Ethics

Gingrich's Moral Relativism

By Ed Brayton

Newt Gingrich has an interview in The Economist where he displays perfectly his peculiar form of faux-erudite demagoguery. After saying early on in the interview that Republicans "need to offer candidates who are articulate and who can offer sound intellectual reasons for their philosophy and their solutions," Gingrich goes on to resort to all kinds of disingenuous arguments. Here's one obvious example:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).