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Drudge Gets Exclusive, But When Will ABC Air Interview With Marianne Gingrich?

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Earlier this evening, the Drudge Report teased an exclusive with the single most vague headline in modern journalism history: “Network Holds Bombshell Campaign Interview.” Accompanied with the legendary “Drudge siren,” the headline left all of political Twitter waiting on bated breath, until another little tidbit was added: “Civil War at ABC News.” It took a while before the media received any more details, but it was worth it: “Newt Ex Unloads on America; Net Debates ‘Ethics’ of Airing Before Primary.”

After a few minutes of high-octane drama on Twitter, Drudge finally updated with some salacious tidbits: “Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview…” he typed, adding that the interview was earlier this week with ABC News’ Brian Ross, lasted two hours, and the debate was whether it was ethical to air it before the South Carolina primary. He then added that “ABCNEWS suits determined it would be ‘unethical’ to run the Marianne Gingrich interview so close to the South Carolina Primary,” which might imply that the reporters and producers further down from the “suits” may be the ones lobbying or it to air.

Sometime later, Politico‘s Keach Hagey added some of her own reporting, suggesting that we were less than 24 hours from learning the contents of the debate:

Like all good Drudge exclusives, this one is still developing…

UPDATE: Drudge reports (see what I did there?) that the interview is tentatively scheduled for Monday, “after all the votes have been counted.” And adds this salacious tidbit: “Ex-wife of 18 years: Newt not fit to be President… during Lewinsky, Clinton warned cheating Newt ‘You’re alot like me’…”

UPDATE 2: Drudge adds that Gingrich “canceled a press conference” today to deal with the interview, and added more quotes (from this interview with Marianne Gingrich in Esquire):

“He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected,” Marianne Gingrich, Newt’s wife of 18 years, explained to ESQUIRE last year. “When you try and change your history too much, and try and recolor it because you don’t like the way it was or you want it to be different to prove something new … you lose touch with who you really are.”

UPDATE 3: Gingrich’s daughters sent an email to ABC News on the matter, saying they will “not say anything negative about our father’s ex-wife” and that the candidate would continue talking about “issues.” The full letter, via Greta Van Susteren, below:

To: ABC News Leadership
From: Kathy Lubbers, Jackie Cushman
Date: January 18, 2012

The failure of a marriage is a terrible and emotional experience for everyone involved. Anyone who has had that experience understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events.

We will not say anything negative about our father’s ex-wife. He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves.

ABC News or other campaigns may want to talk about the past, just days before an important primary election. But Newt is going to talk to the people of South Carolina about the future– about job creation, lower taxes, and about who can defeat Barack Obama by providing the sharpest contrast to his damaging, extreme liberalism. We are confident this is the conversation the people of South Carolina are interested in having.

Our father is running for President because of his grandchildren – so they can inherit the America he loves. To do that, President Obama must be defeated. And as the only candidate in the race, including Obama, who has actually helped balance the national budget, create jobs, reform welfare, and cut taxes and spending, Newt felt compelled to run – to serve his country and safeguard his grandchildren’s future.

UPDATE 4: According to the AP, the interview will air on Nightline tomorrow.

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  • OSTL

    There goes that whole “right wing” meme out the window. ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    How does Drudge get all this inside information?
    I don’t usually go to his site, but with all the media attention he gets I’ll have to make it a regular stop.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    My guess… He traded his soul for a handful of Alf Pogs.

  • Anonymous

    And I’ll bet ten thousand bucks that Romney is leaking this.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    The ABCNews lawyers were afraid of a lawsuit so they canned it till after the primary.

    The ABCNews people involved in getting the interview probably leaked it to Drudge in order to force their hand.

    Now what does ABC News do?  The shits out of the horse.

  • Anonymous

    Drudge seems to like Romney, as far as I can tell.

  • OSTL

    You mean like Romney leaked all the lies about Cain? Is everything Romneys fault?

  • Anonymous

    Right Wing Radio and FOX News to disparage Marianne Gingrich in 5…4…3…2…

  • OSTL

    You an avid reader?

  • Anonymous

    Yep.

  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    Why is this a surprise to anyone ?  Newts stories are so old already. I’m sure you have at least five more in the can. We need new stories.
    Didn’t we just go through the scorned ex thing ?

  • OSTL

    Nice spin, patsy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    OK, please, is there any chance the GOP can get someone else, at this late date, before they F-up the most crucial election since we ousted King George?

    Huntsman was the most electable – and he’s out!

    You have a black urban population under Democratic stewardship for 50 years, and they’re devastated – yet the GOP makes no argument to gain black voter support!

