that was marianne gingrich talking about her ex-husband new didn't interview airing on a.b.c. tonight or down the street is that new wanting an open marriage is just one of many explosive revelations set to come out in tonight's interview in which is ex-wife says he lacks the character to be president the big question here is the about newt it's about a.b.c. news we're just two days away from the south carolina primary a crucial contest that in part may actually decide who is the next prez of the united states and a.b.c. news is running uncorroborated interview with an ex-wife of gingrich that could sway the electorate and leave new with no time to respond to charges before they elect. it's an october surprise in january so is this in diligent journalism or irresponsible journalism here to weigh in on this is eleanor clift senior writer at newsweek a contributor to the daily beast and joining us from los angeles jim cavanaugh columnist of reason and hit run contributor welcome to you both glad to have you both with us it seems to me thanks to it seems to me that this actually m

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture new it is in the doghouse tonight a.b.c. is airing what they're calling an explosive interview with newt gingrich's ex-wife that they imply could blow the roof off his campaign this is really responsible journalism also mitt romney loves to dodge questions but now he's being accused of dodging something a little more serious what's he trying to avoid now and what impact might it have on the.

santorum added another radical position to his long list of radical positions in an interview with a.b.c. news yesterday santorum pushed back against a nearly fifty year old supreme court ruling and said the states should have the right to arrest you for having or using a condom even if you're married and using it in your own home. are in their view out of the mainstream and they talk about the griswold versus connecticut case that was an issue that casey used against you about whether or not a state has the right to make a law against a married couple using contraceptives is that something you're at all concerned about is has a right never questioned the citizenry that's right if rick santorum were dictator he'd let states ban contraceptives no more condoms in kentucky no more birth control in alabama back in october santorum railed against contraceptives saying one of the things i will talk about that no president has talked about before is i think the dangers of contraception in this country it's not ok it's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed

after tonight's tonight when newt gingrich is former wife is expected to admit in an interview with a.b.c. news that traditional newt traditional marriage supporter newt gingrich actually asked her for an open marriage also tonight yet another g.o.p. debate in south carolina so when it comes to the media's role in all of this i want to talk about a lot of different things so with me now live from new york is journalist and author and former c.n.n. host rex sanchez he wrote the book convention conventional idiocy why the new america is sick of old politics. all right lots to talk about and who knows you know what tonight's debate will bring with the remaining men standing but i want to take a look really quick at the debate earlier in the week now i know that we've talked a lot about newt gingrich and his talk about president obama being a food stamp president and also his treatment of one williams let me put something else up this is mitt romney talking about the dream act and then we can talk about it. and i've indicated i would veto the dream act of provisions included in that act to say that

about this is that no one was surprised you know this mary and sat down for this interview with a.b.c. news it's airing tonight. and you know no one at this point finds newt gingrich's past sexual behaviors shocking and you know they say it's going to be just i find. they're just noxious and kind of sleazy and he's the guy they claim that he cheated because he loved this country so much it's like yeah but i know you want to change things a little tiny bit to have it actually coming from a voice of somebody who he did this to and i think it's too often we are in a game style takedown it will make for an interesting debate tonight no matter what . it will be examined about. all right let's move on to somebody else. well back in the good old days he was marky mark where he didn't seem all that tough but i think he thought he was. drunk school. home or whatever you guys know me. talk to some animals. just going. to let you for the looks really great. different clip that i was talking to. mark wahlberg oh mark wahlberg so he's had to apologize because in an interview that he gave to men's journa

and i want to show you a little bit of evidence this was caught on camera over the weekend by an a.b.c. news crew romney sort of a millionaire worth at least two hundred million dollars himself obviously has been struggling to connect with the economic figures of the working class ok so mitt romney and not entirely comfortable with this emotional outburst here but this is a woman hugging mitt romney and telling him how it is is this what we need it dean do you think readers need more people reminding the candidate. i don't think it could hurt let's be honest let's talk about jobs as talk about the economy you know mitt romney i think in his defense one he wins a nomination and i think barring anything happen he's leading clearly in new hampshire tomorrow he's leading polls in south carolina and florida and i think really after that before we even get the super tuesday in march i think mitt romney will just about wrap up the nomination for all practical purposes i think romney will turn back to the economy will try to talk about his work at bain capital what a great job creator he was as gove

that people actually care about so i want to show something that was caught over the weekend by an a.b.c. news crew. the son of a millionaire worth at least two hundred million dollars himself. has been struggling to connect with the economic fears of the working class so you see this crying woman hugging romney a little uncomfortable with this emotional outburst but you're sounding like it is we need jobs do you think people need to need to kind of remind the candidates to talk about this a little more what i think would be very happy to talk about the problem is again and again and again they're confronted with questions that have nothing to do with their not just the debates when they're out taking questions do it all the eleanor are giving speeches and not of course they say we need more jobs or we need to cut and i wasn't looking at those two and i would presume which is a very socially challenged ramps or president would know who were still transitioning all the tape we're looking at is from a month plus of them campaigning in iowa and that's a very socially conservative state where they

a.b.c. c.b.s. n.b.c. . comcast news corps time warner all the kind of corporate heads that owned these news channels are strongly in support of sopa so it's hard not to try and draw connections between the corporate position on one hand supporting this legislation and the wall of silence on the other hand that this is just been kept out of the discussion the this isn't a new problem here i mean there's been lots of issues especially when it comes to telecommunications especially when it comes to television the t.v. news outlets that are really important to stories that t.v. news outlets choose not to cover this isn't the new right it's not and you know you look back to two thousand and three when the f.c.c. was contemplating a new rules that were going to vastly restructure the media landscape and allow for even greater consolidation similar whitewash the media is not talking about it obviously corporations that only media channel strongly in support of greater consolidation you look at pew reports at that time pew surv

a.b.c.'s this week to defend the new campaign ad take a look at it romney a serial killer most powerful stuff does not cross the line with i have nothing to do with it i have no control over that ad if anything in that ad is inaccurate if he did not say corporations are people and if he did not make his money. i am not calling anybody a serial killer i can't tell americans for a better tomorrow tomorrow what to do it's not my super pac george it's the super pac of i hope i'm pronouncing this correctly jon stewart. so as go over there. if indeed corporations are people and mitt romney made a fortune killing off corporations is indeed a serial killer joining me now to answer that is david selig pro-business advocate and conservative commentator david thanks for joining us from our new york studio welcome back to the program thanks for having me i really appreciate it so david do you hate serial killers. well let's look at this in its proper a light you know he's like a daniel come to judgment and if he in fact is a corporate serial killer then let's hope the president preemptively pardons him n

discuss the gloomy state of the mainstream press network evening news continues to lose influence in the so-called big three networks a.b.c. n.b.c. and c.b.s. lost nearly twenty million viewers since the one nine hundred eighty s. that's when the half of the audience that they once enjoyed cable news networks have picked up the slack but despite lofty mottos like fair and balanced partisan and divisive seems to be the name of the game the news does seem to take a back seat a back seat to spin and opinion and you can barely heyer the real issues over the shouting talking heads now back in one nine hundred eighty three ninety percent of the american media was own by fifty companies last year that number shrank to six think about that six megacorporations like g.e. and disney owning ninety percent of the media that you consume now print journalism is also struggling to stay relevant at a time when tweets blogs and online media floods through the gates with that which the newspapers once kept and it's not just the influence but in revenues that are influence but revenues and readership that they're losing these are just not m

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