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Newt Gingrich Blasts Brian Williams For Silencing Debate Audience: ‘The Media Doesn’t Control Free Speech’

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Newt Gingrich was a guest on Tuesday morning’s Fox & Friends and discussed the latest GOP debate, his rivals, and his plans for winning Florida. He took time as the interview began, however, to chastise moderator Brian Williams for not allowing the audience to applaud after candidates had made their statements.

“Up until this point,” host Gretchen Carlson said, “The audience has been your fan.”

“Yeah, I wish in retrospect I’d protested with Brian Williams and took him out of it, because I think it’s wrong. And I think he took them out of it because the media’s terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against the media, which is what they’ve done in every debate. We’re going to serve notice on future debates. We’re just not going to allow that to happen. That’s wrong, the media doesn’t control free speech, people ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to. That’s just silly.”

Gingrich added that it’s clear Romney has a new debate coach, but said that most of what he was saying was still, “fairly dishonest, as usual.” He even said that some of Romney’s old competitors from 2007 and 2008 warned him that Romney practices in prevarications.

Co-host Steve Doocy then challenged Gingrich on some examples of dishonesty from the debate. Gingrich was most heated at Romney calling him an “influence peddler.”

Gingrich wasn’t the only person, meanwhile, calling the debate’s moderator out. The Washington Post‘s Alexandra Petri noted that the announcement by Williams might have taken the air out of its sails before it even began. “The night opened with Brian Williams, who was apparently off for the evening, telling the crowd to be sure not to make too much noise,” Petri writes. “This turned out to be like warning the nursing home not to throw too many orgies. The only warning that mattered was the one he forgot to give, which was not to snore audibly or literally die from boredom in the course of the debate.”

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  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Not only is Newt a fraud, he’s also a huge crybaby!!

  • Paul Doro

    It’s amazing how successful Newt’s “Attack the Media” strategy has been. Made millions lobbying? Blame the media. Cheated on wives and married mistresses? Blame the media. Made ad with Nancy Pelosi? Blame the media. Resigned as speaker in disgrace? Blame the media. Seems like many conservative primary voters hate the media far more than they hate infidelity, divorce, lobbying, ethics problems, etc.

  • News Of The World

    Why can’t you just win based on the merits of your arguments, Newt?  I guess without those hillbillies in the audience whooping it up every time you lose your temper or talk about your fringe policies, you sound even more idiotic and/or insane.  Debates aren’t about the hooting and masturbating the racist southern audiences do over your extreme rhetoric.  It should be about what you say/do. Poor Newter.  Such a victim.

  • Anonymous

    Newt Gingrich is absolutely useless without the help of the Jerry Springer audience..­…..Gingrich’s brand of politics requires a circus atmosphere .. take that away and he becomes the clown.

    This is not supposed to be a pep rally and the last few debates have been just that.

    Well done, Brian Williams!

  • Anonymous

    Interesting interpretation of free speech from the self-proclaimed “historian”.  Conservative revisionism….gotta love it!!

  • http://twitter.com/Socoral Tom Green

    The one thing I care less about then the opinions of those in the debate is the opinion of those in the audience.  

    No one cares what you think.  That’s what that Tuesday in November is for.

  • Anonymous

    “Gingrich’s brand of politics requires a circus atmosphere .. take that away and he becomes the clown.”

    Nice observation.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Gingrich prefers the Irish Parnell-Wolf Tone style of rhetoric where he love to attack another speaker or moderator and rile up the crowd, feeding them red meat with every cheer or gffaw. 
    Last nights format put him at a severe disadvantage.

  • Anonymous

    it’s…getting….old 

  • Anonymous

    Good for Brian.  He would make a great candidate for President in contrast to Gingrich who has no concept of fidelity. A person who finagles his way around the tenets of morality is a poor choice for President. Especially when he sees nothing morally wrong by going outside those boundaries. 

    If Newt were President, I see no reason for him to change his spots. .

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I didn’t watch the debate, but followed it for about an hour on twitter. EVERYONE said it was sooooooooo boring, that Williams was AWFUL, and taking away the right to applause was very stupid. 

    The questions got a ton of criticism. It was pretty funny to follow. People went crazy during the Teri Schiavo question. 

  • http://twitter.com/BusyDay2day Father Time

    There was never any “right to applaud” taken away.  NBC requested people hold their applause so it didn’t cut in to the debate — which they’ve done for every debate in the past.  This argument from Newt and others is silly, but I am not surprised.  Newt fumbled last night and blaming it on the moderator is typical for someone who dodges taking responsibility for things.  

  • Anonymous

    He didn’t have is back up this time, so his claim to be a perfect debater collapsed because his back up were not there. 

  • Anonymous

    Ditto!

  • Anonymous

    If you take away all the complaints, Newt’s got nothing.

  • http://twitter.com/mattparkerfl Matt Parker

    It’s almost as if Newt was a little off his game last night, a little slow on the old hamster wheel in his head, and forgot to slam NBC and the mainstream press in general for some mysterious grievance known only to him. Lots of debates enforce a “no applause” rule; it’s not a secret tactic to hurt Newt and his rowdy bunch of hypocrites­. Gingrich is truly the angriest and most arrogant man in America. He won’;t win many elections with this level of entitlemen­t and self-immol­ation of the soul.   www.sunstateactivist.org

  • Mo Fokker

    What happened to StonePark?. He was back with a new account a few days ago wasn’t he?