    Quick, who’s the RNC Chairperson? – Even if you knew, you wouldn’t!

    Where’s Michael Steele? I read his book and he had lots of great ideas…and (I hesitate to give ammo to my detractors, but) I don’t read many books!

    Can SOMEONE please go to the head of the GOP class and lead us to victory over these Marxist-Democrats?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    Newt got his high school history teacher pregnant.  Are they also going to report that too?

  • Anonymous

    Romney is all piousness, but he plays dirty. Look up HenryII’s getting rid of Thomas Beckett and you’ll recognize Romney.

    He doesn’t have the chutzpah to admit he’s behind attacks on other candidates, thus, I have no respect for him. Man up, Mitt, and quit pretending.

  • Cecelia

    So did ABC News leak to Romney or did Maryanne?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, 15 years of Republican cheerleading undone by one story that was going to emerge whether he reported it or not. You are a very clever man.

  • Anonymous

    Goodbye you fat piece of trash!

  • Anonymous

    Since he broke the Lewinsky story, he’s had sources come to him, according to the stories on him. He mostly seems to get people at big media companies to occasionally leak him something, and my guess is that at least some of it is a way to hype a story more than a real leak. Still, his site is largely crap and he definitely links stories that are b.s. 

    It’s the right wing version of Huff Po. 

  • Anonymous

    Fat man is getting it done!

  • Anonymous

    Tell me more about this Marxism. I’m intrigued

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    NEWTERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

     Please, the same old standard attack theme from either the far left, or the Romney RINO right, which is- go after Newt with gossip trash tabloid personal attacks, when they can’t defeat him on the issues, facts, conservatism, and especially on the debate stage. This is the way they sank Herman Cain, and is now the way they are trying to sink Newt.

    Not going to work, as the people are seeing a very disturbing political attack trend to what they are doing..  They are not fooled, and are even teed off by it.

    The Conservative and Republican people, as well as the Independents see all too well, the pattern they have consistently exerted, day in and day out, as their hypocrisy is so blatantly obviously clear to the people.

  • Robert Shlumboski

    What is most disheartening, is the way you idiots buy into any advertisement, twitter buzz, or simple hearsay  to assist in your decision making. The real villains (who always emerge from these political slop operas with pockets full of money), are the media. They are specialists, in keeping the divisions in place and on top. I can do without the commercials, the twits and their like… can you? The internet has adequate information about the candidates from both factions, so why do you need the drama? I’ll tell you why. You are insecure, a followers, intellectual morons, judgemental goofballs, and in need of media affirmation. In essence,  Yo Yo’s, controlled by the whims of these media goons and their political counterparts. Like most in your depraved class, you need validation. Your votes are meaningless, because they are being bought…just as you are being bought like a crack whore for a dime rock. Think about it, the next time you fondle your remote and gaze into the idiot box that so humbly keeps you in check.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Jones/100001374595021 Richard Jones

    Here we go again.

    Personal destruction is what we do best when someone is about to take on the establisment.

    Cained again, right in the nuts.

    Even is it is all untrue, silly Americans will believe it and vote for ROMNEY.

    How sad of a people we have become !!!!

    Nice knowing you NEWTY baby, just leave your “dropping out speech” at the door on the way out.

    You don’t deserve this, and PROGRESSIVES have won again.

    DAMN that PROGRESSIVE TERRORIST GLENN BECK AND GBTV.
    What they won’t do and say to make money scaring GOOD people of USA.

    I hear OBAMBAM will drone IRAN to oblivion too to get American people on his side to win election..
    NOW YOU SCARED, or what?

    I just say give him PREZ (no election) again and save the bombs.
    ODUMBO and SOROS will do and pay ANYTHING, this is is folks, wake up !!!

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich never had a chance. The only question is whether he really believed he did or not. I suspect he thinks he could win because he is a monomaniac. It’s too bad for the GOP he is a serial liar, demagogue, philanderer and shameless shill because he is otherwise one of the only GOP candidates who comes across as moderately intelligent. Since he has no problem with lying, he’d probably be a tough debater against Obama. 

    He wins in the end, though, because he walks away from this campaign with a lot of donor money and the connections to pander for whoever will pay high enough. 

  • Bobby Brady

    So you’re pretty darned sure Romney is leaking that Gingrich’s ex-wife did a tell all interview with ABC on Monday?

  • Cecelia

    Oh, come now.  You make it sound as though Newt dumped Marianne because Keith Olbermann held him at gunpoint.

