August 18, 2010 12:45 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Peter King Denounces Gingrich's "Nazi" Comparison: "It Was Wrong"
August 12, 2010 11:55 am ET filed under Blog
Newt Gingrich's Statistics: All Sizzle, No Steak
August 12, 2010 11:54 am ET filed under Fact Check
Gingrich: Dems Teach The Unemployed To Prefer Government-Funded Poverty Over Honest Work
In an email to supporters yesterday, Newt Gingrich blamed Democrats for high unemployment and argued that "the extension of unemployment benefits has given people a perverse incentive to stay on unemployment rather than accept a job." Gingrich cynically warns that Democrats are making jobless Americans "get so used to being unproductive that they are willing to accept welfare indefinitely instead of taking a job." Gingrich is just the latest in a long line of Republicans to attack the unemployed for political gain. In reality, unemployment checks average about $300 per week, and cherry-picked anecdotes about "indefinite welfare" ignore the real source of high unemployment: a severe economic crisis brought about by Republican mismanagement.
July 26, 2010 4:15 pm ET filed under Blog
Newt Gingrich: "This Is A 70+ Percent Center-Right Country"
July 26, 2010 10:21 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - July 25, 2010
July 26, 2010 10:16 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - July 25, 2010
On Fox News Sunday, former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich defended his year-old "Latina woman racist" attack against Justice Sonia Sotomayor by insisting that a white man would have been pilloried had he made similar remarks. Read in their full context, Sotomayor's remarks do not assert any inherent superiority of judgment for Hispanics — or any other race for that matter. It's worth remembering that Sotomayor was praising the way greater diversity of experience leads to more fully-informed decisions. Later, Gingrich misled viewers to believe that Democrats can extend the Bush tax cuts without changing the law (Republicans wrote the bill to sunset after 2010). Elsewhere, Civil Rights Commissioner Abigail Thomas claimed that polling shows Tea Partiers are reflective of America at large. In fact, polling shows that's just not true.
July 22, 2010 3:41 pm ET filed under Blog
Newt Gingrich Joins Muslim-Baiting Movement
May 20, 2010 2:49 pm ET filed under Video
Gingrich Explains That Bennett Lost Because He's "Reasonable"
May 19, 2010 1:33 pm ET filed under Blog
Gingrich: The Left Is A Bigger Threat To America Than Foreign Terrorists
May 18, 2010 11:49 am ET filed under Blog
Gingrich Explains That Sen. Bennett Lost Because He's Too "Reasonable"
May 17, 2010 10:07 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - May 16, 2010
On Sunday's political talk shows, Republicans echoed the fierce, false criticisms of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan that we heard throughout last week. Newt Gingrich claimed that Kagan is "anti-military." Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) parroted Gingrich's lie that the military's prohibition on homosexuals began under President Clinton. And Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) claimed that Kagan wants the government to ban books. Meanwhile, Gingrich advanced false narratives about health care reform and President Obama's attitude toward free enterprise, and Sen. McConnell attacked the Recovery Act.
April 09, 2010 10:32 am ET filed under Blog
Gingrich Takes Political Advice From Man Who Calls Obama "The Kenyan"
March 17, 2010 3:34 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Gingrich Group Attacks Gingrich Tactic
On March 17, 2010, Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future sent an email to supporters blasting self-executing rules as "blatantly unconstitutional." Yet as Speaker of the House, Gingrich "set new records" for the amount of self-executing rules, using them up 35% of the time in the 105th Congress.
March 15, 2010 11:31 am ET filed under Fact Check
American Solutions Repeats Tired Clean Energy Myths
In a "Solutions Insider" published on March 15, 2010, Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future repeated the rightwing myth that clean energy legislation would "kill millions of jobs and raise costs for American families by thousands of dollars per year." In reality, investing in clean energy would boost America's economy by $111 billion and create up to 1.9 million jobs.
February 25, 2010 9:04 am ET filed under Blog
Gingrich Uses Nonprofit Group To Promote For-Profit Consulting Firm
February 11, 2010 10:08 am ET filed under Blog
Newt Gingrich Continues To Struggle With The Facts
February 10, 2010 8:52 am ET filed under Fact Check
Gingrich Falsely Claims The Shoe Bomber Was An American Citizen
During a Daily Show appearance on January 9, 2010, former Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized the Obama administration for reading Miranda rights to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber. Rejecting comparisons to the Bush administration's handling of the shoe bomber, Gingrich falsely claimed Richard Reid was an American citizen. In reality, he was a British citizen.
December 03, 2009 4:50 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Gingrich Lies About White House Jobs Summit
During a December 2, 2009 appearance on Fox News' Hannity, former Speaker Newt Gingrich falsely claimed the White House Jobs Forum didn't include "a single small business," and the stimulus created "virtually no jobs." Both claims are blatant untruths.
December 03, 2009 3:35 pm ET filed under Video
Newt Gingrich Lies About White House Jobs Summit
October 22, 2009 1:45 pm ET filed under Blog
Jake Tapper Smacks Down The Likes Of Newt Gingrich Over Poll Results
October 20, 2009 5:08 pm ET filed under Blog
Gingrich Claims Washington Post/ABC News Poll Was "Deliberately Rigged"
September 30, 2009 3:58 pm ET filed under Blog
Newt's A Tease: First A Porn Company, Then A Strip Bar
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich seems to have gotten into the habit of leading companies in the adult entertainment industry to believe they won awards, then telling them "no."
September 11, 2009 2:41 pm ET filed under Blog
Newt Gingrich Awards Porn Studio "Pink Visual" With Entrepreneurship Award
August 26, 2009 2:06 pm ET filed under Blog
Gingrich Really Wants A Base On The Moon
August 19, 2009 2:13 pm ET filed under Blog
What A Difference A Month Makes: Gingrich Makes A U-Turn On End-Of-Life Care
On August 19, 2009, Newt Gingrich wrote a column for HumanEvents.com on how end-of-life counseling helped his father-in-law but should not be made available to all Americans...which is interesting because in July of 2009 he was a proponent of making end-of-life counseling available to all Medicare recipients.
August 19, 2009 2:05 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Gingrich's Sudden Shift On End-Of-Life Care
On August 19, 2009, Newt Gingrich wrote a column on HumanEvents.com in which he argued against the government taking a role in end-of-life issues. However, just last month he argued that all Americans should receive end of life counseling.
August 17, 2009 11:48 am ET filed under Blog
Gingrich Op-Ed In Desperate Need Of Factual Information
In an August 16, 2009 opinion piece, Newt Gingrich took it upon himself to float several of the same conservative talking points about health insurance reform. However, those talking points don't hold a candle to the truth.
August 13, 2009 10:42 am ET filed under Video
Newt Gingrich Repeats Old Falsehoods About The American Clean Energy And Security Act
In an August 13, 2009 speech to the American Enterprise Institute, Newt Gingrich repeated previously-debunked conservative talking points on the American Clean Energy and Security Act. In reality, the bill would create jobs in every state and help America become more energy independent, all for less than a quarter per day.
August 13, 2009 10:38 am ET filed under Fact Check
Newt Gingrich Repeats Old Falsehoods About The American Clean Energy And Security Act
In an August 13, 2009 speech to the American Enterprise Institute, Newt Gingrich repeated previously-debunked conservative talking points on the American Clean Energy and Security Act. In reality, the bill would create jobs in every state and help America become more energy independent, all for less than a quarter per day.
