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The Spectacle Blog
Jennifer Rubin caught Newt Gingrich in what should be a major transgression in Sunday’s debate. Here’s the thing: It is flat-out illegal for a candidate to coordinate in any way with a SuperPac. Yet at Sunday’s debate, Gingrich showed knowledge of details of a new long-form ad being produced by a SuperPac supporting him, before the ad aired. How can that be? If he hasn’t coordinated with them, how does he know who the sources are for the claims made in the ad?!?
Writes Rubin:
Gingrich said, “When the 27 and a half minute movie comes out, I hope it’s accurate. I— I— I— I can say, publicly, I hope that the Super PAC runs an accurate movie about Bain. It’ll be based on establishment newspapers, like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron’s, Bloomberg News, and I hope it is totally accurate. And then people can watch the 27 and a half minutes of his career at Bain and decide for themselves.”…. You can judge for yourself whether Gingrich said he hopes the ad would contain those sources or whether he seemed to know what the sourcing of the yet-to-be-released ad is. But, I suppose the proof will be in the pudding. If the super PAC ad does use these “establishment” newspaper sources to make its case there will be lots of questions: How did Gingrich know? And when did he know it?
Remember that Gingrich has gone so far as to call Mitt Romney a “liar” when Romney denied knowing what the Romney SuperPac was going to do against Gingrich. Gingrich’s attitude seems to be that it is beyond belief that a candidate would be unaware, in advance, of a SuperPac’s plans. Well, this latest exchange seems to fit with that assumption. The reason he disbelieves Romney, perhaps, is because he, Gingrich, is in touch with his SuperPac, so he doesn’t believe that anybody else would follow the law and avoid coordination with other SuperPacs.
This quite literally calls for a federal investigation. There is probable cause to believe coordination occurred, based on Gingrich’s own words. Shouldn’t somebody subpoena his phone records, or something? Again, if he did coordinate, it would be a clear and unambiguous violation of federal law. It might be a stupid law, but it IS law. And there really does seem as if there is no other explanation for how he knows the sourcing for an ad whose contents he is not even supposed to know about.
QED, perhaps?
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Dai Alanye | 1.9.12 @ 2:54PM
Thank goodness Romney hasn't coordinated with his Super-Pac. [wink-wink] ;~}
The sooner John McCain's campaign finamcing law is overturned the better off we'll be.
Jack in Wi.| 1.9.12 @ 3:17PM
Sheldon Adelson the crackpot Israeli, gambling, billionaire who funds the most extreme elements in Israel, has dumped 5 million into Newts super pact. Do you wonder why Newt is the most extreme person on the stage, on Middle East policy? I wonder how much Rick Santorum gets from the same people?
FckEwe| 1.9.12 @ 5:29PM
Doesn't Newt resemble Rush just before his drug abuse and rehab scam? The face, the yes, the rhetoric...
Jack in Wi.| 1.9.12 @ 8:11PM
Ron Paul and Willard Romney are tied head to head against Obama in the latest CBS national poll. Sheldo Adelson, the Israeli far right, lunatic, casino billionaire has just dumped 20 million into Newt Gingrich's campaign. Newt is the Likudnik candidate for President. So is Santorum. Romney is the Mormon candidate. Ron Paul is the candidate for all Americans who want out of this corrupt system
Jack in Wi.| 1.9.12 @ 8:13PM
I am correcting my statement. This news has just come out.
Clint| 1.9.12 @ 10:37PM
Gingrich Super PAC to attack Romney for Bain Capital work?
The effort to derail Mitt Romney’s presidential quest heightened dramatically on Friday when a super PAC associated with Newt Gingrich outbid all comers for the rights to a scathing 30-minute attack video depicting Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate raider “more ruthless than Wall Street.”
In a season filled with negative ads and rhetorical crossfire, the striking feature of the film, aside from its mini-documentary length, is its authorship. The film was made by Jason Killian Meath, a former associate of Romney’s top strategists, Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer. Meath had worked for the Romney campaign in 2008, creating much of the ad content for that failed effort. He left Stevens and Schriefer’s firm, SSG, in 2010. Meath declined to comment on his project, referring inquiries to the pro-Gingrich PAC Winning Our Future…
“A story of greed,” the narrator intones. “Playing the system for a quick buck. A group of corporate raiders, led by Mitt Romney. More ruthless than Wall Street. For tens of thousands of Americans, the suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town.”
The Tea Party Rebellion Is On The East Coast.
Clint| 1.9.12 @ 11:21PM
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Martin | 1.9.12 @ 3:50PM
Oh rubbish. The sooner the flotsam is cleared out of the way fro Ron Paul and Rick perry, the true conservatives in this race, the better.
