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Jon Stewart Flips Out At Gingrich’s Nerve In Attacking John King’s ‘Open Marriage’ Question

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Jon Stewart came back from his weekend to find a pretty dramatic shift in the dynamics of the Republican primary. When he had left, Mitt Romney was a “juggernaut,” impossible to stop (see several movie posters Stewart apparently made to celebrate this fact). But now he’s back, and it’s all Newt Gingrich, all the time. And all because of a debate moment that makes Stewart completely flip out.

RELATED: Jon Stewart Dissects Gingrich Open Marriage Scandal: Open Your Legs, America

Stewart began his report highlighting the major leap in support over the past week for Gingrich. “Gingrich smoked Romney by 12 points. That’s like winning by four overtime field goals!” (This was Stewart having an outburst about the Giants winning last night). How did he turn it around? Well, Stewart launched into a convoluted explanation of the women in Gingrich’s life– the first and second wives, the first and second lovers, the third wife who may be the First Lady?– that went nowhere. Instead, he went to “the moment where values’ voters supposed disgust… is knocked out.” And he played this clip.

“As close to despicable as it can get?!” he shouted, after a lot of angry stuttering at the camera over Gingrich daring to challenge John King for bringing up his insanely complex marriage life in from of a family values crowd. “I think you have a pretty good imagination for despicability!” He then played King’s response– something about it not being his fault, etc.– and only pursued his anger further, and the fact that Gingrich could get away with his immoralities during the “Clinton penis scavenger hunt” and “King shanked [the question].”

Then there was the whole Freddie Mac deal, as if Stewart’s blood pressure wasn’t high enough. Gingrich claimed he had a “small business” of some sort (“your small business involves selling access to Washington!”) and was an “outsider” (“You’re such an insider… that when Washington gets its prostate checked, it tickles you!”). He wondered if the rise of Gingrich made Republicans happy, only to have a ready-made montage (how do they do that?) of Republicans bickering over the top two candidates.

Stewart had a solution: “I think I can settle this intra-party squabble: you’re all right. They’re all terrible.”

The segment via Comedy Central below:

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  • Anonymous

    I guess when you’re an “historian,” you have the ability to create your own reality.

  • AMP2020

    That was great! Just what I needed to hear.

    Stewart and Colbert as moderators!

  • val smith

    Go get ‘em Johnny.

  • Anonymous

    BRILLIANT!

  • Anonymous

    Stewart knocked out of the park. Again.

  • Anonymous

    Ahhhh…Jonny’s just mad because he thought his Leftist Media Hack pals fired a lethal salvo at Newt, clearing more of the playing field for their beloved Brick OBAMO. But a funny thing happened: People in South Carolina said Eff YOU to the media in general and the haughty John King in particular. So instead of ‘dead,’ Newt is resurrected and now Leftist Media Hacks everywhere are boiling in their own fat over it.

    I LOVE this!

  • shelleyras

    John Stewart should know what he’s talking about before he opens his big annoying mouth.

  • Anonymous

    So you suggest the Republicans in South Carolina have no principles, criteria or values — incapable to judge on their own. Instead they vote for a candidate who they think is not the media favorite?!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    This was really funny and I’m not a fan of Stewart.  

  • Anonymous

    God damn The Daily Show audience is obnoxious.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Leftist media have duped you and your pals to get the biggest blowhard elected.

  • Anonymous

    We want Gingrich to win, you dolt.  First, it provides more fodder for Stewart and Colbert, because Newt is a walking lie and can’t keep his anger in check, and second, if he wins the nomination, we not only keep the Presidency, but we take the Senate and the House.  Everyone hates Newt except for stupid people.

  • Anonymous

    The Right flips out over the fact that Obama secretly smokes and used to attend sermons by a preacher they don’t like but they’re alright with Gingrich taking money from Fannie shortly before denouncing other lobbyists who do, hounding Clinton for cheating when he had been unfaithful with two wives, and chastising others for ethics when his own party kicked him out on ethics charges he has never come clean about. 

  • Anonymous

    So should I before I challenge Newt on lobbying.

  • Anonymous

    No you moron, the liberals are loving it because you idiot Republicans are about to nominate the most unelectable person running over me.  Do you really believe Newt could beat Obama in a GENERAL ELECTION?  Obama will probably win by 20 percentage points.  When Obama gets re-elected, don’t blame Obama supporters, blame the Republicans who thought it would be a good idea to nominate NEWT!

