It’s one thing to complain that the debates are preoccupied with personal issues — I agree — but it’s another to stand there, holier than thou, and whine that it’s beyond the pale to ask these questions of someone who presents himself as a staunch warrior on behalf of “traditional marriage.”

This is an epic case of Conservative Victimization Syndrome.

An epic case of an MSM idiot getting F’ed in the A. You know what this means? It’s on.

Totally schooled him, just like Juan Williams!

Don’t forget conservative fake shrill outrage syndrome.

The most interesting part of the exchange – Gingrich informed tha audience that he offered up friends and familty to dispute the “open marriage” charge and ABC and Brian Ross REFUSED to include them in the story.

New got a standing O, very well deserved.

ABC proves they are scum; not allowing Newt’s side to be part of the story.  Pathetic, liberal idiotic hateful media whose sole purpose is to protect the one and not get the truth out.

Excoriates is a good word here, and Newt shamed John and CNN and ABC.

Ohhhh poor baby!  Can’t handle one ity-bity debate question without blowing up like a pinata….how the hell is he going to handle fighting a general election against Obama?!  LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

And more LOL-worthy, this bloated tubster was moaning and groaning about how he’s “sick” of the mainstream media supporting Obama – yet from sunrise (the Today Show) to sunset (Piers Morgan), he’s on the mainstream media nearly EVERYDAY trying to soak up some free air time!  So either you stand your ground (for a change) and boycott the MSM you claim to loathe, or STFU and deal with the questions you get. 

Exhibit A for conservative victimization and shrill outrage syndrome

I was right in an earlier post – only the braindead ‘baggers were hanging on to every word coming out of tubby’s mouth.  Thanks for proving my point.

So you feel a Dems ex-wife would be a good place to get viable information. And then also feel a news network making a question based on said ex-wife’s comments would be a good starter for a presidential debate.

Let me phrase it another way. If Fox News asked an opening question in a presidential debate based on the allegations of a Dems ex-wife and Mediaite covered it… would you ave posted…..  “An epic case of Liberal Victimization Syndrome”. I don’t think you would have… but I’ll let you anser for yourself of course.

PS… I hear liberals cry victim all the time. Do their cries of victimization not count toward….    Liberal Victimization Syndrome? Or do you not remember the vast right wing conspiracy of Hillary ?

Since when does Gingrich present himself as a marriage warrior?

Did you hear the way he said “John”? What a RACIST!!!

So, no story on the Megaupload bust, and the subsequent Anonymous DoS attack on DOJ, FBI, MPAA, RIAA, Universal Music, etc?

http://gizmodo.com/5877679/anonymous-kills-department-of-justice-site-in-megaupload-revenge-strike

I guess this means we can assume Obama will focus the campaign on unimportant personal attack issues, rather than national priorities.  And, the MSM will help him do so.

You can’t “boycott the MSM” and win.  You’ve got to use the airtime to expose the stupid biases.

Of course, Newsweek thinks any critic of Obama is dumb…

I don’t know.  I actually think this might be the best way that Gingrich could have handled such a question.  At this point very little time is left, he has to go big or go home.

This might not ultimately work, but it’s exactly the sort of loud, flamboyant, flourish that he needed.  Plus, recasting the issue as the prying into personal lives by the media–true or not–is a smart move on his part.

And I say all this as someone who is not a fan of Gingrich at all.

LOL. John King isn’t a partisan. He’s a BORING old-school reporter.

I think it’s a reasonable thing to ask. I don’t like it. Newt should have called it false BEFORE saying it wasn’t true.

He only wanted an open marriage because he loved America sooooooooooooooooooo much.

Newt lost his cool and does not have the temperament to be President of the United States!!

Again, if Newt actually had some principles, he would stand firm on his opinion that the MSM is “biased” and stop using them for their air time. 

And why would Newt need to use their airtime to “expose” their supposed biases?  Apparently all of his moronic supporters also believe the MSM is full of lefties, and everyone else (i.e. people with a brain) ignore him anyways, so who’s mind is he trying to change? 

They seem to think that since Newt led the charge to impeach Clinton for lying under oath (not adultery) But that said lie was about sex that he DID hold himself up as a marriage warrior. Even though it was a charge of lying under oath (you know… that thing that Libby did) and NOT adultery. Weird how they have re-written history about what Clinton was ACTUALLY impeached for.

Once again for all the slow people… it was for LYING UNDER OATH!!! The same crime Libby committed. When Clinton does it… no big deal… Libby though… well of course he should get the max. Funny how that works.

Newt sure likes to fight with people. Gee, I wonder why his previous marriages didn’t work out.

I think that so long as some context is provided (including the letter written to ABC from Newt’s daughters), it’s entirely legitimate to air this interview. People are grown-ups and need to make up their own minds about whether she’s a vengeful ex with an axe to grind or a victim who’s telling the truth about her miserable treatment.

If the allegations about John Edwards had surfaced just before a key debate, I would certainly have expected the debate moderators to ask him about it. (But then it’s worth noting that he never held himself out as a “family values” candidate.)

In other words, time for Newt to get desperate.

But but but I thought Newt was against sodomizing other men.

Wait, is that the perjury Clinton surrendered his law license over?

When they sang ” The Star Spangled Banner” at the beginning, it caused a lot of the wackiest liberals to change channels.

John King is wrong for asking about it, but Newt is okay for doing it too her?

Yes I would have… would I make it the opening question… no. And it’s interesting that no network made the effort to find out about Edwards but did with Newt. Funny how that is often the case. But me and you have been down that road before… so I digress. ;)

Newt is such an ass,   He can stand there holier than thou and yet he was one of the first to blast Bill Clinton when he had his dalliance. What a hypocrite!!!   The Republicans can dish it out but when the shoe is on the other foot they cant take it.   Newty is an unbelievable arrogant ,self serving, bloated, narcissistic ass and Im disappointed that John King didnt bring up the fact that Newt went after Clinton in the same way he feels they are going after him

I would like to see what the candidates think on this issue. Any predictions?

“Vast right wing conspiracy”… Google it.

Do you think it’s reasonable to open a Presidential debate with it, particularly given that it isn’t anything we really didn’t know a dozen years ago?

If the allegations about John Edwards had surfaced just before a key debate, I would certainly have expected the debate moderators to ask him about it. Wouldn’t you?

Of course not. He’s a Democrat. The MSM embargoed it until he admitted it.

The very same…..

LOL so Newt is all about open marriages, divorcing his wife on her death bed, impeaching the POTUS for sexual relations while cheating on his wife himself, claims to be for the sanctity of marriage while being a multiple divorcee, yet ABC is scum?

LOL okayyyyyyy

that time has passed

Newt standard answer to tough questions… “I’m Outraged”, “I’m being attacked”, “No place in a presidential debate”, blah blah blah… excellent example of his “duck and deflect” defense mechanism. And why did CNN give him over three minutes to rant like that? Open marriage is relevant to the gop conservative family values base. Newt just didn’t want to deal with it. He can talk about gay marriage and abortion but not talk about his polygamist desires?! POS.

“Liberal Media”…google it.

Clinton lost his cool. Did that disqualify him?

If conservatives weren’t moral elitists things like this wouldn’t dog them.

Since he cut a video in favor or Prop 8.

Newt has been pile-driving moderators the entire campaign.

Newt has to pick a fight with a moderator at least once a debate. It makes his followers feel like he’s sticking it to the liberal media, even when the debate is being moderated by Fox.

So you agree with me that BOTH sides can make the same claim… good for you. :)

Newt Gingrich, staunch defender of traditional marriage between one man, one woman and another woman.

What outrage?

I’ll believe the ex-wife over the lying scumbag any day.Thank you.

Gingrich was having fun in an extramarital affair at the same time he was having fun impeaching Clinton for staining Monica’s dress. He has fun saying he is a Reagan conservative. He’s having fun beating up Mitt. He has fun beating up the press.

Newt loves to have fun! Will he have fun beating up Obama in debates?

After impeaching the president for a blow job in 1998, Newt’s GOP made it acceptable to put  everything on the table about a politician’s private life.

Newt should have called it false BEFORE saying it wasn’t true.

Um…really?

In all that rambling, you really made no point.

That was the most retarded line ever.

Unless Newt wants to hide and is guilty of something, what’s his deal? Simply finding out what “conservative values” is really all about.

During his 2nd divorce?

Wow as much as I think Ginrich is a slimey fool .. I kinda agree with him, who opens a presidential debate with this kind of Question?

since his House GOP created and passed the Defense of Marriage Act, and since he catered to homophobic bigots on the issue in these primary debates.

At least three of your facts are false. You can do better than that. Go for at least half a dozen. YES YOU CAN!!!

Why do conservatives have kinky fantasies on the brain at all time?

I thought he handled it pretty well.

I am for gay marriage. So I say this from that side of the argument. You can support prop 8 (which I don’t) and not claim to be a “marriage warrior”. I don’t see the 2 ideas joined together as some might.

if by ‘schooled,’ you mean ‘made the bagger idiots in the audience cheer, but came off as an ass to anyone reasonable,’ then yeah, i suppose he did.

The fact that they’re biased doesn’t negate their role as gatekeeper.

says the party of secessionists like Rick Perry and the Palins.

You mean when Bill Clinton committed perjury, right?

