[Speed Gibson,
Saturday December 16, 2006 at 3:56pm]
That was then, this is now.
In the latest Limbaugh Letter, Rush has a telling spread on pages 12-13 entitled "That was then, This is now."
On page 12 are Time Magazine covers and a number of media quotes arranged like a Google search. The time: 1994. The subject: incoming Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In fact, it's called Newwwwwgle. As you remember, Mr. Gingrich received pretty rough treatment up and down the dial. Howard Kurtz is quoted from CNN's "Reliable Sources" on November 20, 1994:
On page 13 opposite is Peloogle, with the same sources like CBS, ABC, CNN, Newsweek, and the Washington Post now fawninng over incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Newt, master of the "politics of anger" was "one scary white man" in 1994, whose "Contract with America" threatened the human species. Recently Botox'd "bipartisan" "polished" and "dignified" Nancy is wearing Armani, oh and really not as liberal as the Republicans or her voting record would have you believe.
It would be interesting to pull the then and now equivalents from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
On page 12 are Time Magazine covers and a number of media quotes arranged like a Google search. The time: 1994. The subject: incoming Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In fact, it's called Newwwwwgle. As you remember, Mr. Gingrich received pretty rough treatment up and down the dial. Howard Kurtz is quoted from CNN's "Reliable Sources" on November 20, 1994:
Newt Gingrich has gotten a ton of publicity ... But there's been kind of a mean edge and harshness ... that I wonder if we would see with an incoming Democratic Speaker of the House."Wonder no more.
On page 13 opposite is Peloogle, with the same sources like CBS, ABC, CNN, Newsweek, and the Washington Post now fawninng over incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Newt, master of the "politics of anger" was "one scary white man" in 1994, whose "Contract with America" threatened the human species. Recently Botox'd "bipartisan" "polished" and "dignified" Nancy is wearing Armani, oh and really not as liberal as the Republicans or her voting record would have you believe.
It would be interesting to pull the then and now equivalents from the Minneapolis Star Tribune.