Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Gingrich Home Run at GOP SC Myrtle Beach Debate

Gingrich at the Myrtle Beach Debate
John J. Pitney, Jr.at EPIC JOURNEY- 8 hours ago

Newt Gingrich got a rare standing ovation at the Fox News debate at Myrtle
Beach last night.Conservative Rich Lowry writes:
A night that was supposed to be all about Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
ended up being defined by an exchange between our own Juan Williams and
Newt Gingrich.
Williams challenged Gingrich for his statements calling President Obama a
"food stamp president" and advocating that kids learn the work ethic by
doing, for instance, janitorial work at schools. Gingrich has thrived
throughout the debate season on combat with moderators and Williams was
straying into his ...more »







(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) -- Monday night's Republican presidential ... while one -- Romney -- tried to run out the clock. Newt Gingrich had a solid debate performance, perhaps his strongest since the ABC/Des Moines …KABC · 10 hours ago
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- It was telling that as soon as the Republican presidential debate ended here Monday night, Newt Gingrich made a beeline to talk to reporters. Gingrich, the recently embattled, always controversial …Huffington Post · 16 hours ago

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- It was telling that as soon as the Republican presidential debate ended here Monday night, Newt Gingrich made a beeline to talk to reporters.


Gingrich, the recently embattled, always controversial and irascible former speaker of the House from Georgia, had just watched a massive crowd inside the convention center respond to him with a passionate standing ovation after his confrontation with one of the debate's moderators.

The exchange lit a fire underneath the crowd, and in so doing seemed to increase his chances of gathering momentum ahead of Saturday's primary in South Carolina.

"It's the only time I've ever seen a standing ovation, certainly in the debates I've been involved," Gingrich told reporters after the debate in an area set aside for the press. "There was a spontaneous sense that somebody finally had the courage to just tell the truth about how we've got to go about helping people, and the fact that I was very clear."



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Jon Ward, a reporter for Huffington Post who attended the Myrtle Beach, S.C., debate, summarized the Gingrich-Williams exchange: “It was a moment that will likely be dissected, debated, and discussed for some …The Christian Science Monitor · 24 minutes ago

 

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