Gingrich slams CNN for asking about ex-wife

GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich slammed CNN host John King for asking about an explosive ABC News report claiming the he asked his former wife for an "open marriage."

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[xplay101]

@Ellipser why dont you go fuck your face you faggot cunt.

fuck you.

i love my country.

[lovewins49]

@Ellipser what does saddam have anything to do with it? And why does the fact that one person is trying to restore our country to the way it was before obama screwed everything up the american peoples fault?

[Ellipser]

The fact Gingrich is running for President shows what low life scum the American people are. Saddam spent years and the deaths of untold thousands attacking Iran because he thought it would please his American masters. So look what he got for it. Gingrich right now on CNN trying to explain his demonic behaviour is the man American people allow to make a play for the whitehouse means the US is, as a whole, totally and without question insane. America thinks it is God. Curse you to hell America.

[PrimeSoup]

@7DrPhysics Your point of conflict with the mob in question here, though, isn't that the debate audience didn't throw rocks at Gingrich, but rather that they didn't hold their applause. I liken this to another form of mob justice practiced by religious communities: shunning. You see the applause as a form of social acceptance, and this upsets you. You would rather see Gingrich rejected and ignored by the audience because he is an adulterer. This IS mob justice; it's social exile.

[PrimeSoup]

@7DrPhysics Examples of mob justice are pretty well-known, but because you don't seem to grasp what I'm writing, they must not be known to you, so I'll explain:

Adultery is a pretty common taboo in societies formed around the Abrahamic religions. An often-cited example is found in the bible's new testament, when Jesus protects a woman from being stoned to death by a mob that accuses her of adultery. This kind of mob justice is still practiced in parts of the Muslim world.

[PrimeSoup]

@7DrPhysics Societies that have embraced "natural law" have defined what their absolute cultural standards are to be through either the general consensus of the mob or through invoking the authority of some non-subjective, higher power. Because there are no gods that ACTUALLY interfere with such human societies, though, both these types of "natural law" have been enforced in the same way: mob justice.

[PrimeSoup]

@7DrPhysics 'I don't "declare him an outlaw to society" and I do not want "mob justice."

'Really need to stop putting words that were never there.'

I'm not repeating your words, Einstein. I'm describing your concepts. The "natural law" you emphasize is the EXACT SAME concept of mob justice, because you haven't JUST been talking about some abstract notion of absolute morality, but ALSO about punishment for breaking it.

[PrimeSoup]

@7DrPhysics "If not for Adultery, then the way he rebuked JK?

"Such a noble deed that is deserving of an applause."

As I said, you're not upset with the answer Gingrich gave. You're just upset that the mob doesn't follow YOUR obsession with his sex life.

"Also, when you tell me that I am a liar, I am pretty sure I know what I have said."

I beg to differ. Considering the number of times you've changed your arguments, I don't think you know what you're saying AT ALL.

[PrimeSoup]

@7DrPhysics "So what did they applaud Gingrich for?"

I've already told you why:

"The question that I'd raise is why Gingrich's - or ANY candidate's - marriage should be such a support-gaining or -losing issue, and, judging by the applause Gingrich got when he chastised CNN for leading with the question, I'm not alone in asking that."

The audience applauded because Gingrich echoed them: The question wasn't worthy of a presidential debate. You really need to learn to pay attention.

[7DrPhysics]

@PrimeSoup I'm not "upset" at anything. Still need to keep your assumptions to yourself, and not bring them on to your opponent as if they said it.

Mind that the audience was applauding for Gingrich and his responses towards JK.

Mind that "people" aren't "sick of" "dissecting" a politician's personal life."