guy, he'd have my respect. I have absolutely no love for childish and potentially dangerous stunts like these, no matter who it's happening to.
If someone threw a pie at Obama and he quickly jumped up and kicked them in the gut, I'd say kudos to the president.
Potentially dangerous?? lol
05-19-2011, 05:46 PM
RabbitTroop
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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton
Potentially dangerous?? lol
You never know... He probably had AIDS.
05-19-2011, 05:57 PM
aria
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Originally Posted by norton9478
[Reagan video]
I remember watching that on the news when it happened (I believe this was also after he left office) --that video's title is misleading because they guy never intended to hurt Reagan, he just smashed the award (which was a good distance away) and wanted to start speaking on the mic. He was stupid, but he wasn't trying to hurt Reagan.
I prefer this glitter thing to the pie throwing.
05-19-2011, 05:59 PM
bokunya~
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Originally Posted by Popcorn Sutton
Potentially dangerous?? lol
I know… I don't like to generalize caricatures, but Zenimus brought this onto himself, single-handedly setting back people's perception of conservatives.
If Newt would've gotten up and punched that guy, he'd have my respect. I have absolutely no love for childish and potentially dangerous stunts like these, no matter who it's happening to.
If someone threw a pie at Obama and he quickly jumped up and kicked them in the gut, I'd say kudos to the president.
Proportionate response? "OMG! Newt could've caught THE GAY from the glitter!"
05-19-2011, 06:59 PM
Lagduf
Newt's a douche and so is the guy who threw glitter on him.
Grow the fuck up.
05-19-2011, 07:31 PM
Zenimus
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Originally Posted by bokmeow
I know… I don't like to generalize caricatures, but Zenimus brought this onto himself, single-handedly setting back people's perception of conservatives.
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Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
Proportionate response? "OMG! Newt could've caught THE GAY from the glitter!"
What in the world are you guys talking about? This has nothing to do with a person's political alignment. If someone blasted Jimmy Carter with a canister of cheese whiz I'd say the same thing. Any time someone approaches someone else and proceeds to reach into their bag for something to attack them with, it's a potentially dangerous situation.
Beyond that, it's a pitifully childish way to get your point across. "Hur hur, I throwed crap on that guy! That'll show 'im!"
05-19-2011, 07:42 PM
Evil Wasabi
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
Newt's a douche and so is the guy who threw glitter on him.
Grow the fuck up.
Sometimes you come off as the most anti-American member on the site.
A guy protests against political dubiousness and your reaction is to call him a douche. You're about as useful as the faggot who calls people whiners when they complain about shit that needs to be changed.
05-19-2011, 07:44 PM
Jedah Doma
Yea, but that dude will still be gay.
So I think it's kind of a tie. :D
05-19-2011, 08:01 PM
Domino-chan
I hope he finds glitter in his clothes ten years from now.
Personally I would have used the larger cut glitter. It's more colorful.
05-19-2011, 08:05 PM
Lagduf
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Originally Posted by Agent Sands
Sometimes you come off as the most anti-American member on the site.
A guy protests against political dubiousness and your reaction is to call him a douche. You're about as useful as the faggot who calls people whiners when they complain about shit that needs to be changed.
I'll take being called Anti-American as a compliment.
There is nothing wrong with protest. I'm all for it.
But throwing glitter in someone's face?
Grow the fuck up. Seriously. Come up with something actually humorous to get your point across. Not just some crude slapstick comedy with a bullshit tagline.
Dude was probably hoping Newt would punch him so he could sue him.
Either way fuck Newt and fuck the Glitter dude. Maybe they'll fuck each other. I don't care.
05-19-2011, 08:13 PM
Evil Wasabi
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
I'll take being called Anti-American as a compliment.
There is nothing wrong with protest. I'm all for it.
But throwing glitter in someone's face?
Grow the fuck up. Seriously. Come up with something actually humorous to get your point across. Not just some crude slapstick comedy with a bullshit tagline.
Dude was probably hoping Newt would punch him so he could sue him.
Either way fuck Newt and fuck the Glitter dude. Maybe they'll fuck each other. I don't care.
Simple vocal protest has no effect on Newt. It has no effect on a lot of people. The glitter won't have an effect on him either. But it will have an effect on the people who push him forward. They're obviously talking about this too. Think they would talk about it if it was just some dude holding a sign up? No. But they're talking now, and they're talking about his message that anti-gay sentiment is dividing the nation and not fixing any of the problems. As such, he has succeeded. However many people here seem to be too daft to get that point, and only see things at face value.
05-19-2011, 08:14 PM
T.A.P.
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
Either way fuck Newt and fuck the Glitter dude. Maybe they'll fuck each other.
Its the only way his campaign could get worse.
05-19-2011, 08:15 PM
Lagduf
So long as the ends justify the means it's all good bro.
