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Chris Wallace Lies On National TV -- "Grandiose" and Newt Gingrich
Fox and Friends ^ | 20 Jan 12 | Fox and Friends

Posted on 01/20/2012 6:03:02 AM PST by xzins

Chris Wallace just claimed on national TV that he looked up the word "grandiose" in the dictionary and that it is a negative word and that Gingrich misused and misapplied it to himself. In the segment, Wallace was obviously spinning against Gingrich, and in that piece he was saying the "grandiose" exchange with Santorum was Santorum's shining moment.

However, he claimed he looked the word up in a dictionary and that the word is negative in meaning.

If he actually looked it up in any dictionary, it would have had multiple meanings. In honesty, he would have had to report that. He did not, so by his own word he looked it up, saw multiple meanings and chose that which he could spin.

gran·di·ose (grnd-s, grnd-s adj.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grandiose

1. Characterized by greatness of scope or intent; grand. See Synonyms at grand.

2. Characterized by feigned or affected grandeur; pompous.

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[French, from Italian grandioso, from grande, great, from Latin grandis.]



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To: yldstrk
As an English major I can tell you the word “grandiose” does have a negative connotation.

I second that. Nowadays it is the more common usage, the default, if you will. Gingrich was practicing a little verbal jiu-jitsu there, taking Santorum's choice of word and whacking him with it, the way a martial arts practitioner would seize the energy of an attack and use it against the attacker. Takes guts and skill, normally, but if one's opponent is much weaker, as Santorum is, well...it merely takes a bit of restraint so you only school him rather than fatally injure the pup.

41 posted on 01/20/2012 6:47:09 AM PST by Lady Lucky (A tea party in name only is worse than no tea party at all.)
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To: xzins

I had a different impression of it, I thought Santorum said the guy had a big idea every minute and didn’t get anything accomplished. I lived through it at the time, the Contract For America or whatever it was that was the big idea that never got followed through on.


42 posted on 01/20/2012 6:47:46 AM PST by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
oops, sorry wrong quote. It should have been this one...

I heard Santorum repeat what this Romney ad said last night.

Which makes my comment make more sense....."Hmmmmm, wouldn't it be typical Romney to have bought off Santorum. Promise him the veep position as they tag team Newt. Trouble is, Santorum looks like a child stomping his feet at these debates. He does not look stately."

43 posted on 01/20/2012 6:49:05 AM PST by CAluvdubya (My preferred taglines are not in the running...)
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To: xzins
I see you're a retired Army chaplain....

..I guess I'm surprised-- that you prefer grandiose(Newt)...ideas

... over substance, high standards, moral conscience and steady, dependable leadership....

..ALL of which Senator Santorum has.

I believe a lot of people on this forum are carried away by Newt's grandiose..rhetoric and can't see past that.

44 posted on 01/20/2012 6:52:18 AM PST by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: xzins

Chris Wallace is a clueless, mean spirited little troll. He wold be perfect on CNN.


45 posted on 01/20/2012 6:54:10 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: hampdenkid
Says a lot about Wallace’s intellectual acumen that he had to look up the word “grandiose.”

Not necessarily. He may have an understanding of the word, but looked it up for support, or to see in how many ways it could be used. My guess, he wanted ammunition to use against Newt, and went to the dictionary for help.

46 posted on 01/20/2012 6:54:50 AM PST by bcsco
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To: yldstrk

Why are you dragging Obama into a discussion of Republican candidates? Don’t hate, bro.


47 posted on 01/20/2012 6:55:15 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: Lady Lucky
Give that Lady a

Big Ceegar!!!


48 posted on 01/20/2012 6:57:16 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.)
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To: yldstrk
Senator Santorum said exactly that!

How quickly we forget the outcome of Contract with America...

...a great idea!!.....and how many of those contracts were broken..

..it started out strong, full of hope....and much of it fizzled..

49 posted on 01/20/2012 6:57:59 AM PST by Guenevere (....We press on.....)
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To: don-o
"Perhaps Wallace needs to look up the words sarcasm and irony while he's at it. And, uh, Chris - Newt is still the smartest man in the room - not you, you blathering tool."

Remember when Wallace tried to help Mitt in his efforts to take out Bachmann when he asked her, "Are you a flake?

50 posted on 01/20/2012 6:58:28 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: xzins; mickie
Chris Wallace is obviously anal retentive. He evinces an abnormal and sick obsession with researching minute details that he can utilize to play "gotcha" with his conservative prey.

I'll just bet he did the same amount of dictionary research on what the meaning of "is" is when it came to Klintoon.

Leni

51 posted on 01/20/2012 6:59:33 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: don-o

it’s sis, just fyi


52 posted on 01/20/2012 7:01:02 AM PST by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

You should be careful -

The negativity is subjective.

Similar to “baroque”. Some people like that. See “Lady Gaga’s career” for support.

One could have a “grandiose gesture on grandmas 100th birthday” - etc.

It is stupid anyway - and really tells us much more about Wallace than anything else.


53 posted on 01/20/2012 7:03:14 AM PST by Eldon Tyrell (question,.)
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To: yldstrk

The Contract with America DID get followed through on. The idea was to get a vote on all those issues within 100 days (I think it was 100 days.)

Those votes took place.

The crucial ones won and went forward. That is why there was welfare reform, tax cuts, paid down debt, and balanced budgets.


54 posted on 01/20/2012 7:03:17 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: xzins
Pompous fits and has less room for misinterpretation, in Gingrich's case.
55 posted on 01/20/2012 7:03:40 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: yldstrk

Santorum is going nowhere. Newt has the momentum. We need to get behind the candidate that has the momentum to put Romney away, and stand up to the news media and Obama. Santorum needs to drop out after SC.


56 posted on 01/20/2012 7:03:48 AM PST by bcsco
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To: bcsco

we shall see, won’t we


57 posted on 01/20/2012 7:05:32 AM PST by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Your fear is coming thru in spades, Bucko. Get a grip.


58 posted on 01/20/2012 7:07:21 AM PST by bcsco
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To: xzins

I thought Newt’s “gradiose” comeback line was brilliant. I don’t think any reasonably intelligent person got confused about what he meant. If Chris Wallace has to make a point of looking up the word to try to explain it away in favor of Santorum, that says all we need to know about Wallace’s motives.


59 posted on 01/20/2012 7:09:24 AM PST by Proudcongal (NEWT/PERRY or NEWT/SANTORUM or NEWT/PALIN 2012!)
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To: xzins

Newt said exactly what is going on:

Newt is from the Reagan wing of the Party, which has always been hated by the GOP establishment.


60 posted on 01/20/2012 7:12:09 AM PST by Brookhaven (Mitt Romney has been consistent since he changed his mind.)
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