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Politico going the way of MSNBC

I am disgusted that the media has succeeded in driving a good candidate like Herman Cain out of the race with weak, wholly unsubstantiated allegations against his character. The American people deserve better from the Fourth Estate. They bent over backwards to hide John Edwards’ mistress and illegitimate child while he was running for office!

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They’re terrified of Cain

It’s easy to tell which GOP candidates the Dems think Obama can beat. They’re the ones the media is going easy on.

It’s even easier to tell which GOP candidate the Dems are terrified will win the nomination. He’s the one the media is trying to destroy.

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“Once you go conservative black, better watch your back”

By Ann Coulter – November 30, 2011

With the mainstream media giddily reporting on an alleged affair involving Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, how long can it be before they break the news that their 2004 vice presidential candidate conceived a “love child” with his mistress, Rielle Hunter?

The left is trying to destroy Cain with a miasma of hazy accusations leveled by three troubled women. Considered individually, the accusations are utterly unbelievable. They are even less credible taken together. This is how liberals destroy a man, out of nothing.

[Read the rest @ http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=373081]

… their only evidence is their word.

But this is how liberals dirty you up when they’ve got nothing: They launch a series of false accusations, knowing that Americans with busy lives won’t follow each story to the end and notice that they were all blind alleys.

The liberal media is an old story, but it’s still a big story when it comes to creating the impression of scandal out of thin air.

Most people say, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” I say, “Where there’s smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.”

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2011_11 09 Kraushaar working the system @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2073947910056011884deQUEc

2011_11 07 Bialek is not a credible witness @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2629518650056011884fHJJwR

2011_11 10 To Kill a MockCAINbird @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2709693870056011884vXyRmo

2011_11 12 DNC BimboCard DECLINED @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2481972040056011884MyhdoA

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Try to imagine

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MIKA BRZEZINSKI makes me wanna puke

Brzezinski on November 21, 2011 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe — “Wow. It’s really not surprising, coming from me, but that’s about the most arrogant and un-self-aware — and those are probably the only words I can use — thing for any politician in this Republican field to say….Someone needs a bath, and I don’t think it’s the people from Occupy Wall Street….It’s absolutely disgusting. It’s a very angry way to start the show. I’m extremely sorry. But it’s the first time I’d seen that [clip], and it literally made my skin crawl.”

It made her skin crawl? Really?!

Look at this clip from April 2011 and keep in mind that it’s the SAME WOMANhttp://www.mrctv.org/node/76517.

Now .. TRY to imagine (if you can!) any Right-Winger (a) actually PLAYING a vile, personal attack video about Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer (provided one existed) on a morning news and talk show and then (b) LAUGHING uncontrollably at how very, very funny said video was.

BILL MAHER makes me wanna puke

Maher quoted in November 21, 2011, Newsweek — “When I point out that Sarah Palin is a vainglorious braggart, a liar, a whiner, a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp, and the leader of a family of inbred weirdos straight out of The Hills Have Eyes, that’s not sexist. I’m saying it because it’s true.”

I think Glenn Beck is fairly comparable to Bill Maher, not in humor or perspicacity, but in that they both do political comedy and political commentary. Try to imagine Beck saying, “When I point out that Barack Obama is a vainglorious braggart, a liar, a whiner, a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp, and the leader of a family of inbred weirdos straight out of The Hills Have Eyes, that’s not racist. I’m saying it because it’s true.”  Can you?

Well … actually the braggart, liar, whiner and bully parts, sure. Because they’re all true statements directed at the behavior of an elected public official.

What I can’t imagine is Beck making disgusting remarks about Obama’s family. And if he did … how BALLISTIC do you think the media reaction would be about it?  I’m thinking weeks of screaming RAAAAACISM!!!!! and condemning Beck to the fiery afterlife they don’t believe in.

Did you know that, all during 2007, the media speculated on Al Gore as a possible candidate and, even after it was clear he would not run, Gore still tied with Edwards in the polls?

Remind you of anyone?