Much better to zap Romney now, because the Dems would make him unelectable with the Bain Capital's record tied to him. Bain isn't capitalism, it's financial finagling of the worst kind; when it started, as venture capital, it created jobs, but LBOs are net job destructive. mostly because of the ineptitude of the overstuffed yuppies who do them.
And Santorum isn't the answer; he's a hysterical economic illiterate.
TB| 1.9.12 @ 3:58PM
I dunno. I'd seen the movie trailer and read about its sources before the NBC debate. If I could read about them with no effort, I presume Gingrich could too.
Casey Abell| 1.9.12 @ 4:06PM
Newt's real crime in Hillyer's eyes? The polls show him pushing Santorum (Quin's hero) into fifth place in NH.
SpiralArchitect| 1.9.12 @ 6:55PM
Quinn the hater. Pity.
LarryK| 1.9.12 @ 7:47PM
Amen!
Dan| 1.9.12 @ 4:44PM
Yea,
thank God Hillyer is on top of this scandalous crime, which will probably be spoken of in future years right up there with the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's child.
Once again Hillyer has proven what a keen eye he has on what is salient, what is important, what the nation's federal investigative arm needs to be pursuing.
Thanks Hillyer.
Keep up that good work.............
somnolence| 1.9.12 @ 4:50PM
Bain can't hold a candle to Solyndra and the GM bailout(where are OUR promised profits, not the unions?), and you know it. I flat out dare the Dems to try that one. Dare them.
FckEwe| 1.9.12 @ 5:27PM
Dare what exactly? The month long debate over a paltry sum that keeps 8 MILLION jobs in place?
Or the fact that this fight was a smokescreen to cover 5000 jobs with 700 million, unregulated tax payer dollars, all because a Goldman Sachs CEO said so?
somnolence| 1.9.12 @ 4:52PM
The law is the law, but as long as Obama skirts it every day, hey, the more the merrier, and I'm not for Gingrich, and have never really liked him.
Mike| 1.9.12 @ 4:53PM
Isn't Newt's real crime that he's egotistical nannystate socialists, who is incapable of exuding a likeable personality to the public?
Oldefarte| 1.9.12 @ 5:11PM
If these morons collectively don't stop calling each other names and lobbing insults at one another, and BEGIN POINT COMBINED FINGERS AT 1600'S OCCUPANTS, there will be no country left that is currently known as THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!
FckEwe| 1.9.12 @ 5:24PM
FOr ONCE, farte contains a molecule of wisdom. Still smells bad but.... heheheheeeeeeeee All the O boy has to do is throw salt on the wounds they RED's slash each other apart with.
"Would you like a little more Corporate Raider with your Criminal Fraud and racist Christian hypocracy?
Oldefarte| 1.10.12 @ 2:39PM
DUMBARS, what I'd like is NOT politically corrupt Chicago community organizing thugs, more Michelle-My-Belle Halloween parties inside my white house at taxpayer expense, more Salazarian cruminally withholding oil drilling permits at his boss's instructions in order to hum-job the wacko environmentalists/domestic terrorists, more Eric the pardon-crook using Justice's power to placate illegal immigration again at taxpayer expense and to facilitate border agent's killings via governmental illegal weapons gun running, and finally FOR COMPLETE MORONS LIKE YOURSELF TO SLINK BACK IN YOUR SADAAM RABBIT HOLES OF DIRTBAG EXISTENCE!!!!!!!!!
Steven | 1.9.12 @ 5:13PM
Wow. This is really weak. Put the comma in the right place, and Jennifer Romneybot's whole case goes away.
Gingrich said "I hope" that the ad will be based on establishment sources (presumably because no one would trust criticism from conservative sources, which would naturally be critical of a RINO like Romney).
The quote: "I can say, publicly, I hope that the Super PAC runs an accurate movie about Bain, it'll be based on establishment newspapers like the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron's, Bloomberg News, and I hope it is totally accurate, and then people can watch the 27 and a half minutes of his career at Bain and decide for themselves."
FckEwe| 1.9.12 @ 5:21PM
Well... 27 minutes of really rich buttfucks sipping dollar bills from champaign flutes on their yachts MIGHT be a refutation of Bain's King.. But I doubt it.
A complete audit of ALL Bain Capital transactions might give a better picture of the truth.
Oldefarte| 1.10.12 @ 2:43PM
Yeah DUMBARS, maybe instead a complete audit of the white house, the Justice Dept, the Interior Dept, Homeland Insecurity, and maybe Michelle's governmental credit card account might be more in order, huh [since these involve the PUBLIC TAXPAYERS' money, whereas Bain involves their SHAREHOLDERS' money.....but of course you're so stupid you don't know the difference between the two]!!!!!!!
