Episode 387 • • 1:49:40 - 1:53:20
387: Bear Bile
Newt Gingrich, Countdown to the Looking Glass, 1984 Movie
Newt Gingrich appeared as an actor in the 1984 HBO movie "Countdown to the Looking Glass," playing himself in a fictional crisis. In the film, he uses the same rhetorical techniques and arguments about the Straits of Hormuz that he employs in 2012 political debates. The only significant difference is the substitution of the Soviet Union for Iran as the primary antagonist.