Bob Newman

Bob Newman, a decorated, retired US Marine, is host of the “Gunny Bob Show” on Newsradio 850 KOA in Denver, and host of “Anger-Management Hour” on 630 KHOW, also in Denver. A ground-combat veteran, he is the director of international security & counterterrorism services for The GeoScope Group and is the military science & terrorism columnist for The Denver Daily News. He can be reached at bobnewman@clearchannel.com.

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Bob Newman: Emotional Landmines: The Power of Hurtful Words October 25, 2006 In “The Dirty Dozen,” Lee Marvin, playing an Army major, chastises Colonel Everett Dasher Breed (played by Robert Ryan) for being emotional. The colonel was shown to be a fool then and later in the film. I recall ...

Bob Newman: The Khatami Conundrum September 09, 2006 A former president of the world’s leading and most dangerous terrorist state, Mohammad Khatami, has been allowed by our government to not only visit the United States, but even deliver an anti-America speech at ...

Bob Newman: The Carter Doctrine Comes Calling April 28, 2006 I began studying Iran in 1979 as a 21-year-old Marine sergeant and Recon (Recon is the Corps’ version of Navy SEALs and Army Rangers and Green Berets) team leader with "A" Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion. My ...

Bob Newman: The Perfect Automatons March 04, 2006 Listening to the high school teacher’s indoctrination session, I was swept back into the 1980s and in my mind’s eye could see myself standing before the huddled, dazed, half frozen students deep in the forested ...

Bob Newman: Trapped Inside the Box of Commonplace Misperceptions February 28, 2006 Whereas I am dead-set against the idea of the government of the United Arab Emirates running terminal operations at any American commercial ports, it is also important to understand just how painfully little the ...

Bob Newman: Death Wish: The Silent Hopes of America’s Radical Liberals February 16, 2006 Make no mistake about it: many of America’s rabid liberals want Harry Whittington dead. The 78-year-old lawyer who was accidentally peppered with a load of bird shot from Vice President Dick Cheney’s ...

Bob Newman: The Boomerang Effect: Gen. Wesley Clark’s Character Flaw February 15, 2006 On 14 February 2006 at 10:15AM ET on FOX News Channel, disgraced retired US Army general and one-time presidential candidate Wesley Clark demonstrated why he was fired by then Secretary of Defense William Cohen ...

Bob Newman: A New and Revolting Low for the Peanut Farmer February 08, 2006 In a shocking but not at all surprising display of absolute disrespect for the dead, former President Jimmy Carter, whose failed presidency is best remembered for his inability to deal with the terrorist regime of ...

Bob Newman: America to Merchants of Hate and Intolerance: No Sale, Bub February 01, 2006 America’s radical left wing is learning many lessons of late. Remarkably, however, they couldn’t care less about the grades they are being handed by their teachers, namely the American people. Lesson 1: ...

Bob Newman: Avoiding Flaming Arrows to the Chest and Head in Indian Country January 31, 2006 My father is a retired street cop out of Washington, D.C., and my mother was FBI. Perhaps that is why I have always looked for the facts amid a sea of crap. In February 1991, I was sitting atop a Marine ...

Bob Newman: Negotiations In The Absurd: Gunny And The Gator January 19, 2006 One day long ago, back in the mythical ‘60s in fact, a skinny kid living in almost-rural South Florida took his dad’s tackle box to the overgrown canal down NW 17th Court in what was then the new subdivision of ...

Bob Newman: Rebel Without A Clue January 13, 2006 Indeed, a picture tells a thousand words, but words tell far more. The notorious Denver Post’s latest ugly attempt to chip away at the new-born, still-tenuous freedom Iraqis have obtained recently ...

Bob Newman: The Imaginary Constitution Of The Radical Left December 24, 2005 It has been my great good fortune to have held some fascinating jobs; billets that have allowed me to learn and do things most Americans never have the opportunity to learn or do. I’ve been allowed to lead Marines ...

Bob Newman: Maniacal Media Or Presidential Dereliction Of Duty? December 19, 2005 An angry President Bush said yesterday that it was illegal for the New York Times to have in its possession and publish top-secret intelligence on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) orders from the president to ...

Bob Newman: Minimizing Momentum: The Senate’s Sedition December 17, 2005 Standing in the northern Saudi Arabian desert looking at the inferno of 700+ burning oil wells, I wondered about our attack, which was to come in just a couple of hours. Our plan called for the 2nd Marine Division ...