FckEwe| 1.9.12 @ 5:17PM
What IS a pitard anyway?
Being hoisted on it does sound rather devastating.
Are the Newt and the Mitt wearing the same pitards?
Sharing the same pitards?
Then most certainly each of them KNOWS the other is guilty!
Such chivalry, to go down with the GOP ship, just to keep out of JAIL!
Oldefarte| 1.10.12 @ 2:45PM
STUPID IS AS STUPID POSTS [and boy are you's stupid]!!!!!!!
somnolence| 1.9.12 @ 5:18PM
I can tell Rick Perry that Bain's successes and failures and people losing jobs is called private enterprise, or better yet, CAPITALISM. Live with it.
Clint| 1.9.12 @ 10:36PM
Gingrich Super PAC to attack Romney for Bain Capital work?
The effort to derail Mitt Romney’s presidential quest heightened dramatically on Friday when a super PAC associated with Newt Gingrich outbid all comers for the rights to a scathing 30-minute attack video depicting Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate raider “more ruthless than Wall Street.”
In a season filled with negative ads and rhetorical crossfire, the striking feature of the film, aside from its mini-documentary length, is its authorship. The film was made by Jason Killian Meath, a former associate of Romney’s top strategists, Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer. Meath had worked for the Romney campaign in 2008, creating much of the ad content for that failed effort. He left Stevens and Schriefer’s firm, SSG, in 2010. Meath declined to comment on his project, referring inquiries to the pro-Gingrich PAC Winning Our Future…
“A story of greed,” the narrator intones. “Playing the system for a quick buck. A group of corporate raiders, led by Mitt Romney. More ruthless than Wall Street. For tens of thousands of Americans, the suffering began when Mitt Romney came to town.”
The Tea Party Rebellion Is On The East Coast.
somnolence| 1.9.12 @ 5:31PM
Eight million jobs courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Where the hell are the profits we were promised? My wife and I have sworn off GM products forever, not that we were ever going to buy any of the rattletraps anyway.
somnolence| 1.9.12 @ 5:35PM
Like I say, let the smartasses proceed in their Bain arguments. I guarantee it will be PAIN instead of BAIN for them in the long run(Jeff Immelt, I hope you pick up on this also). Trump told Fox this morning HE would throw Solyndra right back at them.
Trinacria| 1.9.12 @ 5:52PM
Gee, Quin; maybe he saw it in the same places I did BEFORE THE DEBATE, including the NY Times, the Super Pac website (where a preview of the movie was available SUNDAY MORNING), or CBS news (who had a reporter preview and report on the movie prior to its posting on the website). With all of the legitimate material one could use against Gingrich, it rather betrays your unseemly personal vendetta against him to trot out some half-assed, unsubstantiated charge (which, by the way, a high school freshman journalist could dismiss with a simple Google search). It's unbecoming, Quin. And lazy. This is the American Spectator, for God's sake, not the "Real Housewives of...".
P.S. I heard a rumor that Newt ran with scissors in his house yesterday; might want to alert the FBI (it might be a stupid rule, but a rule is a rule, no?).
Gadfly| 1.9.12 @ 6:18PM
What's up with the Spectator pushing liberal attack lines today? Romney's a capitalist who wants to fire people!! Gingrich might be violating campaign finance rules!! Next thing you know, you'll see an add about how (shock) Santorum opposses a woman's right to choose!!
Gadfly| 1.9.12 @ 6:19PM
*blog post, not add
Dan| 1.9.12 @ 11:12PM
He didn't just "fire people."
He raided companies, stripped them of their financial assets, stripped pensioners of their due and drop some of their bill for these maneuvers on the federal taxpayer.
That's what he did.
Making money for himself all the way, which he now uses to launch attack ads against his opponents while portraying himself as this wonderful family man. The family man that put other family men right out of work, dumping massive stress and strain and God only knows how many families.
That's a pathological strain of Capitalism, but it's hardly the narrative that all of us have been regaled with concerning Romney's business activities.
Face it all you Romney lovers, {id est, mormons, Ann Coulter, Hewitt and Chris Christie} you've been sold a bill of goods.
And if you think that his business activities aren't going to be excoriated all of 2012 building to a crescendo in October of this year, then you guys are JV and not ready for political primetime.
Henry Gomez| 1.9.12 @ 11:13PM
There were news reports about the film all over the place by the time of the debate, including the trailer, the length, the sources, etc. Please.
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ml| 1.10.12 @ 4:59AM
Gingrich did not break the law. It is Jen Rubin's article. She doesn't make sense at all. Rubin is another RINO's and work for the liberal newspaper, Washington Post. She is a Romney's supporter.
Canada Dan| 1.10.12 @ 1:56PM
oh, the karma, it burns, it burns!