Juan Williams Boasts of Serving as Gingrich’s Foil, Krauthammer: King Earned Reward from Gingrich
Newt Gingrich wouldn’t have won the South Carolina primary if not for two journalists who served as his perfect foil at two debates in the days before Saturday’s contest, Juan Williams and Charles Krauthammer contended Saturday evening on FNC.
“I was expecting a check,” quipped Williams who had challenged Gingrich Monday night about comments “intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities.” Williams suggested he and CNN’s John King, “the guy who asked him about his problems with his second wife,” split the check 50-50.
A few hours later, Krauthammer predicted that “if Gingrich wins the presidency,” King “is going to have a gilded seat in the White House briefing room. It’s going to be an endowed chair, because that, I think, was the moment.”
Audio: MP3 clip of Williams and Krauthammer
Williams at about 6:23 PM EST, January 21:
I was expecting a check. I think I get at least 50 percent and then the guy who asked him about his problems with his second wife, Marianne, as the first question in the other debate, should get a check too.
Krauthammer shortly before 9 PM EST:
I think it was the defiance in his last answer in the John King question that was decisive. In fact, I think John King, if Gingrich wins the presidency, is going to have a gilded seat in the White House briefing room. It’s going to be an endowed chair, because that, I think, was the moment. That was the Reagan in New Hampshire.
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They must have re-defined the meaning of racism
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 8:36am.
Record unemployed and under-employed, record number of people on food stamps, and no one is supposed to bring it up?
Juan, Juan, Juan.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 8:42am.
Poor Juan. Not quite as adept as Newt at turning a negative (continuing to paint all Republicans as racists) into a positive.
Stupidity, unlike intelligence, knows no limit.
Quite right
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 10:54am.
It took Juan four days to come up with something "positive" about the a&&-whupping he received from Newt.
Typical liberal. And watch....he'll repeat it ad nauseum, too.
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Juan does have a problem with the quick wit.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 11:21am.
“I was expecting a check,”
Right, Juan. That's your biggest problem. You have been getting paid for so long for doing next to nothing, that you think that you deserve a check.
That's the problem with "equal opportunity." Too many people interpret that to mean, "just gimme the check. I'm special"
First, Peggy the Moocher.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 1:12pm.
Now Juan the wanter.
Leftist Media Hacks try & fail
Submitted by ChrisNH on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 8:59am.
The script goes like this: Leftist media hacks try to assassinate a candidate whom they feel is a challenge to their beloved Obama. Voters, hating leftist media hacks with a passion...and who wouldn't...decide to flock to said candidate. Leftist media hacks are left fuming and fighting, realizing that the fire hoses are being pointed AT them rather than BY them.
The TRUTH ...
Submitted by Bodini on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 9:03am.
The TRUTH ... is that both of the Marxist-shills still can't believe that a Republican would actually fight back since they are always supposed to take it on the chin. The old mantra that one should never ever challenge the Marxist-media lest they be punished is out the window because conservative voters finally understand just how biased the boot-lickers have become, and no matter what, conservatism will always be under attack by the elites!
unrepresented minority
Submitted by Agnostic on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 9:26am.
setting aside the issue of whether Newt can actually win the Presidency against President Barak Obama for the moment:
There is a large minority in this country (about 37% consistently) that is not represented by too many groups or individuals in the national media. They are expected to take it on the chin and feel guilty for their success and ashamed of history. These people are Political Conservatives of all races and religions. Newt is winning right now because he is the only one giving these people a voice and fighting to be heard. Silenced for years with guilt and political correctness these people seek a leader and are really willing to take anyone who will stand up and say the 'our voice must be heard as well'.
Whether he will stay that way after he is elected is another issue. FWIW, he will probably jump back to the middle on many issues while remaining antagonistic toward the media if he is nominated. This too will be a strategy for victory but what he will do if obtaining the oval office is anyone's guess.
Silenced by guilt?
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 9:39am.
By apathy maybe, but I dont understand why any of us should feel guilty?
