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Newt Gingrich Scolds Piers Morgan for Trying to Teach Him About Politics
NewsBusters ^ | 9 Nov 2011 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 11/09/2011 8:10:24 AM PST by mandaladon

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich demonstrated Tuesday why every liberal media member in the country is scared to death of him winning the nomination and going head-to-head in a debate with Barack Obama.

When CNN's Piers Morgan tried to play his normal cocky role of knowing more than his guest, the former Speaker of the House smartly replied, "I've been involved with politics since 1958, I helped grow the modern Republican Party of Georgia, I helped create a national majority, and you're explaining to me the reality of politics" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; elections; newt
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To: MichaelP

You could count on that!

“The President is too busy doing the peoples’ work and saving mankind from the horrors of Conservatism!”


21 posted on 11/09/2011 8:32:45 AM PST by pingman (Durn tootin'; I like Glock shootin'!)
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To: Sprite518

The media can try, but Newt will be prepared and they’re shooting their load on Cain. Their slime machine will have zero credibility when they finally turn their focus to Gingrich.


22 posted on 11/09/2011 8:33:33 AM PST by Raebie (WS)
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To: morphing libertarian

Ah no he did not. He deferred because by the terms of the debate it was Newt’s turn to go first.


23 posted on 11/09/2011 8:36:01 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MrB
The problem is, debates don’t really swing elections.

Don't tell that to Jimmy Carter ("there you go again") or Michael Dukakis (Death Penalty Question)

24 posted on 11/09/2011 8:36:14 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: mandaladon

None of these guys are going to hold a candle to Newt in any discussion about politics, foreign policy, taxes, welfare, etc., etc.

He would make a great president, but I do fear that he would be conservatively light on some social issues and immigration and the environment. Too willing to compromise on some of those issues.

That’s why I believe he woudl serve much better as a VP to someone like Cain. Would round him out very, very well.


25 posted on 11/09/2011 8:36:14 AM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: mandaladon

There are times that I love Newt. He’s so intelligent and so cantankerous. I’d like to see him join forces with Cain.


26 posted on 11/09/2011 8:36:29 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: mandaladon

Newt destroys all media types before him. This is a much different Newt than the one I saw fumbling his advantage away in the 1990’s. He knows they are the enemy and he treats them as such.


27 posted on 11/09/2011 8:36:43 AM PST by Lazamataz (I guess some Occupiers are more 99% than other Occupiers.)
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To: Triple

Seriously? The Citizens Legislature Act needed a 2/3 majority...wasn’t even close to the required number of votes..


28 posted on 11/09/2011 8:36:55 AM PST by magritte
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To: Jeff Head
That’s why I believe he woudl serve much better as a VP to someone like Cain. Would round him out very, very well.

Agree 100%. Let Cain present the initiatives to the public with his speaking ability while Nest hammers the details and works Congress like a rented mule.

29 posted on 11/09/2011 8:38:50 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: Solson

You really do not want to go there. I like Newt.

It not his voting record that is the issue, it what he chose to make an issue and how quick he was to cave on principals “to get things done”.


30 posted on 11/09/2011 8:39:49 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: commish

Nest = Newt of course


31 posted on 11/09/2011 8:40:00 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: mandaladon

Why did Newt go into “Brain Science?”

It must have been and editing context thing with the clip. Of all the topics that conservatives are passionate about, having the government involved in another medical solution sounds like spending to me.


32 posted on 11/09/2011 8:40:51 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Liberals vote like clowns walking thru a minefield, oblivious to the consequences.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I saw it and heard the tone of his voice. He could’t say anything and said “You go first.” I know what I saw.


33 posted on 11/09/2011 8:41:13 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: commish
Let Cain present the initiatives to the public with his speaking ability while Nest hammers the details and works Congress like a rented mule.

I have been vilified for similar thoughts here. But I agree. I also want John Bolton as the Secretary of State under Cain.

34 posted on 11/09/2011 8:44:05 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Liberals vote like clowns walking thru a minefield, oblivious to the consequences.)
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To: oh8eleven

People change for the better in their personal lives...the Newt of yesterday is not the same Newt of today. I could care less about what happened 20 yrs ago. Newt is the most intelligent candidate we have and the media knows it. Yesterday he left Krauthammer “befuddled,” lol and know Morgan walking on eggshells when it comes to confronting Newt on political knowledge. GOOOOOOOOOOOOO MR SPEAKER


35 posted on 11/09/2011 8:45:29 AM PST by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: mandaladon

There’s nothing more infuriating that being lectured to about American politics by Brits. Whether it is Tina Brown, Piers Morgan, Christopher Hitchens or Andrew Sullivan, none of these people have been in our country long enough to school another American - particularly someone of Newt’s caliber. And I don’t care whether they are citizens or not: they don’t have a “feel” for America.


36 posted on 11/09/2011 8:45:49 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: MNJohnnie
I suspect Newt would go back to DC full of ideas
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
I think the country is in a totally different situation than it was 15-20 years ago.
I don't like "shaking hands across the aisle" either, but I think Newt realizes the Republic is in danger.
37 posted on 11/09/2011 8:47:19 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative

Geesh! Don’t you two ever talk in person?


38 posted on 11/09/2011 8:48:34 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: morphing libertarian

LOVE NEWT. Have been watching the debates, reading the candidates platforms, weighing and comparing and everytime I come up with Newt. I do not care what happened in his personal life 20 years ago..he is the right man for what ails this nation today.
Loved reading his bump plans with Romney...he makes Romney look like an idiot


39 posted on 11/09/2011 8:49:42 AM PST by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: MNJohnnie
The only thing that can be, or should be, done with Democrats is to shut them down, and shut them up. Any Conservative who says he wants to "work with" Democrats is a RINO, pure and simple.

You don't "work with" an enemy, you decimate them, and defeat them, utterly. The Democrats are enemies of this country. Enemies must be defeated, overwhelmingly.

40 posted on 11/09/2011 8:50:05 AM PST by nobdysfool (If the government was in charge of the Sahara, there would be a shortage of sand....)
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