Daughter of The Nenis© Does Damage Control: "He didn't dump my mom in the hospital"

Amerigo Vespucci

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Fri May-13-11 09:34 PM
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Daughter of The Nenis© Does Damage Control: "He didn't dump my mom in the hospital"

Friday, May 13, 2011 17:15 ET
War Room
Newt's daughter: He didn't dump my mom in the hospital
By Justin Elliott

http://www.salon.com/news/newt_gingrich/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/05/13/gingrich_cancer_divorce_daughter

Jackie Gingrich Cushman and Newt Gingrich

Jackie Gingrich Cushman has decided to resurface the most damaging anecdote of her father's political career: that Newt Gingrich demanded his first wife hash over details of their divorce while she was stricken with cancer in a hospital bed. Cushman suggests in a new column that the story is false.

But Cushman's column, titled "Setting the Record Straight," is directly at odds with the testimony of her mother from just a few years after the 1980 incident.

Regular readers will remember a few months ago I researched the story of Newt and his cancer-stricken first wife, also named Jackie. The anecdote has dogged Newt ever since Mother Jones first reported it -- and extensive evidence of his philandering -- in 1984. Cushman's column is likely part of a conscious inoculation effort. Cushman writes a syndicated conservative political column and recently co-authored a book with her father.

Cushman doesn't offer much in the way of details, besides saying that she was present during that 1980 hospital visit and that the media has repeated unspecified "untruths": http://www.creators.com/conservative/jackie-gingrich-cushman/setting-the-record-straight.html

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TheCowsCameHome

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Fri May-13-11 09:35 PM
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1. Keep it on the front burner

the more Newt's rotten past is in the news, the better.

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xchrom

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Fri May-13-11 09:41 PM
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3. Let her directly contradict her mother.

Not with run arounds but specifics.

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Angry Dragon

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Fri May-13-11 09:40 PM
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2. And don't forget how horny he gets when he gets Patriotic

If he was president he would be looking for a new wife every day

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LiberalFighter

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Fri May-13-11 09:58 PM
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4. Jackie is on her second marriage.

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pacalo

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Fri May-13-11 10:03 PM
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5. I believe the mom's version.

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Fri May-13-11 10:14 PM
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7. Yep...you, me, and everyone but Newt and his daugher

Actually, I think they believe it too, but they have no qualms about tossing her under the bus to clear the way for his "political ambitions."

We've got a front row seat for Republican Family Values in action.

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pacalo

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Fri May-13-11 11:39 PM
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11. A low blow, considering her mom may be apprehensive in publicly calling her daughter a liar.

But then, the truth is likely that Newt sent the kids out of the hospital room before he made his demands. In that case, the mom could get the word out without feeling she's betraying her daughter -- not that the ungrateful, insensitive daughter deserves that loyalty, but most moms would protect their children. I hope the mom speaks out & says something to the effect that Jackie was too young to understand what was going on; she simply couldn't have remembered.

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spanone

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Fri May-13-11 10:04 PM
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6. scum o' the earth

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Bigmack

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Fri May-13-11 10:23 PM
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8. Don't forget... he married his former HS geometry teacher...

That used to get a chorus of "EEEEwwwww"s from my HS History classes when I dealt with Newt.

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riderinthestorm

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Fri May-13-11 10:28 PM
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9. Another Gingrich willing to throw Newt's wife under the bus!

Un-fucking-believable. This one is willing to throw their own mother under the bus in order to see Dad-Newtie elected?

Is this Electra-complex times ten or what???

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Zoeisright

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Fri May-13-11 11:21 PM
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10. Liar.

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