Discover Yahoo! With Your Friends

Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control.

To get started, first

YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    Glenn Beck Tags Newt Gingrich as Big Government "Progressive" in Radio Interview

    This story comes from the Yahoo! Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world’s most popular websites.
    Do you have a story to tell? Become a Yahoo! contributor

    Glenn Beck characterized Newt Gingrich as a big government "progressive" in the Teddy Roosevelt mold during a radio interview. Beck criticized Gingrich for his support for government initiatives to expand healthcare and curb global warming.

    It was a label that Gingrich embraced, saying that in the area of healthcare, "I'm a Theodore Roosevelt Republican and I believe government can lean in the regulatory leaning is okay," according to the transcript of the Glenn Beck radio show.

    Gingrich cited Roosevelt's support for the passage of food and drug laws. The former history professor said, "There are minimum regulatory standards of public health and safety that are I think really important."

    Beck had made it clear he was no fan of the first President Roosevelt.

    "Regulation and the government scares the crap out of me and I think most Tea Party kind of leaning conservatives," he said, "and Theodore Roosevelt was the guy who started the Progressive Party."

    Gingrich specifically repudiated the Teddy Roosevelt of 1912, who ran as a third-party candidate after failing to wrest the Republican nomination from President William Howard Taft. T.R. founded the Bull Moose Party, as his Progressive Party was known colloquially. Both T.R. and Taft lost to Woodrow Wilson, as they split the Republican vote.

    The 1912 T.R. had "become a big government, centralized power advocate" Gingrich said.

    He was careful during the interview to explain that he was opposed to the efforts of Democrats like Al Gore to exert control over the total American economy.

    Gingrich explained to Beck that Big Government programs like Medicare and Social Security were a fact of life, but that they could be changed to open them up to promote individual liberty. The introduction of market mechanisms into both programs would improve an individual's freedom of choice. He argued that the expansion of Medicare to provide a drug benefit improved the program.

    Beck would rather see government entitlements rolled back.

    On the subject of health insurance, Gingrich said he believes that everyone should have coverage, which Beck said was the same as the individual mandate in Obamacare. Gingrich would provide subsidies to make insurance affordable to all.

    Obamacare and anti-global warming initiatives are anathema to the Tea Party conservatives to whom Beck is a political and spiritual godfather. Beck is outspoken about his support for Michele Bachmann, who followed Gingrich as a guest on his radio program.

     
     
    Top Locations Alpharetta

    198 comments

    • Conservative 1  •  Alpharetta, Georgia  •  3 mths ago
      Glenn Beck did not call Newt a progressives... NEWTS OWN WORDS HAVE.... don't some you peple ever listen to newt speak other then the debates?
    • Mark  •  Cedar Crest, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Did anyone really need Beck to weigh in on Gingrich to know that Gingrich is a serial adulterer, morally and ethically bankrupt, for sale to the highest bidder, egotistical, not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, ultimate Washington insider. Come on people.
      • Joshua 5 mths ago
        Bill Clinton was all of those things and more, and I'd take him back in a minute. Anything is better than what we have now.
    • govparasite  •  5 mths ago
      Newt will mean more of the kstreet/fed reserve directed status quo republican socialism that plunders the private sector working man's paycheck..
      Same as the owe-bama led demo-rat crime syndicate....

      meet the new boss....same as the old boss...
    • Dicky  •  5 mths ago
      Did the US voters forget Newt's assisting his pal Clinton with NAFTA, PNTR for their communist Chinese lobbiests, and the creation of the hated WTO? Do the US voters like looking at closed up factories, unemployed Americans, paying more taxes to make up for the shortfall of allowing the corporations to leave, and then using toxic slave labor made junk that falls apart after a few uses? How dumb can people be
    • SteveH  •  Fort Worth, United States  •  5 mths ago
      newt is just another one of the same old, same old bought and paid for politicians who got US in this whole mess to begin with. I just pray the American people wake up and elect a true American patriot!!!
      With decades of consistency and integrity on the record, Ron Paul cannot be influenced by lobbyists or bought off by the wall st bankers. He is a man with basically “nothing to lose” who will fight the wash dc “insiders” to get our country back on track.
      He will fight for term limits on congress and a balanced budget amendment. He will cut as much govt waste as he can. He will bring our troops home from wars that ended long ago. He will secure our borders and fight to cut all govt assistance to illegals.
      If our great country is to survive these very challenging times, then we need to elect a man who cannot be swayed by the political winds. A man who is honest and consistent. A true American patriot who will fight for the middle and lower classes and not the mega-rich elite, wall st or the bankers!!
      Ron Paul 2012!!
    • Eric  •  5 mths ago
      12/05/2010 - He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.