Maybe!!

He was impeached for the same crime as Libby. Read a little.

Then I will do the same with Dems in your case. Thanks.

He answered the question. How is that “duck and deflect”? Romney isn’t answering questions. Gingrich is.

You mean impeaching Clinton for committing perjury, right?

I wouldn’t expect someone who plays your childish persona games to get any point made by anyone.

I would have made it the first question just to get it out of the way. It’s naive to think that it wasn’t the thing most people were talking about today.

How do you know that no network or newspaper made the effort to find out about Edwards?? You can’t know that anymore than I can. That’s entirely speculation on your part. It’s entirely possible that they had *some* information but didn’t have sufficient sources to confirm it.

If you’re saying Newt should come up with a better excuse that he hasn’t already used… then we agree!!

Maybe… but many points you make to me are speculation and opinion as well. Are they not?

Mitt, how much money do you have socked away in the Cayman Islands??

r u serious,,, there’s another debate tonight…. lol

I’ll tell you after I become president.

People have a right to know the level of slimeball that Newt has been known to reach!!

I don’t think so. Most Presidents have had a temper. Most men (and women) driven enough to seek that office would. Obama has even been rumored to have quite the temper. I think it goes with the job.

As much as most Kennedy’s… or Kerry for that matter. ;)

What a crock. Newt is “answering” the same way Romney does, “It’s not true, I don’t know what you are talking about…” Grow up.

Which 3 are false? Everything I said was far more true than Newt’s marriage vows.

Newt: ” I certainly think that we have every right to defend traditional marriage…whether it’s by passing a law or a constitutional amendment”

Sounds to me like someone who’s pretty committed to the issue of preventing marriage equality.

And I’ve been pile driving Newt in every primary.

Except that I haven’t heard any librul mention a “vast right wing conspiracy” for about a decade, whereas there is an entire conservative industry built around paranoia about “duhr librul media.”

But we do agree that conservatives are shrill, dishonest and always play the victim card.

Hell, you can just turn on your TV. No need to Google.

How many ethics violations does it take for Newt to be forced out of congress?

Bingo.

What is important is NOT that Newt believes it is okay for him to have an open marriage, but that he believes that other people should not.

Childish persona? I’m going to be the Republican nominee. Check the polls.

You must be Mitt’s accountant!! :p

Okay, you do that. Too bad Obama doesn’t have any ex-wives, does he?

Fake Romney really is tiresome, isn’t he?

Dude, get help. Start here: https://twitter.com/#!/ElBloombito

You’re being modest. You’ve given us far more retarded lines. Every day, in fact.

Yes, but he’ll go get his daughters to handle it when the going gets tough.

Obama is as cool as a cucumber!!

“Pathetic, liberal idiotic hateful media whose sole purpose is to protect the one and not get the truth out.”

Link?

It sounds to me like a person with an opinion on the rights of the people to frame the parameters of their society.

THX! 1138

If I was Newt, I would avoid giving the details of how I liked to cheat on my wives too!!

Sexual repression.

Funny you should ask. That’s the question right now.

Newt always tries to come off as better than others but he’s really being outclassed right now,

I’m worth more money than Newt

I’m more educated than Newt

I’m less divorced than Newt

I’ve never been kicked out of congress by my own party for ethics violations like Newt

Poor Newt, completely outclassed :(

Ka-Blam!!

Mittens – 1

Person who likes to put pancakes on their pet rabbit – 0

You are the laziest commenter in the history of the internet. Do your own goddamn research. How hard is it to go to youtube and type in “Newt Prop 8″?? Put down the f—ing bag of Cheetos and start typing, you lazy troll.

Nice!!

conservative “christian” values

Gingrich against. Too much government infringement on freedom. Romney concurs with Gingrich. Ron Paul against and always has been. No surprise there. Santorum agrees with everyone, but wants to do something to protect IP. He should read the current laws.

KOCH!!!!

The good ole’ moral conservatives in the audience don’t seem to have a problem with Newt being a hypocritical scumbag of the highest order.  The greater issues at hand are John King’s question and the liberal media picking on poor little Newt.  Just admit that you guys don’t really care about this stuff and only use the facade of moral excellence so you can be holier than thou a-holes.

The media lives and dies by scoops like Edwards. If they’d had the information — properly sourced — they absolutely would have run with it. I guarantee that the value of a blockbuster expose like that would have trumped whatever liberal bias you think they may have.

After years of thinking about gay marrige, [for thee not for me] I have decided that why should only Hetrosexuals be unhappy in marrige, I think gays should be as miserable in marrige as straights.

Good question. We may never know. He’d have to start racking them up first and I don’t think he’s going back into Congress.

I think he’s a raging hypocrite for being one of those who decided it was sound poltical strategy to drag an opponents personal life into the poltical arena, and now to be so self righteous about how wrong it is. If he was willing to admit that he was wrong to encourage and participate in it, and was a hypocrite for going after Clinton at the time, while cheating on his wife, I might be able to muster a little respect for him, or at least begin to believe his remorse was sincere. I don’t believe he;ll do anything like that. No sympathy from me.

That said, no respect for King or CNN either. It was a stupid and unnessecary. Want to cover it on your network fine, but there’s no need to mention it in a debate.

The press always loves a sex scandal.  Party doesn’t matter.  For every feeding frenzy around a Republican’s indiscretion, there’s been one around a Democrat’s.  There’s no evidence to suggest that they go easier on Dems.

I did that. I didn’t find a video that he cut. Now it’s on you.

I find it funny that I’m the “laziest commenter in the history of the internet” when I’ve probably dropped more links into Mediaite comments than anyone else ever. If it isn’t me I’m definitely in the top 5.

So bring the link, fool.

Some would say you have better hair than Newt!!

*Chuckle*

“Defending Marriage.  As President, I will vigorously enforce the
Defense of Marriage Act, which was enacted under my leadership as
Speaker of the House, and ensure compliance with its provisions,
especially in the military.  I will also aggressively defend the
constitutionality of DOMA in federal and state courts.  I will support
sending a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the
union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification.  I will
also oppose any judicial, bureaucratic, or legislative effort to define
marriage in any manner other than as between one man and one woman.  I
will support all efforts to reform promptly any uneconomic or
anti-marriage aspects of welfare and tax policy.  I also pledge to
uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my
spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others.”

-Newt Gingrich

http://www.thefamilyleader.com/former-speaker-newt-gingrich-provides-written-response-to-the-family-leaders-marriage-pledge

In public yes… but many reports have come out that he does have a temper in private. And that’s OK… I actually like that about him. I makes him more human to me.

Obama? No…

I wish :)

You mean to say that Romney won New Hampshire? Duh.

Thank you for making my point for me. :)

This took me seven seconds. You’re not just a lazy sonofabitch, you’re a dumb one, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Q4V8WNF6k

And liberals. So I guess we don’t agree.

Why? That was the substance of what he said for explaining his affair.

All are doing well, remembering the goal is to pry Obama’s feet off the Resolute desk and out of Washington.

That’s just the facts, ma’am.

yes… but does that make him a “warrior” for marriage? Has he ever claimed to be a good husband?

Then why did Newsweek sit on the Clinton scandal and leave it to drudge to expose when that had the info for a long time?

He wanted to share his love of America with other Americans, younger and healthier than his current wife. What’s the problem?

I think Pablo is acknowledging that Newt’s line was ridiculous.

Gingrich’s wife was not on her deathbed. She’s very much alive today, 28 years later. Nor was she divorced in bed. Clinton was not impeached for sexual relations, he was impeached for perjury. Then, I don’t recall him ever talking about the sanctity of marriage. So, we might be up to 4. You’re getting there, buddy!

Leedog – -3.14159265

And to a significantly larger degree, himself.

Newt has done more damage to the sanctity of marriage than any gay marriage ever could. 

I laughed at that last line even though I have no idea what it means.

Yes to the first.

No to the second. (Or at least not since his serial infidelities were exposed.)

“Stop Imperial Judges”

Wow, what a marriage warrior.

Again, you and I don’t know what they had (or didn’t have) in terms of properly sourced information.

Ix-Nay Pablito!

Your whining about “duhr librul media” hardly supports tatboy’s argument here.

I loved the clip on the Daily Show the other night when Newt said to Mitt, “Can we stop the pious balogna?” Then they played a clip of Newt talking about the sanctity of traditional marriage and Jon commented
“Now THAT, is some pious baloney, with a side of sanctimonious cheese”
So true.

Leedog is fascinated with Oolong.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pancake-bunny

OUTSTANDING Mr Speaker. Smack that pecker head moderator (aka dimocrat hack) with a two by four.  

The alternative is a good old Soviet school and avoid talking about the questions that might be embarrassing to the presidential candidate.

Newt is selling himself as a social conservative which after seeing his resume becomes a contradiction in terms.

The question was more than legitimate. 

exGOPman is a bit too hatey to acknowledge agreement.

“Moral elitists” Really? You throw how many people exactly under this bus with that statement? Anyone who says they are conservative? or just everyone who says they are not ”liberal” ? BTW, this does not “dog them”. Most conservatives really could give a rats behind what liberals, liberal media, or liberal politicians try to place on the public radar screen as important for conservatives. 2012 will prove much more than 2010 did in terms of the conservative resurgence in America and American politics. Let us wait and see what all the liberal pundits, bloggers, and BSers have to say on Nov 5th. I simply can’t wait to see that much crow being eaten at one time.

