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Politics What Newt Gingrich and Tinkerbell have in common

If you watched the debate last night, you likely noticed that the audience was eerily silent. They had been asked/admonished by Brian Williams not to be hootin‘ and hollerin’ like they have in past debates.

Regardless your thoughts on Williams and NBC and the liberal media and their desire to silence the Right, this was a major problem for ONE candidate: Newt Gingrich. It was the rowdy crowd — in both the Fox News debate when Newt took on Juan Williams’ race-related questions and the CNN debate when he lectured John King for the media’s “shameless” use of the interview with his second scorned ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich.

Because Newt knows that without the rowdy crowds his campaign suffers, the gentleman from Georgia has decided that if the rules can be HIS rules, then he’s not going to play.

Newt Gingrich insists his fans will not be silenced.

Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. That was the case on Monday, when Brian Williams of NBC News asked the audience of about 500 people who assembled for a debate in Tampa to hold their applause until the commercial breaks.

In an interview with the morning show “Fox and Friends,” Mr. Gingrich said NBC’s rules amounted to stifling free speech. In what has become a standard line of attack for his anti-establishment campaign, Mr. Gingrich blamed the media for trying to silence a dissenting point of view.

Sounds a lot like Tinkerbell, who also required audience applause to survive:

Comments (22)

  • RavenGlenn
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 11:34pm

    The idea of these silent debates hurts him. Why? Because they keep the audience from rallying behind him or booing stupid ideas. Most of the people in attendance are better informed and knowledgeable than the folks at home and the support or condemnation of the crowd helps plant where they should be finding this stuff at as well.

    If someone says something blatantly false and everyone is silent, there is no attention drawn to it.

    THAT is the problem. It has nothing to do with Newt needing a fiery crowd to play off of.

    And I agree with another poster here that this little blurb is a joke and belongs on Gawker or even the Huffington Post. But, then again, that’s what The Blaze has steadily been turning into.

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 2:30pm

      When Glenn has made it very clear that he doesn’t approve of Gingrich…. and we all know who the Blaze belongs too…. I think you need to be very…. above board when dealing with Newt because of that. Otherwise you’re just going to look petty and immature. This is obviously the impression that RavenGlenn has been left with and he’s certainly not the only one.

      I’m far from a hardcore Newt fan, but one thing I really like is that he doesn‘t put up with the left’s BS. He calls them on it and the audience cheers him for it. This was great for several reasons. First…. the left was getting called on their BS! Second, it was obvious that this wasn‘t some small fringe of people’s opinion because the whole audience would join in. This hampers their ability to ridicule and cause infighting so, of course, they ask the audience to shut up.

      In my opinion the Blaze has chosen the wrong side of a very clear issue so they can forward a political agenda: to hurt Newt. Forget Newt and the election for a second. What happened to “The Truth has no Agenda.” If this had been Santorum’s comment would we be reading a blog on how childish Santorum is being or on how the left, once again, was trying to shut down the right’s dialogue?

      I’m really disappointed.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on January 25, 2012 at 9:38pm

      “The truth has no agenda” – That is the whole point that you people seem to be incapable of getting through your thick skulls. Newt is a PROGESSIVE !!! What more truth do you need ?? Do you not understand what a progressive is ? Have you listened to Glenn over the past 2 years or more ? Even the last year ? Romney may be a moderate, but he isn’t a progressive. HE may even have a few ideas that may be considered progressive, but by no means has he been an active progressive trying to change the entire shape of the constitution. IF you like progressives, there are plenty of them on the left. Maybe, if you let go of your bias, you can go over to the left and find that you are at home. Clinton loved Newt for this reason. These are globalist, NWO people, UN, NAFTA, and the most telling sign is being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Newt wanted to pass a law that took your 2nd amendment rights away if you spanked your child. HE wanted to have you give your finger prints to register for a gun of any sort. He came out and approved of Romney-care 100%, saying the United States needed to adopt the plan. Newt voted in The Dept. of Education, the land grab in Alaska, supporting Rockefeller … I mean I can on and on. Plus, the man is a pure creep concerning his family, leaving his wife and children without money for even food. The Baptist church had to do a food drive to help them. He is a pig, a progressive pig. Wake up !!

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  • rdjones
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 9:11pm

    SO you are like all the other former co-workers of NEWT stabbing him in the back as you call him a nice guy!

    What a country. Back stabbers every where.

    Every time I left a company with 30 days notice, I got the treatment you give.

    The bitter little people just can’t help sticking it in there when they get thier shot a some litte power outlet.

    Wait until the people leave GBTV, I mean it will be a blood bath for GENNY.

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  • rdjones
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:30pm

    My last post too “truth lives here” for you?

