Gingrich fires back at Carter’s ’subtlety of racism’ charge
In an interview to air on Piers Morgan’s show tonight, Jimmy Carter suggests Newt Gingrich is engaging in “that subtlety of racism” when he talks about food stamps and “welfare mommas”:
Over the phone a few minutes ago, Gingrich gave me this response to Carter’s words:
It’s sad to watch people on the left who have no solutions for the problems of poverty and who automatically start talking about racism the minute a conservative starts talking about how to solve poverty. Carter tried The Atlanta Project*, it didn’t work. You would think he’d have a little happiness that someone was trying to solve poverty.
Gingrich sounded cautiously optimistic about his chances in South Carolina but did not commit to a particular share of the vote or ranking he thinks he needs to hit. (”I hope to come in first.”) If he does well there and in Florida on Jan. 31, Super Tuesday on March 6 — with Georgia as a major prize — will be a huge day in the campaign. Texas, too, “depending on where Governor [Rick] Perry is.” If Perry is out of the race by then, as many observers now expect, Gingrich expects to do well in Texas relative to Mitt Romney.
As for Georgia: Gingrich cited his friendships in the state, including his supporter in the governor’s mansion, and volunteers, many of whom are working for him in South Carolina at the moment. His campaign themes here are unlikely to differ from those elsewhere:
Jobs and economic growth will be number one. National security and American strength, number two; American exceptionalism, number three; and balancing the budget, number four.
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*I have never heard of The Atlanta Project. Fwiw, this evaluation is not exactly boastful (”TAP doesn’t claim to have all the answers, or the solution for eliminating urban decay”) and it’s probably not a good sign that the link to the TAP page at the Carter Center doesn’t work and the most recent document about TAP on the Carter Center’s site is from 1999. If someone has more recent or complete information about TAP, post it below.
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JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:45 am
It’s off to work for a little while. Thanks for the debate.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
9:46 am
Dee @ 9:29 – I spent 28 years at Delta Air Lines with about half of it in management. There was not one case where a qualified minority was held back to put a white man into the job. There were numerous cases where better qualifed white men were put aside to put in a minority man or any race female. If that’s not discrimination, what is?
Question is, what made them better qualified?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:53 am
“Hmmm…I wonder what dirt Newt’s ex-wife # 2 is going to drop on him on ABC tonight…”
What’s funny is left wingers were all up in arms when people came after Clinton before he was elected in 92. “What happens in his bedroom is his biz” they claimed. Now, the same idiots who were appalled are now cheering.
What a bunch of hypocritical morons.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:54 am
“Question is, what made them better qualified?”
Experience. Education. You know, things that make someone more qualified to do a job.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:56 am
Dee
There are many cases where minorities with less education etc are hired over more qualified white people. In fact, just look at the guy who is in the White House right now. He never released his grades, has no leadership qualities, never dealt with a payroll in his life, never had any executive experience etc….
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
9:57 am
“Racism”…..the most overused, pointless word in today’s society. GROW UP!
Dee
January 19th, 2012
9:57 am
Question is, what made them better qualified?”
Experience. Education. You know, things that make someone more qualified to do a job.
In this country just being “white” is qualification enough. I’ll bet those minorities who they hired had the same education and could do the job just as well or they wouldn’t have applied for the job in the first place.
Statick
January 19th, 2012
9:59 am
There are many cases where minorities with less education etc are hired over more qualified white people. In fact, just look at the guy who is in the White House right now. He never released his grades, has no leadership qualities, never dealt with a payroll in his life, never had any executive experience etc….
Ah, gotta love those fall-back conservative talking points…
MiltonMan
January 19th, 2012
10:00 am
George Bush – an average student at Yale; blasted by the libs as stupid.
Obama – don’t know his academic record; libs blasting those who want his transcripts released.
Typical lib logic.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:03 am
“In this country just being “white” is qualification enough. I’ll bet those minorities who they hired had the same education and could do the job just as well or they wouldn’t have applied for the job in the first place.”
Dee, if you believe that then I have some swamp land to sell you in south Florida. From reading your comments, it’s you who is racist. Everything you write is “whitey this and whitey that.”
You’ll bet what? Anyone who comes on a blog and writes “I’ll bet you” isn’t all there in the head.