      01/30/2011 - He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.

      01/30/2011 - He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.

      02/02/2011 - He says we are "losing the War on Terror"; the conflict will be as long as the Cold War

      02/10/2011 - He wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it.

      02/13/2011 - He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.

      02/15/2011 - His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating "a new endowment for conservation and the environment."

      03/09/2011 - He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.

      03/15/2011 - Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.

      03/19/2011 - He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)

      03/23/2011 - He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.

      03/25/2011 - He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.

      03/27/2011 - He says that America is under attack by atheist Islamists.

      04/25/2011 - He's a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.

      05/11/2011 - His campaign video said that he wants to "find solutions together, and insist on imposing those solutions on those who do not want to change."

      05/12/2011 - He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.

      05/15/2011 - Said GOP's plan to cut back Medicare was "too big a jump."

      05/15/2011 - He backed Obama's individual mandate; "All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care."

      05/16/2011 - He also endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.

      05/17/2011 - He has an outstanding debt to Tiffany's Jewelry of between $250K - $500K.

      06/09/2011 - His own campaign staff resigned en masse.

      07/15/2011 - His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.

      08/01/2011 - He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following.

      08/11/2011 - His recent criticism of the United Nations is belied by a long, long history of supporting it.

      09/27/2011 - He says that he "helped develop the model for Homeland Security"

      10/07/2011 - He said he'd ignore the Supreme Court if need be.

      11/12/2011 - He advocates assassinating Iranian scientists and covert war with Iran.

      11/19/2011 - He said Barney Frank should be arrested for his close ties lobbying for Freddie Mac, just one month before it became public that Gingrich was also lobbying for them at the same time.

      11/20/2011 - He has been outed as a paid lobbyist for drug companies, but he still denies it.

      11/22/2011 - He supports the Patriot Act and would like to see it strengthened.

      11/22/2011 - He says that matters of National Security should not be encumbered by giving Due Process to the accused.

      11/28/2011 - He thinks its the job of the Federal Government to ban medical marijuana.

      11/28/2011 - He is a Pharmaceutical lobbyist, and coincidentally thinks that non-Pharma drugs like medical marijuana should be banned by the Federal government.

      11/28/2011 - He said he wants to be "aggressive" with Cuba topple their government before 2014.

      11/28/2011 - He praised draconian drug penalties in Singapore for the second time.

      12/01/2011 - His comments about warning Freddie Mac of its "insane" business model are proven false when his laudatory interview from 2007 surfaced again.
    • Michael  •  5 mths ago
      From Detroit down to Houston
      Well there's pride in every American heart
      and its time we stand up and say:
      GOP is tearing US apart!
    • Michael  •  5 mths ago
      Gonna get the GOP a bar of Irish Spring the size of Montana.
      And wash their ugly lying mouths with it.
    • YOU ELECTED THEM...  •  5 mths ago
      Gingrich is a Republican. That is what they are... They have had plenty of opportunities to give us smaller government, and they haven't! If you truly want a smaller constitutional government, your only choice is a third party like the Libertarians, or the Constitution party!!!
    • Kup Kaque  •  5 mths ago
      Beck would have us believe that most regulation is bad regulation. Tell that to child laborers, miner's dying of black lung disease, children sick with e-coli infections, women dying of lung and breast cancers, people bilked by unscrupulous vendors, bankers, and brokers, and the millions of others protected by regulations.
      • Kenneth 5 mths ago
        Beck is an idiot...a shock-jock that saw a way to make a living spouting hate and vitriol.
    • Glenn  •  Raleigh, United States  •  5 mths ago
      ron paul. He's the only one who will put federal government back into its limited role that the Constitution envisioned
    • homeboy  •  Tampa, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Beck agaiinst Gingrich! What a pair of dimwits!` God help us from their wrath!
    • yech!  •  Mooresville, United States  •  5 mths ago
      If one's opinion changes over time, is that flip-flopping or intellectual integrity? When you advocate cleaner air does that make you a "greeniot". When you advocate to fix a broken machine i.e. Social Security, does that make you a "Big Government" advocate or a geezer hater? Where are Jefferson, JFK...Reagan when we need them?
      • awm 5 mths ago
        Well Said, Thank You
    • Dicky  •  5 mths ago
      Gingrich helped his comrade Clinton in selling out the American worker, middle class & taxpayers down the river with their dirty corporate & communist Chinese funded free trade agreements.
      • Charles D 5 mths ago
        Nixon was the President most responsible for trade with China. I believe he did the right thing...
        "Nixon envisioned a future in which more cordial relations among the major world powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Western Europe, and Japan -- would allow for ventures profitable to all. Through international cooperation, these nations might reduce revenue-draining defense expenditures and prevent the occurrence of costly Third World conflicts".
      • Candace 5 mths ago
        Charles D -- Point well made. Unfortunately, there is always that law of unintended consequences.
      • Dicky 5 mths ago
        I disagree as the "made In China" labels and trade deficit with communist China shows, Gingrich & Clinton's WTO creation, and getting them PNTR until they could get in the WTO caused this. The "Made In China" labels & our shutdown factories started in the late 90's early 2000's. Sorry to use facts & common sense friend.
    • Michael  •  5 mths ago
      I’d thank my lucky stars,
      to be living here today.
      ‘ Cause the flag still stands for freedom:
      The GOP? NO WAY!!!
    • Michael  •  5 mths ago
      Gonna get me the Mississippi River. And waterboard the GOP!
    • trhudson  •  5 mths ago
      Gingrich and Beck are are ignorant to Theodore Roosevelt's record. TR sought to curb the excess of Unrestrained Capitalism - Robber barons, Monopolies, Raping of our Natural Resources, Child Labor, Dangerous Food and Drugs, and Working Conditions that resembled gulags. Back then the working man lived at the pleasure of corporate interests working 12+ hours 6 days a week. TR was by FAR the most accomplished and remarkable President winning the both Nobel Prize and the Congressional Medal of Honor. We need his courage Now!
    • The Lonely Ranger  •  Berlin, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Republicans hate Obama long before day one!! Fox News (Republicans) call him socialist, communist, muslim, terrorist, Hitler, welfare president, terrorist-muslim, fundamentalist, dictator, nazi, african. They repeat these lies 24/7/365 days per year.

