Phony e-mails say Gingrich forced abortion on ex-wife

[maddezmom]

Newt Gingrich's campaign says a press release that appears to come the his campaign "regarding reports that he forced ex-wife Marianne Gingrich to terminate a pregnancy" is a fake.


The fake press release, which you can see above, came from an email address in which the "1" in 2012 is replaced by what appears to be a lower-case "L." A search of an online web registry shows that someone registered "newt20l2.org" (with the lowercase L) today. Their name was withheld.



The fake release, in which Gingrich is quoted as saying "I have made mistakes in my life. This was one of them," comes on the heels of a fake CNN Breaking News alert sent overnight to Republicans in South Carolina, which holds its primary tomorrow. The false email claimed that "[a] source close to Marianne Gingrich tells CNN that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich forced her to abort a pregnancy conceived during the affair that preceeded her marriage to Gingrich."

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South Carolina is famous for its rough-and-tumble politics, which include a whisper campaign ahead of the 2000 primary falsely claiming that John McCain had fathered an African-American child out of wedlock. In 2008, Republicans in the state received a fake Christmas card, ostensibly from Mitt Romney, that endorsed polygamy and spotlighted Romney's Mormon faith.

more:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57363111-503544/phony-e-mails-say-gingrich-forced-abortion-on-ex-wife/

[TheWraith]

1. Well, looks like we have this year's black baby.

Who wants to bet that it's a Romney person behind it?

[denem]

2. Newt should say it's Democrats running scared.

Don't let them fool you, it's more proof I am the one to beat Obama

[crazylikafox]

3. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if it were true

[denem]

4. Karl agrees with you.

It's BS. The big secret is Newt's 'instability'.

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

5. One can only hope (which is not rational) that the campaign tactic of dumping cans of garbage

into the debate, will ultimately result in so much garbage, that the only remaining option, will be to consider ideas.

[Atticus]

6. Anyone else wondering if Newt's own people are behind these transparently fake emails?

Sure is convenient that this is "discovered" the morning after the "victim" has just forcefully railed against "despicable" and "false" attacks against him on national TV.

Actually, this is the type of Machiavellian fraud for which Mr. Rove is justifiably famous. I'd love to know the origin of this.