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When CNN moderator John King began the debate by asking Gingrich about his second wife's accusations that he wanted an open marriage, Gingrich responded with an attack on the moderator himself. He said King's decision to ask a Presidential candidate about such matters was, "as close to despicable as anything [he] can imagine."
"I think you've got a pretty good imagination, 'despicability' wise," Stewart responded, in reference to the presidential candidate's well-documented past of leaving sick wives. At this point, Stewart was exasperated over Gingrich's audacious response as well as John King's failure to call him out on it. Stewart explained, quite hysterically, why it made him as frustrated as it did:
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chill_wind
(13,514 posts)totally wrote the book on "despicability". Can't believe he continues to plague American politics, still, after all these years.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Speaking with some friends, an older very conservative Christian couple. Apparently the "open marriage" scandal was created entirely by the grand left wing conspiracy of billionaire newspaper and media owners.
That Newt didn't leave a sick wife. Another media lie. In reality it was actually Edwards that did it and he is a monster.
Finally I was left with the Clinton witch hunt. I pointed out that Newt was cheating while railing against Clinton and that at the very least he should remove the log from his own eye before speaking.
They both looked at each other, one said "Hmmmm" and that was the end of that conversation.
zinnisking
(405 posts)adulterer into a victim and choose him as their guy.
If their was ever any doubt that "family values" was a phoney issue of rank-and-file Republicans right from the start, John King and the rest of the mainstream should take the SC audience's reaction and the electorate's decision as a lesson and finally stop treating it as a legitimate concern of right-wingers. But they won't.