Hey John where is your “journalism” about asking questions about Khalid Al-Mansoor and his links to Obama?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD068xXkCZc

An agent for Islamists and a radical and racist.

Or how about asking about Chandoo and his trip to Pakistan?

Or about how Obama started his career from the house of terrorist Bill Ayers?

Or about Obama’s ties to Rezko.

Or Obama and his ties to the PLO?

There will be a whole pride of “elephants in the room” during the general election debates. There are many real questions for Obama, from his seamy past, to the scandals, union giveaways and many, many (a lotta) failures and outrages of his administration.
For example:
Rejecting the Keystone pipeline is an act of insanity

King should have let the other three work the question into the debate.Gingrich will get some sympathy vote but not enough to become the nominee.

Plus Solyandra, Fast and Furious and other sorted things Obama and his administration have done…that the media won’t report.

Like Obama signing NDAA and getting money to pass SOPA and PIPA.

Perhaps later in the debate the question may have been asked, heaven forbid anyone damns John King, but to lead off the debate with that, with everyone waiting in anticipation, was like a fall from a building. Surely there is some other question to get things rolling. Something relevent.

King was carrying water for Paul, Romney and Santorum with that question.

So if you support one of those guys, just shut up and say thank you

Journalism can be a thankless job sometimes. 

My favorite Newt quote was (paraphrasing)…

“These kinds of questions are why good upstanding people don’t run for President.”

Yep, that’s just what I was thinking, Newt.

Maybe without these types of questions we’d have better GOP candidates than you and these other has been, wanna be’s.

The word is out:
THE MEDIA is NOT the MESSAGE!

Sympathy votes?  From who?  Guys who also keep women on the side and ask for open marriages??

Has Jon Bershad been fired for this profanity yet?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-five-greatest-gaffes-rick-perry/

You aren’t suggesting that the other candidates were secretly happy about that question?

How dare you sir!

Just because they were all smirking throughout his answer–until King turned to them for their input and they immediately put on their sanctimony faces.

It’s commentors like you that make commenters like me want to comment less in response to other comments.

No further comment.

I thought it was pretty courageous.

And it let Gingrich flatulate his pre-prepared outrage over the question.

So actually he did Newt a huge favor.

From those who would have voted for Romney because he’s the only one with a chance to win in November. It becomes an anti-media vote.

He was carrying water for Obama.  Anyone who looks like a strong R candidate gets it.  And I am no fan of Newt at all but he’s right about this one.

Little hint, Obama wasn´t present on stage in the real world.

As Newsbusters points out, King didn’t bother to ask about Rezko during the 08 SC debate with the democrats – a big scandal….nope, Obama got a pass.

CNN and King are Obama suck-ups, and will do whatever it takes to protect himself and attack republicans.  Newt was spot on and King was proven to be a skank.

Courageous? Sure, it took a lot courage to ask a stupid question like that in front of millions of people waiting for something important.

John King: Dumb if you do, dumb if you don’t.

Bad decision by King. Gave Gingrich a great opening and shed a very bad light on CNN.

I dare! I dare!

This should become the SOP for all Republicans. Gov. Christie doesn’t take any #### from the Dem-Media complex. Problem is the R’s have wimps like Boehner and McConnell who shake in their boots when interviewed by the press. 

Time to take the “gloves off.” The R’s know the media is out to get them, so unload on them. Not difficult to do. Start asking them why they are ignoring why the D’s haven’t produced a budget in over 400 days, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, lack of Obama’s transparency, broken promises, etc. The Dem-media complex talks of income disparity and rarely talks of the serious debt crisis the country faces. How often do they mention the $15 T debt and its ramifications?

Press interviews with Obama are “lovefests.” What about his history? 

The question was valid – the controversy is he’d never even consider asking a liberal such a question in a Democratic debate.  We know because there have been Democratic debates with candidates having controversial personal failures.

As a lib, this is absolutely inappropriate for the debate.  John King continues to fail miserably as a debate moderator.  That being said, Marianne Gingrich’s interview is relevant to current crop of GOP candidates.  If Clinton’s sexual exploits were campaign fodder, then this is only fair game.  Newt Gingrich has consistently practiced opposite of what he preaches and it is coming back to bite him when he least wants it too.

I stand by the fact that this question and topic shouldnt have been in the debate though, its fitting for the conversation about candidates but not a debate format.

King is damned if he asks Republicans hard questions, and damned if he doesn’t ask Democrats hard questions. Just the way he likes it.

I dont understand why Republicans even have these liberal debate moderators. The only reason I see for going on abc/cnn is to call out the moderators/networks liberal bias like Newt has been doing. All the Republican candidates should keep announcing that these networks need to stop shilling for Obama and start being fair and balanced towards all candidates including Obama. It is so obvious the bias the way the media digs into every inch of every closet of Republicans and dont give an ounce of effort to look into Obama’s who has to have the most shady, mysterious background of any American President.

John King, George Stephanopoulos, David Gregory…  they are all carrying water for Obama.

I say the vote in November is as much a vote against the MSM as it is a
vote against Obama and his failed policies for this country.

Remember in 2008 when Obama and the Dems had to face down the tough questions during the debate co-sponsored by FOX and the Congressional Black Caucus?

Oh wait……. Obama and the Dems backed out of the debate they had previously agreed to. 

After winning the election, the White House immediately attacked FOX. I believe this attack was a ruse so Obama could avoid doing interviews with FOX where he might have to endure some tough questions. Obama has done one 15 minute interview with Baier and one with O’Reilly during the Super Bowl show.

