we will do it fair and balanced here. on the other networks you know what you are going to get. i'm bill o'reilly. always remember the spinhere bet for you. >> tomorrow voters in south carolina will head to the policy for the first in the south carolina primary and the final four gop contenders went head-to-head last night in a debate that aired on cnn. in typical fashion, the left wing network decided to open up the debate by targeting the man who currently leads in the policy, that's former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. watch this. >> as you know, your ex-wife gave an interview to abc news and another interview to the washington post and this story has now gone viral on the internet. in if she says you game to her in 1999 at a time when you were having an affair, she said she

asked you, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? >> no, but i will. [applause] >> i think -- i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. [applause] >> every person in here knows personal pain. every person in here has had someone close to them go through painful things. to take an ex-wife and make it two days before the primary a significant question in in a

presidential campaign; as close to despicable as anything that i can imagine. my two daughters -- my two daughters wrote the head of abc and made the point that it was wrong, that they should pull it, and i am frankly astounded that cnn would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate. >> as you noted, mr. speaker, this story did not come from our network. as you also know, it is a subject of conversation in the campaign. i take your point -- >> john. john, it was repeat bid your network. chose to start the campaign with it. don't blame somebody else. you and your staff chose to start the debate with it. >> we would show you the rest of the standing ovation, but unfortunately this is only an hour-long show. joining us tonight with a preview of tomorrow's big primary day is presidential candidate, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. mr. speaker, welcome back, sir. >> good to be with you.

we are very excited. as you see we have the aircraft carrier yorktown behind me. tonight i will be introduced as a veterans rally in charleston. >> you know frank luntz in the debate monday night when i was in south carolina said that was the first time there was a candidate that got a standing ovation. you have had 16, 17 debates up to this point. this was an extended standing ovation. here's my take, is that people now have identified left wing, biased reporting, the media is abusive, they have an agenda, they gave barack obama a pass, and now they have identified it, and when called out on did you see the reaction. i wonder if the term john king is going to now become a part of a lexicon at some point? your reaction. >> look, i think that there is a deep sense, because the same thing happened monday night, and we've had it in two or three

other debates, people are just fed up with liberal elitists in the media telling us what we need to think and how we need to behave and what words we are allowed to use. and i have found that if you stand up for core american values and you stand up for basic decency and you are prepared to not flinch and not back down, that the american people are delighted to have a leader with the guts to take them head on. and frankly, if we are going to change washington, this is the tip of the iceberg. i mean, there are judges, there are bureaucrats, there are laws, there are members of congress, this is going to be a running challenge to the old order and the old establishment. and much of it will be like that interaction with john king. >> you know, it's very interesting to me because i'm watching all the candidates being attacked. for example, when the media talks about the fact that mitt romney has a blind trust, he has bank accounts in the cayman islands, what's the implication, that he may be trying to dodge

his taxes, he's putting his money where we hear that drug dealers put their money, or the fact that they have questioned the decision of rick santorum after he sadly lost a child. they questioned his decision on how to handle a very personal, serious family matter, or they have interviewed in the press former boyfriends of senator santorum's wife. in your case it is a 13, 14-year-old issue and this is how they start the debate when the country is trillion in debt, and many of unemployed or underemployed. do you think that's part of the reason for the reaction last night? >> yeah, i think so. there are two parts. one is that people instinctively understand that we have very, very real problems. so they would really like to have the news media focus on the real challenges. how do we create jobs? how do we balance the budget? what do we do about the middle east? these are huge. they watch them get junk involved. the other week we had a debate

one of the questioners went off for 15 minutes on a 1963 contraception law, and everybody is scratching their head going what is this about? what is the hidden agenda for this? i picked it up in 2007 and 2008 when i thought the media was deliberately trying to minimize the republican campaign and the republican candidates to the advantage of barack obama. and i think we have a lot of that still today. >> it's fascinating, when you make a comparison, and we go back to 2007 and 2008, and, you know, i remember, i spoke to you at the time. i took a lot of heat for bringing up controversial issues. the president of the united states admitted in his own book of having used cocaine. the media never asked him about it. he hung out with an unrepentant terrorist, started his political career in his house, went to meetings with him, went to jeremiah wright's church. one question on bill aier, but i

