{"id":16785,"date":"2012-01-20T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:25:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-20T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:25:40","slug":"cnn_s_john_king_sends_a_message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/20\/cnn_s_john_king_sends_a_message\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s John King Sends a Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is the very beginning of it. This is John King opening the debate on CNN.<\/p>\n

KING: Mr. Speaker, I want to start with that this evening. As you know, your ex-wife gave an interview to ABC News <\/a>and another interview at the Washington Post, and this story has now gone viral on the Internet. In it she says that you came to her in 1999 at a time when you were having an affair. She says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. Would you like to take some time to respond to that?<\/p>\n

GINGRICH: No. But I will. (cheers and applause) I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. (cheers and applause.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s another standing O for the Newtster. I told Cookie, “Don\u2019t cut the applause. I mean, gotta cut it at some point, but leave enough of it in so we get the idea for people who didn\u2019t see it.” It was on CNN last night, not everybody saw it, I guarantee you. So the sound bites will be useful today. So Newt says, “I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.” Under his breath he says, “even though I knew exactly you were going to do it.” Nobody will be able to convince me Newt did not expect this at the top of the debate <\/a>and was ready for it. He might have been appalled, but he was ready for it. Here\u2019s John King retorting.<\/line><\/p>\n

KING: Is that all you want to say, sir?<\/p>\n

GINGRICH: Let me finish.<\/p>\n

KING: Please.<\/p>\n

GINGRICH: Every person in here knows personal pain. Every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. To take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine. (applause) My two daughters, my two daughters wrote the head of ABC and made the point that it was wrong, that they should pull it, and I am, frankly, astounded that CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: “Even though I fully expected it! Even though I hoped for it. I wanted them to ask me this question! I was hoping they would ask me this question; I was prepared to answer this question. I knew it was coming. I wanted to tell \u2019em what reprobates they are, a bunch of people that appall everybody — and they never do anything like this to the Democrats. They run out and they do everything they can to protect Barack Obama.” It was red meat! People ate it up. Standing O after standing O, two of them in one week for Newt Gingrich. John King continued, then…<\/p>\n