Bombshell Interview? ABC News to run interview with Gingrich Ex Wife, Thursday.

[Stuart G]

Talking Points Memo:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

1.18.2012 — 07:45 PM
The Marianne Bomb Goes Off?

Newt Gingrich's second wife (out of three) has long maintained that she has the power to end his campaign with a single interview. Leaking out on the Drudge Report in drips and drabs tonight are indications that Marianne may well have given that interview to ABC News, which is reported to be conducting an internal debate on whether to air it before Saturday's South Carolina primary.

another link on this story
Again from Talking Points Memo:

David Taintor-January 18, 2012, 8:15 PM

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/report-abc-news-weighs-airing-ex-gingrich-wife-interview-ahead-of-sc-primary.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

This second link, seems less positive that this will be a true bombshell..
Couldn't happen to a bigger asshole....

[dimbear]

1. Marianne and the professor should have never left Gilligan's Island.

Go Marianne!

[Firebrand Gary]

2. Whoa....This will have Gingrich sweating.

K n R

[TheOther95Percent]

3. Revenge is best served cold

Or so I've heard. I doubt the 2nd Mrs G has such an earth shattering revelation that hasn't been heard or said a 1,000 times before. And I think those kinds of interviews - amazingly enough - generate sympathy for the targeted ex-spouse. As I recall when Corzine was running for governor, his ex-wife made some political ads for his opponent and Corzine won by a much larger than expected number.

[JBoy]

4. I hope they wait until after SC

Let Gingrich gain some ground on Mittens, maybe gain some more endorsements, and then drop the bomb.

[Javaman]

18. That's what I was thinking too.

let him puff himself up more (more than his already overly inflated ego has...if that is even possible lol) and then drop the bomb.

[Blacksheep214]

5. What will KO say?

BOOM! Goes the dynamite!

or

Down goes Frazier!


This is must see TV!

[dflprincess]

6. I hope the interview has already been taped

or that Marianne is someplace safe.

[Blacksheep214]

7. Lawrence O'Donnell reports

it's in the can and just needs a green light to air.


(Obscure reference, I like The Hollies!)

[Octafish]

8. They better interview her soon -- before she gets paid.

Once she's cashed the check, she will have forgotten what she was going to say.

[whathehell]

15. Oooooh....I think we may be hearing the sound

of bitter ex-husbands

[Judi Lynn]

9. ..ABC News to air interview with Gingrich ex-wife

..ABC News to air interview with Gingrich ex-wife
By DAVID BAUDER | Associated Press – 19 mins ago..

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News plans to air an interview with the second wife of Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich on "Nightline" just two days before the GOP's South Carolina primary.

Excerpts from the interview with Marianne Gingrich will be released during the day Thursday, ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said, ahead of both a Republican candidate debate Thursday evening in Charleston, S.C., and ABC's late-night news program.

ABC News has not indicated what Marianne Gingrich said in the interview. Her ex-husband has said that they don't have a relationship.

The interview comes as Gingrich, the former House speaker, is trying to topple GOP front-runner Mitt Romney by casting himself as the more conservative option in the GOP presidential race. It would shine a spotlight on a part of Gingrich's past that could turn off Republican voters in a state filled with religious and cultural conservatives who may cringe at Gingrich's two divorces and acknowledged infidelities.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/abc-news-air-interview-gingrich-ex-wife-031808081.html

[riverwalker]

10. Newt's affair with his geography teacher

Jackie, the first wife he divorced when she had cancer. Newt was 16 and she was his 25 y.o. teacher, he later married her.
Marianne also relates Newt's
campaign staff called him "a sociopath, but he's our sociopath".

http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-0910-5

(Ex-wives always know where the bodies are buried)

[zonkers]

20. Oh my God, this Esquire article is an amazing read. Thank you.

[FarCenter]

11. This, of course, is why the grand panjandrums of the evangelical movement backed Santorum instead.

[Politicalboi]

12. If what Newt has been saying these last few months

Don't do him in, I doubt this will either. Unless he's caught in bed with a dead boy, the Repukes still support him. He rings their bells, and blows their whistles.
Maybe ABC is looking for a pay out from Newt.

[lunatica]

13. You say that as if you know what she'll say

Maybe she has some truly damaging information about him. Something that speaks about his criminal character traits.

[whathehell]

16. Yes, lunatica..

We may be hearing the sound of bitter ex-husbands.

[lunatica]

14. Does she still use the Gingrich last name?

I changed my name back right away. There was no way I was going through life with the same last name as my ex. My divorce was real.

[Doctor_J]

17. So Sludge and the rest of the hate machine have picked their horse

Now you know how Dems feel trying to fight Big media, Newt

[Supersedeas]

19. The Network that brought you swiftboaters is doing the Establishment GOP's bidding once again

The Dirty Tricks network is full of timely political bombshells.