Newt Gingrich’s World War Web
July 19, 2006 at 9:28 am
We’re approaching the 10 year anniversary (August 13, to be exact) of that great moment when Newt Gingrich instructed the 1996 Republican National Convention this.
A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport [but] in the Olympics. … And there’s a whole new world of opportunity opening up that didn’t even exist 30 years ago or 40 years ago, and no bureaucrat would have invented it. And that’s what freedom is all about.
Looking back, Gingrich’s declaration never really did create a groundswell of public opinion for or against beach volleyball.
But what he said just four days ago, that “this is, in fact, World War III,” surely has.
A Technorati search turns up 850 posts which mention World War III and Gingrich. World War III alone ranks fifth on Technorati with over 16,000 posts.
Gingrich is surely aware how much chatter he’s created, boldly explaining to Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes” last night about “what led me to speak out so decisively and so clearly.”
World War III — it’s no day at the beach, with or without volleyball.
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