  • Anonymous

    I wish I could attack Newt on being an historian as well as Jon.

  • Anonymous

    Amazing the Republican Party has a major chance to unseat a weak incumbent and they are gonna get spanked because they chose these two losers.

    Hilarious.

  • Jackson Baer

    Although limited in time, He did well at the debate tonight. Ron Paul won’t win Florida but I hope he does better than 10%. I don’t know why his appeal is so limited in the Southern states. Are my Southern friends that opposed to his foreign policy and the idea of living by the Golden Rule? I’m from Georgia and I just don’t get it. Paul is fiscally conservative and stands for liberty and freedom.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=262l6tbHSlU

    http://www.whatthehellbook.com/2012/01/17/to-hell-with-peace/

  • Hout Bosques

    “… Gingrich … provides more fodder for Stewart and Colbert”.
    Eggs-ackly.  

    Go Newt Go!

  • Hout Bosques

    Paronez moi, madam? 
    Ce qui est ceci ”should know what’s he’s talking about”, s’il vous plait? 
    Nous ne comprenons pas à ce que vous vous référez. 

    Translation: WTF are you on about?

  • Hout Bosques

    In all fairness, he wasn’t a lobbyist, he was an influence pedlar. I’m pretty sure that distinction answers everyone’s concerns about Ronald Reagan 2.0 – which, based on it’s, shall we say, well-upholstered appearance, may explain what actually happened to version 1.0:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVlkZVAw8Gc 

  • Henry Wood

    I think your southern friends are annoyed at RP because he disavowed his racist newsletters.  That’s just a slap in the face to the southern white voters in republiklan primaries.

  • Anonymous

    I LOVE this! Ha ha. You won’t be loving it when Obama hands Newt his fat ass in November. Get a brain. No sane person thinks Newt is electable as President.

  • Anonymous

    influence peddler aka lobbyist

  • Anonymous

    We on the left LOVE it too!

  • Anonymous

    GOP these days surpasses Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in comedic gold.  

  • Anonymous

     Obama would win all 57 states a clean sweep.

  • Anonymous

    57 states..drink!

  • Anonymous

    Well done Mr Stewart…

    That is how you show the Gingrich hypocrisy for what it truly is…

    …Republicans can pretend to be as oblivious to the Gingrich baggage as they want, butnobody else has to be…

    Give this man the nomination already…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BFGF5RNRAJ5ZGJWR52Q4LRJ6YY Matthew

    That seems to accurately describe South Carolina. What’s your problem with his statement?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BFGF5RNRAJ5ZGJWR52Q4LRJ6YY Matthew

    It probably has something to do with the fact that the entire South is a money vacuum for the federal dollars. They may preach about small government and fiscal restraint but try taking the $1.37 they get for every dollar they send and giving it to one of the so-called “tax and spend states” like Massachusetts that gets 60 cents back for every dollar they send and you’d have a riot. Illiterate Rednecks love their unemployment, disability, medicare, energy assistance, etc. They just don’t want the “Yuppie Black Muslim Communists” have it. They no doubt know Newt won’t change anything and are probably scared of Ron Paul taking it.

    (not that I support Paul; dude is looney toons)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ron-Perry/100003306088254 Ron Perry

    from tonight’s ‘The daily show’
    Because what comes (newt’s retort) is the moment when values voters supposed to be disgust over the moral turpitude of those in the American public life, is not that cold by their anger at the rights supposed victimization by the media.
     
    Newt: “I’m appalled that would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media, makes it harder to govern this country. 
    To take an ex-wife, and make it 2 days before the primaries – A significant question in a presidential in presidential campaign – is close to despicable as anything I can imagine.”
    jon: BwhaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttTTTT????????!!!!!!!!
    You imagine your wife while she was dealing with having MS would be open to you having sex with another lady you’d already been having xxx with for 6 effin*** years.
    I think you a pretty good imagination Despicability wise.
    How dare you? How dare you sir, in front of these wonderful people of SC, asking me something as tawdry as my 3 somewhat overlapping marriages.
    All john king had to do was to point out the hypocrisy of a family value crusader presided over congress at the time the republican’s Clinton pen** scavenger hunt suddenly finding this kind of question of a presidential candidate unseemly. Point out the hypocrisy of that overgrown deformed baby insisting that gay people sully the sanctity of marriage whilst being a career marriage sully-or.
    That’s all the worthless king had to do. It was an easy one. Instead you muttered and fumbled a 16 yer old juvenile getting caught drugging for the first time.

