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Newt Gingrich Explodes At Fox & Friends: ‘Isn’t ‘Fair And Balanced’ Part Of Fox News?’

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Former Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich wasn’t very happy with Fox News this morning. The Republican frontrunner in the 2012 campaign visited the weekend crew of Fox & Friends to chat about debate dynamics and ended up challenging the network’s “fair and balanced” logo over a question on Mitt Romney‘s taxes. Has Gingrich taken this whole hate-the-media thing a step to far by attack, of all people, Fox & Friends hosts?

RELATED: What If Newt Gingrich Was Just In An Open Marriage And Admitted It? Would That Be Such A Bad Thing?

The interview started out well enough, with Gingrich being asked by host Alisyn Camerota to confront claims from Rick Santorum that he could not be a “Reagan conservative” and support the individual mandate. “It verges on silly,” he replied. This was challenged by host Dave Briggs, who reminded Gingrich that it isn’t silly that he supported a universal mandate– it’s just true– and that he did promote climate change awareness. “Wait a minute– what you just said is wrong,” Gingrich replied. “I said we ought to be concerned about climate change, [but] I opposed Cap and Trade.” Gingrich continued to note several supposedly liberal stances Santorum took while senator from Pennsylvania, and noted he considered himself to have legitimate stances. “It’s all baloney,” he concluded.

Host Clayton Morris then jumped in to ask about Romney’s attacks. Morris explained that now Romney was demanding a release of Gingrich’s ethics report from when he left Congress, perhaps after some “stammering” on his taxes, which elicited a loud cackle from the former Speaker. “Don’t you sort of admire the arrogance and dishonesty of the Romney campaign?” Noting that Romney “can’t even answer coherently in the debate” about his taxes, he explained that the report is on his website open to read, as well as his taxes.

He then took a sharp turn to attack the hosts, offended that he had been asked to “take seriously” Romney’s demand. “Even in the news media, you ought to have some sense of balance. As a reporter, don’t you have some sense of balance? Isn’t ‘fair and balanced’ part of Fox News?” Briggs jumped in to defend Morris’s question, explaining that he was giving Gingrich a chance to respond, not legitimizing any claims. He also expanded the question to propose that it was up in the air whether “any of this mattered. Gingrich responded that “if there is something wrong, we deserve to know” with Romney’s taxes only because of the “billion dollar Obama campaign” that would crush him if there was something wrong there– as opposed to Gingrich’s ethics investigation, which had “been covered for 20 years; it’s all out in the open.”

So why did Gingrich blow up at Morris’s question? It felt, at least on Gingrich’s part, somewhat forced, as if he was waiting for any opportunity to bash them. And that wouldn’t be surprising in light of some peripheral evidence that not all the Fox & Friends hosts were 100% on his side during that testy exchange with CNN’s John King– particularly Briggs, who tweeted his support of King (and Fox’s Neil Cavuto in defending him) that his question about Gingrich’s affair with his now-wife Callista was “fair game” (the twist to this is that Morris, who actually got clawed here, seemed fine with Gingrich’s reaction to King’s question while it happened on Thursday). Either that, or Gingrich had a bullet in his barrel for the media today that was ready to land no matter where, since the strategy is clearly working, and the Romney tax issue felt like the right moment to strike.

One thing is certain: when Gingrich first started his crusade against the media, claiming with a straight face that “any ad which quotes what I said is a falsehood,” the media (and the few voters who were listening at the time) laughed him off as an embarrassing relic of the 90s: the Republicans dirty acid-wash and plaid flannel laundry, somehow being hung out to dry so many years later. Gingrich hasn’t changed his strategy, but the audience paying attention has– and they are blinded by their own distaste for the media so much, that they’d rather watch Gingrich make heads explode by accusing them of anything and everything than demand of Gingrich some sort of consistency– or a message beyond attacking the people who give him free publicity by putting him on their shows.

The exchange via Fox News below:

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  • val smith

    Oh yeah and people say Obama is thin skinned! LOL! I guess old Newt seriously can’t take the heat even when its coming from Fox. Yeah Newt its a biases unbalanced media-that’s your problem sure.

    And the clown show continues…LOL

  • Anonymous

    Newt is a “my way or the highway” kind of guy.  I say give him the highway.

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Seriously when will Fox and Friends have some version of diversity. 

  • Henry Wood

    Love the diverse crowd, all different shades of angry white men.

  • 12voltman1

    Faux News is fair and balanced for Mittens.

  • Anonymous

    Read the story at Politico about how Newt demonstrates his love to the press that follow him around on a daily basis. 

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71741.html

    Newt’s public anger at the press is just a show to get applause and standing ovations–maybe his career should be acting, not politics.  There are all kinds of loose morals in Hollywood.  We should demand more from a President of our country than we would a tawdry B-grade actor.

  • Anonymous

    I have to admit that Newt plays the victim card better than anyone I have ever seen.

    He even blamed America for causing him to be so Horny.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares about Newt…Alisyn just gets hotter and hotter !!!

  • Anonymous

    Faux News !!

    *Drink*

  • Anonymous

    Of course, that remark is in no way racist, is it?

  • Anonymous

    Dear Republicans???? You had three years to get ready for this. Newt is the best plan you had?

    No wonder why the GOP is a joke

    If I were President Obama I would be singing too.

  • Anonymous

    Frances Martel writes “Newt Gingrich explodes at Fox & Friends” …

    No explosion there Frances, why portray the interview as such ?

