Video: Gingrich vs. Juan Williams on the “food-stamp president”
posted at 11:05 pm on January 16, 2012 by Allahpundit
Via BuzzFeed. Between this, the exchange with Ron Paul on Bin Laden, and the zinger about 99 weeks being an associate degree, I’m thinking he might have turned South Carolina from a solid Romney lead into a nailbiter. Has any candidate at any debate had the crowd more riled up than this?
Here’s the bit with Williams plus, via Breitbart TV, the OBL question. I hope Juan is reporting this as an in-kind contribution to Gingrich 2012. Exit quotation from Tom Bevan of RCP: “Newt really is the Honey Badger.”
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First! Also an incredible reminder as to why Newt was the frontrunner at some point.
vegconservative on January 16, 2012 at 11:07 PM
Didn’t see it but I like it already…
Oh…
There’s a video…
Electrongod on January 16, 2012 at 11:07 PM
Newt was on fire tonight. They probably had to scrape Juan Williams off the ground during the break after that last exchange.
Roymunson on January 16, 2012 at 11:08 PM
I’m pissed at Newt about all the anti-business practice stuff, but sweet Jesus did he have a good night tonight.
beatcanvas on January 16, 2012 at 11:09 PM
Dude I think Mitt and Newt will probably lose to Obama. But if we are gonna lose can’t we lose a guy that stirs some type of excitement?
terryannonline on January 16, 2012 at 11:10 PM
Seven Percent Solution on January 16, 2012 at 11:11 PM
Wow… Go Newt!!!
Electrongod on January 16, 2012 at 11:12 PM
got to admit, that was a badass moment
Drunk Report on January 16, 2012 at 11:12 PM
That was a beautiful thing to watch.
Socmodfiscon on January 16, 2012 at 11:12 PM
Agreed.
AshleyTKing on January 16, 2012 at 11:12 PM
3,2,1…Ed Morrissy, who apparently has a bee in his bonnet over Gingrich, will break in to report on how Newt really lost the debate. If he can find a way to spin it. Or even if he can’t.
BCrago66 on January 16, 2012 at 11:13 PM
thanks for the linkies allah, don’t have to see the re run now….
wow, great answer by newt
cmsinaz on January 16, 2012 at 11:13 PM
Seems Newt had a badass night, good for him
didn’t watch tonight.
can’t take another debate.
blatantblue on January 16, 2012 at 11:14 PM
ditto based on the linkies above…
cmsinaz on January 16, 2012 at 11:14 PM
Newt shoved the race card right up Juans azz….
Times when I love the Newt!
bazil9 on January 16, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Credit where it’s due (and I am far from being a Newt fan), but he did well in this debate. His biggest enemy is and has always been Newt Gingrich. Otherwise, there would be no stopping him.
troyriser_gopftw on January 16, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Thats because you are in the tank for Romney
liberal4life on January 16, 2012 at 11:15 PM
Newt was so good tonight I’m going to forgive him for going kamikaze on Bain.
kunegetikos on January 16, 2012 at 11:15 PM
It’s when Newt doesn’t have an idiot to argue with that he gets in trouble.
RBMN on January 16, 2012 at 11:16 PM
Perry was doing great until Turkey came up.
Mitt looked very unpolished.
Valiant on January 16, 2012 at 11:16 PM
I don’t care how Newt did, he made Romney look conservative and statesmen-like on the PAC issue, so I’m still not supporting Newt.
Aizen on January 16, 2012 at 11:16 PM
The peasants are revolting.
John the Libertarian on January 16, 2012 at 11:16 PM
Newt fights.
Robert_Paulson on January 16, 2012 at 11:16 PM
Yep! I bet Fox security had to run Juan out to his car with a coat over his head.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 16, 2012 at 11:17 PM
And why he will be frontrunner, again.
The Nerve on January 16, 2012 at 11:18 PM
That was Newt’s best slap down I have seen.
Juan…sucks to be you…
Explain this one on Hannity.
*if you can’t see…I am smilin’*
Electrongod on January 16, 2012 at 11:18 PM
Looks like Newt found his MOJO again.
MJZZZ on January 16, 2012 at 11:18 PM
But the Mitt Romney supporters tell me he’s soooo electable. So I have no other options!
terryannonline on January 16, 2012 at 11:18 PM
In your face….. Juan and I liked it!!!!