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  • GollygeeMrwilson
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 4:27pm

    Chris, you are wrong or you are outrightly telling a lie. Newt said no such thing on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning.

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    • Chris Field
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 4:38pm

      A quote from Gingrich’s interview:

      “We’re going to serve notice on future debates. We’re just not going to allow that to happen. That’s wrong. The media doesn’t control free speech. People ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to.”

      How else does one read “serve notice on future debates”?

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    • LadyLiberty
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:12pm

      “How else does one read “serve notice on future debates”?”

      You’re being rather disingenuous, aren’t you Mr. Field?

      One read it as: We will decide if we will participate or not.

      It’s not an across the board boycott.
      What exactly did you do for Mr. Gingrich again?

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    • LadyLiberty
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:44pm

      Never mind, I answered my own question. You wrote for that Winning The Future newsletter of his and for the ENPR before it shut down. I knew I recognized your name. Now I’m doubly disgusted.

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  • American2012
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 3:06pm

    Newt had turned the debates as reality show. Any question, he does name calling, no logic in it…..

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  • LadyLiberty
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 3:02pm

    This is the kind of post I would expect at Wonkette or Gawker. It’s cheap, childish and I‘ve had enough of Beck’s Gingrich Derangement Syndrome. We get it — you don’t like him, you think he’s an evil progressive clone of FDR come to take us all back to the mother ship.

    Calm down and grow up. This isn’t journalism, this is sideshow material.

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    • texrubarts
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 3:14pm

      I AGREE big time!!! Glenn is getting to be like Ann Coulter was last night on Bill Oreilly’s show. She looked like a damn lunatic – Glenn don’t go there!!! Didn’t Glenn tell us over & over “do not trust me” and NOW he is going off on us if WE think and decide for ourselves???

      Plus the debate last night was BORING – it sounded like a child’s classroom being told to “use your inside voices”…. I want to see how these candidates react to different questions without being told how to act!!! It looked like a communist gathering not a debate!!!

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    • Chris Field
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 3:40pm

      Glenn didn’t write it. I did. And I stand by it.

      I was Newt’s Managing Editor for a few years. I can tell you that Glenn is 100% correct in his analysis of Newt’s big-government politics.

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    • LadyLiberty
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:03pm

      I know you wrote it and not Beck, Dear. It is his site however, and if this is what he thinks is worthy content, then he’s lost me. I’m not alone in that assessment either. I hope he reads this and realizes how he is sounding to those of us on the fence out there.

      Go ahead and stand by it. The fact remains that it is a petty and rather childish piece that indeed would be high literature at either Gawker or Wonkette or equally disturbing rag. I rather think you have an axe to grind with Mr. Gingrich, just as Beck appears to on a daily basis on his Radio show ad nauseum.

      Report Post » LadyLiberty  
    • Chris Field
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:09pm

      I actually like Newt a lot, personally. He’s a very nice man and listens well to his staff. He takes advice and instruction well, and he’s very personable. Again, I like him. No axe to grind.

      But, his being a nice guy does not qualify him to be president or erase his progressive policy stances.

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    • LadyLiberty
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:16pm

      You’ll pardon me if I wave the BS flag a bit there. You compare a man who is your former boss to Tinkerbell because he complained the audience was not allowed to participate and was told to remain silent? But you have no axe to grind or bear ill will. Right.

      Check please.

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    • Merica
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 6:49pm

      I’m just surprised you were expecting to find journalism on TheBlaze.

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:52pm

    Obama should use Mary Martin video to get applause at the SOTU speech.

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  • ktywack
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:37pm

    Goodness, let’s all just encourage the Lamestream media to host such boring debates that most fall asleep by the 5 minute mark! Even Laura Ingraham said that she was dozing off. Sorry Desperate Mitt, 25% of the primary voters will not get you a nomination.
    America gets ready to vote & God Laughs.

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    • texrubarts
      Posted on January 24, 2012 at 3:19pm

      I LOVE Laura and I AGREE with her it was a boring debate – if you want to call it a debate!!! The latest rassumen polls show Newt beating Romney & Obama. So Glenn – go and sit in your “time out chair” and chill for a while…..

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  • DrFrost
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:24pm

    I agree with Newt on this issue. The left has people convinced that they represent the majority. When the majority actually boos them for acting like children…. they don’t like that.

    Personally I don’t understand why the RNC would let left leaning media groups moderate debates in the Republican primary? These people are only interested in damaging the candidates and encouraging infighting. It’s ridiculous.

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  • Ann_W
    Posted on January 24, 2012 at 12:39pm

    I’ve always thought he looked like a lawn gnome, just imagine him in a tall red pointy hat. See what I mean? Maybe he and Tinkerbell have more in common than the need for applause to stay alive.

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