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich continues to validate the charge by those who know and have worked with him,
     that he is volatile, emotionally immature and unstable. The conservative, Tea Party base may find a guy with obvious rage issues a perfect choice to control the nuclear arsenal, but, the general voting public of all political persuasions will be repelled.

  • Anonymous

    Have you forgotten about Obimbo? The master of “it’s not my fault”! Hasn’t Obimbo suggested that anyone who disagrees with him is stupid?

  • 12voltman1

    OK. In the  words of Jimmy Buffett ”It’s five O’Clock somewhere!”

  • Anonymous

    RIght On !!
    We SHOULD demand more from a President of our country than we would a tawdry B-grade actor…or a community agitator.

  • Henry Wood

    Why are conservatives always playing the race card?

  • Anonymous

    . When (not if) Gingrich gets hired back to Faux news he’ll be a key part of the Roger Alies ploy: “See! We are fair and balanced. We even hire our critics”

  • Anonymous

    Obimbo? who is that Callista Gingrich?

  • Anonymous

    Nope.

  • Anonymous

    Obimbo? who is that Callista Gingrich?
    No,that would be Oldbimbo.

  • Anonymous

    Man oh Man. This they press it the enemy schtick looks good to some voters but he is digging his own grave. He has to know this. You do not want everyone in the press to despise you because they will destroy you. He should know better than this.

  • Anonymous

    I think Newt is just setting things up so when he inevitably loses the GOP nomination, he can rant and rave that it was the main stream media’s fault.  On the other hand when he does lose,  the media will all be clamoring to hire him as another blowhard  talking head to garner ratings.

  • Anonymous

    Even the right-wing media comes up with decent zingers on Newt. Per Laura Ingraham, “He looks like the love child of a Cabbage Patch doll and Chucky.”

  • Anonymous

    Fair and balanced is a hell of a FALSE advertising slogan. There isn’t a damn thing about fair and balanced with GOP-Fox news.

  • Henry Wood

    The segregationists and klan members called MLK an “agitator” too.

  • Anonymous

    lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthias-Klein/1720491266 Matthias Klein

    The GOP primary is saturated with pride and hypocricy.
    And by the way pride is evil which is forgotten in the USA.
    Watch: German preacher on 2012
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpLYq525SpM

  • Anonymous

    Why doesn’t someone put this clown in his place? What’s needed is a Joseph Welch moment: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

  • Anonymous

    Calling Mitt Romney “Mittens” is just as lame as the folks who repeatedly refer to Obama as “Nobama”, “Oh-Bumba”, or “The Kenyan”. 

    “Mittens”?! Seriously? The best play on words y’all can come up with is Mittens?

    I’ll take your cue and expect people to get a real kick out of me derogatorily referring to Rick Santorum as “Rickshaw Santorum”. It makes NO SENSE, but it’s a play on words so I’M CREATIVE!!!!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KFUR4L2XNQRPKPWE7EGK3UZT7U Edward

    Frances Martel should take a refresher course in basic English grammar. I just logged on and read two stories by her with grammatical errors contained in each.

    In a story on Piers Morgan interview Rick Santorum she quotes him as saying she hopes his daughter would ‘do the wright thing’ if she were e]raped and became pregnant and wanted an abortion.

    In this story about Gingrich on Fox & Friends she wonders if Gingrich has a ‘taken this whole hate-the-media thing a step to far’ (rather than a step too far). Is it too much to expect proper grammar and proof reading from Ms. Martel

  • Henry Wood

    Willard

  • Anonymous

    The desperateness of the FUX YOUR FRIENDS to drive their agenda.  Seeing the GOP and FUX feed on each other is what is so enjoyable.

  • Anonymous

    Newt surrounded exclusively by old white men?  What a shock!

  • Anonymous

    Shades of what? What were they? Angry what?!! Don’t you mean, why are we always pointing out your racist attacks….isn’t that what you meant to say?

  • Anonymous

    Could’ve fooled me! But then, he really didn’t, did he?  

  • Anonymous

    Who is Obimbo? Nobody seems to know, for sure.

  • Anonymous

    Roger Ailes has set out the orders to is subordinates that they go after all the candidates except Willard.

  • 12voltman1

    OK, Willard then. That’s his real name.
    BTW- Did you know that more that half of the people in the US think Mitt is short for Mittens?

  • 12voltman1
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    The FOX/GOP Party and their leader Roger Ailes already have their man Mittens and Newts getting in the way.

  • Anonymous

    And how does that apply? We’re talking ability to govern and your talking racism. Try to address the point being made, and leave the obvious misdirection out. Has Obimbo demonstrated an ability higher than a community organizer? In a word…NO!

  • Anonymous

    It HAS been interesting watching Fox’s shift to supporting Romney. 

    At the beginning, they were somewhat balanced, but after Ann Coulter’s, Chris Christie’s, Ken Langone’s and some others’ support of Romney, they started shifting their coverage to favor Romney. (I suspect that there’s an element of “we think Romney will either not win or will only serve one term, so Chris Christie can be the nominee in 2016, in their support of Romney.) 

    The other thing that may have affected Fox’s support of Romney is his support from Mr. Spinner, with whose hedge fund Romney has invested since he lost to McCain. ABC did a piece on that relationship. Romney is the choice of the GOP establishment- a fact not lost on the actual GOP VOTERS, who are fiercely independent. The last election we were told that McCain was “the most electable” and that didn’t turn out well. 

