Newt Gingrich admits he lied in debate to moderator

Riot · #1 01-26-2012, 04:32 PM

Well ... we'll see if CNN has the balls to ask Mr. Indignant Screamer about his lie right up front at tonights' debate.

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Newt's campaign now admits claim made by Newt Gingrich during the debate, that he offered ABC news "several" witnesses to prove to ABC that Marianne's story was false, is a lie.

Gingrich also lied during an interview yesterday with CNN about this.

News story reported by CNN, posted on CNN channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKonW...layer_embedded

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Thu Jan 26, 2012 at 04:30 PM EST

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Newt Gingrich's campaign admits he lied during debate about ABC News interview with his ex-wife

During the CNN debate last week, Newt Gingrich delivered one of his now-commonplace media scoldings. You know the ones: The media is evil, I am great, and how dare you in the media be so evil as to not recognize that I am great. And so on.

This particular Newtburst was directed towards CNN's John King, who had the audacity to bring up ABC News' interview with Gingrich ex-wife number two, Marianne Gingrich, which aired the same night. (Imagine that, a debate moderator asking about breaking news relating to one of the candidates. What a monster.)

One of Newt's claims at the time was that he had offered ABC News "character witnesses" in the form of "personal friend[s] I have who knew us in that period" to rebut his ex-wife's claims, but ABC News was just too darn evil to take him up on it. Turns out, not so much:

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John King: Tonight, after persistent questioning by our staff, the Gingrich campaign concedes now Speaker Gingrich was wrong both in his debate answer and in our interview yesterday. Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says the only people the campaign offered to ABC were his two daughters from his first marriage.