  • Duke Chesnut

    So you would like to silence free speech because YOU don’t like what someone else’s position is. You don’t care about anyone but those whom you agree with. There are Millions of Americans who want to here real debates, because the DNC and Obama have backrupted this country and we need a new Leader to guide us out of this Wilderness. Your position, Sir, is FACIST.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently US economic history started on Jan 20, 2009 for you?

    LOL

    “bankrupted the country” Baaaahahahahahahahahaha

  • Anonymous

    Presidential debates aren’t supposed to have the entertainment value of Jerry Springer. I didn’t see this debate, but I’m glad if Williams brought a more thoughtful, sober tone to it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    why does it matter if they applause your not ?  It should not matter if this was the GOP debate or a Democratic debate. Everyone should be able to applause or not. The no appluse has been there for as long as I can remember. But that rule really is a out of date rule. Who really cares ?

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

    Skip the debate & offer attendees a Town Hall in there town.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    the DNC and Obama have backrupted this country

    Let me be the first to welcome you back from your coma.

    While you were out, this thing called google became quite popular.  You could use it to find out what his predecessor did.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    kinda quiet, huh?

  • Anonymous

    he needs the audience so they will interupt any questions Newt deems to be unfair so he doesn’t have to answer uncomfortable questions.  what a fake.

  • Mo Fokker

    I  keep a running chit for the number of times he has been banned.

  • Anonymous

    Well stated.

  • Anonymous

    Newt couldn’t handle Romney being more aggressive and scoring points on him so he falls back to his bread and butter play of blaming the media.  The angry little attack muffin is signaling the next debate audience to stand behind him and attack the moderators before the debate even begins.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I do think the evening lacked energy, but I think that was as much because of some very weary candidates as anything Williams did or didn’t.

    The Schiavo question was interesting. I actually though it appropriate. We have rabid ideologues who fracture the entire “life” issue. And, Sanitarium is one of them. I was in Amsterdam when the Schiavo debate was reaching its conclusion and O’Hannity literally erected a tent outside the hospital with guest like Sanitarium. Macabre. Ghoulish. Tasteless.

    More to the point, I think Williams was working towards an explanation of the rabid ideologues’ inconsistencies. The extreme rightists railing against a woman’s right to choose (even, in some cases, like Sanitarium, in the case of rape and incest), whilst cheering state-ordered executions and wars; the extreme leftists opposing even the slightest checks on abortion whilst protesting against wars and executions. There is some middle ground in all of this, and I think Williams might have been trying to find it.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    He asked horrible questions, apparently, and was on the verge of falling asleep.

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/tonight-twitter-hates-brian-williams

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Perhaps, he is in the midst of yet another torrid affair and was distracted thinking of what awaited him at Motel 6 and how he was going to dump Callgirlista for the night.

  • Anonymous

    A single poli sci class might’ve done you a world of good.  At least it could have put you in a position to ‘here’ the actual definitions of things like Fascism and Marxism…

  • Anonymous

    Newt positions this exactly as conservative droolers like it:  THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS TRYING TO SILENCE FREE SPEECH! THEY HATE AMERICA! THEY HATE THE CONSTITUTION! THEY’RE TRYING TO SILENCE THE PEOPLE!

    Whatever. Extend that argument and movie theaters that ask their audience to be quiet during the movie are also silencing free speech.

    But Newt needs that applause because his comments will play better as sound bites on cable news talk shows, which is where most Americans will see anything from the debate. Take away the hootin’ and the hollerin’ and when Newt’s scripted, rehearsed gotcha soundbites are played back on O’Reilly/Hannity/CNN/Meet the Press, etc, it’ll sound like he was a flop.

  • http://twitter.com/Zamir Zamir

    so Newt Gingrich is tinker bell, he’ll go away if the applause stops, good to know

  • Mo Fokker

    Brian did fine. He took a different approach which I thought was a nice change of pace. However, I imagine the teabaggers who like to treat debates as if they were a football game didn’t like it.

  • Anonymous

    “…and was on the verge of falling asleep.”

    From the couple of clips I’ve seen, they all were. Howard Fineman commented last night that everyone is truly exhausted — the candidates, the reporters — because of the high level of drama the last month. So I’m not really sure you can lay that one at Williams’ feet.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    How much did Obama’s domestic policies add to the debt? 1Trillion
    How much did Bush’s wars add to the debt? 4Trillion

    Stop listening to Limbaugh!!  You may get educated.

  • Anonymous

    Good for Gingrich. The media sit around crafting ways to make conservatives look bad. This year Gingrich has articulated what the audience already thinks, and they are not going to stand for the biased questioning. The media are panicked because they are not controlling the narrative, and Gingrich should stand his ground.

  • News Of The World

    “58 Tea Party Member” is all we need to know about you.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EB4CW32BSFNUKVS235YZX67JVY Mnsdkad

    Even right wing columnist Bret Stephens of the WSJ knows that Obama is well positioned to get his second term.  

    “The GOP deserves to lose”

    http://online.wsj.com/article/global_view.html

  • Anonymous

    If Newt wants to get his uber partisan crowds to back him, then the moderators he is trying to attack get a chance to defend themselves.  John King, for instance, would get respond by rolling in videotape of Newt braying in 1998 about Clinton being morally unfit for office (while at that same time conducting an affair behind his wife’s back;) Newt in 1993 lecturing GOP house congressional candidates that they shouldn’t frame their opponents as differing on policy, they need to frame them as  “deviant, anti-family, & anti-American.”  