  • Aditya Anchuri

    I LOVE it too. Especially when we see clearly John King failing on his job. It was a perfectly legitimate question, because it points out the hypocrisy of the anti-gay marriage family value retards, esp. Gingrich. SC is a backward state anyway, who cares.

  • expatpatriot

    King screwed the pooch in monumental fashion.

  • Centrist79

    The skit was brilliant.

  • Anonymous

    I must admit this Newt guy has got some freaking balls, he turned legitimate issues against him around to attack and gain victory. I don’t blame him, I blame the useful idiots. 

  • Anonymous

    You did a pretty decent job last night.  Newt had no answer.

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes I think Jon Stewart could burp & fart on stage and his fans would think its brilliant.

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

    What is it here on Mediaite today – Liberal Elitist Dementia On Parade?

    Oh, sorry, that’s every day!
    lol!

    http://www.proactivepolitics.com

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Don’t know how elite they can be since most pay an effective tax rate almost twice as much as Willard Mitt.

    Don’t know how demented since: (a) Dementia seems to have replaced gout as the preferred affliction of the American Tory and play and (b) a well known Teapublican senator has the surname “Demented”.

  • http://twitter.com/Samuel_Bun Samuel_Bun

    Liberal Elitist Dementia On Parade, No, it is called news. Liberals can not be held responsible for the lack of conservative’s ethics, morals or the stupid things they say.

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately it’s because he’s honest to a fault and his fellow conservatives bash him as dangerous on foreign policy.

  • Anonymous

    It would be funny because it would still be more sincere than anything coming out of Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

    I blame them both. He complains about the media but his presidental run has nothing to do with love of country. It’s about his massive ego and money. It’s poltical theater and a sham.

  • Anonymous

    That was hilarious,. The prostate examine line was toooo funny. It was also incredibly obvious. How can people be so blind to Newt’s hypocrisy.

  • Anonymous

    “Comment removed”

    Je pense qu’on ne le saura pas maintenant. 

  • Anonymous

    yes we love it when Newt ‘answers’ questions with ‘I’m not going to dignify that’ by answering.  Yes indeedy!

  • Anonymous

    Be careful what you wish for.  Just sayin’.

  • Anonymous

    Hey- let Newt win the primary….Can’t wait to see Obama tear him up in the debates.  Looking forward to it!

  • Anonymous

    Well, he did cheat on his wives because he loves this country so much. 

  • Anonymous

    Troll Newtie will look spectacularly bad next to calm, cool and lean Obama during the debates.  Obama will destroy him with his intellect, calm approach and ethical standards and those watching will have a time trying to figure out where the white haired, angry ogre came from.  It will have a look rather similar to the Nixon-Kennedy debates.

  • Anonymous

    From the bowels of “history”, as Tony the Tiger would say: THAT WAS GRRRRRREAT. 

  • Anonymous

    How anyone could vote for such a dispicable hypocrite is beyond me!!  He is unbelievable.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    I think Newt won South Carolina for one reason…He’s from Georgia the state south of South Carolina. Just as New Hampshire voted for the former Massachusetts Governor Romney. Now the question will be what will Florida think of any candidate…Colbert/Cain may actually win this one.

  • Anonymous

    lol !!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Off topic but…….. to see how it’s done to the teabaggers,no prisoners no holds barred. Check out replays of Martin Bashir on MSNBC. He was in rare form and as hot as a five hundred dollar hooker!

  • Anonymous

    LOL :)

  • Anonymous

    Have to be one, to vote for one.

  • Joan Kelly

    Totally agree with you, Ron.  Beside that, as a citizen of the US I have the right to ask anything I want of anyone running for the office of POTUS.  Those running for that position have NO right to to tell me my question is despicable!!!  They owe it to me to answer all my questions and show me their whole self – warts and all!

    I do find the response of the crowd in SC unreasonable.  I question their response as politically informed.  It seems to be more a reflex of their anger at government at large rather than in support of Mr. Gingrich. 

    Frankly, I think SC is still fighting the Civil War and can only wish they’d send their kids north for schooling.  It’s way past time to let that crap go!

  • Joan Kelly

    Jackson, you might consider seeking out a Unity Church – or a Unitarian Church.  But particularly, I think you’d benefit by looking up:  A Course In Miracles.  You can order the books on amazon.com and you can sign up on line for daily messages.

