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In a speech last month -- one of his many money-making appearances these
days -- Newt Gingrich told the Republican Women Leaders Forum:
"'I want to say to the elite of this country -- the elite news
media, the liberal academic elite, the liberal political elite -- I accuse
you in Littleton, and I accuse you in Kosovo, of being afraid to talk about
the mess you have made and of being afraid to take responsibility for the
things you have done and, instead, of forcing on the rest of us pathetic
banalities because you don't have the courage to look at the world you have
created'" (The Washington Spectator, June 15, 1999).
Speaking of teachers' unions and what he called 'the elite's' responsibility
for high-school shootings, Gingrich added:
"'We have had a 35-year experiment in a unionized, bureaucratic,
secular assault on the core values of this country ... God has been driven
out of the classroom. We have seen the result in a secular, atheistic system
in which God is not allowed to exist'" (The Washington Spectator,
June 15, 1999).
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