Naturally, Gingrich Press Secretary Blames The Press For Newt’s Horrible Week

by Alex Alvarez | 5:34 pm, May 18th, 2011

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By now, you’re likely aware that, on last Sunday’s Meet the Press, host David Gregory asked GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich about his thoughts on Medicare. Gingrich’s response – in which he labeled Paul Ryan‘s voucher plan “right-wing social engineering” – quickly alienated him from his fellow Republicans.

Gingrich has since tried to claim that he was essentially “set up” during the interview, and that he now wishes he’d refused to answer Gregory’s question about whether Republicans should turn Medicare into a voucher program:

It’s a hypothetical baloney question that had no hope of happening. The Republicans don’t control the Senate. They don’t have the White House. They can’t do what Obama did. And I should just dismiss it. So, that was a mistake.

Gregory, meanwhile, is standing firmly by his question. And, what’s more, he definitely plans to ask Representative Ryan about Gingrich’s comments on this week’s Meet the Press.

Gingrich’s press secretary, Rick Tyler, is less than pleased with the media coverage surrounding Gingrich’s comments and told the Huffington Post as much in an email that should be required reading for the nation’s middle schoolers:

The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.

Hark! Out of the billowing clouds of multi-colored glitter he flew, perched casually on a luminous Pegasus, circling ever higher above the writhing masses of ticked-off Tweeters and bulbous bloggers bobbing belligerently below.

h/t HuffPost

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Liberal Tormentor

Well, there is enough blame for both of them. Newt made some stupid statements. The corrupt, liberal media for their part, tried to paint him with the racist brush as they do to anyone who dares challenge The One.
A.R.

the right wing’s response to all criticism…blame the media
Barack Must Go

MEDIAite makes white people, Gingrich and Trump look like idiots with their choice of photos, while making ” the blacks “, Johnny Caphart and the toothless Harvard racist look a pure as driven snow. I wonder why that is ?
Liberal Tormentor

The left wing’s response to liberal media bias……..deny it exists til the cows come home.
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

But in this case it actually is the fault of the press. They had the AUDACITY to actually ask Gingrich a question where he’d be FORCED to answer from outside his prepared template of talking points, and then they had the NERVE to “REPORT” what he said. It’s that god damned fvcking liberal media, I tell ya.
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Barack Must Go said:
MEDIAite makes white people, Gingrich and Trump look like idiots with their choice of photos, while making ” the blacks “, Johnny Caphart and the toothless Harvard racist look a pure as driven snow. I wonder why that is ?

Because you’re an idiot. Go stand in traffic at night wearing black after you take a bottle of aspirin.
notsofast

Well, this might go down as the fastest political self-destruction in American history. He announces and then in his first major TV interview, self-implodes, not that he had a chance in the first place, though.
Sam M.

Barack Must Go said:
MEDIAite makes white people, Gingrich and Trump look like idiots with their choice of photos, while making ” the blacks “, Johnny Caphart and the toothless Harvard racist look a pure as driven snow. I wonder why that is ?

You do fine job of that all by yourself.
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

notsofast said:
Well, this might go down as the fastest political self-destruction in American history. He announces and then in his first major TV interview, self-implodes, not that he had a chance in the first place, though.

Right. To say he ruined his chance is to imply he had a chance in the first place, which of course he didn’t, because he’s still Newt Gingrich.
illusive man

You have nobody to blame but yourself Newt.
Gasket

Poor Newtie.
Thelonious Funk

It was an honest mistake. He thought he was supporting man dates, not mandates.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

Liberal Tormentor said:
Well, there is enough blame for both of them. Newt made some stupid statements. The corrupt, liberal media for their part, tried to paint him with the racist brush as they do to anyone who dares challenge The One.

Horse hockey! Everyone has been talking about the Ryan slur and mandates. The only talk of racism has been from Michelle and the Moaners. And, you know that. But, this perpetuates the Konstant Konservative themes of: WE are the victims! and It’s not our fault!
THE REAL ROYAL KING

A.R. said:
the right wing’s response to all criticism…blame the media

Yes, it has been since the Nixon Days.
avoidswork

Meet the Gregory is about as pathetic as it gets. It’s like sincerely believing that KatieC played “gotcha” with Sacred Sarah.

