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Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« on: January 24, 2012, 01:05:36 PM »
What an egomaniac.

Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. That was the case on Monday, when Brian Williams of NBC News asked the audience of about 500 people who assembled for a debate in Tampa to hold their applause until the commercial breaks.

In an interview with the morning show “Fox and Friends,” Mr. Gingrich said NBC’s rules amounted to stifling free speech. In what has become a standard line of attack for his anti-establishment campaign, Mr. Gingrich blamed the media for trying to silence a dissenting point of view.

“I wish in retrospect I’d protested when Brian Williams took them out of it because I think it’s wrong,” Mr. Gingrich said. “And I think he took them out of it because the media is terrified that the audience is going to side with the candidates against the media, which is what they’ve done in every debate.”

Mr. Gingrich soared to victory in the South Carolina last week after back-to-back debates in which he took on the moderators with as much zeal as he took on his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. The audiences, which were far larger and encouraged to participate, cheered him on as he pushed back. First he lashed out at Juan Williams of Fox News for suggesting that Mr. Gingrich’s comments about blacks and welfare were offensive. Then he snapped at John King of CNN for opening the debate with a question about accusations that he had asked an ex-wife for an “open marriage.”

Mr. Gingrich’s performance in the debate in Tampa on Monday night was far more muted. Critics noted that he seemed to be off his game. The National Journal, which co-hosted the NBC debate, compared Gingrich to “a stand-up comedian whose routine suffers without echoes of laughter egging him on.”

Mr. Gingrich clearly noticed something was off, too. “We’re going to serve notice on future debates,” he told Fox. “We’re just not going to allow that to happen. That’s wrong. The media doesn’t control free speech. People ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to.”

Applause and lively audience participation have been a part of most debates this primary season, though some moderators have been more permissive of it than others. Scott Pelley of CBS News scolded a South Carolina audience for booing during a debate in November. “We will have respect for everyone on stage,” he told them.

At debates during the general election, which are governed by rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, the audience is told to remain silent. “No cheers, no applause, no noise of any kind,” as Jim Lehrer reminded them in 2008.

CNN, which has encouraged its audiences to be engaged but not disrespectful, will host the next debate on Thursday in Jacksonville under rules that Mr. Gingrich is likely to find more to his liking.

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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2012, 01:08:22 PM »
yeah, this was a rough night for newt.  we forget that he's 68... he's gonna have some rough crabby nights.

newt, mittens, and santy all in my town today.

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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2012, 02:09:40 PM »
if he's a 'no show' the sponsors could get a blow up Michelin Man in his place at the podium.
or Pillsbury Dough Boy?
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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2012, 02:11:47 PM »
Good call.  Almost as good a call as asking your current wife if you can have an open relationship.  Or claiming that serving your country made you commit adultery. 

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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2012, 02:12:38 PM »
Good call.  Almost as good a call as asking your current wife if you can have an open relationship.  Or claiming that serving your country made you commit adultery. 

or that ATM's cause job losses.   

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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2012, 02:14:22 PM »
Oh did Gingrich say that?  Because last time I checked that is who this thread is about.

Crybaby bitch.


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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2012, 02:17:54 PM »
but thomas jefferson said...

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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2012, 02:29:38 PM »
Oh did Gingrich say that?  Because last time I checked that is who this thread is about.

Crybaby bitch.



Double standards you gay stalking communist mess.   I agree Newt is ridiculous to say this, but you will never defy or abandon your thug messiah. 

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Re: Gingrich to drop out of debates unless audience can cheer.
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2012, 02:42:24 PM »
Gay retorts = meltdown in progress.