Since its inception, the White House has been occupied by rogues and whores. Newt’s, sexual choices, mean little or nothing  as a candidate.  His credentials as a leader do, and I see little to convince me, he or any of the candidates (including Obama) have the qualifications. They are all mouth pieces, with little substance and a slew of  rehearsed sound bites.  The laughable subject, is watching those in media question their morality.  The very mechanism, that has putrefied  morality in America, having the audacity to question these  pawns of the political process.  Start paying these unprincipled fools (in Washington), commissions based on performance, and watch how quickly the stream narrows.  The White House is The Whore House, and those who aspire to claim it, are the American peoples pimps. Media, of course, controls it all.

Why hasn’t the media tied the Marines peeing on the Taliban corpses to Obama like they did Abu Gharab to Bush? Liberal media bias much???

Another  typical no substance debate by the msm.

Actually, by making the open marriage issue the 1st question, John King handed Newt the debate win. The rest of it was everything we’ve already heard, except for Romney now for a month wavering as whether and when, and what years returns he’ll release. If everything was on the up and up, I don’t thing he and his staff or that stupid to allow this to linger on. Reporters are going to keep asking and he will be asked again in the next debate.

It was the news of the day. It was right for him to ask the question.

Yup. Failed policies like the Bush tax cuts, Patriot Act, warrantless wire tapping, GITMO, No Child Left Behind.. Did I miss any?

Because, if ANYBODY knows skanks, it’s you Tina! You ARE important!!

you defeated your own argument

since when does Newt look like “a strong R candidate”?

He trades in wives like used cars.

that’s what I’m saying

Pretty much. King had to ask the question. He didn’t make the story the biggest news of the week, but it was. It makes sense to lead off the latest of a seemingly endless number of debates with a new topic that is dominating the headlines. Newt knew this and used it as another opportunity to blast the media because that’s what plays well.

It’s unfortunate that every tough question is lumped together with legitimate examples of the dreaded “gotcha” questions, but that is the political environment we now live in. It’s scary to think how a journalist like Edward R. Murrow would have been received today.

Obama’s failed policies:  Obamacare

Yep, but misplaced courage.

Looks like to me that CNN and Newt both accomplished what they set out to do. This story is the number one headline today at every news organization. Everyone is rushing to put just the right spin on it. After the debate, CNN’s own debate analysis team of talking heads scored Newt as the winner with just that single outburst,  predicting that Newt could possibly win South Carolina.

i guess Obama is our next president then…looks like he’s got all the major networks wrapped up and in the bag

nice try

Republicans have put themselves forward as the party of “family values” and the “sanctity of marriage”.

So they deserve greater scrutiny when they don’t live up to their expectations for the rest of us.

Newt has been particularly sanctimonious on these issues (at least when cameras are around).

It’s called being hung by your own petard.

still courage

prove it’s a failed policy

it hasn’t been fully implemented yet.

that said, the portions that caved into rightwing demands probably will sink it, such as the rightwing mandate that forces us to buy private insurance, the refusal to include a public option to control costs, and the continuance of the Republican-sponsored legalized monopoly of the insurance industry to openly collude on costs.

why are you trying to get in the way of some perfectly valid pretend outrage?

by winning this particular battle, Newt more than likely cost himself the war

Remember during the 2008 Democrat debates when CNN asked Hillary about all of her husband’s affairs with other women….?  Remember when they asked her how she responded to Monica Lewinsky doing her husband in the Oval Office….?

It is not “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” .
It’s Republican we do. Democrat we don’t.

The question wasn’t irrelevant or “despicable”, but it should have been approached from a different angle. It pertains to a very valid topic for the GOP: electability. The prime directive of the right is to defeat Obama. Therefore, they need to weed out any potential candidate who might have trouble doing that. Newt’s tirade against the media might have gone down well in front of an audience of like-minded people, but if/when he emerges from the primaries and has to stand in front of the whole country (including Dems/libertarians/independents who may not buy his schtick about “moral redemption as easily), he might have a problem. People outside Newt’s base think of him in very different terms, and his obvious and unapologetic hypocrisy on moral issues will be harder to ignore outside the GOP bubble. John King would’ve been wise not to rehash the specifics of the ex-wife’s interview, but rather to ask if the continuing media/public interest is a significant liability for Gingrich going forward, and how much of an effect does he think it might have in terms of how “electable” he appears versus his fellow GOP candidates, or against Obama in the long run?

She was the one running, not her husband.

John King, There is Dumb….Plumb Dumb…..And Just Plain Stupid……

And You just plain can’t cure stupid.

You win, Barry. ^^

Republicans have put themselves forward as the party of “family values” and the “sanctity of marriage”.

Is that written in the GOP platform? Or is that a convenient talking point coined by the Media?
I’ve always considered the Democrats the party of Communist apologists, racists (I grew up in the South) and corruption.

The real question is why are the Republicans having these debates moderated by all these liberals in the media? Its not like the Repubs are forced to have Juan Williams, or King or Stephanopolous in there. Their main goal in life right now it to make the Repubs look bad and the president look good. What makes anyone think the media is going to work any less hard this time around than they did in 2008. have a brain about it.

Is changing positions depending upon the position Obama takes written in the GOP platform?

go head John in Louisiana we have a senator David Vitter that is got no morals  and is an adulter, but this state is full of idiots, Newt had a personal problem with fidelity but now is a public problem, this man is got a temper that can not be permitted in the White House, you did right

you just made an stupid statement, so go to the stupid club

The Republican candidates do not need any help in making themselves look incredibly stupid and inept.  They do a perfectly good job all on their own.

why would they ask her about her husbands actions? Did SHE do them?  
Seems to me this question was directed to the person who committed the actions.  The difference may be subtle to you but it is most definitely there.  Perhaps your anger and political leanings are getting in the way?