  • Anonymous

     Gingrich is a sociopath, nuff said.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    drudge has connections throughout the media…  he rarely “breaks” his own stories, but his moles tell him what’s going on their respective news outlets…  this is how he broke the lewinsky scandal ahead of newsweek, who was working the story, but since they were dealing with the president they probably took too much precaution getting their ducks in a row before they committed to print…  drudge had no such restrictions, and he initially didn’t have to commit to reporting facts about the case either…  all he had to do was say newseek was working on that subject matter, which was true…  this happened again, i forget the news outlet, in 2004 when kerry was running for president…  they were working on a story about him and an intern, which proved false…  but again, drudge made no accusations about kerry other than saying a newspaper was working this story…

    while drudge is conservative and his headlines tend to skew that way, his links are to a variety of sources…  he pretty much pioneered internet news aggregation…    

  • Cecelia

    And then maybe it’s something as simple as….  “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    if the abc lawyers fear a lawsuit, what difference does it make as to when they release the interview?…  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    huntsman was the most electable?…  the guy only generated single digit poll numbers, how is that electable?…  was he polling ahead of obama?…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Jones/100001374595021 Richard Jones

    Man, you are a STUNNING MEGA DOUCH BAG, you make NEWT look like choir boy.

  • Henry Wood

    God damn.  Republiklans are steeeeyooopid.

  • Anonymous

    Remember that South Park were Cartman wanted to taste that kid’s tears?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    old news…  operative word here being “news”, since it’s been reported quite extensively… his first marriage…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    It’s central-controlled governance through various machinations.

    Obama taught a course on Saul Alinsky’s views on it, and he attended Columbia during the heyday of Cloward Pivens.

    Hey, if Socialism/Marxism worked in evolving the species I’d have no problem with it…but history has shown over and over again that IT DOESN’T!

  • Duke Chesnut

    Come on people, ex-wives have an agenda of their own. My first ex wife is on her 5th husband, does that make me a bad guy? Herman Cain was knee-capped by an unproven story, that is still unreported, except she was evicted out of her rental property. Drudge got the evidence with that blue dress; ie; Clinton. I am sure Newt’s ex is somehow bitter, and somehow she wants to cash in. Where is the MSM on Obama’s sordid past? HMMMM..Larry Sinclair, Reggie Love, Turner…et al.

  • Anonymous

    Right wingers dissing Drudge?  Someone alert Obermann’s twitter.

  • Cecelia

    Ex-wife of 18 years: Newt not fit to be President… during Lewinsky, Clinton warned cheating Newt ‘You’re alot like me’…”

    If things don’t get more specific than this, Drudge will need to take back his siren.

  • OSTL

    Gonna break a dozen on this thread, too?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silver-Mountain/100003346880778 Silver Mountain

    Bring it Drudge.  Romnippity needs your help. Another attempt to let Delilah determine the outcome. Please. 

    Call me.

  • OSTL

    Wrong again, patsy. Doesn’t it get old? Actually all of the people that “liked” your comment are wrong, too. LOL!

    Well, 5 of them are you so that only makes 3 people wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Conservatard values in full display… Oh the humanity.  What a fine bunch of Americans these Right Wingers. (snickering)

  • Anonymous

    Ask Fox?

  • Anonymous

    Yes I think I get it now. And Marxist Obama’s Marxism is now evident through the various Marxist policies that he has enacted. Yes, Marxism. I definitely get Marxism now. Marxism!

  • Anonymous

    (snickering)

  • Henry Wood

    A choir boy–who boffed his math teacher, then left her because she had cancer, and then left the gal he cheated on her with because she was diagnosed with MS.

  • Anonymous

    It’s his ex-wife you goof.

  • Henry Wood

    WTF are you talking about?  Never mind, I don’t really want to know.

    I swear any minute now you’re going to start raving about how $arah Palin works for Fidel Castro.

  • Cecelia

    John Edwards?   Is that you?

  • Cecelia

    Well, I didn’t mean Hillary….

  • LindaLeigh

    LOL! I couldn’t remember the exact quote but I was just trying to say that on another message board!!  You stated it much better.

  • Anonymous

    OMG George Soros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Чёрт Возьми

    I see the right wing nuts took your joke seriously.

  • Cecelia

    I merely quoted it.  Shakespeare stated it.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Releasing it right before a primary rather than afterward.  

    Maybe this is NOT the reason but if this were Ron Paul it would have been released within hours.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, when Bin Laden was killed, the simple fact that Drudge reported it proves that he is not Right Wing at all.

    That makes sense.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    - or tried to “enact” through Executive edict, regulatory rules, selective law enforcement, intimidation, collusion and outright corruption.

