Rush apologized ALL by himself.
Newt on Sunday when asked by CNN: ......"Gingrich said the GOP would not be harmed by the controversy surrounding radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who this week used incendiary language to describe a law student after she testified in a Congressional hearing over contraception coverage. Limbaugh apologized for the remarks Saturday.
"The Republican Party has four people running for president, none of whom is Rush Limbaugh," Gingrich said. "One of them will end up as the nominee, and that person will be the Republican spokesman. I don't think any of them were involved in this controversy at all.".....
AND: “I don’t even know. I wasn’t involved in the conversation.” He continued, “I will say that the news media seems far more eager to talk about Rush Limbaugh’s language than they are to talk about the Barack Obama’s apology to the people who are killing Americans.”
That's ALL he should have said. Period. That would have been a brilliant statement if THAT WAS ALL HE SAID. That would have given him clear separation from what RS said yesterday, which Newt needs at this point.
RS's comment was worse, but Newt's comment has closed the gap on this, and Newt needed a huge gap on this. He had it. He blew it.