    Then ask Newt if his definition of “despicable” needs a little broadening…

  • Anonymous

    “Yah!  Ich bin ein Republican!!!”

  • Paul Doro

    Is the media to blame for his personal behavior, which includes a history of infidelity and divorce? Is it not fair to ask him questions about ethics problems that occurred while he was Speaker of the House? Or how he made $1M+ lobbying? Or how current positions conflict with past positions/statements? The media is a great scapegoat and an easy target, and obviously the strategy of blaming the media is extremely effective. Doing so takes attention away from Newt and puts it on something that nearly all conservatives hate.

  • Anonymous

    Did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?

  • Dj Bobby

    This media liberal bias, hasn’t this been dis-proven by websites ilke liberalbias.net?

  • Anonymous

    I was so disappointed when they didn’t have a cage match.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The only value is you can tell, if you don’t already know, which candidates crave and seem to need attention and approval.

  • Anonymous

    “That boy’s head like Sputnik.  Spherical, but quite pointy at times.  That was a bit offsides.  He’ll be crying himself to sleep on his huge pillow.”

  • Anonymous

    Thank God- I was afraid Newt wouldn’t find something to bitch about.

  • Anonymous

    Out of curiosity, what are you up to?

  • Anonymous

    It’s not about Gingrich. The media have contempt for conservatives because conservatives are less sympathetic to left wing causes than Democrats. They can’t hide their contempt. The very framing of the questions reek with bias. It doesn’t matter what Gingrich says about future debates. Audiences will not shut up again. The media panicked because they lost control of the narrative, and this latest attempt at getting control back will fail.

  • Anonymous

    Let me be the first to call free speech a RINO.

  • Anonymous

    It was funny to see Santorum hem and haw and act like is was a coincidence that he was in FLA during the Schiavo fiasco.  Funny to watch the goopers champion living wills-remember all that “death panels” crap when the democrats tried to include end-of-life consultations in health care coverage?

  • Jane

    The Newt mojo  doesn’t work unless he has a audience of fools to applaud.     He’s getting more pathetic by the minute.     

  • Anonymous

    m_mayhem: ………………..  The angry little attack muffin

    I almost died four times laughing at that one. Can I use it or did you pull a Palin and attempt to trademark it? LOL

  • Anonymous

    The media aren’t going away, or haven’t you noticed. This is laying groundwork for the general election when Obama’s water is once again carried by the media. Incidentally, conservatives, independents, and liberals all agreed that it was done last time.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EB4CW32BSFNUKVS235YZX67JVY Mnsdkad

    Picture it. Sarah Palin endorsing and campaigning for Newt Gingrich in the general election. Those independent voters are going to run towards Obama. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    He’s just a cool customer. However, he may have reached a point that I think some of us are nearing. People spoke of “Clinton Fatigue” and “Bush Fatigue” as their second terms ended. I think we have a growing “Candidate Fatigue” with these candidates. I know Willard has 8 or 10 derivative, repetitive points, from which he’ll pick 3 or 4 for every question. I know Newton Leroy is going to make some snarky comment about the media and mention how he saved America with Reynolds Raygun. I know Paul is going to pan Republican foreign policy. I know Sanitarium is going to talk about how he won his Senate seat in a Democratic state. That’s the substance of the next debate, too.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EB4CW32BSFNUKVS235YZX67JVY Mnsdkad

    Exactly. 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, those fools are the very people who are fed up with condescending jerks who routinely look down their noses at conservatives.

  • Gloves Dash Donahue

    What is going on here? The TSA is acting like a bunch of union thugs.
                                       John Kerry is battered by an angry Te-re-za.
                                       There’s a cat assassin running loose.
                                       And Obama is forcing Republicans to come to his campaign rally tonight.

                                        Ya’ll be cool.

  • Anonymous

    ONE of Obama’s many pluses was his oratorical skills. But it was substantially more that that put him over the top. For one thing he appears normal; is happily married, no baggage with a beautiful family and a wife who made an elegant first lady. And that’s just personalities. The skill level was pretty apparent as well. Mean while a few Facts that bear repeating:

     *Unemployment rate when….–Reagan entered office: ….7.5%–Obama entered office: ….7.6%.

    Peak unemployme­nt rate under…–Reagan:.­….10.8%–Obama:..­…10.2%.

    Unemployment rate at this SAME point in their terms:–Reagan: ……8.3%–Obama: ……8.5%

    *bureau of labor stats

  • Anonymous

    He must have stolen Barry’s playbook.  
     
    Terrible unemployment?..Blame Bush! 

    Horrible GDP growth after 3 years and a trillion dollars of stimulus? 
     Blame Bush!

    Deficit spending triple what it was during the Bush years..which you attacked him for doing?  Blame Bush!

  • Anonymous

        “The RINO powerful have come to the conclusion that Obama, due to vote fraud,
    MSM backing, the size of his war chest, and his willingness to break any rule or law.. will prevail in November. And so they bring forth yet another weak candidate in Romney to hopefully lose gracefully and perhaps enable them to retain some power in the House and Senate and thereby maintain access to the perks of power”.
          This is from the nuts at FreakRepublic. Already  you retard T-baggers are hard at work crying up excuses for what is going to happen next fall. I just can’t help applauding those who respect the sanctity of marriage. Especially those who do it over and over again with new spouses. The party of personal responsibility my butt! Ha-ha

  • Anonymous

    Has anyone noticed that in the last few weeks, the more these guys keep talking the higher Obama’s popularity rises?

