While touring the Cable News channels this morning I heard a media whisper over and over again….
‘Wolf Blitzer didn’t let Newt off the hook’ was the ghest of the whisper…..
I smiled…..
I wrote this up here ….How Newt has been using the attack the media thing from the jump in the GOP debates….
I also wrote yesterday that I thought the media had got so caught up on the Newt Gingrich/John King thing that they gave the Tampa Debate to Gingrich….
That wasn’t the case I though….
Mitt Romney won that debate…..
The people that talked to the pollster’s ALSO though Mitt Romney won because Mitt’s poll numbers have steadily risen since the debate….
So it appears that Newt LOST that attack at John King….
Last night another CNN anchor got the best of Newt…..
And the media now has props for Wolf Blitzer…..One of their own….
Who stepped to Newt…..
……..one week after the former House speaker savaged correspondent John King for an opening question about the allegations of his ex-wife, his attempt to deflect another about attacks on Mitt Romney was turned against him by a differentCNN anchor.
Wolf Blitzer asked Gingrich whether he was satisfied with the level of disclosure Romney had provided about his personal finances. Gingrich called it a “nonsense question,” and the crowd roared in approval.
“How about if the four of us agree for the rest of the evening we’ll actually talk about issues that relate to governing America?” Gingrich said.
Blitzer wasn’t about to let Gingrich off the hook, quoting Gingrich’s own rhetoric about Romney’s “Swiss bank and Cayman Island bank accounts.”
“I didn’t say that, you did,” Blitzer said.
“I did. And I’m perfectly happy to say that in an interview on some TV show. But this is a national debate where you have a chance to get the four of us to talk about a whole range of issues,” Gingrich responded.
“If you make a serious accusation against Gov. Romney like that, you need to explain that,” Blitzer fired back.
The audience booed Blitzer, much as they did King a week before.
But this time, Romney piled on his GOP rival.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if people didn’t make accusations somewhere else that they weren’t willing to defend here?” he asked.
Gingrich finally obliged, and repeated his view that it was “unusual” for a would-be president to have a Swiss bank account…..
More….
Note….
John King went on the air before the debate to point out that Newt’s alibi with ABC on his 2nd Wife’s accusations was nonexistent…..
King pointed out, in his defense, that Newt ‘misspoke’ during their spate in the Tampa Debate….
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