05-19-2011, 08:30 PM
Jedah Doma
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Originally Posted by Agent Sands
Simple vocal protest has no effect on Newt. It has no effect on a lot of people. The glitter won't have an effect on him either. But it will have an effect on the people who push him forward. They're obviously talking about this too. Think they would talk about it if it was just some dude holding a sign up? No. But they're talking now, and they're talking about his message that anti-gay sentiment is dividing the nation and not fixing any of the problems. As such, he has succeeded. However many people here seem to be too daft to get that point, and only see things at face value.
Translation, you wanna dash the political aspirations of a person, glitter gets shit done.
You're a dumbass to the end my friend. Though you make this place entertaining with your angst. :buttrock:
05-19-2011, 09:12 PM
Domino-chan
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Originally Posted by Jedah Doma
Translation, you wanna dash the political aspirations of a person, glitter gets shit done.
You're a dumbass to the end my friend. Though you make this place entertaining with your angst. :buttrock:
It beats getting punched in the face or dumping pig's blood on their head. At least this was non-violent.
05-19-2011, 09:34 PM
Lagduf
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face :emb:
05-19-2011, 10:07 PM
Domino-chan
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face :emb:
...That would have been weird. And fabulous.
05-19-2011, 10:14 PM
Jedah Doma
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face :emb:
Psshhhhh, those two chumps got off easy. Neither of them had to deal with the lifelong shame brought on by a box full of glitter. They just got shot and killed.
Pussies.
05-19-2011, 10:23 PM
bokunya~
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face :emb:
I know you're being facetious, but not too many other people will detect the sarcasm in your reply.
What Dr. King and Gandhi did took incredible discipline, in the face of dogs, water cannons, mob beatings, legal arrests under Jim Crow laws, etc. Malcolm X disagreed with King's tactics, and both paid for their resistance with their lives. I need not remind people that King's assassination was the match that lit the large cache of resentment that had stockpiled, triggering the race riots.
When the establishment violently suppresses non-violent resistance and civil disobedience, it only feeds fuel to violent resistance. People can only be expected to give up the blood of so many brothers & sisters, mothers & fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, sons & daughters, before they have no choice but to conclude that the establishment understands only blood for blood.
05-19-2011, 10:31 PM
bokunya~
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Originally Posted by Zenimus
What in the world are you guys talking about? This has nothing to do with a person's political alignment. If someone blasted Jimmy Carter with a canister of cheese whiz I'd say the same thing. Any time someone approaches someone else and proceeds to reach into their bag for something to attack them with, it's a potentially dangerous situation.
Beyond that, it's a pitifully childish way to get your point across. "Hur hur, I throwed crap on that guy! That'll show 'im!"
Yeah, if Jimmy Carter was a douche like Newt, then I would disapprove of the person's position, but I would not disapprove of his tactic. It is well within his right to express his displeasure through creative agitational demonstration.
Jimmy Carter is a fucking awesome ex-president. Not a single ex-president has taken the amount of courage as he had to turn the spotlight on Israel's discriminatory racist state.
You're a potentially dangerous situation. You're a pitifully childish way to get your point across.
(The last 2 lines is my being facetious… mostly)
05-19-2011, 10:32 PM
Lagduf
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Originally Posted by bokmeow
I know you're being facetious, but not too many other people will detect the sarcasm in your reply.
What Dr. King and Gandhi did took incredible discipline, in the face of dogs, water cannons, mob beatings, legal arrests under Jim Crow laws, etc. Malcolm X disagreed with King's tactics, and both paid for their resistance with their lives. I need not remind people that King's assassination was the match that lit the large cache of resentment that had stockpiled, triggering the race riots.
When the establishment violently suppresses non-violent resistance and civil disobedience, it only feeds fuel to violent resistance. People can only be expected to give up the blood of so many brothers & sisters, mothers & fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, sons & daughters, before they have no choice but to conclude that the establishment understands only blood for blood.
This is a fantastic post all around. It's a shame the civil rights movement of the 1950-70s isn't covered more in American public education. But, problems with our education system in general are a whole 'nother topic.
I've great respect for Dr. King, Malcom X, and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (as well as dozens of other groups and individuals I'm most certainly unaware of.)
I still don't agree with childish agitation tactics. Maybe I just don't agree with being a dick to another person. I don't know. The battle for equal rights for homosexuals will be won in the courts.
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Originally Posted by bokmeow
Yeah, if Jimmy Carter was a douche like Newt, then I would disapprove of the person's position, but I would not disapprove of his tactic. It is well within his right to express his displeasure through creative agitational demonstration.
Jimmy Carter is a fucking awesome ex-president. Not a single ex-president has taken the amount of courage as he had to turn the spotlight on Israel's discriminatory racist state.
You're a potentially dangerous situation. You're a pitifully childish way to get your point across.
(The last 2 lines is my being facetious… mostly)
Carter should have been a Secretary of State.
05-19-2011, 10:39 PM
Lagduf
I just don't like having (figurative and/or literal) shit thrown on me. It's childish. All I'm saying.
05-19-2011, 11:10 PM
OrochiEddie
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
This is a fantastic post all around. It's a shame the civil rights movement of the 1950-70s isn't covered more in American public education. But, problems with our education system in general are a whole 'nother topic.
