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Newt Gingrich: MSNBC Essentially Acts As ‘The Obama Re-Election Team’

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Newly branded GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich appeared today at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida, and was asked by a presumptive supporter how he intends to deal with the media bias he’ll face in his run for office. After openly talking about his recent surge in the polls, Gingrich gave a surprisingly candid assessment of the political media landscape, at least on cable news, calling MSNBC the “Obama re-election team,” and intimating that he gets a nicer reception on Fox News than does Obama.

Gingrich’s assessment was a pretty frank and honest view of how the cable news portrays a variety of candidates running for office, and he said as much without condescension or ire. In fact, most reasonable people will hear his comments and agree. A rough transcript of Gingrich’s comments (via TV Eyes):

I was dead in June and July as a candidate, not as a person. As a candidate. And now I’m apparently not dead. And according to Fox last night, I’m in first place. I think realistically I’m tied with Romney….we’re both somewhere in about the –

But here’s the key thing to remember. We all complained correctly when the news media failed to investigate Barack Obama. We complained when they refused to look at William Ayers. We complained when they didn’t actually explain Saul Alinsky and what it was all about and what community organizer meant. We were right to complain about that. Wo now they’re actually doing for us what they wouldn’t do for Obama. They’re doing it partly out of bias.

I understand that and i understand there are places like MSNBC that are essentially the Obama re-election team. But that’s fine. This is a free society. You can say that Fox tends to be nicer to (inaudible) than to Obama. In the next three weeks i predict to you we’ll have all sorts of questions about me. and it’s fine. You cannot ask the people of the united states to loan you the most powerful governmental job in the world, particularly on a campaign that is promising very drama change, and not have them vet you carefully and thoroughly.

In GOP quarters the company line has been that Barack Obama wasn’t properly vetted by the media. Anyone who watched Fox News opinion programs in 2008, however, and saw what seemed like an endless loop of Rev. Wright talking about chickens coming home to roost would likely disagree. But Gingrich’s comments that its all “fine” and that “this is a free society” appear to reflect a kinder and happier tone of someone who if likely happy to be at the top of the polls.

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  • Jonathan Cantor

    And Newt acts as the spokesperson for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. So we all have our own agendas!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Nice!!

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    “Tingles” agrees.

  • Anonymous

    The viewers (BOTH of them) of the M(ore)S(ocialism)from N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) network EXPECT them to lie, misrepresent, propagandize socialism, slime conservatives and generally act like repulsive twits without ethics, morals, honesty or integrity.

    …and they NEVER disappoint either one of them.

  • Norbit

    Why is this news?

    It more falls into the category of obvious.

    And before you lefties fall over yourselves screaming FOX; FOX wouldn’t be crushing the COMBINED TOTAL audiences of CNN, msnbc, HLN & cnbc if it were true!

  • Anonymous

    LOL…newt is the slimiest politician of them all.   I hope the silly Tea Baggers elect this chump.  It will prove:

    A.  They are stupid, cause Newt is no true conservative.
    B.  Their supposed family values conversation is done.
    C.  Prove their hatred for mormons.

    Romney may have romneycare, but Newt has more baggage combined then the entire field.

  • Kid Dynamite

    Newt Gingrich: Sean Hannity and Greta Van Sustern Act As The Suck My Erection Team.

  • http://twitter.com/JonUPS Jonathan Cohen

    What about the question the woman asked????? Starting with the $10 Million dollars….???? Went down hill from there IMVOH

  • Anonymous

    Oblamer has all the lame stream media in his back pocket…not just PMSBC

    If the damn media would do their jobs we wouldn’t have elected the least experienced and most incompetent President this Country has ever seen!!!

  • Lulu

    Yes, true but I don’t want Gingrich on my Koch. Dr Ron Paul 2012!

  • Anonymous

    No shit Newt.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! This is coming from someone who sold their soul to Fox “so-called” News!!

    Fox spends every moment they have trying to get Obama to become a one term President… and before Newt entered the race, he was a part of their “smear” team!!

    Instead of making these absurd comments, doesn’t Newt have better things to do, such as looking for wife #4??

    Newt is a fraud!!

  • Anonymous

    First Lady…..I’m not racist but what are you going to do about those anchor babies?

  • Anonymous

    Him and Barney cash their checks together…..

  • Norbit

    See above; you libs are so predictable.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Newt is correct.

    P.S.
    Reelect is one word.
    No hyphen is needed

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Newt forgot to include CBS, ABC and the liberal papers like NYT and WaPo.

  • Jason_in_Vegas

    In his next breath, Gingrich had the audacity to say that water is wet, the sky is blue & Nazi Pelosi has had wayyyyy too much botox.

    Oh, and Colby, I understand you’re a moonbat who gets paid to advance moonbat politicians and their moonbatty policies forward, but come on now… Fox being pro Republican hardly makes up for the rest of the media being sychophantic Obamunists.

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Nice comeback? I don’t recall Barney calling for the end of Fannie and Freddie. But if he did I’d love to see the link. Also unclear to me how MSNBC is getting paid by the Obama administration, but I’m sure you can link to me about something involving George Soros.

    But in all I could care less about the hypocrisy of Barney Frank hes not running for president. If he were then it would be an issue.

  • Anonymous

    Face it Obama wasn’t vetted to anywhere near the level past candidates have been. For much of the media it would be like reading your sisters intimate diary. You really don’t want to find anything that would change your idealized picture of that person, so it is far easier to just not look.

  • Anonymous
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZCDEG24W2PC2QJJE2BHXX5BAOM Tiny Card

    SMDH

    They have played Americans once again with this so called polling mess.
    This whole thing is scam

    When are people gonna wake up and realize this

  • shatwood

    CL BRYANT SPOTTING!

  • Norbit

    As opposed to a Marxist-oriented community-organizer, spending the nation into bankruptcy ($4B in 3 years vs Bush $2B in 8!), usurping more and more power as he circumvents more and more of our democratic system.

    Newt is ready for the Democrats Smear-&-Fear offensive – carried out by THEIR MEDIA!

    2012!

    Know the Difference!

    Vote the NEW GOP!

  • Anonymous

    Is his history relevant when running for the House every 2 years? I can bring it up then? And who said Obama had to pay MSNBC for MSNBC to be a mouthpiece for his policy and re-election?
    And of course he didn’t call for it’s end… he was the one pumping it up (along with many others on BOTH sides of the isle) and led us to the housing crises.