Are you suggesting that it was a reasonable explanation?

http://cnsnews.com/video/national/gingrich-defends-marriage-core-civilization-says-bigotry-question-goes-both-ways
BTW; his assertion that there’s a lot more anti Christian bigotry, is more pious balogna.

Second look at Ron Paul’s personal history?

http://tinyurl.com/9qyysn

Wow, you were too lazy to even watch the video. You’re more pathetic than any of us realized.

Good night, Pablo. Make sure your nurse doubles your Geritol® tonight.

Shrill crying doesn’t change the fact that Newt’s serial adultery is an issue in the republiklan primary…or do you think that conservative evangelicals don’t care about that?

Hey all you Dims out there:  I thought it ‘ok’ if it was someone’s ‘personal life’.  You know, like Bubba Clintoon and Monica? He sure lowered the bar, eh?  Oh yeah!  And John ‘the Breck Girl’ Edwards? Yeah, boffing that mistress during the campaign and having a love child while the wife was battling breast cancer.  Hmm, who else?  Oh YEAH!  How about the Revrum Jesse ‘shakedown race pimp’ Jackson and HIS love child mama?  Oh my, the list just goes on and on doesn’t it?  What’s that they say about people living in glass houses???? Hypocrites!

It was a brilliant response.  The fact that a man who has a lot to be a shamed of was able to indignantly heap shame on the moderators and generate a standing-O– that’s amazing.  The guy is good.  (Well, not in a moral sense.)

NEWT!

NEWT!

NEWT!

We end the devastating DEMOCRATIC WELFARE STATE!

Santorum, you’re a good guy, but SHUT-UP!

“It sounds to me like a person with an opinion on the rights of the people to frame the parameters of their society.”

great, let’s bring back slavery!

You’re imaginary. And if you were Romney, you wouldn’t be more educated than Newt, who was never kicked out of Congress.

and change a lightbulb?

He said it isn’t true. But he wasn’t asked if it was. He was asked if he’d like to respond to it, to which he replied; “No. But I will.”  He didn’t say “I don’t know what you’re talking about”. I think it’s you who needs to grow up, and quit making shit up.

First, Clinton was impeached for perjury, not adultery. That said there was some throwing stones from a glass house about it.

I wouldn’t trust Newt as far as I could throw him…which wouldn’t be far at all.

That said, no respect for King or CNN either. It was a stupid and unnessecary. Want to cover it on your network fine, but there’s no need to mention it in a debate.

It was definitely idiotic to open the debate with, and you’re right that it doesn’t belong there at all, but it would have been far less helpful to Newt had King left it for later.

I’ll give you the first 1, she’s not dead (although Newt did think she was going to die at the time), so good thing Newt divorced her when he did or else he wouldve been stuck with her “till death do they part.”

The perjury was based on sexual relations, something Newt was doing himself. I’m sure Newt wouldn’t have been forced to resign as speaker by his own party if he didn’t look like a complete hypocrite on the matter.

You haven’t heard Newt try to defend the sanctity of marriage? Clean the wax out of your ears then.

I didn’t make anything up. I was fun-quoting Mitt, not Newt, and associating the similarities. As far as making shit up, you are making shit up. Saying it isn’t true isn’t answering in any better terms than Romney has done, which was my point. I guess when Paul said he didn’t write the newsletters and that he didn’t believe in those philosophies wasn’t really answering the questions as so many media sources repeatedly claimed. Lemme guess, Pablo, that’s different because you don’t have a hard on for Paul or Mitt, do you? Yes, grow up. Newt’s past is relevant and the FACTS that he can’t deny are enough for everyone with the capacity to think critically to KNOW that he’s a scumbag. You are a pleased audience at a circus show. I will not oblige you for being an idiot, suckered into soundbites and slogans = words worth more to you than actual actions, obviously, because if you cared about actions, you certainly wouldn’t be defending Newt. Hey, remember a few debates back when Newt proposed a foreign policy against Iran that would allow for “covert” and “deniable” acts? Guess you wouldn’t call that an open admission that he’s a liar and he’s fine with it, right? Grow up.

Can’t bash anyone for putting pancakes on their pet rabbits. I like to put my pet dog on the roof of the car during road trips.

Newt made it clear he’s not a friend of capitalism.

Newt goes after other peoples personal lives, so why can’t we ask questions about his?

Clinton’s supposed lie was when he said, “I did not have sex with that woman.”

How many teenage girls say they are virgins if they perform only oral sex?

There’s a big difference between Clinton and Gingrich. Clinton did not leave his wife for a younger woman. Clinton has been married once.

Having said this, I don’t think a politician’s personal life should be a factor in a debate; but I’d be surprised if the GOP would ever nominate someone who has been divorced three times.

What was that “perjury” based on exactly?

LOL! MAybe, but you must admit, it’s not to be expected from you.

All that babbling & you failed to make a point.

I don’t have to answer questions. I’ve never been divorced & I’m in the lead.

Newt brought character, judgement and values into this debate by challenging Romney on those issues. He is a morally corrupt, hypocritical, dishonest, serial cheater.  Any conservative that criticized Clinton and is defending Gingrich is also a hypocrite. You can’t have it both ways. If it was wrong for Clinton, it is wrong for Gingrich.

Harvard > Tulane

So why did Newt leave congress after his attempt to oust Clinton fail?

Who wouldn’t say I have better hair than Newt?

They didn’t love the Edwards love child scandal. They didn’t touch it until he admitted it. Find me a story that shows otherwise.

Meanwhile: http://newsbusters.org/people/vicki-iseman

I would love for you to be my accountant.

I like to be able to fire people.

Newt’s current wife??

John Edwards as the BabyDaddy – google it. 

What? His ex-wife was NOT paid by ABC and it’s a rightwing aggregator, Drudge, that was the prime leaker of the sordid tales. Blaming CNN is scapegoating. Perry was savaged about the Niggerhead stuff too. Newt didn’t mind Wapo’s expose on that one. 

John Edwards was having his affair during his Presidential Campaign & was outed by the Nat’l Enq.  
Do you have any evidence that ABC or other media outlet DIDN’T know about his affair?  

No, Clinton’s lies were not in a press conference, they were in a deposition for an Arkansas court case. 

I know why the impeachment attempt was made. That doesn’t excuse Newt’s incredible hypocrisy. IMO if I have to judge who did the greater  disservice to the American public, Clinton for a stupid affair and lying about it, or the GOP who decided to focus our attention on it and waste millions of dollars and hours, because they couldn’t defeat Clinton based on policy, it’s the GOP every time. The bitch is that they opened the box and a bunch of them got burned because of it including Newt. It changed the poltical landscape permanently so that personal lives are now considered fair game, and now they complain because they can’t close the box they opened.

Wah wah I say.

End of the debate? …I believe you’re right, much better strategy. I was thinking a somple yes or no question that didn’t mention him or his ex specifically.
Does open marriage fit in the parameters of family values and traditional marriage you claim to support. Start with Santorum, go to Mitt and save a red faced Newt for last.    MAkes me giggle just thinking of it.

Geritol? I’ll never be older than Obama, cupcake.

Why would you want to do that? Are you a Klansman?

Newt’s adultery isn’t news, girlfriend. Unless you count very old news.

That won’t last long.

There’s only one direct falsehood in that one, and a whole lot of spinning. Color me unimpressed with your progress.

Black Separatist Preacher Rev. Wright – 20 years as Obama’s mentor – NO ABC NEWS coverage!

Newt – 15 year-old infidelity – ABC NEWS SMEAR on behalf of Democrats & Obama!

Yes, it was a tactical victory. But I suspect that the day I vote for him will be the day you vote for him.

There was no substance to most of the questions. Hello ?  Iran ?

That’s the problem with relying on expectations as opposed to observing and engaging in dialogue.

Hell, I’ve climbed up your ass on any number of occasions and vice-versa, but we still manage to recognize the places where we’re on the same page.

As someone who recognizes the staunchly liberal nature of mainstream media, I saw that question as fair and was offended by Gingrich’s show. It diminishes real instances of media bias (i.e. the never ending legality of banning contraception questions of the ABC debate).

lol
That’s a nice DNC talking point, but do you really think Newt hates capitalism?

Worry more about 11-06-12, when the liberal-dependency world ends!

I didn’t make anything up. I was fun-quoting Mitt,

Ok. tl;dr.

Lying under oath.

If his marriage issues are personal for Newt, then why did he go after Clinton in the ’90s? Wasn’t the Clinton-Lewinsky affair personal then? Why did Newt choose to lobby for Clinton’s impeachment? This selective moralist is a scumbag of the highest order. The guy claims to be a very good historian, but is uncomfortable when someone brings up his own history, which is a very miserable one.

John King was absolutely right to bring up this issue because the Republicans “thrive” on “conservatism” and “family values.” If they don’t practice what they preach, then they definitely are answerable.

That’s not what the nurses say. But then they’ve seen you undressed.

I don’t know that it’s incredible hypocrisy. When you’ve got the guy dead to rights for perjury, which they did, it is what it is. But Gingrich’s personal behavior does lend an unsavoryness to it that is politically messy, despite the legal propriety of the charge against Clinton.