    “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME!”

  • Anonymous

    poor bagger… turn up the oxygen on your tank.

  • Anonymous

     You never see Obama throwing these tantrums. Newt is a perpetual bully and victim and he’s going to find himself booted out of the FOXhole.

  • Anonymous

    Holy Crap Newt, You worked for them. Do you ask that question seriously?

  • Anonymous

    Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down! So far, Gingrich has been counted out TWICE, yet it looks like he’s getting ready to decisively win in South Carolina. He hasn’t had the money that Romney has, nor the organization that Romney has put together over the past FIVE years, but he’s winning in a state where he doesn’t live (ever seen Romney’s “summer home” on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee?). Gingrich CAN beat Obama, Romney cannot.

  • Anonymous

    Liberals? You’ve had three inept years of Obimbo, does he really deserve more?! No wonder the Democratic Party is in such turmoil, they’re stuck with an incompetent looser and they can’t be seen as worried because, their in enough trouble as it is. 2010 was disastrous for the Liberal movement and if Obimbo’s record is any indication 2012 will be a watershed year for the Conservatives.

  • Jacob Servant
  • Anonymous

    Come on Mediate!

    “Newt Gingrich Explodes at Fox & Friends”

    It just didn’t go down that way. We’re the good guys, don’t go the Fox way and spin the spin, just report on the fact that Newt got a little testy and acted like the egotistical fact spinning politico that he is. Don’t give the other guys an excuse to blow us off.
    VIDEOby Frances Martel | 1:07 pm, January 21st, 201

  • Anonymous

    lmao have you see the Fox News poll where almost 30% of republicans think Mitt Romney first name is actually Mittens…

  • Anonymous

    lmao

  • Anonymous

    You really think three years is enough time to fix what Bush destroyed in eight?

  • Anonymous

    According to Obamacare, I’ll probably have to go before a panel to see if I even qualify for an oxygen tank!
    Thanks so much, Liberals.
    Of course, I could buy it out of my own pocket but then, that would defeat the Entitlement clause of Obscure, and I would probably be fined, if not jailed. Obimbo don’t want nobody drifting off the bottom-feeding farm! Might set a precedence?!   

  • Jardino

     The media should be careful with Newt. Anger and negative emotions can trigger a stroke.

  • Anonymous

    Explodes is a stretch for sure Fances – but, when TC isn’t here mediaite needs someone to take articles over the top and I guess you got elected.

    Grammar check is in order, btw.

    Go Newt.

  • Anonymous

    Henry Wood – The Biggest GoalPost Mover In History !!!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Waaaaaaay hotter than the weekly bimbo.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Newt is the 2Pac of the right… He’s currently in his “Me Against The World” stage, just after “Thug Life” and he hopes, just before “All Eyez On Me”. This also explains the composition of his current singles, “Dear Juan Williams”, “So Many Food Stamps” and of course, “Temptations”.

  • Anonymous

    When you can’t come up with a viable defense of Obimbo’s lack of leadership, blaming everything but Obimbo only intensifies, and narrows the scope of his competence.
    I’ve heard he puts on a hell of a party at the White House, cost be damned.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5MSACG3HYG2BKDPMTQQ23BY5ZA BillF

    Only racists keep a scorecard.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

     That’s what Bin Laden and Gaddafi said!

    Back to your FOXhole.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5MSACG3HYG2BKDPMTQQ23BY5ZA BillF

    And you would know this…….how?

  • 12voltman1

    Great song!

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Nothing to do with a scorecard. I just found it curious for this particular program. Not for the entire network, they are diverse there. I don’t think anyone is being racist. 

  • Anonymous

    Named for his father’s best friend, J. Willard Marriott.

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich is as dangerous a figure as ‘The ‘ Kingfish’ Huey Long. His delusions will provide a collapse after he sucks the anger out of S.C. Newt is a symbol of a Country in turmoil over the selection of a darker shade of leader with a gleaming intellect. Anyone who believes in education knows that we have the right man at the wheel.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Newt and the racist, hypocritical voters of SC for ensuring another obama term. I am sick to my stomach that those that criticized Clinton including our very corrupt former speaker, are actually supporting this man. Many americans that don’t care for obama will choose him over Gingrich. Incompetence vs. Insanity. And if Romney does happen to win the nod, Gingrich has destroyed him by making him the Gordon Gecko of the election. Sarah Palin, biggest dirt bag for being such a hypocrite.

  • Anonymous

    you’re a moron – we’ve been calling him “Mittens” for years 

  • Anonymous

    somewhat balanced?  it just proves how dense and brainwashed you all are, seriously… they’ve never done ANYTHING that was balanced and it was clear from day 1 they were pushing mittens on the repig party.

    my god they love you sheep

  • Anonymous

    clicks make profit.. don’t you know that ?  silly question

  • Anonymous

    Your not suggesting Obimbo had anything to do with your choice of examples, are you? Because, if you are, you’d be wrong…again.

  • Anonymous

    Youtube this: Senator Jim DeMint on Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ElectionScamClickHere4Proof

    Put on by unelected officials.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ElectionScamClickHere4Proof

    This next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty conservative and think Newt is loathsome and despicable. He’s a liar and a hypocrite. I hope he doesn’t win. When voting in any election, we usually have to lower our standards to choose a candidate. I refuse to have NO standards, though.

  • Anonymous

    Between the odd alter boy Santorum and the bad actor Romney even a Gingrich appears to be somehow charismatic.