    And people on the right might stop with the Soro’s stuff when the Kock stuff stops….. which means never.

  • Sean

    “Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic
    things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent
    response were you even close to anything that could be considered a
    rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having
    listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your
    soul.”

  • Nelson

    Did you even read the article or just the headline? He takes a shot at Fox bias as well.

  • RW

    Look at the headline:
     ”Newt Gingrich: MSNBC Essentially Acts As ‘The Obama Re-Election Team’ ”

    Yes we know.  Everyone knows.  What is your point?  MSNBC, Politico, Mediaite, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, PBS, …  whew I’m getting tired.

    They are all all in on the Obama Reelection Team

    We Know

  • Chauncy Gardner

    Is it just me or does his wife look like one of the alien women from Mars Attacks?

  • expatpatriot

    Let’s see: Resentment? Check. False equivalency? Check. Supercilious snottiness? Check.

    Yep, that’s Newt all right.

    I think he’s wrong about “the next 3 weeks” though. I’d give him 10 days. He might not flame out as spectacularly as Cain, but the more people see of him, the more they (including ‘Licans and Teepers alike) will realize that Gingrich is, above all else, a massive asshole who you want to keep far, far, away from the levers of power.

    And notwithstanding the latest polling suggesting that Republicans trust him more than Homer Simpson when it comes to handling nukes, far away from them, too.

  • Norbit

    Spokesperson?
    lol
    Then Obama was the spokesperson for ACORN.

    They paid Newt the money; but they didn’t listen to his advice.

    The reason is clear:
    Democrats had to use Fannie & Freddie to STEAL taxpayer monies and give it to their constituents who didn’t have the wherewithall to purchase a home!

    In exchange for STEALING our taxes, and giving it to their constituents to buy homes they couldn’t otherwise afford, the Democrats received loyal support at the polls.

    That’s a simple diagram of how Democratic Party corruption works.

  • Anonymous

    Kip Carter was a fellow faculty member at West Georgia College where
    Newt and his first wife Jackie Gingrich met and married. Kip was a
    volunteer in Newt’s first two Congressional campaigns. “Kip Carter, who
    lived a few doors down from the couple, saw more than he wanted to. ‘We
    had been out working a football game — I think it was the Bowdon game
    — and we would split up. It was a Friday night. I had Newt’s
    daughters, Jackie Sue and Kathy, with me. We were all supposed to meet
    back at this professor’s house. It was a milk-and-cookies kind of
    shakedown thing, buck up the troops. I was cutting across the yard to go
    up the driveway. There was a car there. As I got to the car, I saw Newt
    in the passenger seat and one of the guys’ wives with her head in his
    lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me his little-boy
    smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter
    then.’”

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

    The best defense a good offense…Newt rushes up the middle for a yard.  3rd and 20.   

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Actually from my understanding of the financial crisis (from peer reviewed journals) is that the Community Reinvestment Act facilitated this. Now this is a piece of legislation that many Republicans and Democrats supported. In particular this act led to the bad loans by the GSEs. Now I don’t agree with the GSEs but to blame one party entirely is not exactly correct. 

  • Sean

    It’s not just you.

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Thanks Norbit because people still watch TV on their TVs. 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Where’s the “shot” you’re talking about?? Newt didn’t say anything bad about Fox “so-called” News!!

    “You can say that Fox tends to be nicer to (inaudible) than to Obama”, this is your idea of a “shot”?? Lol!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Newt will try to stick around as long as he can… Newt has his books and videos he needs to sell to those gullible Republicon voters!!

  • Moosenuts99

    Sounds like Fox is complicate of this too, eh?

  • Moosenuts99

    So, FOX didn’t vet Obama
    Either?

    Lol

  • Moosenuts99

    BAGGERS wont go for Newt; he is for an individual mandate.

    LOL

  • joe

    was he not on the fox payroll???? BEING A SPOKESMAN FOR THE GOP???

    can anyone say HIPPO-CRITE???

  • Moosenuts99

    You should have no problem listing for us your multitude of examples then…

  • joe

    i guess if one was living in a really bad stupid world of morons and false information–this would be true..
    but I do not watch fox..

  • Norbit

    The initial CRA was bastardized by Democrats, and a complicit GOP Congress who went along; but the Republicans had been demanding Frank reign in what became CRA’s legacy – Freddie & Fannie guarantees - as early as 2006.

  • joe

    because people who watch fox–do not read and they sit their fat arses in front of the tv all day..

    people who watch the other networks–actually spend time with family–read a little and go outside–into the sunlight~

    and for the record..NBC with Brian Williams gets more viewers in one hour than most of fox does all day..
    hmmm go finger…

  • Anonymous

    Yes, they will…cause he’s NOT ROMNEY.

  • joe

    would not bet the farm mi amigo..

    but if you are confident and wish to put your loot where your pie hole is…
    me takey dat bet~

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    Adress the question about Freddie Mac, Newt we know MSNBC is left leaning and Fox is Right leaning,
    Fox News viewers however by every poll is measured to consistently be the most uninformed viewers.

  • Anonymous

    The incompetent one wouldn’t go near Fox..remember? He even wanted to shut them out of the WH press room!!! Oblamer did one interview with BO’R and it was such a softball interview it was sickening!!

  • joe

    i kind of pictured newt as the bobber…
    i know that hannity and lil dickie morris are closet smokers…
    and newt sure seems a little light in the loafers…

    why is it that liberal gays are so much more manly than conservative ‘straight’ men???
    makes you wonder huh?

  • Cecelia

    Well, it’s nice how Colby Hall will agree with Newt that not quite the entire… media are vehemently vetting Republican candidates “partly out of bias” in the way that they did NOT with Pres. Obama, if there’s a mild suggestion too that “Fox tends to be nicer to [inaudible] than Obama.”

    I wholeheartedly agree, Colby, that THIS is certainly a “reasonable” summation.