They wouldn’t apply in the first place? You know this how?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:03 am
“Ah, gotta love those fall-back conservative talking points…”
Guess you don’t live in the real world.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:04 am
“George Bush – an average student at Yale; blasted by the libs as stupid.”
Yep, and after the election, John F Kerry’s grades were released which showed him as a D-F student.
Same with Owl Gore.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:05 am
Dee
Why do you hate white people?
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:06 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:35 am
“HDB
Oh average, how long did it take you to earn your Black Panther membership?”
Never had one…..I was able to see more of the nation and through EXPERIENCE and WORK — see what mentality affects the nation….and conservatism isn’t ALWAYS correct!!
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:43 am
“Dee @ 9:29 – I spent 28 years at Delta Air Lines with about half of it in management. There was not one case where a qualified minority was held back to put a white man into the job.”
REALLY?? I remember the days that Delta wouldn’t HIRE a qualified minority for a position OTHER than the ramp…and I know of persons there NOW that haven’t been advanced…and they ARE qualified minorities!! Don’t think it doesn’t happen….because it DOES!!
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:06 am
“…it’s you who is racist.”
Ha. Playing the reverse-racism card. Typical.
And I’m not racist. I’m prejudiced. Learn the difference.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
10:07 am
Dee….thanks for proving that racism still exists! Great job…..@! hahaha
Halftrack
January 19th, 2012
10:07 am
I think most Americans are tired of having the Race Card and the ole slavery mentality thrown at us. It has been almost 2 generations since “segregation” was declared unconstitutional. It has been a lot longer since the “slavery” days. Most people of all races now have an equal opportunity to get an education and build some character. Many want to say they are still drowning; yet they are in a shallow amount of water and all they have to do is to stand up and be saved from drowning. Jobs and earning money in early life teaches responsibility and gives dignity to the wage earner. This is the American way of values, respect and life.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
“Ha. Playing the reverse-racism card. Typical.
There is no such thing as reverse-racism, bigot.
“And I’m not racist. I’m prejudiced. Learn the difference.”
No, you’re a racist and a bigot.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:54 am
“Question is, what made them better qualified?”
Experience. Education. You know, things that make someone more qualified to do a job”.
OK…if that’s the case, why are there people at Delta with MASTERS degrees working the ramp when they applied for positions in Marketing? Why are there people with MBA’s working on the ramp when they applied for positions in IT??
IT DOES HAPPEN, folks…..and those people of color are overlooked by management!!
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Somehere: Guess you don’t live in the real world.
Man, the irony is thick up in here today.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
“I think most Americans are tired of having the Race Card and the ole slavery mentality thrown at us.”
If dems didn’t have that card to play they’d never win elections.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:10 am
No, you’re a racist and a bigot.
If I am, then that means you’re contagious.
gm
January 19th, 2012
10:10 am
Ok put Carters work against Newt work in Georgia, let see how many homes have Carter built for the poor Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter and Habitat for Humanity all colors.
Now what has Newt done for Georgia? but take millions from the government, he do not want to go down this road with Carter, its not even close.
Hey black conseratives are you proud of your party now? this shows what regard these people have for you, this people only care about their white bigots base on the extreme right, who is on the plantation now?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:11 am
“OK…if that’s the case, why are there people at Delta with MASTERS degrees working the ramp when they applied for positions in Marketing? ”
White people with their MBA’s work at Starbucks serving coffee. In case you didn’t know, the economy is in the tank.
“Why are there people with MBA’s working on the ramp when they applied for positions in IT??”
Um……because there aren’t any positions to fill? Geez dude, do you understand how the job market works?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:11 am
“If I am, then that means you’re contagious.”
Comeback fail, Dee. Try again and try harder.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
Dee….thanks for proving that racism still exists! Great job…..@! hahaha
You’re welcome. Now, can I come over your house and burn a fiery cross? Or keep your kids from attending the best schools?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
“Man, the irony is thick up in here today.”
As thick as Joe Biden’s hair plugs?
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
Comeback fail, Dee. Try again and try harder.
You know I’m under your skin, bigot.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
“Now, can I come over your house and burn a fiery cross? ‘
Someone get Dee a fainting couch.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:13 am
“You know I’m under your skin, bigot.”
Try again, troglodyte.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:14 am
Dee
When you wake up every morning, how often do you plot to beat up white people?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:14 am
“Or keep your kids from attending the best schools?”
HAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!! Dee, you should quit the Black Panthers and join a comedy club! THAT was funny!