I am sure you missed plenty SoTex.  There is still plenty of Bush/Cheney  B.S to shovel up.

How long has the failed “obamacare” been in effect?…….

right…the media completely ignore Clintons scandal….iI remember not seeing anything about it at all…..

Not any where as stupid as John King.

Maybe because they didnt get a chance to?  Hillary Clinton brought it up early in the debate.

Pretty sure Obama was not proposing an open marriage with Michele and Tony Rezko.

its SORDID!!!!    Good God!

Oooohh I just bet Obama murdered Gays in his church! 
 I bet he was having a hot affair with Tony Rezko, 
 I bet he and Bill Ayers trained Taliban members together.  I bet he is doing Coke off a hookers heiny in the oval  office right now!Really?  Thats all you got?  Either way- Newt a “family Values” conservative cheated on two wives and proposed open marriage with the 2nd.  He is a cheating hypocrite.  So he has to answer for it. 
Hes a real piece of work.  Plus his faux outrage was even funnier than I thought it would be.

yes!  Hoist that Newty up.  He is such a phony. 

nope- its Newts own words, silly conservative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSukyaEW8Fg 
And your comparison to Democrats as communists?  A little silly considering you can’t back that up with their own words. 

Yes Barry.  It is.  Its “Defeat Obama at any cost”. 
 Morons, cutting off their noses to spite their two faces.  

Newt was the one who asked for an “Open Marriage” not King. It was the news story of the day, the question was a valid question, and Newt needed to answer for it.

From now on we can start calling John, Mr. Dana Bash! He was missing on a skirt

Most people fully understand that the socialist media is just a bunch of stooges and puppets for the d-cRAT socialist party who have NO ETHICS, NO INTEGRITY, NO HONESTY and spew forth nothing but leftist propaganda while trashing America, conservatives, religion and everything else that is not part of the warped lunatic-left ideology.

cnn scumbag king helped newt – and that is GOOD.

(the ONLY surprise was that scumbag king was able to speak clearly given the fact that his lips have been surgically attached to OBOZO’s butt for several years!)

I believe these questions should be asked of all republican candidates, as long as they have to right to respond. I just think they should have been more probing of then candidate Obama. How can a person who admitted bribing politicians (Resko) have a close relationship with Pres. Obama and enter into a property deal beneficial to Mr. Obama not be probed deeper?  He bought half of the property so Mr. Obama could afford it and then sold him half of that adjoining property to Mr. Obama (thus making his own property too small of a plot to build on and rendering it worthless to anyone but Mr. Obama). And he did it out of the goodness of his heart?  WTF? I’m no genius but I ain’t that dumb! Being a Senator had nothing to do with that act???? 

John King asked the question that was on everybodies lips – if he didn’t ask it he would have been accused of asking soft questions. Newt Gingrich saw his chance to rip John King and dived right in. Gingrich is a very angry man and shows no self disipline. How he handles jproblems in his personel life is a true indication of how he would handle America’s problems. Don’t look for a solution, just move on to the next problem!! If he makes it into the Whitehouse America is in real danger and the middle class will be lost. He is a budding dictator with arrogance that exceeds any other political figure.America can’t give him the power he graves. Vote for him at your peril!!

And still he balanced a budget.

Newt: 1
Obama: 0

Well duh.

Yet you continue to watch the debates.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

If by courage, you mean epic fail by CNN, then yes.

CNN programming – epic fail on repeat.

It failed in two parts:

1. Federal mandate. (Watch the SC strike this down this Summer)
2. If it wanted to operate on mandates, everyone needed to be part of the mandate. Thus, with all of the waivers, epic fail.

I think Gingrich is a narcissistic douche bag who will be no better than Obama, but I gotta give him points for his take down of King last night. 

John Kerry went through a messy divorce and I don’t recall him ever being asked about it in a debate.  In fact, I don’t recall him ever being asked about it.

And how can we forget John Edwards who had conceived a child with his mistress while his wife was dying of cancer?  The media NEVER addressed it, and especially never started out a debate with a question about his cheating ways.

And how come we never heard anything about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceFVpJ-Gyc

Gingrich – 1
MSM – 0

Given your logic, shouldn’t the media have addressed this issue with Obama?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceFVpJ-Gyc

So if you think Gingrich’s ex-wife is relevant, then you should have no problem with the MSM addressing this with Obama?  “Obama’s Sex and Drug party limousine” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceFVpJ-Gyc

CNN didn’t ask Obama about this either:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceFVpJ-Gyc

I think you underestimate just how much Republicans distrust the MSM.

I just read a banner saying, I cannot comment on this site no more.  Are you so forgiving Barry?  Or are greater powers at work here?

I know it bugs you that people do not ask your silly questions byut alas, all news folks TRY to be fair and balanced.  That they flunk is sort of like you.  Newsfolks and companies are guess what?  Human!  Check ont he facts yourself instead of whine and you will get a balanced approach.  It takes some work but it can be done.  Or take CNN and fox and average the news and that is probably about correct!

“it was the news of the day”….so was Heather Locklear going to rehab. Should Newt have been asked about that?  I don’t care what kind of a marriage our current or future President has or wants. I care about our country and the financial toilet it has become. I think it was low class to start the debate that way and I’m glad Newt responded the way he did. And I don’t even like the SOB!