    Romney complained about a Fox interview afterwards. Gingrich confronts them on air.

    Given the money and endorsements behind Romney a Gingrich win tonight would be
    a major upset. 

    A few days ago Romney was the shining winner, seemingly cruising from win to win.
    Today his campaign sinked to the level of sending a cake to Gingrich to make headlines.

    Isn´t it amazing a cheater on 2 wifes, officially as publically disgraced politician and ruthless lobbyist is getiing so far by doing nothing more than attacking media people, being arrogant and winking to racism?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1488483886 Suzie Kue

    Come into my facbook page…”Newt Americans Boycott Fox due to Bias” They have been slobbering all over Romney from the jump…!

  • Anonymous

    Forget race, diversity of opinion would be nice.    But for Fox News I guess two republicans and a right leaning self proclaimed “independent” is as diverse as they like to get.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently he watches the programing without blinders on unlike most of the FUX News zombies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1488483886 Suzie Kue

    Hey guys….Come into my facbook page…”Newt Americans Boycott Fox Due to Bias” The “we deceive you believe” Romney lovers…at FOX have been slobbering all over Romney from the jump…! I am disgusted at the persuasion bias by FOX for Romney so had to do something…lots of members…so come and join in with Newt people, all of us intelligent and all of us boycotting FOX very highly spirited debates…it is where the truth can be found. NEWT 2012

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1488483886 Suzie Kue

    Hey guys….Come into my facbook page…”Newt Americans Boycott Fox Due to Bias” The “we deceive you believe” Romney lovers…at FOX have been slobbering all over Romney from the jump…! I am disgusted at the persuasion bias by FOX for Romney so had to do something…lots of members…so come and join in with Newt people, all of us intelligent and all of us boycotting FOX very highly spirited debates…it is where the truth can be found. NEWT 2012

  • Anonymous

    I agree with everything you said except the last sentence.  It just not going to happen.

  • Anonymous

    Why resort to childish name calling if you expect anyone to take you seriously?

    I don’t understand that, I guess.  I understand if you dislike Obama’s policies or something, but why exert the effort of posting here at all if you are just going to post in a way that is so childish that it automatically negates what you say?
    By using words like “Obimbo” you’ve basically already lost the argument before it’s even begun as I don’t see how anyone could ever take anything you say seriously.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “Hey, has anyone seen my bootstraps?  LOL, LBS… suckers.”

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    moved…

  • Anonymous

    No doubt now that Gingrich has positioned himself against the media in a southern state that, for cause, doesn’t trust it.  They shouldn’t trust Newt either, but that’s neither here nor there.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    if that helps you sleep at night mayne

  • Anonymous

    Anyone that believes in education knows that the control of their children’s education needs to be returned to their parents.

    For that, the wrong ‘man is at the wheel.’

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    how does that make any sense? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    it’s not just conservatives… that’s what i’ve been saying all week here to you guys. ALL WALKS OF LIFE have used the race card on this site in situations where it does not even make sense.

  • Henry Wood

    Shades of dumb, shades of angry, shades of conservative.  Shades of pretend outrage.

    Never forget to stand up for the oppressed white man and all the racism he suffers from. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    “Does he really deserve more?!” – Yes.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    the only thing Gingrich CAN beat is his willy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    you didn’t even have to write how you felt, your picture says it all man lol :)

  • Henry Wood

    Playing the race card implies that the charge of racism is unjustified.  I’m sure there have been unjustified charges of racism on this site many times.

    But somethings a superficial dumbass says “play the race card” because he doesn’t want to accept how nasty the racism is.  For example, all of Newts racist remarks about the NAACP and food stamps, the president and food stamps, poor urban kids having no hardworking role models, etc.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    but we all still know what she meant. that’s the point, if all you can talk about is grammatical errors and how someone spells. then you don’t know how to debate and have no points to contribute.

  • Anonymous

    What a whiner this guy is. 

  • Henry Wood

    No, just pointing out how typically the white racist refers to anyone who organizes in black communities as an “agitator.”

    Do you even know what “move the goalpost” means?

  • Henry Wood

    I’m talking about the tendency of racists to use labels about black men.

  • Pablo

    That was an “explosion”? Really?

  • Pablo

    I wish watching brain dead people who fancy themselves “Clear Thinkers” were so enjoyable.

  • Anonymous

    Newt is right, Fox News decided that everyone needed to back the strongest candidate, Mitt, and so for a few weeks now they have been going after Newt. Even “Ming the mercilous” (Cavuto) is out there defending King over his stupid debate question. I mean Newt used to be a brother, but now he has been shown the door. Of course if Newt manages to win SC, he won’t be going anywhere. Anyway, even Santorum may become viable before it is over with Mitt because he has not been fully vetted.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    With all the GOP members already on record saying Newt was a terrible leader, this election cycle is shaping up to be very entertaining.

    Pass the popcorn.

  • Anonymous

    Newt will bring twice the family values to the table.

    There’s the family he’s married to …..and the family he sees on the side.

  • Anonymous

    Henry Wood Paints People With The Largest Brush In Town !!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Everyone questions Fox News being “Fair & Balanced”, even Newt!!

