“I will guarantee everyone that the NBC hit squad will try to resurrect the Marianne allegations in some way, to try and trip Newt up. “
I don’t see that. They saw how that only helped him last time around... why would they want a repeat of THAT? I suspect they’ll ask him as few questions as they can get away with, and they’ll all be very, very boring questions (no red meat) so he can’t hit it out of the park again. And then they’ll ask everyone else something like “Say something nice about Mitt Romney.”
Frank Luntz worked on a similar approach in a 'townhall' round table with the candidates before the Iowa caucuses. The approach needs only minor tweaking to eliminate Newt's ability to address the issue on his terms. Watch for it tonight. The demons of media are very adept at manipulating viewers and the weak-minded opponents of Newt. The scene can be set up in such a way that one doesn't immediately realize they have been herded into pondering the 'relevance of the issue', and that is how the scum and villainy work in media, with deacdes of experience through advertising results.