    Reincarnation isn’t such a bad thing.  To me, it makes much more sense than a God that would go to all the trouble to create something so complex as human beings and – then – poof – destroy it all the while promising eternal life…..???  Does that make sense to you?

    Anyway, good luck on your search.  Been there, done that and am gratefully at peace.

  • Mari Johnson

    I think all of this is Providential!  Look, we got a defining illustration of what total LACK of control Newt has on his temper.  Imagine if he were our President, this dork in a conference with a leader from another country, and .the other guy makes some crack and Newt, the goof blows up with his storied double standard and lack of any control of his hideous temper.  There, you have it folks.  If our party elects this guy, this is what you will get when he gets confronted by a foreign dignity he disagrees with.  Believe me, whining Newt, those foreign leader will really be saying stuff so much more disgusting than this factual based question would have been

  • Anonymous

    Thanks, I should’ve kept it on that. Once I brought up his lobbying for insurance companies, I gave him an out.

  • Anonymous

    I would say that’s pretty accurate.

  • Anonymous

    John Stewart lays it ALL on the table, just like it should be.  He exposes these liars for what they really are and shows their true character.  NEWT is a puppet.  He’ll pander to whomever he’s speaking to.  One day he loves global warming and wants to fix it, then the next speech to another group who doesn’t believe in it he says he hates it and just doesn’t believe it exists.  He’s a LIAR and  for the group of Right Wingers who are SO high on morals (LMAO), this guy should be their last choice, but it just shows how stupid and gullible they really are!!!!!! 

    GO JOHN!! JOHN STEWART FOR PREZ 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I can see it, and smile. :)

  • Anonymous

    I agree!  How can they actually believe that this man is for real???  It’s SO obvious to the rest of us, even my kids who are teenagers and finding their own political way tell me he’s a lying jerk.   Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Like I said in another post, these people are a lot more ignorant that I first thought!

  • Anonymous

    Oh, is that what “the truth” is called on Fox now?

  • Dj Bobby

    you do relize that websites like liberalbias.net have dis-proven these left wing biast media conspriacy theories????

  • Larry Linn

    It is ironic that conservative Republicans
    consider that  to allow committed gay
    couples to marry, is a threat to marriage, but they will vote for New Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

    Influence peddler…lobbyist…sound like a good resume to get a job in the Obama whitehouse.
    Ooops! dog whistle alert…I said white!…My bad.

  • Anonymous

    What’s wrong with a couple of overlapping marriages?  That’s how they do it in Europe, right?

  • Anonymous

    How the heck would Obama tear up Gingrich in the debates?…

    Gingrich:  “Your policies are turning the USA into Greece!”
    Obama: “Yeah, but your ex-wife hates your guts!:”

  • Anonymous

    I think the tone of these comments is a bit debased…I don’t agree with President Obama, but I wouldn’t call him a despicable hypocrite…He’s just misguided.

  • Anonymous

    You, sir, are the future of the United States of America.
    Thank you for your service.

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t call Obama a despicable hypocrite because he is neither despicable nor a hypocrite. Newt is both.

  • Anonymous

    @cdnhawk.  I meant the hypocrite Gingrich not my President Obama. I’m sure you understood me and were being facetious.

  • Dj Bobby

    Liberal Bias dot Net has done a good job of proving that most of the media does not have a liberal bias

  • http://twitter.com/thorsmjollnir David Leach

    So clearly you are only interested in a candidate who puts on the appearance of attacking the media.  Looks like you are getting swept up by the cult of personality.  Where’s Gingrich’s substance?  Oh that’s right he has none.  Interesting how you attack Obama supporters as being zombies swept up by the cult of personality, yet you are guilty of the same.  Haha…the irony is palpable.  I think I can run for President.  All I have to do is talk trash to the media and I’m set. 

  • Anonymous

    I’m female, not that it makes a lot of difference.  Thank you for the kind comment.  Very refreshing on a board like this. :)

  • Anonymous

    I’m female, not that it makes a lot of difference.  Thank you for the kind comment.  Very refreshing on a board like this. :)

  • Anonymous

    Love your reply!  He does look like a troll doesn’t he? I guess it’s kind of petty to make fun of his looks, but I’ve been seeing Newt since I was a kid when I was growing up in Georgia, and he’s always been as ugly as roadkill. His character is just as ugly, if not more.  This is NOT a nice man we’re talking about.

