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Whut.
posted by joe lisboa at 3:22 PM on January 19, 2012
posted by joe lisboa at 3:22 PM on January 19, 2012
And so it's kind of funny, actually, seeing news that you broke a year and a half ago being blasted out on the Internet as some kind of world exclusive. Why, it's as if we're all amnesiacs. All last night and into today, alarmed headlines have blared across the masthead of the Drudge Report. SHOCK CLAIM: Newt moved for divorce just months after she had been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.... Or: Gingrich Lacks Moral Character to Be President, Ex-Wife Says... Bitter Marianne Gingrich Unloads, Claims Newt Wanted Open Marriage... Or: Adviser: Marianne 'very bitter'...John H. Richardson sounds a little upset that no one cared about all the hard work he did tracking Marianne down in 2010, when Gingrich was a has been and Nov. 2012 seemed a world away. Timing is everything dude, especially in politics.
Follow those links and you arrive at breathless stories about Marianne Gingrich's "first television appearance," which will be aired tonight on ABC. She will say that Gingrich "lacks the moral character to serve as President" because "his campaign positions on the sanctity of marriage and the importance of family values do not square with what she saw during their 18 years of marriage."
All of this — the "open marriage," Gingrich leaving his wife shortly after her diagnosis with MS, etc. — appeared in the September 2010 issue of Esquire.
posted by 2bucksplus at 3:34 PM on January 19, 2012
John hasn't had the benefit of a MeFi membership, or he would have FIAMO.
posted by vidur at 3:37 PM on January 19, 2012
posted by vidur at 3:37 PM on January 19, 2012
Ex-spouse says something nasty about ex-husband. We already knew that Gingrich was ann notions, impulsive guy with a penchant for philandary.
posted by humanfont at 3:39 PM on January 19, 2012
posted by humanfont at 3:39 PM on January 19, 2012
The real story is that Newt Gingrich is so deeply conflicted and strange, so erratic and unreliable, so scheming and secretive, that he's way too much like a character out of Dostoevsky than a politician should ever be.
Wow.
posted by JHarris at 3:40 PM on January 19, 2012
Wow.
posted by JHarris at 3:40 PM on January 19, 2012
Ex-spouse says something nasty about ex-husband.
Yup.
Frustrated at this, and feeling as though I needed someone to tell me the truth about such a fascinating and vaguely human character who had been such an important actor on the political stage for decades, I sought out Gingrich's second ex-wife, Marianne, whom he had left ignominiously
I'm not sure whether the writer is credulous or believes that his audience is.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 3:42 PM on January 19, 2012
Yup.
Frustrated at this, and feeling as though I needed someone to tell me the truth about such a fascinating and vaguely human character who had been such an important actor on the political stage for decades, I sought out Gingrich's second ex-wife, Marianne, whom he had left ignominiously
I'm not sure whether the writer is credulous or believes that his audience is.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 3:42 PM on January 19, 2012
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