    Yes, you have it correct!

  • OSTL

    You HATE Newt. We get it.

  • Mo Fokker

    I can’t wait to see this interview.  Newt is how I view most Republicans in terms of their commitment to their God, their spouses, their principles of small government, and their desire for perpetual wars. 

    P.S.
    Republicans already know Newt is the epitome of sleeze. Why should this interview matter?

  • OSTL

    ;)

  • Henry Wood

    Most people do…

  • Cecelia

    Because Republicans aren’t Democrats covering Bill Clinton’s behind.

  • Anonymous

    Example of FOX viewer (this comment from Gretawire):
         “A former wife that would agree to be on ABC news to air her laundry, has no       credibility in my opinion…”

    This stuff is all over right wing comment sections. Get used to it.

  • Anonymous

    ABC had 4 hit pieces on Romney today.  Somehow he shouldn’t be president because he’s rich. Glad they will destroy Gingrich since this evil hypocrite has to go. Does anyone wonder why the MSM did no vetting on our current president? Everytime the right tried to bring up something in obama’s background, they were labeled racist. Because of the lack of vetting and the cheerleading of the media, we are in a world of hurt. Sadly, the MSM will destroy Romney and push obama through for another term. Very sad.

  • Anonymous

    I know.

    Squirrel!

  • Anonymous

    Conservatard?  How old are you?  I bet you thought of this in study hall.

  • Anonymous

    And here’s the reply to that:

    Brown_Skin_Girl 

    I agree with you – I’m not surprised that Newt left her – she
    seem to have zero class and will obviously do anything for money.

    Isn’t this game fun?! :-)

  • Mo Fokker

    I can’t wait for the ads that talk about Romney’s effective tax rate and his investment funds in the Cayman Islands Crimedog.

  • Anonymous

    It’s like having a conversation with Glenn Beck’s sperm 

  • Anonymous

    Coming from a guy who posts crap about “Obummer,” “Moochelle,” “Pigliosi”, “PROGS” who are communist Nazis Muslim sympathizers–a guy who can’t spell “douche” even though he is probably intimately familiar with the product–a guy who just posts factually incorrect right-wing talking points that begin with insights like “Come on America! Wake up!”–I don’t really feel too bad if you don’t like me. If you want to debate anything I said about Newt, feel free to try.  Somehow “STUNNING MEGA DOUCH BAG” doesn’t hurt my feelings. 

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    Well, there was the eyewitness account of Newt having sex with a neighbor in the car in his own driveway. Maybe more of this type of thing will come out.

  • Anonymous

    “I LOVE it when the fat man scores!” John Madden in “The Replacements”

  • Mo Fokker

    Are you as concerned about physical evidence when sending a black man to the electric chair?

  • Anonymous

    I see your talking about all those that believe anything FOX tells it’s viewers or what Rush and other radio pundits tell their listeners.  It’s a shame more people don’t do their own research instead of believing everything they hear from these misinformation specialist.

  • Anonymous

    “Quick, who’s the RNC Chairperson? – Even if you knew, you wouldn’t!”
    Reince Priebus (you couldn’t make up the name). He was “that kid” in junior high school who ran for Treasurer on the Student Council.”Where’s Michael Steele? I read his book and he had lots of great ideas…and (I hesitate to give ammo to my detractors, but) I don’t read many books!”

    On MSNBC
    “Can SOMEONE please go to the head of the GOP class and lead us to victory over these Marxist-Democrats?”

    At this point you’re going to be down to Santorum. Google him (tomorrow).

  • Cecelia

    Just the leak and the subsequent brouhaha over the interview is enough to scuttle  Gingrich in S.C. 

    That there was some devastating…something….against Gingrich is already settled in people’s minds despite what  Marianne actually reveals.

    Having the news of interview with Marianne coming out this way  is more damaging than any scenario of ABC News merely advertising that they had interviewed her.

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    “he is a serial liar, demagogue, philanderer and shameless shill”

    And those are Gingrich’s good points.

  • Anonymous

    You are ABSOLUTELY right- and that was the purpose of the “leak.”

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ IcaughtOsamaClickHere4Proof

    ice cream

  • Anonymous

    Mitt pays taxes legally. He has done nothing illegal. He has worked within the current tax code. Do loopholes need to be closed, yes. And Mitt is the 1st to say so. But remember this, Mitt does not have much income, hence the low rate. Mitt has wealth, which he has paid a large amount of taxes in accumulating when he was earning higher incomes. Now his wealth is being re-used for investments. Investments are treated differently in the tax code. This is the same reason Warren Buffett does not pay a high income tax rate. He does not technically have an income. Instead of just passing off sound bites you should have a better understanding of how wealth is created, accumulated, and re-invested.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ IcaughtOsamaClickHere4Proof

    Way to get OBL in there and follow it with simple fact, very psychological of you big brother.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a pretty big deal.

