Thursday, January 19, 2012

Ex's ABC News Ire of Newt Negated by Rick Perry Withdrawal and Newt Endorsement

Spin cycle. Ross and the DC Madam.
Prediction:  ABC's intrepid investigative reporter Brian Ross's interview with Newt's ex, Marianne, will have the same impact as Brian's infamous DC Madam February 2009 blockbuster that wasn't. Ross was the laughing stock of the media after Disney/ABC lawyers got through sanitizing his widely-hyped investigative report of DC Madam Deborah Palfrey. No big name clients were revealed. A whimper. No bang.

ABC News supposedly dithered on running the Marianne Gingrich hell hath no fury before or after Saturday's SC primary.  Wash Post

It reportedly airs Thursday night on ABC Nightline after a CNN debate in Charleston minus Rick Perry.  Perry has a 11a news conference Thursday to suspend his faltering campaign and throw all his support to fellow conservative Gingrich.  Politico  Perry's withdrawal upstages ABC News.

Poll-surging Gingrich said Thursday morning that his daughters sent a letter to the president of ABC News to persuade him to bag the piece. NYDN
NYP
Frankly (to use one of Newt's favorite words), I don't believe Marianne Gingrich's ire of Newt will resonate with SC voters. Marianne has dumped on Newt before.  2010 Esquire comes to mind. The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz claims on good authority that Marianne says nothing new. As for the timing, media-badgered Marianne tells the Washington Post an interview was "unavoidable."
ABC News video tease.
After 18 years of marriage second wife Marianne was dumped by Newt for 23-years-younger Hill staffer Callista.

ABC News pimping the bitter recollections of Newt's second wife backfires.

10 comments:

  1. I have known Newt since 1978.  Not good friends but when I was in DC.  Knew first wife, Jackie, and second wife, Marianne. 

    Newt is flawed for sure.  But I'll be standing in line at the polls in Charleston, SC Saturday to cast my vote for Newt.  I do not want Romney as the Republican presidential candidate.  Mormonism is troubling, and there's just something about him that doesn't ring true.

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  2. Obama News Media ----------ABC is scum. I read U.K. newspapers that don't carry water for Obama.

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  3. Perhaps with the money from the interview - Marianne can now afford a little nip and tuck.

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  4. Have Mormons come to my door many times, always seems like they believe they are slumming. Sometjing about them makesme uncomfortable.

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  5. Does Callista have the same hairdresser as Sam Donaldson?

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  6. Limbaugh seems to think that Drudge, on the 14th anniversary of the Monica news, screwed up ABC's plot to sabotage Newt by running ABC's Marianne interview Wednesday night.  Limbaugh claims ABC, been hell-bent on destroying Romney this week, planned to run the Newt-destroying Marianne interview Monday after the SC primary to knock out Newt, clearing the Republican path for Obama, leaving unwinnable Santorum and Paul.

    I find Rush a bit paranoid.

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  7. First time I ever saw plastic surgery by Samsonite.

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  8. Maybe Mitt's bankrolling Marianne...
    Via my BlackBerry

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  9. As if the unwinnable candidates are limited to just Santorum and Paul.  :-D

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