  • Paul Doro

    So that makes it OK?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    German abhors a hard “c”. It’s Republikan.

  • Anonymous

         The teatards and the GnOP can look back at the S. Carolina debates as the point where they lost the 2012 election. To call the 1950′s bar room and
    confederate get together a debate is being generous,the only thing missing was spit buckets and a floor covered with saw dust. If there was any hope at all to attract minorities of any stripe, they can kiss that baby goodbye. The fact that this shindig  took place on MLK’s birthday will not be lost on the public after being replayed again and again in the general.
         The sickening audience display during the debates was also evident that republicans hate unionized labor. Perhaps they will also call on children to care for them in hospitals when they fall ill or need surgical care,or when someone is breaking into their house, or when that house is on fire. Teatard- GnOP, moral bankruptcy to the 41st magnitude!

  • Duke Chesnut

    I asked Mr. Green if he wanted to limit free speech, and the Media Nutter trolls must spin,twist,rewrite history, condemm my education and thats’ fine. However the question remains, do you, the leftist’s commentators, want to limit FREE Speech?

  • J M

    look at recent polls you teabag hick.. most of the country still blames shrub jr as well. 

  • Paul Doro

    Specifically, which questions asked of Newt have been unfair and tainted with liberal bias?

  • Anonymous

    It’s hard to go wrong with the Thunderdome approach.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I read some forgettable novel years ago about the Common Market making an all-European car given the French name “Crappet” (pronounced with a silent “t”). The only objection to the name was the Germans wannted it spelled “Krappet”.

  • Anonymous

    well  I am a conservative christian I blame Bush for 8 years of waste and unnecessary war, blood and treasure he wasted, so how about taking responsability for what we done 

  • Anonymous

    Then why are you providing your own opinion right now?

  • Anonymous

    My God where are going with Gingrich, he is destructive and arrogant, we have Ron Paul, people think for once

  • Anonymous

    You really can’t hide your bigotry, can you?

  • demandthetruth

    GINGRICH IS A LIAR and a PIG.   Senate and Congressional seats WILL BE LOST if he is the GOP nominee.   GINGRICH should SHUT UP and GO TO H3LL.

  • Anonymous

    Questions like “Bush tax cuts didn’t work.” Perhaps they didn’t, or perhaps they staved off recession. Contrast that to the narrative that Obama’s policies kept us out of depression. Neither is provable. You have to remember that the media are corporate. Big corporations spend billions in advertising on their networks. They want a centralized media to go along with a command economy.

  • Anonymous

    you really are despicable.  Newt is a COWARD that AFTER THE FACT decides to take on Brian Williams for keeping the ‘debate’ in debate mode…instead of the press conference and free advertising that the GOP has been having for months.  He wasn’t allowed the time or the opening to ATTACK so now he’s pissed?  Oh and it’s the STATE OF THE UNION…you know, the thing ALL PRESIDENTS have once a year.  For our COUNTRY.  Not EVERYTHING is a right left divide no matter how much you want to make it.

  • Anonymous

    Chestnut must be caught up in the FUX News cycle.  They use the same argument for Iran.  They started their Nuclear program when President Obama was inaugurated.

    It’s really sad that they have no clue of how the media on the right has misled and misinformed their viewers.

  • Anonymous

    yes and Sarah ‘don’t get your panties in a wad’ is the one that was ‘mad’ at Howard Dean for using the word ‘crap’ on the TVmachine.  Uh huh.  Stay classy, Sarah!

  • Anonymous

    then to steal YOUR talkingpoints…DON’T GO ON MSNBC!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EB4CW32BSFNUKVS235YZX67JVY Mnsdkad

    8.5% unemployment rate and falling. Obama is headed for another four years. Book it.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Yes he was, but was called out by a few of our fellow commenters on using another one of his Disqus accounts!! Not sure if Mediaite banned that account too or he is laying low, hoping people will forget he was using that account… not sure??

  • Anonymous

    Honesty!  I like it.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed, Brian Williams did the best and most professional job of all the moderators todate
    For the most part all of the debates lack substance because of the grandstanding by both the moderators and th candidates.
    In fact, Journalist are absolutely the wrong people to moderate Presidental debates They simply can”t resist the power of the limelight

  • Anonymous

    Condescension isn’t limited to MSNBC. As a matter of fact, they have been propping up Gingrich, trying to bring down Romney, whom they fear the most.

  • Anonymous

    Did you willfully ignore the polls regarding the country’s opinion on Obama’s handling of the economy you sniveling, , fleabagging, dope smoking, cool-aid drinking, non-showered, moonbat, hippy?

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57323520-503544/poll-obama-disapproval-rating-on-economy-at-record-high/

  • Michael T.

    I think old Newt needs to be careful. I am sure many F&F viewers also watched the debate and must wonder why he is twisting and misrepresenting what really took place. He risks losing potential votes by this ill advised tactic.

    Take his Medicare Part D example. He failed to mention that Romney scored debate points on this by pointing out that one of Gingrich’s primary motivations for pushing the legislation (including speaking to members of congress) was because it benefited his clients.