  • Anonymous

    I am going to take a wild guess and say ol Duke there has never sent a black man to the electric chair. I know I am spit balling, but somehow I doubt that has happened.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ IcaughtOsamaClickHere4Proof

    awesome

  • Mo Fokker

    “He does not technically have an income.”

    Honestly, that is dumbest statement I have read in months.

  • Anonymous

    And if you rearrange Osama Bin Laden, you spell
    Anaemia Blonds, which of course is the name of the stripper Dick Morris beat in 1994.

    So this is Bill Clinton’s fault.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    What’s perplexing you about the TEXTBOOK strategy of Cloward Piven’s strategem on usurping political power in a democracy? – and Obama’s point-by-point adherence to it?

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ IcaughtOsamaClickHere4Proof

    Right misinformation, you must have gotten that off Wikipedia today after the soap box derby you said you were hosting

  • Mo Fokker

    As you have never seen Mitt Romney’s tax returns, nor do you have personal knowledge as to why Romney invested in funds based out of the Cayman Islands.

  • Anonymous

    Um…okay…I guess that I should take offense to that comment from a guy who believes Gayle King is the High Priestess of the Illuminati.

  • Anonymous

    Then you have proven my point about your lack of knowledge. As it relates to the tax, no he doesn’t. He is not paid by an employer. He invests money he has accumulated. That money is treated differently than income from a job. Hence, “technically”, as it relates to tax code, he does not have an income.

    Returns on investments are not the same as income. The reason being is that investments come with the risk of loss, whereas income is paid for employment services rendered and have no risk of loss (outside of losing the job).

    So to make this as clear as possible. If you work for someone and get a paycheck from them, you have income.

    If you take the money you earn (that has been taxed already) and invest it. It is an investment. If you make money on your investment, it is called a return. The return is taxed differently (lower) than income.

    This is how some wealthy people pay lower effective rates.

  • Cecelia

    Romney’s purpose or the purpose of ABC News?

  • Anonymous

    wow….that has absolutely nothing to do with what I posted. As someone who does business in the Cayman Islands I can tell you the banking system there has very stringent laws. The Caymans have worked hard to get rid of the stigma of having free wheeling banks. I can’t speak to Mitt’s investments there one way or the other, but neither can you.

  • Anonymous

    your lack of understanding about his income indicates that you are not the brightest bulb in your home. 

    He paid tax on his income.  He took what was left over and invested it.  If he would have lost it all, would you be claiming he should get it back?  Think not.  See how dumb you sound?

    You’re welcome to do the same.  You earn it – pay tax and invest what you have left instead of buying booze and women.  You are taxed on that income again, when basically you took a huge risk.  There are no guarantees in this life – and if you pick well, you think that’s a crime?  Poor you – picked the option with no return. 

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    tsk, tsk, tsk..

    Don’t tell me, you went to Harvard and won a Nobel Peace prize too..

    I suggest that you try to be more of an enlightened intelligent respectful human being, instead of facetious with patronizing condescension..

  • Mo Fokker

    The fact the internal revenue code classifies some income differently than other types of income doesn’t make it any less “income” . That was the point I was making. And I don’t need a lecture from DA about why certain types of income are taxed at lower rates.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Silver-Mountain/100003346880778 Silver Mountain

    you are wrong. you are wrong. Romney is the MSM choice. And it disgusts me.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    NEWT WAS A COKEHEAD.  Am I the only to hear that?

  • Anonymous

    I hope you understand that is why I said “technically”. “technically” according to the tax code.

  • Anonymous

    Ha ha. That’s true.

  • Anonymous

    my goodness – a true blue commie.  You don’t need to be told?  well it would seem you need more help than is available here. 

    Tell me, if he lost a million bucks on poor investments would you help him out?  Give him a bail-out?

    A very silly silly person you are.  Not only has he already paid tax and paid again on income from investments, but how many people have a job because he invested that money? 

    It’s so pathetically sad that you somehow feel that capitalism is a dirty word – instead of something you, me and Joe down the street can engage in and reap the benefits or suffer the losses.  Our freedom to do with OUR money what we want to.  It isn’t your money, it isn’t the government’s money, it’s the person’s money who took the risk. 

    What do you do with your 401k?  Under your mattress so you don’t have to pay on that damn money you rightfully earned?

