americans after four years of speaker which is exactly what has happened to newt. sean, i am going to let the incults fly by. you know how i feel are you a big pro mown nent of the small broom industry. as a little person those are the brooms i prefer to use. anne did not answer my question jie. no. my point is this, people are reacting to newt because he is a fighter. and mitt is not a fighter. absolutely. when was the last time we saw a politician talk to somebody in the media like this? he spanked john cane like he was a four-year-old at ikea. we haven t seen a cane be beaten like that on tv since the l.a. riots. here is the thing that everybody fore gets about the election. obama is so absolutely misrepresented who he was in the first election that now we have his record to look at,
possibility, and we wrestled with it. in the end we decided, i decided it was the lead political story of the day, like it or not. well, in this quotation and other remarks of john cane, he can t get it straight meaning we, weather cnn decided or he meaning john king. i think it is clear that cnn as the royal we had plenty to do with this, and mr. king is trying to keep his job. i don t know, and i think he is probably a nice gentleman, but here is the difference in style that i think is behind this. john king s background is in wire service reporting which is the best training for anybody who wants to become a reporter. he spent several years with the associated press. it was a very hard cut to the gut style of president aring. there is a different skill and
hey, megan. we are talking about the debates that played a key role. you look at the polls before the fox debate. mitt romney with a lead over newt gingrich, that turned around on a dime after monday night s fox debate and continued in the week and cnn debate on thursday. two key moments when newt gingrich took on juan williams on minorits and john king about allegations of his ex-wife and you could feel the visceral roar in the crowd. everybody is paying attention to these things . it is in the early battle ground states and taking on the media is always good in a republican primary and taking them on thursday night. john cane could not have set up the question in a more positive way for newt gingrich to nail it and haul it out of the park. conversely, joe. you have mitt romney who the reviews were poor for him in
answer for that and that doesn t bode well. but the people look at this and say wait a minute . not if you have begin your taxes or not. but it is how you are relating to it and answering the question and that s why you see mitt romney going down in the polls and newt gingrich going up. newt gingrich had i paid for the microphone moment at that debate with john cane. that issue if it doesn t end up being a issue. and voters look past the comments of his second wife coming out and saying stuff. what do you think that that means? it is interesting. i remember back in 1960s, neal. my dad and i and sister told us how the rnc and richard nixon had photographs of john f. kennedy going in hotel rooms with other than women. is nixon going to use these
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