Bob Newman: America’s Traitors: Hang ‘Em High December 07, 2005 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Robert Garwood. Clayton Lonetree. Four Americans with one thing in common: they betrayed their country for personal gain. In the case of the Rosenbergs, the ...

Bob Newman: Once More Unto The Breach December 03, 2005 The email came in yesterday morning. A Marine officer from the Ground Combat Element-Multi-National Force (GCE-MNF) in western Iraq was informing me that the 2nd Marine Division would be awaiting my ...

Bob Newman: Punk Card Pulled: Murtha Humiliates Anti-Freedom Liberals November 20, 2005 I was on the air last night when the House Republicans decided it was time to pull the liberals’ punk card. In a brilliant conservative stratagem that revealed to America just how spineless the Democratic Party has ...

Bob Newman: A Traitor's Tirade: Rep. John Murtha Soils The Corps November 18, 2005 In a statement that has angered, embarrassed and humiliated Marines around the globe, one of our own -- a retired Marine Corps Reserve colonel -- has called for the legendary fighting force to retreat from Iraq and ...

Bob Newman: Hating Those Who Would Save Us September 24, 2005 Volunteerism has been a hallmark of American society since 1776, when volunteers came forward to fight against British tyranny and create the United States of America. In every war since the Revolutionary War, ...

Bob Newman: Racists, Hate Mongers and Liars (Oh My) September 15, 2005 I can’t find Bo, Keith, Mrs. Johnson, the Rogers clan or any of my other friends in southern Louisiana. I’ve tried and tried but to no avail. I’ve no idea if they are dead or alive. I pray each night they are safe ...

Bob Newman: Bush To Blame For Dinosaur Extinction September 03, 2005 Bloated blowhard Michael Moore says George Bush is a racist and intentionally delayed Hurricane Katrina relief because he hates blacks. The remarkably wealthy and obese Moore, who makes more money during lunch than ...

Bob Newman: The Big Deal About Smallpox August 17, 2005 The photos of the victims are horrifying. With their bodies covered with huge pustules that will have left large craters in their skin forever (if they survived), the victims of smallpox suffered ...

Bob Newman: The Land Of Wannabe Quitters June 29, 2005 Times and people change. In 1776, a new people, the Americans, were a feisty lot who, because they had so unquenchable a thirst for freedom, had the audacity to fight the world’s most powerful nation to ...

Bob Newman: On The Value Of Symbols June 20, 2005 I am abnormal and wish to explain. I am abnormal, according to leftist extremist Reggie Rivers, who writes a column in the Denver Post, because I believe in defending (and have defended with my life, as ...

Bob Newman: End Of Days: When America Falls June 05, 2005 No country lasts forever. That’s an inarguable fact. History reveals three primary reasons why countries fall, governments change and ways of life vanish. The Taliban, Saddam, Nazis and many ...

Bob Newman: Byrd Brain: The Democrats’ Own Klansman May 23, 2005 Note that a murderer or rapist is never called a former murderer or former rapist. That’s because once you have committed such a heinous crime, you are properly branded for life with the moniker. Some odors, once ...

Bob Newman: Hezbollah: The Other Snake In American Grass May 22, 2005 February 4th, 2001. Juan Ortiz, brothers Felipe and Fernando Lopez, Alberto Gonzalez and Alphonso Montijo made their way across the border and into the United States. Scampering across a dirt road that ...

Bob Newman: Newsweek’s Isikoff and Barry: A Twosome of Treasonous Twits May 20, 2005 Last year, Newsweek called and asked if I would be willing to sit for an extended interview with the magazine on guerrilla warfare (someone there had read my book Guerrillas in the Mist: A Battlefield Guide to ...

Bob Newman: Where Americans Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent April 30, 2005 Here is part of a report from CNN’s website dated 30 April 2005: Forensic experts are investigating a mass grave thought to contain the remains of as many as 1,500 Kurds killed in the 1980s. The ...

Bob Newman: A New Captain For A Sinking Ship April 18, 2005 "Openness and accountability." That's what former U.S. senator and University of Colorado president-designate Hank Brown said would mark his presidency when he takes over for the inept Elizabeth Hoffman on August ...

Bob Newman: Hate, Violence And The Liberal Way April 13, 2005 As a lad growing up in Thomaston, Maine, in the 1960s, I loved studying myths and legends and was always interested in learning facts about those myths and legends of which most people were unaware. So you can ...

Bob Newman: Liberal Hate Down Under April 05, 2005 Citizens of the former penal colony of Australia made it exceptionally clear last night that the hate-America-syndrome has turned into contagion down under. I was a guest via satellite on SBS’ “Insight,” ...

