Comedy chuckwagon Newt Gingrich got a ton of mileage out of his cranky and peevish take-down of CNN’s John King, and by extension the whole of the liberal media empire. (And for Gingrich’s gross vehicle weight rating, tons of mileage don’t come cheap!) You will recall that ABC was scheduled to air an interview with one of Newt’s former wives almost immediately following last Thursday’s debate in South Carolina and that King decided to open the debate with a question about ex-wife Marianne Gingrich’s allegations that Newt had pressed her for an open marriage. Graduate-level reprobate Newt naturally and easily lobbed this softball out of the park in part with an angry claim that his campaign provided family friends who could testify the story was false but that ABC had rebuked the offers. This claim, it seems, was just a fall-back to one of Newt’s most trusted rhetorical techniques: Flat-Out Lying.
The Guardian captured Gingrich’s irritated reply in its live blog of that fateful night:
Let me be quite clear. Let me be quite clear. The story is false. Every personal friend I have who knew us in that period said the story was false. We offered several of them to ABC to prove it was false. They weren’t interested because they would like to attack any Republican.
WAS THAT QUITE CLEAR? Yes, it was quite clearly a lie which the Gingrich campaign, having exploited the episode to win South Carolina and something called “momentum,” is now not even bothering to try to defend in any way, shape, or form:
“Tonight, after persistent questioning by our staff, the Gingrich campaign concedes now Speaker Gingrich was wrong — both in his debate answer, and in our interview yesterday,” King said on [last night's] edition of John King USA. “Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says the only people the Gingrich campaign offered to ABC were his two daughters from his first marriage.”
This revelation will hopefully wash away any whiff of integrity that may have accidentally attached itself to Gingrich’s person/name/farce of a political career. [Politico/The Guardian]
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And the person that lied the most was Newt. First he lied with Marianne while married to his math teacher, then he lied with Callista while married to Marianne.
Does anyone in their right mind think this serial philanderer has stopped his cheating and lying just because he was able to do a trade in for a younger, newer model? The more he puts up a squawk, the more I am thinking there is a new bimbo out there waiting to come out of the closet. Wait and see; "thar she blows", bimbo eruptions on the horizon.
If I was a betting person, I'd bet he's banging one of his campaign workers. And, like most Americans, she's just grateful to have a job so has to keep her mouth shut.
I think that job requires keeping one's mouth open…
And he lied to everyone else regardless of to whom he was married.
Side note: When Bob Dole says you are crazy and out of touch . . . .
King-1, porky pig- 0.
Yeah, but actual facts don't matter to the average Republican primary voter.
Lie Libel!
He LOOKED like he was telling the truth.
He was the quiet type, kept to himself, always had a kind word for the neighbors…
good thing so many people pay attention to John King.
So basically Republicans are left to choose between the born-rich asshole or the born-asshole asshole. Unless they want to go rogue and choose the asshole in a sweater vest. Or the asshole with gold up his ass.
It's good to be Obama.
Visualizing "an asshole in a sweater vest", just made me laugh out loud. It's a good thing I live alone, and don't have to explain myself to anyone.
Well Gingrich's daughters should have been enough; I mean every kid knows all about their parents' sex lives.
When someone offers you his daughters, that can be a good thing. Just find out how many goats he expects in return before you shake on the deal. These things can be tricky.
I'm not trading for them sight unseen either.
Newt looks like he has quite an appetite for goats. I don't think this is going to be easy.
Of course it's good, because the Babble says so! Lot was a lot of honorable, like Newt, and that's why the Lord of Hosts sent his emissaries to warn him to avoid the fires coming to his town. But a passel of perps raged outside for the quite natural purpose of raping the guests (since every other male in 100 miles was accounted for already) and Lot, a true chile of the Lord of Hosts, offered his daughters up for the pleasure of the rapists, who declined, because they were Catholics and liked boys.
I don't know why this selection is omitted. It continues with the daughters getting papa sloshed and jumping him one at a time and great noble tribes were thus bornded!
Genesis 19, people. Morality is impossible without your Babble!
I prefer the R. Crumb version. It comes with piktures and I like piktures with my babble porn.
There were Catholics in the Old Testament? Who says Wonkette isn't educational?
"Catholic" in that they preferred boys, the forerunner of the pederast priests.
Don't half-wit* the equation now.
*Half-Wit: one who realizes a statement is inaccurate but not that it was intended so.
