previous presidents have done. president trump, this president has a different impulse. he loves riling people up. he knows the value of this. but it s always the same crowd, the peanut gallery. i see him intent on following the president s lead. newt gingrich, he is awful, suggested yesterday the players can t feel oppressed because they re millionaires. let s watch newt. watching people who young guys who are multimillionaires explain that the country hasn t been good to them, watching them refuse to honor the symbol of those who have died so they could be free is very, very frustrating. if you re a multimillionaire who feels oppressed, you need a therapist, not a publicity stunt. isn t that cute? others were calling the players ungrateful. former congressman joe walsh tweeted, quote, remember all this nfl stuff began before trump? it began because ungrateful millionaire athletes thought america racist. they re wrong. jelani cobb in the new yorker, the term ungrate saffle cod
that. who is waiting to go after the media elite, so called. it s important for us to remember, as hard as this is for people in our business. this is not about us. this is not about us. this is what he does. this is not an argument on the moreits. let s watch him do it. here s thursday night in that debate. let s watch newt. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. as you noted, mr. speaker, this story did not come from our network. it is the subject of conversation in the campaign. i get your point. i take your point. john it was repeated by your network. you chose to start the debate with it. don t try to blame somebody else. you know, just in terms of get off the media for a second in terms of political gamesmanship. he took a lemon and turned it
here is my unconventional endorsement. not a candidate seeking the nomination. not someone that s not running. my unconventional endorsement is when the people. we the people of this nation are still in charge. as opposed to? more on cain with stephen colbert later in the show. next, in last night s debate tom decried newt gingrich as another washington politician and offered himself up as a regular american alternative. let s watch. what you ve listened to in my view and the speaker s rendition of history going back to 1978 is a perfect example of why we need to send to washington someone who s not lived to washington but someone who s lived in the real streets of america, working in the private sector, who s led a business, who started a
barack obama s face and i think that s what republicans here are looking for. someone who s that combative. the way he went after the elite media was just brilliant, frankly. wow. and he s reaping the rewards. here it was. here s that moment, gene and howard, the moment of the debate last night happened right at the start. the moderator for cnn john king asked newt about his ex-wife s new interview. let s watch newt s very effective right away he turned it into a charge against the media. let s watch. she says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage. would you like to take some time to respond to that? no. but i will. i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to tract decent people to run for public office. and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.
let me finish with a perfect pitch for conservative contempt. we start with another comeback of newt gingrich. howard fineman and eugene robinson are joining us. both are msnbc political analysts. howard, it s been a dramatic day for mitt romney s campaign. gallup s editor in chief said romney s national lead was collapsing. take a look at the latest numbers. at the beginning of this week, romney led newt gingrich by 23 points. in the latest poll out today, that lead is down to 10. mitt romney conceded south carolina was going to be a very close contest. and this could turn out to be a long race for the nomination. let s watch. we have a long process ahead of us. 1,150 delegates to get. i sure would like to win south carolina, but i know if those polls were right, regardless of who gets the final number, we re both going to get a lot of delegates.