      Also remember, for white America the color of his skin make him 100% black...

      For almost four years republicans have blocked all the proposals of Obama. He wants to change the Health care system and make it accessible for everyone but the corporations who make billions every year see in jeopardy all their huge profits.

      Corporate America is afraid of him.

      The 400 wealthiest people of USA have more money combined than 150 millions of americans and the republicans still want to give them a permanent tax break to them.

      Why the republicans, with its base of hardcore rednecks - poor, religious and ignorant people - support a permanent tax break for the filthy rich of this country? Why are they so stupid?

      And please, don't forget that this is a "Christian" country where supposedly democrats and republicans should love each other...

      And last but not least - this mess of what is USA today is responsibility of George W. Bush and the republicans. Never forget that.
    • Kup Kaque  •  5 mths ago
      Glenn was supposed to make a big announcement today. I think he's finally coming out of the closet as a Gay Muslim. Also, he's abandoned Gold Line and he's advocating investing in Euros. Glenn is also hitting the sauce again, since he wasn't able to buy salvation for his great great grandmother. I don't know what LDS has against Becks great great grannie, but it's gotta be BIG!
    • Bill D  •  Milwaukee, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Wow, who new this guy was still alive? Thanks Yahoo because I am sure my life needed Glenn Beck back in it...Not
    [ [ [['Connery is an experienced stuntman', 2]], 'http://yhoo.it/KeQd0p', '[Slideshow: See photos taken on the way down]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['Connery is an experienced stuntman', 7]], ' http://yhoo.it/KpUoHO', '[Slideshow: Death-defying daredevils]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['know that we have confidence in', 3]], 'http://yhoo.it/LqYjAX ', '[Related: The Secret Service guide to Cartagena]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['We picked up this other dog and', 5]], 'http://yhoo.it/JUSxvi', '[Related: 8 common dog fears, how to calm them]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['accused of running a fake hepatitis B', 5]], 'http://bit.ly/JnoJYN', '[Related: Did WH share raid details with filmmakers?]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['accused of running a fake hepatitis B', 3]], 'http://bit.ly/KoKiqJ', '[Factbox: AQAP, al-Qaeda in Yemen]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['have my contacts on or glasses', 3]], 'http://abcn.ws/KTE5AZ', '[Related: Should the murder charge be dropped?]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['have made this nation great as Sarah Palin', 5]], 'http://yhoo.it/JD7nlD', '[Related: Bristol Palin reality show debuts June 19]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['have made this nation great as Sarah Palin', 1]], 'http://bit.ly/JRPFRO', '[Related: McCain adviser who vetted Palin weighs in on VP race]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['A JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas', 3]], 'http://yhoo.it/GV9zpj', '[Related: View photos of the JetBlue plane in Amarillo]', ' ', '630', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['the 28-year-old neighborhood watchman who shot and killed', 15]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/white-house-stays-out-of-teen-s-killing-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/cv/ip/ap/default/120411/martinzimmermen.jpg', '630', ' ', 'AP', ], [ [['Titanic', 7]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/titanic-anniversary/', ' ', 'http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/b/4e/b4e5ad9f00b5dfeeec2226d53e173569.jpeg', '550', ' ', ' ', ], [ [['He was in shock and still strapped to his seat', 6]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/navy-jet-crashes-in-virginia-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/cv/ip/ap/default/120406/jet_ap.jpg', '630', ' ', 'AP', ], [ [['xxxxxxxxxxxx', 11]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/russian-grannies-win-bid-to-sing-at-eurovision-1331223625-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/1/56/156d92f2760dcd3e75bcd649a8b85fcf.jpeg', '500', ' ', 'AP', ] ]