  • joe

    newt takes everything he and the cons have done wrong and projects that on the dems…

    it is called projection…

    it is also a classic diversion tactic for habitual crooks, liars and sociopaths..

    but i guess it is obvious –again–now that newt has been caught doing—WHAT HE JUST SAID OTHERS SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR????
    remember limbaugh and drug users>>>

    i just wish these clowns would hold themselves to the same standards they set for others!
    that seems reasonable huh?

    but i guess when you are dealing with maniacs…crazy is the new normal~

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Saying stuff is always fun but you should really source it! 

    If you do I might read it and believe you sir!

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Proper english please

    The correct spelling is “hypocrite”

    Did you intend to say Hippocrates, like the Hippocratic oath? I know hypocrite is close to that spelling!

  • Norbit

    Fight the (waning) Power of the Democratic Media.
     
     
    Note what the network media’s doing on behalf of the Obama re-election campaign.
     
    Every time a new GOP frontrunner appears, the Network Media* runs a coordinated attack on them!
    They’ve become the Democratic Party’s Media War Room.
     
     
    Compare this to the cover-up they ran on Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, etc. with Obama; or the non-coverage of Solyndra and ACORN – until they were FORCED to cover it.
    And what about ex-Dem Sen. & Gov Corzine, costing middle-class workers 1000 jobs, and losing investor monies on leveraged gambling?
    Do you think there’d be coverage if the name were ex-Gov. Christie? – Damn right there’d be, wall-to-wall.
     
     
    That’s the INTEGRITY of today’s mainstream media!
     
     
     
    Expose the political corruption of the people in that media, and undercut their credibility with every contact you have.
     
     
     
    *NBC – CBS – CNN – MSNBC – AM Shows & Late Night, and the usual suspects. 

  • Valkyrie101

    I almost feel sorry for Newt, the ravage he will be getting. But when you spend your life as a flim flam man, it eventually catches up with you.

  • Norbit

    The furs gonna’ be flyin’ tonite on ole’ msnbc, don’t ya think?
    lol

    Think Matthews heard the news yet? – or is he still out telling us how great his book is?
    lol!

    Well, at least it won’t take any attention away from the DNC/OWS campaign kick-off downtown!
    LMAO!

  • Anonymous

    Um, spoken by a guy who worked at Fox news?

  • Moosenuts99

    Yeah,
    Truth and
    Facts seem to have a liberal bias, eh?

    I wonder why FOX is the ONLY CABLE STATION “telling the truth”. LOL!

  • Norbit

    See below.
    The media smear won’t work this time. There are too many outlets to expose it.

    The attacks on his personal life will be viewed as re-hashed sniping.

    He’ll either be the top or second on the ticket; and that ticket will easily beat Obama next year, sweeping many Congressional Democrats out along with him.

    And, if that’s the way things are unfolding come next spring and summer, Israel will wait until after the election to attack Iran.

  • Moosenuts99

    Interviews are the only way to vet someone? Interesting.

  • Norbit

    News is also manipulated and misrepresented through omission.

  • Tony

    How many interviews should he do then? You can’t just call him for an interview anytime you like. How many times Sarah Palin has went to CNN or MSNBC?

  • Norbit

    LOL

    Yes, this President has made it an Art Form!

  • Tony

    What are you talking about? Fox News is helping the republicans. If you deny that then that’s your opinion.

    The reason why Fox News is the most popular is because it’s the only conservative network on TV. It doesne’t have any competition.

  • Tony

    And that’s why you watch Fox News right? You love the GOP so much you just can’t watch any other network.

  • Tony

    And Fox News, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times…..oh wait they’re biased for the right.

  • TSK

    What you idiots fail to get through your twisted minds is what Newt did with Fannie Fraud and Fannie phoney is perfectly LEGAL. Once again your flea bagger minds are protesting the WRONG entity.Try going after the Bat eared Bolsheviek.He whored more money from wall street than anyone in the last twenty years.
    Go after Solyndra and all the bagman including Dear Leader, go after fannie and Freddie.

  • Tony

    See above; you cons are so predictable.

  • Valkyrie101

    I appreciate your positive attitude, Norbit, but things will not be looking too good for Newt because he has way too many issues. And it will be his fellow republicans who bring those up. Even trying to deflect that criticism by blaming the dems or Obama will not help. 

  • Norbit

    And just whom does Brian Williams speak to any more?

    You’re image of a FOX viewer says more about your informational sources, than it does FOX’s.

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

    Your “A” seems so very loosely attached.  

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    It’s HE and Barney. Remind me not to send me kids to school in St Louis

  • Anonymous

    Have fun proofing the rest of the threads here. ;)

  • Redleaf

    In other words, if you want to only hear pro-Newt propaganda, watch Fox.
    If you watch any other news outlet, I take the risk of you hearing something non-partisan and possibly negative about me.

    So please, I implore you to only watch positive things about me. Fox said I’m in first place. That means you must watch only Fox. Keep watching Fox 

  • Anonymous

    ABR (Anyone But Romney)
    Hey which Repulicains on these messege boards will admit that Romney is their candidate?
    ANYONE???
    Step right up!

  • Anonymous

    Remind me not to send “me” kids to school in St Louis ????  LOL

  • Norbit

    GOP

    Newt just gave you a great strategy – DISMISS the Mainstream as just part of the Obama Team, then be very selective about who you give interviews with!

    Do what Reagan did, go around the “Re-Elect Obama” Media, and go straight to the people.

    And, this has the additional effect of further undermining the media’s public credibility.

  • Bob

    and Newt’s former employer, FOX News, is completely objective when they tell teabaggers to go out and protest Obama.

  • Bob

    derty derp socialism derpty derp communism
    this is all the rightwing’s got, folks.

  • david r

    I spent a week in the Chase-Park Plaza and had a famous time.  Do they still sell Mammar Jammers in St. Louis? ? (How ’bout those Cards!)

  • Anonymous

    Yes they do.. and they are AWESOME!!!

  • Jonathan Cantor

    I didn’t go to college or grad school in St. Louis either!

  • Norbit

    I’m confident the NEW GOP will not shoot themselves in the foot, as the old GOP routinely did (just, please, keep John McCain away from any microphones or control knobs).

  • Anonymous

    Translation: I haven’t made a coherent argument for my election so I’m going to blame the media. 

  • Anonymous

    Or when O’Falafel is calling on the FOX “conservative” to murder a doctor because Bildo thinks he’s evil…

  • Anonymous

    Why would anyone want to suck on that little thing?

