Pulling up Barack Obama's roots, Newt Gingrich endorses British colonialism
By: Brendan Patrick Keane | Published Friday, December 21, 2012, 4:07 AM | Updated Friday, December 21, 2012, 4:07 AM
Academics are often compared to masterbators--especially the ones on TV.
The porn that gets social science academics 'off,' is race. If there were a moratorium on race-talk in America for a month, academics and TV pundits would just stare at the camera like sex-starved prostitutes.
Newt Gingrich is both academic and politician. This week, his tactic against Barack Obama is to amplify the Forbes essay that professor Dinesh D’Souza wrote while wearing Kenya-goggles. The piece is called “How Obama Thinks," and it is just another academic fantasy about the inner psychology of a distant public figure.
The conclusion that Barack Obama is anti-colonial, or anti-British colonial is laughable, considering that his policies push war for American military colonies in Iraq and Afghanistan. His policies are pulled right out of unfulfilled British Empire doctrine.
Watching a Black president press war on Arabs should be enough to eradicate the American moral pretense which makes everything about race.
Race is the vehicle that academics drive into the "mind of America." By boiling Americans down into a few insanely generalized racial categories, the academic reduces America into typical persons. The academicky pundit then psychoanalysizes his racist cartoon in segment after segment until your eyes and ears bleed.
This happens so we don't ever actually have time to talk about colonization, sweat shops, the globalization of slavery or puppet regimes.
War is fine in this culture of racist theorizing. The details of economic deterioration are secondary to race angles on the phenomenon. If the "issue" can be dissected with race, American media will illustrate the hell out of it with every racial filter available.
Politicians swim in this identity-politics environment and look for more and more clever ways to trigger factional fears based on race.
That's why Newt Gingrich has endorsed this fringe academic interpretation of Barack Obama as an anti-colonial nationalist. It allows more racial deconstruction, under the less obviously racial category of "Kenyan."
Everything that can be said about the "black president" has been said. Kenya is a new way to say the same shit all over again.
The irony is that Barack Obama is anything but anti-colonial. This Black president is perfectly willing to go along with whatever you want to call the building of green-zone-emerald-cities in the Middle East.
The meaning of permanent American military bases aside, the fact is that Barack Obama's father was Kenyan. Kenyan nationalism, however, does not register on Obama's political spectrum. Kenyan nationalism is the furthest thing from his mind.
In America, Obama is allowed to have Kenyan heritage, minus its political obligations. He is allowed to claim Kenyan roots without having someone accuse him of disloyalty. America is a big stew with everything thrown in.
America is like the scene at Thanksgiving, where a Swedish smorgasborg is administered under Dutch rules of tolerance with neighbors bringing-over pot-luck made by English and Wampanoag mothers. To be multicultural, to be American, we celebrate each other, grateful we all got a place at the table. There is nothing so un-American as to scold others for retaining their heritage.
Barack Obama offers a little bit of Kenya at the American feast. Our Iraqi-American and Afghani-American neighbors might argue, as they pass the kebabs, that he has not brought enough.
It's sad that Barack Obama will now have to distance himself from his Kenyan heritage in order to seem more American. Kenyan liberation against British rule owes much to the American revolution. He might think to reflect on Kenya when he visits Ireland.
Newt Gingrich's endorsement of colonialism should be the real story. It is not, because the scandal in America is rarely economic. Colonialism is economic vampirism much like our own global sweat shop system.
Colonial elites at home and abroad, come in all shades of race. Obama may dream of his father, but his vision for the world comes from Queen Victoria, who also dreamed of Aghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
Race is the vehicle that academics drive into the "mind of America." By boiling Americans down into a few insanely generalized racial categories, the academic reduces America into typical persons. The academicky pundit then psychoanalysizes his racist cartoon in segment after segment until your eyes and ears bleed. 