“Anywhere” is only one word.

Newt was only speaker.  He DID not balance the budget.  He did lead the fight to balance the budget but it took a bunch of votes and remember, he had the majority.  He HELPED balance the budget by leading that fight but it took the help of many of both parties to win that day.  And frankly, Newt’s influence does not even exist in the present day.  Also, our guy, GW got our interest bill so high with his two off budget wars.  So who knows when we can ever catch up.  Have you ever added up the interest we pay on that debt.  It is not something we should be proud of as a party.  In my opinion, Obama waited far too long to shut down the Afghanistan war.  By the way, Iraq did NOT send the perps of 9-11!  It was Afghanistan.  But that is the first war Bush pushed that was off the wall.

Oh those pesky facts!

I am a life long Republican and Newt’s piggish life style CERTAINLY is a big issue with me.  Not only did he make that disgusting proposal, he ended up divorcing his wife who was suffering through chemotherapy at the time.  Now that is so boorish it is past disgusting.  I guess he forgot his marriage vows about “for better or worse”!  He already had this romance with Callista going during his wife’s cancer ordeal.  Now there is a true smuck!

The thing that impressed me, a Republican, about Obama is that he did finish the two wars and brought our military home.  We could still be spending billions on those two sink holes.  If Bush had concentrated his attention ofn good plans to make Afghanistan pay for sending those perps on 9-11, then I could have fully supported him, but instead it appears that he went to Iraq to TRY to outdo his wonderful father and how miserably the goof failed at that.  GW Bush set our party back light years and paved the way for Obama’s landslide.  To twaddle about Obama when he is the one who got the job done with dignity is purely partisan and no doubt a bunch racist.  And that makes me sad about our party of Lincoln.

isnt it fun to watch gingrich be righteous…….he excoriates the president and then talks about negative input “in a presidential campaign” by the media; and we know how presidential newt is.
they are not the gentlemen who left their wives or cheated on them; they are doing their job. gingrich is loathsome; an eel.

This is actually a reply to Mari below. Most of the 9-11 perps were Saudi (9 if I remember correctly). Bush should have invaded Saudi Arabia.

Why didn’t King stand up to Gingbang at the time?

Right about what?
Did he think that the issue was going to just disapppear?
And he was there to answers questions, not to lecture the moderators.
I blame King for not shoving it back up his ass.
As for despicable, gimme a break.
That loathsome piece of shit is as despicable as it gets.

Boo hooooooooooooooooo

Maybe you should be a reporter yourself.
Instead of a media critic.

Maybe you should be a reporter yourself.
Instead of a media critic.

CNN would have been better off leaving the issue of Newt’s ex to the gutter press, like ABC.  Instead, John King served a fastball down the middle and Newt knocked it out of the park.  Everybody already knew Newt had been unfaithful with Calista while married to Marianne.  Everybody knew about the divorce.  Everybody knew Newt and Calista had married.  None of it was news, except that a bitter ex-wife tried to ruin Newt’s run for the presidency.  IMHO it would have worse for Newt – CNN’s obvious intent – to let it hang out there unanswered.  CNN, you blew it!

“Is that written in the GOP platform?”

I don’t know if it’s WRITTEN in their platform, but it’s definitely part of their constant stream of babble.
Or did you miiss that?

“…your comparison to Democrats as communists….”

Hey, it worked for Nixon, so it became their mantra.

Yet, here you are.

I only would suggest that you substitute “vile” or “loathsome”, for ‘boorish”.
 

“Hes a real piece of work”

No, he’s a real piece of shit.

Some other questions that might have been asked during the debate, if Newt was going to start screaming anyway:
Where is Calista, now, with the open marriage arrangement?
And does this come into play during private fund-raisers with fat-cats?

“Rejecting the Keystone pipeline is an act of insanity”

No.
But taking you seriously is, as it always has been.

Of course, Newt, that’s why you’re here, instead,

Still in moron mode, I see.
The ridiculous charge, the maniacal laughter, all in two lines.
You’ve really mastered the form.

Why would he have to watch the debates to get the sound bites?
They’re all over the news and the ‘net.

But keep up the good work. (Of demonstrating the wrong-wing mentality, such as it is.)

I think you overestimate just how much the rest of us care.

Get real.
It was leading the news all day.
To have NOT asked it would have been as absurd as Gingrich attacking the moderator.
Who should have defended himself then and there.

Who says it was stupid?
You people, who have already been identified as the stupid ones?

It was a good question which should have been followed with more of same.
Like, is Calista on board with the open marriage?
Does it go into effect during fund-raising? With fat-cats?
America wants to know.

Hey, if you can’t stand the heat……

The Budget is proposed by the President. All Newt did was help pass the cuts that Clinton sent to him.

That the best you can do catch a typo?

Pitiful just pitiful.

Let’s see, does the media ignore Obama the way the mental health authorities ignore Jeff?

Yes.
Saving the auto industry, record corporate health profits, and a healthy stock market.
And health care reform which prevents insurance cos from dropping people when they get sick.

How have Obama’s policies failed?
Put up or stfu.

No.
They don’t believe in whining, bitching, and complaining.
They’re rugged individualists, so it’s against their religion.

Are you really prepared to predict the meanderings of the wrong-wing mind?

Thanks Steve, coffee all over keyboard and laughing so hard its coming pout of my nose!  Thanks for the fun!
I don’t quite understand what the right wing is blathering on about Obamas background.  Was it not clear or does he has a secret life….or wife?

“Perhaps your anger and political leanings are getting in the way? ”

Could be, but I’d just chalk it up to his stupidity.