MNH on January 16, 2012 at 11:19 PM
moron.
haven’t watched a debate in a cpl months
blatantblue on January 16, 2012 at 11:19 PM
I don’t know how one can watch that debate and say Newt isn’t a conservative.
terryannonline on January 16, 2012 at 11:19 PM
easy, his past.
blatantblue on January 16, 2012 at 11:20 PM
he’s not a commie, but a strong, thoroughbred conservative he is not.
blatantblue on January 16, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Newt is like the ex-boyfriend you’re sooooo glad you got rid of, but every once in a while, he shows up with flowers, says just the right things, and makes you wonder why you every broke up in the first place.
Then he opens his mouth again and you remember why.
Laura in Maryland on January 16, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Can’t wait for HopeLessNess/ChangeLessNess to answer,
the African America on more food stamps,and higher
employment!!
canopfor on January 16, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Great horny toads, Newt left a smoking pile where Juan Williams used to be!
ebrown2 on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 PM
Oooh that was a smackdown of the highest order.
Go Newt!
gophergirl on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 PM
Newt Badger don’t care. Newt Badger dont’ give a sh!t.
cynccook on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 PM
And Newt was smart enough to know who he needed to go after….Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a nut and should no way be polling as high as is.
terryannonline on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 PM
“Newt really is the Honey Badger.” Iv been sayin that forever.
Down in the pols needed a good performance and he pulled through, The man is clutch.
boogaleesnots on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 PM
It was cruel to put Juan in such a spot. How would you feel if you were the Washinton Generals and suddenly had to play the Mavs for realszies on national TV.
borntoraisehogs on January 16, 2012 at 11:22 PM
+1
Hey! How’s my favorite veal cutlet?
Laura in Maryland on January 16, 2012 at 11:22 PM
Put this on top of Mitt may have actually lost Iowa and we’re off to the races….
golfmann on January 16, 2012 at 11:23 PM
Newt had a fire in his belly tonight.
And all that bunk that the Mitt-intelligencia has been peddling for the last 2 weeks about Newt being anti capitalist was destroyed tonight.
Mittens looked like Huntsman up there when compared to Gingrich.
Go Newt!!
portlandon on January 16, 2012 at 11:23 PM
I was hanging pine tree car freshers on my monitor after watching this clip…
:)
Electrongod on January 16, 2012 at 11:24 PM
Food Stamp Musical Theme!
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Janet Jackson – What Have You Done For Me Lately
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9uizdKZAGE&ob=av2e
canopfor on January 16, 2012 at 11:24 PM
You mean his past of balancing a budget and reforming welfare?
terryannonline on January 16, 2012 at 11:24 PM
Juan Williams can now leave the studio by walking under a closed door.
VorDaj on January 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM
David Gregory tried to pull this same race crap on Newt weeks ago.
I’m not a Newt supporter, but like all of us here, I get really riled up and protective when one of our guys has the race card played on him. It should be violently smacked down whenever it happens. Allah is right that it’s an in-kind donation.
juliesa on January 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM
For the record, the area known as “the corridor of shame” is South Carolina’s 6th district, which has been represented by racist democrat Jim Clyburn for almost 20 years. I wish Newt had brought up this fact.
SouthernGent on January 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM
Newt!
mankai on January 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM
The funny part is how silly your self contradictory post looks when in print. I’m sure it sounded clever in your head.
fossten on January 16, 2012 at 11:27 PM
Food Stamp Musical Theme Part 2!
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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Refugee
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFnOfpIJL0M
canopfor on January 16, 2012 at 11:27 PM
hardcore…
equanimous on January 16, 2012 at 11:27 PM
If Mr. Williams had to “go there”, I wish he had spoken about wealthy blacks. Then I could concur that he knows what he’s talking about.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on January 16, 2012 at 11:27 PM
I don’t think Mitt or Newt can win in November.
terryannonline on January 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM
The one thing you can definitely conclude about Newt…
1) He fights!
2) He is not Mittens Romney.
He’s all we have now. Hang tough Newt, this proportional delegate system thru the end of March means you can stick around for quite awhile.
Newt 2012, or its Walker in 2016.
“Anybody but Romney!”
KirknBurker on January 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM
I think it’s been gone over a million times on this website as to why Newt is not the conservative you’re making him out to be.
Well! you?
blatantblue on January 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Perry is remarkably improved. Turkey was a C- answer but hardly a disaster and Rick scored solidly on every other question.
I might even let Perry out of my doghouse.
kunegetikos on January 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Yet Romney has no past. Or at least we’re all told to forget Romney’s past.