Recall any Republicans making gratuitously repulsive remarks about the family of not-running-for-president Al Gore?

After all, he hails from the Great Bible Belt State of Tennessee where everyone is a racist, red-neck, bitterly clinging cracker with a family tree that doesn’t fork … unless they’re Democrats, in which case it doesn’t matter how many lies or stupid remarks they make, they’re all oh-so-BRILLIANT

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and oh-so-TOLERANT of others

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If Gore had a disabled child and one of ours had made a remark like Maher did about Palin’s family, I’m thinking we’d all know about it, because the media would’ve played it about a bazillion times after which they’d pull their chins and seriously discuss how STOOOPID and INTOLERANT such attitudes are.

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Let’s revisit the 2007 race for the Democratic nomination for President, shall we? In November 2007, there were TEN Democrats running for the nomination: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Biden, Mike Gravel, Christopher Dodd, Tom Vilsack and Evan Bayh.

So try to imagine, it’s 2007 and, let’s say, Rush Limbaugh comes out with this gem: “You’ve got to feel very bad for Joe Biden. I mean, he’s been led, so far, by Edwards, Gore, Clinton and Obama. I’m rooting for him. You know? Because, look, in a country with only two political parties, the Democrat can always win. I mean, at least he eats with a knife and fork. I mean, he is all that stands between us and the rise of the apes.”

Can you imagine the SHRIEKING from the Left Stream Media about the RACIST and SEXIST references to Obama and Clinton as “apes”?

So can I.

Chris Matthews makes me wanna puke

On November 15, 2011, Larry Elder asked Chris Matthews if he considers himself an “objective, down the middle journalist.”

Matthews said, “No, I’m not down the middle. I’m slightly to the left.”

Elder: “Slightly to the left?”

Matthews: “I’d say, 40 yard line.”

Speaking of “un-self-aware” … THIS is “40 yard line”? Seriously?!

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SOURCES:

Media Research Center “Notable Quotables” Vol. 24, No. 24 – Nov 28, 2011

http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/nq/2011/20111125124229.aspx

Wikipedia “United States presidential election, 2008”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008

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THE SATURDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

FLASH!!!!
WINTER FESTIVAL TREE MURDERED AND BODY DRAGGED TO WHITE HUT FOR PUBLIC DISPLAY

http://www.breitbart.tv/white-house-christmas-tree-arrives/

157 AIR FORCE MAJORS TERMINATED WITHOUT RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Not only do the liberal pricks lack the guts to defend our country,they seem to delight in pissing on those who do.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/157_air_force_majors_terminated_without_retirement_benefits.html

OBAMA TURNS TO BIDEN FOR HELP IN THREE KEY STATES
You know you’re in trouble when you depend on a pompous gasbag who opens his mouth to change feet and steps on his own weiner as a matter of rote.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BIDEN_2012?SITE=CAANR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

HAPPY SATURDAY!!

THE NEW TAMMANY HALL
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577016092542307600.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

HOLDER’S DEPARTMENT OF RETRIBUTION
Sadly,he’ll pay no price for any of it.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/holders_dept_of_retribution.html

THIS KID IS 10 YEARS OLD!

MR. TINGLES:THE NATIONAL MEDIA LEANS A LITTLE TO THE LEFT
If it leaned any farther it would fall as flat as your ratings,bonehead.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chris-matthews-the-national-media-leans-a-little-to-the-left/

TRY THESE:

1. The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.

6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.

7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, “You stay here; I’ll go on a head.”

13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said, “Keep off the Grass.”

15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

17. A backward poet writes inverse.

18. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.

19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you’d be in Seine .

21. A vulture boards an airplane carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, “I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.”

22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says, “Dam!”

23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.

24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One said, “I’ve lost my electron.” The other said, “Are you sure?” The first replied, “Yes, I’m positive.”

25. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends in the hope at least one of the puns would make one laugh. No pun in ten did.
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OCCUBAGGERS CAN’T STOP S.F. SHOPPERS
I said before the OWS pukes couldn’t stand up to crazed shopaholics
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/26/BAK41M4FV0.DTL

THE COMING EVICTION OF OCCUPY LA AN EXERCISE IN GROVELING
You can’t appease your enemy
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/the_coming_eviction_of_occupy_la_an_exercise_in_groveling.html

GOP FIELD RUNNING AGAINST THE MEDIA
The left doesn’t stand a chance in a fair fight–never has,never will
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/195467-republicans-running-against-the-media

OBAMA PLAYS GOLF FOR THE 30TH TIME THIS YEAR
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/11/25/obama-plays-golf-30th-time-year/

OBAMA TO TAKE IN BASKETBALL GAMES TODAY
Glad to see he can take a little time away from focusing like a laser on jobs for the American people
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/11/26/basketball-day-obama/

ARE PROGRESSIVES FOR THE LITTLE GUY?
http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2011/11/26/are_progressives_for_the_little_guy

INCRIMINATING TIMELINE:DEMOCRATS PUNT ON FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/2011/11/25/incriminating_timeline_democrats_punt_on_fiscal_responsibility

THE BEST LEADERS MONEY CAN BUY
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_best_leaders_that_money_can_buy.html

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That old double standard

If a Republican had said there were 57 states, it would’ve been replayed on every mainstream newscast for a week.

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THE SATURDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

Thank you all so much for your words of encouragement.I care so much for all of you that when things don’t go as they should I feel as useless as tits on a boar.I always try to give  you the best that I’m capable of.It’s little enough for all I get from everybody here.

NBA STARS TO PLAY IN OBAMA BASKETBALL FUNDRAISER

Not so surprising;most of them have criminal records,so they should feel right at home at the White Hut.Question is,why does that pompous ass need a billion dollars to savage the Republican nominee when his palace guards in the media will happily do it for free?

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/18/4066000/nba-stars-to-play-in-obama-basketball.html

THE PIPELINE SELLOUT

The latest from The Kraut

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/283442/pipeline-sellout-charles-krauthammer

RUSH:NOW IT’S NEWT’S TURN FOR AN ANAL EXAM,BUT HOW COME IT’S NEVER ROMNEY’S?

What really irritates me is the field is always winnowed down to the weakest,most spineless,mushy moderate to satisfy the establishment.I NEVER hear that democrats have to settle.They know full well the teachers unions are turning out dumb-as-dirt lumps indoctrinated in the ways of liberalism.Their candidate just pretends to be moderate to fool a few inattentive independents and the welfare parasites automatically fall in line.At this point,I don’t know if a real conservative would have a chance.Would it be worth risking another Obozo term,which would be the end of our way of life?

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/11/18/now_it_s_newt_s_turn_for_an_anal_exam_but_how_come_it_s_never_mitt_romney_s

REID NOT BUTTERING UP BOEHNER NOW THAT HE HAS LEVERAGE IN DEFICIT TALKS

Put  candy-ass weeper of the House in a ring with a two-legged rattlesnake and the outcome is a foregone conclusion.Remember when the Senate was 50-50 and Cheney was the tie-breaking vote?Daschle conned Trent Lott into “co-chairing” committees in the spirit of bipartisanship? That lasted until they got Jim Jeffords to sell out his party for a chairmanship and all the bipartisan crap went out the window.Our side never learns.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/194651-reid-not-buttering-up-boehner-now-that-he-has-leverage-in-deficit-talks

LISTEN TO THE SAGE FROM SOUTH CENTRAL GIVE MR. TINGLES A BAREASS SPANKING

I love how liberals can dish it out but can’t take it.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/18/chris-matthews-spanked-by-kabc-radios-larry-elder/

THE PARTY’S OVER

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_partys_over.html

SUPERCOMMITTEE DEM SAYS TRIGGERING AUTOMATIC CUTS WOULDN’T BE FAILURE

To the contrary,it’s just what they wanted.They will slash military spending and bully the republicans into increasing taxes.That would turn the base against the GOP.The dem base could care less,because they’re the ones who take.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/194509-supercommittee-dem-says-trigger-of-defense-cuts-wouldnt-be-failure

