Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) on Monday stunned the hosts of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” by charging that their show essentially “invented” Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.
When host Brian Kilmeade asked Gingrich how Trump could be “running away with this thing,” the former Georgia congressman turned the blame back on the network.
“Look, that’s because of you guys,” Gingrich said. “Donald Trump gets up in the morning, tweets to the entire planet at no cost, picks up the phone, calls you, has a great conversation for about eight minutes, which would have cost him a ton in commercial money, and meanwhile his opponents are all out there trying to raise the money to run an ad. Nobody believes the ad.”
Kilmeade said Trump has made himself available to networks, unlike Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Host Steve Doocy added that Trump has “invented scenarios” to get “free media.”
Gingrich didn’t relent.
“Look, you could say that Trump is the candidate ‘Fox & Friends’ invented. He was on your show I think more than any other show,” he said. “It was always a happy, positive conversation.”
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I agree with Newt about something!?
If I look out my window I’m sure pigs are flying!
Correct, and blithely un-self aware.
Oh, the knives are going to come out before this thing is over! Sweet, sweet Schadenfreude.
Piss off Newt! You had as much, if not more, of a hand in creating this monster.
You just started decades, yes decades ago fomenting what’s become the new GOP, including this short-fingered vulgarian. Sure Fox is more current but you planted the seeds of what’s become the mighty oak called Trump.
I do hope Hillary is sharpening her ax to bring down this foul tree, roots and all!
Honestly, I couldn’t really tell from the vid if Newt was really “charging” the show for Trump’s presidential candidacy or he actually was praising Trump…
WHHHOOOOOAAAAH that’s so meta I think I’m having an out of body experience. So the guy who has the single most solid claim on having invented the modern iteration of The Crazy (besides maybe Rush Limbaugh or Matt Drudge) is calling out Fox News for having invented its ultimate champion, its evolutionary end result, the apex predator par exellence of the derp ecosystem? How many dogs’ tails am I holding up, and what are they even wagging again?