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Newt’s Estranged Ex-Wife (2nd) Unloads On Camera In Potentially Candidacy-Destroying Interview – UPDATE: REPORTS THAT ABC WILL AIR FRIDAY WRONG, WILL AIR TONIGHT (THURSDAY)



Jan 18, 2012 40 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

NY Times:

An ABC News spokesman confirmed Wednesday night that “Nightline” will broadcast the interview at 11:35 p.m. Thursday; excerpts will be released earlier in the day, before a Republican debate sponsored by CNN on Thursday evening.

UPDATE: NEW YORK (AP) – An ABC News executive tells The Associated Press that the network has interviewed Newt Gingrich’s second wife and will air the segment Thursday on “Nightline.”

That’s two days before the South Carolina primary, where the Republican presidential candidate is trying to topple GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.

The ABC News executive did not indicate what the ex-wife, Marianne, said in the interview and spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plans for airing the interview were tentative.

The ex-wife has said Gingrich proposed to her before the divorce from his first wife was final in 1981. Her marriage to Gingrich ended in divorce in 2000. Gingrich admitted he’d already taken up with Callista Bisek, his third wife.

Gingrich has said he has no relationship with his second wife.

The Drudge Report:

**Exclusive**
Wed Jan 18 2012 18:47:14 ET

Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview.

Earlier this week, she sat before ABCNEWS cameras, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

She spoke to ABCNEWS reporter Brian Ross for two hours, and her explosive revelations are set to rock the trail.

But now a “civil war” has erupted inside of the network, an insider claims, on exactly when the confession will air!

MORE

ABCNEWS suits determined it would be “unethical” to run the Marianne Gingrich interview so close to the South Carolina Primary, a curious decision, one insider argued, since the network has aggressively been reporting on other candidates.

A decision was tentatively made to air the interview next Monday, after all votes have been counted.

Gingrich canceled a press conference on Wednesday to deal with the matter.

“He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected,” Marianne Gingrich, Newt’s wife of 18 years, explained to ESQUIRE last year.

Developing…


  • Ty

    I’m not a fan of Newt.  I like his intelligence – at least in non-personal life matters – but not his baggage.  That being said, it sure must be nice to be able to hang out with terrorists, hide one’s birth certificate, hide one’s college records, hide one’s racist church, etc… from everyone but a few conservative blogs.  It’s amazing to me that Herman Cain was crucified and dropped due to an alleged affair while Obama got to skate by with aid and assistance from 90% of the media.  What a great country we’ve got here.

    • Richwill

      Well said.  I wonder how much the bitch is being paid.  What happened to Herman Cain is terrible.

  • Anonymous

    Ex lovers/spouses are always bitter and will paint you as a devil. Why is she doing this and who is paying her? Just saying based on my ex relationships.

  • Anonymous

    Ex lovers/spouses are always bitter and will paint you as a devil. Why is she doing this and who is paying her? Just saying based on my ex relationships.

  • Anonymous

    Ex lovers/spouses are always bitter and will paint you as a devil. Why is she doing this and who is paying her? Just saying based on my ex relationships.

    • http://profiles.google.com/moriah.steiner Moriah Steiner

      Dogs are more faithful than Newt Gingrich. He dumped his wife while she was in the hospital with cancer. She doesn’t need to be paid..

    • ATTILA

      Bullshit, she filed for divorce prior to having cancer. She survived it. That scenario never happened.

    • Canned05

      Correct, but the media never lets the facts get in the way of a good story.

    • YERMOM

      no the media never lets the facts get in the way of their narrative 

    • YERMOM

      no the media never lets the facts get in the way of their narrative 

    • Just a Girl

      You ever get that not so fresh feeling ? Yeah, that’s how I feel when Eclectic likes one of my comments too.

      My condolences.

  • Anonymous

    Ex lovers/spouses are always bitter and will paint you as a devil. Why is she doing this and who is paying her? Just saying based on my ex relationships.

  • Anonymous

    Ex lovers/spouses are always bitter and will paint you as a devil. Why is she doing this and who is paying her? Just saying based on my ex relationships.

