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OK, more questions from the audience that attended last night of Newt Gingrich at the Granite Oath PAC held at Ovide’s:

Question 7: Biggest challenge facing the GOP in beating Obama?

Question 8: For TEA Partiers: it is not always what the GOP has done, but what it has allowed!

Question 9: What do YOU think Obama meant when he said he was going to fundamentally transform America?

Question 10: How do we beat Soros’s money to beat Obama?

Question 11: How can you limit the damage to the construction industry from illegal immigrants?

Question 7                                         Question 8

Question 9                                         Question 10

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Former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke last night at the latest event hosted by Granite Oath PAC Chair, Ovide Lamontagne.  After he spoke for a few minutes and taking questions from the attendees.  Then he did something I’ve not seen yet – he decided to call out the Press in a unique way.  Instead of doing a "press gaggle" after addressing the crowd, he called them to the front of the crowd so that the crowd could hear the kinds of questions the "vaunted professional press – those "seekers of truth and light" would ask a national figure.  You could tell that they were NOT happy campers – THEY are the ones that put others on the spot; no one is supposed to do THAT to them!

While some are good and try to play it straight, some are nothing but lazy,  compromised, and partisan hacks.  After all, a couple of years ago at the Washington Press Corps (did Obama get it right when he pronounced it "corpse"?) when Obama said:

Most of you support me – all of you voted for me

Newt wanted to expose them for the slanted coverage towards Republicans (and him, especially); they did not let him down. Certainly, question 1 was a reasonable question.  However, Newt’s little exercise worked far better than he thought – I think most of the attendees just shook their heads at Questions 2 & 4; these are the best of the highly paid press corps that decide what is and what isn’t news?  The important issues confronting the country? A jewelery bill and a "gotcha" question.  

Good going, boys!

Yeah, when the Press were called forward, I went up if for nothing more than to annoy the professionals (most of them just sneer at lowly bloggers). While I make no claim to be the brightest bulb in the box, at least I tried to do a follow up on something Newt actually said that night.  These hacks certainly showed their true colors.

Questions:

• Question 1: Would you support voucherizing Medicare?
• Question 2: Will the Tiffany bill sink the campaign?
• Question 3: What did you mean by Change; drop the CAFE standards?
• Question 4: Claims of socialism: is Obama merely wrong or evil?

Videos after the jump:

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