don't remember any yes, sir on past drug use. is there a huge double standard in the media. >> sure. >> as it relates to the way conservatives are treated? >> there's an enormous double standard because the elite media, in particular, led by the new york times , is just unendedly left wing. i've recently been talking about food stamps. i end up on a show the other morning where the questioner said isn't it racist to use the word food stamps in south carolina? and i stopped, and i said i started talking about barack obama as the best food stamp president in august of 2010. i have discussed it in iowa and new hampshire and used the phrase all over the country. but they have this automatic mind-set they want to define us in ways that will make us unacceptable and they just can't help themselves. what i discovered is that the american public now instinctively sides with the conservative against the liberal media.

>> but the numbers speak for themselves. we've got $5 trillion in brand new obama debt in this country after three years. if you go back to july of 2008, then candidate obama said that george bush was irresponsible and unpatriotic and in 8 years he accumulated billions in debt. 12 million more are now on need stamps. where is the racial component here? >> look, the racism is all in the mind of the liberal. the liberal can't defend their policies. they can't defend their institutions. they can't explain schools that failed poor children, they can't explain neighbors with no police or entire areas with no jobs. obviously rather than defend their failures they attack us and say you wouldn't be saying that if you weren't a racist. we have to make fun of them, go

straight at them, tell them to tell the truth, stick with the facts. and i think we are winning the argument in the country at large and people in the country overall increasingly realize how shrill and how fundamentally dishonest the left wing media is. >> all right. stay right there, mr. speaker. when we come back, you have released a new campaign ad. we will have more with the former speaker of the house on the eve of the palmetto state primary. we will check in with senator rick santorum. and then frank luntz. that [ kyle ] my bad. [ roger ] tell me you have good insurance. yup, i've got... [ kyle with voice of dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy. [ kyle ] nope, i've got... [ kyle with voice of dennis ] ...the allstate value plan. it's their most affordable car insurance -- and you still get an allstate agent. i too have...[ roger with voice of dennis ]...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ] it's like we're connected.

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>> why is president obama for young people being allowed to stay on their parents' insurance until 26? because he can't get any jobs for them to go out and buy their own insurance. [applause] >> i have an offer -- i have an offer to the parents of america, elect us and your kids will be able to move out because they will have work. >> that was former speaker of the house newt gingrich at last night's debate in south carolina. throwing out other very interesting offer to parents right here in the united states and he continues to join me tonight from the campaign trail. he's in south carolina on the eve of the south carolina primary. mr. speaker, let me ask you this. after iowa you had a big lead in iowa at one point and there were

a lot of super pack -- super pac ads one against you. you had a decision to make. and i want to play your most recent ad and get your response. >> mitt romney is running a very debt pratt and frankly a dishonest campaign. mitt romney will do and say anything to become president. anything. maybe that explains all his flip-flops. >> i don't know how to respond to some of it because his position may change tomorrow. >> you have to be a pretty good actor. >> mitt romney's desperate attacks and flip-flops. what's the bottom line? ask mike huckabee. >> if it man is this dishonest to obtain a job, he will be dishonest on the job. >> you are saying, mr. speaker, you would not run that ad had things not gone so bad in iowa?