That's why Newt Gingrich has endorsed this fringe academic interpretation of Barack Obama as an anti-colonial nationalist. It allows more racial deconstruction, under the less obviously racial category of "Kenyan." 
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.maloney | Sep 16, 2010, 09:46 PM EDT
Is Palin having an influence in the primaries? Would the tea party candidates have won without her endorsement? Will Palin be able to push them through in Nov? Or will they win on thier own because the people said so? Or will they all lose? I think not.
glorybe1929 | Sep 16, 2010, 01:41 PM EDT
Newt Grinrich (a Baptist who was saved) became a RCC after 3 marriages, to make his bride happy. (And the church was happy to add another celebrity ? to their ranks) That would make any thinking American know that he is completely out of touch with what is Really going on in the RCC. It's an incredible Faux Pax on his part. But he knows his time is gone as a politician. He's just trying to make a living and live happily ever after. I wonder?
DennisQ | Sep 16, 2010, 03:48 AM EDT
You're correct, maloney, that Newt Gingrich is a media figure, not a working politician. His importance, if he has any, comes entirely from being taken seriously on Fox News.
One important difference between a working politician and an entertainer like the people who give speeches at Tea Party rallies is that politicians have real power. Media figures might as well be fictional characters like Mickey Mouse or Batman.
Newt is going nowhere, and he knows it. He's pretty much maxed out as a person of influence. He lives off a reputation that was made 20 years ago; other than that, he's really nobody. Then again, there are a lot of people like that in the Republican Party. What these people say or do is no more important than what Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber say or do.
Rebelforce | Sep 15, 2010, 06:22 PM EDT
Somebody should remind Newt that America was founded on anti-British colonialism. We fought a War and killed a lot of British soldiers and loyalists in order to make the American Republic a reality. I wonder if Newt considers the Minute Men a "terrorist" group?
maloney | Sep 15, 2010, 04:00 PM EDT
Poor old Newt has out lived his common sense, what little he ever had. Still he finds ways to upset the left wing even though he holds no office. obama doesn't need abuse from the right. He has cut his own throat quite well all by himself.
bobandgladys | Sep 15, 2010, 02:02 PM EDT
Newt would like to take America back to the days of slavery in the South and no regulations wage slaves in the North. Barack is just playing politics with the situation in the Middle East.
IrishTierney | Sep 15, 2010, 01:42 PM EDT
Newt Gingrich is a true American and he represents the beliefs and principals of our founding fathers. Obama does not!
mmccreedy | Sep 15, 2010, 12:36 PM EDT
Only someone who cannot argue the facts or who has to hide the truth of an argument resorts to name calling. While I am not a liberal, as the term is defined today, I am for those freedoms as laid out in the US Constitution via the Bill of Rights. My term "white people", which I hear used daily, is used mainly as a derogatory term. By the way, I live in Montgomery, Alabama- does that place ring a bell to you Mr. Liberal? I am proud of my Scots Irish, AND British ancestors.That being said, There is a difference between being proud of your heritage and being accused of being a "racist" because you are involved in non-violent, cultural activities related to your heritage. Quit drinking the red kool-aid comrade.
JamesMurphy | Sep 15, 2010, 12:34 PM EDT
Pomposity is one thing, but when it verges on downright balderdash, Nutcase Newt has got just about everyone licked. D'Souza, meanwhile,is almost equally out of touch and off his rocker. Heaven helps us if anyone starts taking such fools seriously
jdi2269 | Sep 15, 2010, 12:29 PM EDT
HEY KEANE....PLEASE GIVE UP THE DRUGS !!!!
Fran Connor | Sep 15, 2010, 12:16 PM EDT
"...much like our own global sweat shop system"??? WTF? Do you guys at this site really hate capitalism (and America)this much?