  • Anonymous

    Socialism! Soros! Brown people! AHHH!!! Conservative scum are all a bunch of whiney biotches..

  • Anonymous

    Marxist!! *Drink*

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    What else is new? Everyone knows that MSNBC is a far-leftist propaganda outfit.

  • Anonymous

    O’Falafel is a RINO!!!

  • david r

    Republicans went along with CRA’s giveaways to the poor to help the mortgage lending industry.  And these substandard loans were being bundled and sold as securities.  And the Republicans didn’t pay for Iraq War either.  That got the deficit going out of control.  Fireman Obama has shown up with napalm.  The only question I have is whether he is deliberately trying to destroy the private side of the economy.

    The mortgage industry was in need of regulation.  These adjustable rate mortgages and balloon payments enabled a lot of deadbeats to move into nice homes, run up a liability, file Ch. 13, and restructure the note in bankruptcy court.

  • Anonymous

    And so full of crap that their eyes are brown!

  • bohratom

    No news here, MSNBC is far left, Fox News favors the right. Anyone older then 3 years can tell the difference.

  • Anonymous

    I was just going to let that go. Grammar trolls are best left alone to feel better about themselves by reliving their English 101 accomplishments.

  • Anonymous

    COLBY SAID:

    “Anyone who watched Fox News opinion programs in 2008, however, and saw
    what seemed like an endless loop of Rev. Wright talking about chickens
    coming home to roost would likely disagree.”

    I notice that is the sole source he gives for such info:  FOX opinion hosts.

    I do believe that you proved Newt’s claim because that was covered as an after thought by the bulk of the MSM just as Fast and Furious, Solyndra and the Acorn scandal (was it Bryan Williams) who admitted he didn’t have a clue what had happened weeks later has been covered.

    Political junkies know the ins and outs but the bulk of the American public could miss it totally because of their viewing habits.  One of my oldest and dearest friends is my gauge for that.  She watches network news if it’s convenient, scans newspapers, doesn’t always read articles to the end and definitely never listens to news or even owns a computer. 

    BTW, she doesn’t have a clue who Bill Ayers or Saul Olinksky (?)is.  She has, however, heard about Hermain Cain harassing women.

  • FreeMike

    Why do people forget who Obama was running against in the last election?  His opponents were the senile old guy yelling at Mexicans to get off his lawn and his running mate, Caribou Barbie.  This is what the GOP put up as viable candidates after 8 years of Dubya and his neoconic empire, which had approval ratings similar to the current CIC.  Saying Obama was the poorer choice between the two is, and remains, ludicrous.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    BTW– The California Supreme Court ruled against the gay marriage crowd today.
    That sucks (no pun intended) for them. Just another chance to riot

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    Newt is just so full of baggage that he can’t even win his home state. Newt’s busy selling books and he has no campaign staff.    

  • Anonymous

    this is hardly news.  and anyone who denies his claim about msnbc is either dumb, blind, brainwashed or purely hypocritical.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe they just want to back a winner.

  • Norbit

     
    More Media Bias!
     
     
     
    OWS supporter charged with attempted assassination of the President!
     
    Did you see it on ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, MSNBC?
     
    What if he were a Tea Party person?
     
    Would it be ALL OVER ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, MSNBC?
     
     
     
    (No  response required.)

  • clever

    What is the problem with that?I guess it is a little less noble then hanging out with Bill Ayers and the looney church with Wright.Or a  noble job as a community Organizer or work at a law firm and getting fired because the only thing you did there was write  a book about your patheticly boring life.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Colby Hall takes over the lead position in Mediaite’s contest over which “reporter” here can be the absolutely most loyal authoritarian tool on staff. Okay, I got it Colby – and I won’t forget.

  • Anonymous

    Newt is probably THE most intelligent of all the candidates/politicians seeking/holding the office of President. I have no doubt he would make an excellent President, however the main stream media will savage him. They will do whatever it takes – lie, deceive, distort – to get Obama reelected.

  • clever

    It is easy to source try reading and looking it up yourself if you think some one is lying it works for me.

  • clever

    You are the reason libtards exist to lazy or stupid to look up facts.Call everyone a lyer or blame fox because your lazy.

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    I don’t think he’s a supporter or Fox would’ve covered it this morning on Grechen’s show. 

  • clever

    I can say it DEMOCRAT.not so sure if I spelled it right all my teachers were libtards and spent more time lying rather than teaching.

  • clever

    Show some proof of that dumbass MSNBC talking point not the least bit true.
    If a libtard wasn’t talking he would not be lying.

  • burlap

    Apparently stating the fact Newt organized lobbyists for and took millions of dollars from Freddie Mac is a smear. The right has no legitimate counter, so they deflect and whine about the librul media.

  • clever

    Your wisdom is so not there.

  • clever

    That is a sore point for libtards.

  • Norbit

    It’s been a politically-corrupt media for decades.
    They don’t report the news, they create narratives and characterizations, and report it as news in an effort to manipulate public opinion.

  • clever

    Says the libtard who reads comic books.Brian williams is on Broadcast tv which almost every household has cable not so much.I am sure you already know that but not smart enough to think anyone else would know that but then again libtards are no known for being the brightest bulb.

  • clever

    Admitting that every station is a liberal mouth piece.

  • Norbit

    WHY IS THE MAINSTREAM COVERING UP THE CORZINE SCANDAL?

  • clever

    Newt against obam in a debate and Obama with out a teleprompter to easy Obama is dumb enough with help hope he studied better than last time now that Hawaii is in Asia there are only 57 states.

  • burlap

    How DARE you! The MSMS lieberal MACHINE is out to relect that OBAZA  the LYING AFRICAN. I cant string a coherent counter- argument so I’LL JUST CAPITALIZE random WORDS.

  • Juliebnike

    Of course MSNBC have embarked on the campaign of personal destruction, everyone who is conservative is called a fool, an idiot et cetera. If you as much as use the kinds of words they use to describe Herman Cain on President Obama they automatically see racism. 
     Herman Cain for President!!

  • clever

    Wow that made sense.To you I guess

  • Ricci Dats Me

    AND??? Its YOUR JOB to win NEWT. Sorry but Obie had to make his way through the nasty political machine dealing with his muslim name, his place of birth (still), his “true color”.. Are you not big enough to strap on the unit and saddle up for the hard ride. Are you scared? GOP folks? You gonna keep complaining like children or find someone other than the current clown posse (minus Romney). boo hooo.