  • Anonymous

    Let the bitch spew.  I have my reasons for not liking Newt regardless.  At this point there are no viable candidates for office anyway.  Unless or until a candidate properly addresses the true threats to our Nation its all moot.

    God save the Republic.

    Water, Food, Guns, Ammo, Fuel (not necessarily in that order)

    • E-Boss

      Brilliant! Thanks…

    • YERMOM

      Amen Brotha Politicalfish

    • J. Delta
    • Anonymous

      Yes, both books were.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, both books were.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, both books were.

  • ATTILA

    Hell hathy no fury etc

  • ATTILA

    Hell hathy no fury etc

  • http://twitter.com/CaptDax Dax Dushkewich

    The Timeing..?  smells of Political Terrorism

  • http://twitter.com/thejollylamas jolly lama

    i can see by her face why newt left her

  • http://patdollard.com USMC3112

    Gosh, everybody here is all on the same page! Great commentary and analysis!

  • Barbara Espinosa

    AIR IT NOW..VETTING SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE VOTE IN SC

  • Barbara Espinosa

    AIR IT NOW..VETTING SHOULD BE DONE BEFORE VOTE IN SC

  • mike3481

    @ ” WILL AIR TOMORROW (THURSDAY)”

    Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy… let the fun begin.

  • mike3481

    @ ” WILL AIR TOMORROW (THURSDAY)”

    Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy… let the fun begin.

  • ATTILA

    Many a good man (not newt in this case) have been brought to heel by the power of the devils furry little triangle.
    Remember you guys, a pussy is nothing more than an odoriferous furry little animal that lives about three feet off the ground,
    and consumes enormous quantities of meat.

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  • JayMS

    Damn, the MSM is nothing if predictable.  No big surprise they would want to air Newt’s dirty laundry than discuss substantive issues such as the economy, foreign policy, etc.  And gee, how convenient she steps forward to dish up dirt on Newt right before the SC primary to a conservative audience in a bible belt red state so people might vote for….Romney.

    And gee, you think Team Hussein has not already figured out who they want to run against in the general election?  Romney of course.  Newt would mop the floor in a debate with Barry Hussein.  Romney is just another boring, rich, yankee white dude.

  • Anonymous

    Newt just got Rick Perry’s endorsement (as Perry is dropping out).This bitter woman has axes to burn obviously. How does this help your kids or family to trash your ex via the Main Stream Media?  Keep it private and move on. What dirt could Newt say about her? This is beyond stupid. Why did she wait until Newt was moving back up in the polls? I smell bs and dirty politics behind these attacks.

  • Anonymous

    Newt just got Rick Perry’s endorsement (as Perry is dropping out).This bitter woman has axes to burn obviously. How does this help your kids or family to trash your ex via the Main Stream Media?  Keep it private and move on. What dirt could Newt say about her? This is beyond stupid. Why did she wait until Newt was moving back up in the polls? I smell bs and dirty politics behind these attacks.

  • http://twitter.com/DicksTrash Dick

    Mark it. This will backfire in a huge way and just might push Newt into the Presidency.

  • http://twitter.com/DicksTrash Dick

    Mark it. This will backfire in a huge way and just might push Newt into the Presidency.

  • Beverly

    Wow just read the last three posts…..Does anyone not see Newt brought this all onto himself.  Don’t say shame on his 2nd wife…say Shame on You Newt for not keeping your marriage vows…not once but twice…..How sure are we that after taking the Oath of Office (if elected) he would find a way to disrespect the Oath he just took

    • Just a Girl

      Well, I suppose instead of being a bitter, resentful bitch, Newt’s second wife could always poke him in the eye with her abnormally pointy boobs.

      Just saying.

    • lube

      i realize that he’s second wife[the one bitchin] is of course not guilty she was only the “other woman” to his first wife, and broke up that marriage.
      of course a leopard will change his spots for you

  • lube

    i love it when the holy-ier then thou libs preach about others sin. we all know that the dems are purer then the wind driven snow (clinton, kenndy{all of then],frank[the gay whor house is at my place]
    just saying.