Clinton was guilty of the charge. The personal behavior of the prosecutor is irrelevant to the charge against the defendant.  

Of course the first part of what you said is nonsense, since ABC covered wright for weeks like everybody else. How could they not cover it since Obama addressed it several times. But you do not want to go there, to wright, this time because Romney has wright problems in spades.

Newt will rip this media-created, intellectual dilettante in the White House apart!

Repeat after me Progressives…PRESIDENT GINGRICH!

Poor Newt. The media is just trying to stick him with more “gotcha” questions that bring to light his views and personal character. Typical media elitist John King

Fun-quote…. making fun of things Mitt has actually said, idiot.

now the shoe is on the other foot now Newt,  I bet Bill Clinton is having fun watching the the debate. The outrage is why is Newt even still in this race.

Covered Wright after 3 weeks of FOX covering Wright! They were FORCED to cover it at that point.

A little different having a sitting President diddling an intern with a cigar while he was getting his pipes cleaned in the Oval Office. Something Clinton LIED ABOUT. At least Gingrich admits his faults.
As far as the family values part goes, you’re overestimating how important issues like his marriages and the way he handled them really concern us.

It’s good knowing that Newt Gingrich believes in the sanctity of open marriage.

Yeah I asked you that, and the question showed up. Good timing or what!

“I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”

Is that ‘fake outrage’? I don’t recall a single Obama debate that was started with questions about his cocaineand other drug use. Obama was in dozens of debates and only one question was asked about his friendship with the terrorist Bill Ayers, and no questions about his associations with palestinian radicals, the New Black Panther Party and the shadowy figure who underwrote his higher education expenses.

We see constant negative stories on Republican candidates while scandal after scandal involving Democrats are covered up. Not just Harry Reids land deals or Charlie Rangels tax evasion. We see that Major Obama scandals like Solyndra or fast and furious are ignored, his corruption and massive abuses of power like ignoring the constitution in recent signing statements.

The reason the ‘liberal media’ is mentioned today is because it exists and is pervasive.

The reason the audience cheered is because many of us are sick and tired of it. And that’s true regardless of what happened in Newt’s personal life last century.

You mean conservatives like Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy and Anthony Weiner? Men have kinky fantasies on their brains sometimes because they’re MEN … you look at political sex/fidelity scandals and both sides of the aisle are more than adequately represented.

Newt made the correct point that every Republican candidate has had to endure media hit pieces. The anti-Perry one was especially low, since the real story is that  25 years ago, Perry did see that N-word rock, and went about cleaning it up. WashPo made it sound the opposite to what really happened.
Here too, it sounds like ABC went with the allegation and ignored the rebuttal. One-sided double-standard.

The impeachment trial was for perjury. If I remember correctly, Republicans consider a single incidence of felatio to be “having sexual relations” … Democrats don’t.

**Cough** John Edwards **Cough**

Why does Newt leave all his sick wives?

While your fantasies about me are endearing, they’re not relevant. Got anything else?

“The press always loves a sex scandal” You are naive or a Dem shill. Clinton had a 12-year affair with Genifer Flowers and CBS 60 minutes was complicit in helping Clinton campaign stage-manage around it in a 1992 interview. They produced a story that left damning parts of the interview on the cutting room floor, and helped Clinton survive. When the complete interview surfaced after Clinton left office, it was ‘interesting’ how 60 minutes selectively edited to help Clinton.

Remember: Clinton denied the story in 1992, but the story was true, and 60 minutes, rather than digging to get the truth, helped Clinton stage-manage a non-denial denial.

“There’s no evidence to suggest that they go easier on Dems.” Counter-evidence: The entire Clinton administration. His scandals were ignored, and truthful allegations discounted.

What is this crap about ‘A family values’ candidate?

Every candidate supports family values or they would never get elected. Was John Edwards running on the promise that it’s OK to cheat on your wife or embezzle money from your husband?
If he wasn’t running on that platform – he supports family values. You try and paint Republicans as 100% different on family issues when, in reality, everyone has the same basic idea about family and staying faithful to a loved one. 

People who think this was an appropriate topic to lead off a Presidential Candidate debate are entitled to their opinion. It speaks volumes about them, and politics in general. Don’t blame the media–they only report what the average, obtuse American wants. Apparently, they are satiated with scrapings from the bottom of the barrel–this news is, what, like 15 years old? If this tickles your ears, God bless you and may he help us all. At least it’s a step above most of the the drivel on both sides of this forum. I agree with Romney–let’s move on to some real issues, please.

That’s nice. We were talking about Gingrich, idiot.

All these Democrats who want to supposedly tax the rich, but are rich millionaires themselves, like Pelosi, Feinstein, Obama, Jon Corzine (Democrat, thief *and* rich b*st*rd who should be in jail) … but they DONT give their money away.

Since they dont actually practice what they preach, we can – by your logic – conclude that they have NO RIGHT to speak out in favor of class warfare distribution of wealth … unless and until they put their money where their mouth is and actually engage in charity and take vows of poverty.

Right?

Capitalism at its best. Article about Newt and his ex wife and Mediaite has  fix your marriage  advertising running on the page.
Smart guy, must be a Republican.

Good to hear Gingrich is against it.

You are adorable. You run out of real (however ridiculous) retorts, and you tell me what we were talking about. Well, dear, you brought up Mitt in the first place, so seems we were talking about Mitt, too. Get your bottle and go to bed, you are delirious. 

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/_/7/newt_baby.jpg

OK, that rates a ROFLMAO.

Maybe because it was a non story. So Wright said a few inflammatory statements, what of it? So what does it mean? Does Obama think goddamn America? Does Obama hate white people? Does Obama think 9/11 was America’s chickens coming home to roost? I think the answer to all those questions is no. So now what?

It’s a question of character, Newt; it IS important. Actually, let’s say
it’s as important as you felt Clinton’s Lewinsky issue was.

“We see constant negative stories on Republican candidates while scandal after scandal involving Democrats are covered up”

You mean like Anthony Weiner? And Eliot Spitzer? And Gary Hart? And John Edwards? And Bill Clinton?

All of these peoples’ scandals were tabloid fodder for weeks and months — even years. The idea that these have been “covered up” is not only demonstrably false, but actually quite laughable.

But then fake outrage has become part and parcel of the new GOP strategy, which is why I left. The constant whining about being victims was too pathetic to defend any longer. Palin really put me over the edge.

Your post is, unfortunately, a symptom of a very sick, very party.

Republicans need to keep hitting the liberal media with their bias. Over and over these candidates have to push the message that the liberal media stop protecting and campaigning for Obama. It happened in the last election and cannot happen again.

I have a question.

If Bill Clinton came out with the same BLAME THE MEDIA for noticing my personal bad behavior tirade, could the whole impeachment been avoided?

Even after the debate John King still looked like he wanted to cry.

how is Newt’s personal dirty laundry from decades ago relevant to this campaign? If people dont want a President who got a messy divorce, that their decision, but thats not news. Newt’s been married for over 13 years now and has got kids and grandkids, and relishes his grandfather role. He wont be a White House adulterer like JFK and Clinton, and if you think JFK and Clinton were the cat’s pajamas, you shouldn’t find Gingrich’s more mundane lifestyle any concern.

That is fallacious. WaPo reported facts, facts that were never disputed by the way. Reportage by a news agency of things or issues that may make a candidate look bad, or make him/her uncomfortable is not malfeasance. It’s their job! Gingrich’s ex-wife had something to say about him, she did. Gingrich and his daughters had the right to respond, they did. What is your f*cking problem? The system works just fine. You seem to insist that ABC or some other network should not report stories that are pertinent and relevant to a leading candidate for the presidency. That is laughable. That is what they do. It is a salacious story. It will be covered. The voters decide that, but they should be informed about the issues first. You are the same people who were talking about Obama’s relationship (or it’s absence) with a biological father he barely knew who died some 30yrs ago. Ron Paul’s old newsletters. THAT was viewed as relevant. Why is Gingrich’s marriages sacrosanct all of a sudden? A man who’s running on a party whose platform espouses “family values?”

So you mean to tell me that the entire Right Wing says the same thing on Talk Radio and then on Fox and then in the WSJ and then in the Washington Times and then on Red State and then on HOT Air and there ISN’T a “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?”

I’ll take your “KOCH” from two months ago and raise you “George Soros/Media Matters” EVERYDAY!

He didn’tk now he was going to set up a trap for himself.  He is way too clever for that.

“I guess this means we can assume Obama will focus the campaign on
unimportant personal attack issues, rather than national priorities”

Of course. If Obama has to run on his record – with the worst jobs record in a generation, fewer jobs now than when he was elected, and his $6 trillion in added debt with nothing to show for it except a downgrade – he’d lose in a landslide.

Fool the morons with side issues and petty scandal, that’s the only to bamboozle the voters.

“Freaker of the Spouse – Newt Gingrich” – Jon Stewart

The MSM is full of lefties, and you are ignorant, not others, if you don’t know that. This imbalance leads to a bias that is so pervasive it can be measured.
“A 2004 poll by the Pew Research Center for The People & The
Press found five times more journalists described themselves as
“liberal” as said they were “conservative.””http://www.mrc.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp

Listen, this story is about a despicable human being not the MEDIA!     Gingrich is immoral, rude, disgusting, and arrogant….he doesn’t even deserve to be considered for the highest office in the land.  Not only does he lack moral character, but he is not fit to be President of the United States.

