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Newt: Shocking, Mitt's a liar
By: MJ Lee
January 3, 2012 07:58 AM EST
Newt Gingrich called Mitt Romney a liar Tuesday morning in a tense interview on the day of the Iowa caucuses.
Regarding a recent comment that somebody who will lie to win the presidency will continue to when they are in the Oval Office, Gingrich was asked on the Early Show if he was calling Mitt Romney a liar.
Yes, he said.
Youre calling Mitt Romney a liar? asked Norah ODonnell.
Well, you seemed shocked by it. Yes.
Asked to elaborate, Gingrich said Romneys pretense that he knew nothing about the Super PAC that has created negative ads about him was bologna, and that Romney wanted voters to believe that somehow hes magically a conservative.
Hes not telling the American people the truth. Its just like his pretense that hes a conservative, he said. I just think he ought to be honest to the American people and try to win as the real mitt Romney, not try to invent a poll-driven, consultant-guided version that goes around with talking points. I think he ought to be candid. I dont think hes being candid.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71033.html
VIDEO at LINK: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/3360
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)I was just about to say the same thing.
Pachamama
(16,874 posts)It was also the funniest moment I've seen on television in a long time.....highly reccommend the video clip just to see the look on Nora O'Donnell's face (Bob Schieffer too)....they couldn't believe their ears....my guess is they expected the usual humming and hawing about truth stretching, misleading words, mispoken etc etc....
qazplm
(3,626 posts)in an ad by someone on our side.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)doing if he only had the backing.
asjr
(10,479 posts)to take some of the others with him.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)This time, its personal!
surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)Newt does the same things as Romney, but somehow he fails where Mitt succeeds. It must be extremely frustrating for him.
tsuki
(11,994 posts)mean witch, a real bimbette in red.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Her colleagues refer to her as "Moron O'Donnell".
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)tsuki
(11,994 posts)Herman said 3 million which is the entire DOD, and she said, Well there is only two million. I guess the almost one million DOD employees don't count.
Pachamama
(16,874 posts)Would answer the usual and when instead he gave a straight-forward answer she repeated the question in disbelief. When he said Yes agsin she re-phrased the question again and he said it again....the look on her face was priceless....her face was practically the color of her dress.....
subterranean
(3,427 posts)It's just funny that Newt seems shocked that a Republican politician is relying on polls, consultants and talking points.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)admit that Gingrich handed Moron O'Donnell and that washed-up has been Schieffer their asses on a plate in this exchange. They deserved to be exposed for the journalistic frauds they are. And Gingrich exposed them.
Wow!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)And he knows he is a liar, but he doesn't care.
Romney is a liar, too, but he doesn't care if a liar like Noot calls him a liar.