>> sure. iowa is running a totally positive campaign. i was making big speeches about big ideas, and gallop said we were up by something 15 points. we were ahead of romney nationwide because we had bigger, better ideas. they sent a tsunami of negative attack ads and took me down about 20 points. we looked at it very carefully and callista and i discussed it along with our team and we thought we are not going to let somebody just try to buy the presidency by shrinking all their opponents. they don't try to build up romney, they just try to shrink their opponents. we thought we would go to a campaign telling the truth and a campaign designed to be a also funny. he i think getting senator mccain's and huckabee's comments tells you a lot without me doing anything. all you have to do is watch them. >> while the campaign was going on last night it was announced last night that you were

releasing your tax returns. and you have been saying, you know, that governor romney should do the same thing that. question now came up both monday night and last night during the debate. let me show you that exchange and you can explain why you think it's important. >> i pay a lot of taxes. i've been very successful, and what i have are taxes ready for this year, i'll release them. >> speaker, is that good enough? >> he has to decide and people of south carolina has to decide but if there's anything in there that will help us lose the election we should know it before the nomination. and if there's nothing in there why not release it? it's a very simple model. >> why do you think it's important to release that at this point? >> first of all, ironically it was his father who, in 1967, start the pattern of releasing taxes and his father released 12 years in 1967. in a funny way governor romney can thank his father, former

governor romney of michigan for setting the precedent u know they will go after him. obama has released his tacks for three years and he will never let him get into a general election without releasing their taxes. the challenge for republicans is. this we want to make sure our nominee is bulletproof. we want to make sure we know everything we need to to get through the fall. the worst of the worlds is one we nominate somebody and discover in september or early october that they have in fatal weakness and it's too late. you have no choice, you are stuck with them. the governor has an easy thing he could do. i filed, people go to newt.org, anybody watching tonight, go newt.org and you will receive any 2010 returns and our charitable foundation and what we gave away, and you will see everything we do financially in 2010. it would be very easy for governor romney to put up his 2010 returns. i am surprised he doesn't and b he can't explain it. if you watch him monday and

again last night, he is sort of proof positive of why he would have a hard time debating obama because he can't organize what he's saying and he can't get it out in an orderly way. his comments last night were sort of random. >> we had an interesting development going back to the iowa caucuses this week where it turned out on caucus night it was an 8- point victory for mitt romney and they have certified the election and it was a 34-point win for senator santorum. sen santorum is pretty angry that you are saying he should get out of the race at this particular point. you made an early point that it was going to be romney and not romney. if that's the case, if you are staying in and he's staying in, do you think that helps governor romney? is that what you are saying? >> look, if you look at the clemson university poll that came out this afternoon, i'm

beating romney in south carolina by 32-26 but 15% of the conservatives are voting for rick santorum. he has every right to stay in. let me be clear. rick is a good friend of mine, i admire him, we like his family very much we like karen and we like his children. so this is not negative about rick. but i'm now beating romney by a big margin here. i'm prepared to go on to florida and continue to campaign on a full-blown basis. if you add santorum and gingrich together, the conservative beats romney by something like 47-26. now that would be a crushing defeat. and all i'm suggesting is that sooner or later we are going to get down to one conservative. my hunch is that will be me. he has every right to stay in. this is not negative by santorum. but in terms of the conservative movement, everybody i can get to vote for newt gingrich increases their ability to stop a massachusetts moderate that

becoming the republican nominee. i think that's the first -- the first phase here is how do we make sure that we don't get somebody who was pro choice as governor, pro gun control, pro tax increase, pro gay rights? you go down the list of romney in massachusetts, and by republican standards, he was pretty darn liberal. it's hard for me to see how that kind of a record is going to translate into a successful campaign against barack obama. >> all right. newt gingrich, tomorrow a big day. we will be following it very closely. thanks for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> no problem. >> as we continue on this busy friday night we will check in with presidential candidatesen rick santorum. and we will check in with ainsley erhard. she's talking to voters ahead of tomorrow's primary. we will talk with her and much we will talk with her and much moy across america,

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>> won't are only a few short hours away from decision day in south carolina as voters will soon head to the policy in the first in the south primary. last night the candidates delivered their final pitch to voters, including my next guest. that former pennsylvania senator, rick santorum, who had some very strong words for gov.