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:15 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Before you classify me as a bigot or racist, I’m far from that…..but I AM a realist!! Racism still exists in the US…..and the biggest form of racism is to insist that it doesn’t exist!! Note the key word that Halftrack(10:07 am) stated: MOST!! Why isn’t it ALL?? Reason…power, race, and reality!! Those who have been ABLE to progress have done so; there are segments of scoiety that have YET to progress….and they have been persistently denigrated as “parasites”, “leeches”…whatever negative connotation conservatives deem adequate for a description!!
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:18 am
@ Somewhere over there
Dee really got going. You mad, fella? LOL
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:18 am
@TD…”There is no where in any of my post that even attempts to make race a part of my argument.”
And again you clearly make the point…if you bothered to actually watch the clip prior to engaging your mouth (keyboard) you would know the whole point is to promote a racist bent without actually mentioning race. Something you do quite clearly…
“The solution then is to make it not so attractive to stay here.”…who? Why THEM of course.
“When you make the parasites responsible for there actions and have to pay their own way”…parasites=”those people”
“The results will be more jobs for the producers, less taxes for the producers to pay and better schools.” …Producers=”Us People”
See that’s why it’s subtle, you can do it and then say with an apparently straight face…”who me?”
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
10:20 am
Crybabies!!!
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:21 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:18 am
GREAT POINT!! Subtle to some is OBVIOUS to others!!
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
10:23 am
Dee is SO typical……I love it!
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:24 am
“Dee really got going. You mad, fella?”
Nope, I’m laughing at her and at you.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
Dee is SO typical……I love it!
What’s your point? That I’m just like you?
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
@MiltonMan…”Obama – don’t know his academic record; libs blasting those who want his transcripts released.”
FYI he graduated magna cum laude and led the Harvard Law Review. Magna cum laude at Harvard puts you, at a minimum in the top 20%. Sort of negates the need to pore over individual class transcripts now doesn’t it.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
“Before you classify me as a bigot or racist, I’m far from that…..but I AM a realist!!”
HDB, you and Dee are the only ones saying things like “white people get jobs over blacks blah blah blah” yet you don’t have any proof to back your claims up with. You stated that there are black people working at Delta with MBA’s who are bag tossers and I told you that there are white people with MBA’s serving coffee at Starbucks.
Instead of debating that you come back with nonsense.
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:26 am
“Dee really got going. You mad, fella?”
Nope, I’m laughing at her and at you.
I really don’t think you’re laughing at all. It seems more akin to seething anger.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:27 am
“FYI he graduated magna cum laude and led the Harvard Law Review. ”
So he shouldn’t have any problem releasing his grades. BTW, Obama is a millionaire just like Mitt Romney is.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:28 am
“I really don’t think you’re laughing at all. It seems more akin to seething anger.’
And you can prove this, how?
Jefferson
January 19th, 2012
10:29 am
Anyone Georgian over 45 knows what Pres Carter is saying, whether they will say it out loud or just whisper and wink to their buddies.
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:29 am
“I really don’t think you’re laughing at all. It seems more akin to seething anger.’
And you can prove this, how?
Just don’t hurt any innocent people, okay?
gm
January 19th, 2012
10:29 am
Come on, look at Newt character compared to Carters””
The only people that are shocked at the Rep racist views are Black Rep conservatives, these people actually thought this party had moved to the 21st century concerning race, people on the left knew who these people were, their past speaks volume for who they are.
Carter never called Newt a racist he said he was saying racist things to attract the extreme right, which is true.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:31 am
“Just don’t hurt any innocent people, okay?”
Whatever you say, liar.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:35 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
“HDB, you and Dee are the only ones saying things like “white people get jobs over blacks blah blah blah” yet you don’t have any proof to back your claims up with. You stated that there are black people working at Delta with MBA’s who are bag tossers and I told you that there are white people with MBA’s serving coffee at Starbucks.”
I’m stating what I’ve said from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and KNOWLEDGE!! I have friends at Delta who fit the category I’ve stated…..
You can NOT marginalize someone’s experience although it’s different from your own!! Just because YOU personally haven’t experienced such doesn’t mean that someone else HASN’T…..and I HAVE!!
Realistically, it IS better than it was…but the pockets of racism STILL exist in this nation!! As I satted before, another form of racism is to persist in the idea that racism DOESN’T exist…when it DOES!!