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Watch: Newt Gingrich gets assaulted with glitter
By Jessica GentileMay 17th, 2011, 10:46 pmComments (16)
Meet Robert Erickson, a.k.a your new hero. In one of the most flamboyantly awesome acts of protest we've seen in awhile, the gay activist doused Newt Gingrich with a bucket's worth of glitter. The sparkly barrage went down at a dinner sponsored by the notoriously homophobic Minnesota Family Council. It might seem like a slight meaningless action (and maybe it is), and yet it is so amusing and almost rewarding in its stealth and glitz.
Plus, with glitter being the herpes of arts and crafts supplies, Newt's likely to find flecks in his hair well into his 2012 presidential campaign. As seen in the video, the protestors were quickly escorted off the premises by a very stern and creepy man. His words of warning are eerily robotic, but don't let that put a damper on your glitter high.
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glitter! =D
The homo was creepy. He should have had his ass kicked.
Nice. You pour glitter and get your ass kicked. Great family values.
Remember how Martin Luther King stopped segregation by dumping glitter on his political opponents?
Okay, how about when Cesar Chavez helped workers get better conditions and wages with strategically deployed glitter dumps?
Maybe there's a reason that there no activists who became famous or got anything done with cream pie and glitter attacks.
Creepy stern man is most secretly -- Gay.
There is little to like about Newt, but this is still a form of assault. While the protester may have thought he was being cute and funny, this is not how we should be conducting our political discourse.
Well said. Attacks of this type - add pies, etc - are the antithesis of political discourse. They are attempts to silence and intimidate opposition and an assault on the First Amendment.
@ anonymous: +1
Glitter. Yes, that will change everything won't it? I can see it now, some guy who is against gay rights hears about this and suddenly he completely supports gay rights. Why didn't this genius with the glitter unleash himself on the world earlier? How about if I throw a bucket of glitter at Dan Savage to rally the anti-gay rights movement? Brilliant!
While I agree with your point, I don't think throwing glitter at Dan Savage would do anything but make him more fabulous.
It might make him more interesting. His writing is seriously sleep inducing.
What a boring personality.
Wow no way man is that cool or what??
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I think this is an awesome form of protest. No matter how many times he showers or changes his clothes for at least the next week people will ask Newt "Hey Newt, why are you all sparkly?" and he will answer "Oh, cause I don't believe in marriage equality!"
That might be true if he wasn't wearing clothes. The dry cleaner will fix this idiocy.
Lovely, so Newt is now a glittery princess!
Though, technically, yeah, this is a form of assault, though realistically, glitter is not on the same scale of offensiveness as the protestor who spat on Jane Fonda.
And some gay bashing is "technically" a form of assault but I'd bet you'd see that @Jim - differently. What a hypocrite.