Wrong Charles. or, Beat It! ...

When I see the Jewish and black pundits misinterpreting the white men, I must speak up a bit louder...

Do you see any distinction made here between black people using food stamps (SNaP cards) and white people relying on them, from the government, to feed themselves?

[W]e actually think work is good (applause). We actually think saying to somebody “I’ll help you if you’re willing to help yourself” is good (applause). And we think unconditionally efforts by the best food stamp president in American history to maximize dependency is terrible for the future of this country (applause).

It's the concept, the absence of independence, that is saddening. Not "picking" on black victims, or poor whites either. Just holding out the hope, that we can offer them something better here.

Ditto this:

Gingrich went on to say that he was going to continue to “find ways to help poor people learn how to get a job, learn how to get a better job, and learn someday to own the job.” (Roaring applause. As if poor people don’t work. As I’ve pointed out before, most of them do.)

Friend, haven't you seen the numbers? Young men are having trouble finding jobs these days, white young men, black young men... especially, poor and ill-educated young men. Even if they have jobs, likely they could use a more challenging, better paying, more skilled one, particularly if they one day aspire to feed a famiy, say.

Let's not be so gushy in trying to defend the president from perceived racial animosity that we become ebony Pollyanna's, pretending "po folk doing fine. Nothing wrong here, move along..."

If you don't like Gingrich's prescriptions (and heaven's knows, I'm defending his speech more than his candidacy here), so be it. But don't make a racial discrimination case -- or see a return to independent, self-sustaining values -- as a wish to turn back the clock to the time Whitey was artificially on top, and there was so much less of this grey component in America's racial classifications.

Lick your wounds, then think about it at least?


ADDED:
Also, is addressing someone by their first name in our oh-so-casual informal times, seen as a sign of disrespect in some cultures these days? My goodness we can be sensitive when we're hurting...

You saw some of this during your visit to a black church in South Carolina where a woman askePresident Obama as “the food stamp president.” It sounds as if you’re seeking to belittle people.

(More boos from the crowd.)

Gingrich: Well, first of all, Juan —

(Crowd giggles. Talk about belittling people. “Juan.”)

The fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history (applause). Now, I know among the politically correct you are not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable (more applause and laughter).

LOL @ these rose-colored glasses...
Poor Charlie Brown. He thinks we all see things at street level, through his eyes. Whoop -- no.

Charles M. Blow
Anyone who can't see through Newt's tainted language needs a dog and and cane... He may try to fix it up with fancy phrasing, but the framework is the same...

Ppl try to tell you that you're not seeing what you're seeing. "Who are you going to believe: me or your lying eyes?" My eyes...every time.*

As for me and mine?

Mine eyes have seen the Glory,
of the Coming of the Lord...
and He is trampling through the Vintage
where the Grapes of Wrath are stored...

Can I get an Amen at least?

* Well-rested eyes perceive conditions differently. Don't drive, just analyze. Safer for us all that way...