Rush has been defending Newt as well as questioning as well why all this stuff is coming out at once. He has been sounding like a lot of FReepers.
I don’t listen to him but, as I understand it, Limbaugh played a heavily edited Gingrich tape today as accurate. It wasn’t. Did Limbaugh, at any time, state that it was an edited hit job?
Please. If we look more closely, we notice Rush simply reports on the attacks. He does NOT defend Newt FROM the attacks. In fact, he brushed off the magnitude of the full conservative assault on Newt, by trailing off on how Myth is being attacked by the left, and then wondered back to Newt, and then broke the pace up with his comments on his stupid tea! Then it was a commercial interruption. Come on, this guy is a master at timing and excellence. The closest Rush came that I heard was that speaking of all this, was when he incidentally mentioned, that “this” was not the Newt he remembers, speaking on some of the attacks. Then he goes into repeating them. Sheesh to Rush!
Sorry but that is not at all clear to me from reading the transcript on the FR thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2838305/posts
It reads more like phony shock to me. Like he didn't remember Newt that way and these anti-Newt stories are unsealing his puppy eyes. Audio and transcript can be vastly different but I am not liking what I read.