Posted on 01/27/2012 6:38:50 PM PST by katiedidit1
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh highlighted an article in The American Spectator by Jeffrey Lord that picked apart and called misleading Elliot Abrams’ article in National Review about Newt Gingrich.
The article prompted Limbaugh to conclude Abrams must have been “spoon-fed” the material about Gingrich’s after-hours speeches on the House floor in the 1980s by rival Mitt Romney’s campaign.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Rush: Romney Camp Behind Anti-Gingrich Stories
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Rush did his dirty work on Thursday, and this is how he rubbed our faces in it, he knew what he was doing, he teased us with the fact that he knew the truth, and then tossed the truth into the trash.
RUSH (on ‘Bloody Thursday’) But I’ve got a blog here, guy named Dan Riehl. He claims that the video of Newt bashing Reagan is bogus, this 1988 audio that we played of Newt saying that Reagan’s wrong.
Here’s the little blog post. “There’s a short excerpt of a 1988 C-SPAN video purportedly showing Newt Gingrich bashing Reagan when talking about how Bush, Sr. should run” his campaign, should not run as more Reagan, but do something new. Riehl writes, “As I suspected, it’s edited to give a false impression. What you don’t see is immediately after when Gingrich praises Reaganism and the Reagan platform. If you can’t watch it all, it begins at about 2:30 in to confirm it’s the same segment. It’s the minute or two afterward you also need to hear to understand that Newt wasn’t bashing Reagan at all. He was merely saying, Bush isn’t Reagan and the GOP needs something new to sell.”
So I knew something like this was gonna happen. It’s not really that it’s been doctored, but that it has been selectively chosen from. So I sent it up to Cookie ‘cause I can’t listen to it, I didn’t have the time to listen it. Cookie said, “Look, this thing is an hour long. I’m sure he praises Reagan at some point or another, but I wouldn’t say it’s doctored.” So my expert says it’s not doctored. The blogger says it’s been selectively edited or chosen. So I just wanted to get it out there. I think Cookie is protesting having to listen to an hour of Newt, basically, in order to find — (laughing) — what I asked her to find. He-he-he-he-he-he.
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RUSH: Cookie is defiant. She’s giving me a minute and a half after of the Newt bite and she’s insistent that nobody’s doctored this and nobody’s changed — and I’ve read the transcript, that’s true. Newt still says look, the eighties were great but we gotta look forward, people — people care about the future, da-da-da-da-da. He praises Reagan in the bite, which the first — the — the excerpted bite doesn’t include any of but it doesn’t change the fact that while praising Reaganism, he still says to George Bush, you — you’re wasting your time if you campaign on Reaganism. Nobody wants more of the past. We want to look forward, nothing changes about that. So the — the Cookster was right.
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Yup.
The mask is off Romney. He let it fall on Monday at the debate, and went for broke on Thursday. He’s no good, and neither are his minions. Christie, Sununu, Dole, Abrams, and the rest should be blackballed for their treachery.
Romney camp play dirty?
Went after Palin like a ......
So, to go after and tick off Bachmann, Cain, Perry, and now Gingrich is simply a question of following the playbook.
But Romney, well, he doesn’t deal with his PACs, donchaknow, so he’s not responsible.
It’s just that it’s HIS TURN to be the nominee. And he’s paid a lot of people a lot of money to get there.
Limbaugh is doing the “death by a thousand cuts” routine and/or "damning by faint praise" on Newt. Rush is being duplicitous; how does the guy who proclaims he is always “99.9% right” and the knower of all things Reaganesque not know this was a crap story to begin with?
If Rush had any doubts (which he admits he did) he should NEVER have put a damaging story out to his listeners. As he said; “You can't put the genie back in the bottle.” He knew what he was doing and now he is just trying to establish plausible deniability. Rush is no true Conservative; he does not walk the talk. He wants to keep his market share; it's just business.
Rush playing both sides. I quit listening to him. He did sing Abrams praises as having impeccable character but today he blamed the gop establishment. Damage already done. We need a miracle to bring Newt back up in Fla..it is organization. Newt’s got people that could hit Drudge and go viral on some anti Mitt dirt. They need to get busy NOW
Romney has a new debate coach. He hired Bachmann’s coach.
“It’s just HIS TURN...”
And that, sadly, is the crux of the matter.
“It’ll be a while before he or FAUX get their creds back.”
As far as I am concerned that will be never.
They all have the same Mitt Rombama script of "Romney is the most electable conservative" (who the eff' can ever call him a conservative?). This prick, Todd Schnitt, pisses me off the most. They put him on in our Memphis market radio about 6 months ago and he was a great conservative voice...now he spends damned near the entire program foaming at the mouth over Newt, and although I admittedly listen (I must hate myself subconsciously) I want to reach through the radio and shove a Buick Skylark down his throat.
I can't listen to music radio all day at work and I can't fathom going NPR, so I continue daily to listen to these guys, some of whom were my giants not a mere 6 weeks ago. Now they make me want to vomit.
Conservative Talk Show Radio; bought, paid for, and now killed by Mitt Romney.
*shocking*
/s
of course Romney is behind it!!!!
Romney and the Mormon Mafia have been behind EVERYTHING that’s happened this year!
I hate that man with the intensity of 1,000 suns!
Detest him as much as Obama. Birds of a feather and now I feel the same way about so many others that I use to respect and look to for conservative news...sad times ahead my friend
If you didn’t see Greta tonight you missed an excellent program. I’ve taken notes on the live thread if you want to try to decipher them.
It is completely off, and what I see is hideous.
I used to think that Romney was probably a nice enough man, but just a little too moderate for my comfort. Now I see what he really is, and it is not anything with which I care to associate. He surrounds himself with vipers and revels in the mire, and as it turns out, is one with them.
At the beginning of the primary season, I said that I would support the eventual nominee—basically ABO. I no longer think that. I am so disgusted over this primary and the duplicitous nature of Romney that I will not support him. I will vote the rest of the ticket, but if he is the nominee, I will write-in someone else.
I will be able to look at myself in the mirror and will sleep just fine. I will continue to place my trust and faith in Christ.
God’s Will be done.
“Conservatives” on this site were miserably nasty in helping to destroy the only real conservative we had. jm2c
Meaning you?
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