And even if they hadn't already moved out, why the fuck would their daughters be present during such a conversation? And how could they possibly even say something *didn't* happen if they weren't there?? The whole thing is so fucked up but John King got his ass handed to him anyhow. Idiot.
Or in this case, father and step-mother.
My step-mom most certainly did NOT perform Cleveland Steamers for my dad, because we all would have smelt it…
So Callista was the original teabagger?
"Comedy Chuckwagon!"
For the win!
when this is over he'll be LUCKY if hungry dogs are int'd in chasing him into a cabinet.
And now he's lying to Callista while carrying on with the late Jeanne Kirpatrick!
Newt the Necromancer. It kinda has a ring to it don't you think?
Newt calculated the beltway press would never let a flat out lie get in the way of their pre-ordained meta-narrative. Probs a pretty good bet.
"Comedy Chuck-Wagon"
More like up-chuck wagon.
Your move Santorum.
Santorum: "He's worse than college-educated, he's a college professor!! A classic crypto-liberal!!!"
I'm surprised the frothy mix has not come out and said Newt's serial adultery was caused by his education.
(Unless I missed something–some days I don't have the strength to listen to what comes out of Santorum's mouth…)
I would ignore everything coming out of a Santorum orafice. Except for dead babies, natch.
And there is absolutely no evidence he asked Space Ghost to a three way yesterday.
Well in fairness to him, he thought that the praying mantis thing was Calista.
So if Gingrich dislikes the media so much I say we just stop covering his non-news worthy ass.
media, like all of us,, loves car wrecks
No thank you, sir. More coverage = more wingnutters supporting Newton and his Magical Space Colony = Newton gets party's nomination = Obama v. Gingrich = major liberal orgasm. You're welcome.
I think the media really needs to get to the bottom of this dead pony raping scandal that I read about.
No one can prove he *didn't * rape a dead pony.
So Kaia is saying Newt is a lying loathsome toad. This differs from yesterday's sense of the man? This olde is once again confused. Can someone explain in 140 characters or less.
Newtian Family Values: using the daughters of your first marriage to tell a lie that your second wife was telling a lie about your third wife, and telling a lie about it on national teevee.
This next debate might be worth watching, to see if any of the moderators actually bring a pair and confront the Pig King about this.
Which alternate reality is this in? Watching moderators bring a pair and confront him would be amazing.
A moon-based reality? And just to be clear that I didn't make a sexist remark, AFAIC, Gwen Ifill could bring two pair.
And Rachel Maddow could bring a bucket full. Oh, if only…
As a professional Newt impersonator, I am confident that he will continue to seduce the low information voters with the power of his lies, I mean ideas, his powerful ideas. Like a moon base. I mean has anyone ever thought of having a moon base before? That is some graduate level ideaing there!
He am a historian, so his moon base research almost certainly included Hayley Mills in "The Moon Spinners" and his adulterous antics perhaps were inspired by "The Parent Trap". Newt hearts Hayley, and we all benefit.
Newt just loves his cunts.. I mean country, so much!
Does he really? I mean, all those divorces! And Nancy knows something we don't. Hmmmm.
Wow, so Newt has witnesses that saw him not ask his wife for an open marriage? Yeah, that'll play in Peoria.
For every woman he had an affair with, there are probably thousands who would say that he didn't have an affair with them.
Newt Gingrich: Herman Cain's brother from another mother.
Just add "fucker" to each word of that sentence.
Its like Clevenger's trial in Catch-22.
Q: When did you say it?
A: I didn't say it.
Q: I didn't ask you if you said it, I asked you when you said it.
A: I always didn't say it.
Look for FOX to cover this revelation… …not.
Even nEWt's "whiff of integrity" smells like a sewer on an Arizona summer day.
If, theoretically, Mr. Gingrich and the latest Mrs. Gingrich are in an "open marriage," then…?
Ew on either of them.
Open, as in, open your wallet Newt.
…then I am so hitting that, and hitting it hard. Calista, I mean. Not Newt. She may look 15 years older than her age, but the thrill of mussing up that hair helmet will make it all worthwhile.
Messing that hair will scour off your fingers; use a garden rake.
You'd need Edward Scissorhands to do it.
How dare you accuse life long lying asshole Newt Gingrich of being a horse fucking life long lying asshole!!! He is many things but he is not a horse fucker!
Man, but did you see his second wife?
Or first. Or third.
He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a horse fucker, but he is *not* a porn star!
N E W T
In space no one can hear you lie.
His first lie was “Til death do us part.”
No wait. Those are not the Family Values we’re looking for.
