Posted on 01/24/2012 8:21:28 AM PST by Bigtigermike
Newt Gingrich insists his fans will not be silenced.
Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. That was the case on Monday, when Brian Williams of NBC News asked the audience of about 500 people who assembled for a debate in Tampa to hold their applause until the commercial breaks.
In an interview with the morning show “Fox and Friends,” Mr. Gingrich said NBC’s rules amounted to stifling free speech. 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.
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You reached for that straw, now hold onto it. The people - who know that Reagan took on the media, despite it being called unpresidential, and supported him for doing it - will answer you with their support for Gingrich in upcoming GOP primary states.
I sure hope Newt didn’t say that, because that’s pathetic.
But another freeper on this thread posted (without a link, so FWIW) that he heard Gingrich say it in a subsequent live interview.
I imagine the links will be appearing before too long, if they exist.
That's like saying "ALL" and it's always wrong. I was for Newt Gingrich, long before most here.
I find his speeches inspirational, and you don't. That's also a matter of opinion, but that doesn't make yours valid or mine invalid.
“”you never would have heard Ronald Reagan whine the day after about taking his toys and going home if he didn’t get his way.””
For the umpteenth time - Gingrich did NOT say anything remotely like that! Have you listened to the clip?
May God grant us patience.
Tatt
Newt need a Jerry Springer style audience to eat up his red meat one liners. A lot of you are going to be disappointed if he gets to the real debates and falls flat.
Romney is better going after Obama in a composed setting.
This will backfire on the media, sure’s shootin!
Are you going to continue to trot out that link?
Everyone knows very well who the owner is supporting. You seem to feel you need the extra backup for your position.
Yes, there are people who don’t like and/or don’t trust Gingrich, and who are reluctant to support him without also holding him accountable for some of his dumb schtick. And, yes, sometimes people post non-praise of him.
Is that such a big deal that it can’t be grappled with without trying to cloak oneself in the mantle of someone else’s authority at every turn?
Just askin’.
Neet-o.
Romney Bot Compares Springer Audience to SC Audience
From the article at the link -
“I wish in retrospect I’d protested when Brian Williams took them out of it because I think it’s wrong,” Mr. Gingrich said. “And I think he took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against the media, which is what they’ve done in every debate.” .....
“We’re going to serve notice on future debates,” he told Fox. “We’re just not going to allow that to happen. That’s wrong. The media doesn’t control free speech. People ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to.”
personally I don’t care one way or another.. I do agree with Newt on the reason NBC wanted no audience reaction but I have seen many debates where the moderators asked for no applause until the end and have never seen a candidate use the freedom of speech excuse for slamming the moderator’s wishes..nobody in here can tell me they weren’t tired of Ron Paul’s people cheering every sentence he spoke in 2008.. it was obnoxious and took away from the debate.. I dare say we look back at the remarks on FR about Ron Paul’s people back then and you won’t see one post about stop the bitching it’s his supporter’s free speech
Look at the link in the article. Newt was ASKED about it on Fox & Friends and answered good naturedly. No whining, no confrontation, no ultimatum.
And another thing, Gingrich likes to bitch and moan and cry about the media, but how did he get and were he is now? The media, John King delivering up softball open marriage questions, Juan Williams pitching softball questions about food stamps, CNN allowing the audience to go ape scat.
I don’t know. Sure sounded deadly silent to me during most of the so-called debate.
Toward the end of the snooze fest, the audience got more involved.
We so hope and pray!
As if the Lincoln-Douglas debates were this nice, neat academic thing, where people sat on their hands. Those were noisy affairs, and the reporters had to be right near the speakers to get to hear them.
—nobody in here can tell me they weren’t tired of Ron Paul’s people cheering every sentence he spoke in 2008.—
So the tactic backfired.
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