Posted on 12/06/2011 3:17:12 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Glenn Beck’s thorough interview with GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich Tuesday morning has gained traction in political news outlets throughout the day. Jim Geraghty of The National Review tweeted ”Bravo for a hard, fair, respectful, but deeply revealing interview of Newt!” and Glynnis MacNicol of the Business Insider writes that Beck “grilled” Gingrich in “a way conservative voters who are seriously considering voting for Newt should be eager to hear.”
Below find video of the interview followed by a partial transcript:
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Right, so you think the $75 covers the Fire Departments expenses. Not a single tax dollar supports them?
So when will beck be doing a hit piece on his mormon buddies?
“well Glenn Beck is a Moron.”
fixed it
Thank you, Boss, for explaining things so clearly.
Hmm actually, I’m not sure. I thought so, but I’ve been at it with a few folks on here lately, so perhaps I am confused.
My apologies to you if that is the case.
I don’t see a better candidate right now than Newt. I used to admire M. Bachmann a lot, but she seems to only want to go after fellow candidates. Never says anything about obimbo. Too bad. I don’t have respect for her anymore.
As far as I know, Gingrich has never been a gun grabber.
Works for me.
From what I’m reading, Sunday, August 19, 1984, along with Trent Lott, Gingrich did push the conservative agenda, outfoxing Reagan’s platform. Reagan achieved only “damage limitation.” The White House was able only to remove language that made iron-clad promises to do things the White House strongly opposed. It was Tom Loeffler, as a member of the economic subcommittee, who formally proposed the insertion of a single comma in the platform draft that slammed the door that Reagan wanted left opened.
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GINGRICH DIVIDED GOP, CONQUERED THE AGENDA - REVOLT GAVE PARTY A GLIMPSE OF ITS FUTURE
Washington Post - Wednesday, December 21, 1994
Author: Dan Balz ; Serge F. Kovaleski , Washington Post Staff Writers
In early October 1990, Newt Gingrich and his wife, Marianne, attended a Washington fund-raiser for House Republicans. At the time, he was leading a revolt against then-President George Bush ‘s budget deal with the Democrats in Congress
“One of the organizers thought it would be great to get a picture of the three of us,” Gingrich told The Washington Post two years later. Gingrich and his wife were hustled over to where the president was standing.
“We went over and I said, ‘I’m really sorry that this is happening,’ and he said with as much pain as I’ve heard from a politician, ‘You are killing us, you are just killing us.’ Even today it brings tremendous emotion to me. I mean I just want to cry.”
But if it was an emotional moment, it was even more a symbolic one, as Gingrich well understood. The chance encounter for the photographer symbolized the decline of the old Republican order and the rise of a new one — with Gingrich as its eventual leader.
It was a final, wrenching step in Gingrich ‘s emergence, a breach in the Republican family trust engineered by Gingrich and his rebellious followers. However painful it may seem to Gingrich in retrospect, he helped engineer the rupture with Bush in 1990 with the same certitude he had long displayed that he knew best for the future of the party.
His decision to fight the budget deal helped to highlight Bush ‘s pledge not to raise taxes, which contributed to Bush ‘s defeat in 1992. As Gingrich recently said, it is a “grand irony of history” that if Bush had been reelected, the Republicans probably would not have won control of the House this year and Gingrich would not be the first Republican speaker in 40 years.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Author: GAYLE WHITE ; Staff
New York — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich , a man often described as a “firebrand conservative,” appeared with two leading Republican moderates Monday at New York’s Loew’s Theater. But anyone who expected theatrics went away disappointed.
On the opening day of the Republican National Convention, Gingrich was there with former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman and Michigan Rep. Fred Upton to talk about how much conservatives and moderates need each other.
“It’s impossible to create a right-only majority in America,” Gingrich told several dozen people at a forum sponsored by the Republican Main Street Partnership, formed in the late 1990s to voice “centrist” party views. “The key to electing Republicans to more offices and have a bigger majority is to be more inclusive,” he said.
Gingrich ‘s public embrace of moderates was an open demonstration of the kind of party-first politics that Republican insiders say he has long practiced behind the scenes.
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Gingrich , as architect of the ‘’contract,’’ is credited with ending 40 years of Democratic domination of the House of Representatives. The legislative package, promoted by Republican candidates for Congress in the 1994 midterm elections, included a balanced budget, welfare reform and stiffer penalties for crime.
Gingrich started out as a liberal Rockefeller Republican in the 1960s before working his way across the political spectrum. Along the way, as speaker of the House, he invited the outspokenly moderate Whitman to give the Republican television response to President Bill Clinton’s annual State of the Union address, relented and worked with Clinton after a budget standoff shut down the government in 1995, and won the support of moderates in Congress when he was challenged from the right.
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A POWERHOUSE OF POWER POLITICS HARD WORK, SAVVY AID REP. BOEHNER WITH ROLE IN GINGRICH ‘S INNER CIRCLE
Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - Sunday, January 15, 1995
Author: SABRINA EATON PLAIN DEALER BUREAU
John Boehner would probably emerge unmussed from a tornado.
After a whirlwind day of devising party strategy with Newt Gingrich , chairing House Republican Conference meetings, and greeting constituents, not a hair is out of place as he wolfs down a tuna sandwich between appointments.
After just four years in Congress, the dapper conservative congressman from Cincinnati’s northern suburbs has become the number four man on the House Republican totem pole through a combination of hard work, political savvy and being in the right place at the right time.