As I understand it, when you make a charge here, any charge, you’re supposed to back it up with reason, logic or facts.
Otherwise, it’s like you’re just babbling aimlessly. Which I’m sure you enjoy doing. But I’m also sure that you wonder why no one ever takes you seriously. And this might help with that little problem.
Because John King is a national news figure, chosen to moderate a debate, and you’re lucky if you can figure out how to turn the tv on.

“He was missing on a skirt ”

Huh?

Nope, that’s not even close to my best. I save that for the more deserving. Have a nice weekend. :)

And my dog thinks he’s Wonder Dog.

You’re absolutely right. I don’t understand that. And after reading your inane rant, I still don’t.
The media is pointing out what utter morons you creeps are, and you, are sealing the deal.

Btw, the next time some conservaslob hypocrite starts moaning about the lack of civility here, would it be ok to cite you as an example?

Is there some point to this babble?

It could be argued that Newt blew it, by going on a blatantly hypocritical rant, with a soft spot a mile wide, and capping it by using “despicable”, one word he should never, ever, go near.

Anything can be argued, but I saw the crowd reaction.  Newt knocked the pitch out of the park.

Of course the crowd loved it. They’re rabid dogs.
I was referring to the larger crowd, the tv and news audience, now, and in the future.

Thanks for the snaps.
The wrong-wing seems to believe that there is a lot of baggage in Obama’s pre-Senate days, and if you are in Chicago, maybe you’ve heard something. Or maybe it’s a load of crap.
Either way, at this point, it’s completely irrelevant. He’s been in office for three years, and so far, I’ve seen no evidence of an evil heart.
Never lose sight of the fact that these people are less than rational.

I thought “piggish” did the trick but it may be too mild after all. Suggestions well taken.

Piggish is too mild. Go with “pig”, instead, as it removes all doubt.
And if Newt doesn’t qualify as a pig, by the standards of every woman that I know, then no one does.

And to counter your claims:

“HUZZAH!: Why Rejecting the Keystone XL Pipeline is Good”
http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/01/18/huzzah-why-rejecting-keystone-xl-pipeline-good-news

Obama’s Rejection of Keystone Pipeline Is Good for America
http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/131741/obamas_rejection_of_keystone_pipeline

Keystone XL pipeline: Obama rejects controversial project | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Are we listing all the reasons he was unable to do what was needed? If so, I can surely list all the specific incidents of Tea Party Republican temper tantrum obstructionism.

Well honestly, most people could care less about the debt, they care more for their families and how they will be able to survive without enough money or work. Meanwhile, Romney is telling an out of work voter that he’s wrong about income inequality and Americas right!’. Basically calling this poor olde voter that he’s not American because Americans don’t ask those kinds of questions to their superiors, the rich and mystical job creators. This whole field has no idea what it means to be a regular American today. Our fears, our hopes, our dreams. Our lives, the struggles, and successes. No clue at all.

Don’t mind the question about Newt’s ex, but the question about my taxes crossed the line.

Newt hit it out of the park in the short term. In the long term, my SuperPACs will be all over this when we go to Florida.

Except this won’t end at that debate. Just watch what my SuprPACs do to Newt in Florida.

You can’t ask me such questions. I’ve only been married once, unlike Newt.

I guess we should have unbiased & articulate individuals such as yourself report the news from now on.

That would’ve been funny if it made any sense.

Because having all the debates on Fox would make Fox & the Republican Party look bad?

I guess that’s why Palin isn’t running this year.

That’s what he asked you.

John King or a random troll on Mediite that’s crying about John King, hmmmmm, I wonder who’s dumber.

Christie is a god guy but he just invites the fat jokes.

King got me good on the tax question bough, especially when he brought up my dad.

When will you be banned for trolling? Did nt Alex warn you about thi already?

Like what? My taxes?

With his uncontrolled rage even his staunchest far, far right folks who support him better have a time of reflection before he is unloaded on our country and then has to have a talk with the Russian leader and he blows his cork in an international “Be nice discussion  about the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.  I can see Newt’s bulging eyes, his livid red face and the snarl on his face.  Nice negotiator eh, when he cannot even control his hate filled speech on a national TV show that he is supposed to impress us by making nice with his would be voters.  I think he pretty much showed himself for the north end of the donkey named Jack that is going south!

Yes his ‘seamy’ past when he got a scholarship in Hawaii to a private school and graduated with honors, or perhaps you are talking about his stint in Harvard law school where he was on the Honor role so often.  Then again you may be talking about the fact that he did marry his sweetheart and had kids after he was married.  Or then, there is his life as an attorney that was also first class.  Look, I am a Republican but racist garbage supposedly went out of style in our party when Lincoln was our President.  But perhaps you think that something was wrong with Lincoln also just because he paid attention to the constitutional protections of ALL! and particularly of blacks!  That may just drive you around the bend.  Jealous probably or just “pure-D racist as they say in East Texas,

I am a life long Republican but all this silly made up stuff just give me the giggles.  I never know if it is sick humor of just plain unadulterated racism, or ignorance.  Who knows but it certainly sound hysterically funny if you are really talking about Obama.  I am a Republican but stooping to character assassination of just plain overt and disgusting racism is so un-Godly that Republicans show how disgusting they are when they make these crude racist cracks.

Please do not shackle thinking Republicans with any universal description of this oafish comment.

