Posted on 04/11/2012 5:15:16 PM PDT by VinL
- During a meeting with 18 Delaware Tea Party leaders here on Wednesday, Newt Gingrich lambasted The Fox News Channel, accusing the cable news network that employed him as recently as last year of having been in the tank for Mitt Romney from the beginning of the Republican presidential fight and singling out former colleagues for attacking him out of what he characterized as personal jealousy.
“I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through,” Gingrich said during the private meeting at Wesley College to which RealClearPolitics was granted access. “In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That’s just a fact.”
Gingrich’s contract as a Fox News contributor was terminated last spring, as he was gearing up for his White House run.
The former House Speaker’s blunt remarks about Fox came in response to a question from one of the Delaware Tea Party leaders about the manner in which his campaign has been treated by conservative media outlets.
Gingrich did not pull his punches in accusing Rupert Murdoch -- the chairman and CEO of the News Corporation, Fox News’ parent company -- of pushing for Romney behind the scenes.
“I assume it’s because Murdoch at some point said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney,’” Gingrich said. “And there’s no question that Fox had a lot to do with stopping my campaign because such a high percentage of our base watches Fox.”
Gingrich saved his most personal condemnation for George Will, a conservative columnist and frequent television commentator, who has been critical ...(read more)
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Wow! That lady ROCKS! I just sent her video out on Twitter. It should go viral everywhere. Thanks for posting it!
and unto you as well,,, also, may sanity and ethics revisit you someday,,, lol
I have no authority to Zot anyone. Just saying.
I turned FOX off COMPLETELY after the Florida Primaries. Haven’t missed anything. In fact, I haven’t been following the news much, and doesn’t seem that I’m that much mmore uninformed.
In fact, the few times I’ve turned the TV on, canceled all cable connections btw, I find it almost entirely commercials with a little broadcasting in between.
Romney will get the nomination, and he will probably win. All of us here have no idea how he will govern. We have no idea who he’ll pick for the Supreme Court etc.
Newt and Rush were close friends once, Rush did a fundraiser once, but things have cooled. I don’t think that his sit-down with Pelosi helped, but the distancing began when Newt was Speaker. Bob
No one needs to look further than your earlier comment for a logical rebuttal. That was NOT the media nor was it the establishment GOP. That comment was YOURS.
Conservatives who ruin our conservative candidates by their own words have no legitimate right passing their sins onto any organization or business. Their own sin is their OWN sin, not others.
Other than that, my time is wasted. Even the Bible tells us “Don’t throw pearls to pigs”.
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