    Seriously dude – communism or just so passe. 

  • Anonymous

    During Quantitative Methods… that’s fuzzy math for you teabagger old fogies.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    the timing of it’s release is irrelevant from a legal standpoint…  if the lawyers felt there was sufficient cause for a lawsuit then they would advise not to ever release it…  releasing it after the primary wouldn’t magically change the interview’s contents…

  • Anonymous

    The Marx Stream Media has been treating Mitt Romney with cashmere gloves.

    Just as with John McCain, if Mitt Romney wins the  nomination, they will turn on him with everything in their arsenal. They have their nose stuck so far up President Marxist Cockroache’s A$$ it would take a bulldozer to pull it out. 

    The GOP Power elite have already used everything in their playbook to destroy any opposition to Romney. 

    It’s time to begin hoping for a brokered GOP convention. 

  • david r

    He is just converting wealth from one form to another.  Stock ownership to cash.  Capital gain.  15%.  They measure the gain from his acquisition cost (basis) to what he sells it for.  Us working stiffs sell our brilliance to our employers in exchange for wages.

  • Mo Fokker

    Not a Romney fan? Start focusing on Romney’s investments.

    “His personal finances are a poster child of what’s wrong with the
    American tax system,” said Jack Blum, a Washington lawyer who is an
    authority on tax enforcement and offshore banking”

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/romney-parks-millions-offshore-tax-haven/story?id=15378566#.TxeOh_m0aSo

  • Mo Fokker

    I find the 15%  rate on dividends to be obscene. As if the current rates paid by the banks are not motivation enough to invest in reliable dividend paying stocks, we have to give the rich a huge tax break.

  • david r

    This interview is going to be sweet.  It will like watching gun camera footage from Korean War dogfights.  She’s going to blow off his wings and send him spinning to the earth.

  • OSTL

    You call that “hate?” lol

  • Mo Fokker

    Then don’t make blanket statements like the following, when you don’t know.

    “Mitt pays taxes legally. He has done nothing illegal.”

  • OSTL

    loo…fail!

  • OSTL

    It’s ok for kennedy, soros, etc, to have bazzillions in off shore accounts?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t need a Progressive a$$wipe or even one in the making to to provide me with “reasoning” about Romney.

    Take your masturbatory splatter elsewhere.

  • Anonymous

    Ironic that 14 years after Lewinski, he breaks the story that WILL end Gingrich. That cheating hypocrite is finally getting his comeuppance.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I’m still waiting for Drudge to admit that the Upper Big Branch mine explosion happened. Not a single headline on GOP backer (and close pal of Hannity and Nugent) Don Blankenship’s death mine on Drudge to this day.
    One of the worst workplace disasters in recent history, but for those who get their news from Drudge and live in the rightwing bubble, it didn’t happen.

    And Matt was especially hilarious on election night in 2011, when he simply quit posting news, as results came in favoring the Democrats and guys like Kasich saw their agendas destroyed.

  • Duke Chesnut

    Capital punishment? Surely you can come up with something whitty and not banal. I am merely posting about political assinations. Tossing the race card here is pointless.

  • http://twitter.com/freenezwandring Bill

    There is simply no way that anyone’s real name is Keach Hagey.

  • Mo Fokker

    They are not running for office last time I checked? We are having a conversation in this country about the wealth gap and the fairness of our tax system, so it is relevant to the conversation to know to what extent Romney and Bain capital have taken steps to avoid paying taxes for themselves and their clients.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

     You mean it wuz Willyum Ayers who did it!!1!
    Derpty derp socialism!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    nope
    They’re all in the tank for Mittens.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    How many accounts you gonna register to promote that asinine blog entry?

  • OSTL

    Patsy, Obama just appointed a Bain crony to his staff! You forget about that or did olby not tell you!

  • OSTL

    Obama Appoints Bain Alum As New Director Of The Office Of Management And Budget

  • Anonymous

    who needs ‘the real housewives or jersey shore..this GOP thing is great

  • Mo Fokker

    You are asking people to dismiss what his ex-wife says, despite the fact we know Newt cheated on her with with his current wife,  and had to pay a 300,000 fine for ethics violations while working in congress.

    So excuse us if your patronizing “Come on people”  plea rings hollow.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I sure as heck would NOT take your bet now!

