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Lemurs on Newt

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  January 13, 20126:04 pm| 24 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Dog Blogging, Lizard Blogging

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Anne Laurie has already mentioned the Pets on Newt 2012 (#maynotbeitsactualname) website.

You may not know it is now up and running. I stumbled upon it today and need to share it with you, because I am a vengeful old cow. I will excerpt the relevant parts, for those of you who don’t want to give Newt the hits.

The very first thing you see is this:

Newt

If someone could tell me what species of lemurs those are on Newt, I’d be delighted. I couldn’t find the information on his website, presumably because latinate binomial nomenclature is the work of Satan and his helper Darwin – although it may be because I have been in Amsterdam for three days. Draw your own conclusions about my mental state.

I could go to wikipedia to identify the furry little fuckers, but frankly I can’t be fucked.

I do feel sorry for the poor, adorable things. The one perched on Newt’s hand is clearly working out how to get the fuck off the Gingrich bandwagon as soon as possible, while the one on his shoulder has given up entirely and is refusing to do anything but show its arse to the world. Meanwhile, Newt (depending on what music you play in your head) looks either:

(a) terrified that the rat-thing he holds in his hand is going to piss on him, then claw its way up his arm and scratch his eyes out; or

(b) like Benny Hill eyeing off a particularly juggulous pair of boobs two seconds before being sprung by a policeman with an inflatable hammer, two half-naked nurses with blond bobs and a man in a polar bear suit. Wackiness ensues.

You are going to have to draw your own analogies with the Gingrich campaign. See above, in re “can’t be fucked”.

Of course, you will recall that:

Gingrich doesn’t have any pets at this time, but he told ABC News today he and his wife Callista want a dog in the White House…

There is a section called “Newt’s Favorite Zoos” – with a flash gallery I cannot describe to you because Steve Jobs said I’m not allowed to – which makes it clear why a great animal lover like Newt has never found the time to buy a sodding dog.

Newt has liked animals and zoos since he was a little boy. His relatives used to take him to the Hershey Zoo, the Philadelphia Zoo and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.  When he was ten he went to the Harrisburg City Council and made an appeal for a zoo for Pennsylvania’s capital city.  As a teenager, Newt wanted to be either a zoo director or a vertebrate paleontologist.  As a young college professor, he coordinated the Interdisciplinary Program on Environmental Studies at West Georgia College. Newt and Callista visit zoos and museums everywhere they go.  Newt has visited nearly 100 zoos around the world. Callista is catching up.

It all becomes clear. Newt Gingrich is a ten year old boy who is still stamping his feet and holding his breath because he didn’t get a zoo, and if he can’t have a zoo, then no mere mutt will do. Except if it was the President’s dog, because that would be cool. And maybe, if you’re President, you could have a White House zoo with pandas and elephamps that only the President gets to see (and maybe Callista, if she is good), and maybe they’d keep the Smithsonian open for you late at night so you could go and laugh all the fossils that God put there to fool the atheists.

That final:

Callista is catching up.

almost makes me feel sorry for poor Callista as well, as I imagine her trailing along behind Newt, trying to stop the grandnewts falling into the lion enclosure or inserting their entire hands up their noses, all the while smiling like a jack-o’-lantern on crack, but knowing that all the future holds is the occasional consolation of a pair of ten carat, marquise-cut Tiffany earrings or perhaps something with emeralds this time.

Thence follows a lovely list of Newt’s favorite zoos, notable mainly for this:

My daughters were first zood (if that is a word) at Audubon Park ….

which, frankly, sounds like something that should have resulted in a call to the police and ongoing visits from a child protection agency.

The highlight of the entire site, however, is on the front page, where punters of the kind that would vote Newt fucking Gingrich for President of the United States have submitted pictures of their furry and/or feathered anthropomorphic children, such as this:

Gidget

Holy tapdancing fuck, that’s depressing.

My dear Olsen family – forgive me if I use you as an example. It could just as easily have been the adorable Harley and his dad Hamoun, or Gisele, Bailey and family in their simply darling Christmas outfits.

You seem like a nice, if maniacally misguided, family. Gidget looks like a happy doggy, even though it does appear in her photo that you have stuffed her into a christmas sack and stuck a cigar in her mouth.

However, no matter how much you may wish to believe it, Gidget doesn’t give a shit about putting America back on track or any of that other twaddle, because she is a dog. She cares about you, food, pats, other dogs’ bottoms, chasing crap, chewing crap, sleep, weeing and poo, in about that order.

I suspect you and I don’t agree on much politically. I’m a sweary, fictional, 93 year old drug-fiend, while you (if your picture is to be believed) are not.

However, I hope we agree about each other’s right to freedom of speech about our polity and its politics, and the importance of exercising that right and defending its exercise by others, no matter how much we may disagree with them.

Politics (despite the best efforts of most of our actual politicians) is important.

Pets are also important, as well as loving and loyal and a source of joy for many.

A campaign website that, without a hint of jest, inserts your political views into the mouth of your dog, especially as part of a cynical campaign to make a slimy bottom-feeder like Newt Gingrinch look like a human being, is demeaning to you, to me, to Gidget, and to our democracy.

