# Robert DeNiro tries to rape Callista Gingrich **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 20, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343 "2012-03-20T19:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/21 "2012-03-20T20:35:01Z")
I really hope DeNiro does not apologize, because there is nothing to apologize (to Gingrich or his ‘condemned to hell until she repents’ skank adulteress whore) for. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/22 "2012-03-20T20:41:03Z")
If you think Callista Gingrich was insulted, imagine the staffer Newt is sleeping with and marrying next. DeNiro didn’t even _mention_ her! I don’t care how long you’ve been in politics, it has to hurt when you’re snubbed like that. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/23 "2012-03-20T20:41:08Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Yeesh. I’m really getting tired of people seeing, insults, racism, whatever, when it’s not there. Hell, I’m tired of people validating insults when they really ARE there. Shake your head, point your thumb at the offender and smile at the person next to you, maybe say something like, “ooh, better call the burn unit cuz it looks like I just got flamed!”…and then move on. Unless, of course, you’re afraid they might be right about you and now everyone will notice what a loser you really are. In which case, make a fuss–it’s easier than cleaning up your act. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/24 "2012-03-20T20:42:18Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Really? You don’t think Rush has said anything racist or sexist? Hm. If only there were some recent news stories you could read up on that addressed those issues… I can’t understand your incoherent objection to Rush’s supposed racism. Take that bone out of your nose and post again. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/25 "2012-03-20T20:51:14Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > 1. DeNiro is a leftist media darling. He speaks at most leftists rallies. He participates in leftist causes. Saying he is apolitical is absurd. Agreed > [@jtgain](#): > > 1. Rush has said some really stupid things, but I disagree that any are racist or sexist. That would be another thread. Really? Rush has never made a racist or sexist statement on his show? Do you actually listen to him? > [@jtgain](#): > > 1. So since DeNiro dates black women exclusively, he is free to make white jokes? Is this similar to “some of my best friends are black”? Not even close. > [@jtgain](#): > > 1. Dennis Miller would certainly catch hell for making the “Are we ready for another white first lady?” statement. Actually, no one would care because Dennis Miller is so unfunny at this point that his attempts at comedy create spontaneous spacial vacuums through which everything he says gets sucked and crushed before having the opportunity to flower into anything resembling jokes. Somehow, smarmy is supposed to be funny, I don’t get it but, oh well, maybe it’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/26 "2012-03-20T20:51:58Z")
Can someone clear up to me who DeNiro was accused of insulting and what the perceived insult against them actually was? It can’t be that he thinks that white women aren’t first lady material given the vast precedent to the contrary. It would be like asking whether the NBA is ready for a black basketball player. In most other cases of offensive comments it is at least clear what the insult is. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/27 "2012-03-20T20:57:14Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > Is it okay to make white jokes, but not black ones? By and large. At any rate, it’s not safe to conclude “Liberal White Guy makes joke about white women, so conservative white guy should be able to make jokes about black women, or everybody’s a hypocrite.” Some documented Rush quotes, from Snopes and Media Matters: “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.” “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.” “I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They’re interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.” “We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles … because his father was black.” \*n Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering." Obama is “more African in his roots than he is American” and is "behaving like an African colonial despot. Obama is “Halfrican-American.” “you can’t criticize the little black man-child [Obama].” And, of course, as \*\*Sampiro \*\*noted, he sang “Barack, the Magic Negro.” I just can’t compare deNiro’s strange joke to that. Turnabout doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/28 "2012-03-20T20:57:51Z")
> [@jtgain](#): > > 1. DeNiro is a leftist media darling. He speaks at most leftists rallies. He participates in leftist causes. What leftist causes? An Obama fundraiser isn’t a leftist cause. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/29 "2012-03-20T21:06:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I really hope DeNiro does not apologize, because there is nothing to apologize (to Gingrich or his ‘condemned to hell until she repents’ skank adulteress whore) for. What, he’s just gonna let him get away with that? He’s gonna let this fucking punk get away with that? What’s the matter? What’s the world coming to? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/30 "2012-03-20T21:07:21Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > It would be like asking whether the NBA is ready for a black basketball player. . I think it’s more akin to the saying ‘once you go black, you never go back’. That’s just how I read it. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/31 "2012-03-20T21:13:06Z")