mitt romney on the subject of healthcare. let's take a look. >> he stood by the fact that massachusetts has the highest health insurance premiums of any state in the country. it is 27% more expensive than the average state in the country. doctors, if you are in the massachusetts healthcare system, over 50% of the doctors now are not seeing new patients, primary care doctors are not seeing new patients. those who do, they are waiting 44 days on average for the care. it's an abject disaster. he's standing by it and he's going to have to run begins the president. he's going to have to run against the president and say look, look what you did for massachusetts and you are criticizing me for what i have demon i used your model for it. >> joining me from the campaign trail in south carolina, that's presidential candidate, former senator rick santorum. senator, welcome back to the program. >> thank you, sean. great to be but. >> great to have you. i guess congratulations are in

order because we now found out after the iowa caucus you lost by 8 votes and now it's certified that you won by 34 votes. i guess every votes count and there were no dimpled, hanging, swinging chads at all in this whole thing. >> no. we feel very, very good about that. iowa caucus certified the highest percentage they have ever certified in the history of the caucuses. it was a tight election. it would have been nice to find that out on election night as opposed to now but it's really given us a little built of a bump here in south carolina the last 24 hours. we've notice it had on the ground, and while it would have been better to have gotten that decision and it might have taken a little wind out of the sails of governor romney and the inestability argument, and hopefully they are look at a conservative that won the primary and finished ahead of the pack now for two consecutive races. >> i'm not sure if you were able to hear former speaker of the house newt gingrich in the prior

segment, but i did ask about your criticism that he suggested that this has got to come down to romney or nonromney. do you agree, a, with that narrative, and what was your reaction? he said rick is a friend of mine, he has every right to stay in the race, i'm just suggesting that they are splitting the anti-romney vote or the nonromney vote, however you want to 2009 it. >> well, newt is a friend of mine, too, and callista, and we, as he mentioned, we have an affection with the family. i would just say this, that i don't think it's a nonromney versus a romney race. i think there are three candidates in this race who have a chance to be president. one of them is a conservative, the other two are not a reliable conservatives. you have a lot of conservatives who have lined up behind me nationally because they are concerned not just with mitt romney, but they are concerned with the match-up going into the fall with newt gingrich, who was for 20 years in favor of a mandate, an individual mandate at the federal level, the exact

thing we are now suing, states are suing and going to the supreme court that is the basis and core of obamacare. you look at the wall street bail outs. again, both newt and mitt were for the wall street bail outs. you go down the list, global warming. sitting on the couch with nancy pelosi. to cast himself as a conservative is great to do but you have to have the record to back it up. i would say it's really rick santorum against which one of these moderates that i'm going to be up against. >> i guess this is coming down to a battle of who is going to define themselves as the most conservative. i want to put that aside because i think there was a lot of that last night. i think people understand, you know, the strengths of weaknesses now at this point in the campaign of all the candidates. i'm a little frustrated as a conservative. i think you have been unfairly attacked. i think governor romney on this idea, well, he has bank accounts and the cayman islands, i think that's unfair. i think the media, regurgitating

an old story from 14 years ago that has been told by an ex-wife, i think that's unfair. in your case it got very personal. the media has sought out and reported on an ex-boyfriend of your wife. they have questioned some commentators, the issue of how you dealt with the death of a child. that to me is offensive, especially in light of how the media gave obama a pass in 2008. i want you to respond, you know, dealing with the media in this race and do you think it's unfair? >> it's fundamentally unfair. but you know it. these folks are despicable in what they will do to promote their agenda. they are all in the tank and they have been in the tank for the left, whether it's barack obama or any other candidate. i've been dealing with this issue, as newt and other conservatives have for every year i have ever been in public life. and we've been sabotaged in every possible way. you know, go on the internet and look at the filth, the dispute

out there. look at organizations like google. i mean google, who has repeatedly on more than one occasion taken down sites, taken down searches for folks like barack obama and michelle obama but has left it out there for me for ten years so people can be exposed to the most horrific fifth you ever want to see butxç it's okay if you are a conservative. google has a political agenda. it's not just the mainstream media, it's anyone that has access to the eyes and ears of the american public and they are consistently trying to destroy fundamental value necessary this country and conservatives who fight for it. >> all right. senator, stay right there. we will have more right after the break. our own lanes erhard will join us tonight from south carolina. she was on the ground all day today talking to the voters ahead of tomorrow's big primary. also we will check in with frank luntz. he ranks the very best ads of

