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Guy who left his wife dying in a cancer ward pimps for V.P. slot on Cruz 2016 ticket
https://www.facebook.com/SeanHannity/videos/vb.69813760388/10156549440865389/?type=2&theater“Beating up Ted Cruz doesn’t make America great.”
Tonight on “Hannity,” Newt Gingrich said that the ongoing battle between Donald J. Trump and Ted Cruzdoesn’t help either candidate. Do you agree?
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The truth about Newt and his cancer-stricken wife
How Newt Gingrich's bedside visit with his hospitalized first wife has haunted him for three decades
JUSTIN ELLIOTT
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingrich_divorce_hospital_cancer/
For almost three decades, Newt Gingrich has been dogged by a single devastating anecdote from his past, one that has been repeated in the national press hundreds of times and that has arguably come to define his political persona. After being elected to Congress in 1978 on a family values platform, the story goes, he visited his wife Jackie, who was in the hospital recovering from an operation for uterine cancer, and demanded that she discuss terms of their divorce.
It’s a story that, remarkably, Gingrich disputes to this day. Testament to how deeply it has reverberated, some version of the story — often rendered as Gingrich “serving divorce papers” to his wife in the hospital — has been cited in the last month alone by Slate, MSNBC, Politico, Commentary and the New York Times, among other outlets.
The pattern of attention on the episode when Gingrich is in the news — this time for exploring a presidential bid — has been repeated ever since the anecdote originally appeared in the first big national profile of the then-Georgia congressman. That was a 1984 piece in Mother Jones written by David Osborne and headlined “Newt Gingrich: Shining Knight of the Post-Reagan Right.”
“We thought it was going to be a piece about an intellectually interesting Republican,” Osborne, who later worked for Vice President Al Gore and is now a consultant, told me. But when Osborne started talking to former Gingrich staffers and his ex-wife Jackie, he got some explosive material on Gingrich’s alleged hypocrisy and moral failings, and the magazine rushed the story to publication before the 1984 election.
The truth about Newt and his cancer-stricken wife
How Newt Gingrich's bedside visit with his hospitalized first wife has haunted him for three decades
JUSTIN ELLIOTT
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/08/gingrich_divorce_hospital_cancer/
For almost three decades, Newt Gingrich has been dogged by a single devastating anecdote from his past, one that has been repeated in the national press hundreds of times and that has arguably come to define his political persona. After being elected to Congress in 1978 on a family values platform, the story goes, he visited his wife Jackie, who was in the hospital recovering from an operation for uterine cancer, and demanded that she discuss terms of their divorce.
It’s a story that, remarkably, Gingrich disputes to this day. Testament to how deeply it has reverberated, some version of the story — often rendered as Gingrich “serving divorce papers” to his wife in the hospital — has been cited in the last month alone by Slate, MSNBC, Politico, Commentary and the New York Times, among other outlets.
The pattern of attention on the episode when Gingrich is in the news — this time for exploring a presidential bid — has been repeated ever since the anecdote originally appeared in the first big national profile of the then-Georgia congressman. That was a 1984 piece in Mother Jones written by David Osborne and headlined “Newt Gingrich: Shining Knight of the Post-Reagan Right.”
“We thought it was going to be a piece about an intellectually interesting Republican,” Osborne, who later worked for Vice President Al Gore and is now a consultant, told me. But when Osborne started talking to former Gingrich staffers and his ex-wife Jackie, he got some explosive material on Gingrich’s alleged hypocrisy and moral failings, and the magazine rushed the story to publication before the 1984 election.
