We're really puzzled

[roguejuror]

Help Newt Gingrich find a proper term for this device. It's a lot more than a cell phone, for example it takes pictures, there's a McDonald's apps where you can find locations. It's a lot more, it's a handheld revolution.

Made by Gringrich Productions http://www.gingrichproductions.com/

 

[MrMonkey]

Fuking politicians! Public servants who US citizens count on for help and guidance! The guy will probably start a task force now that will cost millions in wasted tax money to come up with a new name!

 

[MrMonkey]

Don't know the number, but it's greater than 50% (probably by far) in my dislike for politicians!

This guy for sure!

Be honest now, does that face not appear to have taken one too many blows to the head?

 

[roguejuror]

im stealing this one mister monkey

 

[reno cool]

what health monitor? does the fucking thing analyze blood samples now?

 

[Mudcat]

Don't we call it a smart phone?

 

[Matty]

Newt's a hoot.

 

[Matty]

Wait, is this not a joke? I thought he was trying to be funny, especially with the McDonald's comment. But then the joke dragged on and started looking serious.

This has to be a joke, right?

Either we're being trolled hard by Newt or he's more senile than I thought.

But I think we're being trolled.

 

[Archie]

i'm going to start calling all automobiles "horseless carriages" now

 

[Matty]

cell phone = horseless freedom device

 

[reno cool]

sounds like a serious newt to me, don't know what he's angle is though? Must be getting subsidies from some evil right wing cell phone think tank.

 

[Matty]

horseless communicator

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

whore communicator

 

[Mudcat]

It seems retarded to an extent that it has to be a joke, but it doesn't make sense unless he is satirizing something specific and I don't know what that would be. It's not like the Republicans to operate with a subtlety that assumes/requires sophistication in the listener.

 

[Matty]

I now think he's just a boob. If he'd only used the word "smartphone" once in the video (and avoided the retarded McDonalds comment), it wouldn't look like satire.

He has a point, "cell phone" and even "smartphone" are reductive terms.

But who gives a shit.

 

[Mudcat]

Smartphone seems great to me. I don't see how that's not good enough.

 

[Matty]

We're still in the phone paradigm.

Newt is thinking bigger.

Newt is wowed by his horseless communicator.

 

[Mudcat]

Maybe the Daily Show tonight can provide some illumination of what's going on. Seems like something has to be going on.