Comments on: Good Riddance To The Gingrichites

CBS' Meyer: GOP 'Chess Club' Ruled The House For 12 Years And Won't Be Missed

[j_edgar]

i I'm confident that 99 percent of the population %u2014 if they could see these politicians up close, if they watched their speeches and looked at their biographies %u2014 would agree, no matter what their politics or predilections. /i

I can't understand how "what journalists should do" would not include closely SHOWING just this.
It's done for Paris Hilton, for the subject of "60 Minutes", for Survivor (even that naked guy), but
apparently it cannot be done for the people who really affect my world. Well it can, but there's a 12-year waiting period.

[daedalus05]

You, Mr. Meyer, just figured out what many here in the "unwashed/half-educated" masses have known for years? What a dumb-***!

No wonder I don't watch news on TV! You folk don't know what you're doing!

Can I have your job?

[smartalek2]

Lincoln had it right: you can't fool all the people all the time. But it's gotten much easier for the powers that be -- the politicians and the corporations and other special interests that own them -- to fool more people more of the time since the media have continually, increasingly, and now utterly failed to do their job over the last 2 decades.
It's inexcusable that even now, over 60% of the populace thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 -- something even the administration has repeatedly acknowledged is totally untrue. That, and all the other false or incomplete beliefs that are popularly held, is entirely the fault of the mass media.
As the cybergeeks say, "garbage in, garbage out." If we're not given access to the facts, of course we can't make the best decisions. Is it really too much to ask that the media simply report the facts as they are, and at the time, not 12 years later?
How about "you report, we decide"? Wouldn't it be great if the mass media would actually live that as more than a slogan?
If the media would just do that, the American people can take care of the rest.

[smartalek2]

Lincoln had it right: you can't fool all the people all the time. But it's gotten much easier for the powers that be -- the politicians and the corporations and other special interests that own them -- to fool more people more of the time since the media have continually, increasingly, and now utterly failed to do their job over the last 2 decades.
It's inexcusable that even now, over 60% of the populace thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 -- something even the administration has repeatedly acknowledged is totally untrue. That, and all the other false or incomplete beliefs that are popularly held, is entirely the fault of the mass media.
As the cybergeeks say, "garbage in, garbage out." If we're not given access to the facts, of course we can't make the best decisions. Is it really too much to ask that the media simply report the facts as they are, and at the time, not 12 years later?
How about "you report, we decide"? Wouldn't it be great if the mass media would actually live that as more than a slogan?
If the media would just do that, the American people can take care of the rest.

[kcsoca]

NOW you tell us.

[groupleader]

Go *** Meyer, well said and well written prose. Now take the same approach to the current House Senate
arrainment/line-up and wait an additional 12 years before you complain.

[marcodele]

Answer: Gingrich has been married three times. He married his first wife, Jackie Battley, in 1962, and divorced her in 1981. Gingrich married his second wife, Marianne Ginther, in the fall of 1981.[2] They divorced in 1999, after revealing that he had been having an affair with a House aide, Callista Bisek.[3] Gingrich served divorce papers on his wife Marianne as she laid dying in the hospital from terminal cancer. Gingrich and Bisek were married the following year.

[marcodele]

How many wives has 'family values Newt' had now?

[devans7651]

ohhhh sounds ominous...but I think the Newtster may be mild compared to what follows....Mark my words....for I know alot more than you know!!!

[tinker3478]

Trust me-I know something you don't. : )