Mark Steyn (subbing for Rush) was eloquent on this subject in the first half-hour of the show today. Compared MSM to N. Korea dictating the amount of weeping and wailing the peons MUST display. Criticized the audience for easily giving up their rights and going along with the NBC/RNC decree to STFU.
OTOH, it’s a good thing for Gingrich to try to make his points in an environment where he cannot use the audience as a crutch.
That’s what he’d be doing most of the time in the White House and he might as well get used to it now — and we might as well evaluate whether or not he can do it, and how well.
Obama was the master of using the audience as a crutch on the campaign trail. This led everyone to truly believe that he as a great orator, an inspirational speaker, The One.
Yet when he was put behind a podium and simply had to communicate — not cheerlead — he was an epic fail.
Gingrich needs to show that he can do both: communicate without using the audience as crutch AND cheerlead.