Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich drew at least two standing ovations just moments into the final South Carolina GOP presidential debate last night when he criticized CNN moderator John King for opening with “trash,” and accused the liberal media of attempting to protect President Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.
King began the two-hour debate from the North Charleston Coliseum with a question on accusations by Gingrich’s ex-wife, Marianne, that the former speaker had asked her for permission to have an "open marriage" after she learned he was having an affair with his current wife, the former Callista Bisek.
“As you know, your ex-wife gave an interview to ABC News and another interview with The Washington Post and this story has now gone viral on the Internet. In it she says that you came to her in 1999 at a time when you were having an affair. She says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. Would you like to take some time to respond to that?” asked King.
“No, but I will,” snapped Gingrich, who was visibly angered by the question. “I think the destructive, vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office and I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate with a topic like that.”
Interrupted frequently by applause — including standing ovations similar to what he received at Monday’s debate — Gingrich strongly denied the accusation and said that he offered to give ABC News the names of “several” friends who knew him at the time he was married to his ex-wife and would support his contention that the story is false.
“Every person in here knows personal pain. Every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. To take an ex-wife and make it, two days before the primary, a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine,” he said. The audience roared.
Gingrich also pointed to support from his two daughters. “My two daughters wrote the head of ABC and made the point that it was wrong, that they should pull it. And I am frankly astounded that CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate,” Gingrich told the host.
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It's great to see a candidate (especially a Republican) with the nads to stand up to these jerks and call them out.
ReplyDeletelol it's great to see a Republican called out to be so puffed up with himself he thinks women are stupid enough to put up with his willful whims Newt is a jackass what little boy scout smarts he thinks he has have totally gone to his fat theoretic head he is a total self consumed historonic DOLT and so entrenched in the machine that he can't see the light.............Remember what happened to fat smart kids to big for their britches in Lord of the Flys.....it is just funny he called out Clinton and He is worse yet................Republican PIG that is what is wrong with the party this very false sense of wealth and entitlement and people are on board because they don't wanna be lumped in with poor minorities the unemployed and illegals when in fact they are no better off
ReplyDeleteHe's the bitter autistic nerdy fat kid with no prowess or play that likes to think hes smart and just pig greedy in his short comings to have made more of himself than he truly is...............America really truly is stupid if he comes across as a candidate it is almost as laughable as Reagan
ReplyDeleteThird story on SBYNEWS on this subject today, but no mention of Tim Spies. Why do you ignore this pompous Council member? I think the other blogs have you pegged right. You are too afraid to speak on the subject because Campbell and Cohen will crush you.
ReplyDeleteYesterday you once again tried to destroy Greg Basset for his editorial, but today you can't say a word because
the ladies would bust your a$$.
Greg hit the nail on the head when he gave his opinion of who the smartest one in the room was. By the way, FYI, an editorial is an opinion, not news
Somebody didn't take their meds again....
ReplyDeleteWow to the second and third posts. I agree that to start off a presidential debate with such a salacious, personal topic when this country is ineffectively dealing with so many dire issues, and so many of its citizens are hurting, was pure bullshit gotcha journalism. The key phrase was "start off". As to the second poster, the lack of sentence structure and punctuation in your post suggests you really shouldn't critique the intelligence of anyone.
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