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/here-we-go/

    “More: Robert Costa of NRO tweets: “Newt World tells me ABC intvu is “retread” of Esquire piece. Negotiations have been going on since Tues. Leak to Drudge sped up airing”

    “Something to think about – If Drudge doesn’t report this, it sits until after S.C. and is less of a big deal.   Drudge is tight with Romney advisor (Matthew Rhoades)and has helped Romney with coverage in 2007 as McCain surging (as reported by Jim Geraghty) and 2011 (as reported by Ben Smith). ” ” Not saying Romney campaign involved, but fits Drudge pattern.”
    “Now it all makes sense:  Insider Advantage – Newt up 3 pts in SC (h/t Dynamism in Tip Line)”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NMIKH2YFVNOIFEHIABNQA2MUNY Zona

    I have not been to that crap site…drudge…since the backward B girl story.  They are horrible.

  • Anonymous

    You’d never be able to prove which batch did it, but the media wants Romney as the candidate against Obama because they’re pretty darned sure that he’ll lose to Obama- with graciousness and dignity, but he’ll lose just as McCain did.

  • Mo Fokker

    What if Obama hired an ex secretary of Bain too or the driver? The guy was a staff person when he worked at Bain.

  • Jo Bailey

    Hey Newt fans. How do you like being treated like Ron Paul?? 

  • Anonymous

    Interesting. How did Romney blow such a huge lead in such a short time? Wasn’t he up by something like 20 points a few days ago?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BOVGSJTBPYXEE5CBYYD2OJS6FI Jon

    I think it was Sean Hannity who said something like.. if you can’t keep your promise to your family, you can’t keep your promise to your wife, you are having an affair, why should the American people trust you?  Of course, he was referring to John Edwards. 

  • Anonymous

    I have never heard that before.  While nothing is impossible, I have to belive that one of the other candidates would have discovered this already and leaked it if it was true.  Marianne herself could have told Esquire Magazine.  It just does not seem believable.

    The only chance Newt really has is if the press uncovers Mitt’s affair with Casey Anthony!

  • Anonymous

    “Sorry, but I’m not in the betting business!” Words spoken by Rick Perry.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    You are a funny lady/ dude. Satire I presume?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I just hope Newt loves his pets… But doesn’t “love” his pets.

  • Anonymous

    Everybody is forgetting that Dick Cheney is eligible to be drafted.  He has been thorougly vetted and his election would terrify the Taliban and cause them to surrender without firing another shot.

  • Anonymous

    Where were all these “promiscuous” teachers when I went to school? 

  • Anonymous

    Read the interview she gave to Esquire.  It is surely still on line.

  • Anonymous

    your problem tea party is that you are so so far to the right, that you can barely see independent from your porch.

    the thing with the main (or lame, which you on the right are so cleaver in calling it) stream media is that it is what the main stream her.

    the independents will see and have see the truth, which you and fox cannot spin, which is the newt is a racist and his election will set civil rights back fifty years.

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    Kip Carter’s eyewitness account of Newt in action:

    Kip Carter, who lived a few doors down from the couple, saw more than he wanted to. “We had been out working a football game —I think it was the Bowdon game— and we would split up. It was a Friday night. I had Newt’s daughters, Jackie Sue and Kathy, with me. We were all supposed to meet back at this professor’s house. It was a milk-and-cookies kind of shakedown thing, buck up the troops. I was cutting across the yard to go up the driveway. There was a car there. As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys’ wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me his little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Gingrich is asking South Carolina conservatives to look past his shameful personal failings and judge him only on his obnoxious behavior as a politician.

  • http://twitter.com/jtLOL ‘Jim’ ‘Treacher’

    Cocaine is bad unless Obama does it.

  • Anonymous

    The problem with the tax system is it needs to be simplified to. You can have a sliding scale (although I’d prefer a flat rate), but it should be one rate with no loopholes, deductions or credits. 

    I don’t really care what Romney does with his money or how much he pays in taxes as long as it is legal. I didn’t care where John Kerry parked his multi-million dollar yacht to avoid taxes either, but unlike liberals, I try to stay consistent. 

  • Anonymous

    You do realize the 15% investment tax was in place to support retirees, right? 

  • Anonymous

    Where were they when Kennedy ran? Oh wait, wrong party. 

  • Anonymous

    Apparently they would like us to believe they don’t want Mr.1%, but they are doing everything they can to destroy his number 1 opponent. It seems they do want him but are just pretending. You can see many articles on Newt on that Drudge crap, which means he is also in the tank for Mr 1%. 

  • Anonymous

    I think so, you are on your own with that.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is returning from a full diplomatic visit with Chinese VP Xi Jinping in The Great Hall Of The People.
    Xi meets Jeb Bush, calls for closer cooperation between China, US
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-01/17/c_131365386.htm

    Face it folks, we’re talking a brokered convention with a slate of terminally wounded candidates and a Paul campaign ready to jump ship.
    The Bushes don’t forfeit power. 
    JEB BUSH will be the next President after Barack Obama.

