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Newt Gingrich Trashes San Francisco, Pelosi On 'Today Show'

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Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich looks out at the audience at Florida International University, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Polyamorous GOP balloon-animal Newt Gingrich appeared on The Today Show this morning and didn't have kind words to say about Baghdad by the Bay. When discussing Nancy Pelosi, who claims that she knows something that will keep Newt from becoming president, he had this to say about the House Democratic leader and her hometown, San Francisco.

"She lives in a San Francisco environment of strange fantasies and strange understandings of reality. I have no idea what’s in Nancy Pelosi’s head. If she knows something, spit it out. Tell us what it is. I have no idea what she’s talking about."

Without being specific, thus being annoying, Pelosi told CNN on Tuesday, "He’s not going to be president of the United States. That’s not going to happen. Let me just make my prediction and stand by it; it isn’t going to happen...There is something I know...The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him that’s their prerogative. I don’t even think that’s going to happen."

We're not sure what either of them are prattling on about, but we do know one thing: San Francisco is the future, whether you like it or not.

Advantage Pelosi.

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By Brock Keeling in on January 25, 2012 9:00 AM 0 Comments

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  • murfle
    I know you're probably just trying to be irritating, Brock, but cheating on your wife for six years and then asking for an open marriage is not "polyamory". People in responsible open relationships have enough to deal with without intentional misinformation equating them with failed and dishonest monogamists.
  • s b
    I'm not voting for anyone named after a reptile.
  • Tyler Read
    Newts are actually amphibians. :)
  • Fluxgirl
    That picture makes it look like the little spud forgot his dentures.
  • fizzandpop
    Newt in the morning, "She lives in a San Francisco environment of strange fantasies and strange understandings of reality."

    Newt in the afternoon, "By the end of my second term, we will have a permanent moon base".

  • Well we don't like you either, meany.
  • GabeFroman
    Play on playboy...er...jackass
  • jfu222
    Seems kind of stupid to say that you have a "secret" weapon before you actually use it.
  • wassaFOAMfinger
    that's what she said!
  • Thanks you old loathsome bastard for making my free-love lifestyle as appealing as day-old puke. As for Pelosi's comment, I understand she's just repeating the DC refrain. Obama's a two-term President; get over it people, and concentrate on 2016.
  • I think that she also might have a secret plan to fight inflation.
  • robingee
    Don't let this wiindbag with a head like a misshapen stress ball get on your nerves.
  • Thanks for the support, and the new insult! "Misshapen stress ball" brings this to mind: 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
  • robingee
    This head's ALREADY been crushed!!
  • This is my first time posting a hulu link here, which may or may not work, but I think the classic SNL skit that some would probably say “trashes” SF and Pelosi bears repeating because it’s
    fucking hilarious and spot-on.

    This really is how the rest of America thinks about us.

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/4264...
  • <3
  • You lot need to get this politics nonsense out of your collective systems before I land in SF tomorrow night. I can't have my local DC news following me around while I'm trying to have a weekend away. I just want to get sloshed at the Zin festival and have a good time, dammit!

    Also, other options for Newtie lead-ins are: "Penis-sharing marshmallow man," "Talking ham loaf and non-monogamous vagina connoisseur," "Serial fornicating self-aware Jello mold," and "Cock distributor and living colostomy bag..."
  • neutral_corner
    "Penis-sharing marshmallow man," "Talking ham loaf and non-monogamous
    vagina connoisseur," "Serial fornicating self-aware Jello mold," and
    "Cock distributor and living colostomy bag..."

    See, now you and I have to be BFFs.
  • Aww. Here's one more, just for you - "Genital bartering dough beast..."

