Newt Gingrich Unloads on Fox News in Private Meeting: ‘CNN is Less Biased than FOX this year’

MediaBistro.com ^ | April 12, 2012 | Chris Ariens

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RealClearPolitics had access to a meeting in Dover, Delaware Wednesday held by Newt Gingrich. During the get-together with members of the Delaware Tea Party, Gingrich, a former Fox News analyst, lambasted the channel.

“I think FOX has been for Romney all the way through,” said Gingrich, adding, “Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than FOX this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of FOX, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of FOX. That’s just a fact.”

Gingrich revealed he’s been invited by CNN to one of their tables at an upcoming political correspondents dinner. “The only press events I go to are interesting dinners when the wife insists on it, so we’re going to go to the White House Correspondents’ dinner because she wants to. And we’re actually going to go to CNN’s table, not FOX.”

Fox News terminated its contracts with Gingrich and with Rick Santorum last May when both missed a deadline to inform Fox News if they were entering the GOP race. Both eventually did get in. Just yesterday we reported on Santorum’s future since bowing out, and how it will likely not include a return to Fox News.

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

[Keith in Iowa]

see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2871466/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2870955/posts

[WellyP]

Newt tells like we know it IS!

[outofstyle]

Equally biased I would say.

[onyx]

“The only press events I go to are interesting dinners when the wife insists on it, so we’re going to go to the White House Correspondents’ dinner because she wants to. And we’re actually going to go to CNN’s table, not FOX.”

WOO-HOO!!! GO NEWT!

SCREW FOX.

[onyx]

LOL. He’s done with Fox.

You will enjoy this!

[RJS1950]

It’s not like that conclusion required much observation or deductive reasoning; that was evident from the start.

[apoliticalone]

I used to watch Fox. Now I watch them all and even then I find the blended USA news as mostly biased and controlled by the media interests. We get only what they want us to get and they omit what they don’t want us to know. They have an agenda that is not especially beneficial to a clued in electorate. Fox has lost their scruples in the UK and it has carried over to the USA.

[Linda Frances]

This is so true. I don’t watch faux anymore.

[yank in the UK]

Government governs, but the media wields the power. The media runs the show

[citizen]

Looks like I won’t be seeing much of Newt. I rarely watch CNN.

I did suggest Newt for Romney’s Space Czar, to liaison with the private aerospace industries, etc.

[onyx]

I did suggest Newt for Romney’s Space Czar, to liaison with the private aerospace industries, etc.

I don't watch Fox.

I think Newt and Romney have the same chances of holding elected office this time around.

[Gator113]

“And we’re actually going to go to CNN’s table, not FOX.”

I love it and that is just one more reason that I really like this guy.

WOO-HOO!!! GO NEWT!

SCREW FOX.

[onyx]

Dittoes!

God bless and Keep you!

God bless and Keep Newt too!

[Dapper 26]

I will admit that i watch less of FOX this year except for Hannity. However, I have not watched CNN, CBS and the other alphabet stations in years. I notice that Oh’Really has more libs on than conservatives which is the reason I don’t watch the lib stations. Why can’t we hear from more conservatives on FOX?

[CodeToad]

[noinfringers3]

Fox News lost the right to be called ‘fair and balanced’ once Murdock allowed Muslim money into the organization.