Actually Newt’s problem guess what, it belong to NEWT.  He not only asked those indecent questions but he did so while his wife was having to take Chemo therapy for hir bout with cancer.  Talk about a sweet husband.  That means he had Callista on the string while his present wife not only suffered with cancer but was in the midst of taking a round of Chemo therapy.  so cheating is beyond despicable for some one who lectured Clinton and now totally embarrasses our party, but Newt was horsing around while his wife was so ill with cancer and getting chemo therapy.  I mean you have to be a total crud to do something like that.  I think the Scripture talks about not throwing stuff at others with a spec in their eyes when you have a huge boulder in your own eye.  OK so it is a very loose translation, I admit!

Furthermore, Gingrich’s silly uncontrolled rage demonstrated so distinctly that he is not ready for prime time in the Oval Office.  He lacks even minimal amount of self control in all parts of his life, not only in his lurid sex history.  Can you imagine the dolt talking to a foreign leader who ticks him off.  We could not expect him to control himself for the good of the country.  No sir!  He would just blast away even if it precipitated an atomic bomb throwing contest that destroyed our country. 

I Gingrich thought his behavior impressed the large majority in our party, he is wrong.  And I mean horribly wrong.  Most of us think Newt behaved like a spoiled brat.  After all, HE is the one who ‘sleezed’ around on his wife who had cancer.  His love triangle existed long before he asked his second wife to share her husband with that ally cat. 

Actually Newt’s behavior on that whole night illustrated so graphically how absolutely unreliable the goof is and that he not only cannot control his zipper but his lips are out of control entirely, no way can one imagine this loose lipped goof in any discussion with some world leader that might get a bit pointed and critical in his questions.  i can see it now.  Headlines reading, “Newt precipitates WW3 by his disgusting screaming behavior at the last summit meeting.  Not only could Newt not control his zipper, he obviously lacks ANY control of his big mouth! ‘ Our party does not need this.  In fact, he is the last thing in the world we need if we want to beat Obama.  Newt will hand Obama a sure win by just opening his big fat mouth.

Actually, Newt’s infantile behavior showed he would buckle under pressure when he was confronted by any two leader from the entire world.  Newt probably wrecked his marriages by exploding regularly in this sort of uncontrolled rage.  That his second wife made it through chemotherapy with all his disgusting behavior is a credit to her stability and goodness in the face of his wicked, sleaze behavior.l  Catting around when your wife is being treated for cancer is the lowest of the low,  And he thinks he has the moral standing to be in charge of the nuke button.  The guy cannot even control himself, let along attempt to manage the entire country or world problems.  No thanks Newtue,  You are just terribly damaged goods.  You make Clinton seem absolutely saintly because he worked out his problems without all this S you are peddling. 

Rabid dogs?  Funny, they looked like people to me.  People who wanted to hear a debate between 4 guys who are seeking to make a case why each should be given a chance to be the Republican candidate for president of the USA.  The TV audience got the same chance to see Newt handle a gotcha question from a Democratic Party operative posing as a debate moderator, and I would think the reaction of those in the TV audience would be colored by their political orientation.  Those who want President Obama to win in November will be hoping Newt doesn’t get the nomination, because he showed himself to be able to give back as good as he gets.  Those leaning towards voting against keeping President Obama will like Newt’s answer, because it reinforces their impression that Newt can take the heat and will destroy 
President Obama in any debates because he doesn’t need a teleprompter to speak in complete sentences.  Newt, in fact speaks extemporaneously in complete paragraphs when called upon to do so, and is able to answer a question with a yes or no when such an answer is appropriate.
Do you remember President Obama’s answer during the 2008 campaign debates to a question about his admitted cocaine and marijuana use?  Neither do I, because the question was not asked by the Democratic Party operative posing as a debate moderator.

Time to coin a new phrase.  ”Press Nullification.”

During the OJ trial, the term “Jury Nullification” became part of the public discourse. It meant that even if OJ was guilty, past wrongs against African-Minorities in the judicial system meant that OJ should be acquitted. 

“Press Nullification” means that even if Newt’s behavior is not something that most conservatives approve of, past wrongs against R’s should be considered when reacting to a press question. 

Yes very loose. Jesus said take the 52 inch plasma flat screen out of your own eye before removing the I-pad from your companions eye

They didn’t care about the debt in Greece either. A recent article by economist Robert Samuelson(I believe in TIME) argues that few Americans realize just how serious the debt crisis is and the ramifications. He is correct.

A group of elephants isn’t called a pride it’s called a debate

The moment I was assured his bettors had due notice my Trolling career ended.
Thanks for your response.

So? and the relavance?

Kind of late to be sticking your nose into the conversation now isn’t it.

Hard to reply to something from the how long ago on the blogs, at the speed in which they operate?

How about You just catch up with the rest of us?

Random Troll? That seem to be what you are doing, so far you have posted nothing of substance.

Now since you seem to be a Mittens supporter? What about this.

Mittens, Has a problem, He hasn’t manned up and released any of His own back ground information.

Point of fact Mittes went to great length to erase any information from His term as Governor of Massachusetts, Even going to the length of buying the office computers so He could destroy the hard drives.

Mari

The fact is, “thinking Republicans” are in bed with their wrong-wing, which appears to have taken over the party.
There will be at least one extremist on the ticket, either as presidential, or vice-presidential candidate.
Either expel these creeps (not likely), or accept the current reality, and drop out of the party (more likely).
Or embrace them (if you can)

Yes.

Just that you’re out of your league amongst people of intellligence.

It would have been amazing if he had made any sense.

Great point.
Not the one you were attemtpting, but the one that came through: that you’re logic-challenged.
If Heather Locklear were in the debate, running for President, then, it should have been asked.
But the larger question is, why SHOULDN’T it be asked of newt?