    Thanks to all you San Franciscans for whatever you did to bring on that weather this past weekend. F*cking phenomenal. Couldn't have asked for more.
  • bluecanary1
    This, "Talking ham loaf and non-monogamous vagina connoisseur" is beautiful.  Well done.
  • hillarys_new_shoes
    Seriously!! - my modest proposal is that if Modestproposal1 is routinely this inspired and hilarious we kidnap her/him and demand they take up residence in SF and SFist.
  • bluecanary1
    I second this proposal.  All in favor?
  • While I, a Santa Cruz ex-pat with a very soft spot in my heart for San Francisco, am duly flattered by your flattery, I have become a jaded non-PC east coast asshole in the many years following my parents' dragging me kicking and screaming from my beloved beaches to the DC suburbs. It's too late for me, but I'll be sure to visit from time to time.
  • You consider that "trashing" San Francisco? Wow. Harbaugh was right.
  • wassaFOAMfinger
    which harbaugh
  • A Republican attacking SF? that's just to easy, not like he'll lose any votes for the attack so in reality it's just a way to get his kin all excited for being so "aggressive". As for Pelosi, he has a point, if she's got dirt, just say it, don't be like JOHN LOCK on LOST and wait for the season cliff hanger, this is the real world.
  • Politburo
    See the comment above yours for why she's waiting (assuming she actually has dirt and isn't just trolling Newt, which is certainly possible).
  • could be true - even before Obama took office I was pretty sure that the GOP wasn't going to want office for the next 2 terms which will give the country enough time to finally get back on course then they can sweep in, coast the rest of the recovery (which will probably take  about 2 more years after Obama) and take all the credit. So yeah, I'm pretty sure they're allowing folks like Newt, Cain, Pelosi and Bachmann's side show to throw the election.

    What better way to look like a savior to the nation then by letting the other guy do all the work.
  • Exactly, it’s so fucking high school.

    “I know something you don’t know!”

    Jesus Christ, Pelosi, you’re like 666 years old. Act your age already.
  • guestymcspanky
    You're right, she's being annoying; but the last thing Democrats want to do *right now* is take down Newtey.  The longer he stays in doing damage to Mitt, the better off Obama will be.  And if he gets the nomination?  Even better.
  • hssrinsf
    We should all be supporting him. Really, he and the republican party will be a hot mess if he's the nominee.
  • ChicagoD
    Ah, the beauty of the open primary . . .
  • If this hilariously two-faced scumbag is "trashing" the city I live in, then I must be in the right place.
  • If Newt became president, would Callista be the first adulteress?
  • Tellmenolies
    No, she'll be known as hotus...
  • chuzzlewit
    funny, that - every time i see or hear newt gingrich, i have this strange fantasy about watching jack london beat the ever-loving shit out of him.
  • PicoPhreako69
    Whilst I normally abhor all violence,....
    I would pay good money to see that.
  • shocktheday
    "She lives in a San Francisco environment of strange fantasies and strange understandings of reality."  Sounds more like his excursions to Bohemian Grove.
  • wassaFOAMfinger
    Sounds like he's describing a run-of-the-mill SF underground party to me. Maybe polyamorous GOP balloon animal Newt Gingrich is more hip than we thought!
  • The NewtBadger is really pretty badass.  It has no regard for any other person whatsoever.  
    http://brettcottrell.blogspot....
  • Roger_the_Shrubber
    All that botox to the brain was bound to cause dementia, although in SF, dementia must be hard to spot among the everyday madness there.
  • robingee
    What madness? be specific.
  • “…San Francisco environment of strange fantasies and strange understandings of reality…”

    We’re calling that “trashing” San Francisco now?

    I’m not quite sure if sfist is being overly sensitive this morning or if she’s just making up headlines for deplorable view counts.
  • jasonbrooks
    What are deplorable view counts?
  • robingee
    Newt no understand San Francisco, him very wondering about why town is so liberal. Why they act this way? Strange understandings, say old white fat man.
  • Bonus points for using a vocabulary word in a sentence! Commendable!
  • DoctorMemory
    No bonus points for using the vocabulary word incorrectly.
  • craneial
    "Polyamorous GOP balloon-animal Newt Gingrich" Looks to me someone is stealing the editorial intro style from Gawker.
  • wassaFOAMfinger
    Doesn't matter where the style came from; the words are so incredibly accurate that he had no choice but to start it that way. In fact, I think that's the only way we should refer to him going forward. No shortening it to "Gingrich" or "Newt" or "that fucking jackass"; only "Polyamorous GOP balloon animal Newt Gingrich".
  • During a presidential race, the GOP doesn't pay attention to California at all.  They focus on local races in Southern California (Orange County) where they know they can win.
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