Sheldon Adelson is not just a bitchy little area megalomaniac whose lavish funding and garrish McCasinos provide aide, comfort and sustenance to Nevada's professional right-wing extremists. He's also the 16th or whatever richest person in the solar system. According to America's officially accepted system of weights and measures, that makes him A Great Man.
Newt Gingrich, meantime, is the only being on earth who possesses the integrity, character, wisdom and vision necessary to save Western civilization from the secular left or creeping socialism or schools without urchin janitors or whatever it is that the narcissistic grifter has proclaimed the greatest existential threat to the human race on any given day. Just ask him.
So naturally these two puffed up roly-polies love to cuddle, as McClatchy reported the other day...
Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future, which he shuttered in July, shelled out at least $8 million for the chartered jets in which he hop-scotched the nation for public appearances while weighing whether to enter the 2008 and 2012 presidential races.
The committee's acceptance of huge cash donations — including $7.65 million from Sheldon Adelson, a pro-Israel, billionaire Las Vegas casino owner, and more than $2 million from five energy companies — has sewn concerns that Gingrich would be beholden to his benefactors if he won the White House.
The phrase "sewn concerns" is objectionable, in that it suggests there is still some doubt as to whether Gingrich would sell America's nuclear launch codes and his third wife to North Korea if the price was right.
Anyway, the McClatchy story goes on to explain how Adelson is probably the most extremist pro-Israel jillionaire in the history of ever who sort of makes Netanyahu look like an appeaser.
Then McClatchy reporter Greg Gordon followed up in an appearance on the venerable Amy Goodman's show, and connected a couple of the more obvious dots.
"And perhaps it is no surprise, after all these donations from Adelson, totaling $7.65 million, that Gingrich has recently spoken against a—he talked about the Palestinian people as an 'invented people,' and he talked about moving the embassy on his first day in office, the U.S. embassy to Israel, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which would be an extremely provocative move to make in the Middle East."
So your Gleaner apologizes. For months, maybe a year, I don't know, I've been chortling at Nevada Republicans for being totally ignored by their presidential candidates and having no impact whatsoever on GOP presidential politics.
But it turns out that if it wasn't for Sheldon Adelson, Super Nevadan, there wouldn't even be a Newt Gingrich presidential campaign.
In the unfathomable event that Gingrich actually wins the Republican nomination, Democrats should move their national convention to Las Vegas, to the non-union Venetian, in recognition of all that Adelson will have done to assure Barack Obama's reelection.
UPDATE (important): The phrase "sewn concerns" has violated the sensibilities of several (well, at least three) readers, who have commented or emailed to note that the correct word should be "sown." McClatchy wrote "sewn" but your typically inattentive Gleaner should have caught it, and didn't. Ergo, the offending mistake will now stand for time immemorial as a reminder of the dangers inherent in just cold cutting and pasting willy-nilly without so much as a a by your leave. Diligence!
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/12/19/133526/did-gingrich-bend-campaign-laws.html#storylink=cpy
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