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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 12:49 PM Sep 2016

Newt Gingrich: Alicia Machado Is “The New Benghazi Lie”

“I think as fascinating to look at how the elite media bought — this is the new Benghazi lie.”

posted on Sept. 30, 2016, at 8:39 a.m.

Andrew Kaczynski
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Newt Gingrich on Thursday called Hillary Clinton’s attack on Donald Trump for mocking former Miss Universe Alicia Machado’s weight “as false as Benghazi” and “the new Benghazi lie.”

In an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show on Thursday, the former house speaker and current Trump adviser said, “I think as fascinating to look at how the elite media bought — this is the new Benghazi lie — what Hillary tried to set up, and what they spend apparently months preparing was an ambush that was as false as Benghazi. It was as false as her claim she was under fire in Bosnia. It was as false as the lies she told about her emails.”

“The elite media, which is Clinton, they totally identify with her, they took it hook, line, and sinker,” Gingrich continued. “For three or four days they have run with it, and now, as happened in Ferguson, as happened in Benghazi, as happened in Bosnia, it’s all starting to fall apart because it’s based on a series of falsehoods.”

Gingrich said Trump’s 1997 comments about Machado, in which Trump said she was an “eating machine,” “plumply,” and she “ate a lot of everything,” were Trump trying to make Miss Universe work as a business and him “actually being very positive.”

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/newt-gingrich-alicia-machado-is-the-new-benghazi-lie?utm_term=.ukwz4aqg15#.cgMxdogKBX

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Newt Gingrich: Alicia Machado Is “The New Benghazi Lie” (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
Keep digging Newt VMA131Marine Sep 2016 #1
I'm sorry. Newt "The Adulterer" says what? TheBlackAdder Sep 2016 #22
Trump has a magnetic personality. randome Sep 2016 #2
+1 oasis Sep 2016 #8
I like it Angry Dragon Sep 2016 #28
FINALLY underpants Sep 2016 #3
. Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2016 #7
. underpants Sep 2016 #12
GAH! Somebody went ahead and did it. Did you post this an OP? KittyWampus Sep 2016 #15
Be my guest underpants Sep 2016 #18
I like it Angry Dragon Sep 2016 #29
HA! That's good. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #32
Amazing that Gingrich is considered an intellectual and a real historian by the right rurallib Sep 2016 #4
Several years ago someone said PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2016 #14
interesting little story - thanks rurallib Sep 2016 #20
I remember that quite well. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2016 #21
He self-professed those two terms--by directly claiming them & requiring as part of intros to shows. TheBlackAdder Sep 2016 #23
another little piece that fills in a puzzle rurallib Sep 2016 #35
Once again, Newt Gingrich proves that he's almost as awful The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2016 #5
That is why he is a Trump Hemorrhoid Angry Dragon Sep 2016 #31
I heard this last night running an errand underpants Sep 2016 #6
so is he saying donnie didn't have the "stamina" to last through one whole debate? unblock Sep 2016 #13
What a stupid moron Gingrich is CJohnson_LS Sep 2016 #9
And Newt is... Guilded Lilly Sep 2016 #10
gingrich is a disgusting fraud. gademocrat7 Sep 2016 #11
Trump broke The Whirl Pool. Cracklin Charlie Sep 2016 #16
Evangelicals & fundies support the adulterous anal sex tape candidate whose wife posed porn shots. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2016 #17
Newt's going for a two-fer C_U_L8R Sep 2016 #19
So Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2016 #24
Newt still trying desperately to remain politically relevant. yellowcanine Sep 2016 #25
Did I hear correctly - between Nutty,,Jewels, and trumpy asiliveandbreathe Sep 2016 #26
Newt ...anothe Trump Hemorrhoid Angry Dragon Sep 2016 #27
I think Neuter wanted to, you know, getta little closer to Machado. Gotta little steamy in his FLs. Eleanors38 Sep 2016 #30
Give me a break... this blew up because of how Trump played it... JCMach1 Sep 2016 #33
So we should listen to Newt? NastyRiffraff Sep 2016 #34
Geez, I'm feeling nostalgic. It's Newt's classic MO, out in broad daylight... JHB Sep 2016 #36
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
2. Trump has a magnetic personality.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 12:51 PM
Sep 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.
[/center][/font][hr]

underpants

(182,629 posts)
18. Be my guest
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 01:14 PM
Sep 2016

I saw it a few days ago and have been sticking it in posts here and on Facebook since. It's so perfect. I think Sean actually takes himself that seriously.

rurallib

(62,387 posts)
4. Amazing that Gingrich is considered an intellectual and a real historian by the right
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 12:52 PM
Sep 2016

he is a blithering fucking idiot and a major misogynist

Why can'tthe right deal with reality?

TheBlackAdder

(28,168 posts)
23. He self-professed those two terms--by directly claiming them & requiring as part of intros to shows.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 03:04 PM
Sep 2016

underpants

(182,629 posts)
6. I heard this last night running an errand
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 12:57 PM
Sep 2016

Hannity, barely still on in prime time on Fox, is on tape delay at the local RW station.

The part this story doesn't cover was Newt saying that Hillary realized that she hadn't gotten this packaged bit into the debate so she threw it in at the last moment. Newt wants the listeners to believe that Hillary didn't have this sledgehammer in her back pocket and waited until Trump was out of gas before smashing him with it. Trump was so flummoxed that he was begging her "Where did you find this? Where did you find this?!"

Welcome to the big leagues Donnie.

unblock

(52,126 posts)
13. so is he saying donnie didn't have the "stamina" to last through one whole debate?
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 01:03 PM
Sep 2016

run out of gas?

 

CJohnson_LS

(52 posts)
9. What a stupid moron Gingrich is
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 01:00 PM
Sep 2016

It's like he and Trump's other subordinates are trying to sink Trump's chances whenever possible. Please keep on digging that hole, Newtie.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
16. Trump broke The Whirl Pool.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 01:10 PM
Sep 2016

Someone better call the repairman.

And he, or she, needs to make sure and get paid up front.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,965 posts)
17. Evangelicals & fundies support the adulterous anal sex tape candidate whose wife posed porn shots.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 01:11 PM
Sep 2016

Do your three wives hold the same opinion, Gingrich?

"You are not supposed to gain 60 pounds the year you're Miss Universe," he told the room, as quoted by the Daily Mail.

Body shaming from your glass house:

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
30. I think Neuter wanted to, you know, getta little closer to Machado. Gotta little steamy in his FLs.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 04:53 PM
Sep 2016

JCMach1

(27,553 posts)
33. Give me a break... this blew up because of how Trump played it...
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 05:28 PM
Sep 2016

He made what should have been a minor kerfuffle into a big smelly porn tape...

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
34. So we should listen to Newt?
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 06:39 PM
Sep 2016

First, Trump himself not only admitted he'd shamed Machado in the debate, he's been doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down ever since.

Second, this is Newt Gingrich talking. Enough said.

JHB

(37,157 posts)
36. Geez, I'm feeling nostalgic. It's Newt's classic MO, out in broad daylight...
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 07:29 PM
Sep 2016

Say anything, ANYTHING, that pushes whatever his agenda happens to be and gets his herd stampeding in a direction he wants.

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