Newt Gingrich: ‘The Elite Media Has Totally Sold Out To Barack Obama’
GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich was a guest on Monday’s Fox & Friends, and hit on a host of issues, from gas prices to a possible PBS debate. He also took time out to bash the “elite media” for driving the main themes of the 2012 election thus far. Through it all, he managed to work in some obvious digs at frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Fighting through a coughing fit, Gingrich revealed that, tomorrow night, he was going to challenge the other candidates to a debate next week in either Mississippi or Alabama.
“I don’t think that Romney can just hide behind millions of dollars of paid ads,” Gingrich said. “He’s got to come out in the open. And I think that, frankly, it is to everybody’s advantage to have a debate. So I don’t assume that the debates are over.” He added that he didn’t think voters were going to, “tolerate somebody like Romney raising all of his money on Wall Street, and then turning around and saying he’s not going to debate.”
Moving to rising gas prices, Gingrich was presented by Brian Kilmeade with Mitt Romney’s belief that his $2.50 gas plan was “pandering.” Gingrich shot back that, “if you’re Mitt Romney and you’re rich enough, maybe you don’t get it.” Following up, he noted that, “if Romney wants to run as a candidate of high priced gasoline, that’s fine with me.”
Co-host Steve Doocy then asked why the elite media hasn’t been following a lot of themes, like the high gas prices.
“Because the elite media has totally sold out to Barack Obama,” Gingrich said. ” They’re desperate to re-elect him. He represents their values. They actually genuinely like him. They share his world view and they would they would like to do anything to pick fights with Republicans.”
“This idea of letting the elite media always define the agenda,” Gingrich said, “is something I’m deeply opposed to.”
Watch a clip of the interview below, courtesy of Fox News:
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