Newt achieved more for fiscal Conservatism between 1994-1998, than Mitt has in the last 30 years combined.
portlandon on January 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Every debate Newt has a moment where he says something we all wish we could say in a way we all wish we could say it. He did that tonight times two.
But my problem with him is not his debating skills. It’s that he can’t behave himself for two weeks in a row. He won’t make it past the nominating process without self destructing; and no way he could make it 4 years.
cd98 on January 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM
PERFECT!
cmsinaz on January 16, 2012 at 11:29 PM
Newt alors! Formidable!
de rigueur on January 16, 2012 at 11:29 PM
Mitt has bent over for Leftists in MA.
Newt has fought them and won in the past.
Newt has the record and will walk circles around O in debate.
KirknBurker on January 16, 2012 at 11:30 PM
I don’t like the Newt attacks on Romneybain either. But I accept them as a fact of political life, and yes, it was a sign of desperation on Newt’s part. I guess in my mind it’s a forgivable sin because I don’t even think Newt believes that line of attack. What’s less forgivable is the idea that it feeds the DNC ammo for the general – UNLESS ROMNEY’S NOT THE NOMINEE (get it?)
I just want someone who will unashamedly and EFFECTIVELY articulate the conservative position on the issues and I think when Newt is on (and he isn’t always), no one does it better than he does.
I also desperately want a not-Romney/not-Paul to win SC and the nomination just to humiliate all the MSM and Jen Rubin types who are telling us this is all over.
Purple Fury on January 16, 2012 at 11:30 PM
Gingrich so owned this debate, much to the horror of Fox News, which was ready to disown Twitter because of it.
Connie on January 16, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Such an accomplishment getting a standing ovation in a room full of dyed-in-the-wool Repubs! What courage and backbone that took from him! Let’s see him say that in Manhattan…if he survived that long.
inthemiddle on January 16, 2012 at 11:31 PM
I agree. Obama better pray Gingrich isn’t the nominee.
Nexialist on January 16, 2012 at 11:31 PM
How do you say, “PWNED by Newt!” in Mandarin Chinese?
SouthernGent on January 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM
Ron Paul: Tax Rate Should Be 0%
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At the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina the candidates were asked what would be the highest federal tax rate they would like people to pay.
Ron Paul: “Well, we should have the lowest tax that we’ve ever had and upntil 1913 it was 0%. What’s so bad about that?”
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/16/ron_paul_tax_rate_should_be_0.html
canopfor on January 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM
that’s money!
ted c on January 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM
g’nite folks…
cmsinaz on January 16, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Great take down of Juan by Newt, I think I was napping during Dr. Pauls ramble. I can’t figure it out to save my life, he just makes me sleepy. I think I woke up for Newts field dressing of Dr.Paul and then right back to sleep for Dr. Pauls response. Geeze I hope Dr Paul drops out soon.
Bmore on January 16, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Newt WOULD say that in Manhatten, Harlem, Oakland, Atlanta, Myrtle Beach..wherever.
SouthernGent on January 16, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Easy-peasy lemon-squeezy. Just look at what he does intead of what he says. Magic campaign rhetoric doesn’t make informed voters out of low-information voters.
gryphon202 on January 16, 2012 at 11:34 PM
Geeeze!!!
Just watched the Ron vid…
He all but begged on his knees for the Golden Rule…
Electrongod on January 16, 2012 at 11:34 PM
Juan Williams: affirmative action in action.
bw222 on January 16, 2012 at 11:34 PM
With Romney, you just get the feeling our rifles are not allowed to have ammunition. The tentativeness and wishy-washyness are so demoralizing.
Newt is a warrior, and I’d rather go down fighting with him against the Progs than down with Mitt surrendering.
Mitt = the surrender of the British at Singapore
Newt = the scrappy leathernecks and civilians on Wake Island
That is why Newt should represent us in the general.
KirknBurker on January 16, 2012 at 11:35 PM
Gingrich Defends Attacks Against Romney
Jan 16 2012
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At tonight’s South Carolina GOP Debate, Bret Baier questioned Newt Gingrich about his attacks on Mitt Romney saying that in September Gingrich had vowed to “repudiate every effort of the news media to get Republicans to fight each other to protect Barack Obama, who deserves to be defeated.” Yet in recent days, Gingrich has gone on the attack against the GOP frontrunner.
