It’s not that difficult to make an idiot look like an idiot; Newt Gingrich has always shown himself as an unreformed idiot whenever he open his mouth.
Let’s hope that no-one is listening!

What does anyone expect from Newt Gingrich? This is a guy that has a myriad of scams to defraud people from their cash by means of politics and patriotism. Newt email spam’s tens of thousands of people from address lists he purchases from right wing organizations. Protraying fake awards exclusive to the Newt Gingrich “brand”. Newt also uses social partisanship to pray apon peoples basic instincts instead of appealling to sensibilities. The man is a sham, a joke and a con artist.

Steven Deedon:  It’s not Haidt’s “skepticism about reason” that I object to, but his introduction of the “karma” idea, which depends more rather than less on unreason, and further, on part of one specific culture’s unreason (though I have to admit that on the whole the idea of karma has perhaps done less harm in the world than other cultural unreasons I could name).
  “Karma” seemed an attractive idea to me until I saw “The Mahabarata”(as excerpted and presented onstage) and realized the historic destructive power of Krishna’s advice to Arjuna whose “fear and hesitance become impediments to the proper balancing of the universal dharmic order. Essentially, Arjuna wishes to abandon the battle, to abstain from action; Krishna warns, however, that without action, the cosmos would fall out of order and truth would be obscured.” Needless to say, a horrendous battle ensued.
“...One must embrace one’s temporal duties (regardless of the immediate results) whilst remaining mindful of timeless reality etc. etc.”
  One of the many arguments for violence (under certain circumstances, of course) which circumstances seem to return as justifications in different guises, century beyond century.
  Nowadays a different invention of unreason is used for the same ends:  It’s called “National Security.”
Sounds much more “reasonable” than karma, doesn’t it?
That’s the trouble with words; they can be made to sound so reasonable.
  (How many times have I seen the words “Violence is inevitable” on Truthdig this year alone?)

I wasn’t thrilled with Haidt, I thought he was quick to defend
what is in my mind indefensible.  That said, Newt doesn’t need
Moyer’s help to look like a venal, grasping p.o.s.

A sex maniac - YES, but no idiot. He knows how to shake Jewish purses.

http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/pat-robertson-‘divorce-your-terminal-sick-wife’/

If Alinsky were alive today he’d be fighting for the middle class who are under attack as never before.  Too bad he’s gone.

Rapeman - “Steak And Black Onions”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lox_LUCDEFM

@ Gerard

I am not going to post any Culture Club videos.

Your sinister mission has failed.

This guy Haidt is just what Occupy needs:  According
to Haidt:  “You young idealists will never succeed in making life better for the 99% because it is the 1%‘s karma to have all the power and advantages money can buy. You see, karma is like money—you earn it. The more money you have, the better your karma, and the sooner you get those silly ideas about
“economic justice” out of your head, the better.

It is my karma to not pay attention to poor people (Romney:  “I’m not worried about them!”) so it’s something that is beyond my frame of reference, and they are poor because (unlike me) they have bad karma.
  So much for right wing rationalism (who get their points over better than liberals because they are selfish enough to be able to ignore the suffering of others whereas those soft-headed liberals ... Argh!

Just one more little thing:  “Karma!”  What a dandy little way to let the 1% off the moral hook!
  a la:  “I don’t have any conscience.  It’s because I neglected to pay attention to others for most of my adult life, so it’s the poor people’s karma that they are poor, whereas my karma has made me rich.”

Poor headline again, Truthdig!  The meat of the article is the videos and Haidt on the “moral philosophies” of Left and Right.  So now it’s Karma!
Excuse me.

It doesn’t take much skill to make an idiot look like an idiot.

Bill Moyers should complain about this headline.

Name dropping is the only thing I feel which supports why his nibs Newt the imbecile keeps dropping Saul Alinsky’s name like he was privy to something real special?

Since I cannot see the videos, my computer will not load Adobe for some reason, or may just be my slow satellite boonies connection problem.

Checked out some history on Alinsky and he was a special guy, evidently Alinsky had some influence and affect on both Hillery and Obama as well as Newt, in their younger days. Strangely the Tea Bags actually used Alinsky organizing techniques for part of their template in some of their training and organizing? I find this amusing since Newt is trying to court the Tea Bags and keeps saying Obama is a student of Alinsky while nobody but Newt knows who he is talking about.

Alinsky was a very busy guy organizing the disenfranchised people from minorities to middle class, I suspect Alinsky would be in support of OWS if he was alive today, but Alinksy never joined any organization even his own, so I do not know how he would work with OWS?

Just two months before his death in 1972, Alinsky was interviewed by Playboy and he commented on his plans after his demise!

ALINSKY: ... if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.
  PLAYBOY: Why?
  ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I’ve been with the have-nots. Over here, if you’re a have-not, you’re short of dough. If you’re a have-not in hell, you’re short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I’ll start organizing the have-nots over there.
  PLAYBOY: Why them?
  ALINSKY: They’re my kind of people…... 1"Playboy Interview”, Playboy Magazine, 1972, retrieved 2011-09-07 (reprinted in Native Forest Council)

Yes Newt is an idiot, I know that without watching the video!

No one can make Newton Gingrich look like an idiot because he is an idiot.

I was pleased Gingrich brought up Alinsky’s name.  As if it was a
dirty word, as if Gingrich isn’t himself a dirty pretentious bastard! 
Gingrich is like the Pharisee who worships his God in vain.  The
self-righteous religionist who sings in the name of Christianity,
thrice adopting a sect, his piety is calculatedly pathetic as he slings
condemning mudballs at all who oppose him.  He does not speak
the doctrine of Christianity, but speaks his own man-made creed. 
He neither abides in the doctrine of Christ, nor speaks as Christ was
written to have spoken, but makes his judgments based on his own
egotistical vain imaginations.  Be careful of this camouflaged snake
for by his fruits shall you know him! (borrowed from Matthew 7:20) 
As witness to his hypocrisy, Gingrich, the Let’s Pretend historian, who
casts aspersions on Alinsky plagiarizes Alinsky’s strategies.  Moyers:
“At the time of his sudden death in 1972, Alinsky was planning a
campaign to organize white middle-class Americans into a national
movement for progressive change.  Maybe that is why Gingrich is
slandering Alinsky’s name.  Maybe he is afraid, afraid the very white
folks he’s been rousing into a frenzy will discover who Saul Alinsky
really was:  a patriot from a long line of patriots who scorned the
malignant narcissism of duplicitous politicians who taught everyday
Americans to think for themselves and to fight together for a better
and just life.  That is the American way and any good historian would
know it.”

As for Alinsky, the hero and champion of the workers, did more for them
than any of and taught the unions how to fight the greedy monsters who
would disfranchise justice from them in the workplace.  He gave them a
history.  He was smart!  The Moyers videos, says it most clearly, most
respectfully.  Says exactly who Alinsky was and whose ghost still haunts
the self-serving people-eating Republicans.

I disagree fundamentally with the semantics of this
headline.  Saying someone made Newt look like an idiot
is like saying someone made a turd look like shit.

Bill didn’t have to try very hard.

When Gingrich said “secular eurpoean socialist model” I thought he sounded pretty intelligent.

I never hear Moyers saying fancy stuff like “secular european socialist model”. Har-dee-har-har.

Then again Moyers says stuff like “objective reality” which, seriously folks, is quite refreshing when you have to witness the spectacle of a successful and accomplished bullshitter like Haidt promoting his “moral psychology” mumbo-jumbo.