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ago vision for the country and reminding us who we are and what we can be again. and talking about the manufacturing sector of the economy and trying to create a ladder to succession. gave a speech at the citadel a few minutes ago about senate security. we've been the campaign of ideas, but as you have seen, both governor romney and ron paul have been doing these insidious robo calls here, the under the radar types of things, as well as running tv ads. at some point you have to fight back to what they are saying. we don't have the the resources. and we use the debates to do it. >> senator, there's only four candidates left and you are one of the four. only one candidate is going to be the nominee and it's gotten pretty testy at times. are you confident at the end of this process, regardless of what wins, that this is going to be a united party? of against barack obama, his failed policies? are you confident the resentment building between some of the campaigns will go away?

>> the longer this campaign goes on, the better it is for republicans. this idea that the bickering or the intensity of it, that just gets people more active and involved. you know what we are doing? we are talking about the issue. we are the center of attention in the national media right now. one of the reasons the national media wants this race to be over, so they can start focusing on who the nominee is so they can start beating their brains in. the longer we keep it going, talking about the failures of this administration and talking about the differences between the candidates, that is a good thing for the republican party. it's a good thing to be able to defeat barack obama instead of giving him the free field of carpet bombing whoever the nominee is starting in february. let's keep the thing going, keep it focused on the differentialiation between the candidates and we will be better served for that than if we try to end this thing in two or three weeks. >> all right, senator, good to see you. thank you so much for being with us. when we come back, we expose media bias, and media mash

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and that it put me at 5-times greater risk of a stroke. i was worried. i worried about my wife, and my family. bill has the mos common type of atrial fiillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. he was taking warfarin, but i've put him on pradaxa instead. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mgs reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin without the need for regular blood tests. i sure was glad to hear that. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding, and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have a bleeding condition like stomach ulcers, or take aspirin, nsaids, or bloodthinners, or if you have kidney problems, especially if you take certain medicines. tell your doctor about all medicines you take, any planned medical or dental procedures, and don't stop taking pradaxa without your doctor's approval, as stopping may increase your stroke ri. other side effects include indigestio stomach pain, upset, or burning.

pradaxa is progress. if you have afib not caused by a heart valve problem, ask your doctor if you can reduce your risk of stroke with pradaxa. >> policy show a close race for first place between candidates mitt romney and newt gingrich in south carolina ahead of tomorrow's primary. for men weeks their campaigns have been buying up airtime, circulating ads, all in an attempt to convince voters their candidate is the best man to take on incumbent barack obama. for more on you will the impact the ads mamay have had on voter, we go to ainsley erhard who was on the ground in south carolina all day today. ainsley. >> sean, we are in my home state of south carolina on the eve of the primary. this is the city ofharleston. hosting the southern republican leadership conference. it's a very important state for these candidates because

historically speaking the candidate who wins here goes on to win the gop nomination. now the candidates and the super-pacs combined in this state have spent more than $8 million on television ad since december, accounting for more than 60% of ads sales. do they really work, though? we went to ask the voters. >> i don't pay that much attention to them. they must find that is does help. >> is there one in particular that resonates with you? >> no, there really isn't. >> you watch this and we are going to get your reaction. >> okay. >> mitt romney will do and say anything to become president. anything. maybe that explains all his flip-flops. >> i don't know how to respond to some of it because his position may change tomorrow. >> you have to be a pretty good actor. >> what do you think? >> you know, he brings up some points, pulls out the fact that romney is a more moderate

