Gingrich Asked About Marital Past, Role In Clinton Impeachment

[niyad]

(this would be hysterically funny if it weren't so damned pathetic. I wondered how he would try to wiggle out if someone dared question him directly. enjoy, those who have not yet heard this nonsense)

Gingrich Asked About Marital Past, Role In Clinton Impeachment


By MATTHEW JAFFE & ELICIA DOVER -

MIAMI – Newt Gingrich today was forced to confront head-on charges of hypocrisy after last week he angrily dismissed questions about his extra-marital conduct when a little over a decade earlier, as Speaker of the House, he had led impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton for his own affair.

“When you were Speaker of the House, you criticized President Clinton for having an extramarital affair,” Univision correspondent Jorge Ramos said to Gingrich during a forum Wednesday in Miami.
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“However at the same time you were doing exactly the same thing.”

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“That’s right, because they listen to your question and they don’t understand the facts. The fact is, I have been through two divorces,” said the GOP candidate. “I have been deposed both times under oath and both times I have told the truth in the deposition because I know – I am not a lawyer – so I know it is a felony. Bill Clinton, who is a lawyer, a Yale law school graduate, he knew he was lying under oath, he knew it was perjury, he knew it was a felony and in fact, he lost his license to practice law in Arkansas as part of the deal -”

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“Okay, there is some place there where there’s a mental synapse missing,” said an aggravated Gingrich. “I didn’t do the same thing. I never lied under oath, I have never committed perjury, I have never been involved in a felony – he was. I mean, I had one of his closest friends come to see me and said to m, ‘You know, lots of people have done what he did’ and I said, ‘That’s right but they didn’t lie under oath about it.’ And the guy looked at me and said ‘well, you’re right, that’s a felony and that’s a real problem.’”

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/gingrich-asked-about-marital-past-role-in-clinton-impeachment/

[rhett o rick]

1. There it is. It's ok to cheat on your wife as long as you dont commit a felony.

The Newt cant spell "Family Values".

[Old and In the Way]

2. Disgusting rationalization.

No doubt, Clinton fudged facts about a consensual act with another adult. So what? Why was this 50+MM witch hunt even allowed to be conducted? This had no bearing whatsoever on Clinton's fitness to run this country. It's not like he was the 1st President to have an affair with someone other than his spouse while in office. The fact that a partisan witch hunt was conducted by Gingrich while he was doing, at best, the same thing is the hight of cynical hypocrisy. Newt's going to have to come up with a better lie than it was the "lying under oath" BS.

[Maven]

3. "Not a lawyer" yet certainly trying hard to deny the obvious based on a technicality

I'm SO GLAD this question was asked. It needs to keep being asked at every opportunity.

[darkstar]

4. Hmmm...I wonder if there is a record--tv, print--of him

bloviating on and on about the morality of Clinton's affair itself?

[gopiscrap]

5. I would tend to bet there are no mirrors in the newters home

he's so slimy he can't even stand to look at himself!!!

[nanabugg]

6. I think if Clinton had said "I did not have sexual intercourse with that woman" he might have

not lied under oath.

[sabrina 1]

7. He just told a lie. Clinton did not 'lie under oath'. And he should and probably does know

that this rightwing lie has been debunked many, many times.

Clinton's 'lie' was told in a deposition for a case that was dismissed on its merits. So, no perjury, no felony. To commit perjury someone has to lie about something that is 'material to the case'. Since there was no case, nothing he said in the deposition was 'material'.

To think this country has sunk so low that this is what the Corporations are able to buy to run for president of the US.

I hope someone corrects him in the media, but then why would they? They have gone along with the rightwing lies for decades now.

[niyad]

8. the puppet masters hope that we will have forgotten those small details. what surprises me, though,

is that a national news organization actually asked him those direct questions. bet it surprised the heck out of the serial adulterer, too.