Why ask politicians anything?  Why not just repeat what their press releases say?

It’s never about the issue itself, it’s always about the meaningless semantics contained in them.

Newt’s a genius.  Yesterday afternoon, everyone was talking about whether Marianne’s “open marriage” allegations would sink Newt’s campaign.

Today all anyone can talk about is John King.  Marianne who?

Newt is, if nothing else, an absolute master of deflection.

Q: What is the difference between Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton?

A: Clinton does not lecture other people on the importance of family values

and that’s a good thing? imagine what he will do as president to you and the public…. Mr master of deflection.

Are you THAT partisan?  Its a good thing for Newt, and a bad thing for the planet. 

 The baby libs want to send you out for political re-education if you say ANYTHING about a conservative that is not an obvious put-down.

 Newt talked about pussy.  Bill got pussy.

The same can be said about the cons.

Bill was a cocksman.  Newt has a rather large balance on his Tiffany’s account. 

Another no substance debate. Iran, China, 85,000 military fired, Fast and Furious ? The miss list is long and dangerous.

Gingrich could be openly conducting an affair with another woman as we speak and I doubt the South Carolina Republican electorate would bat an eye. The disgust and distrust of Mitt Romney among conservati­ve voters is so great that Newt, the man with the UPS-fleet of personal and [political baggage, has become the only acceptable choice for the GOP base. Gingrich knows how to toss red meat to the crowd and play dog whistle politics that fires up the Tea Party and evangelica­l crowds while deftly taking attention away from his despicable and politicall­y dangerous past.   www.sunstateactivist.org

A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona is asserting his Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to testify before a House committee next week in its ongoing probe of Operation Fast and Furious.

Patrick J. Cunningham, chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona, informed the House Oversight Committee through his lawyer Thursday that he will invoke his right against self-incrimination, Fox News reported.

He was ordered Wednesday to appear by committee chair Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who’s been heading up the investigation into the botched program. Under Fast and Furious, weapons sold to Mexican drug cartels were not tracked, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, including a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

“I am writing to advise you that my client is going to assert his constitutional privilege not to be compelled to be a witness against himself,” Cunningham’s attorney wrote in a letter to the committee. “My client is, in fact, innocent, but he has been ensnared by the unfortunate circumstances in which he now stands between two branches of government. I will therefore be instructing him to assert his constitutional privilege.”. Real news!

The timing wasn’t right because it gave Newt the momentum with the tea party (which hates anything not on Fox News) crowd right off. I really wish debates weren’t done with audience participation.  John King should have known better.

Kurtz the jewey-jew-jew bean that is so fixated on the self imposed importance of the media’s sensational nonsense makes me sick every time I see him and hear him talk.

Holy Crap! More people on CNN have criticized John King than FOX!!!!!!!

CHAOS CHAOS CHAOSSSS!!! lol

Flagged for being off topic in violation of Mediaite guidelines.

Exactly: it’s all about the circle of life - 

politicians dictate, reporters type, media distributes, public drools – no stress, everybody happy, mines productive, workers eat, owners buy more stretch Hummers, bang more supermodels, pay politicians, rinse, repeat.

He’d be the first president named “Leroy”. 

(It’s French. Fun activity: check out what it means.)He’d be the first president to have been twice divorced.  He’d be the first president to take the oath with his fingers crossed.(No that is NOT mean. Now, if I wrote that he’d be the first president to take the oath while getting blown, that would be mean.)He’d be the first president to take the oath of office while getting blown.His would be the first presidential seal with a lizard on it.  He’d declare the “first open administration”.He’d decline all salary (& instead would charge “competitive consulting fees”.)He’d out-source the presidential appointments process.