I listened to the lies about President Obama and noted that America will never elect these liars, adulterers,racists and robber barons.  What happend to the Republican mantra…FAMILY VALUES?  Where are the socalled EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS touting FAMILY  VALUES? 

The Republican Party should be ashame of putting this group on stage. 

On the contrary, Newt played it very cool. He gave the moderator the kind of dressing down that you want the C in C to give an underling who f***s something up.
It was controlled vehemence, not anger. Well calibrated.
Very Presidential of him. Certainly more Presidential than Clinton’s phony finger-wagging.

As a teenage child of a father who cheated extensively on my mother and after witnessing the lengths he went to make the issue about my mother and her “not understanding him” I have no sympathy for Newt. In fact, I have oless than sympathy for him. He deserves none. My youngest two siblings will never recover from the tumult he put us through. Even I as an 18 year old excperiencing it will always have anger issues regarding my dad.

For Newt to act as if a question about his past is so out of bounds to be appalling just about makes me come unglued. I honestly can overlook an indiscrestion if it is a spur of the moment, lack of judgement. However, Newts pattern of indiscretion deserves no understanding. Forgiveness is between him and his God (which I pray he gets and has gotten) but I can’t fathom having someone like him in the White House with a first lady who was comfortable being the mistress of Newts first mistress and having any sort of respect for the people in the White House.

That being said, I would take them over the current couple in the White house. What an awful conundrum

HACK – HACK – HACK – HACK

Pablo, did we know for 12 years that Newt wanted an open marriage?

Did we know 12 years ago that he was with his new wife for 6 years while he was with his old wife?

HACK – HACK – HACK – HACK

Baloney. Obama has the thinnest skin of any major politician out there. He gets testy and does not take criticism at all well.

Yes, and he will never be President of the United States. 

Mitt paid all his taxes in full and on time on all he’s made, unlike Obama’s Treasury Secty Geitner.

Mitt does have a very nice family.
BUT
Newt Gingrich is more education, he got a Ph.D. in modern European history from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1971.
AND
Newt resigned voluntarily from Congress, he was not kicked out nor was it ethics charges; rather, in 1998 election the GOP in Congress had losses and Newt lost credibility as he promised the caucus they would gain seats, and so he stepped down as speaker.

Newt was assaulted by the Democrats with hundreds of phony ethics charges and was cleared of almost all of them, the remaining items were nitpicks.
The corruption of Obama in awarding billions in stimulus money to special interest friends makes the tiny flyspeck items in Newt’s record insignificant.

Be honest: When was the last time you actually saw the words “vast right wing conspiracy” tossed around on these pages? It’s rarer than hen’s teeth.

“Liberal media” gets spewed here in the comments thread so often that it’s just become a massively silly cliché. People like Tina in Tampa and Norbit and Michelle couldn’t even compose a sentence without the phrase.

Never.

Wrong.

The Obamas gave about 15% of their income to charity last year.

Maybe you should do a little homework before you post attacks like this.

Sorry, but Edwards never campaigned on a platform to restore traditional family values like all of these pious right wingers.

Of course you will.You are the master of false equivalence.

What max did Libby get Mr. Equivalence?

Wrong.

He had no problem attacking Bill Clinton ad nauseum. Now that the focus is on his want for an open marriage it’s a different story. What a hypocrite!

. He wont be a White House adulterer like JFK and Clinton,

He won’t be anywhere near the White House.Ever?

Newt wins! Punching the elite media in the nose is long over due!

King looked like he got his pants pulled down and spanked. Good for Newt.

No, I just need a cheap housekeeper I can control and occasionaly have sex with. I’m kinda Jeffersonian in that way.
If we have the right to shape our society the way we prefer we no longer have to be concerned about the rights of others correct? We just take a popular vote and whomever wins, it’s cool. Isn’t that what democracy is?

Is the liberal media allowed to examine their actual records and history and contrast that with their lip service? Is the liberal media allowed to examine thier attacks on Obama and compare them to dicumented facts? Would that be to bias?

“Newt resigned voluntarily from Congress”

Bahahahaha.

Go back to that hell of an aternate universe you must have come from.

I’m beginning to think that Pat McGuinness wants to be Newt’s fourth wife.

Wait, forst you said there was none, now, one post later, you’re saying they did, but they were forced to?
Bye Bye credibility

Shall we make a list of conservative scandals and then argue over who’s is biggest? That seems like a good thing for adults to do.

Not a fan of the Grinch, but this John King guy got owned badly, with that standing ovation. But yet he still pressed on. Did he not learn from the Juan Williams debacle? Some discussions can’t be won over with closed minds at the helm.

He perjured himself on a matter he never should have been questioned on to begin with. You can claim that doesn’t matter , it’s still perjury, but the American public didn’t buy it.
They saw it for the shoddy witch hunt it was.

How convincing is the arresting officers testimony when it comes out several of them were high when they arrested you for drugs?
Hey Doesn’t matter , he still had drugs. Evidently it does matter, and it should.

Better to be first on a thread to whine .

Tee Hee.

and of course being a lobbyist, oops, historian, is good experience for the presidency.

I guess you forgot that Obama is against gay marriage.

Well, considering Newt has spent a lot of time attacking others over their infidelic marriages and paints himself as a great moral Christian defender of traditional values, I have no problem with the moderator shoving that pompous prick’s nose in the dirt.

No they didn’t. There was no solid proof at that point of Edward’s issues. While Newt sexual escapades and infidelities were as well known as his phony traditional values moralizing. None of this is new material and Newt is a class A hypocrite.

“Newt resigned voluntarily from Congress, he was not kicked out nor was it ethics charges”

Gingrich/Palin 2012
This time they won’t quit you America, promise!

Nor did Edwards lead the attack on Clinton to get him impeached for his sexual escapades. So go ahead and defend this  hypocritical moralizing fake all you want

I am sorry you are so shallow that you can’t see beyond superficial technicalities. 18 likes, my butt!

It was all about sex, so you are being completely dense or willfully dishonest. So go ahead and defend that degenerate moralizing hypocrite.

Did anyone have the fantasy that Newt was going to win even before all of this?

CNN GOP Debate January 19 in Charleston SC Full Replay Video – http://su.pr/4XfQHe

Oh but the doubt ‘lingers’…

…Does he have to make it linger?

More like a case of a rude, degenerate hypocrite turning on his accuser. But feel free to be all crude  like the rest of the MSM bashing know nothings.

The executive member should not menace… Gingrich a danger to every cocave space.

True, Newt knows what the peanut gallery wants to hear and plays the hicks perfectly.

Of course, things were just fine before he came in.

Good coherent points and extremely well executed…

Republican Victimization Syndrome?

No doubt, it’s all the fault of the ‘Librul Media’ and those ex wives stopping Gingrich from elaborating his staunch ‘Family Values.’

‘Librul Media Conspiracy!!!’

Real presidential turning on your accuser to wiggle out of the charge

Another morally and intellectually challenged dittoheadette chimes in

Obama did not preach a thing in that church. Newt postures as a morally upright Christian to save us from the heathens. Besides, are you so dense that you think Newt has the slimmest chance of winning?

Your avatar is more revealing of your intellect than your ironic name. Repeat after me, even without all this, NEWT IS NOT GOING TO GET THE NOMINATION!

But it’s Newt and all the morally bankrupt hypocrites supporting him who should be spanked

“It doesn’t matter what I do.  People need to hear what I have to say.  There’s no one else who can say what I can say.  It doesn’t matter what I live.”–Newt Gingrich

That teabilly crowd just gobbled up Newt’s sanctimonious baloney. 

Forgot the most recent and dispicable…..Anthony Weiner…………………….

After the debate tonight, I decided to stay up and watch Marianne Gingrich on Nightline.  The interview had been promoted all day.  The Drudge Report had indicated that Brian Ross had interviewd her for two hours.  As the show began, I was shocked that they were only devoting one segment to the interview (they also did a segment on the Concordia and one on celebrity babies).  Out of the two hours that she was supposedly interviewed, Maianne Gingrich appeared on screen for less than three minutes.  They had a response from Newt’s daughters and clips from Newt blasting John King at the debate tonight, together with the standing ovation he received.  Marianne Gingrich said nothing that she had not already said in the Esquire interview.  She even had to defend herself from charges that she had tried to peddle influence when Newt was Speaker and they were still married.  The interview was a total rip-off and ABC should be condemned for selling us a false bill of goods!

With Nwet’s track record in everything from his failed marriages to him getting kicked out of his position as speaker of house, Obama is sure to win again

I said Newt is no friend of capitalism. Watch Fox News more, they say it too.

Lying about?

So Nwt left like Nixon. Gotcha.

Then you should probably vote for Romney or Santorum.
There is no reason to vote for a guy who does the opposite of what he says a moral person should do.

Hello, Norbit.
there will never be a President Gingrich.

Newt says we are a big country with big ideas that he will implement with (big) government.

“My President Johnson maybe do it.”