  • Anonymous

    Fair and Balanced-”AS LONG AS YOU AGREE WITH US”!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich has a nationwide disapproval rating that is so bad no one in modern history has had those types of numbers. I hope he pulls the nomination because Obama will win all 50 states:)

  • Anonymous

    The weekend version of Fox and Friends is pathetic.  Very uninformed and too young to know much of anything.  They did a great job with Vanilla Ice right after talking to Newt.  I rest my case.  They need to get rid of the entire weekend Fox and Friends team.  Amateur Hour at its Best.  I can’t stand the useless Alisyn Camoratta.  What a dip.  She’s only interested in stories about her kids.  Send them all home where they belong.

  • Anonymous

    This clip just confuses the hell out of me. Who am I supposed to call the RINO here?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    The media already hates his guts and have since the1990s and he knows it. He’s probably trying to marginalize them because he knows they have the long knives out for him.

  • Anonymous

    What if their mother and father are brother and sister like in SC ?

  • Anonymous

    Hey Newt, you are not “their guy.”  The Fox Noise hounds are coming after you now that you beat Romney in SC.  The clown car continues to roll along.  Priceless.

  • Anonymous

    Good one Chops.

  • Dead_Air

    “……Obimbo? who is that Callista Gingrich? …”

    Oh, snap!

  • Dead_Air

    I’ve been saying this for weeks.  Obama needs to send each and every one of the Republican candidates a dozen roses.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Well, I suppose anybody but the Tea Party folks. They claim they are not Republicans at all.

  • Anonymous

    Your statement is typical and of no significance.  It lacks wit and sensibility.  Typical simple-minded personal attacks from the right. 

    The truth must drive you crazy.

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Actually, we should expect good grammar from a professional poster. It is important, and it is not a debate.

  • shonangreg

    For the first time I can remember, I agree with Tina. Gingrich wasn’t even close to exploding here. he barely even raised his voice.

    This article is mis-leadingly labelled.

  • Anonymous

    Does a ridiculous slur of the folks down in SC make you feel superior ? It shouldn’t.

  • Anonymous

    The very thing Obimbo is good for. He won’t hesitate to become Black when the it fits his needs. He’s the consummate double talker, depending on the color of his audience.

  • Anonymous

    Just can’t leave it alone, can you? If anyone finds fault in Obimbo it’s got to be because of racism? Do you know how stupid that argument is?
    For me, it has nothing to do with his color, and everything to do with his socialist agenda. Your preoccupation with racism borders on fanaticism. It’s making you blind to reason.

  • Anonymous

    You choose to view them as racist. It’s you who sees a bogyman behind every door. Why is it, that most people knew exactly what he meant? It was only the people looking for a way to invoke racism into Newt’s remarks that found it. Hell, anyone can find racism in almost anything, if that’s what they want to find, and apparently your among those that do.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a racist remark……if you want it to be….do you want it to be? Lets see, Goal-Post, allot of Blacks play football, and in football there are Goal-Posts hence…..hell yes, there it is RACISM, pure and simple!!

  • Anonymous

    Well, at least that’s an honest answer, devoid of racism.

  • Anonymous

    Obama has more ability to govern in his little finger than your whole slate of nominees and your Repub. congress, tea partiers included and he was a community organizer. 

  • Anonymous

    It wasn’t his fault and you  are stupid if you don’t know that.

  • Henry Wood

    You were the one accusing me of racism. Did you forget already?  Therefore I must assume that you were referring to your own stupid argument.

    Obama’s agenda isn’t the least bit socialist.  His HC bill was a giveaway to insurance companies.  He balked at raising taxes on the wealthy.  His appointments to economic positions have included WS prostitute Tim Geithner and GE job exporter Jeff Immelt.

    The idea that Obama is a “socialist” of any kind is a complete joke.

  • Henry Wood

    Again this is hilarious coming from the rabid crybaby who accused me of racism just for pointing out how male and white his crowd in this video was.

  • DoNotMindMe

    Do you have a crystal ball that tells you who is racist or something? 

  • DoNotMindMe

    We have eyes, Henry, and we are all quite aware that President Obama is a black man. You don’t need to keep reminding us every time someone has a legitimate criticism of him. 

  • Henry Wood

    Dear Donotmind,

    It’s just that I have studied the civil rights era extensively.  You’ll notice that I didn’t accuse TRCJ of being a racist, I just think it’s interesting that he would use this word “agitator.” 

    Because in watching films about the civil rights era, I have seen lots of overgrown segregationist aholes using that exact same word to refer to many people who were on the side of justice, such as the freedom riders, MLK, Rosa Parks, etc.

  • Henry Wood

    What legitimate criticism? I see some name calling, some vague claims, but no actual specific criticism.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Dream on. Your wake-up call is scheduled for November 6.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    There’s been no “lack of leadership” on Obama’s part.

    And are you really stupid enough to think Obama didn’t send the troops who killed Bin Laden? Are you really stupid enough to think Obama didn’t make it possible for Gaddafi to be overthrown?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    When has Obama ever blamed anybody for something they weren’t actually to blame for?

    And no, he hasn’t said that disagreeing with him means you’re stupid. Though it seems that most of his critics are stupid.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    He most certainly has shown that ability, assclown.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Pointing out that Newt’s supporters are racist makes Henry Wood a racist? LOL no.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NDDA53B6LLZCTD4FMQYVKJOCBM Wes Meyer

    sorry, but Obama is going to lose regardless.

    Newt won’t get the nomination though.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NDDA53B6LLZCTD4FMQYVKJOCBM Wes Meyer

    most of his supporters are more stupid than his dumbest critics…

    and Obama is no prize himself.