candidate compared to the other candidates running. but as far as the specifics in the ad i think unfortunately we are all a little desensitized. >> how effective are the arizona? >> they aren't effective for me. i watch the debates and make my decision from there. >> i think after this election cycle people are going to go back and look at the structure what have we do in our policies. but the rules of the game are what the rules of the game are now and everybody is doing it. >> i want to get your reaction. feel free to react as you are watching it. >> the establishment is once again telling us to fall in line and vote for their back room, hand-picked model candidate. they are telling us to simply ignore the fact that romney supported the wall street bailout. >> serious. >> what do you think? >> it's very overdramatic. >> and ainsley, thank you. joining me now to discuss the

impact of these campaign ads, and what impact they are having on the voting public is the author of "wins" one and only pollster, frank luntz. good to see you, sir. >> thank you. how are you? >> let's run an ad for each. we will start with romney and tell us your methodology. >> i'm going to do something to government. i am going to make it simpler and smaller and smarter, getting rid of programs, turning programs back to states, and finally making government itself more efficient. i'm going to get rid of obamacare. it is a moral imperative for americans to stop spending more money than we take in. it's killing jobs and keeping kits from having the bright prospects they deserve. the experience of balancing budgets is desperately needed in washington and i will take it there. >> i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> the magic number was hit, it started going up dramatically, 25 points the second he started talking about obama.

>> and he does the best critique of barack obama as any of the candidates running. and he pivots in the debate. that ad is one of the most effective. he's not been running that ad as much in south carolina. he's focused more on some of the negatives. but when he pivots that critique and he talks about our children and their future, that's what makes it particularly effective. >> let's look at the newt ad that you dialed and give a comparison. here's newt gingrich's ad. >> the american people create jobs, not government. okay? now, it starts very simple, lower taxes, less regulation, an american energy plan and be positive about people who create jobs. the opposite of the obama plan. nothing will turn america around more than election night when barack obama loses decisively. i'm newt gingrich, and i approve this message.

>> interesting. mitt romney got up to the 90s with moderates and newt got up to the 90s with conservatives. should i read anything into that? >> no. you should read that both of these ads are fantastic. the romney ad is at his best when he's delivering a speech. newt gingrich is in the best when he's not middle of a debate. sean, you remember on monday i said it's unpress den today get a standing ovation in a debate. when newt gingrich gets two stand ovations within the first 11 minutes that's correct just doesn't happen in american politics, and that ad best articulates, best demonstrates why gingrich and romney are tied today. >> do you agree with me that this was a pivotal moment? i brought this up earlier in the program. we are going to use the term the media now is going to be cautious. people are sensitive, they are conscious, they are aware, they recognize media bias in a way they never have before. i would argue in part behaves of new media, fox news, the drudge report, et cetera.

do you think that reaction last night will put a little fear in the hearts of these elitist media people when they now interview conservatives? >> actually -- >> john king? >> no, i think it will get worse. i think they will get more in their face because they don't want to know who the candidates really are. everything is about policy and more importantly, sean, everything is gotcha. can i show you you said something different that had ton you said two weeks ago or you got a come ma in the wrong place or you transposed a number. and what voters are look for is who they are as people, what are their principles, who are their values and we want to he soot human nature of the candidate. >> i got all of that. but here's my point. don't you think that these journalism, mainstream, those with an agenda, those who use the term "well critics say" and who are these critics? they are unnamed, anonymous. the people in this country are savvy to media that has an agenda. so do you think that maybe some of these so-called journalists

are going to think twice about embarrassing themselves and having what happened to john king happen to them? >> well, look, john king got hit because of what happened with abc news. and abc news had every right to air that. the timing might be questionable. but when you are trying to judge someone who they are, i cannot criticize abc for what it did. where king got it wrong --. >> wait a minute, i can, frank, you want to know why. because there wasn't new part of information this of in that interview that wasn't previously aired. where is the news there and timing of it before an important primary seems nuts to me. >> but the news there is that 99.9% of americans had no idea that it existed in esquire, and that they were being brought to it the first time. sean, we judge our candidates by who they are. the timing might be -- >> frank, we have to roll. >> i got it, sean. >> i don't mean to cut you short but we are going to expose the

