From Mother Jones: In 1995, "[Newt] Gingrich warned of a horror scenario in which Saddam Hussein trained a hacker army to cause civil unrest by issuing 500,000 American Express cards and then charging absurd fees."

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

    You know the saying “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro?”

    Well, I find it comforting that, as crazy as the world is these days, it isn’t so crazy that it would be an advantage having a cranky loon like Gingrich as a president.

    • Paul McGibboney

       I don’t think so…and I’ve never heard that saying. Gingrich is far more than any cranky loon. This is serious stuff…take it that way.

      • Woody Smith

        NEITHER of you are familiar with a man named Hunter S. Thompson? That has to be his most-quoted line.

  • That_Anonymous_Coward

    So the modified version of this was to issue 500,000 bad home loans and cause civil unrest while profiting?

  • soodonim

    How do we know this isn’t exactly what happened?

  • http://www.facebook.com/kkisser Keith Kisser

    “Gingrich warned of a horror scenario in which Saddam HusseinCitiBank trained a hackerbanker army to cause civil unrest by issuing 500,000 American Express cards and then charging absurd fees.”
    FTFY.

  • xyzzy123

    Next, Al Qaeda will be returning millions of magazine subscription cards, made out to people who didn’t subscribe.  The horror!

    • That_Anonymous_Coward

      Well crap, I sure hope they don’t figure out how 4Chan does it using websites.

    • aynrandspenismighty

      Wait a minute, I don’t remember subscribing to Ebony?!?

      NNNOOOOO!!!!!!!

  • Cowicide

    So, let’s see… this election season we’ve got:

    Romney. He’s less batshit insane than Gingrich.

    Obama. He’s less evil than Romney.

    Sounds very similar to the last presidential election.

    • That_Anonymous_Coward

      If only None of the Above was an actual option.
      Force them to go try again.

    • Guest

      And so different from the 44 preceding?

  • Guest

    Elmer FUD. That is all, folks. 

  • Guest

    ROFL! Awesomesauce.