He’s in the eye of the Republican storm, honing his party’s political strategy with the new House leaders, coordinating its external and internal communications, and reaching out to citizens groups that share its vision.
“It’s a much better job than when I had it because we’re in the majority,” said his predecessor as chairman of the House Republican Conference, House Majority Leader Richard Armey of Texas. “John is a very thorough, able and professional person who puts out a good quality product and keeps his nose to the grindstone. I’m very excited about the job he’s doing.”
“John has a huge role in Newt ‘s inner circle,” said Republican Rep. David Hobson of Springfield, who serves in the party’s whip organization.
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I met her in person and liked her a whole lot. She was so nice to me and spent a lot of time talking with me, considering I was in a receiving line. I wish she would concentrate on going after the Marxist, instead of her rivals.
I agree with you, -— that tactic never plays well and it’s a huge mistake.
I thought the interview was tough but fair. Gingrich gave reasonable reasons for what he said that I wouldn’t necessarily agree with.
As Jim R said he has a legislative record of accomplishment that conservatives can feel good about. The thing is he is saying what he thinks he can do here and now, not saying things that sound good but will not happen in the current situation.
The positions he is advocating in his platform if enacted, would help change the country for the better.
He is now the only game in town along with Obama and Romney.
It is what it is, we have to deal with it. Hopefully he puts a Tea Party VP in place.
I like this one:
“Day One Plan
Newt has pledged to issue a series of Executive Orders to create jobs and help undo the damage of the Obama administration on the first day of his administration. To harness the wisdom and knowledge of the American people, Newt is now collecting ideas for executive orders that he would sign on the first day.”
Beck did a total set up today for Bachmann - He admitted he’s a libertarian - he would go for Paul if not for Paul ready to give the keys of the kingdom to Iran.
Beck orchestrated a hit piece on Newt - nothing else to call it. He does 1/2 hour on radio - can see only BECK - and pommels him with his version of what he takes from past moves of Newt and not only doesn’t really listen to Newt’s answers but while Newt is talking, he looks to his other radio guy and sneers -
Then he had Bachmann on his TV show - for most an hour, nice close up face times. He asks her NO real questions, just sits and has a chatty gab fest and lets her go on about anything she wants.
Nothing but a fluff commercial for Bachmann.
So totally lopsided, unprofessional and deliberate to malign Gingrich and prop up Bachmann. Dishonest.
I have canceled my subscription to GBTV and add that monthly stipend to my Newt contribution.
Oh, there WAS one question Beck asked Bachmann. He asked in the case of things getting so bad that the national guard had to be called out across the country, what would she do?
She said she would talk to the people and ask them “What kind of country do you want? I would talk to the people.’
Wow, that’s comforting.
Only Perry has a chance, but Perry can't seem to string two sentences together, much less successfully take on and defeat Romney or Obama.
If Newt were the Washington Insider - the Establishment Elitist Cabal in Washington would be behind him,
Having experience in Washington is not the same as being in the Ivy League Men's Club. Newt didn't go to Harvard or Yale, He's not Skull and Bones. He went to - GASP- a college in Georgia...how gauche.
the Cabal is used to running all things Republican in Washington and in deciding who our candidates will be.
Romney is the real "Insider" in this run.
That WE the People are not playing along and falling in line with their pick is confusing the he*l out of them.
Now they are getting over their initial shock and are getting the long knives out. If Newt gets this - it's a very real possibility that the long decades of their rule will die a deserved death...and what ever will they do? No more rounds of glitsey insider parties. the champagne will dry up along with their influence. They are fighting for their existence.
Which sounds like moot...if you speak French.
Good GAWD...we are becoming French!!
I'm so underwhelmed!!
Beck has often said he's not a democrat and he's not republican.
Today he let it slip - he said he's libertarian.
He likes Paul and would be pushing hm but for Paul's "we have no right to tell Iran they can't have the bomb.
Inconvenient testimony in 2009 for those with heads in sand and no capacity for independent research - just parrots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VUg7nG3lw&feature=related
He pointed that out in his plan to attack Obama. God forbid a Harvard Grad is scared to debate some guy from West Georgia College. Newt would skewer that skinny socialist ass.
You’re right about that - the Washington insiders and the Beltway crowd hate Newt, which makes him all the more appealing to me.
“How a conservative can vote for Newt is beyond me.”
Ok, you convinced me. I’ll vote for Obama instead.
He sees Newt as the only realistic option left for defeating both Romney and Obama.
He is not a cheerleader for Newt's moderate/liberal leanings in the past.
He has stated he is willing to overlook his wrong positions in the past and accept his stated positions as of right now.
Everyone should write that on the blackboard 100 times - until reality sets in.
Reality is: We have what we have. We have to pick from the lineup.
There is only ONE that can put Obama down. THAT is the imperative.
That is reality.
Romney is the Establishment's pick. He couldn't beat Casper Milquetoast. And he will play in anybody's sandbox. He has a proven record of passing liberal agenda.
Newt has a strong record from his years as a speaker - strong CONSERVATIVE record.
And he's right about this being a fight against OBAMA. It looks like, Please God, the rank and file American people recognize this - see in Newt someone who will stand and fight for us - who will hit the ground running on Day ONe.
We do not have the luxury of time for someone to get up to speed. It's too late to get up to speed after we've gone over the cliff. (We'll be fortunate to survive until the election. The people in power now are not going to pull back easily - they've waited and planned and worked for decades to get power they now have.
Wake up, folks. Let's save our powder to use on our REAL enemies.
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