    [ [ [['did not go as far his colleague', 8]], '29438204', '0' ], [ [[' the 28-year-old neighborhood watchman who shot and killed', 4]], '28924649', '0' ], [ [['because I know God protects me', 14], ['Brian Snow was at a nearby credit union', 5]], '28811216', '0' ], [ [['The state news agency RIA-Novosti quoted Rosaviatsiya', 6]], '28805461', '0' ], [ [['measure all but certain to fail in the face of bipartisan', 4]], '28771014', '0' ], [ [['matter what you do in this case', 5]], '28759848', '0' ], [ [['presume laws are constitutional', 7]], '28747556', '0' ], [ [['has destroyed 15 to 25 houses', 7]], '28744868', '0' ], [ [['short answer is yes', 7]], '28746030', '0' ], [ [['opportunity to tell the real story', 7]], '28731764', '0' ], [ [['entirely respectable way to put off the searing constitutional controversy', 7]], '28723797', '0' ], [ [['point of my campaign is that big ideas matter', 9]], '28712293', '0' ], [ [['As the standoff dragged into a second day', 7]], '28687424', '0' ], [ [['French police stepped up the search', 17]], '28667224', '0' ], [ [['Seeking to elevate his candidacy back to a general', 8]], '28660934', '0' ], [ [['The tragic story of Trayvon Martin', 4]], '28647343', '0' ], [ [['Karzai will get a chance soon to express', 8]], '28630306', '0' ], [ [['powerful storms stretching', 8]], '28493546', '0' ], [ [['basic norm that death is private', 6]], '28413590', '0' ], [ [['songwriter also saw a surge in sales for her debut album', 6]], '28413590', '1', 'Watch music videos from Whitney Houston ', 'on Yahoo! Music', 'http://music.yahoo.com' ], [ [['keyword', 99999999999999999999999]], 'videoID', '1', 'overwrite-pre-description', 'overwrite-link-string', 'overwrite-link-url' ] ]
    Loading...
    • Snipers sit trained on a real estate office where authorities say a gunman is holding an unknown number of hostages in Valparaiso

      VALPARAISO, Indiana (Reuters) - A gunman took hostages in an Indiana real estate office on Friday, then released them after an eight-hour standoff and fatally shot himself in the head, authorities said. The gunman died at a hospital in Valparaiso, Indiana, about 40 miles southeast of Chicago, police said. "We believe there …

    • Hernandez is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court via video link seen here in this courtroom sketch in New York

      NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man who police say confessed to strangling Etan Patz was charged with second-degree murder on Friday, 33 years after the 6-year-old boy vanished from his New York neighborhood and soon changed the way the nation responds to missing children. Pedro Hernandez, 51, who worked as a stock boy in a small …

    • Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State football defensive coordinator, arrives for a hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania

      (Reuters) - Pennsylvania State University's former president filed suit on Friday to force the school to turn over emails that are relevant to its probe of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, the Centre Daily Times newspaper reported. Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, goes on trial next month on …

    • MIAMI (Reuters) - Subtropical Storm Beryl formed off the South Carolina coast on Friday and forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for parts of the Southeastern U.S. coast. Beryl had top sustained winds of 45 miles per hour and was in the Atlantic about 305 miles east of Charleston, …

    • Hurricane Bud appoaches landfall in Mexico

      MANZANILLO, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Bud weakened to a tropical storm as it churned closer to Mexico's coast on Friday, but brought heavy rains and strong winds that downed trees and closed schools and a major Pacific shipping port. The first hurricane of the 2012 season, Bud was downgraded to a tropical storm with …

     
    Add your ideas and help make it happen. Join the conversation.
    Should Bill and Donna take on more risk to boost their business?
    How Josh's comment on a Remake America video laid the groundwork for something bigger.