The Grinch who stole free speech? Here’s a clip from MSNBC regarding Newt Gingrich:

“This is a serious long-term war,” the man [Gingrich] at the podium cried, “and it will inevitably lead us to want to know what is said in every suspect place in the country.”

Some in the audience must have thought they were hearing an arsonist give the keynote address at a convention of firefighters.

This was the annual Loeb First Amendment Dinner in Manchester, N.H. — a public cherishing of freedom of speech — in the state with the two-fisted motto “Live Free Or Die.”

And the arsonist at the microphone, the former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, was insisting that we must attach an “on-off button” to free speech.

Watch Keith Olbermann speak his mind to Newt Gingrich, or Read the transcript, “Free speech and the delusion of grandeur,” if you can’t watch the video below:

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