  • Anonymous

    He didn’t explode, if my eyes didn’t deceive that was a smile on his face as he said that

  • Anonymous

    I like how Newt blows off a 900+ page report on ethic violations like it’s nothing. It’s not a marriage New, this is serious stuff.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Congratulations for proving my point about the stupidity of Obama’s critics.

  • Anonymous

    The Weekend Edition of Fox and Friends is a bunch of low end newsreaders with no talent and full of amateurism.  No one should take them seriously.  Why put these clowns on the air?  They act like interns.  

  • Anonymous

    Correct.  We are Conservatives, not Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    Fox has shifted more to the middle which will hurt them in the long term.

  • Anonymous

    Is that short for “I’m absolutely obtuse”?

  • Anonymous

    Dear liberals!

    You have had three years for one, JUST ONE of you with spine, character and integrity to come forward and admit that your idol of 2008 failed you and the entire country in a way that endangers the very existence of America, and challenge him in a primary.

    Yet, none of you has shown up when your country needed you. None of you dared to challenge this affirmative action hack. None of you dared to step forward for fear of being called racist by this biggest racist and his acolytes.

    The gutless Democrat Party is a far bigger joke than the GOP.

    And as for singing, it would be tempting to tell Barack to keep his day time job, but his croaking would be far more tolerable than another four years of him in the White House.

  • Anonymous

    That question occurs to all decent people hearing Obama reading his teleprompter. 

  • Pablo

    That doesn’t make you any less of a tool.

  • Pablo

    Ah, a self-hating cracker.

  • Anonymous

    Has Il Nuce been tested recently for STDs and crabs? Can we see the report? Will his mistresses live with him in the White House? Are all his mistresses female?  

  • Pablo

    Hey, how’s President Hillary, Her Inevitableness working out for you?

  • Pablo

    Since when was overthrowing Gaddafi on America’s agenda?  And how is falling in line behind Nicholas Sarkozy “leadership”?

  • Pablo

    Sure, child. “FUX” is the height of wit and creativity. Your intellect comes blazing through. What are you, 3?

  • Anonymous

    Let’s put this in simple terms for you.  The readers have judged our exchange. 7 to 1 it appears I have made my point. 

    Now hurry up and sign in with your other screen names and give yourself some support.

    You are dismissed.

  • ajironworks

    How does Romney make the case that He is successful
    ONLY with Private Capital ???? Obama will Tear Him a part !!!!!!
    We Need a NEW Fresh Leader ho can bring a New Plan to the
    table like NEWT’s 15 % Flat tax to retool America’s Crony Capital Markets , and
    a Zero tax rate for American Industrial manufacturing !!

    Romney’s ‘Crony Capitalism’: Bain’s Big Government
    Subsidies

    http://www.thenation.com/blog/165633/romneys-crony-capitalism-bains-big-government-subsidies

    Romney’s Skeletons: His Bain Capital
    Received Millions in Bailouts , how does Romney make the
    case that He is successful ONLY with Private Capital ????
    http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10538-romneys-skeletons-his-bain-capital-received-millions-in-bailouts

     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_66B4FOU46GL5WB66BMXAPHCE6M frederick h

    A person needs to watch the complete and total  video, not the cut portions, the kid on the left was in way over his head, soure losers.

  • Anonymous

    I know it’s far away and you and your liberal public school “educated” ilk could not find it on the map/globe, if your life depended on it, but based on your post it is obvious that you never heard about Zimbabwe.

    Ask any white farmer there how their once prosperous and self-sufficient farms were confiscated and turned into fallow waste lands.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve missed the point. The issue is, Henry Wood finds racism in almost every issue, and most especially when it doesn’t exist.

  • Anonymous

    We are well over 3-years into his administration. Can you point out the positives? I can give you a list of negatives.

  • Anonymous

    In 2009, did Obimbo blame Bush for an economic situation that required over $800-Billion in stimulus money? Was that money actually needed? Did that money do what it was suppose to do, or, would the free-market have done better if allowed to adjust itself?

  • Anonymous

    Wait….did you just admit that anyone that disagrees with Obimbo is stupid?!
    Thanks for proving my initial remark!!

  • Anonymous

    LOL…what a lame, knee-jerk comeback. Go Newt, go!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1405004314 Cindi Tracy Aune

    Really? You are upset over the nicest of nicknames they could probably use? Mittens are a non threatening item where as in this country apparently Kenyans are very frightening. your comparison is kinda lame.

    So perchance do you have a more creative Romney nickname?
    I like “clip art” as a nickname  (h/t Stephanie Miller)

  • Larry Linn

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

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

    “Mittens”, that is so horrible, Glad to see you save your outrage for the really important issues

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

    Yes Papa
    Obtuse is you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

    So now FOX is part of the Murrikan hating Librull media too?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    You called it right.  I support Buddy Roemer, but Fox is pushing Mitt big time.