    “If you’re getting paid by health companies, if your entities are getting paid by health companies that could benefit from a piece of legislation and you then meet with Republican congressmen and encourage them to support that legislation, you can call it whatever you’d like. I call it influence peddling. It’s not right.”
    – Romney

    More at Drudge
    http://www.drudge.com/news/152637/gingrich-lobbied-medicare-part-d

  • Anonymous

    It’s too bad Paul hasn’t caught on. Perhaps in 2016 when the illusion of a recovery is behind us. I plan to vote for Gary Johnson.

  • Anonymous

    Can you please provide a date then sometime in the future as to when it is appropriate to blame the next guy?

  • Paul Doro

    So a question about the Bush tax cuts proves that there has been a liberal bias in the questions Newt has been asked at the debates? Huh? Do you actually have any real evidence to support your claim?

  • Anonymous

    Apparently you have not seen Obama’s ten year budget with projected debt…

    Just vote for Ron Paul in the general, at least you’ll be voting for your #2 man, Obama in a round about way.

  • Anonymous

     I suggest you round up a bunch of liberals and collect all the books members of the Tea Party might have written,  and burn them in one night, and you can call it “The Night of Broken Glass”

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

    At the next debate Gingrich will also insist that he be encased in glass so he can smell his own farts  while telling voters how wonderful he is and to be sure to purchase one of his awesome books.

  • Anonymous

    Newt and his loud partisans bum rushed Romney in SC but that won’t happen again.  The 2 presidential debates will not have any audience participation.  This wipes out the entire alleged reason for nominating Newt.

  • Anonymous

    You asked for an example. I gave you one. The question I cited assumed Bush’s tax cuts were a failure. The media do not assume that about Obama’s stimulus. You seem to be expecting the media do it by first trumpeting, “We don’t like Republicans.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    I tell ya’….all these conservatives do is whine.

  • Anonymous

    I will not disagree with you.  However, on THIS blog when you say that the haters pounce on you and fill up your inbox!

  • Anonymous

    You are wrong again.  Check Gallup. Obama down two points since last week.  Nice try though.

  • Anonymous

    Tim Russert and Brian Williams did the same thing ‘at the ’08 MSNBC Democratic debate.

  • Anonymous

    Someone really needs to make Newt look like an utter fool to his face or he will steamroll the entire party and win the nomination.

  • Anonymous

    When Newt whines about this at the next debate I would like to see the moderator say, “Mr. Speaker, we paid for your microphone.”

  • Anonymous

    I’m just mocking you for being an idiot.  There is nothing ideological about you having mittens pinned to your vest.

    They are the hosts of the debate and Gingrich is merely a guest.

    I know it is hard, what with just getting use to the opposable thumb thing and all, but they make the rules as the host.

  • Paul Doro

    Not at all. What I expect is a stronger defense. You made the claim that the questions Gingrich has been asked at the debates are proof of liberal media bias. I asked for specific examples. You came back with a mention of the Bush tax cuts and their success/failure. How does that even come close to proving your claim? What has Newt been asked in the debates that showcases a liberal media bias?

  • Anonymous

    If Newt is going to persist in attacking the moderators and make them a theme in the debates you have a point that they should be able to defend themselves. 

     Newt anticipates questions and prepares his attacks beforehand, the moderators should do the same and be ready to challenge Newt on his bullshit.

  • Mari Johnson

    Yes, his constant whine about “poor, poor me” is so disgusting and antithesis to our Party’s ‘quit your whine and get to the issues’.  He is often so embarrassing to listen to because of this whine.   Also, his demonstrably double standard when he worked so relentlessly to undo Clinton when he seems to have adopted behavior that makes Clinton look absolutely saintly.  Newt is, after all, the guy who DECIDED to cheat on his wife suffering from cancer and who decided to ask for a divorce while the poor thing was taking chemotherapy.  As an RN who worked with oncology patients, I can tell you chemo is a horror and the patient needs all the emotional support they can get.  And what does Newty do, he serves her divorce papers so he can marry his new girlfriend with whom he had cheated on his wife while she was diagnosed with and being treated for cancer.  What a moral bankrupt!  I never though anyone in our party could make Clinton look like a saintly hero but alas, his accuser, Newtie, has that distinction.  What a hedonist!

  • Anonymous

    Apparently you are too dumb to understand how the CBO works.

    Will not waste my time trying to explain to you how these things work.

  • Anonymous

    Compared to Gingrich and Rommney, Obama’s numbers puts them to shame. In the end what else matters?

  • Anonymous

    he has absolutely no life and is just bummed that stone is hiding on him.  Sad really – surprising?  Not so much.

  • Anonymous

    Sure, it makes it perfectly ok since he’s learned from “the best”!

    You don’t complain about the pres having nothing to say except to play the blame game.  Wonder how many times he’s going to blame the republicans tonight?  I’m sure the pipeline was the republicans fault.  He only had 3 years to decide and the republicans made it impossible for him to agree because it just wasn’t enough times.  

    He claimed in 3 years, if he hadn’t cleaned up everything and solved all the world problems, he was done – well he’s done.  Now, to get him to make up his mind about his statement and pack his suitcases…

  • Anonymous

    He cant win because their are too many Americans who are on the entitlement programs and still think Obama is going to pay there car payment out of his stash!.. Working hard in America is over in the minds of these Americans.. … but I  love that he scares the left and the media. He is not afraid to call it like it is….