GROUP MOCKS FIDELITY AND SPENDING IN WASHINGTON

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/18/group-mocks-fidelity-and-spending-in-washington-video/

SESSIONS WARNS OF GIMMICKS IN LAST MINUTE SUPERCOMMITTEE DEAL

http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/18/sessions-warns-of-budget-gimmicks-in-last-minute-super-committee-deal/

PHONY FIX-A-FLAT DOC BUSTED

Its not a Grudge without one off-the-wall story

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/phony_fix-a-flat_doc_busted.html

POLICE PEPPER-SPRAY OCCUBAGGERS AT UC DAVIS

Taking pleasure in other peoples’ pain is called ‘schadenfreude.’ Baby,I’m the schadenfreudiest.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/police-pepper-spray-seated-occupy-protesters-at-uc-davis/

ENJOY

OBAMA’S DENIGRATE AMERICA TOUR

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/18/obamas-denigrate-america-tour/

HEY OBAMA:GAS UP AND GO

http://cnsnews.com/blog/dan-gainor/hey-obama-gas-and-go

SEIU ENDORSES OBAMA RE-ELECTION

I’m shocked…shocked!

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/42482#When:23:27:47Z

WHAT IOWA VOTERS WANT IN A REPUBLICAN NOMINEE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203611404577043881934700296.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama

LEADING SENATORS:KAGAN MAY HAVE TO RECUSE HERSELF FROM HEALTH CASE

And I may have to take up flagpole-sitting.News flash,folks:this androgynous little tart has no plans on going anywhere.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/18/leading-senators-kagan-may-have-recuse-herself-hea/

PARENTS OUTRAGED OVER DOLL THAT SAYS:HEY,CRAZY BITCH

Dolls have come a long way from saying “mama,” haven’t they?

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Parents-Cursing-baby-doll-should-not-be-sold/-/1637132/4783422/-/hw1vgb/-/index.html

RON PAUL WON’T RULE OUT THIRD PARTY BID

Here we go again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P8OR2r6NYm0

OBAMA-NLRB RUSHING TO ISSUE AMBUSH ELECTIONS RULES ON NOV.30

http://biggovernment.com/laborunionreport/2011/11/19/breaking-obama-nlrb-rushing-to-issue-ambush-elections-rules-on-nov-30/

METHINKS I MAY HAVE GONE A BRIDGE TOO FAR

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THE FRIDAY GRUDGE

posted by Pistol Pete

Hope this works

PREPARE YOURSELF FOR OBAMA’S SECOND TERM

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/prepare_yourself_for_obamas_second_term.html

RALLY IS REALLY A TANTRUM BY DECRY BABIES

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rally_is_really_tantrum_by_decry_u9X4huUKTzEoVfCg81Yz9K

WALLBAGGERS HECKLE SMALL CHILDREN AS THEY RUN GAUNTLET TO GET TO SCHOOL

At this point,all decorum and self-control go out the window and I make somebody bleed.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/follow-those-kids-wall-st-occupiers-heckle-small-children-as-they-walk-gauntlet-to-get-to-school/

GIULIANI: ‘I WOULD HAVE STOPPED WALL STREET PROTESTERS ON DAY ONE.’

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Giuliani-Occupy-Wall-Street/2011/11/17/id/418452#ixzz1e1x1vK00

RON PAUL:GOP WILL BE PUNISHED IF IT CAPITULATES ON TAX INCREASES

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/194407-ron-paul-gop-will-be-punished-if-it-capitulates-on-tax-increases

COLOR ME SURPRISED

GINGRICH TO MEDIA:LET ME EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OWS AND THE TEA PARTY

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/17/gingrich-to-media-let-me-explain-the-difference-between-the-tea-party-and-ows/

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION REWRITING THE LAW….AGAIN

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/obama_administration_rewriting_the_law_-_again.html