That’s how Newt should have answered this disgusting on attack on his favorite president.

that just proves that there is a Liberal media…that’s why everybody’s talking about it.

And there is not a vast rightwing conspiracy, because nobody’s talking about it.

Other things that don’t exist because nobody’s talking about it:

1. People are being arrested for video taping corrupt or misbehaving cops.

2. Republicans want to shut down Medicare, change it to a private insurance program, and still call it Medicare.

3. Republicans want to end the “pre-existing conditions” exception passed in Obamacare.

4. Republicans favor monopoly, as they refuse to remove the monopoly rights of private insurance companies.

5. The Koch brothers are openly bribing at least one US Supreme Court Justice (Thomas).

I’m tired of Romney and Santorum protecting Obama by constantly attacking Newt!!!

I’m tired of Romney and Santorum protecting Obama by constantly attacking Newt!!!

I’m tired of Romney and Santorum protecting Obama by constantly attacking Newt!!!

You know what I’m TIRED of??

I’m tired of Romney and Santorum protecting Obama by constantly attacking Newt!!!

I like fake Romney.

What I don’t like is that Romney and Santorum are protecting Obama by constantly attacking Newt!!!

The difference is clear.

When the media, and Santorum, and Romney attack Newt, they are helping protect Obama!

I applaud you for defending Newt’s mistakes. You are truly patriotic.

I just wish Romney and Santorum were equally patriotic, and stop attacking the next President of the US….President Newt’s Johnson

Isn’t it funny that Newt complains about negative campaigning and personal attacks, but in the 90s, he and his GOPAC gave out a guide to campaigning, to help prospective young GOP-ers get their start in nasty campaigning. Here’s an excerpt:
—
“Contrasting Words

Often we search hard for words to help us define our opponents. Sometimes we are hesitant to use contrast. Remember that creating a difference helps you. These are powerful words that can create a clear and easily understood contrast. Apply these to the opponent, their record, proposals and their party.

decay… failure (fail)… collapse(ing)… deeper… crisis… urgent(cy)… destructive… destroy… sick… pathetic… lie… liberal… they/them… unionized bureaucracy… “compassion” is not enough… betray… consequences… limit(s)… shallow… traitors… sensationalists…

endanger… coercion… hypocrisy… radical… threaten… devour… waste… corruption… incompetent… permissive attitudes… destructive… impose… self-serving… greed… ideological… insecure… anti-(issue): flag, family, child, jobs… pessimistic… excuses… intolerant…

stagnation… welfare… corrupt… selfish… insensitive… status quo… mandate(s)… taxes… spend(ing)… shame… disgrace… punish (poor…)… bizarre… cynicism… cheat… steal… abuse of power… machine… bosses… obsolete… criminal rights… red tape… patronage.”—
What a bizarre, corrupt traitor to decency Newt is. He’s a shameful disgrace who practically wrote the book on the sick, collapsing decay of American politics in the last two decades.

“But there’s a huge jump from being understanding and considerate and concerned, which we should be, to saying we’re therefore going to institute the sacrament of marriage as though it has no basis. The sacrament of marriage was based on man and woman, has been for 3,000 years, is at the core of our civilization, and is something worth protecting and upholding.”– Newt Swingrich, proponent of open marriages of a man, a woman, a woman, a woman and a woman

a court case concocted by a rightwing legal team calling themselves ‘the elves,’ and based on the baseless lies of Paula “Celebrity Boxing and Penthouse” Jones, who’s lack of credibility was not a concern to them. All they wanted was an excuse to grill the president about sex under oath, in hopes of getting dirt for an impeachment.

last I checked, the conservatives were livid that he would no longer enforce DOMA.

LOL @ Newt being the president. How is he going to do tat when he can’t even beat me for the Republican nomination? Is he going to run 3rd party?

LOL

So funny, the so called “conservative alternate” has been divorced 2 times after thy were afflicted with serious illnesses & even asked his 2nd wife to be cool with an open relationship. Could you just give me the nomination already?

Newt: “Don’t blame it on someone else, John!”

John King, media hack: “But OBAMO does all the time…and we let him get away with it! We Luuuuuuvvvvv OBAMO.”

I surprise myself by saying, I agree with Newt here. This question, while arguably valid in a campaign, is a seriously strange way to begin a debate. What’s more, he says something right when he says that the viciousness of the media is a factor in destroying the American political process. Even these “debates” are just a harvesting exercise for soundbites. 

That said, this is a case of karma. Newt also says that every person has known their pain and made their mistakes. This, we can guess, is his reason for chastising the press for even bringing this up. Yet, where were his similar sentiments when he was a bulldog on Clinton and Lewinsky? This is his payback, at long last.

I am having a hard time remembering – didnt this man lead an obsession with the same sort of ‘trash’ that led to the impeachment of a president?

Koch is still everyday. Get some perspective.

Most just replaces “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” with “Fox News”"Koch Brothers”… it works for all occasions. :)

And yes conservatives yell “liberal media” just as much as liberals do their thing. It’s equal. But I see ,ost things as equal and having a counterpoint. Ying and Yang and all that.

False in your mind.

You can look up the charges yourself if you don’t believe me. Perjury is lying under oath. They don’t care what you were lying about.

You’re making excuses for a crime because you like who committed the crime. When you swear to tell the truth you have to actually do it. Or does the law not apply to Dems in your mind?

It was about perjury. Look it up if you don’t believe me. Did you think it was OK for Libby to lie under oath?

So let me ask you… who among us is allowed to lie under oath and who isn’t. Just so I know the rules in your mind.

I.m surprised that Newt didn’t challenge John to a duel.

The question may have been despicable but as far as ‘close to the most despicable thing…that can be thought of’ – Newt YOU not only hold that title you exceed its very concept…

He ended up blaming Obama for his ex-wife’s’ interview.   What an incredible scumbag.

How long have you been Mitten’s accountant??

Feel free to provide an example!!

The Slimy Newt

A slimy neocon who calls himself Newt
Always plays the globalist skin flute
He gets on his knees
And does what they please
While lining his pockets with their loot.

With women, Newt’s always a smooth dancer
“Upgrade ‘em often!” is his standard answer
Which caused him, of course
To present his divorce
To his first wife as she lay dying of cancer.

Speaker Gingrich didn’t give a hoot
For his family when he gave ‘em the boot
He came up short,
Never paying child support
For the entire duration of the dispute.

Next Newt married a girl named Marianne
Whom he quickly decided to can
When she got a diagnosis
Of Multiple Sclerosis
Which threw a wrench in his political plan.

You see, Ol’ Newt was a hopin’
His marriage could be sexually open
But Marianne said “No way!
It’ll be a cold day
If you think i’ll OK your page gropin’”

Before Marianne announced she was sick
Newt was boning his aide, Callista Bisek
While Callista played Newt’s harmonica
He blasted Bill for gettin’ a Monica
‘Cause hypocrisy has always been Newt’s schtick
.______________________
Charles Ulysses Feney 

Come on, Newt is such an easy target. That question to lead off the debate was stupid and unseemly, inappropriate, even sad. Newt at least had enough sense to realize that and express what many of us thought. Of course he went over the top, but that’s Newt.

I did, the results were NBC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, LA Times, Mediate, Comedy Network, Washington Post, Huff Po,….well you get the idea.  Basically everything other than Fox, the WSJ, and talk radio…

I’ll take your “KOCH” from two months ago and raise you “George Soros/Media Matters” EVERYDAY!

I’ll show where Soros is putting his thumb on the scale. You’ll fail to do that with the Koch Brothers.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/soros-donates-1-million-to-media-matters/

Getting the media to cough up the goods on John Edwards was like Giving Birth, the enquirer ran it for months before anyone touched it.  Weiner was outed by brietbart, and all the liberal media ran to his defense until they started to look stupid defending him, Spitzer came under official investigation before that made the press, and Bill Clinton had a 12 year affair before that whole thing broke, followed by an honorable perjury and obstruction of justice charge.
 
Herman Cane had a couple women come forward with laughable and unsubstantiated allegations if they had any allegation at all, and before they even said anything…the sexual harassment implications were front page news.
 
Your post is, unfortunately, a symptom of a very sick, intellectually bankrupt party.

We knew the latter, which makes the former not terribly newsy.

You might want to see a doctor about that cough.

They had pictures of him in the hotel visiting Hunter. That had him trying to hide from the camera in the men’s room.

The only person running on that right now is Santorum. Just stop lying.

Obstruction of Justice was the other. Extramarital fellatio was not one of them.

I sure hope not, but I’d take him over Obama.

If he didn’t want to be questioned on sexual matters, he shouldn’t have sexually harassed Paula Jones. You can call it a shoddy witch hunt all you like, but the fact is that he settled the Jones suit for the amount she was seeking and surrendered his law license.

Gingrich wasn’t the arresting officer. He was the DA. If you go on trial for dealing cocaine, suggesting that the DA does coke too is not an available defense.

Um, yes Clinton had a 12 year affair but remember that was before the internet, blogs, cell phones, twitter, google, and facebook so you’re looking at a completely different era than now and Cain got busted by his own GOP rivals and from the looks of what’s happening to Newt it looks as if Mittens and the GOP Establishment was behind the hatchet job.

I don’t remember.  Did anyone challenge Slick Willie Clinton on any of his nefarious activities while he was running for President?  Someone refresh my memory.

