LOLWUT? Please tell me there is video of this!
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The day after Newt Gingrich was bit by a penguin at a zoo, he acknowledged he is “the underdog” and said his campaign began renting their donor list because they needed money.
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Following a tour of the NASCAR museum, Gingrich said he spoke with Santorum in St. Louis, Mo. but only briefly. (This was the same day the Speaker visited the St. Louis Zoo, was nipped by a penguin and met a tiger named Callista – just like his wife, he joked to reporters.)
(via MSNBC)
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Ileen Verble
April 15, 2012 at 2:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
America expects that every penguin will do his duty.
Chiroptera
April 15, 2012 at 2:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
…and said his campaign began renting their donor list because they needed money.
lol wut?
How do you rent a donor list?
Avicenna
April 15, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I hope it wasn’t a radioactive penguin… or a were penguin… Either Virginia will have the world’s stupidest superhero or every full moon Virginia will live in fear of the Were Penguin.
Look… If he gains weight and starts carrying an Umbrella I suggest calling The Batman.
bryonyvaughn
April 15, 2012 at 2:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Chiroptera:
Instead of selling the list for someone to use at their leisure for as many times and as many causes as they like, they allow someone to use it once for one purpose within a certain time limit.
Often when you get something from a rented mailing list you’ll have your account/member/registration number from one organization and another number both in a line about your name and address. Often they’ll have other codes embedded too. Sometimes I’ve had my name on lists two different companies rent to a third company. An easy way to help track this stuff is to use a different middle initial whenever you sign up for things…. like Chiroptera A. Brown, Chiroptera B. Brown, Chiroptera C. Brown, Chiroptera D. Brown, etc.
Pierce R. Butler
April 15, 2012 at 3:06 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
How sick did the poor penguin get?
wholething
April 15, 2012 at 4:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Penguins are the best birds.
michaelbrew
April 15, 2012 at 6:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@wholething
I think you misspelled “crows.”
gridlore
April 15, 2012 at 7:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The penguin revolution is coming!
Tyrant of Skepsis
April 16, 2012 at 3:03 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It was the French! Erm, I mean, Martians
Anne C. Hanna
April 16, 2012 at 4:14 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That is a truly genius photoshop. I love it! Is that penguin body + owl eyes + dog mouth, or what?
Who Cares
April 16, 2012 at 10:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
try lion
Anne C. Hanna
April 16, 2012 at 10:22 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Googling for lion roar pictures, I can see it, but it’s not obvious if you’re not familiar with the internals of a lion mouth. In particular, I think of cats in general as having wider jaws (relative to their depth) than this shows, but it looks like I was wrong about that.
Zinc Avenger
April 16, 2012 at 12:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Is the penguin okay?
Ripberger
April 16, 2012 at 7:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Newt should be fortunate that it was not armed.
F
April 16, 2012 at 8:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Maybe it was Tux.
that_paul
April 17, 2012 at 9:26 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If you’re locked in a cage and have to pick one Callista to be in there with you, I’m picking the tiger. She looks batshit insane.
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/newt-callista-gingrich.jpg
Skip White
April 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I can’t imagine what the implications would be if it was one of those homosexual penguins.
arakasi
April 17, 2012 at 2:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ducks! He was supposed to be nibbled to death by ducks! Come, my feathered minions. I see that we need to discuss again the importance of following a plan. One more screw up like that and it’s turducken time