Newt demands that debate audiences should be allowed to be raucous [View all]

[Hugabear]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/gingrich-says-he-will-skip-debates-if-audiences-cant-participate/?smid=tw-thecaucus&seid=auto

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Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. That was the case on Monday, when Brian Williams of NBC News asked the audience of about 500 people who assembled for a debate in Tampa to hold their applause until the commercial breaks.

In an interview with the morning show “Fox and Friends,” Mr. Gingrich said NBC’s rules amounted to stifling free speech. In what has become a standard line of attack for his anti-establishment campaign, Mr. Gingrich blamed the media for trying to silence a dissenting point of view.
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What do you expect from someone whose natural habitat is the gutter? He wants audiences to be able to jeer American soldiers if they don't tote the party line, yell "LET HIM DIE" about people without health coverage, and make other loud sentiments that would embarrass any civilized candidate.