    This guy would wipe the floor with Obama if he debates him. To watch a community organizer who relies on teleprompters debating someone who is known to have the highest IQ’s in Washington is all I want to see now!

  • Walt

    Well first of all we will have to elect someone like George Bush… maybe a Mitt Romney or a Newt Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

    Juan Williams question assumed food stamp president was racially insensitive. He could just as easily have noted that under Obama black employment is at an historic high, and what would Gingrich do to make conditions better. Moreover, Gingrich has reframed questions in a conservative narrative without being confrontational. And it is not just Gingrich. Romney was asked about gay marriage, as if it was an issue that only Republicans opposed, when the issue has never been approved by voters. We could sit down and go through question by question. George Stephanopolis could yield a treasure trove. But it is real, and there is no place for it in a Republican primary.

  • Anonymous

    Guess you easily forget your messiah’s blaming playbook over the last three years!… After 2 years of having congress as a democrat majority he decides now to blame them now for all his problems.

    He has nothing to run on other blame congress now!

  • Anonymous

    “Apparently you are too dumb to understand how the CBO works.Will not waste my time trying to explain to you how these things work. ”

    Please waste your time refering to page 118….then eat it.  Mkay?
     
    http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10871/01-26-Outlook.pdf

  • daveinboca

    Williams is a suck-up who hides his career move to the Carter White House.   Funny how invisible hands have lifted this mediocre second-rater to the NBC Evening News yadda-yadda boy…!

  • Anonymous

    Got it… So Obama will not be responsible for the state of the economy for as long as Obama is in office….is that the party line?

  • Anonymous

    According to Nando Difino, StonePark’s IP address was blocked.

    Leedog: “I agree on banning the IP Address, that would have possibly stopped StoneparkIV from coming back!!”

    nandodifino: “That did stop stoneparkIV from coming back”

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-mediaite-commenting-guidelines/

  • Paul Doro

    To your reply below: Wasn’t Williams trying to determine how Gingrich felt about the idea that “food stamp president” could be perceived as racially insensitive? Given that Obama is black along with the stereotypes surrounding food stamps, that is a completely fair and reasonable question. Newt loves saying it, so it is totally fair for someone to ask about it. That does not prove liberal bias. Some people are all too eager to see liberal bias in these questions regardless of whether or not it’s really there.

  • Anonymous

    His IP was blocked, so he must have changed ISPs or something.

    Leedog: “I agree on banning the IP Address, that would have possibly stopped StoneparkIV from coming back!!”

    nandodifino: “That did stop stoneparkIV from coming back”

  • Duke Chesnut

    Matt Drudge and Ann Coulter are in the Romney Camp.
    Circluar Firing Squad,at the ready, aim,…..

  • Anonymous

    Typically, Gingrich blames others around him, not himself.  For instance, Jan Buran his Lawyer,when Gingrich was being investigated for ethics violations.  Seeing what was coming Buran dropped Gingrich as a client during the proceedings stating he, “did not submit any material information to the ethics committee without Mr Gingrich’s review and approval.”

    However, after Gingrich was found guilty of ethics violations and fined $300,000 he blamed his “misstatements” on Baran.  He stated, “You can on the left do anything you want and nobody seems to notice,” but, as a conservative, he was “politically incorrect’.

    The closest Gingrich came to acknowledging this is his statement, “With great sadness, I have filed an answer which admits to that violation.”, that, and paying the fine.

    http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/infocus/gingrich/index3.html

  • Anonymous

    I think you
    are wrong again Gingrich, firstly there must be some sort of decorum and forum
    to a debate since there is a limited time allotted and each candidate
    must/should have an input and secondly an audience can do a sort of filibusterer
    by applauding for their candidate and thus using up valuable time,

    Just because
    you believe the applause was in your favor does not mean it will continue.  You are beginning to sound like a dictator
    about what should be allowed, your threats to back out of debates and your
    arrogance towards not answering questions that you do not like…

    ……….. shadows
    of Obama in your persona I would venture.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    He’s very persistent!!

  • Duke Chesnut

    Mock all you want, do you want to limit FREE Speach. Evasion of the Question is political side-stepping of THE question. Mr. Green did not want to hear opposeing lines of thought. He only wants to hear whom he likes, free speach for me and not for thee, IS what he said.

  • Mari Johnson

    To say nothing that with all his “brilliance” he now weeklydemonstrates his lack of control that when self control is a major pre requisite for dealing in international relationships.  He would get us bombed by Russia with his belligerant hate filled speech and his total lack of controll.  Every debate so far, he has shown our party his total inability to meet the rigerous demonads of deplomacy demanded of the President.  If he thinks discussion of his own behavior is off limits and responds by total lack of control and pliteness, jsut when talking to our own news reporter, he clearly demonstrated his profound lack of what it would take to be sasne in talks with our opponants.  Poor thing just keeps shooting himself in the foot and if our party decides on this guy, many f us will vote for “cool handed Luke” Obama.  It would be the only safe thng to do.  And we still graphically remember that Obama did get OBL and did so decisively with his genious plan to make him pay for 9-11.

  • Walt

    … and let’s not forget 9/11… oh wait, 9/11 did happen on Bush’s watch.  I would imagine you, and Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh, and Frank Lutz would have put a different spin on that had 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch.