David/Timmeh asked Newt(er) a question. He committed the sin of speaking ill of BlueEyesRyan, then the crazies like our own BarackMustGo screech “whaaaaaambulance”, then Newt(er) backtracks and blames the media for repeating what he said.

Troof hurts, Newt(er).

And, you know it’s got to be bad when all the TPer trolls on Mediaite aren’t even defending him.
damien

Liberal Tormentor said:
Well, there is enough blame for both of them. Newt made some stupid statements. The corrupt, liberal media for their part, tried to paint him with the racist brush as they do to anyone who dares challenge The One.

Sorry, son. This was well covered on all media outlets, Limbaugh and Fox included. Are these part of the corrupt liberal media, too. As for race, nobody’s mentioning race apart from you guys (and by you guys I’m not referring to conservatives, just you wingers posting here). You’re the only one playing the race card round here.

“But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”

Jesus, Rick, Newt’s as big an “elite” as they come.
lane

Personal responsibility is a core concept to conservative beliefs. Gingrich needs to practice what he preaches. He said what he said, he can correct his comments, or add to them. He cannot blame others for his answers. It’s a long campaign.
Glackin

lane said:
Personal responsibility is a core concept to conservative beliefs. Gingrich needs to practice what he preaches. He said what he said, he can correct his comments, or add to them. He cannot blame others for his answers. It’s a long campaign.

Not for Newt. When you’ve lost nutsofast, only paid trolls like LibTor And BMG (who thinks Obama is looting the Treasury like it was the “Bailey Building & Loan Assn,”) will stay with you. And, ask Spitzer. You can’t trust people you pay to love you.
Barack Must Go

avoidswork said:
Meet the Gregory is about as pathetic as it gets. It’s like sincerely believing that KatieC played “gotcha” with Sacred Sarah.

David/Timmeh asked Newt(er) a question. He committed the sin of speaking ill of BlueEyesRyan, then the crazies like our own BarackMustGo screech “whaaaaaambulance”, then Newt(er) backtracks and blames the media for repeating what he said.

Troof hurts, Newt(er).

And, you know it’s got to be bad when all the TPer trolls on Mediaite aren’t even defending him.

You are a typical liberal douchebag. Gregory, Obama’s nut sack in his mouth, stating that referring to the first black, racist ” Affirmative Action ” Jackson president as also being the welfare president as being a coded racist remark is total Obama regime bullshit propganda.

The rest of interview was fine,but you lying about the truth is not…….SO KNOCK IT OFF !
Glackin

Barack Must Go said:
You are a typical liberal douchebag. Gregory, Obama’s nut sack in his mouth, stating that referring to the first black, racist ” Affirmative Action ” Jackson president as also being the welfare president as being a coded racist remark is total Obama regime bullshit propganda.

The rest of interview was fine,but you lying about the truth is not…….SO KNOCK IT OFF !

This is what is now called a FLAILURE of an excuse.
Pablo

damien said:
Jesus, Rick, Newt’s as big an “elite” as they come.

That’s the thing. Alex, I’m not sure where you got the idea from, but Tyler isn’t really complaining about the media, he’s complaining about the DC elite, of which is is a long term charter member, while sort of insinuating that people like Rush and Mark Levin are DC elite.

This was exceptionally stupid and Tyler is getting hammered. Newt? Stick a fork in him.
damien

Barack Must Go said:
You are a typical liberal douchebag. Gregory, Obama’s nut sack in his mouth, stating that referring to the first black, racist ” Affirmative Action ” Jackson president as also being the welfare president as being a coded racist remark is total Obama regime bullshit propganda. The rest of interview was fine,but you lying about the truth is not…….SO KNOCK IT OFF !

Just wondering call all your problems with liberals and democrats be defined through race? I find it odd that we’re discussing race in regards to a story that has nothing to do with race. Or liberals, for that matter.

Are all blacks racist?
Barack Must Go

damien said:
Just wondering call all your problems with liberals and democrats be defined through race? I find it odd that we’re discussing race in regards to a story that has nothing to do with race. Or liberals, for that matter.

Are all blacks racist?

I havn’t met all of them, so …..?