CBS’s Face The Nation Dismantles Gingrich’s Lie That He ‘Wasn’t Referring To Ryan’

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/22/gingrich-lie-referring-to-ryan/

Last Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Newt Gingrich offered a carefully-conceived, triangulating strategy of attacking Obama’s health reform plan as well as the Republican plan proposed by Paul Ryan that privatizes Medicare. “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering,” he said.

When the right-wing base predictably flipped out at Gingrich’s criticism of Ryan, Gingrich quickly folded, calling Ryan to personally apologize while stating on Fox News on Tuesday night that his comments were an “unfortunate…mistake.” But by Thursday, Gingrich offered a new formulation to Rush Limbaugh, arguing that his original comments about “right-wing social engineering” were not a reference to Paul Ryan.

This morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, Gingrich trotted out the same excuse. “I wasn’t referring to Ryan,” Gingrich pleaded. Host Bob Schieffer then played a clip of Gingrich on Meet the Press last week, in which Gingrich explicitly said Ryan’s plan was “too big a jump.” Caught in a trap of his own making, Gingrich could only say that Ryan’s plan is a “big plan that needs to be worked through.”


Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/22/gingrich-lie-referring-to-ryan/

to Gingrich that they don't want him running, that I'm amazed he's not hearing it yet.

which the rest of the world knows as Weasly Republicon Bullshit.

Sorry, Newt. It's been nice knowing ya'.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/colbert-invites-john-lithgow-to-perform-dramatic-reading-of-surreal-gingrich-press-release/

Not after Emmy- and Tony award-winning actor John Lithgow reads Newts latest press release.

WOW! - Newt has now reached Super Hero status.

Go to the link and watch the video

Stick a fork in Newt, he's done.

If his lips are moving, he must be lying.

Can't have the racist wing of their party stray too far from the chosen candidate of the billionaire class, and Newt ain't it.

he is moot in todays scenario....

No respect nor creds...he flounders on like Diogenes looking for anyone who will believe him...

runs and realized that maybe he could make it if he changed his shoes and lost 20 pounds or so. Perfectly understandable.