Bob Newman: The Mexican Insurgency March 30, 2005 After reading and deleting the usual liberal hate email this Easter morning (hate email on Easter from frothing-at-the-mouth liberals was not a surprise), I was reminded how border security and immigration reform ...

Bob Newman: Darkside To Paris: The French Await Their Gruesome Fate (Again) March 23, 2005 The call came tonight as I sat in front of my computer wondering what to write about. Darkside has always come through like that. Lieutenant Colonel Bryan P. “Darkside” McCoy, United States ...

Bob Newman: Do You See The Light? March 07, 2005 James Brown made me smile last night while I watched “The Blues Brothers.” From his groovy pulpit at the Triple Rock Baptist Church in Chicago, the godfather of soul demanded to know if Jake and Elwood Blues could ...

Bob Newman: A Darwinian Dilemma: Societal De-Evolution February 27, 2005 As a boy in single digits growing up in part in southern rural Florida in the 1960s, I would spend hours watching the myriad critters that called the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee and the warren of canals in that ...

Bob Newman: The Mindless Credo Of Liberal Hate And Violence February 19, 2005 Being a conservative radio talk-show host with a show that covers 38 states (and around the world via streaming audio), newspaper columnist and television terrorism analyst, I get plenty of hate email from the ...

Bob Newman: Enemy Of The State February 17, 2005 I suppose I should be flattered. Ward Churchill, the hate-mongering wannabe Indian “professor” over at the rudderless University of Colorado at Boulder, has given quite a few interviews to various media ...

Bob Newman: The Cult of Keezjunnahbeh February 10, 2005 There’s an unusual course of instruction taught in the Department of Defense that instructs high-risk-of-capture personnel (Force Recon Marines, Navy SEALs, Green Berets, other special-operations types, air crews, ...

Bob Newman: Treason In The Teepee February 07, 2005 Ah, yes. The “T” word. I was the first pundit to realize and state publicly that self-proclaimed Indian (the tribe he claims to be a member of says he never produced a shred of evidence that he has any ...

Bob Newman: Twisted Steel and Licorice January 21, 2005 He still isn’t old enough to have a beer, but in his two decades of life, the young Marine is already about to complete his second tour in Iraq. To the combat-hardened veteran, it seems like yesterday that he was ...

Bob Newman: Phantoms of the Fifth Column January 16, 2005 Like a wraith on a Welsh moor he comes, cloaked in the inky night. Clutched in his talon-like hands he holds his instrument of reckoning. Made of steel and fiberglass, it is as much a part of the man as is the ...

Bob Newman: Send In The Clowns January 03, 2005 Two of the most frequent questions I am asked regarding my work as a military science and terrorism analyst are: “Why are your analyses and predictions so accurate?” and “How are you able to break so many stories ...

Bob Newman: From Brushfires to Conflagrations December 27, 2004 Based in the Pacific in the 1970s, I was assigned my first billet involving defeating terrorists, with the heavy hitters being groups like Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the New ...

Bob Newman: Cry, the Other Beloved Country December 20, 2004 As a freshman attending Georges Valley High School in the teeming metropolis of Thomaston, Maine, in 1971, I was required to read Alan Paton’s celebrated novel Cry, the Beloved Country. Published in ...

Bob Newman: First A Slave, Now A Moron December 10, 2004 Did you know that a newspaper columnist is an expert at everything? Yup. Once you get into print on a regularly scheduled basis, you automatically become a veritable wellspring of wisdom and knowledge, ...

Bob Newman: Hate Takes One On The Chin December 04, 2004 The first battle was joined about a week ago. My unit’s enemies had been enjoying many victories (all against the weak and defenseless) on battlefields outside of my area of operations when they finally showed up ...

Bob Newman: City Of Hate December 02, 2004 If asked while in the middle of a firefight what a Marine or other American military man is fighting for, he is highly unlikely to reply that he is fighting for his country and is very likely to tell you that he is ...

Bob Newman: A Fundamental Fact Of War With Fundamentalists September 06, 2004 There’s nothing so clarifying as standing among hundreds of dead bodies. I’ve had to do that a couple of times: once in 1983 when I was the Marine Corps’ liaison to the FBI forensics team working to ...

Bob Newman: I, Victim August 29, 2004 Pity me, for I am a victim. While pitying me, know that, because of my victimhood, which is manifested in my broken neck, mangled back, Patella Femoral Syndrome and Gulf War Syndrome (all caused by serving ...