Newt is hoping that his next wife will get less wrinkly and droopy due to the lower gravity on the moon base on which they will reside.
Technically he wasn't lying. He just doesn't have any friends.
Tiffanys is friends too, my people.
For the right price, Tiffany('s) will be your friend.
I think Newt missed his real calling as a used car salesman.
My apologies to used car salesman everywhere.
Post-Newt, our country will also need a good douching.
I, for one, welcome our new national yeast infection.
For two hours in the back of the campaign bus, no questions asked.
Caveat Emptor.
I got dibs on Jackie…!
It's damn near Biblical. Maybe the guy is a fundie Christian after all!
any whiff of integrity
Um, Kaia? I don't think that's integrity you're smelling.
I find this post hard to believe. Personal friends? Newt Gingrich? I call bull shit.
You know who else offered his daughters to a King?
A very model of a modern Major-General?
Thomas Boleyn?
FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP
Oh, wait.
Scott Brown?
So when does Calista turn into a block of salt?
Last year. Keep up.
is that why newt keeps licking her?
Jon Huntsman?
I wonder if I can buy a title of King?
Only a true die-hard Elvis fan?
Truth today isn't what it used to be.
He's trying to score points with the fundies by offering up his daughters just like Lot.
At least Newt was big enough to admit he was caught in a lie. Come to think of it, Newt's big enough to get caught in the hold of an oil tanker.
Your move, Tommy Flanagan.
Newt couldn't tell the truth because he ate it.
Annie Rooney?
"Don't ya just hate it when…"
Actually, if you're referring to King Features Syndicate's "Little Orphan" Annie Rooney, you came creepily closer to the correct answer than you may even realize.
The response I was looking for was Paul Beaulieu, de facto father to "The King's" wife Priscilla, and grandfather to "The King of Pop's" wife Lisa Marie.
Priscilla's mom was born Anna Lillian Iversen, later shortened to Ann.
Ann's nickname as a child? You guessed it: Annie Rooney.
*Ooo-EEEEE-ooooooo*
Do I win a new car? Actually, I did answer too fast as I gave the female parent instead of the male. My bad.
Newt has an interesting idea of what kind of evidence it takes to "prove" he didn't say he wanted an open marriage. Hint: it takes more than producing obviously biased witnesses who were not there at the time and have nothing to go on but the lies you told them. You can't prove you're not lying by producing three "witnesses" that you told the same lie.
Give him a break — He's an historian, not a lawyer. How would he know about evidence, and such?
If anyone knows how to lie, it is a lawyer.
He banks on the Winners write the history idea.
Isn't that how Wikipedia works?
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Comedy chuckwagon Newt Gingrich got a ton of mileage out of his cranky and peevish take-down of CNN’s John King,…
After this read, the image of the old Chuckwagon dog food ad popped in my head with Newt in the drivers seat tugging at the reins blowing a dog whistle.
"They weren’t interested because they would like to attack any Republican."
It surely is a good thing that Republicans would never use anything negative against anyone… since they are so peaceable and would never attack anyone.
They so sweet.
"How can you tell Newt Gingrich is lying?"
"His lips are moving."
I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Tip your waitress.
One of those lying pieces of shit IS going to win the nomination…I'm voting for the biggest liar
So when Newt is elected, do all the womenz have to get their hair combed out in a weird space helmet hairdo? And will really pointy, bird-like noses be the new thing?
Since when has integrity been part of the Gingrich campaign. Republican's are just looking for a hungry pitbull
"the only people the Gingrich campaign offered to ABC were his two daughters from his first marriage.”
Pimpin' ain't easy…
New lying? Shocked! Shocked, I tell….whatever, I don't even have the energy to pretend anything with regards to that ever-cheating, fat sack of shit.
To the back of the plane, son.
Enjoy it while you can, Newtie. The minute you have your first stroke, wifey #3 is going to be boinking the cardiologist faster than you can scrawl "wah happened?" on you note pad.
"The only people… Gingrich… offered… were his two daughters"
Ooooh, how Mayan.
Or, at the very least, Biblical.
Like this matters. The Republicans have never cared about marital infidelity.
And we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Too bad John King couldn't think of any one of a thousand different responses other than "It wasn't CNN's fault". What a colossal pussy that guy is. No "Oh, sorry for being the messenger", or "Ah, you have other witnesses. Who are all ready to come forth. Would you care to name one?", or "Have you not noticed that when you run for the presidency, you can expect your character to be inspected with a microscope up the multiple twats you've been exploring during your marriages?
