Nominee Envy…Newt Blames Fox News
I never saw it, and I watched Fox almost every night, and to be fair I stomached as much of MSNBC as I could. I did see Sean Hannity swingin’ off Newt’s jock from day one of the race. O’Reilly and Gretta stayed out of the fray but Hannity was blushing with manlove for Newt.
So I don’t really know where this comes from.
“I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through,” Gingrich said during the private meeting — to which RealClearPolitics was granted access — at Wesley College. “In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That’s just a fact.”
Gingrich’s contract as a Fox News contributor was terminated last spring as he geared up for his White House run.
The former House speaker’s blunt remarks came in response to a question from one of the state Tea Party leaders about the manner in which his campaign has been treated by conservative media outlets.
Gingrich did not pull his punches in accusing Rupert Murdoch — the chairman and CEO of News Corp., Fox News’ parent company — of pushing for Romney behind the scenes.
“I assume it’s because Murdoch at some point [who] said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney,’ ” Gingrich said. “And there’s no question that Fox had a lot to do with stopping my campaign because such a high percentage of our base watches Fox.”