{"id":5875,"date":"2011-12-01T01:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T09:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2011-12-01T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T09:23:27","slug":"newt-gingrich-admits-that-fox-news-analysts-dont-know-what-theyre-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5875","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich Admits That Fox News Analysts Don&#8217;t Know What They&#8217;re Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that Newt Gingrich knows about, it is what Fox News analysts know. He was, after all, a Fox News analyst himself. So it is with direct personal experience that Gingrich reveals that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the real changes that comes when you start running for president \u2013 as opposed to being an analyst on Fox \u2013 is I have to actually know what I&#8217;m talking about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With that succinct comment Gingrich acknowledges that he didn&#8217;t know what he was talking about during his many appearances on Fox, and that there was no requirement for such knowledge to be an analyst on Fox. That explains why so much of the analysis on Fox is so wrong so often and why there are so many notably unknowledgeable people on the network.<\/p>\n<p>However, in keeping with his history of ignorance, Gingrich clearly does not know what he is talking about when he says that presidential candidates have to know what they are talking about. Anyone who has seen any of the GOP primary debates know that that isn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TILIsFwPwYo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing that Newt Gingrich knows about, it is what Fox News analysts know. He was, after all, a Fox News analyst himself. So it is with direct personal experience that Gingrich reveals that&#8230; &#8220;One of the real changes that comes when you start running for president \u2013 as opposed to being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[33,568],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-newt-gingrich"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1wL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32048,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32048","url_meta":{"origin":5875,"position":0},"title":"Did Fox News Just Tip Donald Trump&#8217;s Hand On His VP Pick?","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/13\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Media speculation about who Donald Trump will select as a running mate has been heating up in recent days. 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