Video: Newt Gingrich Survives Glitter Bomb With "Minor Gay Injuries"
He's lucky it wasn't parade-grade glitter. (AP)
Newt Gingrich just can't catch a break. First this terribly rude gentleman accosts him about "insulting" Paul Ryan and the GOP's hilarious "Path to Prosperity," then it leaks out that he has a weird, expensive fetish for the prissiest jewelry ever. It's enough to drive a man into the arms of a younger, blonder lover! At a book signing yesterday a man "glitter bombed" Gingrich, telling him to "feel the rainbow, Newt! Stop the hate! Stop anti-gay politics!" Given the caliber of glitter that appears to have been used, it must have been really hard for Gingrich to refrain from immediately belting out "The Way We Were," and getting gay married on the spot.
Two Associated Press reporters were on hand to see the entire thing and even snap a photo, so naturally Newt had to be on his best behavior and said it was "nice to live in a free country" after the attack. Gingrich also appeared that night at a dinner with dead-eyed banshee Michele Bachmann to give a speech for the Minnesota Family Council, an anti-gay marriage group. The protester, Nick Espinosa, has pulled stunts like these in the past to highlight issues like immigration reform. Why couldn't he have just gotten Newt's autograph on his Glock like everyone else?
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My God, it's true. I saw designs for this bomb, and thought it was too foolish to build. On activating the Weapon of Mass Gayness, the device shouts "SUPER!" and launches itself at the biggest dick in the room.
We should closely monitor Newt over the next few days for increases in sashaying, bitching and phallic food consumption.
From what I can tell, this successful test will only embolden The Gays to move forward in their weapons development.
God help us all.
Guest
meh. chest pooping might have been more effective.
FU Boy
Give Newt a Cleveland steamer? Fantastic - but only if Rosie O'Donnell does the job.
RevWaldo
Pity is was the fat type of glitter and not the tiny type that's damn near impossible to get off without a shower. Newt got off lightly...this time.
Roger_the_Shrubber
Leonard Bernstein has something to say on the matter...
Look, Newt's a douchebag -- but the rule is "hands off." You don't hit politicians with glitter, you don't throw water balloons, you don't attack them physically in any way. Why not? Because...hello, idiot, you're not the only one in the world who can do these things. Think of all the Tea Party types out there who go to bed at night fantasizing about doing evil things to "evil" "liberals." You really want to make this part of the political process? You really want it to be physical, when all those gun-toting whack-jobs already think "their nation" is under siege?
You want to get noticed, put on fairy suit and dance around in Times Square. But don't attack a politician -- even if it's this asshole.
Damn it man, it's "loser" as in "what a loser." I hate that misspelling.
Spirit of 76
The really stupid thing is that it doesn't even make sense. Nobody thinks the opposite of "win" is "loose." And in an age when one of the most popular shows on TV is The Biggest Loser, one would think people might get a clue from seeing the word on screen so often.
But it's futile. This is one of those viral errors that will only grow, illogical though it is. It's like that other one that's so prevalent nowadays. "Would of, could of, should of."
TheOtherBob
It's...actually a bit of a running, self-deprecating joke (which is why you may see it frequently). The idea is that the speaker is himself a loser -- as he is unable even to properly spell the word "loser."
Other examples would be "Geez, how dum is you?" "What an idoit!" "You spel terible!" That sort of thing.
Yeah, it's not that funny, I know. But life is what it is. (And, yes, I just explained an internet meme to avoid someone thinking I had poor speling and grammer -- and, no, that doesn't bother me in the slightest.)
Rocknrope
Hmmm, that one is easily lost in translation, though. I like the dum is you and spel terible ones.
boomshanka
Sorry, I've been seeing it more and more over the last few years even from otherwise intelligent people. It spreads like herpes, and must be stopped.
Guest
Democrats carry guns too.
TheOtherBob
True -- and the last time we tried that approach to resolving an issue, the liberals won.
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