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Lunch-losing video: Gingrich and Pelosi tag-team for Al Gore

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 22, 2008 12:13 PM

Green: The color of capitulation.

No Newt for prez

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 29, 2007 03:37 PM

McCain-Feingold gets in the way of Newt Gingrich’s presidential aspirations.
Looks like he’s got his hands full with “American Solutions.”
More here.
Is there more to the story?

Bush administration EEOC sues the Salvation Army…

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 3, 2007 10:21 AM

…over its requirement that employees speak English.
It’s ridiculous.
Newt Gingrich asks: “Why is the government undermining the efforts of charities to encourage people to learn English? And doesn’t it have better things to do with our tax dollars?”
Apparently not.

Dirty Democrat Files: Jim McDermott rebuffed
Dirty Democrat Files: Feinstein follow-up

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 1, 2007 09:02 PM

Eavesdropper. Blabbermouth. Corruptocrat.
Well, well, well. Remember left-wing, sleazebag loon Jim McDermott, the Democrats’ favorite hypocritical wire-tapper? There’s breaking news on his decade-old case (hat tip: William A.):
Rep. Jim McDermott had no right to disclose the contents of an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
In [...]

Gingrich’s baggage: “Gotten on my knees”

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 8, 2007 10:53 PM

Newt goes to Focus on the Family’s James Dobson to acknowledge his extramartial affair carried out during the Clinton/Lewinsky era:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
“The honest answer [...]

CPAC interview with Newt Gingrich

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 6, 2007 08:14 AM

Here’s our second Hot Air video report from CPAC–An interview with Newt Gingrich during his visit to bloggers’ row.
Topics covered: illegal and legal immigration, the Diversity Visa Lottery (he’d kill it), Visa Express and Saudi visas, the matricula consular card (he said he doesn’t know about it), the war, and defeating Hillary Clinton. My [...]

Blogging and vlogging CPAC

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 1, 2007 02:30 AM

Bryan Preston, Ian Schwartz, Erick Stakelbeck, and I will be covering the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference for Hot Air. I’ll also liveblog events and photoblog here at mm.com throughout the 3-day conference. If you’re planning to attend, we’ll have a booth in the exhibitor hall that opens at 10am later today. In addition [...]

Giuliani will be at CPAC

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 26, 2007 12:15 PM

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference will kick off later this week. Hot Air and I will be there covering the action, manning a booth, shooting video, signing books, and reporting on the scene.
Patrick Ruffini sends word that Rudy Giuliani will attend. Via the Politico’s Jonathan Martin:
I reported a piece last month about how [...]

Dirty Democrat Files: Jim McDermott
found guilty of ethics violations

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 12, 2006 09:35 AM

Getting away with it
Hello, culture of corruption:
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated House ethics committee standards by giving reporters access to an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, the ethics panel said Monday.
In a report released days after Congress adjourned, the ethics panel said that McDermott, a former ranking member of [...]

Arianna and Hillary: Pot and kettle

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 7, 2006 11:23 AM

Former Gingrichite Arianna Huffington scolds Hillary Rodham Clinton for being a political fake.
I think I need to go to the emergency room and get my sides sutured up from bwa-ha-ha-ing at Arianna Huffington’s op-ed attacking Hillary Clinton in the Los Angeles Times this morning.
So, what’s Arianna’s beef with Hillary?
There are politicians with great instincts as [...]

Predators in the House

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 2, 2006 10:10 AM

Disgraced GOP Rep. Mark Foley’s instant messages with an underage page are absolutely appalling. He was a 54-year-old man abusing his position of power with a 16-year-old boy. Based on all the reporting so far, and there may yet be more to come, Rep. Foley was exactly the kind of sexual predator–“sicko,” in his own [...]

HOW DEMS STORE THEIR BRIBES

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 23, 2006 10:39 PM

Hot Air affiliate Flip Pidot of Suitably Flip, inspired by the Rep. William Jefferson case, has the photoshop of the day:

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Meanwhile, Roger L. Simon notes Newt Gingrich’s tin ear. Denny Hastert’s got it, too. Glenn Reynolds has more.
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Foiled again!

JIM MCDERMOTT: LAWBREAKER

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 28, 2006 01:07 PM

Baghdad Jim McDermott finally gets his due:
A federal appeals court ruled today that Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated federal law by turning over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters nearly a decade ago.
In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House [...]

EAVESDROPPING FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 21, 2005 07:34 AM

Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, who leaked the contents of an illegally recorded cell phone conversation between former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. John A. Boehner, is complaining about the NSA’s warrantless surveillance progam.
Audio clip here.
Chutzpah.

AIR ENRON: THE BLAME GAME

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 5, 2005 06:00 AM

Yesterday, on Your World with Neil Cavuto, commentator Bill Press stated repeatedly that the current managers of Air America bear no responsibility for the shady loan the network received from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club because the money was stolen by former Air America chairman Evan Cohen. “The point I’m making is, this [...]

DURBIN WATCH: CHENEY AND MORE

By Michelle Malkin  •  June 17, 2005 03:27 PM

Just received this e-mail from Steve Gill:
Vice President Dick Cheney appeared this morning on Steve Gill Mornings in Nashville, Tennessee and was asked about Dick Durbin’s comparison of U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis. The Vice President noted that he had to
be “careful about what I say since this is a family show” but [...]

VIDEOBLOGGING NEWT

By Michelle Malkin  •  June 16, 2005 10:49 AM

Trey Jackson conducted a multi-part, videotaped interview with Newt Gingrich–asking questions submitted by several bloggers. The latest installment includes questions from Glenn Reynolds. Check out the whole series here.

HILLARY AND NEWTIE SITTIN’ IN A TREE

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 12, 2005 11:05 PM

It’s a Clinton/Gingrich lovefest. Gack:
For Ms. Clinton, standing side by side with her husband’s onetime nemesis gives her the chance to burnish her credentials among the moderates she has been courting during her time in the Senate.
But in comments this week, she portrayed the rapprochement as one born of shared policy interests, not calculated politics.
“I [...]

GINGRICH’S BOLD MEDICAID REFORM PROPOSAL

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 2, 2005 07:06 AM

Newt Gingrich has an op-ed in this morning’s Washington Post calling on Congress to transform the Medicaid program with legislation to bring it into the 21st century.
The name of the piece is “Transform It, Don’t Reform It.” Gingrich puts it all on the line, making no bones about the urgent need for truly radical [...]


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