He’d put all government regulations through a “thumbs up or thumbs down” public approval-disapproval gauntlet.He’d challenge Congress to a series of Lincoln-Douglas debates.He’d cut the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal out of his administration’s budgets.He’d appoint Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy, Mitt Romney as Treasury Secretary, Herman Cain as Secretary of Defence, Ron Paul as Secretary of Commerce, Rick Santorum as Secretary of HEW, Michele Bachmann as head of the IRS & Sarah Palin as secretary.He’d push for an amendment to the Constitution requiring all inner city school age children to be trained as janitors or operate a newspaper route or lemonade stand.Yes he would be constantly vigilant against anti-Islamofascist terrorism, but in an effort to reach out, he’d be the first president to advocate for Islamic divorce (“I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee” plus no support payments).The State of the Union address would take on a decidedly personal nature. He’d turn the White House into a for-profit online “republican” civics center.All PBS & NPR funding would be diverted to the Newt History Channel. The Lincoln bedroom be renovated with Magic Fingers & a mirror on the ceiling. He’d have the first All-Cheerleaders White House staff.Every night in the White House would be Toga Night.

Have you missed all the support he’s been getting from Fuppet News talking heads? King knew exactly what he was doing. This … is CNN.

Hey Mediaite – clean-up on Aisle “A Rabble Realist”!

If this is what you post online, we can only imagine what things you say in private.

No, not “chaos” at all: CNN is so ridiculously committed to hesaidshesaid journalism, they’re self-providing both sides of the debate. Such … is CNN.

After the debate last night, I decided to stay up and watch Marianne Gingrich on Nightline.  The interview had been promoted all day.  The Drudge Report had indicated that Brian Ross had interviewd her for two hours.  As the show began, I was shocked that they were only devoting one segment to the interview (they also did a segment on the Costa-Concordia and one on celebrity babies).  Out of the two hours that she was supposedly interviewed, Maianne Gingrich appeared on screen for less than three minutes.  They had a response from Newt’s daughters and clips from Newt blasting John King at the debate last night, together with the standing ovation he received.  Marianne Gingrich said nothing that she had not already said in the Esquire interview.  She even had to defend herself from charges that she had tried to peddle influence when Newt was Speaker and they were still married.  The interview was a total rip-off and ABC should be condemned for selling us a false bill of goods!

Right on, Howard, right on…!

Why was it okay to ask me about my taxes but it’s not okay to ask about Newt’s perversions?

I wouldnt mind that

I find Howard Kurtz analysis on most issues to be the worst kind of centrism.

The kind of centrism that is always lusting after the position that causes the least friction to the status quo.

If Kurtz was King Solomon he would cut a baby in half rather than take the time to figure out who the real mother was.

Too many rhetorical babies are butchered by knee-jerk centrists like Kurtz.

And I say this as a Centrist. 

IMO, a centrist should not always be trying to find the middle ground. They should always be trying to find the best solutions to problems regardless of left or right ideology or party affiliation. That means you support a conservative idea if you think it makes sense in a particular situation and you follow a liberal idea if you think it makes sense in a particular situation. And sometimes it even means you DONT COMPROMISE. Sometimes it means you ASK THE TOUGH QUESTIONS.

Republicans in general and Gingrich in particular have made marriage and family values an issue. So he must take the tough questions no matter how uncomfortable they are to him.

Centrists must learn to live with the fact they are going to be called a conservative Republican by liberals and a liberal Democrat by conservatives if they stray off the ideology/party line even 1 percent of the time.

both of you will be sharing a cell at the FEMA reeducation camp.

so start packing boys

david r

CORRECTION:

Newt married staff members for pussy. Bill got pussy.

so we’re supposed to “debate” angry rightwing talking points in a vaccum?

that’s not so much substance as the substance you find on the bottom of your shoe

here’s a clue for free…a) all of America’s problems did not begin on the first day of Obama’s election and b) he’s not a king who can just make anything happen that he wants to and c) he’s not an android super computer who can be at every meeting about every thing that goes on in America

If you guys held Republicans to this kind of hard line standard when a Republican is president, then we’d be more appreciative of your views when a Democrat is president.