    Actually, Bush was never quite honest with you on his deficit spending.  The cost of his wars was kept off the books.  (Accounting practices.  Supplemental Emergency Spending… thing-a-mug-gig.)  So when Obama put those real costs forward in the budget it magically became his fault… according to Fox News.

    Truth be it told, CBO, while warning that the Plan D Medicare Prescription Plan (a giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry) would cost tax payers billions, Obama’s Health Care Reform will save tax payers billions of dollars. 

    GM is back on top as top auto maker and they are hiring.  Thanks Obama.  Oh, and it only cost the old GM CEO’s job… oh well.  Tax payers’ money well spent. 

    It wasn’t a trillion dollars of stimulus.  It should have been more than it was because the stimulus package has worked.  Of course, we have seen the republicons do all they can to keep a recovery from happening just so the can blame the president… because that is the kind of people they are.

    You are going to believe what you want to believe but Bush was a really, really bad president… that lost decade is his legacy.

    You know what it nutty?  There is a good number of reasons to be critical of Obama.  But none for the reasons that you and your right wingers have been injected with. 

  • Walt

    My aren’t we sensitive.  Of course we should include those opinion polls on Congress’s job… most notably the republicons… especially the tea party ones voted in at midterm.

  • Anonymous

    True, and Williams could have asked also if food stamp president was referring to blacks in the context that under Obama black unemployment is at an all-time high, therefore requiring greater assistance in that community. We’re not going to agree, but it is a sore spot with conservatives. And when the general election comes along Democrats will intensify playing of the race card because Democrats know to win national elections they not only have to get 90% of the black vote, but they need a large turnout.

  • Paul Doro

    I don’t think anyone will ever be fully satisfied with debate questions. And of course each side will play whatever card works for them in a general election. The Republicans will play the media bias card, as they have before.

  • Anonymous

    You are the sort that used to claim they read Playboy for the articles.

    You like pictures, which is why you went straight to the graph, instead of citing any part of the CBO posting.

    Try again Skippy.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Though, we are in two different political camps, you are a smart, reasoned Republican!!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Funny.  I thought that the people actually “hosting” the debate got to set the rules.  How is that an impingement of rights?

    Don’t answer.  I am sure after you pee on the sofa you are never invited over again.

  • Anonymous

    Nope, you couldn’t be more wrong. He did a terrible job. He talked more than two of the candidates, that is not the job of a moderator. Plus what a pussy, telling people not to cheer or clap. And WTF is up with the color of his skin, does he live in a tanning bed?

  • Anonymous

    Obviously you should enroll in some ESL courses, posthaste.

    Tom Green is saying that the only thing is more useless than the opinions of those on the stage is those in the audience.

    You suffer from a serious case of Helen Lovejoy Syndrome.

  • Anonymous

    No pictures..no spin…just numbers.  21 trillion in debt by 2020 according to the CBO. 

    So what else do you have other than this laughable “I’m smarter than you so I don’t have to answer” bullsh** coupled with your useless references to Playboy?

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 American

    He’s a Republican! It’s what they do best.  If he doesn’t like the rules for the FREE promotional time, then he shouldn’t freaking show up!

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 American

    Wait a minute, what was his new account?  Was it something-or-other Conservative?

  • Jane

    Without a cheering/jeering audience Newt loses his loving feeling.   

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhs3Rj71gpo

  • Anonymous

    My bad…here’s one from this week.  And you are right…things are looking up.   Obama is beating the pants off Jimmy Carter in third year approval ratings..

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/152123/obama-averages-approval-3rd-year.aspx .

  • Anonymous

    Sorry Smug.  You don’t know how the CBO breaks this stuff down and that is obvious.

    “Just numbers”?  No.  Do I have to explain to what a baseline score is, oh wait.

    Ok.  I’ll try to use really small words so you can understand.

    The number you are quoting with so much authority assumes that Congress changes nothing in the next decade.  I could drill down into the AMT, Doc Fix, etc., but you like pictures and easy numbers that you can link to as “evidence” of the fact that at some point in your life you actually read a newspaper.

     

  • Anonymous

    Hi Jane:  How in the heck are you? 

  • Anonymous

    Beginning to sound like a dictator?  Man, that guy has arrived.  He is a dictator.  So, why doesn’t the media challenge his statements about “free speech”.  The only “free speech” he wants is his free speech.

  • Anonymous

    Oh BS…  These debates have turned into circuses – just perfect for ringmaster Newt.  He’s shown he’s nothing without a crowd.  He should suck it up just in case he has to debate BO – he’ll need the practice talking without the applause.

  • Anonymous

    It is how he manages to get free press.  He says some outlandish thing, and then the media runs with it.  That is what happened in SC, and what he hoped would happen last night.

    And because it did not happen – we have this – “OH poor fat little me.  They took away my free speech rights”.  Well, I heard him blathering for much of that debate.  Ain’t no one taking away his free speech.

    But, the media will play his game.  Let’s see how it goes at the CNN debate.  I sure hope they ask the audience to be silent until after the debate – as most have.

    Of course, Newt will be ready for them this time – and have a media attack rehearsed and ready for them – and for the media playing it over and over again the next day.

    Gotta love all that free ad time.

  • Anonymous

    Good, I’m glad to see we are making headway. 

