The media is setting the stage so that when Newt is the nominee his tearing apart Obama won’t come across so effectively. Newt should just defy the moderator at the next debate and tell the audience they have his permission to exercise free speech.
Their headline is inaccurate.
Gingrich essentially states that he regretted not saying anything last night, but that in future debates he will speak up for the audience to be able to applaud or cheer. Further, he said that he felt that what the media’s fear was the audience siding with the candidates against the media!
We have to teach the American people to stop just reading/listening to what is placed in front of them and to start actually listening to what the candidates are saying!
May God grant us strength, wisdom and courage.
Tatt
Since the debates are what gave Newt most of his following, skipping them would not be good for future primaries.
A Presidential debate is an ongoing interview with the American people. Why should a news network be allowed to stifle free speech? Let the people express how they feel, but just do it in a respectful manner. Once again, the media knew that the crowd gave Newt the advantage and they all want Romney so they had to do this to give Romney a chance. That’s all that’s going on here. The media is still trying control how we’re supposed to vote. The state run Obama media are the biggest influence peddlers in the land.
I agree with Gingrich that stifling the crowd is anti-free speech. That’s self-evident.
Moreover, the crowd provides a first level commentary. After last night’s debate, the results are determined by spin masters. The crowd served as a check on their ability to spin.
I see Romney on Fox again.
I would love nothing more than to have the people shove their selection up their ass. They make me sick.
They are forcing this twit down our throats, and I don’t care if he’s a mix between Albert Einstein and Abe Lincoln (which he ain’t), but the principle is the thing.
I want the conservative electorate’s choice and not the power-monger’s choice.
The people must be stifled.
Don’t want to hear from the audience?
Don’t have one.
Hmmm
My question is this??? What kind of audience was actually in attendance that would have taken that direction from NBC?
I believe they went into this debate wanting Newt to be the loser. He was not the loser, but what they wanted.
The NBC gang wanted Newt to do poorly, and they wanted to say that Santorum did better. MSN people are rooting for Santorum just as they did Bachmann at one point.
They do not really like Santorum or Bachmann, but were using both of them to try and achieve their goals.
In reality majority of MSM/Rep est have a shared goal, and that`s for Romney to be the nominee
Newt will not skip debates. That would be like Romney limiting himself on the amount of money he will spend.
Who can blame them?...
Standing ovations caused by Newts comments suck if your a double dealing liberal..
Makes you look bad and lose elections like an abused over burdened Donkey...
Those damned over taxed audiences.. are the problem..
/snide
I hope everyone here is comfortable in some of the stuff they are espousing. We have always championed we are the philosophy of values and taking the emotion out of issues. We always skewer the liberals of making decisions and policies based solely on emotions and here we have post after post supporting something based solely on emotion and be damned the argument and the strength of your position.
Why does everyone need to be in the Reality TV world of wild cheering, often, over the top cheerleading. Newt can do just fine without having booing,cheering, stomping etc.
This makes Newt look kind of whiny. Is he a truly great debater, or merely a great showman dispensing red meat for a crowd?
No, don’t threaten to skip or they’ll make all debates “no participation” audiences.
“In what has become a standard line of attack for his anti-establishment campaign, Mr. Gingrich blamed the media for trying to silence a dissenting point of view.’
Maybe because they are?
The idea that these are serious debates to begin with is a joke.
The sole purpose of the gag order last night was to take advantage away from gingrich.
Otherwise,I agree with what others who have said, if the audience has to remain silenced then why have an audience at all?
Just eliminate the audience.
While we are at it maybe they could make it a rule that the moderatorts can’t ask stupid loaded,biased and or gotcha questions?
Then why have an audience at all? Just have it on TV without one, and then you don’t have to worry. I agree totally that without some sort of reactions it’s boring and in fact sucks the life right out of them.
Ridiculous. I’m voting for what the candidate has to say, not how loud their supporters can hoot and holler.
They did this precisely to thwart Newt's popularity after seeing King hit and Newt's meteoric rerise.
The audience gives Newt or any other GOP candidate a vehicle to fight back against an always hostile moderator team in gotcha mode, the complete opposite of how they handle Democrat debates.
He is right to challenge them.
I see the usual detractors here who have been anti Newt all along decrying his demand that the networks allow the audience to respond...no surprise.
Newt supporters who eschew this confrontation just think about why the media decided right now to stop audience participation?
I mean really.
For all their talk about Newt being easy for Obama to defeat...they are scared to death of him because they know he will bring the fight.
Something they have not had to deal with from anyone but Palin a bit and Bachmann a little.
But neither has the platform Newt may have as this rumbles along...a platform over and over if this drags out.
Bruising for them and their lad Obama.
It sounds like this debate had a very small audience compared to the past debates. The most critical one coming will have an open audience.
I believe it is important to have audience feedback, because it shows how the candidates are effecting the voters directly. Newt is right. Free speech IS the reason for elections and silencing the audience is nothing more than censorship.