Ethics

Gingrich Slams Reagan's "Intellectual Nonsense"

By Ed Brayton

Newt Gingrich, from his much talked about speech on Tuesday:

GINGRICH: Let me be clear. I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous. There is no world sovereignty. There is no world system of law. There is in fact no circumstance under which I would like to be a citizen of North Korea, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba, or Russia. I am a citizen -- I am a citizen of the United States of America, and the rest of this speech is about the United States of America.

He thought, of course, that he was slamming Obama for saying he was a citizen of the world during his trip to Europe. Media Matters points out who he was inadvertently slamming:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).