  • Anonymous

    I think that they must be very gullible to vote for this man because of his so called moral outrage at being called out for his lack of morals…which has been proven, time and again.  This man  has no morals, he’s going to screw whomever he can whenever he can to get what he wants.

    Look at his history….do your research.  This man has the moral aptitude of a toad.  

    So, while I know people in SC and have family there, I do not think that the entire state has lost their mind, but those who voted for Newt I question. These people SAID they voted for him because of that silly debate when he pretended, yet again, to be so upset and turned it ALL back on the moderator  or the other guy running that turns a question to him about his lobbying with Freddy Mac/Fannie Mae, or when they ask to see ALL of the contracts, etc…no, he won’t answer, he appears to be just outraged that someone had the absolute nerve to confront him.

    He will NOT answer questions about his shady past….but all you have to do is search google for NEWT + GEORGIANS HATE NEWT  and then FANNIE MAE + NEWT….you get the idea………..

    OBAMA, 2012!  YES WE CAN,  YES WE WILL

  • Anonymous

    I think that they must be very gullible to vote for this man because of his so called moral outrage at being called out for his lack of morals…which has been proven, time and again.  This man  has no morals, he’s going to screw whomever he can whenever he can to get what he wants.

    Look at his history….do your research.  This man has the moral aptitude of a toad.  

    So, while I know people in SC and have family there, I do not think that the entire state has lost their mind, but those who voted for Newt I question. These people SAID they voted for him because of that silly debate when he pretended, yet again, to be so upset and turned it ALL back on the moderator  or the other guy running that turns a question to him about his lobbying with Freddy Mac/Fannie Mae, or when they ask to see ALL of the contracts, etc…no, he won’t answer, he appears to be just outraged that someone had the absolute nerve to confront him.

    He will NOT answer questions about his shady past….but all you have to do is search google for NEWT + GEORGIANS HATE NEWT  and then FANNIE MAE + NEWT….you get the idea………..

    OBAMA, 2012!  YES WE CAN,  YES WE WILL

  • Anonymous

    I think that they must be very gullible to vote for this man because of his so called moral outrage at being called out for his lack of morals…which has been proven, time and again.  This man  has no morals, he’s going to screw whomever he can whenever he can to get what he wants.

    Look at his history….do your research.  This man has the moral aptitude of a toad.  

    So, while I know people in SC and have family there, I do not think that the entire state has lost their mind, but those who voted for Newt I question. These people SAID they voted for him because of that silly debate when he pretended, yet again, to be so upset and turned it ALL back on the moderator  or the other guy running that turns a question to him about his lobbying with Freddy Mac/Fannie Mae, or when they ask to see ALL of the contracts, etc…no, he won’t answer, he appears to be just outraged that someone had the absolute nerve to confront him.

    He will NOT answer questions about his shady past….but all you have to do is search google for NEWT + GEORGIANS HATE NEWT  and then FANNIE MAE + NEWT….you get the idea………..

    OBAMA, 2012!  YES WE CAN,  YES WE WILL

  • Anonymous

    What an air bag. Did not think anyone could be more of a hot air bag than Rush, but Newt has him beaten by a mile.

  • Anonymous

    I think that they must be very gullible to vote for this man because of his so called moral outrage at being called out for his lack of morals…which has been proven, time and again.  This man  has no morals, he’s going to screw whomever he can whenever he can to get what he wants.

    Look at his history….do your research.  This man has the moral aptitude of a toad.  

    So, while I know people in SC and have family there, I do not think that the entire state has lost their mind, but those who voted for Newt I question. These people SAID they voted for him because of that silly debate when he pretended, yet again, to be so upset and turned it ALL back on the moderator  or the other guy running that turns a question to him about his lobbying with Freddy Mac/Fannie Mae, or when they ask to see ALL of the contracts, etc…no, he won’t answer, he appears to be just outraged that someone had the absolute nerve to confront him.

    He will NOT answer questions about his shady past….but all you have to do is search google for NEWT + GEORGIANS HATE NEWT  and then FANNIE MAE + NEWT….you get the idea………..

    OBAMA, 2012!  YES WE CAN,  YES WE WILL

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/K6U44WPMLSQTIDUMCLJXAL6ZHU Dede H

    I am pretty sure the despicable hypocrite was Newt not Obama

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