Update: According to an AP report ABC News will air the segment before the South Carolina primary – on Thursday’s Nightline.
According to Drudge, ABC News is sitting on what they call an “explosive” interview with Newt Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne, until after the South Carolina primary.
Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview.
Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEWS cameras, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
She spoke to ABCNEWS reporter Brian Ross for two hours, and her explosive revelations are set to rock the trail.
But now a “civil war” has erupted inside of the network, an insider claims, on exactly when the confession will air! (Read More)
All day long I’ve been hearing stories about Mitt Romney’s taxes and how he paid 15% (capital gains rate) and may have some money in the Caymen Islands. Apparently, none of the media outlets reporting those stories had any ethical problems with airing them before the primary. So why is ABC News protecting Newt now?
Anyway, a quick search uncovered an Esquire piece from August 2010 that could shed some light on what ABC News is keeping under wraps. [Emphasis mine]
She sounds proud, defiant, maybe a little wistful. You might be inclined to think of what she says as the lament of an abandoned wife, but that would be a mistake. There is shockingly little bitterness in her, and she often speaks with great kindness of her former husband. She still believes in his politics. She supports the Tea Parties. She still uses the name Marianne Gingrich instead of going back to Ginther, her maiden name.
But there was something strange and needy about him. “He was impressed easily by position, status, money,” she says. “He grew up poor and always wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself, you know. He has to be historic to justify his life.”
She says she should have seen the red flags. “He asked me to marry him way too early. And he wasn’t divorced yet. I should have known there was a problem.”
Within weeks or months?
“Within weeks.”
That’s flattering.
She looks skeptical. “It’s not so much a compliment to me. It tells you a little bit about him.”
Eighteen years later he did the same thing to Marianne after Callista caught his eye. The article notes that in the 1990′s she told a reporter she could end his career with a single interview. She said that what he says in public isn’t always connected to how he lives. Read the whole thing, there’s much more.
Reading her description of him reminded me of the current occupant of the White House – they both have this need for adulation. And we all know they both get nasty when things don’t go their way.
Newt may be good in debates, but if you ask me he isn’t exactly stable. Shouldn’t the sanity of a candidate be a factor when judging a candidate, especially a candidate for the highest office in the republic? I really hope voters don’t fall for his act. We already have one narcissist in the Oval Office, why would want to replace him with another? (Heck, he can’t even get a press conference right, so there’s always the issue of competence.)
By the way, Rick Santorum doesn’t have any of this baggage. Plus, he didn’t endorse Dede Scozzafava, nor did he cuddle on a couch with Nancy Pelosi to warn us of the dangers of global warming.
Update 2: In case you’re interested, I also found this old report about Newt’s divorce from Marianne.
Update 3: From the Bulletproof Patriot:
Inexplicably, some Republican primary voters have refused to see through the piles and piles of bullshit being shoveled around by one of the biggest pieces of lying, manipulative garbage to have ever graced the Republican party (and that’s saying something) – Newt Gingrich.
As I have explained more than once previously, Newt Gingrich is a big government Progressive. He may sound like he is intelligently espousing some sort of grandiose conservative reasoning, but his record speaks for itself. Newt Gingrich loves FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson – the trifecta of the Progressive disease.
Please, read it all. Newt is a freaking disaster. He’s nuts. Stay away.
Update: Doug Ross linked – thanks!
Tags: bombshell, interview, Marianne Gingrich, Newt Gingrich
Well this is a shocker! Badmouthing from an ex, how unusual! That would never happen in real life now would it?
Sheesh, I think how insulting as a voter this is for the LMSM to peddle this cheap crap for me to swallow. Newt’s not my guy unless he’s the nominee for a host of other political and policy reasons and the LMSM wants voters to judge him on this? Pathetic.
Sure, we’ve got a bit of a crappy field but there’s definitely someone crappier in the WH.
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Newt’s nuts, and if he wins the nomination we’re doomed.Just look at his implosion when he was speaker. Why wouldn’t he implode as president? He’s already started the implosion on the campaign trail. Don’t tell me that if he was a Democrat we wouldn’t be talking about what his prior wives have to say about him.
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You’re right, Newt’s not a stable guy and to top it I don’t think he’s got the best temperament. And if he were a Democrat we would be talking about his ex wives for sure, but it would strike a tone of resume enhancement to their voting bloc.
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Republicans are always held to a higher standard.
If Newt were a Democrat he would still be speaker, or former President Gingrich.
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Take your head out from under your wing, PF and smell the toast burning. Newt’s a progressive; it’s been documented in his own words if you read this blog.
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I couldn’t care less how many wives Newt’s had. It’s his character, and progressivism, that concern me.
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When I heard that ABC was concerned about “ethical standards” in reporting this, I thought that I had heard it wrong, then that it was a joke on the part of the reporter telling it. But really, they were trying to be serious. That made it even funnier.
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