Even without the internet, 12 years is an extremely long time for the press “not to know” about it or pursue obvious leads implying it.  Its not like we were using messenger pigeons and the pony express in the 90′s, requiring a decade for a story to break.
 
And what about all the other named individuals above?  The internet was in existence during their little ordeals.
 
As for Cain, yes, GOP rivals dug it up, but it takes a press to perpetuate and disseminate it.  And there is a clear distinction in the vigor, alacrity,  and the burden of proof required, to disseminate a story that is dependent on party affiliation, and is as exemplified very well when comparing timelines and known facts with both Edwards and Cain.

So Clinton was probably guilty because he settled but Cain probably wasn’t?
I’m not really interested in rehashing the details. I call it a shoddy witch hunt because it was his political opponenets deciding to use the details of his personal life to damage him because they couldn’t on policy issues. IMO, elected officials who put the larger issues of the country first don’t do that. Especially ones that are also so very guilty. The GOP has a reputation for fighting hard and down and dirty while the Dems are too wussy. So they went for it, and in doing so opened a Pandora’s box. For Gingrich and others to now say, “Hey, no fair, we want to talk about the really important issues”,  is laughable, even though I essentially agree with them.

“Gingrich wasn’t the arresting officer. He was the DA.”
What happens to the trail when the DA is busted? Yes, he purjured himself on a question that never should have been asked to begin with, by a DA who was also guilty. Seems like the jury didn’t like that. That’s the reality of the technicality. As I said before, who damaged the country more and wasted the taxpayers time and money more. Clinton, or his prosecutors? IMO, it was his prosecutors.
People might be guilty of smoking pot. That doesn’t make the expense of prosecution a good use of our resources.

OMIGOD…yes 60 Minutes did…way before New Hampshire primaries.  Don’t you remember Hillary and her ‘I’m not some little woman baking cookies’ comment?  They went AFTER him with everything they had.  This was not a travesty and Newt was ready for it…hence his unloading on ‘victimhood’ and the media…it plays right into South Carolina and the GOPs feeling that everyone is ‘out to get them’…

Blah, blah blah, I hate Gingrinch while ignoring every bit of dirt on Obama, blah blah blah.

Bingo! Newt is not a decent person!

yes, it was an awful question BUT we are no longer allowed to ask these questions on the ‘trail’…anyone that isn’t fawning over the candidate is kicked out.  We have so many of these ‘debates’ so they will at least pretend to answer questions.  And if you think Newt wasn’t prepared for it I have swampland to sell.  Attacking the media and FAUX outrage plays well in SC…

Yes,,,CNN might be “Liberal” but the question was coming from Newt’s ex-wife revelation of what Newt wanted. They had the right to ask.

Newt had cheated on his first wife with this one, then cheated on this wife…He wanted to “stay” married so he asked her so he wouldn’t be “cheating”…This followed by Romney’s tax situation is making Santorum look like a good choice. {And that is sad. Pawlenty, the last real person who was in the race….to bad he dropped out}

The question of an open marriage is relevant, but it did not belong as the leading question. Gingrich was prepared for it and knocked it out of park. After Newt denied it, it now becomes an issue of he said, she said. I find it interesting that ABC would run this 2 days before the primary. Looking for ratings at the 11:30 PM time slot? Newt obviously won. If Romney and his staff haven’t been able to put the release of his tax returns to rest for a month, he should not get the nomination. I said this before and I’ll say it again, Romney’s a mystery and in my eyes he’s a phony. Most Americans are not paying attention to the details of these campaigns, but they will watch the 3 general election debates and as an objective observer the best man to face Obama is Gingrich by far. I don’t know how Romney received $375,000 in speaking fees. He mumbles and fumbles his answers. He’s not authentic and he doesn’t even sound believable. As an independent I don’t like Romney. In Newt at least you get what you see. With Romney looks at which way the wind blows before he speaks.

Ginrgich hit that one out of the ballpark. I give credit where credit is due.

agree. Libby should be in the hoosegow right next to Cheney. Remember Fitzgerald even said there was a gray cloud over Cheney. If he would have dug a little deeper, bingo.

agree too.

I know how you feel. Newt is the one that asked his ex-wife for the Open Marriage not CNN. If the right wing want to blame the right person they shouldn’t be blasting King for the question..They should be asking Newt.. “What in the hell were you thinking?”

Pablo: But they were all interested in McCain’s non-affair with Vicki Iseman.

So you don’t find it odd that the Cindy and John live apart most of the year?

Horse pucky.

Gingrich lied about it then also.
You see it as different because it’s “your” party.

Like he ever had any.

Do you understand shat you just said?

It is the Republican party who has issues with those things.
That would make them Hypocrites.

And your statement acknowledges you are STRIVING to be a democrat, if you find this ok behavior.

Same thing Newt Lied about at the time.

You look rather old to have been born after Jan, 2009.
Been in a coma?

Gingrich has done as much as anyone to make it acceptable to drag people’s personal lives into a discussion about their capacity to lead.  And now he decides it’s unfair to ask him about his marriages?  Puh-leese.

One side claims to be against it.

The question needed to be asked, but I thought that being the first question was a mistake.  This permitted Gingrich to set the tone for the whole debate – unfortunately.

His arrogance and feigned outrage was precious.  The little muffin man was hypocrisy at its worst.

John King has an ex-wife, whom he left to marry Dana his colleague, it’d be interesting to know what his ex-wife thinks about him cheating with his colleague. The same way I felt about Newt Gingrich attacking Bill Clinton for his extra marital affair, it’s not fair for people who live in glass houses to throw stones.

This country hopefully will try to separate moral flaws from great leadership. When it comes to the matters of the heart we all having sinned and come short of the glory of God. I guess the question is, what kinds of sin will disqualify someone from a leadership position. It’s like asking which sin is smaller or bigger? Else if you didn’t break the law, why is your morality an issue? Character! In that case does it mean that to aspire or qualify for presidential candidacy one must be a saint?

Note: Kings David and  Solomon had moral flaws. The scripture also says the holiest man on earth sins seven times a day. How about that separation of church and state? And why isn’t someone asking President Obama if he has ever indulged in a homosexual act? Or when was the last time he used illegal drug? Has he ever cheated with on his wife?

I bet people will scream racism. “Cause President Obama is the anointed one, therefore, the media must be sensitive and careful with what kinds of questions are thrown his way.

Fact: MSNBC and CNN are parts of the aggressive campaign team for President Obama!!! CBS, NBC and ABC are parts of President Obama campaign team too. NYTimes and Washingtonpost are also in bag for President Obama.

Where as Republicans just cry. See crybaby Boehner

Holy crap!!! Obama was amazing at the Apollo doing Al Green!
http://www.toofab.com/2012/01/20/president-obama-sings-al-green-lets-stay-together-video/

Wienergate

What dirt on Obama?  President Obama is an honorable, family man and cannot be compared to this dirt bag (Gingrich) who has no moral compass.  Let’s set high standards for our POTUS and not vote for just anyone that is thrown in front of us. 

I will repeat:  GINGRICH, ROMNEY AND PAUL ARE NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES….period!

That was beautiful. You could see Newt trying to hold back the grin when King walked into it. He effectively won the debate and neutralized homewrecker #1 at the same time.

They should have a separate podium for Newts sack. Its only fair to you Newt, because of the bullshit you put Clinton through, while you were “creating jobs” in your car with Calista. Or as you call it loving your country to much.

NO, you’ve got that wrong. In this case it was liberal fake shrill outrage intended to bring down a conservative candidate.

The media’s strategy of trying to make Gingrich look like a moral hyprocrite is totally going to backfire on them. Newt smacked down John King to the delight of the audience and probably to a lot of other South Carolina voters. I’m not a Newt supporter, but this just might have given him the lift he needs to win the primary there.

But it ended up being the other way around, didn’t it?

Imagine – those words being vomited forth by such an intellectually, morally, & ethically weightless person.  The more you see of him (them), the more he (they) reveals layer after layer of human weakness & indecency. 

I guess I could fill you in on his past associates that you are probably already aware of, his underhanded methods to get elected to the state and US senate, his involvement in ACORN, his stealing of the caucuses from Hillary in the 08 primaries, using his position as a senator to get michelle a BS $350k per year job…hell, there’s a ton of things I could tell you.
 
But lets be honest, you are so down the rat hole, and so blinded that no matter what, you will ignore anything that doesn’t fit your narrative…. so why bother…right?

Newt’s wife is the one the “Right” needs to go after. King had every right to ask about today’s news story. Don’t blame King for the question. Newt’s the one who asked his wife for an open marriage not King.

I’ll bet THAT tirade sent Obama to hiding under Michelle’s dress!!
No wonder the Dems are pulling for Mitt……LOL!!!

Typical Newt. Now I’m waiting for someone to proclaim it is racist. Look he said John’s name sheep get on it!

Well, I guess we have very different standards of morality and behavior.  Unfortunately, you’re pulling at straws, my friend.  Did Obama own ACORN or did  Hillary own her delegates?…I am shocked by this comparison or do you just want to dialogue? Are you serious?

If you can honestly say that Newt Gingrich exhibits the kind of charcterstics that you would like to see in your POTUS…good for you.  I would also guess that you voted for George Bush.

