Here's an interesting article about Newt. (least I found it so)
Newt Gingrich's big, slobbering mutual love affair with the elite media
Quote:Newt Gingrich hates the media, right? He unloaded on John King at the Charleston debate for raising this issue of his ex-wife's allegations, blasting the 'destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media'. In Myrtle Beach, he slapped Juan Williams down for asking a race-based question.
And the media despises Newt, right? He's so sarcastic and condescending towards us, brands us as elite liberals and uses us to whip up the Republican base.
Actually, wrong and wrong.
Gingrich loves the press. In some respects we are, as John McCain famously noted, his 'base'. He craves the media.
I've never seen a man so happy as Gingrich was when he ambled into the spin room in Myrtle Beach last Monday night and about 200 of us swarmed around him hanging on his every word.
Romney would have rather been anywhere else in the world than that in the middle of that heaving, sweaty scrum. But Newt was in pure heaven. He loves the game.
And it's mutual. The press laps up all things Newt. Like him, we thrive on chaos. He's a walking quote machine. You never know what he'll say next and he can't resist answering a question or engaging with a reporter.
Just as every Romney event seems basically the same, every Gingrich event is different.
Bob Dole once quipped that the most dangerous place to be in Washington was between a camera and Senator Chuck Schumer.
The same could be said of Gingrich. You ask him a question, he'll invariably turn on his heels and advance towards you.
There is more at the source. But if Gingrich gets the nomination, I expect more fireworks.
On the little mentioned Juan Williams and Gingrich thing:
Quote:Juan Williams has been receiving quite a bit of attention in the aftermath of Monday night's GOP debate. Williams, who moderated the event, had a confrontational exchange with Newt Gingrich that earned him boos from the audience.
The Fox News contributor had raised criticism that Gingrich's comments about food stamps and poor children's work ethic were "intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities." Gingrich had said that if invited to speak to the NAACP, he would urge black people to demand paychecks instead of food stamps. Williams asked, "Can't you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?"
On Tuesday's "The Five," he explained why he asked the question. When co-host Eric Bolling insisted that Gingrich's comments were about economics and not race, Williams disagreed. He said, "It's very racial and... unless i missed it, black people havent been out there demanding food stamps, or marching for food stamps."
"I don't think [Gingrich] answered the question at all," he said. Watch his explanation in the clip above.
links and video at the source
Gingrich has said something personal about Juan Williams in a continuation of the conversation I guess of this topic (I am not a fan of Williams.)
Quote:Today, during a campaign stop in South Carolina, Gingrich recalled his exchange with Williams and used the same kind of suggestive language that Williams had objected to — this time directed at Williams himself:
GINGRICH: I had a very interesting dialogue Monday night in Myrtle Beach with Juan Williams about the idea of work, which seemed to Juan Williams to be a strange, distant concept.
Many pundits have seen racial undertones in Gingrich’s belittling of Williams during the debate. “That’s the way I like to spend my Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: watching Newt Gingrich sneer at Juan Williams, a black man, for having the temerity to ask him” a tough question, New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote.
Gingrich’s equally insulting assessment of the debate exchange likely won’t help.
video at the source