Bob Newman: The Reality of War And The Tun Tavern Solution August 22, 2004 Anyone who has ever said war never solved anything has clearly never opened a history book. Wars have solved many major problems and, in fact, some wars prevent problems from becoming bigger problems. But don’t ...

Bob Newman: Senator Sensitive August 18, 2004 No one should have been surprised when Sen. John Kerry announced that, if elected to the presidency, he would be a more “sensitive” commander in chief. As word of this would-be policy spread around the globe, a ...

Bob Newman: Kerry’s Swift Boat Vets: Aye, Matey, T’is Mutiny! August 07, 2004 There’s dissention in the ranks and the smell of mutiny on deck as a parade of Vietnam veterans who served with and/or knew John Kerry in Vietnam come forward to denounce him as a leader, officer and veteran. This ...

Bob Newman: Kerry And His Fascinating Friends July 29, 2004 As I write this column, John Kerry is on a boat in Boston Harbor, in view of the Old North Church where my revolutionary ancestor, church sexton Robert Emerson Newman, hung the lanterns for silversmith Paul Revere. ...

Bob Newman: Darkside Is Inbound July 26, 2004 I couldn’t see him. In fact, I didn’t even know he existed at the time. He and his company of Marines were off on my right flank somewhere. As I was clearing a bunker along the 6 Ring Road in al-Jahra on ...

Bob Newman: The Truth Behind The Lies July 18, 2004 Sitting in the “green room” (where guests hang out before going on the air) of the FOX News Channel’s Denver bureau last week, I watched John Kerry make a speech to the National Association for the Advancement of ...

Bob Newman: Set Loose The Beast Of Belleau Wood July 12, 2004 History speaks to us of certain great fighting forces led by men upon whom legends are based. In American military history, there is no armed force equal to the band of seagoing savages known as the United States ...

Bob Newman: The Persian Problem July 05, 2004 One of the hot spots I found myself in after entering the field of special operations was off the coast of Iran (once known as Persia) aboard the USS Okinawa, which was part of the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) ...

Bob Newman: Shades of Heinlein June 28, 2004 Like Valentine Michael Smith in Robert Heinlein’s 1961 masterpiece Stranger in a Strange Land, which I read in 1980 while in the North Arabian Sea, I look about me these days and wonder. Not about my upbringing by ...

Bob Newman: The United Nations: Diplomacy Soprano Style June 16, 2004 I recently had dinner with Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. One of the things we talked about over dinner was the United Nations, which has been stunningly successful of late in ...

Bob Newman: The Great Experiment June 11, 2004 Last week I gave a war-on-terror presentation to several dozen executives from one of the largest media companies in the United States. They wanted to know many things, but the multi-faceted subject that just kept ...

Bob Newman: I Was A Slave For 20 Years? June 02, 2004 Radical leftist Reggie Rivers, the wealthy former Denver Bronco and current opinion columnist and socialist hit man for the Denver Post, says in his most recent piece that I was a slave in the Marine Corps and that ...

Bob Newman: HAVE THE WHINERS JOINED THE ARMY? May 27, 2004 It was May 1991, and I was a platoon sergeant in a weapons platoon in a Marine infantry company. Standing in the hole in which I lived, I was dismayed that it was only May in the Kuwaiti desert, yet the temperature ...

Bob Newman: THE MANY MINEFIELDS OF GLOBAL ASYMMETRIC WARFARE May 25, 2004 It may be a common misconception that Marines spend most of their careers at war with bullets flying over the heads at any given moment. In reality, most of a Marine’s career is spent training for war, being ...

Bob Newman: Michael Moore: Master Propagandist and Brilliant Pitchman May 11, 2004 Michael Moore, that bloated sack of leftist protoplasm who made scads of money on his masterfully misleading "Bowling for Columbine", is all over the television and Internet, whining like the loser slob he is ...

Bob Newman: Will the Real Dick Clark Please Stand Up? March 29, 2004 I love a parade, and this week’s parade before the mostly career politicians on the so-called 9-11 commission was quite a sight. The most intriguing of the guests was chameleon-man Richard “Tricky Dick” ...

Bob Newman: Adventures Across The Spectrum of Conflict February 24, 2004 I was an odd child, with an early indication of my oddity being my annoying demand for history teachers to discuss (after class) tactics, operational art and strategy as practiced by warriors from the legions of ...

Bob Newman: A War-on-Terror Report Card February 17, 2004 I made my bones as a journalist on the national level by doing something weird: I reported the facts and used nearly 30 years’ experience in the fields of counterterrorism, military science, intelligence and ...