That settles it, I am not voting for Robert DeNiro. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/32 "2012-03-20T21:20:40Z")
> [@](#): > > A poll, by the way, that was responded to, amazingly, with less than 100% “Yes.” Some people probably had the Bradley effect/Alabama racial miscegenation referendum in mind. In fact, some of the respondents were probably the people the Bradley effect affects or that voted against overturning the unenforceable unconstitutional law against racial miscegenation. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/33 "2012-03-20T21:20:42Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And [Gingrich is demanding an apology](http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/03/newt-gingrich-demands-apology-from-robert-de-niro-over-first-whi/). Dude… if _that_ offends you- something that didn’t remotely malign the appearance or the character or the intelligence of your wife, you are REALLY REALLY REALLY in the wrong line of work. That’s not the funny part. The funny part is that Gingrich is demanding _Obama_ apologize. Because, um, reverse racism! I demand Gingrich apologize for his wife’s horrible plastic surgery. It is an affront to white women everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/34 "2012-03-20T21:27:25Z")
And now [screw Obama for fucking apologizing.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/216997-obama-campaign-says-deniros-first-lady-joke-was-inappropriate) Pussy-ass punk. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/35 "2012-03-20T21:38:01Z")
Buncha cowards. Newt can go piss up a rope. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/36 "2012-03-20T21:39:21Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > And now [screw Obama for fucking apologizing.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/216997-obama-campaign-says-deniros-first-lady-joke-was-inappropriate) > > Pussy-ass punk. Oh goddamnit Obama! I love the right wing notions of Obama as a “colonial despot” and dictator and Hitler 2.0, when the most fervent wish of his most fervent supporters is that he’d fucking grow a pair. “Barack you know I love you/did you see I waved/I believe in you and Joe/but the right wing is depraved” so stop reaching out to them! DeNiro would have looked Gingrich in his porcine little beady eyes and said “You talkin’ to me?” Sorry, Gangster Octopus, but I disagree: I _would_ vote for DeNiro. At this particular moment. With Pesci as V.P.. I would _love_ to see somebody demand an apology once Pesci has a “beer summit” with them; somebody might demand an apology once, but I don’t think they would again. “There! That tell you how fucking sorry I am Rush? Huh? Cause I’m feelin’ REAL [Batman style ‘POW!’] FUCKIN’ [SMASH!] SORRY [OUCH!]!” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/37 "2012-03-20T21:42:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > And now [screw Obama for fucking apologizing.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/216997-obama-campaign-says-deniros-first-lady-joke-was-inappropriate) > [@Sampiro](#): > > Oh goddamnit Obama! “We believe the joke was inappropriate” is not an apology, it’s a comment on the joke. “We are sorry” is an apology. Unlike DeNiro and unlike the rest of us, these people have to think about whether this joke might cost them votes. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/38 "2012-03-20T21:43:13Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > And now [screw Obama for fucking apologizing.](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/216997-obama-campaign-says-deniros-first-lady-joke-was-inappropriate) > > Pussy-ass punk. That isn’t an apology. That’s commentary. Let’s say I come over to your house and wreck your living room. Then I say, “Well, that was inappropriate.” That isn’t a statement of contrition, that’s just an acknowledgement of a deficiency in grace. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/39 "2012-03-20T21:44:29Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Can someone clear up to me who DeNiro was accused of insulting and what the perceived insult against them actually was? It can’t be that he thinks that white women aren’t first lady material given the vast precedent to the contrary. He potentially could have offended women in general, because who the hell really cares about the spouse of the president, unless you want to engage in “wife trophy-ism”? He probably meant it as a satire of trophy-ism, but it gets undercut by mentioning the specific names. It depends on the whole context of the remark, and his tone of voice. It could also be that he was making fun of himself, but not everyone is going to know his background. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343/40 "2012-03-20T21:47:55Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > who the hell really cares about the spouse of the president Tell that to Hillary Clinton. (Or lots of other first ladies, but seriously.) > [@](#): > > He probably meant it as a satire of trophy-ism, but it gets undercut by mentioning the specific names. Even if he doesn’t mention the names of the wives of the leading candidates, it’s the same joke. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-deniro-tries-to-rape-callista-gingrich/616343.md?page=3)