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

    ….bet he thinks Fox is unbiased too. Yawn.

  • lemon

    Dem Rep thanks MSNBC host for Ohio union advocacy
    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dem-rep-thanks-msnbc-host-advocacy

     An exchange between MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, concluded with a stark acknowledgement of partisanship in the media and has MSNBC Executives fretting.”Great work in Ohio, Congressman,” Schultz said after Ryan discussed his 2012 expectations for the union coalition that repealed Gov. John Kasich’s, R-Ohio, collective bargaining reform.”Thank you,” Ryan replied. “And thank you on behalf of everybody in Ohio for all you did to help us,” he added.Schultz responded to that gratitude by knocking Kasich and praising Democrats. 

  • Anonymous

    I love how Newt’s “candid” assessment runs in only one direction.  He calls MSNBC “the Obama re-election team.”  Fair enough.  But of course Fox hasn’t just simply been “nicer” to Newt than Obama.  Fox has shown time and time again it will stop at nothing in arguing Obama shouldn’t be re-elected, even if that means massaging or just plain making up facts.

    Face it Newt, we live in a politically-polarized cable news landscape that skews in both directions.

  • Anonymous

    I actually thought the Repubs were going to come out big this election.  Not so much.  As bad as thry all hate Obama they arn’t working hard to defeat him. 

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

    …b/c nobody cares.

  • Anonymous

    Thats funny I was kinda thinking that was what all the Republican Presidential candidates were…

  • Bware

    So it’s come to this, a has-been corporate lobbyist grifter and serial adulterer vs Mr ‘magic underwear’  

  • Obama2012

    Newt the flavor of the month.  The savior of the Republican ideals.  Truth, justice and the American way.  Keep looking losers.

  • david r

    Don’t look at me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Gnewt Gingrich was also called corrupt by Jack Abramoff.  Kind of like being called a whore by Heidi Fleiss. 

  • Lizton

    I could of thought the GOP would eventually hit rock-bottom and they have now turning to slimeball;Newt Gingrich.

  • Moosedick99

    Of course they did. Prove they didn’t, Moosedick.

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

    ….big deal…Fox is still, by far, the most partisan “news” channel.

  • Tony

    Using words like libtard makes YOU look stupid.

  • Obama2012

    Amen.  At least Progressives don’t try to convince everyone that their anything but.  Leave it to Conservatards to pretend that Faux and talk radio are fair and balanced.  Poop.

  • ganymede

    As I read all this gobbledygook about Newt I’ve suddenly realized that we no longer have a two party system. There’s the Democrats and then there’s this moneyed assemblage of immature, semi-literate, poseurs with the vague label of ‘Republican’. The Democrats are bad enough, but there are dozens of people behind Obama who could somehow qualify as people who could do at least an Obama type job as president without blowing up the world or totally destroying the economy. But there are no Republican contenders save for Romney and Huntsman who come close to qualifying as presidential, and even if they were elected they would bring into government the dregs of the political world as  wonderboy Bush did. Bush, by the way, within a year will not be able to travel outside this country for fear of being brought up on war crimes. There you have it, the state of what was once, a real political party, now reduced to collecting a lot of money from the most backward corporations and deluded billionaires. The Republicans are probably headed for an ignominious defeat unless they can successfully repress the vote and/or get the best voting machine hackers money can buy. 

  • david r

    I misspelled Reagan in a 60-point, front page headline at this little rag I worked for right after school.  We printed off four thousand papers before we could halt production.  I got to yell out what every reporter of my era dreamed of yelling: “Stop the presses!” They thought I was a real stickler for detail.

  • Tony

    And Fox News works as a Obama one-termer team.

    We know.

  • Anonymous

    57 states ::drink::

  • ganymede

    As I read all this gobbledygook about Newt I’ve suddenly realized that we no longer have a two party system. There’s the Democrats and then there’s this moneyed assemblage of immature, semi-literate, poseurs with the vague label of ‘Republican’. The Democrats are bad enough, but there are dozens of people behind Obama who could somehow qualify as people who could do at least an Obama type job as president without blowing up the world or totally destroying the economy. But there are no Republican contenders save for Romney and Huntsman who come close to qualifying as presidential, and even if they were elected they would bring into government the dregs of the political world as  wonderboy Bush did. Bush, by the way, within a year will not be able to travel outside this country for fear of being brought up on war crimes. There you have it, the state of what was once, a real political party, now reduced to collecting a lot of money from the most backward corporations and deluded billionaires. The Republicans are probably headed for an ignominious defeat unless they can successfully repress the vote and/or get the best voting machine hackers money can buy. 

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

     …I like how Mediate acts like they’re above the fray……when their rightwing bias is clearly evident. They always coddle conservatives.

  • Cristanti

    But it is. Msnbc is Obama network and you libs here hate it that it’s a fact. Who even watches it? Their ratings are so bad. Say all you want about Fox but their ratings are higher then CNN and msnbc combined. Lol!

  • OSux

    It is no wonder why no one watches PMSNBC.

  • Obama2012

    Actually Cristanti we do not hate that fact.

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Clever comment from a guy named clever!

    Maybe that can be your autobiography:
    Clever: How to be a witty commenter!

    I bet loads of people want to read that as opposed to the president’s “boring” book

  • Anonymous

    The big different being, of course, that Fox tells Republicans what to believe and real Americans dictate MSNBC content.

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

    Wait a minute…if “nobody watches MSNBC” and Fox’s numbers crush them and everybody else…..doesn’t that make them, by definition, the “mainstream media!”?

  • OSux

    Kim Jong Trevor has never met a Real American before.

  • cdnhawk

    High ratings and quality are not related.

  • Mrprogreso

    Who watches msnbicile?  The name says it all.

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

    What are you, 12 years old?

  • OSux

    Valerie would know what is like spending one’s life as a flim flam woman.

  • Anonymous

    O’Falafel !!

    *drink*

  • Mrprogreso

    fantastic retort, tard

  • Obama2012

    You come up with that one all by yourself?  Not the sharpest tool and all that, huh?

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

    My bad Mr. Mainstream Media Consumer….I’ll try harder.