SouthBendNative | Sep 15, 2010, 12:16 PM EDT
George Dillon, you are a clown of the highest order. Don't claim to be anything resembling a conservative. You are a politically correct moron who wouldn't recognize the truth if it slapped your teeth out.
mayoman | Sep 15, 2010, 12:10 PM EDT
Why does anyone even bother to listen to a self-promoting, loudmouth sophist like Newt anyway? My guess is that only those sad, lost souls on the Radical Right find his offal entertaining and meaningful.
killowen | Sep 15, 2010, 12:08 PM EDT
in harmony with mother - they can't get dominion out of their blood - such types. kiss her ring newt
Juanice | Sep 15, 2010, 11:15 AM EDT
To heck with Newt Gingich.. I would like to use stronger words but I am a lady.
2BorNot2B | Sep 15, 2010, 10:56 AM EDT
Isn't GeoDillon clever? We REALLY need someone like him to translate "reason" as posted by SouthBendNative, and turn it into politically correct, multiculturalist idiotic left-wing speak, as propounded by BPKEANE and the rest of the libtard opinion-contributors to IC. -- We, the poor, uneducated and huddled masses of right-thinking folk so need the perspective provided by the likes of Brendan and, on this dialogue part of this particular screed, of Dennis Q, Mokurai, et al, to enlighten us on how the leftward experiments of the last century in various parts of the world so wildly succeeded in taking people out of the misery they lived in...mainly by forcing upon them the glorious benefits of famine, repression and the gulag options (when lucky). Or otherwise putting the bodies of the 'occasional pesky contrarian' in comfortable mass graves that collectively held upwards of half a billion people.--- Don't know about you peeps, but I can't wait for Ovomit to usher a similar 'golden era' upon America!
jakeleg | Sep 15, 2010, 10:33 AM EDT
Gingrich is a professor of American history and a true American. Obama is not a true American,and hope we wake up and see his real agenda for America. Socialism.
hancock | Sep 15, 2010, 10:02 AM EDT
Newt was always too smart for his own good.
jimgordo1 | Sep 15, 2010, 09:58 AM EDT
mmcreedy -- so being proud that you are of Irish, Scottish, British, Scandinavian, Russian, Baltic heritage and heritage, you're not "white people?" Typical bent thinking of you right wing nuts.
mmccreedy | Sep 15, 2010, 09:45 AM EDT
Multiculturalism is not an American tradition. It is a recent liberal trend that "Balkanizes" people into groups and sub-groups and creates an us versus them mentality. Multiculturalism leaves out the majority of the population, in this case "white people" to favor the minority. The United States was NOT founded on this principle, rather, it was founded on the principle that all men were created equal. Big difference. I do not expect extreme liberals to understand this concept, as they are pretty much incapable of understanding anything except what Marx or Engles (or Fidel) have written or said. And by the way, Newt Gingrich is a professor of American History, something this writer has no concept of.
DuffsMot | Sep 15, 2010, 09:31 AM EDT
Okay, I get it; the Keane-Edged conceit here was to combine "master" and "debater" to achieve the (dubious)climax of a witticism. However, I must challenge Afghan(i)-American. The correct appellation would rightly be "Afghan-American" without the superfluous "i". I actuality, any reference to the "Afghani" is to that of the official currency of Afghanistan. Just sayin'...carry on.
johhnyb | Sep 15, 2010, 08:51 AM EDT
Eh?
GeorgeDillon | Sep 15, 2010, 03:05 AM EDT
SouthBend: You show your ignorance. "Check out the brilliant results of your socialistic compadres in Europe before you write off those on the right". You don't even understand the words you use. I am an isolationist conservative--these American neocons are not of the conservative right. In fact most of them are erstwhile liberals, one or two were even in "socialistic" groups when younger. On issues such as border security, taxation etc., they are fully in the liberal camp. Their only difference with some of their liberal ex buddies is that they are even more obsessed with putting Israel's interests before America's. True conservatives don't look to start foreign wars--we mind our own business in the world unless directly attacked; the neocons butt their ugly snouts in all over the world and have started or supported wars on several occasions now.