mainstream media issue when

>> welcome back to "hannity." for all the ways the liberal media tries to put their spin on

the news, back of with me to go through all the information is brother brozel. >> how are we doing, brother hannity? >> i am going to make a prediction. what happened last night with cnn and john king, all these liberal media types out there, people have gotten wise to their bias, i think as evidenced by that reaction in that crowd last night, and i bet all these liberals will be scared to death if they are before a crowd and they are going after conservatives, they won't do this to barack obama, the democrats, but there will be fear in the back of their minds they don't want to be john king. let's watch this tape to start off. >> as you know, it didn't come from our network and it is a subject of conversation in the campaign. i get your point -- >> john. john, it was repeated by your network. you chose to start the debate by it. don't try to blame somebody else. you and your staff chose to start the debate with it.

i'm tired of the elite media protecting barack obama by attacking republicans. >> you know, if you are one of the media elite, and you've got a republican debate coming up, you are thinking i don't want to be john king. what do you think? >> yeah. did somebody get the license number of the truck that flattened john king last night? i mean, talk about a deer caught in the headlights. he wasn't expecting that from newt. i think newt was generally angry at the end, general winly angry. is it newsworthy? we looked at the he is squire, the december, 2010 esquire story on the marriage that put the interview of mrs. gingrich number two. there's nothing, let me underscore, there's nothing in the story last night that wasn't in that interview. there was nothing newsworthy about what was on "nightline" last night. but even if you are going to dispute that, to make that the night before -- two nights

before the primary, the most important primary of newt gingrich's career, and to make that the lead off question in a presidential debate with four presidential candidates, i mean, that might explain to cnn why they are in last place in the ratings. >> no, it's a great point. but, look, if they would have done the same thing to barack obama, i don't think there would have been this reaction. i think people genuinely are very smart. they see the double standard, and they know the game that's going on here. all right. let me ask you this. when newt gingrich says, in fact, that barack obama is the food stamp president, number of people since he's been president on food stamps has gone up 12 million, watch this exchange with nbc news. >> your characterization of president obama as a food stamp president, interestingly in the leadup now to south carolina, including a new york times editorial in south carolina with con fed rat flag still waves on the front lawn of the state

capitol, largely because of the efforts of the state gop, it remains good primary politics to stir up racial animosity and then link it to president obama. are you -- >> obama is appealing to their worse instincts instead of better instincts. >> do you notice they quote the new york times and abc and they use the anonymous critics say to get their point of view across. >> just like cnn blamed abc for cnn last night. look, it is not newt gingrich playing the race card, it is ann curry of nbc playing the race card. if you want to focus on the race card, don't focus on something like this because you are just cheapening the issue and it ought not be cheap ended. >> one of the things that came up about governor romney, he has

these bank accounts in the cayman islands. you guys about a report and romney said he paid the 15% race is greater than most americans when, in fact, well, let's roll this tape first. >> mitt romney spent most of the day responding to calls that he release those tax returns. but then like you said, he revealed that he paid a relatively low rate on his investment income. that's the same low rate that bill heir warren buffett pace. >> tuesday romney revealed he pace a lower tax rate than many middle chas americans. he promise today share his returns in april and also disclosing he pays 15% in income tax. like many wealthy americans but last in many middle class americans. >> you did something interesting, it's called journalism, and you went to the irs and what did you find out? >> what you find is that the rate he is paying is higher than 97% of the american people.

but forget the rate for a second. one thing the media won't report because they haven't seen it while they are doing these stories, when the numbers come out, how many millions of dollars in taxes will this man have paid and still not good enough for the left wingers. >> you know, i would be negligent in this media segment if i didn't bring up the cover of this wonderful magazine "national publication." you are laughing. why are obama's critics so dumb? is it even worth answering? you know. >> here's my answer, sean. here's my answer. news week lost 50% of it's audience in 2010. news week in 2010 was sold for one dollar to another rag, the daily beast. the man who wrote this is a man who has also written that sarah palin didn't give birth to her son trig. we