    ______________________________________
    The Slimy Newt

    A slimy neocon who calls himself Newt
    Always plays the globalist skin flute
    He gets on his knees
    And does what they please
    While lining his pockets with their loot.

    With women, Newt’s always a smooth dancer
    “Upgrade ‘em often!” is his standard answer
    Which caused him, of course
    To present his divorce
    To his first wife as she lay dying of cancer.

    Speaker Gingrich didn’t give a hoot
    For his family when he gave ‘em the boot
    He came up short,
    Never paying child support
    For the entire duration of the dispute.

    Next Newt married a girl named Marianne
    Whom he quickly decided to can
    When she got a diagnosis
    Of Multiple Sclerosis
    Which threw a wrench in his political plan.

    Before Marianne announced she was sick
    Newt was boning his aide, Callista Bisek
    While Callista played Newt’s harmonica
    He blasted Bill for gettin’ a Monica
    ‘Cause hypocrisy has always been Newt’s schtick
    .______________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • http://twitter.com/Samuel_Bun Samuel_Bun

    Newt’s daughters are very strange. They have always taken their fathers side against their mother and step mom. His girls are power and money hungry.

  • Anonymous

    We’ll see. Republicans have certainly covered some of their family values hypocrites’ asses. Just ask David Vitter and John Ensign.

  • Cecelia

    Ensign resigned and Vitter was re-elected by his constituents after they learned about an  incident that had happened years prior to his being their senator. 

    However, I do recognize and admit that even quips or retorts that suggest that certain people possess the franchise for sin and/or hypocrisy concerning such, just feeds the beast of partisan malevolence. 

    That makes for some very dull and tedious lobs/posts, indeed, and goodness knows there’s enough of that around here.

  • Anonymous

    Do you ever get even slightly embarrassed interrupting people just to quote Glenn Beck verbatim but without really understanding a single word that you’re saying? If you don’t then you should.

  • Anonymous

    Ensign did finally go, but it took a very long time. And he wasn’t exactly shown the door by his fellow Republicans.

    The bottom line is that every scandal is different and neither party has clean hands when it comes to disowning their wayward members.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QSKMPRZSWAHFSA2HMYAWRPJUKU Gary

    If they were lies then why did Herman quit?  Too much smoke for there not to be a fire.

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    Careful….Liberal slug…..you are opening the door for insults against the Emperor’s brats

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    bravo just ordered a season of “the real ex-houswives of the gop”…

  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry but we already know that Gingrich is a lying cheating scumbag.

    Marianne’s revealing that Newt wanted an open marriage is a big ‘duh’. He carried on affairs during his previous two marriages so he was basically having open marriages although his wives at the time didn’t give their blessings.

    Unfortunately Marianne learned the old saying the hard way–the way you get a man is how you will lose him. (Un)fortunately for Calista I doubt anyone besides her wants Newt at his advanced age and current girth.

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    Who cares when the
    All
    Barack
    Channel
    Airs it…..???
    It’s nothing but lies from a scorned….smitten….vindictive….PAID OFF…. ex-wife.
    This is really laughable.

  • Anonymous

    It is a she said, he said thingy, and we all know that Hell hath no fury like a women scorned. 

  • Anonymous

    Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned.

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    I really think you have a debilitating troll defect disease, that just prevents the facts and truth from ever entering your mind in any degree, in any manner, to allow maturity, respect, or intelligence, to even exist when speaking..

    You really should seek professional help sir, and I suggest sooner, rather tha later..

  • http://foxnation.com TeaPartyPatriot4ever

    Are these the same smart Independent voters, who voted for Obama in 2008.. That’s what I thought.. Their reputation as smart, is now in serious question, as they have all but destroyed that part of their resume..

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/AABYT6KIDEYEBYPBYZNDBCGTVI eredy

    no because hes had other affairs in the past and  why isnt anyone telling how  newts name was on the register for bohemian  grove his n ame  you can look up about it

  • Anonymous

    When the rapist in chief Klintoon was up to his eyes in sorid escapades, libs defended him.  When the dems VP pick John Edwards sicko crap came out, the dems and LSM went silient, when Fat Teddy and Dodd were making sanwiches out of waitresses, it was all fun and games.  When JDK would bed any trollop in sight, silience.  When MLK had white prostitutes lined up waiting wherevver he went, he was a great man with a farce of a national holiday granted him,

    But they are all your heroes

    RIGHT?

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