They looked like rabid dogs to me.
What is the wrong-wing objection to gotcha questions? Other than they don’t like to be got.
Your collective antipathy toward the media is based in a desire to play censor. You want to control the flow of information, and it infuriates you when you can’t.
It was a CNN debate, and if they are perceived as lacking integrity, then those candidates with integrity (Newt? yeah, right), should have opted out.
As for who Democrats want to see as Obama’s opponent, they would LOVE to see Gingrich. He’s viewed as a self-destrructive, loose cannon by political pros in BOTH parties, and is only supported by the wrong-wing.
And since you mention it, how is mj use any worse than alcohol use?

That really doesn’t work on any level.
Jury nullification is done by a jury.
Is press nullification done by the press? And if so, how?
Or did you mean that those subjected to questions that they don’t like, should attack the questioner? In which case, it’s not press nullification, but subject nullification.
And what are they nullifying, anyway? With a jury, it’s once and done. With the press, they’re in it for the long haul. When the audience isn’t packed with one’s supporters, roaring with blood lust, like the animals they are.
And not all reporters would take such crap, anyway. I remember Dan Rather shoving it back at Nixon.

But, this is all idle chatter. It’s never gonna happen.

 Not all reporters would take such crap?  Then don’t show up on their show.  Obama has refused to show up on FOX.  (One 15 interview with Baier).  Half the US is conservative and half liberal. 

Obama and the Dems backed out of a previously agreed upon debate in 2008 co-moderated by FOX and the Congressional Black Caucus. See how it works. In Nixon’s day, there were not alternative news organizations. All to the left.

I’m curious as to why you had to insult me prior to asking your question. After reading several of your comments to other people, maybe that’s all Steve knows. Keep on keepin on friend.

To answer your question, it shouldn’t have been asked at a Presidential debate because the candidates, regardless of who they are or what party they are with, marital preferance has absolutely NOTHING to do with the job of President Of The United States. If a requirement of the President was to be faithful to his wife prior to or during his Presidency, American history as it pertains to the White House would be quite a bit different.

I don’t see any response to my questions about press nullification. You just went off on a rant about Obama. Fox is not a legitimate news organization, per their own words.
And I don’t know anything about what happened in 08, or why.
Nixon was a vile creep, who tried to install himself as king. I don’t regret the press opposing him.
And I don’t know that the country is divided 50-50 either.
You make a lot of assertions. Not that much sense.

As for reporters not taking crap, I’m referring to Ging’s encounters in the upcoming months. He won’t be getting free passes like he got at the debate.

You still have posted nothing of substance.

Not a rant, just posting some facts. Obama used “Media Nullification” by not showing up. 

You don’t know what happened in 08? Google it. The Dems backed out of the co-sponsored debate. 

BTW, you might also do some research and find that (I believe it was either George Mason or Columbia media analysis) in 08, Obama received nearly 80% positive press from the network news vs 20% for McCain. For FOX it was 49% positive for Obama and 49% positive for McCain.

I did not vote for McCain or Obama (first time not voting).

 I did not like Nixon as a person, but Title 9,also he did more for school desegregation enforcement than previous presidents, Govt. workplace safety, etc. He did get the troops out of Vietnam. 

I am not a Gingrich fan either, but he has more than held his own against the press. Just like Chris Christie and Marco Rubio, the press will no longer be bullying the R’s. Yes, Boehner and McConnell are scared of the press, but they are dinosaurs.  

You don’t know the country is split 50-50. Sorry, but do you follow the news? Pew or Gallup? Ever hear of them or their surveys?

Don’t bother to respond. 

I think it rather hypocritical for Newt to stand there and call the question “appalling” when he had the audacity to impeach the president for behaviior not even as bad as Newt’s twice cheating on his wives.  His daughters came out saying it was fine, but I wonder how they would feel if they found out their husband had a mistress sleeping in her bed on many evenings for 6 years and then divorced her when she found out she had MS.

It seems as though to me that the republicans and FOX made a big deal of Bill Clinton’s unzipped pants.  Seems as though to me that Bill’s little affair was nothing when compared to Newt’s.  What I find appalling is how hypocritical the republicans are over this wife-cheater.

No one is saying you have to show you have been 100% faithful to your spouse, but when you led the charge to impeach a president for something not even close to the filandering this man has done, you are a liar and hypocrite in my book and it doesn’t sell well at all;.  And – when you cal the president a “foodstamp” president – that is racially coded and it may sit well among the white southern tea party in South Carolina, but it won’t play well in middle America.

If I remember correctly, Marianne was Newt’s SECOND wife.  Like, she expected him to change?  

Unzipped pants are not illegal.  Rape is illegal.  Perjury and obstruction is illegal.  Bill Clinton was and is a sexual predator.  Bill Clinton was and is a serial liar.  Bill Clinton was disbarred for perjury and obstruction of justice.

No, nor should his present wife and mistress during those years – the “Tiffany loving” mistress who wants to be First Lady,.  what a role model she would make for all those right-wing religious fanatics little girls.

And you are saying that Newt Gingrich was telling the truth the other night when he denied that he had asked Marianne for an Open Marriage?  Are you nuts?  What does she have to gain?  Nothing but satisfaction that Newt and that sleep-around-whore he has beside him get a pay back – kind of like Newt began paying back Mitt Romney for running those ads.  But I would bet that Mitt Romney and his super pac isn’t finished with Newt and his Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae dealings.

But the crowd also cheered when the guy yelled “let-em die”.  And that didn’t turn out very well in the end.