Yes, silence by guilt -
Submitted by Agnostic on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 9:51am.
because the media said so. You are right though; because it wasn't the guilt that truly kept Conservatives quiet but the combination of apathy, media pressure, guilt (appropriate or not), fear of reprisal (racist) and a lack of leadership.
here is another supposed voice of the Right and look what happens:
FOX hiring a Soros funded activist during an election year.
Now THAT's funny...
Submitted by retrocon on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 11:22am.
They are effectively giving credit to the media lefties, who, while attempting to humiliate and denegrade Newt, get hammered by him instead, thus raising his popularity with the base on the right?
Ron Paul's comment is germane
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 10:53am.
King led with his smug chin and Newt gave him a forearm shiver. That was the big play on the highlight reel. But Ron Paul made an astute comment later about SOPA and big corporations. Paul said (I'm paraphrasing because I can't find the clip right now), "No one's talking about the big corporations that own the big media." That's a major point. And the media treat everything as (a) equivalent, (b) grist for their mill, and (c) entertainment, including—especially—the news. Remember back in the 70s when the ground shook? ABC named Roone Arledge, formerly the highly successful head of sports and entertainment at ABC, to be their news head, too. Just look at the set that the debate took place on. That wasn't cheap. I wonder how many meals at the shelter could be bought with the money for that 2 hours of television? Or material for Habitat for Humanity houses? or Katrina relief? or even deficit mitigation?
I think these pundits are purposefully
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 11:08am.
discounting Sarah Palin and her quasi-endorsement of Newt a couple days before the primary. That, and Herman Cain.
People listen to SP- she's the EF Hutton of GOP politics. I suspect she made up a lot of SC minds. (I also wouldn't be surprised to see her do the same thing for Rick Santorum in Florida; the idea is to keep the pressure on Romney, who's still likely to win this thing.)
Then there's Herman Cain. He was sacrificed by the media. Maybe there was truth to the extra-marital affairs, maybe not, but we'll never know because once he removed himself from the process, the media no longer had any interest. Which, to me, shows that the media never really had an interest in anything other than helping to remove Herman Cain from the process - mission accomplished. But voters never bought into it completely. Yeah, his polling went down as the pressure mounted. And yeah, he was never really any more of a player than Rick Perry, probably less prepared. But I think when similar attacks came out against Newt, it represented a pattern that disgusted voters; not the patterns of cheating and lying by candidates, but the pattern of attacking candidates from unverifiable and obscure "she said" sources. SC voters completely sloughed off the ABC and WaPo interviews. Had Newt been attacked first, however, I'm not so sure he would have survived it.
Republicans trying to win.....
Submitted by Redrowan2000 on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 11:34am.
With one hand tied behind their backs. The mainstream media is just another arm of the DNC disguising itself as an objective 3rd party. We all know the line ups--The David Gregorys--Brian Williams--MSNBC--NBC--ABC--and CBS--oh and CNN--.
Well as one of Obamas mentors said once :
"The chickens have come home to roost."
John King, Juan Williams and the rest of the left wing media elite are not only helping to elect a conservative republican but are managing to get lower approval ratings than the congress.
Finally some one has stepped up that won't take their smarmy biased opinions as a matter of fact.
Regardless of who wins, the left wing media is the loser in this debate season. I'm sure they will expose themselves even more when it comes to the final 2.
Primary example--coverage of the republicans--shows them to be undecisive bigots in South Carolina. While when Obama kills the Keystone pipeline that will cost 20,000 jobs and higher oil prices and a cut of 20% on imported oil , all they can show of him on the weekend news is singing to the choir.
"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
juan
Submitted by east tennessee john on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 4:41pm.
I sent an e-mail to Juan pointing out that if checks the tape, Newt never referred to any particular race, just poor folks and the need in poor communities for kids to learn certain values. Juan made it a black issues and I said to him, this is the result of nearly 50 years of the War on Poverty and the nearly 9 trillion spent. Black unemployment 25% or more, black youth unemployment 50% and all you can do is call Newt a racist. Pretty lame.