I've great respect for Dr. King, Malcom X, and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (as well as dozens of other groups and individuals I'm most certainly unaware of.)
I still don't agree with childish agitation tactics. Maybe I just don't agree with being a dick to another person. I don't know. The battle for equal rights for homosexuals will be won in the courts.
Carter should have been a Secretary of State.
Its hard to compare, but the peaceful protests of the civil rights movement involved a lot of "annoying" tactics. Sit-ins and the like. Not saying its the same as throwing glitter, but I guess there is a thin parallel
05-19-2011, 11:12 PM
Evil Wasabi
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Originally Posted by Jedah Doma
Translation, you wanna dash the political aspirations of a person, glitter gets shit done.
You're a dumbass to the end my friend. Though you make this place entertaining with your angst. :buttrock:
How so. Explain your point completely. Completely disprove that republicans are not at all talking more about this guy who threw glitter and the statement he made, versus one single guy holding a sign in peaceful protest.
Explain it with more effort than the vigorous assfucking you give your wife while thinking of the members on this site. You have a very faggot face, boy. Think anyone really sees your wife as more than a beard? Come out already.
05-19-2011, 11:12 PM
SML
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
The battle for equal rights for homosexuals will be won in the courts.
Don't say gay, say Takei!
05-19-2011, 11:37 PM
Lagduf
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Originally Posted by OrochiEddie
Its hard to compare, but the peaceful protests of the civil rights movement involved a lot of "annoying" tactics. Sit-ins and the like. Not saying its the same as throwing glitter, but I guess there is a thin parallel
The only parallel is that sit-ins certainly made those in favor of the status quo angry undoubtedly much like throwing glitter in one's face would make someone angry.
That's a weak parallel at best. Throwing something on someone's face is entirely confrontational. I'd argue sit-ins and the like weren't confrontational per se, certainly they aroused anger but they weren't necessarily direct attacks on one individual.
Either way glitter dude got what he wanted. Media attention. I think his actions were childish and crude. If you want to tear a man down then do it in a clever fashion.
05-19-2011, 11:39 PM
Domino-chan
This thread is making me want to add glitter to my next art project. Thanks.
05-20-2011, 12:02 AM
OrochiEddie
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
The only parallel is that sit-ins certainly made those in favor of the status quo angry undoubtedly much like throwing glitter in one's face would make someone angry.
That's a weak parallel at best. Throwing something on someone's face is entirely confrontational. I'd argue sit-ins and the like weren't confrontational per se, certainly they aroused anger but they weren't necessarily direct attacks on one individual.
Either way glitter dude got what he wanted. Media attention. I think his actions were childish and crude. If you want to tear a man down then do it in a clever fashion.
and yea, like I said it was a WEAK connection. I think their intentions were the same, to gain attention by causing inconvenience and by not being violent.
05-20-2011, 12:35 AM
Lagduf
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Originally Posted by OrochiEddie
and yea, like I said it was a WEAK connection. I think their intentions were the same, to gain attention by causing inconvenience and by not being violent.
Dr. King and co. did their protests with dignity, what this glitter dude did was childish, and crude. The end result might be the same but whatever. Glitter dude is still a douche IMO.
05-20-2011, 12:36 AM
aria
Dude, glitter is funny in this context as far as I'm concerned.
Flour could've potentially been more hilarious, just because he would've looked like a ghost or someone from Apocalypto immediately afterward.
05-20-2011, 12:38 AM
aria
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
Dr. King and co. did their protests with dignity, what this glitter dude did was childish, and crude. The end result might be the same but whatever. Glitter dude is still a douche IMO.
I'd like to think that if Dr. King were around, he'd find that sort of thing at least vaguely amusing. He'd also find himself conflicted that he enjoys films by Tyler Perry but is embarrassed to admit it.
05-20-2011, 12:40 AM
Lagduf
Let's just assume I've got no sense of humor and leave it at that.
05-20-2011, 12:40 AM
Segata_Sanshiro
It's the PETA strategy
When you talk about them being idiots for calling fish 'sea kittens,' you're giving them exactly what they want...
attention
Glittering Newt makes sense from a propaganda standpoint
05-20-2011, 12:54 AM
NeoTheranthrope
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Originally Posted by Lagduf
I don't recall Dr. King or Gandhi throwing glitter in anyone's face :emb:
Actually, Gandhi threw salt during the protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India in 1942.
Gandhi was a pacifist but he was no wimp.
05-20-2011, 12:58 AM
Lagduf
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Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
Actually, Gandhi threw salt during the protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India in 1942.
Gandhi was a pacifist but he was no wimp.
:angry:
:-J
05-20-2011, 01:06 AM
aria
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Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
Actually, Gandhi threw salt during the protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India in 1942.
Gandhi was a pacifist but he was no wimp.
I knew he made salt, but did he also throw it?
Incidentally I visited the spot in Mumbai he always stayed at, vid I took below.
