Newt Gingrich, also "All-American Muslims"

Newt on the poverty solution (i.e. fixing lazy black people):
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/newt-gingrich-s-poverty-code

Newt's tax plan: Bush on steroids (zero cap. gains that helps the rich, but deficit will probably balloon)
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/13/143656946/analysis-gingrichs-tax-plan-would-benefit-the-rich

Newt's career highlights (Main St. GOP likes him because he is boldly attacking Obama, but no conservatives in DC are celebrating as they remember his shaky record as Speaker)
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/08/143281791/gingrichs-path-from-flameout-to-d-c-entrepreneur

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Also from tonight's Daily Show, you can't make this stuff up. A douchebag Florida conservative group is protesting the "All-American Muslims" show on TLC (a reality TV show following "regular US Muslims" in Michigan). The FL group is basically offended that the show is not portraying the radical fringe of Islam, and showing Muslims acting too normally. This conflicts with the "belief structure" that they hold about Muslims, so they don't like it. They want to hate and fear ALL Muslims, but it's harder to do that when you see them going to work just like us, loving their families just as we do, and doing all the other American things. This was probably one of the show producer's goals, but I guess some Americans prefer to cling to their black-white, good-evil stereotypes rather than consider another viewpoint supported by evidence. It's not like the show is claiming that all Muslims are normal and peaceful (though clearly many of them are), but the protesters probably feel that the show is just propaganda to get us to lower our guard on the "sharia threat." Yes, that treacherous TLC is clearly bent on America's destruction. You can FFWD to 1:30 on the video to skip past some fluff. 

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/kabulvision

Maybe we can dismiss these protests as just ignorant xenophobia, but apparently corporate advertisers are acting on the complaints. For example, Lowes decided to pull its ads from the show (they claim they don't want to be associated with a "lightning rod" program). So they are OK to advertise during Jersey Shore and other crap, but a show with real Muslims acting too normally - that's a no-no. Just shameful.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/11/showbiz/all-american-muslim-lowes/index.html