Newt Gingrich wrong in attack against media on open marriage question from the WASHINGTON POST 26JAN12

The "reporter" at the debate set himself up for the attack from gingrich(k) and the audience response. His question was stupid. He should have asked gingrich(k) about his hypocrisy in leading the impeachment of Bill Clinton while having an affair or about his hypocrisy of giving "family values" speeches while having extramarital affairs or the hypocrisy of his opposition to same sex civil unions / marriage because they are a threat to marriage while he was having extramarital affairs. When a person is a candidate for political office and part of his candidacy involves tell the nation to clean up it's moral act while having multiple extramarital affairs that person's position should be challenged on their rhetoric and the hypocrisy of their actions. And one should remember, marianne gingrich(k) had an extramarital affair with the married newt gingrich(k) while she was married. From the Washington Post....

By Amy Gardner

It was one of the highlights of the South Carolina debate: Newt Gingrich fielding a question about one of his failed marriages, lashing out at the media, stirring the debate audience to its feet and going on to win the South Carolina primary in a landslide.
According to a CNN report late Wednesday, Gingrich misspoke on the
Republican presidential candidate former House speaker Newt Gingrich makes a point during the opening question of a debate at the North Charleston Coliseum Jan. 19., in South Carolina. (John Moore - GETTY IMAGES) debate stage when he accused ABC of airing an unfair report about his second marriage. The report included an interview with Marianne Gingrich, who accused her ex-husband of asking for an "open marriage" in the 1990s. But it didn't include interviews, Gingrich said on the debate stage last Thursday in Charleston, with people who say the charge is false.
"The story is false," Gingrich told CNN's John King at the debate. "Every personal friend I have who knew us in that period says the story was false. We offered several of them to ABC to prove it was false. They weren't interested because they would like to attack any Republican."
The Gingrich campaign conceded Wednesday that the only two people they offered to ABC were Gingrich's two daughters, from his first marriage (not Marianne Gingrich’s daughters). ABC contacted both of them and they said Marianne Gingrich’s allegations were false.
What's unclear is whether Gingrich's advisers told him otherwise.When asked Thursday morning to explain the misstatement Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond replied: “I’m not talking about ABC anymore. I’m sick of talking about ABC. It’s a week old.”
At the debate, Gingrich went on to call King "despicable" for opening the debate with a question about Gingrich's marital history. And in an interview this week with King, he said it was "just plain baloney" that that his campaign hadn't offered any other contacts beyond his daughters. But he faltered a little, looking off camera at his staff and saying: "I'll check with R.C. Hammond in a minute, but if they're saying that, they're just not being honest."
In CNN's Wednesday report, King said: "The Gingrich campaign concedes now that Speaker Gingrich was wrong, both in his debate answer and in our interview yesterday. 

Gingrich spokesman Hammond says the only people the campaign offered to ABC were the speaker's two daughters from his first marriage.