Newt has a lot hiding in his closet.  You better not hope too much – you might get what you asked for.

Despite the fact that Newt wants to take credit for bringing down the Berlin Wall, balancing the budget and passing welfare reform, he didn’t do it alone nor was he as instrumental as he wants people to believe.  However he was instrumental in growing the national debt during the Bush 41 years but you never hear him talk about that for some reason.  Nor do you hear him talk about how the welfare bill came to be and how many times Bill Clinton sent it and the budget back before they were passed by newt’s House of Representatives.  The welfare bill was originally put in place as a test in Arkansas.

It should have been, but I wouldn’t have asked it in that manner.  I wouldn’t have given him the opening for something cute for the conservatives.  I would have tied his affair with Callista in with the Bill Clinton impeachment for the question and it sure wouldn’t have been an open question.

Going through a divorce is one thing, but having had affairs on two occasions while married – doesn’t say much for the vows or oath this guy takes – does it?

I suppose his own sister who supports Barack Obama sees those same sad qualities in Newt.

First of all, being a realtor and originally being a supporter of Hillary Clinton, I took a hard look at that deal in Chicago.  Resko was not a “friend” of Obama’s – just an acquaintance.  Resko didn’t buy that property next door – an attorney did, and the divided lot was sold at full value just like the house was sold at the value. the attorney later sold the other half of that property to someone else.  If I recall, the Obama’s paid $105,000 for that half lot.  that is not chickenfeed.  I checked the values in that neighborhood at that time and it fit the comparable sales in the area.  Besides that, had he not bought it, the Secret Service would have been forced to buy it later on for security reasons.

That’s the kind of unstable, uneducated citizens that we as a country are dealing with.

Don’t you have enough sense to realize that not everyone is “left-wing” if they don’t work for the Republican 24/7 FOX propaganda station?  Maybe they are just regular people and it is the FOX people who have the problem with the truth?

Are you implying that Obama has had an affair?  He hasn’t, so I guess asking the question is rather strange to say the least. 

So, are you implying that the “wronged” spouse should be asked painful questions that they had no control over?  Newt’s affair with Callista was not his first occasion to visit the “cheating husband” syndrome.  He has been there on every occasion he has taken a vow.  HE is the one who had control over the situation and cheated.  Hillary didn’t cheat.  She was the victim in this case.
Here is the important thing to remember – women votes are important.  Newt might get some conservative women’s vote, but for the most part – he will lose the women’s vote.  Newt shouldn’t try that “repent shit” either – it can work once but not twice.

And lost the women’s vote.

Abu Gharab was a prison being run by Miller who the Bush administration took from Guantanmo to Iraq for that purpose.

Abu Gharab was a prison being run by Miller who the Bush administration took from Guantanmo to Iraq for that purpose.

As Robert A Heinlein wrote:” It’s amazing how much mature wisdom resembles being too tired.”  Newt’s 68.  My guess is that he’ll be too tired for much philandering. 
Just out of curiosity, which Republican candidate do you support?  Why?  I support Ron Paul.  Newt is just the least objectionable alternative.  Rick Santorum would be a fine candidate… for Grand Inquisitor, but I’ll hold my nose and vote for him. Romney, I’ll go 3d party because I don’t trust him at all.  If Romney told me the Sun rises in the East, I’d want to check.  He’s a total phony.

If you’re simply criticizing King’s strategy, I’ll agree, but I thought that he should have defended himself from Gingrich’s media attack, which he could have anticipated. And which was not only a deflection of the issue, but a larger, and unjustified, attack on the press itself.

Try to pick up on this not-so-latent censorship gene that seems to exist in all media attacks from the right. Not only from politicians, but right here, and on other online sites.
But especially here, where the focus is on media coverage and personalities, as much as on the stories themselves. See how, on the one hand, they’ll say that no one watches Keith Olbermann, but on the other, that he should be off the air. If no one watches him, why does it matter?
They have the soul of censors.

Actually, you’ve posted nothing of substance, and I was pointing that out. With details.
Of course, it can be argued that anything relating to your posts couldn’t possibly contain any substance, but that’s another issue.

Non Sequitur.

“I’m curious as to why you had to insult me prior to asking your question”

Really? Because you’re we’re insulting my intelligence with your example. Trying to force something illogical because you didn’t like the original question.

NO ONE said that marital fidelity was required, but Newt knew, or thought, that Bible-belt voters believed in it, and thus, was upset that his ex-wife’s story came out.  And that he was called on it.  Why else was he angry? Why didn’t he say what you said? Some version of, “who cares”?
It’s about hypocrisy.

In addition, at this stage, it’s about who would make a better candidate, who has what baggage. Who would be a drag on the ticket. So those issues tend to matter, whether they should or not.

“Don’t bother to respond. ”

Why? Is Her Majesty not receiving visitors?

What facts? That Obama did something that you just coined? Get real. And it still doesn’t stand up as a neologism. The press would have to do the nullifying.

But you don’t know the circumstances surrounding that event. Maybe he realized that it was a stacked deck. At Faux? Imagine that.

The way it works here, either you bring the facts to back up your assertions, or you don’t make them. Or you get dumped on. Don’t tell ME to look up what you can’t be bothered to prove.
I still don’t know that the country is split 50-50, even though you mention, in your snotty style, the names of a couple of polling organizations, that doesn’t actually prove that they said that. Or are you logic-challienged?
And don’t think that the press is going to lie down for wrong-wingers because Newt was allowed a free pass.

Btw, if your name actually is ’Hillery’, it’s mispelled; ‘Ary’ is the correct way.