  • Mrprogreso

    try all you want.  y’know it’s accurate and funny to boot.  that’s what’s killing you — you can’t top it.

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

    It’s not “killing me” in the least…..MSNBC is no more pro Obama than Fox is anti-Obama.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_K4BC2MYG26XQSABHXQU2DS7MFY Christine

    Hard to believe anyone is buying all the made up stories and nonsense in the news.

  • MIKE

    What do you see in MSNBC in quality that you don’t see in Fox? Einstein Sharpton and the way he handles the English language, or could it be the even tempered Shultz and O’Donnell. Want a conspiracy theorist on how Republicans are behind everything bad in this country none better than Rachel Maddow.BTW What’s the deal with the Maddow talking to her audience like they’re little kids?

    Other than Hannity, Fox seems more middle of the road than any other Cable Station and it shows in the ratings.You’d be surprised how many Dems and Independants watch Fox. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ciuba-Abdul/100002542346921 Ciuba Abdul

    I got an interesting story about Fannie and Freddie on my wall that you absolutely love.

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

    I know. Mediate is a joke.

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

    Christine is actually a guy named Aaron… And he’s not crazy ay all.

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

    He’s a regular Tommy Christopher. Lol.

  • Anonymous

    Newt would have been more accurate if he had said NBC rather than MSNBC; Brian is in the tank for the one; the bower….posing as a “news man” is a joke and an Obama suck-up.

  • Anonymous

    I just couldn’t let it go! Almost every time someone blows the grammar whistle, they screw up their own post, thus making an idiot out of themselves.

  • MIKE

    I could make the same argument if I changed Newt to Obama and Cons to Dems. At least Newt is an open book. Obama has been President for almost 3 years and I have yet to see him take any ownership of anything negative that has happened on his watch. All his appointees are the same way. Holder takes no ownership of Fast and Furious going wrong. Chu takes no blame for Solyndra. As a matter of fact they all try to tie it to Bush.

  • Anonymous

    How do you know Clever is a guy?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    You to easily fall for the democratic lies…  here I will help you out with your research….

    “In 2005, the Senate Banking Committee, then under Republican control, adopted a strong reform bill, introduced by Republican Sens. Elizabeth Dole, John Sununu and Chuck Hagel, and supported by then chairman Richard Shelby. The bill prohibited the GSEs from holding portfolios, and gave their regulator prudential authority (such as setting capital requirements) roughly equivalent to a bank regulator. In light of the current financial crisis, this bill was probably the most important piece of financial regulation before Congress in 2005 and 2006. All the Republicans on the Committee supported the bill, and all the Democrats voted against it. Mr. McCain endorsed the legislation in a speech on the Senate floor. Mr. Obama, like all other Democrats, remained silent.”      http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212948811465427.html

    Now let’s look at what the democrats had to say when the republicans had hearings to addressed the concerns they had with the activities of Fanny and Freddie in sub-prime lending.. If you have bought into the democratic lie that this was all the Bush administrations fault…  then you should find the video very disturbing and you should also recognize that people like Frank, have no integrity whatsoever.  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

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

    Very irregular and very un-Tommy.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed, and the Obama administration is the most transparent ever – NOT!

  • LindaLeigh

    Newt is a master at this game.  If fellow Republicans are fooled by him…..we deserve to get beat.

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you care? Over $600,000 is unaccounted for. Or is that fine because it was a Democrat running the company? Move along, nothing to see here.

  • Anonymous

    Hahahahahahahahahahahah…thanks for the laugh.  I watch Fox occasionally, to laugh and see what’s going on in their parallel universe.

  • Anonymous

    Shhhhhh…..you’ll blow their little minds.  They think Mediaite is a left-wing rag.  

  • Anonymous

    What a shame that when the facts prove you wrong AGAIN. Here’s his September 2008 interview with Bill O’Reilly:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_753sLQQ8q8

  • Anonymous

    Ya…but their “mainstream” viewers are dying off of old age as we speak…oops, another one just bit the dust!

  • insideguy

     This is all so ridiculous Newt actually just got done working for FOX news. Jesus they are already starting to blame the”mainstream media” for a failure that hasn’t happened yet. If the mainstream media was so influential how did George Bush get elected? Twice? How did the republicans take back the house in 2010? The republicans will succeed or fail on their own good or bad ideas and what public perception is at the time of the election, period. But they are already ready to start the blame game. 

  • MIKE

    Another substantive argument. I need a lot of time to dissect all those great points you just brought up.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, hit like instead of reply. BIG mistake!

  • Anonymous

    Adam, stop! Please, you’re killing me! My sides ache from laughing.  LOLOLOL

  • MIKE

    Go ahead and Google Obama and gay lover and then pleasure yourself behind the keyboard.

  • Norbit

    The co ordinated intimidation of community groups and their effect on CRA expansion, as well as Fannie/Freddie involvement, are, or should be, common knowledge.

  • Moosedick99

    You liked that! Do you use sharp tools on yourself and all that? And the correct spelling is Homeboy2012.

  • Moosedick99

    Why do you ask his age? What are you, a liberal homosexual pedophile?

  • Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    Yes, you are all “lyers”

  • Moosedick99

    I like how leftwing bias is considered mentally ill by most Americans.

  • Moosedick99

    What will you blow, politicallier?

  • labman57

    So sayeth the former political commentator for FOX News …

  • Moosedick99

    Get used to saying “President Gingrich”!!! I know, I know, it doesn’t sound as white guilt or politically correct as “president barack homeboy”. With psychiatric medication, you could get a clue.

  • joe

    no–i intended to say HIPPO-CRITE….
    i was being I-Ronic….

    I was going to go HIPPO-CHRIST…but i am sure that would have went over ‘someone’s’ head????

    hint hint???

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Haha touche!

  • joe

    by your own admission–dumba$$ the fox viewers watch more tv than others—IE THEY ARE NOT READING AND SPENDING TIME WITH THE FAMS?????

    cons like to use ‘facts’ then tend to prove just how stupid they really are…

  • joe

    excuses excuses excuses..
    fox news gets less viewers than spong bob square pants..

    liberals read the news and get it online…since we actually work for a living~

    while you losers sit here and write crap while watching fox all day~
    whateva’

  • joe

    yes all stations that are objective are liberal mouth pieces..yes we are for truth, liberty and honest information..

    so in essence–anyone willing to speak the truth is by default a liberal mouth piece~

  • joe

    you know nothing about Marxism–and that makes you an idiot..
    how do i know? because nobody who knew anything about Marxism would say what you just did~

    dipshit..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Billie-Blood/100001017675525 Billie Blood

    Newt tells it like it is.