But all you guys did was cheer lead Bush’s every word about “national security” and ignore his 8-year spending spree.

Your not a centrist dude….everyhting that I’ve seen you say on this site clearly points towards your staunch liberal philosphy.

Newts a master of deflection, and Obama just runs the clock out yammering about something else when he’s asked a tough question he doesn’t want to answer….and least Newt wont waste your time.

Sure he did…got any more partisan B.S. to bless us with?

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/29/us/on-issue-of-family-values-clinton-unveils-an-agenda-of-his-own.html

Yes bill did get it..although his taste I `would very much question.

Spoken like a true centrist!

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Kurtz isn’t a media watchdog, he’s a hostess, wringing his hands and tut-tutting over any perceived impropriety. I don’t think this is about any personal political leanings, though. I think it’s about conformity, timidity and his inability to form an original thought. That’s why he gets steamrolled by conservatives crying bias, because if something causes such outrage, well, it must be outrageous! Worse, his superficial concept of “balance” leads to all sorts of absurd false equivalencies. He seems to put more value on the appearance of truth than on truth itself.

Uh … why do you think the Republican House caucus worked so hard to get rid of him 1998? Because he was actively wasting their time in the House.

Um – Clinton knows how to run a national government & Newt doesn’t?

If John King had started off with “let’s get this out of the way Newt” then we can get down to business, things would have been much better and Newt would not have had the chance to grandstand.
How obvious could Newt be with his tax return?  What a jerk.
However on earth can Newt say with a straight face that “because he was so passionate about this country he worked long hours and did things he shouldn’t have”…that is a disgusting excuse to say the least and I don’t buy it.

so it was appropriate for blowhard donnie trump to go after obama about his pretend findings on the President’s birth certificate, but newt’s 2nd wife isn’t allowed to tell the public what a total and complete creep he is. . . .you gop robontonics make me laugh with your two-faced reactions.

One of Newt’s comments during the debate was that he had ‘friends’ who knew that what Marianne was alleging, that he had asked for an open marriage, was a lie.  He even said these friends were offered up to ABC news to counter his ex-wife’s version of things.  So who are these friends, what are their names, it’s time to interview them and find out if they even exist, and if so, how were they in on this most private of phone calls, the “I’ve been cheating on you for 6 years and I want you to put up with it call”, and if they knew so much, how come none of them ever told Marianne in those 6 years that Mr. Lizard was cheating on her? 

In other words, Newt threw out a bald-faced lie like the sociopath he is, and John King didn’t respond by asking him, in front of the whole world, ‘which friends, Newt?’

Of course, Newt would have called that ‘gotcha journalism’ and the racist morons in South Carolina would have cheered, just like they booed the golden rule when Ron Paul brought it up.

why are u worried about what people say in private? do people have to share your opinions in private and in public to be “okay?” go drink some more rothschild kool-aid you sheep. 

Clinton bagged an old girlfriend of mine when she was 17 and he was Arkansas AG.

I’m center left on:
-health care
-regulation of pollutants, financial grifters
-usury by credit card companies and others
-campaign finance reform
-Guantanamo
-gays in the military; gay marriage
-unions

I’m center right on:
-Lybia, Afghanistan, drones
-abortion
-gas prices (i want it to be as possible)
-school prayer
-display of religious symbols in public square/courthouse
-gun control (except for assault weapons I see no problem with them)

just to name a few

Right,

Forcing Clinton to impliment Welfare reform (he vetoed it twice I believe) and submitting the annual budgets to allowed the government to operate in a surplus is definately a waste of time.

Newt’s made plenty of enemies on both sides of the isle.

I guess he should have just voted “present” 120 times in order to make sure everyone liked him.  right?

that’s pretty impressive

what’s the age of consent down there now?

thank you

But Howard Kurtz is a first class dork, not to mention something of a dope.