DEMOCRATS’ “SATAN SANDWICH” STARTING TO TASTE PRETTY GOOD

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/194473-dems-satan-sandwich-starts-tasting-pretty-good

CAPITOL HILL INSIDER TRADING
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/congress-327559-house-information.html

NATIONAL COST OF “OCCUPATION” TO TOP $12 MILLION

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/11/17/national-cost-of-ows/

JOY BEWHORE’S SHOW GETS CANCELLED

And life goes on

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/joy-behar-hln-talk-show-canceled-years-confirms-network-article-1.979425

PALIN’S ADVICE TO GOP CANDIDATES:READ PETER SCHWEIZER’S BOOK

http://www.breitbart.tv/palins-advice-to-gop-candidates-read-peter-schweizers-book/

HEDGE BROKER SHUTS DOWN FIRM WITH CHILLING LETTER ABOUT THE MARKET

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/going-galt-hedge-broker-shuts-down-firm-with-chilling-letter-about-the-market/

GINGRICH:MSNBC ACTS AS OBAMA REELECTION TEAM

Newt’s powers of obsevation are exceeded by his affection for the obvious

http://www.breitbart.tv/gingrich-msnbc-acts-as-obama-re-election-team/

THE PRISM OF ELECTORAL REALITY

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_prism_of_electoral_reality.html

RUNAWAY MOM DREADLOCKED UP

Remember her?She left her banker husband and 4 kids in Florida to be a Wallbagger.Yesterday she was awarded a matching pair of steel bracelets courtesy of the NYPD

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/runaway_mom_dreadlocked_up_Yo8j4AR7rchEXij04FQ2DO

Top image from IOTW

If Chrissy or Bob can delete one of the images,please do so.Files only upload from visual mode,videos from HTML mode.This post is a piece of garbage compared to magnificent posts Chrissy does.I don’t think I can do this anymore.

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President UH-bama

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

You’ve probably seen Rick Perry’s flub from last week, since the media has played it over and over and over.

They call it the “53 seconds that will end Perry’s candidacy.” They wish.

Reality check: How many of these gaffes does that same media play EVER?

Some have been deliberately edited OUT of their reports to make Obama look better than he is.

53 seconds that should end a presidency

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Fannie and Freddie bonuses 3xs what AIG issued

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

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Newt takes media to task

By Chrissy the Hyphenated

Nov 7, 2011: Newt Gingrich appeared on NBC Today, but all co-host Ann Curry wanted to talk about was the allegations against Herman Cain.

Happily, Newt used the opportunity wisely. Here are the juicy bits –

CURRY: Good to be with you as well, sir. Can Herman Cain not answer these lingering questions about sexual harassment allegations and still win the Republican nomination, in your view?

GINGRICH: Well, that will be up to the American people. If they conclude that anonymous allegations from people who don’t want to be identified, involving purely civil activities, that the American people could well decide that they want a solution-oriented leader more than they want a scandal. …

CURRY: … If you are right, that it is possible that the American public could actually decide to overlook these allegations, what would it mean for the party to have a Republican nominee for president, with unanswered questions about sexual harassment, what would it do to your party’s chances of defeating Barack Obama?

GINGRICH: What does it mean to the elite news media that nobody in the country ever walks up to us and raises questions you all raise? … I just think there’s a huge gap between the gossip that fascinates political reporters and the average person’s concern about the price of housing, the availability of jobs, solving the budget deficit without crushing the middle class. A lot of things that, frankly, at a substance level are dramatically more important to most Americans. …

CURRY: … are you saying that questions about the character of a presidential candidate don’t matter?

GINGRICH: No. Questions matter a lot. I’m saying that when the news media goes and finds an anonymous report about an anonymous incident, about which you have remarkably limited information, and you decide that matters more than every other issue in the campaign, that may put your judgment in doubt.

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Read the whole transcript to see how Curry introduces Gingrich as a candidate and author, then refuses to talk about anything but the Cain allegations. http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20111107104158.aspx

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