  • Anonymous

    Oh, por newt, the world may never find out what a jerk you are!  Wait, they already know.

    The world according to Newt: it’s an ugly, ugly place.
    http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/11/little-bully-that-could.html

  • Thinker

    I think the GOP frontrunners thus far have been the biggest “Obama reelection team”! Michelle was laughable at best, Romney is the ultimate flip flopper, Perry is a punch line, Newt is the liar, and Herman Blame is a combination of them all! But I guess it’s always easier to point the finger and play the blame game like the other jokes we’ve seen so far! Time for someone with high character, morals, ideas, and a plan to take Obuma down!!!

  • Moosenuts99

    I really struck a nerve with you, eh racist?

    LOL!!!!

  • Moosenuts99

    Your bigotry is showing

  • Moosenuts99

    Citation please

  • Moosenuts99

    Your bigotry is showing

  • Anonymous

    You moron, Frank wasn’t even in charge until 2007, so the republicans were demanding that the minority party in congress to take responsibility. I know that republicans are a bunch of half-wits, but they aren’t quite that stupid.

  • Moosenuts99

    The original
    Poster said “if the media had done their jobs…”, implying the media did not vet Obama. Fox is part of the media.

    What is hard to understand? The poster doesn’t think Fox vetted Obama enough.

    And I’M MOOSENUTS. YOU named yourself MOOSEDICK, why? You got a
    Crush on me?

    Are you in love with me? Clearly you can’t stop thinking about me…

  • Anonymous

    Hey Fedup, you fall for republican lies much too easy. For one thing the WSJ article is nothing but a shameless hit piece in the opinion section of a Murdoch owned enterprise and is just as trustworthy as Fox Noise. They quote Barney Frank as approving of Fannie and Freddie in 2003, when the problems arose in 2005. The house bill HR1461 was passed 391-90, so to say the democrats blocked is complete BS. The Senate bill was never voted on and died in committee of a Republican controlled Senate, and George W Bush said the bill was weak. “Likewise, provisions that divert profits will lead to increased risk-taking and decreased market discipline, while exacerbating systemic risk.” System Risk is exactly what triggered the financial crisis that we are still recovering from. So EVERYTHING you just said is lies, lies, and more lies, thanks for playing.
    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=24851#axzz1e1WKGFCX

  • Bob

    So you think FOX was being objective in telling teabaggers to go attend nutty rightwing anti-Obama rallies, and sponsoring them as “FNC Tea Party Protests?”

  • joe

    haha loser—dumba$$
    hahahahaha

    what a freak show…

  • joe

    sorry Jon–posted the vulgarities in wrong place..
    peace?

    :)

  • SayyyyyWhat

    And the good thing….since NObody watches LSD/PMSnbc so Mr. oBUMbler, might have a rough go at re-election!

  • Anonymous

    You’re right …..he’s not running for anything. He’s already done enough damage as the past Chairman of the House Banking Committee.

    yeah….calling for “the end” alright

    http://www.zimbio.com/Freddie+Mac/articles/CSO-aas7xUf/Barney+Frank+admits+got+boyfriend+job+Fanny

    why call for the the end of a program that you use for cronyism. The fact that you were directly responsible for the passing (or tabling) legislation for the banking industry only further illustrates your complicity in the failed fiscal programs your party proposes.

    How many days since the Senate passed a budget?

    over 900 days and counting

    oy

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ciuba-Abdul/100002542346921 Ciuba Abdul

    The writing is on the wall. Good post.

  • Anonymous

    Norbit said: They paid Newt the money; but they didn’t listen to his advice.

    Are you Newt’s parrot? Newt has given at least 3 version of what he did or did not do. The latest is what you said above.  Plus he claims he can’t even remember how much they paid him.  If I’m running a business and running for President I would be a little more forthcoming with the details assuming I was on the up and up.  

    As for Dems using Fanny and Freddie to steal from the tax payers that is technically impossible.  You obviously do not understand how this organizations works.  I would also content that the bastardization of the CRA was during a  Republican President and congress so I think we know where the blame goes.  By the way the majority of bad loans were made before the Dems won back the congress in 2007.  Factcheck if you wish.  

    Please tell me how Newt came from being a goat and  being ran out of congress by the GOP to a hero by the same GOP overnight.  The only thing I can figure is you are bottom feeding.    

  • Anonymous

    Who gives a damn Newton?  So you think MSNBC is the media arm of the Democratic party, maybe they are.  Someone has to present a factual alternative to that bullshit channel that’s owned by that dude who taps into dead teen age girl’s e-mails so that stories can be manufactured

  • Anonymous

    Fox News will become the campaign machine for whatever Republican gets the nod from the party. Obama has got MSNBC because there are no other Democrats running against him.
    Hence, we can be sure that Fox News will probably have to swallow its pride and support Romney.

  • Anonymous

    I understand the woman’s frustration completely but Newt can’t combat the biased media himself. It’s up to conservative activists to keep trying to enlighten people about how  the so-called “mainstream” media is so insanely protective of Obama and why that is so destructive to the minds of people in the country. Newt can’t wave a magic wand and make all Obama’s little poodles at NBC and CBS and ABC go away.

  • Anonymous

    “In GOP quarters the company line has been that Barack Obama wasn’t properly vetted by the media. Anyone who watched Fox News opinion programs in 2008, however, and saw what seemed like an endless loop of Rev. Wright talking about chickens coming home to roost would likely disagree.”
    FOX is just a cable channel. The outlets that were blatantly pro-Obama included the broadcast news shows with a much bigger audience.

  • Anonymous

    Actually no money was stolen. More like bunch of people got stuck living in houses the banks still owned that they couldn’t pay for.

  • Anonymous

    That was very clever, as in lacking substance and integrity sort of cleverness

  • Anonymous

    Well, you shouldn’t have voted for W then. But you prolly voted for whom your evangelical swindler, I mean minister, told you to support

  • Anonymous

    But you and FOX loved W, till he started spending a bit more.