So, you’re right, why bother.  As my Republican friends say to me, GOP voters will vote for anything but a black man.  They will even vote against their own interests, rather than vote for a black man. Heck, they will vote for a party that raises their taxes and lowers their own (wealthy), rather  than vote for a black man.  Finally, one of my colleagues always uses a term to refer to his fellow Republicans….SUCKERS!  I would never say that.

Good luck with Newt and the boys as your moral compass.

Are you tired of FOX attacking the Democratic Party or is this just a one way street?  Stop blaming the media, that’s not the story.  Sarah, Sarah does that and look at her…..angry in Alaska!!  This is about a man who is not fit to be POTUS. 

The reason that the audience cheered is because they have very low standards for their president. Remember, these people are from one of the most racist states in the union, South Carolina.

OK, so let’s just back off sweet Newtie. I’ll buy it. No, Newt didn’t ask for an open marriage. And how dare you believe that! But really, CNN did him a favor. They got that out of the way immediately on a national stage. Newt couldn’t have paid for that much self-promotion.
And after all, the only thing he did was cheat on his second wife that started out as his mistress while he was cheating on his first wife. And let’s all face it, his newest one was a girl younger than either of his daughters! She’s named after a star! How cool is that? Who can blame the guy? Look at him! He’s got to be flattered by the attention and desperate for the fresh, wafting pheremones to maintain his masculine interest. Now, Ol’ #2 could have piggy-backed off that added marital exuberance and come out with a little obligatory amorous overflow in the marriage if she’d just been humble enough to play along. But no, she just had to be the one and only in the deal.

So, if the open marriage proposal is just too insulting to entertain, instead, maybe the conversation was along the lines of, hey, shut ‘yer trap wench–all I want to do is kanoodle this hot young babe now and again without getting all this static from some decrepit old bag. Or maybe he came out in the open and just said, kiss-off baby, it’s been a nice run but I got this other chick now. It’s a he-said-she-said. We can’t really know just how selfish and treacherous he really was or wasn’t. He might have been pretty reasonable about his infidelity. It’s not like he was kicking her to the curb. He was apparently quite willing to toss her a bone….now and then. (Notice how I avoided the smutty “boner” pun.)

Oops.

Anyway, the new squeeze clearly didn’t care if Newt hung onto the sagging old crone for sentimental reasons or to maintain the illusion of politically-expected respectability. So what’s her beef anyway? Newt was cheating with his 2nd ex-wife against his first wife to kick it all off, so it’s not like she shouldn’t have seen it coming. What did she expect? She’s an adult…eress. She should have known she was just the warmup act. She was just a little convenient practice cheating, till something really younger and really good looking came along. And it turned out she was a chronic sickie anyway–after all the trouble Newt went to dump the first sick old battleaxe. The irony is profoundly troubling in that coincidence. Why should Newt carry the double load of a second wife who’s both old and sick?

Now, other than illustrating multiple examples of deceit, treachery, personal betrayal, and that your whole life is basically driven by your genital longings at whatever the human cost, what’s all this got to do with the front-running candidate for the Republican ticket’s presidential character? I just can’t see the relevance.

The nation should be in united outrage! The media got it all wrong! They viciously used Newt’s bitter old biddy’s pain as a “gotcha” just before a major primary. And the host of the much promoted, highly touted debate Der Grinchmeister was at the same time being featured in asked him right up front if he cared to make any comments about the recent charges of his betrayed and discarded second old lady. Why on earth would anyone even be interested? It doesn’t make any sense! In any case, Newt got first crack at spinning the scandal on national television.

What a bunch of vile media whores those CNN guys are! Unky Newt showdya’! You won’t try that again! Ha! Ha! Ha ha!

And really, it can’t be an issue at this point can it? Obviously Newt’s not going to do any more cheating, because he’s so old and so fat and so ugly at this point he’s surely not going to find anyone younger or prettier than his present arm-candy–so chill out!

You rotten media bastards!

You need to keep your dates and people correct. Edwards ran for office in 2000 the affair wasn’t talked about until 2007 in the National Enquirer. I’m guessing you are mixing up Gary Hart who had the affair and it did get mentioned and he ended up dropping out.  BUT he remained married.As have all candidates except for Kerry from 1988 on up. I didn’t go back further. Some may have separated but they remained married unlike Newt.

*Although John Edwards wife did file for divorce she died from Breast Cancer before it was finalized.

Well.. why don’t we start by putting  to bed your silly assessment of GOP voter basing race as a prerequisite.  As I guess you don’t know, (among other things) Herman Cain was well on his was to get the nomination until he was steamrolled out of the race. That was the GOP base that was supporting him.
 
Another neat little nugget of info for you on this as well…all Black members of the GOP in congress were elected in primarily white districts.  
 
Here’s another nugget to go with that…all black democrats ONLY get elected in primarily black districts….  What’s the moral of the story?  If your black, and you live in a primarily white district, run as a republican….because white liberals wont vote for you!
 
Regarding your comment on our different standards of morality…you are absolutely right.  Here is the difference.  Your standard of morality involves indentifying the person in question’s political party, and if that party is your party…the moral shortcoming is thrown in the “pulling at straws” bin.   If it is the rival party, than it is a deal-breaking moral outrage that requires you to type in capital letters…..See?
 
And on the subject of Newt, at no point in time, would I justify his philandering, but similar to Clinton, he is morally bankrupt, but a competent statesman, unlike our current guy.  And at this late hour, we cannot afford (literally) to have an amateur in the oval office for another four years.

No this is great case of a politician holding these liberal idiots in the media to task and not mumbling through some bullshit excuse like a whipped puppy! These idiots get away with this shit everyday, trying and suceeding sometimes especially on the weak minded fools out there with their constant manipulation/propaganda. This is election is going to be the most vile in the history of our country because the liberal/marxist media is going to dig up and make up any and everthing they can to get their marxist, lieing, slimey president re-elected. May God help us!

Yes…ALL slime bag propaganda machines..the do it so well.

Newt’s response demonstrated to me why he is Presidential material. He gets it. While people are struggling to find employment, defaulting on their mortgages, and worried where their next meal is coming from….John King and CNN are more focused on accusations made by a candidate’s ex-wife. You don’t have to be part of a “left wing” media conspiracy to ask a completely worthless, unimportant question…you just have to be out of touch with the pain being experienced by those suffering from this economy, an economy that is teetering on a complete meltdown.

stopspendingoncredit2012…that is complete hyperbole. Firstly, the economy is not on the brink of a meltdown! Have you looked at where the DOW is TODAY compared to where it was on Jan 2009? Sigh.

Secondly, Newt, himself, INVITES these questions due to his acerbic bombastic rhetoric attacking other Americans way of life. He’s representing the party of family values. Since when can these issues NOT be looked at in a GOP primary? Yawn. Your candidate is morally flawed. Quit your belly aching. 

President Obama, an amateur, are you kiddin me?  I noticed you didn’t say that you voted for George W, the one that put us in this depression.  And you want another one in the White House….Eeeeee

Well, bringing up Herman Cain, one of a miniscule number of Black conservatives, is like saying…”some of my best friends are Black.”

The issue you raise is very real, and I’m not here to align myself with racism whether its  Democratic or Republican.  I
am also not here to align myself with immorality whether it’s Clinton or Newt.  I don’t think you have thought this through.
 
I would never call Gingrich a competent statesman….there is ample evidence from former Republicans who worked with this man to support the facts that….NEWT is disorganized, scattered in his thoughts, dictatorial, a ticking time bomb, serial adulterer, unethical  and so on and on and on.  The GOP is now shaking in their boots about this man’s candidacy for president.

Again, if you want Newt to be president, please, by all means, vote for the man who best represents your values.  I will do the same. 
 

Yes, I loved it.  Sign him up…the guy can sing.  LOL

which Supreme Court justice is the liberal media openly bribing?

Because the Koch brothers are openly bribing Clarence Thomas

so your false equivalencies don’t work

Good  luck with that.

NEWT SHOULD BE THANKING KING AND CNN FOR GIVING HIM SOUTH CAROLINA.  AND THEY REALLY DID.

I am a registered Independent voter…watch Fox News exclusively.  I think John King did a fantastic job as host of the CNN Republican debate.  Gingrich was totally out of line castigating John King for asking a reasonable question about the “ex-wife” issue.  As usual, Gingrich blamed his indiscretions on everyone else.  In this case, the media.  What a whiner!  How “value voters” can support Gingrich is beyond belief.

Scripted. Poor Newt. Leaving his wife after she gets diagnosed with cancer proves to anyone he is not the man to lead. That and his leading the NAFTA bill through the senate. The United States has never been the same since.  South Carolina voters showed how propagandized we are and how far from the Republic we are removed.

prove it

No, obama has sealed college records, fights tooth and nail against any release of his personal records, is friendly with Ayers, Wright et al. yet the liberal media seems oblivious.

Newt’s kill-the-m­essenger response to John King had “guilty” written all over it. Newt’s own very religious supporters don’t even know that the Bible is totally cool with multiple wives and mistresses­! Check out my blog post about it at http://bib­lefunmenti­onables.wo­rdpress.co­m/2012/01/­23/answeri­ng-newts-p­rayer-for-­open-marri­age/