We should all feel shame that this is what we have come to.

Now, where did I put that drink?

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24Comments

  1. 1.

    Tom Levenson

    January 13, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    Lemurs on Newt(s) sounds like a tangled bank gone very wrong.

  2. 2.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    January 13, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    I believe they are sportive lemurs. I kid you not.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportive_lemur

  3. 3.

    eemom

    January 13, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    how ’bout this freakazoid shot of Newt and the Mrs. posing in front of Auschwitz as though it were the Eiffel Tower?

  4. 4.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    January 13, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    A campaign website that, without a hint of jest, inserts your political views into the mouth of your dog, especially as part of a cynical campaign to make a slimy bottom-feeder like Newt Gingrinch look like a human being, is demeaning to you, to me, to Gidget, and to our democracy.

    Please, don’t mention dogs, bottoms and feeding in the same paragraph. It gets Rick Santorum horribly excited and then Speer and Grobbler have to find the tranquillizer gun and perform various cleansing rituals involving cold showers and saran wrap.

  5. 5.

    feebog

    January 13, 2012 at 6:44 pm

    Noot looks to be on the edge of panic in that picture. The lemur on his hand looks like he is about to sample “finger of Noot” while the one on his shoulder is about to Romney all over his shirt.

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    January 13, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    And Newt is still better on animal issues than Mitt Romney!

    FYI to all, I polled three dog lovers at my office today, and NONE of them had heard the Dog-on-car story. And they did not like it. We have work to do, folks!

  7. 7.

    Quaker in a Basement

    January 13, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    Love that hat. I think we have us a Dukakis moment.

  8. 8.

    slag

    January 13, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    Are those lemurs documented? As pets?

  9. 9.

    harlana

    January 13, 2012 at 7:36 pm

    Come on, Sarah, we all know that’s just a snapshot from one of your drunken jaunts to Madagascar with horny ole Newt (while Calista was off shopping); I hear Newt likes a little cougar action now and then. =)

  10. 10.

    Rick Massimo

    January 13, 2012 at 7:54 pm

    Gingrich doesn’t have any pets at this time, but he told ABC News today he and his wife Callista want a dog in the White House…

    Well, there is one! Mission Accomplished! Now take a shower and get a job, fucko!

  11. 11.

    JITC

    January 13, 2012 at 8:06 pm

    OMG, that picture looks so photoshopped I thought the site was a spoof. But it’s real? Wow.

  12. 12.

    kay

    January 13, 2012 at 8:13 pm

    This is my favorite thing of the whole GOP primary.

    It’s hysterical.

    “I love pets so we’re going to have an entire project”

    Why oh why won’t they vote for him?

    It would be the most bizzare presidential race ever. He’d do things like this once a week.

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 13, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    @MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:

    perform various cleansing rituals involving cold showers and saran wrap.

    Saran Proud and Tall?

  14. 14.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    January 13, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    @eemom: Freakazoid is an understated description of those photos. They are just wrong. Clearly only a sociopath would want to be in them. And how fucking tone deaf do you have to be to publish them?

    @JITC: I thought they looked terribly shopped also, which they could be, even if there is a site…

  15. 15.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    January 13, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    @kay: Isn’t the GOP primary kind of surreal? If I weren’t watching it unfold, I’d call it too unrealistic for comic fiction.

  16. 16.

    kay

    January 13, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    PLUS.
    What if he only did it because Mitt Romney transports his dog on the roof of his car?
    HE loves pets, unlike that other candidate.
    Maybe!
    That’s even better, because it’s mean.

  17. 17.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    January 13, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I don’t believe she is part of the cleansing process. Doubtless she could tell you better.

  18. 18.

    Kitty

    January 13, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    @JITC agree about Photoshop, there’s not a shadow to be seen.

  19. 19.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    January 13, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    @kay: And Gnoot is nothing if not mean. He loves pets, unlike the rest of those losers!

  20. 20.

    SarahT

    January 13, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    Looks like Mitt has earned his very own Santorum-esque Google problem : http://spreadingromney.com/

  21. 21.

    maya

    January 13, 2012 at 9:13 pm

    SPT,I choose:

    (b) like Benny Hill eyeing off a particularly juggulous pair of boobs

    also known as the Lemur to Beaver ploy.

  22. 22.

    eemom

    January 13, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    I thought it looked photoshopped too at first — but you can see Calista’s shadow, and it’s in exactly the right place.

    Plus, the second picture on there is even weirder.

  23. 23.

    mdblanche

    January 14, 2012 at 2:01 am

    Actually most religious nuts just love binomial nomenclature because Carl Linnaeus didn’t subscribe to Darwin’s theory. Though they usually leave out the parts about how Linnaeus died decades before Darwin was even born, his then-controversial grouping of man and apes in a single taxon, or that the nested hierarchies of Linnaean taxonomy were one of the early hints towards common origin.

  24. 24.

    AA+ Bonds

    January 14, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    Gingrich once debated Horner on Tyrannosaurus, taking Bakker’s position.

    It was nice when he was retired and could sort of mellow out

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