Southernpride | Sep 14, 2010, 10:27 PM EDT
The guinness make them sad and feeling like 'oppressed' victims
Monsoonman | Sep 14, 2010, 09:28 PM EDT
This site needs some balance, every blogger is liberal, every article has a leftists/socialists/bush hating slant....Sure brendin you did actually criticize someone on the left, what was it twice out of 100 articles? But you are par for the course here. What's wrong with the bunch of you? Are you afraid to have some alternative intellectual firepower like a Pat Buchanan type, you would all shrink from him....I thought liberal meant fair minded and everything should be "equal", you certainly don't show it here....And while I'm at it, how come you don't have any black Irish writers, (I mean negro), don't they rate? You say obama is part Irish I am sure you can find a nice conservative African/Irish blogger to counter the rest of the 50 of you liberals. How about Star Parker, I am sure she is just as Irish as Obama is.
SouthBendNative | Sep 14, 2010, 08:11 PM EDT
Perhaps the dumbest article ever posted on this site. Leave it to liberals..the very people who instinctively categorize everyone they encounter and attempt to pit them against others, to try to label Gingrich and D'Souza as race baiters. The left invented it and continues to perpetuate it. When you address the hate that is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the other poverty pimps on the left, you may have some credibility. Until then, you are simply empty headed shills. As for the dunces below who say that all neocons are bad. Check out the brilliant results of your socialistic compadres in Europe before you write off those on the right. Your leftist echo chamber may be comfortable here, but your schemes have repeatedly failed...every time someone is dumb enough to let you employ them.
DennisQ | Sep 14, 2010, 02:33 PM EDT
Newt Gingrich hit on the idea of taking Republican resources from the Deep South where they weren't needed and using them in contested races where they helped get Republicans elected. This was the famous "Contract With America" that resulted in a huge Republican victory and got Gingrich elected as Speaker of the House.
It has been all downhill for Gingrich since. He's not really a brilliant strategist; he just has that reputation. Some of the things Gingrich did were completely boneheaded. For instance, his refusal to compromise with President Clinton shut down government because agencies couldn't pay staff. It was rumored that Gingrich did this for spite, because he was angry about having to sit in the back of Air Force One. Gingrich is also notorious for poor judgement in his personal life as well.
Gingrich believes that 2012 is his best shot for the presidency, especially if Republicans are able to sustain this "Obama is a Muslim" canard.
BrendanPKeane | Sep 14, 2010, 01:46 PM EDT
Mokurai: I don't blame Obama for inventing neo-conservative policy. I blame him for pushing it forward.
Mokurai | Sep 14, 2010, 01:38 PM EDT
We must be clear. D'Souza and Gingrich are calling President Barack Obama a Mau Mau, with all of the hyped-up Imperial baggage that goes with the name. (The so-called Mau Mau rebellion was violent, but not in the murder-us-all-in-our-beds manner that the press at the time screamed about. Only 32 whites died as a result.) Just as the British Empire called moderate patriot Jomo Kenyatta a Mau Mau, convicted him in a kangaroo court, and sentenced him to eight years hard labor. It is incorrect to blame Obama for all of the Neo-Conservative delusions of the Bush administration. He is attempting to extricate the US from Iraq and Afghanistan, against the ferocious opposition of the current Republican Party of No. Not that I agree with everything the Obama administration has done. But he clearly would have done more toward peace and justice, given the opportunity.
BrendanPKeane | Sep 14, 2010, 01:04 PM EDT
apologies to those masterbators who were offended by my spelling
GeorgeDillon | Sep 14, 2010, 12:56 PM EDT
Keane, I am not an expert on the topic, but I am literate enough in English to see that your spelling--"masterbaters"--is wrong. You are however right in your opinion: Gingrich is a disgusting warmonger, with a nasty personal history, who has unfettered access to softball interviews on Fox. All Neocons are bad, this one Gingrich is odious.