Am. Spectator’s Quin Hillyer: ‘Memo to Gingrich: Get Lost. Now’ — ‘Gingrich’s other lamest hits include his commercial with Pelosi lamenting global warming’
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Lou Dobbs: Gingrich’s climate ad with Pelosi ‘hurts him’ — will prove ‘more difficult than any charges about his personal life’
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is facing more scrutiny about his 2008 global warming ad for Al Gore with former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. [See Gingrich/Pelosi video here.] [Update: May 16: Gingrich tries new spin, claims he used word he never used.]
On the May 13, 2011 edition of ‘The O’Reilly Factor’, host Bill O’Reilly and guest Lou Dobbs mocked and ridiculed Gingrich’s climate ad with Pelosi and warned it could single-handedly derail his presidential bid. [Note: Gingrich has refused to apologize or recant the ad and instead now claims it was a ‘debate’ with Pelosi.]
Watch Bill O’Reilly and Lou Dobbs discuss Gingrich here.
O’Reilly presented the Gingrich political ad and then quipped that Gingrich and Pelosi “looked natural.” “A regular Sonny and Cher out there. aren’t they? ‘I got you Babe,’” O’Reilly joked.
Former CNN anchor and current Fox Business host Dobbs agreed. “Absolutely. They were made for each other,” Dobbs said.
Partial Transcript Follows:
O’Reilly: ‘Does this hurt Newt Gingrich?’
Dobbs: ‘Without question. If he had said nothing Bill — just sitting next to Nancy Pelosi.
O’Reilly: ‘Just on the couch with her…’
Dobbs: ‘Especially that couch — he would be in real trouble. This is going to be more difficult than any charges about his personal life. This is more difficult, in my judgment, for him than anything else…Gingrich is talking about climate change, he is making clear the implication that climate change is the responsibility of a Republican Speaker and a Democratic Speaker. It is not a smart choice on his part.
O’Reilly: ‘You think people will remember it and hold it against him?’
Dobbs: ‘Without question. And conservatives who are his natural allies, are going to be offended by this [Pelosi] ad.’
Watch O’Reilly and Dobbs discuss Gingrich/Pelosi ad here.
Related Gingrich/Pelosi Gore Ad Links:
Update: Gingrich on radio (Begins at 14:20): ‘I am for incentives for bio-fuels such as ethanol which have a much lower impact on the environment’
Climate Depot Response: ‘Wrong again, Mr. Gingrich. You never once uttered …
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