    So let me ask you this, using as a guide Obama’s spending tendencies over the last three years, his rhetoric for future spending, and the GOP congress’s inability to make any reforms to non-discretionary entitlements, do you think these variables will change our projected debt for the better?  The credit agencies seem to disagree.

    But I agree with you, this number is probably way too high….the CBO always over estimates govornement expenses…right?

     

  • Anonymous

    ….and please Lord, let him be the last. amen.  

  • Anonymous

    so ” teatards” is back in play? that didn’t take long. *closes gate to Flying Monkey Shelter* they feed during the day.

  • Anonymous

    A political debate isn´t a hockey game, but what does Newt care about a civilized discourse when his ego is being stroked by the audience´s reaction.

    Applause is okay with me, yelling and booing is not. Gotta show some manners.  You aren´t at a hockey game after all.  

  • Anonymous

    LOL!!!! LOL!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

    Obama will claim more people have found employment when Soros rehires the Obama minimum wage brigades for online postings, phony demonstrations and more census taking.

    So all in all Soros, should hire about 8.5% of people who like to play with the race cards and quote from code books.

  • Anonymous

    The media has been and always will continue to be Obama’s waterboy.

  • Anonymous

    Ann Coulter wrote a book about liberal mobs.  Now she’s getting a taste of her own medicine.  The Tea Party is no fiscal disciplined group seeking change in Washington.  That ridiculous. They are one big mob that will turn a presidential debate into American Idol to get it’s fat cat insider one step closer.

  • Anonymous

    I wish Brian Williams had silenced Newt.

  • Anonymous

    Newt is such an arrogant idiot.  And it is utterly lost on him that maybe once, just once, the GOP debates could be conducted without pandering to the clapping barking seals out in the audience and perhaps we could, for once, intelligently listen to what they have to say without the Jerry Springer-like idiotic audience fireworks.  Just once.

  • Anonymous

    “Macabre. Ghoulish. Tasteless.”

    Didn’t the Obama Campaign give away free t-shirts emblazoned with a dem slogan after Gabby Giffords’ shooting? I could be wrong about that.

  • Anonymous

    Getting a bit desperate as we watch the economy rebound, while you and the GOP root against a recovery.  What patriots.  

  • Anonymous

    If I were you, I would be a bit more worried about that sorry baker’s dozen of candidates you have lined up to take on Obama, all of whom have been about as reasoned as GOP bulls in a china shop.  I would certainly be far less confident than you would appear to be.

  • Anonymous

    You fail to mention “Obama Fatigue” but I agree with you.

  • Anonymous

    I’m all for that.

  • Anonymous

    Any time.  Oh lookee, the economy has been improving of late.  If you guys weren’t so busy rooting AGAINST it for political gain, you might have noticed.  Lord knows your party did nothing to help kick start the economy.  Just sat on sidelines and whined.  

  • Anonymous

    ps there lee – she’s not a republican.  

    Perhaps your radar needs adjustment…

  • Anonymous

    awwww shucks woody, thanks for the warning.

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

    awwww….poor widdle Newtie.
    He knows he needs the debate to have the same level of decorum as the Jerry Springer Show for his grandstanding and bullying to work.

  • Anonymous

    Waaaaaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!  He doesn’t answer what he CAN’T answer when he’s caught!

    He’s a fraud, Mittzi is a MILLIONAIRE 240 times over and doesn’t have a single CLUE what it’s like to be a middle class family in this country.

    GO OBAMA !  I just donated to his campaign and hope all you supporters will as well.  I only donated 5.00 because that’s all I could spare, but if we all donate 5.00??????  Volunteer, make phone calls, stuff envelopes, anything to help that you are able to do!

    We can’t let this country go back to THOSE people again because we’re JUST starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel that 8 years of BUSH (dubya) did to this country.  A president can’t fix anything that HUGE in four years.  It too Dubya 8 years to ruin us, it takes longer to fix us.

    OBAMA 2012!!!  YES WE CAN,, YES WE WILL!!

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

     ”backrupted”
    LOL

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Woof!!  =)

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    She said “our” party when referring to Republicans… maybe I didn’t read it right??

  • Jardino

    Gingrich is a demagogue and needs to hear the sheep bleat.

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

    Newt needs his trained teabagger seals in order to be effective.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    I don’t like anyone other than Ron Paul.  All others are self serving hypocrites.  Ron Paul stands for honesty and integrity, my values.  Being that, those that say Obama is bad and Bush was not.  Or Democrats are bad and Republicans are not are doing a diservice to themselves and this country.  And when one says look at Obama’s 10 year plan, I will say this, no republicans other than Ron Paul have shown their plans and from what I have heard so far their “Obama is bad” plan is not much different that “Republicans are good” plan.  Challenge your candidate in releasing  their 4 year plan like Paul, then we can have an intelligent debate.

  • http://twitter.com/Socoral Tom Green

    I prefer my debates to have an air of civility.  I don’t need a bunch of riff-raff making a bunch of noise like its a football game.  

  • Duke Chesnut

    Again Free Speech! “Nil Desperandum”

  • Anonymous

    newt is a thug cry-baby who knows how to dish it out (he thinks) but can’t take it.  This man is so narcissistic, his head will explode one day. . . . .

  • Anonymous

    She could say “the moon is made of green cheese”…

  • Mo Fokker

    Thanks. Glad somebody is keeping track of these important matters.

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