Iowa Someday

January 20, 2012

newyorker:

“Lazarus” Newt Set for Victory After K.O.’ing John King

For Gingrich, blasting away at the media is his standard routine when facing scrutiny. Anybody who has covered him knows that this is how he behaves. He did it during previous debates, although not with this kind of venom, and he did it throughout the nineteen-nineties. But King and his producers seemed stunned by Newt’s fusillade. Rather than standing up to Gingrich and pressing him about his ex-wife’s allegations, which included the affirmation that he doesn’t have the moral character to be President, King allowed him to dismiss them as unfounded (“Every personal friend in this period knows it was false”) and get in a few more shots at CNN and the rest of the “élite media” for “defending Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”

- John Cassidy writes about “one of the most bizarre twenty-four hour periods in American politics [he] can remember”: http://nyr.kr/ypBIJc

Personally I applaud you, Newt. A commentary released by a man’s ex-wife is completely inappropriate when released before an important primary. Come on.
And yes, he did something very wrong. But this graceless attitude is sickening. He’s said over and over again he’s faced God about it. I believe him.

“Lazarus” Newt Set for Victory After K.O.’ing John King

For Gingrich, blasting away at the media is his standard routine when facing scrutiny. Anybody who has covered him knows that this is how he behaves. He did it during previous debates, although not with this kind of venom, and he did it throughout the nineteen-nineties. But King and his producers seemed stunned by Newt’s fusillade. Rather than standing up to Gingrich and pressing him about his ex-wife’s allegations, which included the affirmation that he doesn’t have the moral character to be President, King allowed him to dismiss them as unfounded (“Every personal friend in this period knows it was false”) and get in a few more shots at CNN and the rest of the “élite media” for “defending Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.”

- John Cassidy writes about “one of the most bizarre twenty-four hour periods in American politics [he] can remember”: http://nyr.kr/ypBIJc

Personally I applaud you, Newt. A commentary released by a man’s ex-wife is completely inappropriate when released before an important primary. Come on.

And yes, he did something very wrong. But this graceless attitude is sickening. He’s said over and over again he’s faced God about it. I believe him.

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