Gingrich defended the criticism, saying, “First of all, I think that the staying positive through Iowa, through $3.5 million of negative attacks proved you either have to unilaterally disarm and leave the race or you have to at least bring up your competitor’s record.”
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/16/gingrich_defends_attacks_against_romney.html
canopfor on January 16, 2012 at 11:35 PM
The pot-bellied socialist is a pathetic moron who has been exposed for the commie socialist he is. He can strut around on stage, but he has shown us who he is…he has exposed himself as a mean little vindictive socialist.
Chudi on January 16, 2012 at 11:35 PM
Don’t know…
Our translator left the building…
What was his name again????
Electrongod on January 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM
Newt 2012!
terryannonline on January 16, 2012 at 11:37 PM
See people, Newt can draw blood. Romney can’t. Here’s the evidence from the leftist.
Have fun pullin that out of your ribs, lib.
KirknBurker on January 16, 2012 at 11:37 PM
That almost makes up for the Bain crap. Almost.
Really that should be standard fare for Republicans and not at all newsworthy.
pedestrian on January 16, 2012 at 11:38 PM
Juan Williams needs to buy some liquor tonight with his food stamps and drink himself silly to ease the pain from being brutalized in his backside by Newt.
galtani on January 16, 2012 at 11:38 PM
portlandon on January 16, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Not sayin he never exhibited conservative tendencies.
However this notion terry is getting into doesn’t hold up to reality.
And newt would have fared similarly if he were governor of MA and had a left wing legislature.
GOP whacked the dems in 94. Used that momentum to accomplish things. Good for him but he’s no RR like people make him out to be.
blatantblue on January 16, 2012 at 11:38 PM
This, x 1000.
At least you advance the debate, and hopefully bring some people over to your cause.
Purple Fury on January 16, 2012 at 11:39 PM
Santorum, Romney Debate Felons And Ability To Vote
Jan 16 2012
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Santorum pressed Romney to state whether he believes that felons, who have served their time, should be given the right to vote. Santorum stressed, “This is a huge deal in the African-American community because we have very high rates of incarceration, disproportionally high rates, particularly with drug crimes in the African-American community.”
Romney answered, “I don’t think people who have committed violent crimes should be allowed to vote again.”
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/16/santorum_romney_debate_felons_and_ability_to_vote.html
canopfor on January 16, 2012 at 11:39 PM
Bill Huntsberger.
Get with the program.
Purple Fury on January 16, 2012 at 11:40 PM
NEWT,…the honey badger.
Glenn Jericho on January 16, 2012 at 11:41 PM
Oh, yeah baby…
… Oh Yeah!
:)
/
Seven Percent Solution on January 16, 2012 at 11:41 PM
Rick Perry: “This Administration Is Out Of Control”
Jan 16 2012
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Rick Perry:
“Look, Ive said this administration is at war against organized religion. And when you look at what they have done, going after churches because churches had that ministerial exception in that and can decide who they were going to hire at their churches, the idea that the Catholic charities cannot take money or the federal government, this administration won’t give them those dollars for sexually trafficked individuals because this administration doesn’t agree with the Catholic Church on the issue of abortion. If that’s not a war on religion, i don’t know what it is. And this administration is out of control.”
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/16/rick_perry_this_administration_is_out_of_control.html
canopfor on January 16, 2012 at 11:41 PM
I’m holding on!
That’s true, but we forget that Newt’s bipolar. He’s got some ugly stuff to atone for (couch cuddling, social engineering remark, fannie/freddie). I’m not sold on any of these yutzes, but as long as it isn’t Obowmao or the Ronulan, I’ll vote for ‘em.
Laura in Maryland on January 16, 2012 at 11:41 PM
There’s those pesky FACTS again…
golfmann on January 16, 2012 at 11:41 PM
Great answer from the white haired paunchy Roosevelt Progressive ‘conservative’.
and it pissed off Juan Williams………all the better.
now if he just didn’t mean another government program or some such nonsense.
PappyD61 on January 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM
I’m curious how we came to a place in America where telling people they should provide for themselves and get a job is racist.
lorien1973 on January 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM
Just Damn ! That was one fine debate moment. God, I wish more Republicans could express those setiments and mean them. And have the courage to vote by those principles and express why with that type of clarity. That is what moves thought to your side.
builderD on January 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM
Juan stomped and shoulder pads could not protect.
Paul is demented. Rand should have dragged him off the stage before he embarrassed himself.
Sherman1864 on January 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM
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