  • Anonymous

    There is a rule about anyone with “Tea” or “Tex” in their screen names

  • Anonymous

    Most leaders and pols aren’t going to admit to much they did wrong, at least when they are still in office. But it is sad when they try to lay Gun Runner on Bush. Bush was an idiot so they should’ve nixed any of his old programs when Obama took over.

  • Anonymous

    I hope not only do the gays riot in your neighborhood, but they sodomize you too!

  • Anonymous

    Well, so were Solyndra’s loans and Obama’s donations from Wall Street legal too. But what can I expect from some moron babbling about Bolsheviks. But meanwhile, I am so happy that corporations can make unlimited donations to campaigns, that should really clean up the system.

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

    “In GOP quarters the company line has been that Barack Obama wasn’t properly vetted by the media. Anyone who watched Fox News opinion programs in 2008, however, and saw what seemed like an endless loop of Rev. Wright talking about chickens coming home to roost would likely disagree.”

    Sure, but how many people watch FOX News compared to all those who watch/read ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc. combined?

  • http://twitter.com/Icabods Icabod

    How many days since the republicans took control of the House on a jobs agenda and did not pass one JOBS bill?

  • Anonymous

    Wow…are you ever ignorant.  The House has passed 22 jobs bills.  Reid in the Senate won’t bring them up for a vote.  Do some research before you spew stupidity for all to see.

  • Anonymous

    Obama was not properly vetted….George Stephanapolous corrected him when he said “my muslim faith” rahter than question him on that statement.  No one in the mainstream media ever questioned his relationship with Tony Rezko; the LATimes HID the video of him with Rashid Khalidi, former PLO operative and best friend of Billy Boy Ayers (yet another terrorist).  . The LA times has a video of Barack Obama toasting this friend of his while attending a Jew bashing dinner, and they are refusing to release the video to the public.  This was NOT vetting Obama, this was COVERING UP for Obama.
    The media continues to do it today with their silence on the quid pro quos of our tax dollars going to high Obama doners in Solyndra, the RFKJr Compnay and others.

    Journalism died when journalists campaigned for and openly voted for Obama.

  • TPRTR

    The MSM was responsible for getting this fraud elected. I am warning you. Do not believe the MSM they are liars and cannot be trusted!

  • Cliffojm

    If you bothered to read the article, Newt was a consultant to Freddie Mac, and offered advice on their lending practices, which Freddie Mac opted to ignore.  They paid him for his services, end of story.  He has never been their spokesman, and has never defended either Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae.

  • Anonymous

    Something tells me we’re not going to get a “correction” on this article…

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Typical leftist response: when you don’t get your way, assault people.

    Good thing we had right-wing Founders who knew that the right to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed upon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Well they didn’t “rule” against them. They correctly ruled that supporters of Proposition 8 are allowed to defend the amendment to the California constitution. I’m against the amendment personally, BTW, but I’m not in that crazy fucking state so they can do whatever the hell they want.

  • Dooxie

    How come the left (NEVER) complained about Fannie and Freddie for the last 3 years till now?

  • RW

    You have pointed out two areas in which I am most interested:
    1) the liberal MSM omitting stories that don’t support their liberal agenda
    2) with the existence of new media, old media (MSM) no longer have a stranglehold on the message.

    I sometimes ask myself, why do I care what Mediaite reports?  Why do I bother to comment?  I think maybe judging from the comment totals, others might be losing interest as well.  We’re not going to change the spots on this liberal website (had hoped to change them to a set of objective spots). Feeling the same about Politico.

  • bvicente

    Get real, dude.  You should do a little research before posting this stuff.  The House has passed 22 jobs bills.  It’s the Democrat-controlled Senate that won’t take them up for a vote.  
    http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?postid=267827

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think MSNBC would disagree with what Newt said.

  • Bilaskraps

    Since when did de-regulation create jobs ?? How many jobs have tax-cuts created in 13 years since boy george gave corps free will ?? What was the figure for the first 8 years ?? Minus 11 millilon. No wait let me correct that. Minus 10 million. I did read somewhere that in the span of boy georges 2 terms that he did create 1.1 million jobs !! I stand corrected !! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1185484106 Bob Barnwell

    Jonathan, Check your facts please.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Nor do i.
    Why wouldn’t a network full of queers, lesbians, communists, Marxists, and other dysfunctional misfits campaign for a Queer, Kenyan, Muslim dysfunctional boob?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    There there Newt.  Just keep on actling like a good little devoted GOP syccophant with you head up the ass of alternate reality and things will be just fine.

  • Fred

    MSNBC is a part of the election campaign…. hell Mika and Joe get emails during the show from the white house FFS

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    I’d say Newt and the cast of clowns running for the Republican Presidential nomination could be included in the Obama “Re-election team”. Just the mere thought of any of them running against Obama for President  boosts Obama’s poll numbers by 5 points.

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich may be right, as he has the FOX-hole propping his up! And what’s with all the angry words and name calling? Can’t we all get along?

  • Anonymous

      Every news organization gets it wrong on occasion and all have their political bias and that will be true until the news business is no longer run by human beings.  But Fox is in a class by itself.  Its epidemic inaccuracies and its ongoing disregard for basic journalistic standards of fairness, demagogic appeals and its blatant ideological promotions amazes me as to how Gingrich can stand there and say that with a straight face. 

  • Njoriole

    Colby hall states “…the company line has been that Barack Obama wasn’t
    properly vetted by the media. Anyone who watched Fox News opinion
    programs in 2008, however … would likely
    disagree.” Not at all, Colby; if anything, you tend to prove the point. “Fox News” is not “the media” – media is a plural word. Anyone who was paying the least bit of attention in 2007 and 2008 knows that, with the EXCEPTION of Fox News (and talk radio), the MEDIA were full-on in the tank for Obama. Or, are you suggesting that OTHER outlets besides Fox gave more than passing attention (if that) to Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, etc.? No, the so-called Main Stream Media have been liberal and Democratic for quite some time now; it’s just, now that other voices can be heard (Fox, radio, blogs), the illusion of non-partiality has been ripped away, and the obviousness of their water carrying has been extremely sobering – and liberating.

  • Njoriole

    The money that was stolen wass the TARP carp sandwich that we’re ALL still paying for.

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