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    “Committed gays”…..LOL
    They should ALL be “committed”

  • http://newsbusters.org/ AliveStiIIKickin

    Yeah…Like the MSNBC weekday “interns” who go home for the weekend and watch MSNBC  prison reruns on their DVDs

  • William Whitham

    My observation is simple. Newt Gingrich has demonstrated that he is a hothead both in the debate and afterwards on Fox news. He is entertaining but not very presidential in the way he presents himself or answers sensitive questions about his character. He has destroyed any interest I may have had for him as a presidential candidate. We need someone with respectable character who understands the economy and has demonstrated the ability to achieve stated objectives while working with opposition forces. While I would like to have seen a slogan like “Newt the current administration”, Newt Gingrich appears to be the wrong Newt. The remaining republican candidates all appear to be more presidential in the way they present themselves. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/samtnelson Samuel T Nelson

    Actually, Mittens is pretty creative if you think about. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/samtnelson Samuel T Nelson

    I’ve only seen Obama take responsibility for the economy, even though technically it was handed off to him. George W. Bush caused the recession with his tax cuts for the wealthy, multiple needless wars, and the bank bailouts. You can call the President names and whine all day, but that will never change the facts. 

  • Anonymous

    So what’s Obimbo doing during his administration to correct past mistakes? Well, if you contribute enough to Obimbo you get massive amounts of  American tax-money loaned to a company like Solyndra the government knew was in serious trouble, and would probably fail but, hey big contribution, big payoff.
    And then there’s Celgard, an ancillary company of Polypore who builds electric car batteries. They received a $49-million grant. Problem is, they are a profit making company but hey, when you contribute, grants happen. By the way, they are in Court on a monopoly charge.
    Administration come and go but, the crony capitalism continues. Obimbo is running the same “pay to play” scam Clinton was famous for.

  • Anonymous

    Response to Juan Carlo
    people use stupid, childish names for people because they cannot debate with others, using facts and complete sentences. They know they do not have much of a point to make, so they want to grab attention first. They think that wins debates. Also, they only know how to yell. That is why few people want to even talk politics with them. Then, they come here thinking they are so clever. Have pity on the fools. Somebody has to.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Maybe since Pan-Am 103, when Gaddafi murdered hundreds of Americans in a terrorist attack.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

     No, but most people criticize him seem to be. After all, only an idiot would think that the common attack line of “he uses a teleprompter!” is valid. And only an idiot would think that calling him “Obimbo” is anything but childish.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Yes, Bush was blamed, because he was to blame.

    Yes, the money was needed. In fact, even more money than was allocated was needed.

    Yes, the money did what it was supposed to do.

    And no, allowing the “free-market” to “adjust itself” would not have worked better.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    The positives have already been pointed out. You just ignored it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    No, the issue is that you ignore racism when it really does exist.

  • Anonymous

    Who writes this stuff on Mediaite?

    First graf:

    “Has Gingrich taken this whole hate-the-media thing a step to far by attack, of
    all people, Fox & Friends hosts?”

    Try:  “Has Gingrich taken this whole hate-the-media thing a step [too] far by [attacking], of all people, Fox and Friends hosts?”

    Come on Martel, do some proofreading!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/W4PI2W7XKHR7VZPUFBUOAXLLII Katy

    The article is misleading. Fox has become extremely bias. Conservatives are not being fooled by the Foxes. We understand you got the memo to sway Americans, sway the votes for a certain candidate. Sure, you can demonize the voters. That’s what you are doing…but we’re turning you off! Shame on Fox and Friends. Also, your supporter will never trust nor listen to Fox after what you’ve done to us. Go Newt! You stay strong and speak for US!!! 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/W4PI2W7XKHR7VZPUFBUOAXLLII Katy

      I think he’d make a great President, actually.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000357787667 Charles Thaboogeyman

    Wasn’t Willard a RAT?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    and calling yourself “Pablo” doesn’t make you Hispanic, faker

  • Anonymous

    ‎”I don’t think voters belong in a candidate’s bedroom.” said Dr. Keith Ablowa psychiatrist and member of the Fox News Medical A-Team.
    Holy Andrew Jackson! This from FOX? Unbelievable! Sheep trust Gingrich and trust FOX.

    “Newt Gingrich’s three marriages mean he might make a strong president — really”.
    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/20/newt-gingrichs-three-marriages-mean-might-make-strong-president-really/#ixzz1kHxsyCuR.

  • Anonymous

    ‎”Every personal friend I have who knew us in that period said the story was false” said Gingrich concerning the “open” marriage allegation. Now would that conversation between a husband and wife play out in front of personal friends? Please, can’t he do better than that, given his gift of the gab? Military deferment: “I had a wife and child” , “I wasn’t eligible for the draft.”, suggested his service covered because he suffered thru his father’s service, “Given everything I believe in, a large part of me thinks I should have gone over,”. Denies being lobbyist: “The $300,000 (really $1.6) I was paid by Freddie Mac were for my services as, uh, a historian.”, urged McCain to attack Democrats for being too close to housing giant Freddie Mac. And promising not to go negative during the campaign and accepting super PAC money and not owning the PAC’s campaign ads. Don’t trust this man. He is a bully, a prevaricator, impulsive, Baptist-turned-Catholic (wow! how did that happen?), etc, etc.

  • Anonymous

    Marianne is not running for president or first lady, so who cares. She must be passionate about her cause, because now she has publicly put her reputation up for scrutiny. We are, however, concerned about Mr. Gingriche’s character. What a circus. I thought, at first, that this was not a TV “reality” show, but it is as raunchy as Showtime’s “Shameless”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Wow! this is news. Fox is not “Fair and Balanced”?. 

  • http://twitter.com/word_34 SpreadTheWord

    How about just calling him Reversible Mittens

  • Anonymous

    It’s also part of Newt’s proclivity for self-destruction.
    He can’t handle success.
    His ego is in control now.
    And out of control, too.

  • Anonymous

    Still is.

