Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign may not literally be over, but it might as well be. He’s already laid off much of his staff and cleared his schedule, and this week’s bounced check in Utah only added insult to injury.
With this in mind, the former Speaker is taking stock of his failed effort, and has identified a culprit: Fox News.
“I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through,” Gingrich said Wednesday during a meeting with Delaware tea party leaders, according to RealClearPolitics, which was given access to the private meeting. “In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That’s just a fact.” […]
During Wednesday’s meeting, Gingrich had also accused News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch of perpetuating the network’s slanted coverage of the 2012 race.
“I assume it’s because Murdoch at some point said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney,’” Gingrich said, according to RealClearPolitics. “And there’s no question that Fox had a lot to do with stopping my campaign because such a high percentage of our base watches Fox.”
Gingrich, it’s worth noting, was a paid political analyst for Fox News before launching his national campaign.