What he really should have said is "Thank you for that comment Mr. Gingrich, now would you please discuss the facts in your ex-wife's allegation".
Look, will you people stop. HE WASN'T UNDER OATH! This is completely different. Sheesh.
Back in his glory days, he insisted on oral sex so he could honestly say that he didn't "sleep" with his bimbos. The First Floozy was in that crowd and won the Tiffany prize.
You know who else subscribed to the theory of the Big Lie?
The Big Liebowski?
David Duchovny?
Me, in that terrible relationship I was in,in the late 90s?
That's so funny……… I was in a terrible relationship in the 90's too!
Steve?
Phew…. no.
But I am a Brit.
See, this Gingrich guy as what it takes to be the Republican nominee: A willingness to disregard all facts, truth, and good judgment in the face of a challenge. BRAVO TO YOU SIR, BRAVO!
What!!!! An American politician who cheated on two of his three wives while they were in medical crises, accumulated 80 ethics charges in 4 years, claimed he worked as an historian for millions of dollars for Fannie Mae – you are telling me this man LIED?????
I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked. Who could have predicted this?
Here's another thing I don't get.
Newt says "every personal friend" of his from the time would have told ABC the story about his asking for an open marriage was untrue.
How would all his personal friends have known whether he asked Wife #2 that in the privacy of their bedroom — unless they were there at the time. OOOOOOH I get it.
Only Newt would have "personal friends." The rest of us have "impersonal friends" or "personal non-friends."
How would all his personal friends have known whether he asked Wife #2 that in the privacy of their bedroom — unless they were there at the time. OOOOOOH I get it.
"Look, man, be cool! Be cool! Let me ask her: Honey? Me and the gang have a question for you…"
From Dan Savage:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid...
Why do most people assume that all nonmonogamous relationships are destined to fail? Because we only hear about the ones that do. If a three-way or an affair was a factor in a divorce or breakup, we hear all about it. But we rarely hear from happy couples who aren't monogamous, because they don't want to be perceived as dangerous sex maniacs who are destined to divorce.
This state of affairs—couples who experimented with nonmonogamy and wound up divorced won't shut up; couples who experimented with nonmonogamy and are still together won't speak up—allows smug and insecure monogamists to run around insisting that there's no such thing as happy, stable monogamish couples.
"You know lots of couples who have had three-ways and flings who aren't divorced," I told the skeptics a few weeks ago, "you just don't know you know them."
Here we are, at the beginning of a presidential campaign, and you liberal elite media have the audacity, the AUDACITY to introduce a trivial matter like my life long propensity towards lying and bad faith!
ging*rich – (1) n. beltway psychopath (2) v.i. lie incessantly, "I gingriched about my marriages."
Let's get Dan Savage on this!
Gingrich-Brewer 2012!!! (w/ Rep Tom Tancredo as Speaker of the House!!!!)
An UNBEATABLE triumvirate!!
GIL!!! PTL!!!
And let us not forget the witty French saying, "A man who marries his mistress has a fool for a wife."
What our Dominion most needs is a Prof Speaker Griz AND a Grandmother Gov Griz!!
And Rep Tom Tancredo. Too!!!!!
OT
Bob Dole has laid into Newty saying that Obama will win in a landslide if Pig Newton is the nominee.
Dole laying into Newty is an image I'd like to bleach from my brain, tyvm.
Slandering a corporation is okay
becausewhen they're not a Republican-type person.If Abe Lincoln was around to hear how the name of his party is used today, he couldn't be blamed for getting all stabby.
I have a friend who so wants to be part of the 1% – she is constantly talking about the important people she meets(but she has to explain who they are- and rarely are they very important- more like someone's cousin or niece or former classmate- and here in DC- everyone is someone like that). She told me that Callista is really different because she sings in the choir at the National Cathedral(or maybe the Basiiica- I didn't listen). I told her that Callista is an adulterous, over plasticized nothing. That shut her up -at least that day.
.."adulterous, over plasticized nothing." Yes, that sums her up nicely. she plays "french horn," too. (Smirk.)
Oh sure he was lying — but he looked damn presidential while he was doing it, right?
I wish he'd say "despicable" like Daffy Duck. That would be just about right for this non-Looney-Tunes spluttering idiot.
Today's question: Why would any woman fuck Tubby Gingrich? Shrinks, I await an explanation.
"It is not truth that matters, but victory."
Adolf Hitler
"Newt Gingrich Was Lying…" Well, duh. His lips were moving, weren't they?
He was American.
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