  • Anonymous

    And the other half just think it’s another moronic repugnantan name.
    Like Scooter.

  • Anonymous

    He knows what he’s doing.
    He obviously has no respect, whatever, for his supporters.
    Why should he, they believe his lies?
    So why would he stop lying?

  • Anonymous

    B-Grade actor?
    I seem him as the lead in my next epic: (palms out, next to each other, face high, moving apart)

    Newt Gingrich IS

    “SATAN”

  • Anonymous

    No. Not at all.
    I believe that you’re confusing that with me calling you stupid.
    Because, try as you might, it’s the inescapable conclusion that you just can’t escape.
    The very idea that you’re always here, on a liberal site, utterly failing to ever make a point on your intellectual betters, and utterly lacking even the trace of self-awareness that would enable you to recognze this sad fact, is evidence of your stupidity.
    Why don’t you stay at moron.com, where you can find the kinship that you so desperately crave, while commiserating with your fellow jack-asses on how we all just refuse to accept your non-sequiturs of prodigious lunacy?
    I’m sure that you’ll find the sympathy that is the goal of your ignoble quest.
    But if you’re looking for sympathy here, check the dictionary, between ‘shit’ and ‘syphillis’.

  • Anonymous

    What is her role in the open marriage setup?
    I’m guessing that it involves fund-raising with fat cats.

  • Anonymous

    Have you just designated yourself as decent?
    I can’t imagine why.
    You wrong-wingers are, collectively, are grossly disgusting disgrace.

  • Anonymous

    You expected originality from a semi-literate?

  • Anonymous

    Well, harumph, then.

  • Anonymous

    So what’s the problem?
    Like anyone here cares.
    This is a liberal site. Let them all kill each other.
    And just because gingbang doesn’t like being attacked, that doesn’t mean that I have to get upset about it.
    Didn’t faux news give him a platform to launch his campaign in the first place?
    And didn’t he know how it operates?
    And now, it’s doing it to him?

    I believe that now is the time to play the TS card.

  • Anonymous

    Obimbo’s utter failure as a president is glaring. Your sophomoric attack in itself tells us you know your wrong, and that you have backed a less than qualified person, and your embarrassed about it. So, you’d rather use use gutter language attacking anyone who sees your mistake. It must be hard for people like you to accept that you’ve been played. Three years of this clowns administration should be enough to tell anyone of reasonable intelligence that this guy is not capable of leading this country. Your undignified counter argument is indicative of the sad, and sick Liberal ideology.
    Do yourself a favor, attend a few Tea-Party events and rid yourself of that demon on your back.  

  • Anonymous

    Sophomoric?
    You’d have to improve considerably to reach that level.
    If I were embarrassed, I wouldn’t comment at all, although to post evidence of time wasted in conversation with you, is an embarrassment unto itself.
    And if you must criticize me for attacking you, try not to do so while attacking me, nor while calling our president ‘Obimbo’. It tends to cut the legs off your moral high-horse, and cause you to appear stupid, which, you’ll recall, was my original thesis.
    While I could refute your argument that Obama has been an utter failure, what would be the point, after having done so, quite effectively, in fact, at least five times in the past, with no rational rebuttal from you at any time.

    “….should be enough to tell anyone of reasonable intelligence …..”

    How and why do you include yourself in that group?

    “Your undignified counter argument …”

    My argument is MORE than dignified enough to answer you. You don’t merit the royal treatment, despite your delusions of grandeur.

    “Do yourself a favor, attend a few Tea-Party events …”

    I’ll just answer that with another of your quotes:
    “It must be hard for people like you to accept that you’ve been played.”

  • Anonymous

    That video says it all. What a bunch of lowlife scumbag hypocrites.Flippity floppity flip flop flop.How can this gop assclown be taken seriously?

  • Anonymous

    I’m with you when it comes to fix news,but how do you snuggle up to a vile disgusting slimy pig like newt?

  • Anonymous

    For the small-minded, nothing is too petty.

  • Anonymous

    It’s your sophomoric attacks that let us know your running scared. All that rant and not a word in condemnation of the newspaper. It was the paper that chose not to re-endorse Obimbo. Your fight is with them. Conservatives clearly see why they chose not to, it’s now up to you to find out why. If you need help attend a Tea-Party meeting and educate yourself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ajcVet Ajc Vet

    Once again Romney-Bain puts a silver boot in his mouth. This time in this Tampa-FL GOP debate, he brags about how much richer he is than all of us by mocking Senator Ted Kennedy for having to mortgage his home to fund his campaign against Romney-Bain. He doesn’t have a tin ear, he has a wooden ear with no resounding echo of intelligence inside, LOL! 

    PLEASE FLORIDA VOTERS—PICK ONE OF THE OTHER THREE GOP CANDIDATES, I BEG YOU!!!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/Q7LNZCYMGVIHMZTMNHCYGYXUOM Alex

    And again we see Fox News in full campaign mode, just like they are everytime. This time they are fully in Romney’s tank and are trying to discredit Newt.   But they don’t have any power to affect an election, it just makes them look more of a bent info-mercial than ever.

  • Anonymous

    He needs to stop this obsession with bologna….

  • Anonymous

    With an honest, knowledgeable candidate working hard to become the Republican nominee, why don’t we all just vote for Santorum and put the two squabblers out of their misery!

  • Anonymous

    Sure, whatever you say.
    I think that our major point of disagreement is that I’ve come to realize that you’re a complete cipher, and that you have yet to realize this.

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